From Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs' Virals: Code
“The reel screeched, nearly jerked the pole from my fingers.”
“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.
“I know I’m not an ordinary ten-year-old kid.”
R. J. Palacio's Wonder.
“The end of the world started when a pegasus landed on the hood of my car.”
From Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian.
“The peculiars in the village of Swampmuck lived very modestly.”
From Ransom Riggs' Tales of the Peculiar.
“Snap.”
From Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs' Virals: Seizure.
“‘I… I killed them,’ I stammered.”
From Eric Walters' Rule of Three: Will to Survive.
“I stare down at my shoes, watching as a fine layer of ash settles on the worn leather.”
From Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games: Mockingjay.
“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 