From James Patterson's Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
“The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.”
“Coriolanus released the fistful of cabbage into the pot of boiling water and swore that one day it would never pass his lips again.”
From Suzanne Collins' The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“Examination day.”
From Joelle Charbonneau’s The Testing: Independent Study
“Niko’s eyes flashed to our faces, one by one.”
From Emmy Laybourne's Monument 14: Savage Drift
“Graduation Day.”
From Joelle Charbonneau’s The Testing
“Mark shivered with cold, something he hadn’t done in a long time.”
From James Dashner's The Maze Runner: The Kill Order
“Happy was not a word often used to describe Artemis Fowl’s bodyguard.”
From Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony
“It was a lovely moment.”
From Emmy Laybourne's Monument 14: Sky on Fire
“Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus.”
From Emmy Laybourne's Monument 14
“Astrid awoke to find her bedroom was filled with a strange, warm light.”
From Alexander Yates' How We Became Wicked
“My adversary charged at full speed, intent on running me down.”
From Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs' Virals: Terminal
“Nickie Randolph’s first sight of the town of Yonwood was a white steeple rising out of the pine forest that covered the mountainside.”
Jeanne DuPrau's The City of Ember: The Prophet of Yonwood
“Malorie stands in the kitchen, thinking.”
From Josh Malerman's Bird Box
“The room reminds me of the kind of places Henri and I used to stay in during the early days.”
From Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies: United as One
“We run past the broken wing of an exploded jet fighter, the jagged metal lodged in the middle of a city street like a shark’s fin.”
From Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies: The Fate of Ten
First Sentence of a New World 