From Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes: The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline
“’Miss Meshle’ said Mrs. Tupper as she took my empty plate away, ‘if ye ‘ave time to set an’ talk a while…’”
“‘In worldview this morning, whole villages in the the Philippines have been demolished, and hundreds are missing as typhoons triggering massive mudslides continue to wreak havoc.'”
From James Patterson's Maximum Ride: Nevermore
“‘I thought you were dead,’ Will said.”
From Lex Thomas' Quarantine: The Burnouts
“I’m standing in a river.”
From Allie Condie's Crossed
“It was my tenth birthday.”
From Megan Wagner Lloyd's Allergic
“After his mother died, Nicholas Vargas stopped bothering.”
From Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black's Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles: The Nixie's Song
“Sunday afternoon was clear, and the snow-covered prairie sparkled in the sunshine.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: These Happy Golden Years
“New town, new casino–same old plan.”
From S. J. Kincaid's Insignia
“Maybe, Bat thought, there was something better in the world than cradling a sleepy, just-fed baby skunk in your arms.”
From Elana K. Arnold's Bat and the Waiting Game
“I know he’ll come for me.”
From James Patterson's Maximum Ride: Angel
“It’s no secret that I’ve always been financially conservative – at least that’s the way I’ve described myself.”
From Craig Groeschel's Alter Ego
“So far, my only clients as ‘Dr. Ragostin, Scientific Perditorian’ had been a stout, elderly widow anxious to find her lost lapdog; a frightened lady who could not locate a valuable heart-shaped ruby that had been given to her by her husband; and an army general whose most cherished souvenir of the Crimean War had disappeared, namely, his bullet-riddled leg-bone signed by the field doctor who had amputated it.”
From Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes: The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan
“The pains began at two thirty in the morning.”
From Karen Kingsbury's The Bridge
“Smile!!”
From Raina Telgemeier's Smile
“One evening at supper, Pa asked, ‘How would you like to work in town, Laura?'”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: Little Town on the Prairie
First Sentence of a New World 