“We rowed out through the harbor, past bobbing boats weeping rust from their seams, past juries of silent seabirds roosting atop the barnacled remains of sunken docks, past fishermen who lowered their nets to frozenly as we slipped by, uncertain whether we were real or imagined; a procession of waterborne ghosts, or ghosts soon to be.”

Ransom Rigg's Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children: Hollow City

January 12, 2018 0

“Hello, friend.”

From James Patterson and Maxine Paetro's Confessions: The Paris Mysteries.

January 5, 2018 0

“The end of the world started when a pegasus landed on the hood of my car.”

From Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian.

December 29, 2017 0

“Snap.”

From Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs' Virals: Seizure.

December 15, 2017 0

“The last thing I wanted to do on my summer break was blow up another school.”

From Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth.

November 23, 2017 0

“I spent the last afternoon of Before constructing a 1/10,000-scale replica of the Empire State Building from boxes of adult diapers.”

From Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

November 17, 2017 0

“It was 5 o’clock on a winter’s morning in Syria.”

From Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.

November 10, 2017 0

“The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school.”

From Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Titan's Curse.

November 3, 2017 0

“At the time I first realized I might be fictional, my weekdays were spent at a publicly funded institution on the north side of Indianapolis called White River High School, where I was required to eat lunch at a particular time–between 12:37 P.M. and 1:14 P.M.–by forces so much larger than myself that I couldn’t even begin to identify them.”

From John Green's Turtles All the Way Down.

October 31, 2017 0

“The cabdriver used both of his big fat feet when he drove, jamming on the brakes and the gas at the same time, making me sick.”

From James Patterson and Maxine Paetro's Confessions: The Private School Murders.

October 27, 2017 0

“Torren was out at the edge of the cabbage field that day, the day the people came.”

From Jeanne DuPrau's City of Ember: The People of Sparks.

October 20, 2017 0

“If you have ever peeled an onion, then you know that the first thin, papery layer reveals another thin, papery layer, and that layer reveals another, and another, and before you know it you have hundreds of layers all over the kitchen table and thousands of tears in your eyes, sorry that you ever started peeling in the first place and wishing that you had left the onion alone to wither away on the shelf of the pantry while you went on with your life, even if that meant never again enjoying the complicated and overwhelming taste of this strange and bitter vegetable.”

From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The End.

September 1, 2017 0

“Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.”

From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Penultimate Peril.

August 25, 2017 0

“A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called ‘The Road Less Traveled,’ describing a journey he took through the woods along a path that most travelers never used.”

From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Slippery Slope.

July 28, 2017 0

“After a great deal of time examining oceans, investigating rainstorms, and staring very hard at several drinking fountains, the scientists of the world developed a theory regarding how water is distributed around our planet, which they have named ‘the water cycle.'”

From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Grim Grotto.

July 14, 2017 0

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