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Dalton Rev thundered into the parking lot of Salt River High, a squat brick building at the top of a grassless hill that looked more like the last stop of the hopeless than a springboard to the college of your choice.- You Killed Wesley Payne
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"When I was twelve, I broke my leg jumping off the wall between Canada and Germany," I say, but the woman across from me doesn't even blink.- All Fall Down
Mr. Shackleford shuffles in the front door of the Breeze Mart, jingling the bells tied to a velvet string on the handle. - Joyride
Walking to school over the snow-muffled cobbles, Karou had no sinister premonitions about the day. ~ Daughter of Smoke and Bone
I leapt, drawing my feet up beneath me, as the seven-foot quarterstaff smashed into the flagstones where I had been standing a half second before.- Until I Die
The streetlights flickered on outside the window and Jenny looked up from her book. - The Treachery of Beautiful Things
In the dead of night I sat on a bridge spanning the Seine, watching a bouquet of crushed white lilies float toward the spotlit Eiffel Tower.- If I Should Die
Trisha wrote: "Just do it. - Proof of Forever"Hey Trisha, I just finished reading Proof of Forever. Are you reading it for the buddy read that was up in early June? How are you liking it?
'So...'said the museum guide, holding his torch under his chin so it gave his face a creepy glow and showed us way too much of what was up his nose. - Any Fin Is Possible
Pradeep looked even greener than Frankie's zombie goldfish eyes as we sat in the back of my dad's car. - My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish 2: The Sea-quel
It was the night before Christmas. - Let it Snow
YOU HAD TO BE INCREDIBLY STUPID TO GET CAUGHT cheating in Mr. Tipkins’s class, but then again, Sydney Sanders was known for being the only brunette
blonder than Paris Hilton. - Social Suicide
Once upon a time--nine years ago, to be exact--I didn't know anything about the Family Business." ~ Hold Me Like a Breath
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge." - The Cask of Amontillado
I come from a country which was created at midnight. When i almost die it was just after midday. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
"MY FIRST NIGHT at Latham House, I lay awake in my narrow, gabled room in Cottage 6 wondering how many people had died in it." ~ Extraordinary Means
"The goldfish are uneasy, but who wouldn't be when their potential killer stares them down so gleefully?" ~ Fish Out of Water
"Ruby Belle was a constant reminder of what could befall a woman whose shoe heels were too high." ~ Ruby
"If he touches her, I swear I'm going to rip out his guts with my bare hands and send them to his next of kin for lunch." ~ Bruiser
In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.- The Great Gatsby
We had been wandering so far for so long I forgot what it was like to live within walls or sleep through the night.- The Dovekeepers
"Freedom is ticking its way around the old clock above the door -- so close, so close, so close-- when Justin comes into the market and I die a tiny, unnoticeable death." ~ The Devil You Know
"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water." ~ The War of the Worlds
At the Capri Beach Club, every day was hotter and hotter until the asphalt in the parking lot began to bubble.- Aquamarine
Here's what I've learned in my life: Motherhood has no expiration date.- Best Friends, Occasional Enemies: The Lighter Side of Life as a Mother and Daughter
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