From Rick Riordan's The Trials of Apollo: The Tyrant's Tomb
“Someone must have bitten off her nose.”
From Lex Thomas' Quarantine: The Loners
“Deep in the green-glowing bowels of a Chinatown seafood market, down a dead-end hallway lined with crab tanks, we crouched in a puddle of dark the light-eater had made, watched over by a thousand alien eyes.”
From Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children: The Conference of the Birds
“The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.”
From James Patterson's Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
“No.”
From Rick Riordan's The Trials of Apollo: The Burning Maze
“The Wayland Inn was behind the slums, on the west end of Knoxville.”
Kristen Simmons’ Article 5: Breaking Point
“So in order to understand everything that happened, you have to start from the premise that high school sucks.”
From Jesse Andrews' Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“Artemis Fowl, once self-proclaimed teenage criminal mastermind, now prefers the term juvenile genius.”
From Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian
“Ok–answer me this: why would anyone want to wear an overcoat in San Francisco in the middle of summer?”
From Michael Scott's The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
“I was eighteen years old, give or take a fairy-tale century, when I had my first kiss.”
From Melissa Albert's Hazel Wood: The Night Country
“Examination day.”
From Joelle Charbonneau’s The Testing: Independent Study
“Vatnajökull is the biggest glacier in Europe with an area of more than five thousand stark blue-white miles.”
From Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex
“‘I don’t even like eggs,’ David said.”
From Jerry Spinelli’s Eggs
“When our dragon declared war on Indiana, I knew it was going to be a bad day.”
From Rick Riordan's The Trials of Apollo: The Dark Prophecy
“Niko’s eyes flashed to our faces, one by one.”
From Emmy Laybourne's Monument 14: Savage Drift