From Maryrose Wood's The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling
“It was not Miss Penelope Lumley‘s first journey on a train, but it was the first one she had taken alone.”
“Linnet Ridgeway!”
From Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile
“It was that last piece of his father’s advice that March McQuin found himself contemplating at three in the morning on a picturesque bridge over a dark canal in Amsterdam.”
From Jude Watson's Loot: How to Steal a Fortune
“It was in June of 1935 that I came home from my ranch in South America for a stay of about six months.”
From Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders
“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
“Examination day.”
From Joelle Charbonneau’s The Testing: Independent Study
“There was a town, and there was a librarian, and there was a fire.”
From Lemony Snicket's All the Wrong Questions: Shouldn't You Be in School?
“MacGyver caught the silver tab between his teeth and slid the zipper free.”
From Melinda Metz's The Secret Life of Mac
“By midnight the snowfall would reach a foot, just shy of breaking Aspen’s one-day record set more than forty years before.”
From Trish Harnetiaux's White Elephant
“Mrs. Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September–a Thursday.”
From Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
“Emily Harlow wasn’t convinced that her sock drawer sparked joy.”
From Hallie Ephron's Careful What You Wish For
“The snake-haired ladies were starting to annoy Percy.”
From Rick Riordan's Heroes of Olympus: The Son of Neptune
“Galer Street School is a place where compassion, academics, and global connectitude join together to create civic-minded citizens of a sustainable and diverse planet.
From Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette
“The loss of her husband had had a profound effect on Angeline Fowl.”
From Eion Colfer's Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident
“If someone had asked Jared Grace what jobs his brother and sister would have when they grew up, he would have had no trouble replying.”
From Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black’s The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide
First Sentence of a New World 