From Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman
“Since Atlanta, she had looked out the dining-car window with a delight almost physical.”
“You’d have to be nuts to trust a magician.”
From Paul Griffin's When Friendship Followed Me Home
“The young under-librarian awoke drenched in sweat.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: The Last of the Sky Pirates
“Sunny!”
From Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm's Sunny Side Up
“I guess Mom was pretty proud of herself for making me write in that journal last year, because now she went and bought me another one.”
From Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
“Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away.”
From E. L. Konigsburg's From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
“Nothing ever happens in Antler, Texas.”
From Kimberly Willis Holt's When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
“The great vaulted entrance-hall to the Palace of Shadows was silent save for the hiss of the wind and the soft, yet echoing footfall of the immense insect-like creature that teetered unsteadily across the marble floor.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: Curse of the Gloamglozer
“Sixth grade!”
From Varian Johnson's Twins
“‘Where’s Papa going with that ax?’ said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.”
From E. B. White's Charlotte's Web
“Like silent, hungry sharks that swim in the darkness of the sea, the German submarines arrived in the middle of the night.”
From Theodore Taylor's The Cay
“I want a refund from ancestry.com.”
From Gordon Korman's Ungifted
“My name is Moon.”
From Eoin Colfer's Half Moon Investigations
“The deputy told me to empty my pockets: two quarters, a penny, a stick of bubble gum, and a roll of grip tape for my skateboard.”
From Carl Hiaasen's Flush
“Lisa is pregnant.”
From Susan Beth Pfeffer's Life As We Knew It
First Sentence of a New World 