From Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs' Virals: Seizure.
“‘I… I killed them,’ I stammered.”
From Eric Walters' Rule of Three: Will to Survive.
“I stare down at my shoes, watching as a fine layer of ash settles on the worn leather.”
From Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games: Mockingjay.
“The last thing I wanted to do on my summer break was blow up another school.”
From Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth.
“I spent the last afternoon of Before constructing a 1/10,000-scale replica of the Empire State Building from boxes of adult diapers.”
From Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
“I wake with his name in my mouth.”
From Veronica Roth's Divergent: Insurgent
“The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school.”
From Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Titan's Curse.
“At the time I first realized I might be fictional, my weekdays were spent at a publicly funded institution on the north side of Indianapolis called White River High School, where I was required to eat lunch at a particular time–between 12:37 P.M. and 1:14 P.M.–by forces so much larger than myself that I couldn’t even begin to identify them.”
From John Green's Turtles All the Way Down.
“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.
“I can’t remember the last time I cried.”
From Suzanne Young's Program: The Adjustment.
“The week before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party.”
From John Green's Looking for Alaska.
“When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.”
From Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games.
“‘Swing us back around!’ Herb yelled.”
From Eric Walter's Rule of Three: Fight for Power.
“My entire life is a lie.”
From Suzanne Young's Program: The Epidemic.
“It’s time to say good-bye.”
From Suzanne Young's Program: The Remedy.