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I stood in front of the church, looking out at the solemn faces of family and friends. ~ Sometimes It Lasts
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Any girl at St. Bernadette's Prep School should know three things: Skirts need to be one inch above the knee only if a teacher is looking, a dab of nasal spray will make any zit less red, and the lock on the Headmaster Bailey's office door can be picked with a credit card. - Prep School Confidential
The first time I saw the apartment building I thought it looked like a bunker; it never occurred to me that we'd end up using it as one. - What Once We Feared
Staring out the bedroom window, Ronnie wondered whether Pastor Harris was already at the church.- The Last Song
It was the biggest competition of my life, but all I could think of was the cheetah bra. Bittersweet
“Dick Laughlin just went in!” Lisa Herman stood behind the café curtains that covered the bottom half of the plate-glass window and peered out across the snow-covered width of Main Street. ~ Peach Cobbler Murder
"Journal Entry: I'm angry, pissed at the world right now, and pretty much everything in it." ~Fire and Ice
Julian's whispered words drifted past my ears and disturbed the dead quiet of the street, still hushed by the early morning hour. Free Souls
As I hurtled toward New York City in a Greyhound bus, I'd imagined my destination would be a gleaming ultrachic high-rise or a brownstone full of cousins, aunts, and uncles who would gather me in their arms, thrilled to discover the long-lost relative they never knew they had.- CatherineWhew! That was a long one!
Hannah Swensen did her best to convince her sleep-logged mind that the insistent electronic beeping she heard was in the soundtrack of her dream. ~ Cherry Cheesecake Murder
Arielle woke up with a feeling of extreme delight and stretched in a leisurely way, knowing it was Saturday and she had absolutely no plans at all. -Arielle: Immortal Awakening
This - rattling down an endless stretch of interstate in a Greyhound bus toward the middle of farm-country-nowhere a week after barely graduating high school - was my low point. - Lost and Found
Charity Jones loved a good disaster movie as much as the next person - she would simply prefer the disaster in question not be about her life. - Chasing Perfect
“Leah!” My mother rolls her eyes, sounding completely exasperated as she steps down the three thick stone slabs at our front door, her heels clacking. - Kiss Crush Collide
The knife had a handle of polished black bone, and a blade finer and sharper than any razor. -The Graveyard Book
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." Pride and Prejudice
I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. ~ Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
"I waited outside the large, four-story home in Manhasset that was owned by Mr. Liam Flannery. ---One Foot in the Grave.
I bear a deep red stain that runs from my left shoulder down to my right hip, a trail left by the herbwitch's poison that my mother used to try to expel me from her womb. - Grave Mercy
At the moment when life as he had known it changed forever, Alex Morales was behind the counter at Joey's Pizza, slicing a spinach pesto pie into eight roughly equal pieces. - The Dead and the Gone
In the beginning was the darkness, and in the darkness was a girl, and in the girl was a secret.- Of Beast and Beauty
Sometimes I wonder if there are some memories the mind doesn’t want to deal with and that if it really wants to, it can block out the images, shut down, numb the pain connected to what we saw—what we didn’t want to see. ~ Breaking Nova
After a year of slavery in the Salt Mines of Endovier, Celaena Sardothien was accustomed to being escorted everywhere in shackles and at sword-point. - Throne of Glass
The moment she saw the young man walking down the darkened hall toward her, twirling his walking stick, Finley Jayne knew she'd be unemployed before the sun rose. The Girl in the Steel Corset
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