From Chris Grabenstein’s Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library
“This is how Kyle Keeley got grounded for a week.”
“Flora Belle Buckman was in her room at her desk.”
From Kate DiCamillo's Flora & Ulysses
“It was not Miss Penelope Lumley‘s first journey on a train, but it was the first one she had taken alone.”
From Maryrose Wood's The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling
“Sweeping, swooping, soaring.”
From James Patterson's Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever
“I believe in returning dead bodies.”
From Rick Riordan's The Trials of Apollo: The Tyrant's Tomb
“Look, nobody’s ever accused me of being a good boy.”
From Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Bob
“If a person wants to murder any member of a family, then it is very important that the entire family also be done away with, or the distraught survivors might very well decide to take bloody revenge, or at the least make a detailed report at the local police station.”
From Eoin Colfer's The Fowl Twins
“Deep in the green-glowing bowels of a Chinatown seafood market, down a dead-end hallway lined with crab tanks, we crouched in a puddle of dark the light-eater had made, watched over by a thousand alien eyes.”
From Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children: The Conference of the Birds
“The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.”
From James Patterson's Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
“I am Ivan.”
From Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Ivan
“No.”
From Rick Riordan's The Trials of Apollo: The Burning Maze
“Artemis Fowl, once self-proclaimed teenage criminal mastermind, now prefers the term juvenile genius.”
From Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian
“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
“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
First Sentence of a New World 