From Gary Paulsen’s How to Train Your Dad
“You need to know a little about me before you hear all the rest of the things I’m going to tell you about my life.”
“Okay, fourth graders.”
From Mike Dawson's Fifth Quarter
“Standing outside of St. Julia Child Elementary and Middle School, I choked on the stink.”
From Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic’s The League of Picky Eaters
“When I was in preschool, I had a teacher named Starlily.”
From Jennifer L. Holm's The Fourteenth Goldfish
“What about BIG AL?”
From Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm's Swing It, Sunny
“The problem with smart people is this: They can be really stupid 95 percent of the time.”
From Gordon Korman’s Supergifted
“When I was little, I didn’t worry about friends.”
From Shannon Hale's Real Friends
“You’d have to be nuts to trust a magician.”
From Paul Griffin's When Friendship Followed Me Home
“Sunny!”
From Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm's Sunny Side Up
“I want a refund from ancestry.com.”
From Gordon Korman's Ungifted
“Dear Friend, I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn’t try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have.”
From Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“I don’t want to get up.”
From Sarah Andersen's Adulthood Is a Myth.
First Sentence of a New World 