From Fredrik Backman's Britt-Marie Was Here
“Natasha Romanoff hated pierogies– but more than that, she hated lies.”
From Margaret Stohl's Black Widow: Forever Red.
“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.
”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.
“There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.”
From Louis Sachar's Holes.
“It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.”
From Lois Lowry’s The Giver.
“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 world is a clock winding down.”
From Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave: The Infinite Sea.
“The whole thing started with a dog tag.”
From Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs' Virals.
”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.
“I have some really bad secrets to share with someone, and it might as well be you- a stranger, a reader of books, but most of all, a person who can’t hurt me.”
From James Patterson and Maxine Paetro's Confessions of a Murder Suspect.