From Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
”From his perch behind the clock, Hugo could see everything.”
“This is my body.”
From Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave: The Last Star.
“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.
“There are two reasons why a writer would end a sentence with the word ‘stop’ written entirely in capital letters STOP.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Hostile Hospital.
“No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don’t read is often as important as what you do read.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Vile Village.
“Tony Stark paced the lacquered wooden floor outside his father’s office, chewing one stick of gum after another.”
From Eion Colfer's Iron Man: The Gauntlet.
“The book you are holding with your two hands right now–assuming that you are, in fact, holding this book, and that you have only two hands–is one of two books in the world that will show you the difference between the word ‘nervous’ and the word ‘anxious.'”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Ersatz Elevator.
“If you were going to give a gold medal to the least delightful person on earth, you would have to give that medal to a person named Carmelita Spats, and if you didn’t give it to her, Carmelita Spats was the sort of person who would snatch it from your hands anyway.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Austere Academy.
“Today I’m five.”
From Emma Donoghue's Room.
“Sometime in your life– in fact, very soon– you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Miserable Mill.
“He stood motionless in the entryway, staring at his own shadow splayed before him like a stain upon the floor.”
From Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker's House.
“The office had no windows, only electric lanterns to light the hundreds of spines standing in their cherry wood bookcases.”
From Ted Dekker's Thr3e.
“If you didn’t know much about the Baudelaire orphans, and you saw them sitting on their suitcase at Damocles Docks, you might think that they were bound for an exciting adventure.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window.
“The stretch of road that leads out of the city, past Hazy Harbor and into the town of Tedia, is perhaps the most unpleasant in the world.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Reptile Room.
First Sentence of a New World 