From Matilda Nordtvedt's Song of the Brook
“Wake up, Hilda, it’s almost time to get off the train.”
“Hilda carefully wiped the dishes that Papa had washed.”
From Matilda Nordtvedt's Secret in the Maple Tree
“The pains began at two thirty in the morning.”
From Karen Kingsbury's The Bridge
“Miss?”
From Jenny B. Jones' There You'll Find Me
“Thank you, Lord, for letting me see a purpose for my life.”
From Camille Regholec's The Secret Way to the Heart
“Elsa Anders knew she would remember everything of this moment, even as an old and bent woman.”
From Lisa Tawn Bergren's The Northern Lights: The Captain's Bride
“It was mid afternoon in early July and the world was, in general asleep.”
From Patricia St. John's Twice Freed
“‘Yea, thou I walk through the valley of the shadow of death…'”
Camille Regholec's Look on the Heart.
First Sentence of a New World 