From Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows' The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“Dear Sidney, Susan Scott is a wonder.”
“Natasha Romanoff hated pierogies– but more than that, she hated lies.”
From Margaret Stohl's Black Widow: Forever Red.
“There are 158 footsteps between the bus stop and home, but it can stretch to 180 if you aren’t in a hurry, like maybe if you’re wearing platform shoes.”
From Jojo Moyes' Me Before You.
“I clasp the flask between my hands even though the warmth from the tea has long since leached into the frozen air.”
From Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
“Your Majesty, there is a message for you.”
From Kathleen Bird's Katherine's Kingdom: To Love in Peace.
”My nightmare started like this.”
From Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Sea of Monsters.
”From his perch behind the clock, Hugo could see everything.”
From Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
“This is my body.”
From Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave: The Last Star.
“A man named Daryl walked into a pawnshop in Los Angeles with a guitar.”
From Levi Lusko's Through the Eyes of a Lion.
“He began his new life standing up, surrounded by cold darkness and stale, dusty air.”
From James Dashner's The Maze Runner.
“The stretch of road that leads out of the city, past Hazy Harbor and into the town of Tedia, is perhaps the most unpleasant in the world.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Reptile Room.
”The world is a clock winding down.”
From Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave: The Infinite Sea.
”Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.”
From John Green's The Fault In Our Stars.
“If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning.
“In the city of Ember, the sky was always dark.”
From Jeanne DuPrau's Book of Ember: The City of Ember.
First Sentence of a New World 