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[Kikijanika]

The monster showed up just after midnight. - A Monster Calls

[Kikijanika]

Dear Peter, I miss you. - P.S. I Still Love You

[Katriann]

I like to imagine there were more of us in the beginning. - The Bone Season

[Trinity]

On the day Emma Carstairs’s parents were killed, the weather was perfect. - City of Heavenly Fire

[Trinity]

Ashton pulled herself up on our branch and sat down. - The Vincent Brothers

[Diede]

Anne can feel the acid churning in her stomach and creeping up her throat; her head is swimming - The Couple Next Door

[Katriann]

Fire. - New World: Ashes

[Kikijanika]

Our dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. - Uprooted

[Vicki]

" 'Sophie, your favorite customer is here.' " ~Wrong

[Vicki]

"I dangle from my fingertips, trying to judge in the darkness how far the soles of my Converse are from the wet pavement." ~ Down to the Liar

[Vicki]

"I'M ON THE TOILET AT the 9:30 Club, and I'm wondering how mermaids pee." ~ The Upside of Unrequited

[Vicki]

"At the top of the key, I'm / MOVING & GROOVING, / POPping and ROCKING --- Why you BUMPING?" ~ The Crossover

[Vicki]

" 'Are you sure this is the one?' " ~ A Perfectly Split Christmas: A Split Short Story

[Vicki]

"Audrey says I was a crybaby when I was little." ~ Gold in the Days of Summer

[Vicki]

"If it were up to my dad, my entire life would be on video." ~ Openly Straight

[Vicki]

"You know you're in the Lowcountry when the steering wheel in your old red pickup is slippery from humidity, the news on the radio is all about the projected path of the latest Atlantic hurricane and the road kill you narrowly miss smearing further is a five foot long alligator." ~ Eversea

[Katriann]

Villains. - Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy

[Kikijanika]

The surf lapped over my feet, sea foam tickling my toes. -The Glass Mermaid

[Vicki]

"I'VE READ MANY more books that you." ~ Everything, Everything

[Vicki]

Act Natural. ~ Sian's Solution

[Vicki]

"When you grow up as Opal and Gavin Goldberg's only child,
you don't question it when you find yourself celebrating Jewish Christmas on December 29 by wearing a giant rodent costume and making vegan cheese from soy milk." ~ Openly, Honestly

[Vicki]

"My twin Robbie tried to die." ~ Jerkbait

[Vicki]

"The first time I saw her, I was dazed but recovering from hellish nightmares." ~ Malaika

[Katriann]

Here is the boy, drowning. - More Than This

[levanaxc]

"She'd had a doll once, with a painted-on smile, and pale hair and eyes like her own." ~ Wayfarer

[Kikijanika]

Prayer candles flicker in my bedroom. - The Girl of Fire and Thorns

[Vicki]

"Here is the boy, drowning." ~ More Than This

[Katriann]

Birthdays are supposed to be special like my Kaiser Wilhelm rosebushes. - Kissed

[Vicki]

"Here we are." ~ One

[Susan]

"Nothing about this room is real" -These Broken Stars

[Kikijanika]

"My sister is in trouble, and I have only minutes to help her." - Soundless

[Susan]

"Now that Atlantic Beach and I are about to part ways, something strange has started to happen." -The End of Our Story

[Susan]

"All children, except one, grow up." -Peter Pan

[Rafaela]

I like to save things. - To All the Boys I've Loved Before

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The knock on the door comes early in the morning, just as it's getting light. - The Chaos

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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

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"We should start back," Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them. - A Game of Thrones

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The monster stood not a tongue's length away, eyes fixed on our throats, shriveled brain crowded with fantasy of murder. - Library of Souls

[Vicki]

"Had Natasha really stopped to think about what she was doing, she may have realised that the path she was following could have dire consequences." ~ TAKING NATASHA: The Shadowy World of Human Trafficking.

[Vicki]

"There's this dream / I've been having / about my mother / that scares / the holy night / out of me, / and each time I wake / from it / I'm afraid to open / my eyes / and face / the world / that used to make sense, / but now sees / disjointed -- islands of possibility / that float by -- like / a thousand puzzle pieces / that just don't fit / together anymore." ~ Solo

[Vicki]

"The beast raged; it punctured the air with its spite." ~ The Bone Witch

[Vicki]

"TODAY WAS THE day."~ Searching for Faith

[Vicki]

"I'D NEVER ATTENDED an execution before." ~ Nine Minutes

[Carlos]

“They’re not all thugs!” I countered Mrs. Hass one day. I was gettin’ mad.Got the Flow: The Hip-Hop Diary of a Young Rapper

[Anna (Adventures with a Book Nerd)]

"Don't look at him and he'll go away." -Existence

[Katriann]

In the dim hovel, the mother clenched her body into one final, straining push, and the baby slithered out into Gaia's ready hands. - Birthmarked

[Vicki]

"Stockbridge, Georgia." ~ Summer Seventeen & You

[Trinity]

The list arrived after Sloane had been gone two weeks. - Since You've Been Gone

[Trinity]

As I sit here with one foot on either side of the ledge, looking down from twelve stories above the streets of Boston, I can’t help but think about suicide. - It Ends with Us

[Kikijanika]

When Night looked down, it saw its own eyes staring back at it. - Vassa in the Night