From Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders
“It was in June of 1935 that I came home from my ranch in South America for a stay of about six months.”
“Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tidewater dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair from Puget Sound to San Diego.”
From Jack London’s The Call of the Wild
“Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, baripity, baripity–Good.”
From Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia
“Did things ever get so outlandishly rock-bottom rotten that you went around muttering, not necessarily out loud, but muttering nonetheless: I don’t believe it!”
From James Kirkwood's P.S. Your Cat Is Dead
“Mrs. Van Rydock moved a little back from the mirror and sighed.”
From Agatha Christie's They Do It with Mirrors
“I am afraid.”
From Robert C. O'Brien's Z for Zachariah
“These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket.”
From Ronald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in The Times.”
From Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None
“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
First Sentence of a New World 