From Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Dear Friend, I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn’t try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have.”
“We only have a few hours, so listen carefully.”
From Rick Riordan's Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid.
“Alex Rider lay on his back, drying out in the mid-day sun.”
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Eagle Strike
“‘Beep, beep,’ Lindsay calls out.”
From Lauren Oliver's Before I Fall
“’What I’d like from you is the truth, Miss Brennan.’”
From Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs' Virals: Exposure
“I inhaled deeply, then exhaled.”
Arvin Ahmadi's Down and Across
“Night came quickly to Skeleton Key.”
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Skeleton Key
“One afternoon, when Bruno came home from school, he was surprised to find Maria, the family’s maid — who always kept her head bowed and never looked up from the carpet — standing in his bedroom, pulling all his belongings out of the wardrobe and packing them in four large wooden crates, even the things he’d hidden at the back that belonged to him and were nobody else’s business.”
John Boyne's The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“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
“Jyn Erso hid in the dark.”
From Beth Revis' Star Wars: Rebel Rising.
“When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it’s never good news.”
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Stormbreaker
“It was a dark and stormy night.”
From Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time.
“The day after my mother died, the priest and I wrapped her body in a gray shroud and carried her to the village church.”
From Avi's Crispin: The Cross of Lead.
“Hello, friend.”
From James Patterson and Maxine Paetro's Confessions: The Murder of an Angel
First Sentence of a New World 