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The prisoner stood with his hands tied in front of him, tired, beaten, and filthy but with a proud back befitting his royal Indian heritage. - Tiger's Curse
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"Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were." -Gone With The Wind (one of my favorite books ever!)"On the morning of May 19, 2004, Carla Reed, a thirty-year-old kingergarten teacher from Ipswich, Massachusetts, a mother of three young children, woke up in bed with a headache." -The Emperor of All Maladies
"It was night again." -The Name of the Wind
"But if you bought me a new car now, it would be yours when I go away to school in two years." - Starcrossed
the funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.-(the angel experiment)
Bobby Newkirk pressed against the locker door with one hand, squeezing Ronnie Mitchell into her locker. - Double Date
Dingen over mij die - in een of ander alternatief universum - misschien interessant genoeg zijn voor het docentencomité van de vierdeklassers om mij te selecteren voor de kunstgeschiedenisreis naar Italië. - THEBW
On the Way to the Light… On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray. - Everlost
Alison DeLaurentis strode down the hallway at Rosewood Day Middle School, her kitten heel clacking, her blond hair bouncing, and her plaid uniform skirt riding high on her thighs. - Ali's Pretty Little Lies(I skipped the first line and in the prologue because it revealed too much)
"THEY ALWAYS SCREAMED. My assignment wailed as she slipped in the mud, whipping her head around to see if I was gaining on her." Reboot
Toen Kat zingend door de door bos omzoomde autoweg de smalle landweg in sloeg, zag Noa het door voor de eerste keer. - Whisper
Het was echt helemaal alleen mijn vaders schuld dat de rovers dat muziekzomerkamp moesten overvallen. - Ik en de Rovers zingen karaoke
Mason Lowe was fixing his mother’s push mower so he could cut the grass when Mrs. Garrison came to collect the rent. ~ Price of a Kiss
"When I was sure that it was [empty], I shouldered by purse and closed the door behind me quietly, then took the stairs down to the kitchen two at a time." (2nd sentence; fist one in message 1732) Second Chance Summer
The candleflame and the image of the candleflame caught in the pierglass twisted and righted when he entered the hall and again when he shut the door. - All the Pretty Horses
Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four hour period to get yourself through.- Where She Went
"SAM TEMPLE WAS on his board. And there were waves. Honest-to-God swooping, crashing, churning, salt-smelling, white-foam waves." Hunger
And there he was about two hundred feet out, the perfect place to catch a wave, lying facedown, hands and feet in the water, almost numb from the cold, while at the same time his wet-suit encased, sunbaked back was steaming (3rd line) - Hunger
It is said that in death, all things become clear; Ensei Tankado now knew it was true.- Digital Fortress
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Neil Gaiman (other topics)E.L. James (other topics)
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