Jeanne DuPrau's The City of Ember: The Prophet of Yonwood
“Nickie Randolph’s first sight of the town of Yonwood was a white steeple rising out of the pine forest that covered the mountainside.”
“Torren was out at the edge of the cabbage field that day, the day the people came.”
From Jeanne DuPrau's City of Ember: The People of Sparks.
“In the city of Ember, the sky was always dark.”
From Jeanne DuPrau's Book of Ember: The City of Ember.
First Sentence of a New World 