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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence
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"He'd stopped trying to bring her back."

Eleanor & Park- Rainbow Rowell
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I am reading the Da Vinci Code... Only on page one...
first Sentence is: For a moment, he thought he heard a woman's voice... the wisdom of the ages... whispering from the chasms of the earth.
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"The last of day oppression dawned the same as every other, the sun breaching the horizon and bleeding into the gray sky until it glowed a sullen red, the clouds pressing down on the walled city like a suffocating hand."

Wow, this is a long first sentence...
I'd rather not say the title of the book until someone really wants to know...
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"As soon as he stepped into the dim apaartment he knew he was dead."
- Garden of Beasts by Jeffery Deaver
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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"It was a cold dark November night, and Alice and I were sitting by the kitchen fire with my master, the Spook.
The Last Apprentice Night Of The Soul Stealer by Joseph Delaney
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She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her unconscionably, and there were moments at which she showed herself, in the glass over the mantel, a face positively pale with irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him.

The Wings of the Dove, Henry James
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The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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If i could take the form of a bird and fly high above the roofs of the village and soar over the fields, it would feel like this.
"The Space Between - Kristie Cook"
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When I was a small boy at the beginning of the century I remember an old man who wore knee-breeeches and worsted stockings, and who used to hobble about the streets of our village with the help of a stick.

The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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"Everyone thinks it was because of the snow. And in a way, I supposed that's true."

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"For eight years I dreamed of fire."

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh.
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Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four hour period to get yourself through.
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Post by Jess-anne »

So, then.
"And the Mountains Echoed" - Khaled Hosseini

-- 04 Sep 2014, 20:23 --

So, then.
"And the Mountains Echoed" - Khaled Hosseini
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Post by Carla Hurst-Chandler »

I first met Neal not long after my father died.

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I first felt it in the school canteen on Monday Morning.

Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier
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