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Becky was seven months pregnant when she met Felix Callahan.- The Actor and the Housewife
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From a distance, the man struggling up the white face of the glacier might have looked like an ant crawling slowly up the side of a dinner plate.The Iron Trial
Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are those in which the ending is a surprise.- The Choice
I'd never given much thought to how I would die - though I'd had reason enough in the last few months - but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this. - Twilight
I felt like I was trapped in one of those terrifying nightmares, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can't make your body move fast enough. - New Moon
Stephen's mouth was filling with mud, wet slurry pressed on his eyelids, slid into his nostrils like earthworms.- Fallen Skies
“And finally,” Jamie said as he pushed the door open, “we come to the main event. Your room.” - Lock & Key
On days in August when sea storms bite into the North Caroline coast, he drags a tick mattress into the hall and tells his daughter stories, true and false, about her mother.- The Story of Land and Sea
What do you do the moment your father discovers your dead mother is still alive, looking not a day older than the day she died - over seventeen years ago? - Endless
The crisp smell of autumn at Waverly Academy had been replaced by the undeniable scent of smoke-and not the pleasant, leaf-burning kind.-Lucky
"THE SERVANTS CALLED them malenchki, little ghosts, because they were the smallest and the youngest, and because they haunted the Duke's house like giggling phantoms, darting in and out of rooms, hiding in cupboards to eavesdrop, sneaking into the kitchen to steal the last of the summer peaches." ~ Shadow and Bone
One hundred twelve miles of curving pavement lie between the entrance of the gates of Smith College and the Dartmouth football stadium, and Budgie drives them as she does everything else: hell-for-leather.- A Hundred Summers
There they are, spread out in the middle of the blue-green Pacific Ocean, eight lovely, lazy, windswept islands called The Hawaiians.- Air Raid--Pearl Harbor!: The Story of December 7, 1941
It's midnight, it's sweltering, and I might be high on Vicodin, but that guy - that guy right over there - that's him. -Isla and the Happily Ever After
My beloved aunt, Sara Harrison Shea, was brutally murdered in the winter of 1908.- The Winter People
Oliver disappeared after school and a Friday afternoon, way back when we were in second grade, and small things seemed really important and important things seemed small. -Emmy & Oliver
It was one of those nights in Hollywood, the kind that made gossip columnists and newspapermen and announcers on newsreels say, "It was one of those nights in Hollywood."- Starstruck
It's midnight, it's sweltering, and I might be high on Vicodin, but that guy - that guy right over there - that's him. --Isla and the Happily Ever After
"The children of Lobo's Nod are taught a certain tale about the founding of their hometown and the origin of its name, and by the time they are old enough for the truth, no on cares to teach it." ~ Lucky Day: An I Hunt Killers Novella
There are 158 footsteps between the bus stop and home, but it can stretch to 180 if you aren't in a hurry, like maybe if you're wearing platform shoes. ~ Me Before You
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