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"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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"THE BASEMENT HALLWAYS in King's College of Medical Research were dark, even in the daytime." ~ The Madman’s Daughter
I blow out the candle balanced precariously on my desk and sink my room into darkness, the only light coming from the moon and the lights of the town below. - At Water's Edge
To say my life changed when my mother married Dino Cavalli (yes, the Dino Cavalli) would be like saying that the tornado changed things for Dorothy. - Wild Roses
The first trap the fox escaped was his mother’s jaws. - The Too-Clever Fox It is dangerous to travel the northern road with a troubled heart. - Little Knife
It has been sixty-four years since the president and the Consortium identified love as a disease, and forty-three since the scientists perfected a cure. - Delirium
"Dear Friend, I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have." The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
My big brother reaches home in the dark hours before dawn, when even ghosts take their rest. - An Ember in the Ashes
The monster's name was Izumrud, the great worm, and there were those who claimed he had made the tunnels that ran beneath Ravka. - Ruin and Rising
Walking to school over the snow-muffled cobbles, Karou had no sinister premonitions about the day. - Daughter of Smoke & Bone
On this cool autumn morning, Gabe Common had already gotten up, made breakfast for himself and his boss, Mike Hartwell, and cleaned up the tiny space in the trailer where they lived. --Just Another Quiet Little City. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Before my wife turned vegetarian, I'd always thought of her as completely unremarkable in every way. - The Vegetarian
"THIS TIME I know it, I know it with a certainty that chokes my throat with panic, that grips and twists my heart until it's ripped from its mooring." ~ Invisible
When it was over, my favorite quote made it into all the newspapers. - Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade
My eyes snapped open as the freakish sixth sense kicked my fight or flight response into overdrive. - Half-Blood
"A ten-point buck and a dead body make the same sound when they hit the forest floor." ~ This Is Our Story
Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter. - Oliver Twist
I can hardly stand still as my mother straightens my celebratory red tunic and tucks a strand of light brown hair behind my ear. - The Testing
Sophronia intended to pull the dumbwaiter up from the kitchen to outside the front parlor on the ground floor, where Mrs. Barnaclegoose was taking tea. - Etiquette & Espionage
"MY DAD'S PHONE VIBRATES LOUDLY, SHIMMYING A LITTLE ACROSS OUR WORN dining room table." ~ The Outliers
It snowed the day they killed the boys parents ~the fever code
"SOMETIMES WHEN THE SUN MADE HER DIZZY AND HER SKIN BURNED and peeled and there was no water to spare, Jae thought about revenge." ~ Bound by Blood and Sand
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