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"how is it so easy for you / to be kind to people he asked" ~ Milk and Honey
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"DON'T NOBODY believe nothing these days which is why I haven't told nobody the story I'm about to tell you." ~ Long Way Down
"Absorbed in a stream of murky thoughts and annoyance, I parked the Jeep near the alley." ~ Loving Mr. Daniels
"Delinda Westerly steadied herself by gripping the back of an eighteenth-century Chippendale chair in her sunroom." ~ In the Heir
"Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it this summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down." ~ Little Fires Everywhere
"I was fourteen when my father thought he finally developed the perfect inner coil for the lightbulb." ~ The Boat Runner
The Spook, Alice and I were crossing the Long Ridge on our way back to Chipenden, with the three wolfhounds, Claw, Blood and Bone, barking excitedly at our heels. - Spook's Nightmare
On the day we're the last people to see indie kid Finn alive, we're all sprawled together in the Field, talking about love and stomachs. - The Rest of Us Just Live Here
It was late January, and New England wore a fresh coat of snow as I stepped along the gangplank to the shore. Jackaby
"O'Byrne is standing at the corner of Ninth Avenue and 36th Street with a to-go cup in each hand and the hood of his sweatshirt pulled up." War
Children have always tumbled down rabbit holes,fallen through mirrors, been swept away by nonseasonal floods or carried off by tornadoes.~Beneath the Sugar Sky
"The lunch hour in the coworkers' cafeteria at Frankenberg's had reached its peak." ~ Carol or The Price of Salt (original title)
"America is in trouble, and a lot of that trouble -- perhaps most of it -- has to do with race." ~ Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
"AT THE TIME I FIRST REALIZED I might be fictional, my weekdays were spent at a publicly funded institution on the north side of Indianapolis called White River High School where I was required to eat lunch at a particular time -- between 12:37 P.M. and 1:14 P.M. -- by forces so much larger than myself that I couldn't even begin to identify them." ~ Turtles All the Way Down
"It was late in January, and New England wore a fresh coat of snow as I stepped along the gangplank to the shore." ~ Jackaby
"Led by dictator Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Party in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s believed that certain people -- particularly the Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and the disabled -- were inferior and didn't deserve to live." ~ Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust
"Jill Meyer never approached her father's office without some sort of absurd fantasy playing through her mind." ~ Shadows at Sunset
"i woke to the sound of a mosquito whining in my left ear and my mother screeching in the right." ~ Fever 1793
"The parking lot had been freshly lined and the pavement was so new and clean it gleamed in the moonlight." ~ Slow Dance in Purgatory
"I wish I could have taken a picture of the look on Johnny's face when I pulled out my gun and aimed it between his eyes." ~ Secret Indiscretions
"I placed my thumb and forefinger on the icy flesh, spreading it taut above the breastbone as Uncle had shown me." ~ Stalking Jack the Ripper
There once was a little doll named Karolina, who lived in a country far from the human world. - The Dollmaker of Krakow
"Follow my lead, Miss Rook," Jackaby said, rapping on the ornately trimmed door to 1206 Campbell Street. - Beastly Bones
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