From Veronica Roth's Divergent: Insurgent
“I wake with his name in my mouth.”
“It was 5 o’clock on a winter’s morning in Syria.”
From Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.
“When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.”
From Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games.
“Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Penultimate Peril.
“A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called ‘The Road Less Traveled,’ describing a journey he took through the woods along a path that most travelers never used.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Slippery Slope.
“After a great deal of time examining oceans, investigating rainstorms, and staring very hard at several drinking fountains, the scientists of the world developed a theory regarding how water is distributed around our planet, which they have named ‘the water cycle.'”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Grim Grotto.
“When my workday is over, and I have closed my notebook, hidden my pen, and sawed holes in my rented canoe so that it cannot be found, I often like to spend the evening in conversation with my few surviving friends.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Carnivorous Carnival.
“There are 158 footsteps between the bus stop and home, but it can stretch to 180 if you aren’t in a hurry, like maybe if you’re wearing platform shoes.”
From Jojo Moyes' Me Before You.
“I clasp the flask between my hands even though the warmth from the tea has long since leached into the frozen air.”
From Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
”My nightmare started like this.”
From Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Sea of Monsters.
”From his perch behind the clock, Hugo could see everything.”
From Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
“There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.”
From Louis Sachar's Holes.
“It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.”
From Lois Lowry’s The Giver.
“There are two reasons why a writer would end a sentence with the word ‘stop’ written entirely in capital letters STOP.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Hostile Hospital.
First Sentence of a New World 