From Paula Danziger's The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
“I hate my father.”
“Mrs. McGillicuddy panted along the platform in the wake of the porter carrying her suitcase.”
From Agatha Christie's 4:50 from Paddington
“Most everyone in Utah remembers 1896 as the year the territory became a state.”
From John D. Fitzgerald's The Great Brain
“All children, except one, grow up.”
From J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan
“‘That slowpoke Sarah!’ Henny cried.”
From Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family
“Henry Huggins’s dog Ribsy was a plain ordinary city dog, the kind of dog that strangers usually called Mutt or Pooch.”
From Beverly Cleary's Ribsy
“Since Atlanta, she had looked out the dining-car window with a delight almost physical.”
From Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman
“Once on a dark winter’s day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares.”
From Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess
“Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away.”
From E. L. Konigsburg's From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
“Harriet was trying to explain to Sport how to play Town.”
From Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy
“‘Where’s Papa going with that ax?’ said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.”
From E. B. White's Charlotte's Web
“Like silent, hungry sharks that swim in the darkness of the sea, the German submarines arrived in the middle of the night.”
From Theodore Taylor's The Cay
“Keith, the boy in the rumpled shorts and shirt, did not know he was being watched as he entered Room 215 of the Mountain View Inn.”
From Beverly Cleary's The Mouse and the Motorcycle
“In the last days of Narnia, far up to the west beyond Lantern Waste and close beside the great waterfall, there lived an ape.”
From C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle
“It was a dull autumn day and Jill Pole was crying behind the gym.”
From C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
First Sentence of a New World 