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Hey, is that you? - Secret Lives
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Osbert Brinkhoff was born on a Tuesday to a respectable family in an obscure corner of the city of Schwartzgarten. - Tales from Schwartzgarte: Osbert the Avenger
The field didn't end so much as trail off, beaten back by the rusted-out trailer and circle of junked vehicles surrounding it. - Another Little Piece
The servants called them malenchki, little ghosts, because thdy were the smallest and the youngest, and because they haunted the Duke's house like giggling phantoms, darting in and out of rooms, hiding in cupboard to eavesdrop, sneaking into the kitchen to steal the last of the summer peaches. - Shadow and Bone
"Jen, you are not going back to the states so quit trying to pack your damn clothes," Sally growled. Just One Drop
I've heard it said- though I can't say whether or not it's true that all good stories begin in the same way. - Beauty Sleep: A Retelling of "Sleeping Beauty"
From the Prologue: "There are some who believe in a parallel universe; an Omni-verse made up of twelve different planes." From Chapter 1: A Beginning: Realm One: "'Push Renee...You can do this...just one more good push...'"Parallel
"THE SCREW THROUGH CINDER'S ANKLE HAD RUSTED, THE engraved cross marks worn to a mangle circle." Cinder
“Heads up,” a loud voice called from my right. I looked up just in time to see a football smack me right between the eyes. - Pivot Point
I take the road that leads up the hill, my heart beating louder than the Cryptic Slaughter song that's trashing out my car speakers. - Project 17
I wish I'd started keeping a journal a lot earlier on, because whoever ends up writing my biography is gonna have a lot of questions about my life in the years leading up to middle school. - The Third Wheel
Even without Holly Howard and Dori Archer, who'd been suspended for drinking on campus, we were supposed to win that game. - Nantucket Blue
The servants called them malenchki, little ghosts, because they were the smallest and the youngest, and because they haunted the Duke's house like giggling phantoms, darting in and out of rooms, hiding in cupboards to eavesdrop, sneaking into the kitchen to steal the last of the summer peaches. - Shadow and Bone
The week before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party. - Looking for Alaska
Sweeping, swooping, soaring, air-current thrill rides - there's nothing better. School's Out—Forever
"For miles around, we were the only things in the infinite, wide-open, clear blue sky." (2nd sentence) School's Out - Forever
"Just breathe," my mom would say. "Ten tiny breaths... Seize them. Feel them. Love them." - Ten Tiny Breaths
I wasn't always the kind of girl who wakes up on the first day of summer vacation to find herself on the receiving end of a temporary restraining order. - How My Summer Went Up in Flames
In the summer of my twenty-third year, the Red Lung virus began its spread across the eastern United States. - Dawn of Eden
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