From Fredrik Backman's Britt-Marie Was Here
“Forks.”
“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
“Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, baripity, baripity–Good.”
From Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia
“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
“I trace the outline of my sister’s drawing, lungs molded from a sea of flowers.”
From Rachael Lippincott's Five Feet Apart
“Malorie stands in the kitchen, thinking.”
From Josh Malerman's Bird Box
“Hi, Moms!”
From Darcey Bell's A Simple Favor
“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
“These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket.”
From Ronald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“Dolly Rawlins stood in her kitchen ironing the shirt collar and cuffs she had carefully starched, just the way Harry always liked them.”
From Lynda La Plante's Widows
“In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in The Times.”
From Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None
“Lewis Barnavelt fidgeted and wiped his sweaty palms on the seat of the bus that was roaring toward New Zebedee.”
From John Bellairs' The House with a Clock in Its Walls
“‘You sure about this?’ Rachel asked again, blowing softly on the surface of her steaming cup of tea.”
From Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians
“There was once a boy named Milo who didn’t know what to do with himself—not just sometimes, but always.”
From Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth
First Sentence of a New World 