From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: Vox
“It was cold in the great chamber; bitter cold.”
“Since Atlanta, she had looked out the dining-car window with a delight almost physical.”
From Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman
“The young under-librarian awoke drenched in sweat.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: The Last of the Sky Pirates
“Sunny!”
From Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm's Sunny Side Up
“I guess Mom was pretty proud of herself for making me write in that journal last year, because now she went and bought me another one.”
From Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
“Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away.”
From E. L. Konigsburg's From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
“Hey, don’t touch that!”
From Steve Behling’s The Pirate Angel, the Taking Tree, and Captain Rabbit
“It was a sunny spring morning, but there was murder in the air.”
From Andrew Clements’ About Average
“Lucy Gringe found the last space on the dawn Port barge.”
From Angie Sage's Septimus Heap: Darke
“Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.”
From Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain
“‘Okay, Danny, we’re ready to go live in thirty seconds.'”
From Trent Reedy's Divided We Fall: The Last Full Measure
“It was an afternoon in late September.”
From Richard and Florence Atwater's Mr. Popper's Penguins
“How do you say good-bye to a friend?”
From Elana K. Arnold's Bat and the End of Everything
“There was a town, and there was a train, and there was a murder.”
From Lemony Snicket's All the Wrong Questions: Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?
First Sentence of a New World 