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[Katherine]

Looking back, I should have known Playa Hermosa was the beginning of the end.- Lies I Told

[Katherine]

"Just breath," my mom would say.- Ten Tiny Breaths

[Megan]

It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. - Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen.

[Grace Meredith]

SIR WALTER ELLIOT , of Kellynch- hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs, changed naturally into pity and contempt, as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last century – and there, if every other leaf were powerless, he could read his own history with an interest which never failed – this was the page at which the favourite volume always opened:

‘ELLIOT OF KELLYNCH- HALL ‘Walter Elliot, born March 1, 1760, married, July 15, 1784, Elizabeth, daughter of James Stevenson, Esq. of South Park, in the county of Gloucester; by which lady (who died 1800) he has issue Elizabeth, born June 1, 1785; Anne, born August 9, 1787; a still- born son, Nov. 5, 1789; Mary, born Nov. 20, 1791.’

~ Persuasion

LOL, I'm not kidding, this is all one sentence. Welcome to Jane Austen, and tackle her if you dare.

[Katherine]

The old doll-maker Tatsuhiko poured boiling water into the teapot with trembling hands and inhaled deeply.- The Friendship Doll

[Katherine]

When summer comes to the North Woods, time slows down.- A Northern Light

[Sarah]

"The list arrived after Sloane had been gone two weeks." -Since You've Been Gone

[Katherine]

We always knew when Bobby Lee came home.- Prayers and Lies

[Jordan]

Deputy Keith Clayton hadn't heard them approach, and up close, he didn't like the looks of them any more than he had the first time he'd seen them. - The Lucky One

[Jordan]

Theoretically,Blue Sargent was probably going to kill one of these boys. -The Dream Thieves

[Vicki]

"My big brother reaches home in the dark hours before dawn, when even ghosts take their rest." ~ An Ember in the Ashes

[Katherine]

The boy was late.- The Beautiful and the Cursed

[Mehsi]

And that's how I, Megan Holloway, a life-in-the-slow-lane, carousel-ride type of girl, packed up the essentials of my life following my junior year in high school and headed to the Thrill Ride! Amusement Park, vacation destination extraordinaire on Lake Erie. - Thrill Ride

[Mehsi]

I see a spectacular sunrise. - Labor of Love

[Mehsi]

Wilson Kipper sat on the big stone bench in front of Capitol City Museum of Natural History. - The Case of the Haunted History Museum

[Mehsi]

"You.Are.A.Candy.Cane." - Three Day Summer

[Mehsi]

Colby had a secret. - The Killing of Kayla Sloane

[Mehsi]

It was the briefcase that fooled her. - New Blood

[Mehsi]

Supporter: a noncombatant, dungeon-prowling party member. - Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Light Novels, Vol. 2

[Mehsi]

For anyone not familiar with Ragland, Texas, the front-page headline in that morning's Ragland Tribute may have seemed odd. - The Boyfriend League

[Mehsi]

The unicorns arrived right after the buses. - Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures

[Mehsi]

"Would the defendant please rise." - Saint Anything

[Vicki]

"FOR THREE weeks, the young killer actually lived inside the walls of an extraordinary fifteen-room beach house." ~ Kiss the Girls

[Vicki]

"WHEN WE GOT THE LETTER in the post, my mother was ecstatic." ~ The Selection

[Grace Meredith]

Oh Vicki, I'm reading the same as you, the Selection! What a coincidence!

[Vicki]

"In some part of my brain, probably the logical part that seemed to be missing at the moment, I knew I should let go and walk away, maintain some of my dignity." ~ The Fill-In Boyfriend

[Katherine]

Let me begin on the back foot and linger there awhile.- The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life

[Caron]

"Heads up," a loud voice called from my right. ~ Pivot Point

[Vicki]

"Temptation is a tricky thing -- just ask Eve." ~ Vanished

[Katherine]

The bottle was dropped overboard on a warm summer evening, a few hours before the rain began to fall- Message in a Bottle

[Vicki]

"For sixteen years, Simon Connelly's successful wife has gone to her law office each day, while he has stayed home to raise their children." ~ Finding Jake

[Katherine]

"Time is a commodity first-year residents can't afford to waste, Dr. Hasting."- Healer of Carthage

[Areesha]

Ten years ago, on my sixth birthday, my father disappeared. The Iron King

[Tashy]

When the white noise went off, we were in the Garden, pulling weeds.

[Vicki]

"It starts slowly." ~ Never Never: Part Two

[Grace Meredith]

"The note simply read: IMPORTANT." ~ As You Wish: Inconcievable Tales from the making of The Princess Bride

[Katherine]

My name is India Opal Buloni, and last summer my daddy, the preacher, sent me to the store for a box of macaroni-and-cheese, some white rice, and two tomatoes and I came back with a dog.- Because of Winn-Dixie

[Katherine]

My mother used to tell me about the ocean.- The Forest of Hands and Teeth

[Katherine]

Girls go missing every single day.- 17 & Gone

[Sarah]

"Is today a good day to die?"-All the Bright Places

[Katherine]

She will remember this moment all her life, she is sure of it.- In Wilderness

[Vicki]

"The P-38 WWII Nazi handgun looks comical lying on the breakfast table next to a bowl of oatmeal." ~ Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

[Gisbelle]

There she was. ~ Expelled

[Megan]

"It was a midsummer afternoon on Long Island, and the mosquitoes, like the girls who get dolled up at evening time, would not be seen flitting about for hours yet." - Beautiful Days by Anna Godbersen

[Gisbelle]

There was a blind old man who played the accordion on Main Street, who I used to see every day on my way to school. ~ Shingaling: A Wonder Story

[Mehsi]

There she was. -Expelled (Also not out, but I received mine already)

[Mehsi]

Sophie hung on tightly to the leather strap as the omnibus rattled forwards. - The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow (Yes, the book is not out, but I already received my pre-order from Amazon 2 days ago.)

[Mehsi]

Middle school has not been working out the way I hoped it would. - From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess

[Mehsi]

In a town house at a fashionable address on Manhattan's Upper East Side, every lamp blazes. - The Diviners

[Mehsi]

Really, it's a very ordinary looking suitcase. - Hana's Suitcase: A True Story