From Hollis Gillespie's We Will Be Crashing Shortly
“The last time I saw Mr. Hackman he was dead, but not decapitated.”
“I trace the outline of my sister’s drawing, lungs molded from a sea of flowers.”
From Rachael Lippincott's Five Feet Apart
“The room reminds me of the kind of places Henri and I used to stay in during the early days.”
From Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies: United as One
“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
“It’s strange, what the mind can digest and what it resists.”
From Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children: A Map of Days
“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
“‘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
“6A.”
From Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies: The Rise of Nine
“The year is 2016.”
From Gina Damico's Waste of Space
“There were two ostriches, a water buffalo, and a flock of wild turkeys between me and the registration desk.”
From Alison Cherry, Lindsay Ribar, and Michelle Schusterman's The Pros of Cons
First Sentence of a New World 