From Agatha Christie's They Do It with Mirrors
“Mrs. Van Rydock moved a little back from the mirror and sighed.”
“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
“It’s funny the things that get stuck in your head.”
From Jeff Hirsch's Black River Falls
“The nightmare is over.”
From Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies: The Revenge of Seven
“I am afraid.”
From Robert C. O'Brien's Z for Zachariah
“Tonight’s escape fantasy stars Six.”
From Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies: The Fall of Five
“Fifty thousand people had come to Suffolk Air Show on the east coast of England.”
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Never Say Die
“A sharp, undulating tone – drilling into his brain.”
From Chris McGeorge's Guess Who
“Dolly Rawlins stood in her kitchen ironing the shirt collar and cuffs she had carefully starched, just the way Harry always liked them.”
From Lynda La Plante's Widows
“‘Yasha!'”
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Russian Roulette.
“It’s been exactly a year to the day–today is my fifteenth birthday, by the way, and I like my cake chocolate with white icing, in case anyone cares–since I started running away, and about two and a half weeks since I’ve been on the run full time.”
From Hollis Gillespie's Unaccompanied Minor
“In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in The Times.”
From Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None
“6A.”
From Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies: The Rise of Nine
“The year is 2016.”
From Gina Damico's Waste of Space
“Lewis Barnavelt fidgeted and wiped his sweaty palms on the seat of the bus that was roaring toward New Zebedee.”
From John Bellairs' The House with a Clock in Its Walls
First Sentence of a New World 