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Day jolts awake beside me. - Prodigy
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"The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive." -Harry Potter and the Order of the PhoenixI'm rereading my favorite Harry Potter book, as you can tell. :)
He began his new life standing up, surrounded by cold darkness and stale, dusty air. - The Maze Runner
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 stare frozenly as we slipped by, uncertain whether we were real or imagined; a procession of waterborne ghosts, or ghosts soon to be. - Hollow City
Everyone my age remembers where they were and what they were doing when they first heard about the contest. - Ready Player One
"My fingertips press into the grass, and steady heartbeats thud in my chest." ~ The Music of the Spheres
"FALLING FOR THE MAN WHO would one day be my worst enemy was the most dangerous thing I could have done -- and I was constantly surrounded by people who wished to kill me." ~ House of Royals
Mr Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes. - Animal Farm
I always thought the moment you met the great love of your life would be more like the movies. - Our Chemical Hearts
"Seven hundred and thirty-three days after my mom died, forty-five days after my dad eloped with a stranger he met on the Internet, thirty days after we then up and moved to California, and only seven days after starting as a junior at a brand-new school where I know approximately no one, an email arrives." ~ Tell Me Three Things
"I always thought the moment you met the great love of your life would be more like the movies." ~ Our Chemical Hearts
"CARL SAGAN SAID that if you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." ~ The Sun Is Also a Star
Archibald Ballentyne held the world in his hands, conveniently contained within fifteen stolen letters. - The Crown Conspiracy
But if you bought me a car now, it would be yours when I go away to school in two years. - Starcrossed
"Lyra and her Daemon moved through the darkening Hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen." - Northern Lights
"Two years have passed since my book came out, and three years since the October morning I was shot by the Taliban on a school bus on my way home from class." ~ I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
"I believe that it is difficult to kill an idea because ideas are invisible and contagious, and they move fast." ~The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction by Neil Gaiman
How many were there, Eryk? - The Demon in the Wood There was a time when the woods near Duva ate girls. - The Witch of Duva
The servants called them malenchki, little ghosts, because they were the smallest and the youngest, and because they haunted the Duke's house like giggling phantoms, darting in and out of rooms, hiding in cupboards to eavesdrop, sneaking into the kitchen to steal the last of the summer peaches. - Shadow and Bone
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Neil Gaiman (other topics)E.L. James (other topics)
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