From Carl Hiaasen’s Hoot
“Roy would not have noticed the strange boy if it weren’t for Dana Matherson, because Roy ordinarily didn’t look out the window of the school bus.”
“The longest day of my life began tardily.”
From John Green's Paper Towns
“All right, let’ get the boring stuff out of the way.”
From Stephan Pastis’ Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
“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
“Ho Chi Mihn City in the summer.”
Eion Colfer's Artemis Fowl
“Malorie stands in the kitchen, thinking.”
From Josh Malerman's Bird Box
“Hi, Moms!”
From Darcey Bell's A Simple Favor
“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
“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
“Dear Sidney, Susan Scott is a wonder.”
From Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows' The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“In the beginning there were nine of us.”
From Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies: I Am Number Four
“Grace Somerfield was the first to die.”
From Alexandra Bracken's The Darkest Minds
“A light snore reminds me that I’m not alone.”
From Heidi McLaughlin's Forever My Girl
“Dear Friend, I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn’t try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have.”
From Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower
First Sentence of a New World 