From Melissa Albert's The Hazel Wood
“My Mother was raised on fairy tales, but I was raised on highways.”
“Dear Friend, I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn’t try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have.”
From Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“We only have a few hours, so listen carefully.”
From Rick Riordan's Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid.
“‘Beep, beep,’ Lindsay calls out.”
From Lauren Oliver's Before I Fall
“’What I’d like from you is the truth, Miss Brennan.’”
From Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs' Virals: Exposure
“So, all went as planned– actually better.”
From Lauren Allbright's Exit Strategy
“I inhaled deeply, then exhaled.”
Arvin Ahmadi's Down and Across
“One afternoon, when Bruno came home from school, he was surprised to find Maria, the family’s maid — who always kept her head bowed and never looked up from the carpet — standing in his bedroom, pulling all his belongings out of the wardrobe and packing them in four large wooden crates, even the things he’d hidden at the back that belonged to him and were nobody else’s business.”
John Boyne's The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“It was mid afternoon in early July and the world was, in general asleep.”
From Patricia St. John's Twice Freed
“I bounded over the gray, dusty terrain toward the huge dome of Conrad Bubble.”
From Andy Weir's Artemis
First Sentence of a New World 