From Jeanne Birdsall's The Penderwicks on Gardam Street
“Rosalind was happy.”
“This is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child.”
From C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew
“Erik’s heart hammered in his chest as though Thor himself were tunneling out of his rib cage.”
From Christina Uss’ Erik Vs. Everything
“It was a hot afternoon with a strong wind from the south, but out on the Dakota prairie in 1885 no one minded the hot sunshine or the hard winds.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: The First Four Years
“At school they say I’m wired bad, or wired mad, or wired sad, or wired glad, depending on my mood and what teacher has ended up with me.”
From Jack Gantos' Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
“’Miss Meshle’ said Mrs. Tupper as she took my empty plate away, ‘if ye ‘ave time to set an’ talk a while…’”
From Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes: The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline
“It was my tenth birthday.”
From Megan Wagner Lloyd's Allergic
“After his mother died, Nicholas Vargas stopped bothering.”
From Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black's Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles: The Nixie's Song
“Sunday afternoon was clear, and the snow-covered prairie sparkled in the sunshine.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: These Happy Golden Years
“Maybe, Bat thought, there was something better in the world than cradling a sleepy, just-fed baby skunk in your arms.”
From Elana K. Arnold's Bat and the Waiting Game
“So far, my only clients as ‘Dr. Ragostin, Scientific Perditorian’ had been a stout, elderly widow anxious to find her lost lapdog; a frightened lady who could not locate a valuable heart-shaped ruby that had been given to her by her husband; and an army general whose most cherished souvenir of the Crimean War had disappeared, namely, his bullet-riddled leg-bone signed by the field doctor who had amputated it.”
From Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes: The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan
“Smile!!”
From Raina Telgemeier's Smile
“One evening at supper, Pa asked, ‘How would you like to work in town, Laura?'”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: Little Town on the Prairie
“…And the start of our adventure.”
From Rich Moyer's Ham Helsing: Vampire Hunter
“In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks, and they ride on broomsticks.”
From Roald Dahl’s The Witches
First Sentence of a New World 