From Rick Riordan's Heroes of Olympus: The Son of Neptune
“The snake-haired ladies were starting to annoy Percy.”
“’Wow!’ I can remember saying as soon as Vivian stepped out of the bathroom and showed me the positive result of the pregnancy test.”
From Nicholas Spark's Two by Two
“Just off the main highway that runs through Waco, Texas, sits a pink house–one built in that kind of Southwestern adobe style you might find in Arizona or Nevada.”
From Clint Harp's Handcrafted
“Petey’s sweaty little hand wriggled in mine.”
From Jenny Goebel’s Fortune Falls
“‘Girls?'”
From Ellen Klages' White Sands, Red Menace
“Dewey Kerrigan sits on the concrete front steps of Mrs. Kovak’s house in St. Louis, waiting for her father.”
From Ellen Klages’ The Green Glass Sea
“‘Beep, beep,’ Lindsay calls out.”
From Lauren Oliver's Before I Fall
“So, all went as planned– actually better.”
From Lauren Allbright's Exit Strategy
“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.
First Sentence of a New World 