"Even strength has to bow to wisdom sometimes."

- The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Convincing you to read my novel (short story might be more accurate) by the first sentence. Share yours if you want!

The opening for HUNGER.

"They will not use my tears for their entertainment."

- Sunrise on The Reaping by Suzanne Collins

Councillor Emery sighed. “You’re not going to make this easy, are you?”
“I’m pretty sure that’s my job,” Sophie countered.
“As the moonlark?” Councillor Alina asked with a notable scoff in her voice.
Sophie smiled sweetly at her. “As a teenager.”
Bo made a choked sound that might’ve been a laugh.

"You don’t have to think of us as real girls, real flesh and blood, real pain, real injustice. That might be too upsetting. Just discard the sordid part. Consider us pure symbols. We’re no more real than money."

- The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

"It is our choices, Harry, that show us what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

- Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets

"You thought I would not weesh to marry him? Or per’aps, you ’oped?" said Fleur, her nostrils flaring. "What do I care how ’e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!’"

- Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

"Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping."

- A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

"One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls."

- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

"The ideas of service and honour and duty and self-sacrifice are all too often used as a tool by people who do not have those things, to keep those who do in their power, doing what they want."

- A Winter Memory by Lulu Taylor

The knight returns with the damsel in distress," Jameson declared as I made my way toward him. He glanced toward Grayson. "You're the damsel."
"I figured"

- The Final Gambit, Jennifer Lynn Barnes

"My God, Jessie, you have the nerve of ten men."
"No. One woman."

- The Prodigal Daughter by Jeffrey Archer