From Jesse Andrews' Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“I’m lying on a steel table, all too aware of the giant ray gun pointed in my direction.”
From Rob Harrell's Wink
“Artemis Fowl, once self-proclaimed teenage criminal mastermind, now prefers the term juvenile genius.”
From Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian
“Elsa Anders knew she would remember everything of this moment, even as an old and bent woman.”
From Lisa Tawn Bergren's The Northern Lights: The Captain's Bride
“It was in June of 1935 that I came home from my ranch in South America for a stay of about six months.”
From Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders
“Coriolanus released the fistful of cabbage into the pot of boiling water and swore that one day it would never pass his lips again.”
From Suzanne Collins' The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“Ok–answer me this: why would anyone want to wear an overcoat in San Francisco in the middle of summer?”
From Michael Scott's The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
“I was eighteen years old, give or take a fairy-tale century, when I had my first kiss.”
From Melissa Albert's Hazel Wood: The Night Country
“Examination day.”
From Joelle Charbonneau’s The Testing: Independent Study
“Vatnajökull is the biggest glacier in Europe with an area of more than five thousand stark blue-white miles.”
From Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex
“‘I don’t even like eggs,’ David said.”
From Jerry Spinelli’s Eggs
“He found himself standing next to the flag pole in Town Square, in the heart of the Magic Kingdom.”
From Ridley Pearson's The Kingdom Keepers
“When our dragon declared war on Indiana, I knew it was going to be a bad day.”
From Rick Riordan's The Trials of Apollo: The Dark Prophecy
“Deputy Keith Clayton hadn’t heard them approach, and up close, he didn’t like the looks of them anymore than he had the first time he’d seen them.”
From Nicholas Sparks' The Lucky One
“Niko’s eyes flashed to our faces, one by one.”
From Emmy Laybourne's Monument 14: Savage Drift