From Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies: The Power of Six
“My name is Marina, as of the sea, but I wasn’t called that until much later.”
“‘You sure about this?’ Rachel asked again, blowing softly on the surface of her steaming cup of tea.”
From Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians
“There was once a boy named Milo who didn’t know what to do with himself—not just sometimes, but always.”
From Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth
“Dear Sidney, Susan Scott is a wonder.”
From Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows' The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“Dear Library Board, Enclosed is my contribution for the Wolf Creek Community Time Capsule Project.”
From Kate Messner's Breakout
“In the beginning there were nine of us.”
From Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies: I Am Number Four
“Grace Somerfield was the first to die.”
From Alexandra Bracken's The Darkest Minds
“I was in The Program.”
Suzanne Young's The Program: The Complication
“Sadie Kane here.”
From Rick Riordan's Kane Chronicles: The Serpent's Shadow
“‘Girls?'”
From Ellen Klages' White Sands, Red Menace
“A light snore reminds me that I’m not alone.”
From Heidi McLaughlin's Forever My Girl
“In Control’s dream it is early morning, the sky deep blue with just a twinge of light.”
From Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach: Authority
“Carter here.”
From Rick Riordan's Kane Chronicles: The Throne of Fire
“All you had to do was smile and wear the right clothes, and everyone would think you were special.”
From Joelle Charbonneau's Time Bomb
“Dewey Kerrigan sits on the concrete front steps of Mrs. Kovak’s house in St. Louis, waiting for her father.”
From Ellen Klages’ The Green Glass Sea
First Sentence of a New World 