From James Dashner's Maze Runner: The Death Cure
“It was the smell that began to drive Thomas slightly mad.”
“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
“Hello, friend.”
From James Patterson and Maxine Paetro's Confessions: The Paris Mysteries.
“I know I’m not an ordinary ten-year-old kid.”
R. J. Palacio's Wonder.
“The end of the world started when a pegasus landed on the hood of my car.”
From Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian.
“It was the night before Christmas.”
From Maureen Johnson, John Green, and Lauren Myracle’s Let It Snow.
“The peculiars in the village of Swampmuck lived very modestly.”
From Ransom Riggs' Tales of the Peculiar.
First Sentence of a New World 