Erin and Ben Napier's Make Something Good Today
“Sometimes becoming who we’re supposed to be means building walls around ourselves.”
“Lesson learned: If you take a Valkyrie out for coffee, you’ll get stuck with the check and a dead body.”
From Rick Riordan's Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Hammer of Thor
“The last time I saw Mr. Hackman he was dead, but not decapitated.”
From Hollis Gillespie's We Will Be Crashing Shortly
“As Katie wound her way among the tables, a breeze from the Atlantic rippled through her hair.”
From Nicholas Sparks' Safe Haven
“The first time I saw the Bionic Man I was covered in sparkles.”
From Susin Nielsen's Optimists Die First
“I trace the outline of my sister’s drawing, lungs molded from a sea of flowers.”
From Rachael Lippincott's Five Feet Apart
“Yeah, I know.”
From Rick Riordan's Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Sword of Summer
“Malorie stands in the kitchen, thinking.”
From Josh Malerman's Bird Box
“Ayoola summons me with these words–Korede, I killed him.”
From Oyinkan Braithwaite's My Sister, the Serial Killer
“You may remember seeing me on TV when Jodie O’Rodeo saved the world.”
From Tom Angleberger's Fake Mustache
“The room reminds me of the kind of places Henri and I used to stay in during the early days.”
From Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies: United as One
“Maybe the machine could see the words she never spoke.”
From Zoje Stage's Baby Teeth
“Hi, Moms!”
From Darcey Bell's A Simple Favor
“Mrs. Van Rydock moved a little back from the mirror and sighed.”
From Agatha Christie's They Do It with Mirrors
“We run past the broken wing of an exploded jet fighter, the jagged metal lodged in the middle of a city street like a shark’s fin.”
From Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies: The Fate of Ten
First Sentence of a New World 