From E. B. White's Charlotte's Web
“‘Where’s Papa going with that ax?’ said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.”
“Lying down, shivering on the last seat of school bus 161, pinned by his teensy doggie gaze, which is completely 100% cute—I’m such a girl, I know—I say, ‘You won’t believe the bull I had to endure today.”
From Matthew Quick's Sorta Like a Rockstar
“Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.”
From Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain
“Miss?”
From Jenny B. Jones' There You'll Find Me
“In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks, and they ride on broomsticks.”
From Roald Dahl’s The Witches
“I would very much like to know why my mother named me “Enola,” which, backwards, spells alone.”
From Nancy Springer’s The Case of the Missing Marquess
“This is how Kyle Keeley got grounded for a week.”
From Chris Grabenstein’s Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library
“Flora Belle Buckman was in her room at her desk.”
From Kate DiCamillo's Flora & Ulysses
“The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don’t got nothing much to say.”
From Patrick Ness' Chaos Walking: The Knife of Never Letting Go
“I am Ivan.”
From Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Ivan
“Linnet Ridgeway!”
From Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile
“So in order to understand everything that happened, you have to start from the premise that high school sucks.”
From Jesse Andrews' Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“Deputy Keith Clayton hadn’t heard them approach, and up close, he didn’t like the looks of them anymore than he had the first time he’d seen them.”
From Nicholas Sparks' The Lucky One
“‘Did you see her?’”
From Jerry Spinelli’s Stargirl
First Sentence of a New World 