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My father was a king and the son of kings.- The Song of Achilles
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Things I will never forget: my name, my made-up birthday, the rattle of a train in a tunnel. -Find Me
I opened my wrist with one firm stroke of the knife, watching with interest as the blood leaped out of the vein.- Mistress of Rome
Ada Goth stared at the three extremely plump Dalmatian dogs opposite of her. - Goth Girl and the Pirate Queen
Outside the sun was shining, but inside Room 26 of Longfellow School, it was a dark and stormy night. - Mysteries According to Humphrey. by Betty G. Birney
"PLEASE TELL ME THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE A PART OF MY birthday dinner this evening?" - A Great and Terrible Beauty
This is how the world ends: with the boy who used to be my best friend steeping off the ferry, hair shaggy and tangled, face too thin, looking at me like he isn't sure who I am. ~ The Lives We Lost
Eilis Lacey, sitting at the window of the upstairs living room in the house on Friary Street, noticed her sister walking briskly from work.- Brooklyn
A cool April drizzle pricks my face as I stand in the poorly lit parking lot of the Fremont Pharmacy with my roll-away suitcase.- A Little Too Hot
"I grabbed the large bunch of lilies out of my dad's hand, ran to the kitchen and threw them straight in the bin." You'll Always Be Mine
In Rome, nothing mattered more than the gods, and nothing mattered less than the slaves.- Mark of the Thief
The faint outline of my face reflects off the glass as I stare out the window of my stepdad's power Jaguar.- Forevermore
"The fireworks busrt into a dazzling array of color.." - Gates of Paradise by Melissa de la Cruz
"The town of Twin Willows was a tiny dot on a large map, a speck of nothing in the middle of nowhere." ~ Winter Falls
"Music, especially classical music, especially Mozart's Requiem Mass in D Minor, has kinetic energy." ~ My Heart and Other Black Holes
"On the day Liz Emerson tries to die, they had reviewed Newton's Laws of Motion in physics class." ~ Falling into Place
"Waves pounded the shoreline, spraying mist into the wind that stirred white sands glittering in the moonlight." - The Raie'Chaelia
There's these two kids, boys, sitting close together, squished in by the big arms of an old chair. You're the one on the left. ~ Half Bad
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
"IN MANY WAYS, BEACON HEIGHTS, Washington, looks like any affluent suburb: Porch swings creak gently in the evening breeze, the lawns are green and well kept, and all the neighbors know one another." ~ The Perfectionists
"Gareth Brody sat in a chipped plastic chair in the prison waiting room, listening for the guard to call his name." ~ Secret
One minute the teacher was there talking about Civil War, the next he was gone - Gone (Michael Grant)
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