From Fredrik Backman's Anxious People
“A bank robbery.”
“The longest day of my life began tardily.”
From John Green's Paper Towns
“My wife, Megan, wrote an e-vite to our dinner party that was like Megan herself: funny, sharp, and a touch mysterious.”
From James Patterson and Richard DiLallo's The Store
“Although I’d realized six or eight weeks ago that I was crazy about Tina Zabinski and I wanted to go on a date with her the same way I want to keep converting oxygen into carbon dioxide, I’d been playing it cool, taking it slow.”
From Gary Paulsen's Crush
“It was not Miss Penelope Lumley‘s first journey on a train, but it was the first one she had taken alone.”
From Maryrose Wood's The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling
“Thank you, Lord, for letting me see a purpose for my life.”
From Camille Regholec's The Secret Way to the Heart
“It was January in northern New York State, sixty-seven years ago.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: Farmer Boy
“Sweeping, swooping, soaring.”
From James Patterson's Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever
“I believe in returning dead bodies.”
From Rick Riordan's The Trials of Apollo: The Tyrant's Tomb
“Look, nobody’s ever accused me of being a good boy.”
From Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Bob
“If a person wants to murder any member of a family, then it is very important that the entire family also be done away with, or the distraught survivors might very well decide to take bloody revenge, or at the least make a detailed report at the local police station.”
From Eoin Colfer's The Fowl Twins
“Someone must have bitten off her nose.”
From Lex Thomas' Quarantine: The Loners
“Danny Malooley was four years old when he learned the hard way that lemon-scented soap tasted nothing like lemons and everything like soap.”
From James Gould-Bourn's Bear Necessity
“The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.”
From James Patterson's Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
“I am Ivan.”
From Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Ivan
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