From Ronald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket.”
“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
“‘Girls?'”
From Ellen Klages' White Sands, Red Menace
“Dewey Kerrigan sits on the concrete front steps of Mrs. Kovak’s house in St. Louis, waiting for her father.”
From Ellen Klages’ The Green Glass Sea
“So, all went as planned– actually better.”
From Lauren Allbright's Exit Strategy
“Okay, okay, okay.”
From R.J. Palacio’s Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories
“It was a dark and stormy night.”
From Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time.
“Here we go again.”
Christopher Paul Curtis' Bud, Not Buddy
“I know I’m not an ordinary ten-year-old kid.”
R. J. Palacio's Wonder.
First Sentence of a New World 