From Andy Weir's Artemis
“I bounded over the gray, dusty terrain toward the huge dome of Conrad Bubble.”
“Michael J. Roscoe was a careful man.”
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Point Blanc
“The monster stood not a tongue’s length away, eyes fixed on our throats, shriveled brain crowded with fantasies of murder.”
From Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children: Library of Souls
“The tower, which was not supposed to be there, plunges into the earth in a place just before the black pine forest begins to give way to swamp and then the reeds and the wind-gnarled trees of the marsh flats.”
From Jeff VanderMeer's The Southern Reach: Annihilation
“When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it’s never good news.”
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Stormbreaker
“The reel screeched, nearly jerked the pole from my fingers.”
From Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs' Virals: Code
“It was the smell that began to drive Thomas slightly mad.”
From James Dashner's Maze Runner: The Death Cure
“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.
“Snap.”
From Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs' Virals: Seizure.
“My god, Mae thought.”
From Dave Eggers' The Circle.
“‘I… I killed them,’ I stammered.”
From Eric Walters' Rule of Three: Will to Survive.
“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.
“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.
First Sentence of a New World 