From R.J. Palacio’s Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories
“Okay, okay, okay.”
“We rowed out through the harbor, past bobbing boats weeping rust from their seams, past juries of silent seabirds roosting atop the barnacled remains of sunken docks, past fishermen who lowered their nets to frozenly as we slipped by, uncertain whether we were real or imagined; a procession of waterborne ghosts, or ghosts soon to be.”
Ransom Rigg's Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children: Hollow City
“I wake with his name in my mouth.”
From Veronica Roth's Divergent: Insurgent
“The cabdriver used both of his big fat feet when he drove, jamming on the brakes and the gas at the same time, making me sick.”
From James Patterson and Maxine Paetro's Confessions: The Private School Murders.
“Torren was out at the edge of the cabbage field that day, the day the people came.”
From Jeanne DuPrau's City of Ember: The People of Sparks.
“‘Swing us back around!’ Herb yelled.”
From Eric Walter's Rule of Three: Fight for Power.
First Sentence of a New World 