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"At night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and flew circles around the room, making that propeller sound, a high-pitched zzzzzzzz that hummed along my skin."The Secret Life of Bees
white hot kiss by Jennifer L. Armentrout. "There was a demon in McDonald's."
"WE'D BEEN IN AMERICA just three months when the horse ran over me." ~ The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street
It weren't so secret Pa owned the best plot of land 'long Granite Creek, and I reckon that's why they killed him. - Vengeance Road
"Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State-and having at the end of that time been kidnapped and sold into slavery, where I remained, until happily rescued in the month of January, 1853, after bondage of twelve years - it has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public." ~ Twelve Years a Slave
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time thinking about death. - The Fault in Our Stars
I am aware as I step into the common room that the majority of people here are almost dead, including me. - Solitaire
"SOMETIMES I THINK THE WHITE OAK TREE WAS listening that night last August." ~ The Year We Fell Apart
Della Tsang hadn't ever seen a ghost until she saw her dead cousin zip across the street and duck into the ally. - Turned at Dark
"I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted" - The Well of Ascension
"I didn't feel much like Julia Roberts as I emerged from the hot and crowded London underground." ~ From Notting Hill with Love... Actually
I had been dating Lily for almost a year, and no matter what I did, I couldn’t get her brother to like me, trust me, or think I was remotely good enough for his sister. - The Twelve Days of Dash and Lily
"BRIANNE PARKER didn't look like a bank robber or a murderer -- her pleasantly plump baby face fooled everybody." ~ Roses are Red
There are rumor the day Emily Beam arrives at the Amherst School for Girls- in January, halfway through her junior year. - And We Stay
"Living at grandpa's home on the little hill overlooking the sapphire lake in northwestern Montana provided a short reprieve for Star's heart." Home Is Where the Heart Is
"Star sat on her bed, holding her doll and gazing out at the serene countryside from her balloon-curtained window." ~ Reunited
"The comet's tail spread across the dawn, a red slash that bled above the crags of Dragonstone like a wound in the pink and purple sky." - A Clash of Kings
The newspaper headline glared at me from a little metal vending machine: SEATTLE UNDER SIEGE - DEATH TOLL RISES AGAIN. - The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella
I expected more of a reaction the first time I hit her.
He was coming right, so I shifted, blocked his punch, and rounded with my own...Fallen Crest University
The boy and the girl had once dreamed of ships, long ago, before they'd ever seen the True Sea. - Siege and Storm
“You may think you know the story. It goes like this: once upon a time, there was a sixteen-year-old girl named Jane Grey, who was forced to marry a complete stranger (Lord Guildford or Gilford or Gifford-something-or-other), and shortly thereafter found herself ruler of a country.” - My Lady Jane
Crazy for Young Adult Books
Books mentioned in this topic
Realm Breaker (other topics)The Spook's Blood (other topics)
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (other topics)
We Are Blood and Thunder (other topics)
Neverworld Wake (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Neil Gaiman (other topics)E.L. James (other topics)
Marissa Meyer (other topics)
Tahereh Mafi (other topics)
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