From Lauren Oliver's Before I Fall
“‘Beep, beep,’ Lindsay calls out.”
“One afternoon, when Bruno came home from school, he was surprised to find Maria, the family’s maid — who always kept her head bowed and never looked up from the carpet — standing in his bedroom, pulling all his belongings out of the wardrobe and packing them in four large wooden crates, even the things he’d hidden at the back that belonged to him and were nobody else’s business.”
John Boyne's The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“The tower, which was not supposed to be there, plunges into the earth in a place just before the black pine forest begins to give way to swamp and then the reeds and the wind-gnarled trees of the marsh flats.”
From Jeff VanderMeer's The Southern Reach: Annihilation
“When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it’s never good news.”
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Stormbreaker
“It was a dark and stormy night.”
From Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time.
“It was the smell that began to drive Thomas slightly mad.”
From James Dashner's Maze Runner: The Death Cure
“I know I’m not an ordinary ten-year-old kid.”
R. J. Palacio's Wonder.
“My god, Mae thought.”
From Dave Eggers' The Circle.
“I stare down at my shoes, watching as a fine layer of ash settles on the worn leather.”
From Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games: Mockingjay.
“I spent the last afternoon of Before constructing a 1/10,000-scale replica of the Empire State Building from boxes of adult diapers.”
From Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
“I wake with his name in my mouth.”
From Veronica Roth's Divergent: Insurgent
“It was 5 o’clock on a winter’s morning in Syria.”
From Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.
“The week before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party.”
From John Green's Looking for Alaska.
“When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.”
From Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games.
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