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"Seen my girl? My baby?"
- The Sacrifice by Joyce Carol Oates
We fade away, but vivid in our eyes
A world is born again that never dies.
- My Home by Clive James
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"I could never decide whether "Mad Annie" was murdered because she was mad or because she was black."

-The Shape of Snakes by Minette Walters
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"I was dreaming of food." The Girl You Left Behind ~JoJo Moyes
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Go in there, ask the question, deal with his answer.
Bound to the Bachelor (Montana Born Bachelor Auction #1), Sarah Mayberry
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"This book begins with a plane crash."
(Beauty Queens - Libba Bray)

Almost finished with this!
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"They say that the world is built for two, but in the silence of the old cellar, two feels like a long lost dream."
Born...AE Watson
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Toward the end of the meeting, the caseworker remarked, "Oh--and one more thing. Dennis thinks he's a Martian."

The Martian Child by David Gerrold
Pronouns: She/Her

What is grief, if not love persevering?

Grief is just love with no place to go.
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He doesn't know I'm alive.

The Deal (Off-Campus Book 1) by Elle Kennedy
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"I'm not sure if it's a blessing or a curse," Helena siad."
- Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann
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- My Home by Clive James
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First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' by Ray Bradbury
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Just to give a flavour of the unusual style of this book, I will quote the whole first paragraph.

For you. You'll soon. You'll give her name. In the stitches of her skin she'll wear your say. Mammy me? Yes you. Bounce the bed, I'd say. I'd say that's what you did. Then lay you down. They cut you round. Wait and hour and day.

A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, Eimear McBride

-- 30 Apr 2015, 02:55 --

I am a coffee broker and I live at 37 Laurier Canal.

Max Havelaar, (Chapter 1), Multatuli
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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A Norman. I have been given to a Norman to wife.
The Saxon Bride (The Norman Conquest #1), Ashley York

-- 03 May 2015, 11:11 --

Rose quartz stones were supposed to be smooth and soft, like pebbles that had spent decades sitting at the bottom of the ocean and finally washed up on shore, softened with no jagged edges.
Sinner's Craving (A League of the Fallen #1), Megan Elizabeth
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"Why at the beginning of things is there always light?"
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"I felt her fear before I heard her screams."

Vampire Academy. Dish on it all you want, love that series dearly.
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"He SAT, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher--the Wonder house, as the natives call the Lahore Museum."

Kim by Rudyard Kipling
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