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"I'm sorry Mrs. Logan, but the biopsy came back positive." ~ Forever Changed
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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
"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
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
"THERE ARE RUMORS THE DAY EMILY BEAM ARRIVES AT THE AMHERST School for Girls -- in January, halfway through her junior year." ~ And We Stay
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