“One summer night I fell asleep, hoping the world would be different when I woke.”

“12th June 1942: I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.”

"Not for the first time, an argument had broken out over breakfast at number four, Privet Drive."

"There were things Dillard Wayne Early Jr. dreaded more than the start of school at Forrestville High."

"I stare down at my shoes, watching as a fine layer of ash settles on the worn leather. This is where the bed I shared with my sister, Prim, stood."

"Prague, early May. The sky weighed gray over fairy-tale rooftops, and all the world was watching."

“They say death aims only once and never misses, but I doubt Ty Yorkshire thought it would strike with a scrubbing brush.”

“It’s midnight, it’s sweltering, and I might be high on Vicodin, but that guy—that guy right over there—that’s him. The him.”

“Today was the day a thousand dreams would die and a single dream would be born.”

“They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that’s not how it happened for me.”

"There is one mirror in my house. It is behind a sliding panel in the hallway upstairs. Our faction allows me to stand in front of it on the second day of every third month, the day my mother cuts my hair."

"I was seventeen years old when I saw my first dead body."