From Elle Cosimano’s Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘Em Dead
“Christopher was dead.”
“After my reconciliation with my brothers in the summer of 1889, I spent August quite happily with Reginold Collie, visiting Ferndale, my childhood home in the country.”
From Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche
“Reporting to work that fateful morning at my office (that is to say, the office of Dr. Leslie T. Ragostin, Scientific Perditorian, my fictitious employer), I wore a perfectly fitted princess-style dress of mistletoe-green faille, with wide organza collar and matching hat on my tasteful russet coif (wig), and, on the appropriate finger, a wedding ring.”
From Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes: The Case of the Gypsy Good-bye
“There was a town, and there was a train, and there was a murder.”
From Lemony Snicket's All the Wrong Questions: Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?
“’Miss Meshle’ said Mrs. Tupper as she took my empty plate away, ‘if ye ‘ave time to set an’ talk a while…’”
From Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes: The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline
“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
“I’m sorry to have to tell you this, Jennifer, but you have a primary glioblastoma in your brain.”
From Catherine McKenzie's Six Weeks to Live
“Lumawoo, look.”
From Maryrose Wood‘s The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Unseen Guest
“It is difficult to choose a new name for oneself.”
From Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes: The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets
“But the workmen swore the repairs to the house would be finished by now!”
From Maryrose Wood’s The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Hidden Gallery
“‘We would not be in this deplorable situation,’ declares the younger and taller of the two men in the small club-room, ‘if you had not tried to bully her into boarding school!'”
From Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes: The Case of the Left-Handed Lady
“I would very much like to know why my mother named me “Enola,” which, backwards, spells alone.”
From Nancy Springer’s The Case of the Missing Marquess
“It’s a widely known fact that most moms are ready to kill someone by eight thirty A.M. on any given morning.”
From Elle Cosimano's Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
“This is how Kyle Keeley got grounded for a week.”
From Chris Grabenstein’s Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library
“The longest day of my life began tardily.”
From John Green's Paper Towns
First Sentence of a New World 