From Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave: The Infinite Sea.
”The world is a clock winding down.”
“The whole thing started with a dog tag.”
From Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs' Virals.
”Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.”
From John Green's The Fault In Our Stars.
“If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning.
“In the city of Ember, the sky was always dark.”
From Jeanne DuPrau's Book of Ember: The City of Ember.
“I have some really bad secrets to share with someone, and it might as well be you- a stranger, a reader of books, but most of all, a person who can’t hurt me.”
From James Patterson and Maxine Paetro's Confessions of a Murder Suspect.
“‘Can’t you keyboard a little bit faster?’ Todd asked.”
From Eric Walters' The Rule of Three.
“The morning after noted child prodigy Colin Singleton graduated from high school and got dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, he took a bath.”
From John Green’s An Abundance of Katherines.
“Aliens are stupid.”
From Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave.
”Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood.”
From Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.
“First of all, let me get something straight: This is a JOURNAL, not a diary.”
From Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
”I took some of the flowers from my sister’s funeral, because I thought her replacement might like them as a welcome-to-the-family gift.”
From Stefanie Gaither’s Falls the Shadow.
“She spoke to him before the world fell apart.”
From James Dashner's The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials.
”There is one mirror in my house.”
From Veronica Roth's Divergent
First Sentence of a New World 