From Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black’s The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide
“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.”
“What you need to know about him back then is that if the police put seven college students in a lineup looking for the one who played trombone in the marching band, Calvin Sweeney would be picked, ten times out of ten.”
From Sue Halpern's Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
“There was a town, and there was a statue, and there was a person who had been kidnapped.”
From Lemony Snicket's All the Wrong Questions: When Did You See Her Last?
“The street lamp flickers, illuminating the grey pavement mottled by patches of dirty snow and slick black ice.”
From Shalini Boland's The Secret Mother
“There was a town, and there was a girl, and there was a theft.”
From Lemony Snicket's All the Wrong Questions: Who Could That Be at This Hour?
“The last time I saw Mr. Hackman he was dead, but not decapitated.”
From Hollis Gillespie's We Will Be Crashing Shortly
“As Katie wound her way among the tables, a breeze from the Atlantic rippled through her hair.”
From Nicholas Sparks' Safe Haven
“Malorie stands in the kitchen, thinking.”
From Josh Malerman's Bird Box
“Hi, Moms!”
From Darcey Bell's A Simple Favor
“Mrs. Van Rydock moved a little back from the mirror and sighed.”
From Agatha Christie's They Do It with Mirrors
“It’s funny the things that get stuck in your head.”
From Jeff Hirsch's Black River Falls
“Fifty thousand people had come to Suffolk Air Show on the east coast of England.”
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Never Say Die
“A sharp, undulating tone – drilling into his brain.”
From Chris McGeorge's Guess Who
“Dolly Rawlins stood in her kitchen ironing the shirt collar and cuffs she had carefully starched, just the way Harry always liked them.”
From Lynda La Plante's Widows
“‘Yasha!'”
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Russian Roulette.
First Sentence of a New World 