From Elizabeth Eulberg’s Past Perfect Life
“Describe a significant event in your life and how it has influenced you.”
“Artemis Fowl was almost content.”
From Eion Colfer's Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code
“Galer Street School is a place where compassion, academics, and global connectitude join together to create civic-minded citizens of a sustainable and diverse planet.
From Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette
“So you’ve decided to have a child.”
From Bill Cosby's Fatherhood
“If someone had asked Jared Grace what jobs his brother and sister would have when they grew up, he would have had no trouble replying.”
From Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black’s The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide
“There was a town, and there was a girl, and there was a theft.”
From Lemony Snicket's All the Wrong Questions: Who Could That Be at This Hour?
“Mrs. Van Rydock moved a little back from the mirror and sighed.”
From Agatha Christie's They Do It with Mirrors
“I am afraid.”
From Robert C. O'Brien's Z for Zachariah
“Just off the main highway that runs through Waco, Texas, sits a pink house–one built in that kind of Southwestern adobe style you might find in Arizona or Nevada.”
From Clint Harp's Handcrafted
“Every seven-year-old deserves a superhero.”
From Fredrik Backman's My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“There were two ostriches, a water buffalo, and a flock of wild turkeys between me and the registration desk.”
From Alison Cherry, Lindsay Ribar, and Michelle Schusterman's The Pros of Cons
“My name is Marina, as of the sea, but I wasn’t called that until much later.”
From Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies: The Power of Six
“Grace Somerfield was the first to die.”
From Alexandra Bracken's The Darkest Minds
“I was in The Program.”
Suzanne Young's The Program: The Complication
“My Mother was raised on fairy tales, but I was raised on highways.”
From Melissa Albert's The Hazel Wood
First Sentence of a New World 