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[Kikijanika]

A stray lamb stood on the bank of a stream lapping up water, unaware of a grey wolf standing upstream. - Aesop Lake

[Katriann]

I know that they're birds, but only because I've been told. - The Loneliness of Distant Beings

[Katriann]

The desert is scorching hot outside his goggles. - No Ordinary Star

[Kikijanika]

It was late winter in Northern Rus', the air sullen with wet that was neither rain nor snow. - The Bear and the Nightingale

[Kikijanika]

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

[Louie]

Sophie had waited all her life to be kidnapped. The School for Good and Evil

[Katriann]

Asha stood watching the storm. - Emergence

[Kikijanika]

Grace hadn't really thought too much about homecoming. - Far from the Tree

[Katriann]

West Baltimore, 2015 - Flashing blue-light police cameras mounted on lamp posts. - At the Far End of Nowhere

[Louie]

Crouched on a branch of a mukuyu tree, a girl tore open a speckled fruit. A Girl Named Disaster

[Kikijanika]

When I was little kid, my favorite thing about winter was sledding. - Hana

When I was a girl, it snowed for a whole summer. - Annabel

Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they say. - Alex

Here are the top three things I've learned in my twenty-two years on the planet: 1. Never wipe your butt with poison ivy. - Raven

[Louie]

The problem with your best friend dying is that there's no one to sit with you at funerals. Undead Girl Gang

[Kikijanika]

Alex and I are lying together on a blanket in the backyard of 37 Brooks. - Pandemonium

[Louie]

There is an uneasiness that remains after your best friend tries to kill you. - A World Without Princes

[Kikijanika]

The young man woke up surrounded by fire and chaos. - Gathering Darkness

York, 1847. - Clockwork Princess

Black or red? - Shards and Ashes

[Katriann]

I line the bottles up on my night table. - The Weight of Zero

[Suchismita]

Blackeberg. It makes you think of coconut-frosted cookies, maybe drugs. - Let the Right One In

[Kikijanika]

It was dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea. - Mortal Engines

[Katriann]

"Where are you?" Aunt Hannah demanded as soon as Alex thumbed TALK. - Ashes

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"The notice informed them that it was a temporary matter: for five days their electricity would be cut off for one hour, beginning at 8 P.M." Interpreter of Maladies

[Katriann]

The snow starts to fall just before Ms. McConnell's Global Literatures class. - Speak No Evil

[Kikijanika]

It was a sad moment in Magnus Bane's life when he was banned from Peru by the High Council of Peruvian warlocks. - The Bane Chronicles

Would you rather walk barefoot across a mile of Legos or get a tattoo on the inside of your eyelid? - Althea & Oliver

[Katriann]

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. - Rebecca

[Louie]

I watched from the window as the boys tumbled out of the brick schoolhouse across the field from us.
Amal Unbound

[Suchismita]

Every author, I suppose, has in mind a setting in which readers of his or her work could benefit from having read it.

[Kikijanika]

Steve Grant rounded the corner of the parking lot behind Black Spring Market & Deli just in time to see Katherine van Wyler get run over by an antique Dutch barrel organ. - Hex

[Kikijanika]

I've started dreaming of Portland again. - Requiem

[Louie]

Because the things that happened to me were so strange, I know that many people will find them hard to believe. Whispers from the Dead

[Louie]

After his family had finally fallen asleep, Alex slung the backpack over his shoulder and snuck out of the apartment, easing the front door gently home so it didn't slam shut. - Nightbooks

[Louie]

The day my parents got by swallowed a rakkhosh and whisked away to another galactic dimension was a pretty craptastic day. - The Serpent's Secret

[Kikijanika]

If only I could break the glass separating me and Manman with my thoughts alone. - American Street

[Katriann]

Driven by the gentlest of breezes, our small fishing boat was sailing slowly west, bobbing gently towards the distant shore. - The Spook's Destiny

[Cecilia]

As the first crack of thunder broke over Crescent Moon Bay, Grace Tempest opened her eyes. - Demons of the Ocean

[Lexy]

Lightning clawed across the sky, tracing veins through the clouds and marking the pulse of the universe itself. - The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

[Louie]

I have a heart for every year I've been alive. - To Kill a Kingdom

[Kikijanika]

Once upon forever, in an ancient, crumbling palace, two sisters, Love and Death, played their eternal game. - Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

The instant the phone rang at the Glass House, Claire knew with a psychic flash that it had to be her mother. - Midnight Alley

[Kikijanika]

We run. - The Bitter Kingdom

[The Awesome One]

Asha lured the dragon with a story - The Last Namsara

[Katriann]

First the colours. - The Book Thief

[Kikijanika]

I've been locked up for 264 days. - Shatter Me

[Katriann]

Michael spoke against the wind, to a girl named Tanya. - The Eye of Minds

[Louie]

Willa crept through the darkened forest , following the faint scent of chimney smoke on the midnight air.Willa of the Wood

[Kikijanika]

If he does not come soon, she may not have the heart to kill him. - Bright Smoke, Cold Fire

[Kikijanika]

I've been shot. - Destroy Me

[Katriann]

I was older than all my friends when I got my first tattoo. - Ink

[Katriann]

Black is the color that is no color at all. - In The Afterlight

[Kikijanika]

I stare at the drain in the center of the concrete floor. - All Our Yesterdays

[Kikijanika]

"Please tell me that's not going to be part of my birthday dinner this evening." - A Great and Terrible Beauty

"The girls were never present for the entrance interviews." - Every Heart a Doorway

"Jasnah Kholin pretended to enjoy the party, giving no indication that she intended to have one of the guests killed." - Words of Radiance, Part 1

[Louie]

The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Sense and Sensibility

[Louie]

The day I came squealing and squalling into the world was the first time someone tried to kill me. - Dread Nation