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"The rusted Chevy pickup truck clanked to a stop, and when Lauren Huntsman's head thumped the passenger window, it jolted her awake." ~ Black Ice
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"ALL MY YEARS of watching TV made me think it was possible you could find a dead body and not know it until you turned the person over and found the bullet hole or stab wound or whatever." ~ Playlist for the Dead
Teacher Zhen lets us out of Chinese class a few minutes early, and Camille and I head over to the buck-eye tree to wait for Laura. - The Year of the Baby
You sit at the airport gate, your feet resting on your luggage, trying your hardest to ignore your sister Angie. - Love on the Lifts
Squalling rain and a biting wind buffeted the pupils of Miss Cackle's Academy as they struggled to reach the school in time for the first day of the Winter Term. - The Worst Witch and the Wishing Star
High in the northern mountains, where for six months of the year the sun barely graced the sky, there lived a great astronomer. - The Astronomer Who Met The North Wind
Madison Parker poured two large glasses of iced tea and walked, slightly slower than usual, to the table in her sunny kitchen nook. - Infamous
Nothing in the world compared to flying, to the feeling of the cool air rushing through my loose hair or sliding over my warm skin and along the curve of my spine, between my wings. - Bitter Sweet Love
Madison Parker stood in the echoing marble foyer of the Beverly Hills Courthouse, her back pressed against the wall and her purse clutched tightly in her freshly manicured fingers. - Starstruck
Jane Roberts leaned against her dresser, studying the way her white silk nightie looked against her sun-kissed skin. - L.A. Candy
After ten minutes of frantically searching my bedroom, I conclude I must have forgotten my book of hymns at the All-Seeing Eye. - Light Of Lorelei
School is the armpit of life, my best friend Kenzie once told me. - Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek
At two-thirty P.M. on a Thursday afternoon, Coast Guard Commander Kateri Kwinault shoved open the door to the Oceanview Café, stalked inside, seated herself on a stool at the lunch counter, and slapped her palm flat on the surface." ~ The Listener
"When I arrive back at the Station the first thing I feel is the cool floor under my naked feet and I tuck my toes in, pretending the ground is grass and that my toes are deep inside the moist soil of Pennsylvania forest." ~ Dying to Remember
"The dream first made an appearance my second week at Thurmond, and it came to visit at least twice a month." - Never Fade
The first murders were committed nineteen years before the second, on a dry and unremarkable day along the Sutlej Frontier in Punjab.- The September Society
"I was just talking with a friend of mine, who says she has to nag her kids every time they leave for a trip." ~ Meet Me at Emotional Baggage Claim
By 1927 there were twelve girls who danced all night and never given names, but by then the men had given up asking and called them all Princess.- The Girls at the Kingfisher Club
My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name being Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.- Great Expectations
When he emerges from the bathroom, she is awake, propped up against the pillows and flocking through the travel brochures that were beside his bed.- Me Before You
"The Mitchells' backyard was packed, full of recent and not-so-recent grads in various stages of party decay." ~ I'll Meet You There
"'That doesn't sound like a school trivia night,' said Mrs. Patty Ponder to Marie Antoinette." ~ Big Little Lies
I was dancing in the atmosphere, surrounded by stars, seeing motes of energy whizzing past me like microscopic comets. - The Coven
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