“Walking to school over the snow-muffled cobbles, Karou had no sinister premonitions about the day.”
—First sentence of Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
August 2012
4 posts
“That this was not the end.”
—Last sentence of Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
“I wake up to a quiet world.”
—First sentence of Gone, Gone, Gone by Hannah Moskowitz
“They were asleep.”
—Last sentence of Gone, Gone, Gone by Hannah Moskowitz
March 2012
8 posts
“I was born with a light covering of fur.”
—First sentence of Liar by Justine Larbalestier
“Would I lie to you?”
—Last sentence of Liar by Justine Larbalestier
“I remember lying in the snow, a small red spot of warm going cold, surrounded by wolves.”
—First sentence of Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
“Sam,” she said, and I crushed her to me.”
—Last sentence of Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
“They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that’s not how it happened for me.”
—First sentence of Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
“The rest you have to find out for yourself.”
—Last sentence of Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
“Though not, in hindsight, so startling as the misdeeds she would perpetuate when she returned to boarding school as a sophomore, what happened to Frankie Landau-Banks the summer after her freshman year was a shock.”
—First sentence of The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
“She doesn’t feel like crying any more.”
—Last sentence of The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
July 2011
16 posts
“Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversation in it, ‘and what is the use of a book,’ thought Alice, ‘without pictures or conversation?’”
—First sentence of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
“Lastly, she pictured to herself how the same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with a dream of Wonderland of long ago; and how they would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.”
—Last sentence of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
“My name is Elizabeth but no one’s ever called me that.”
—First sentence of How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
“And that’s how I live now.”
—Last sentence of How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
“My sister Cass ran away the morning of my sixteenth birthday.”
—First sentence of Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
“But for that one instant, I concentrated on reaching the surface, feeling the water break across my face as I burst through it into the air to finally breathe on my own.”
—Last sentence of Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
“The week before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to a boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party.”
—First sentence of Looking for Alaska by John Green
“I don’t know where there is, but I believe it’s somewhere, and I hope it’s beautiful.”
—Last sentence of Looking for Alaska by John Green
