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Penelope ran a fork through her turnip mash, wishing she were anywhere but at that table, at that moment, when her father said, "Don't look so miserable. Thank your stars you'll finally have yourself a husband. With Falconwell in your dowry, you could win yourself a prince."

"I find myself tiring of princes, Father."

(Pg 33, A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean)

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Over the past month - beginning right after the Facemash incident - Mark had been developing an idea. It had really started with Facemash itself - not the Web site per se, but the frenzied interest that Mark had witnessed, firsthand. Simply put, people had reacted to the site - in droves.

(Pg 79, The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook by Ben Mezrich)

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No control. You don't control falling in love, she said, you can't. At the time it had amused her that it should happen like this, with this man. A patient. A patient working in the vegetable garden. Stella, I said, you could not have chosen more unwisely had you tried. But the truth is, she said, I didn't choose.

(Pg 36, Asylum by Patrick McGrath)

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He had expected the police to identify the murder weapon. Which was why he had exchanged the Hanaokas' kotatsu with his own. Their old kotatsu - the real murder weapon - was packed away in his closet.

(Pg 205, The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino)

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War hung over us like an insistent fog. It was always there, clouding everything, separating us from one another under a blanket of secrecy and fear.

(Pg 55, The Golden Hour by Margaret Wurtele)

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I risk a glance, and St. Clair stares back. Deeply. He has not looked at me like this before. I turn away first, then feel him turn a few beats later.

I know he is smiling, and my heart races.

(Pg 107, Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins)

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"Do you think I'm the Archon?" she whispered, almost afraid of what the answer might be.

"I think that there are better reasons Stephanie should be nervous right now."

Kim took her by the hand.

Then, with a cautious slowness, he covered her mouth with his own, gently relinquishing his kiss only so that the next one met her even more softly.

(Pg 94, Archon: The Books of Raziel by Sabrina Benulis)

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She was now staring at him, her eyes now locked to his. As if in a trance, she pushed up her sleeve. There on her forearm, next to a small brown birthmark, were six tattooed numbers.

"Do you remember me now?" he asked, trembling.

(Pg 4, The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman)

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You have made of me a madman. You fill me with a kind of horror, a devastating hate that is akin to love - a hunger that is nausea. If only I could be calm and clear for one moment - one moment only . . .

(Pg 15, The Doll: Short Stories by Daphne du Maurier)

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I have read a lot of rave reviews on Daphne du Maurier's books, in particularly to Jamaica Inn and this book I just started reading yesterday, Rebecca. Though I'm only on page 38, I could already feel the intrigue and the story slowly unfolding as the narrator related her tale about meeting Max de Winter, the man who owns Manderley, an isolated gray stone mane on the windswept Cornish coast. They said he couldn't get over his wife's death, and the narrator is about to find out the truth behind it.

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Rather forlorn, more than a little dissatisfied, I leant back in my chair and took up the book of poems. The volume was well-worn, well-thumbed, falling open automatically at what must be a much-frequented page.

"I fled Him, down the nights and down the days;
I fled Him, down the arches of the years;
I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways
Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears
I hid from Him, and under running laughter.
Up vistaed slopes I sped
And shot, precipitated
Adown Titanic glooms of chasmed fears,
From those strong feet that followed, followed after."

I felt rather like someone peering through the keyhole of a locked door, and a little furtively I laid the book aside. What hound of heaven had driven him to the high hills this afternoon?

(Pg 32, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier)

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I meant to choose a thriller but after reading a few pages, I decided I wasn't really in the mood for it so I changed my mind. Since I haven't been reading romance suspense for a long while, Linda Howard's Veil of Night is it.

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Her free arm slipped inside his open jacket and she grabbed a handful of shirt fabric, holding on for dear life. The side of her arm brushed against something very hard, and there was a very brief glimpse of leather before she made the startled identification of holster, followed by gun, then cop.

(Pg 3, Veil of Night by Linda Howard)

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I watched his face, set into an oddly attractive scowl, his eyes as dark as ever. They flickered to mine for just a moment, and in that moment, they were silver.

(Pg 35, Blood on the Moon by Jennifer Knight)

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Rafe and I had grown from children who played together without noticing our differences into a teenage boy and girl who were no longer allowed to associate as friends. A social chasm had opened between us and we fell naturally into our proper roles.

(Pg 38-9, Shadow of a Quarter Moon by Eileen Clymer Schwab)

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I do not often come walking, boy, the monster said, only for matters of life and death. I expect to be listened to.

(Pg 45, A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness)

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I started reading Simon Van Booy's Everything Beautiful Began After a few days ago and I just find myself entranced by his beautiful writing. I've never read anything by this author but I do read a lot of glowing reviews about this novel as well as his short stories.



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On the walk back home through the dusk, she's going to ask her father for the story of how he met her mother.



All she knows is that someone fell, and that everything beautiful began after.

(Pg 7, Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy)

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I climbed back behind the wheel, laying the dress in the back seat, and then I cupped my hands over my nose and mouth, breathing the same breaths over and over again, my elbows braced against the wheel. I sat there for several long moments, looking out over the dash at the left-behind set of shoes.

It had been so much easier when I was the wolf.

(Pg 27, Forever by Maggie Stiefvater)

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I should have stayed in that moment and moved on from that moment, when Shakti grabbed my arm and squeezed. Instead, I watched him as he headed through the crowd, and he looked back at me and our eyes met again before he disappeared.

(Pg 5, Stay by Deb Caletti)

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I had a habit of standing at my window, looking out, and so did Nakajima, so we noticed each other, and before long we started exchanging nods. I guess it must have been pretty rare in a busy city like Tokyo for two people in two windows to nod to each other when their eyes met, but where I come from, out in the boonies, that was the most natural thing in the world, and Nakajima isn't the sort of person to bother about such things.

(Pg 27, The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto)

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To save money, Ma made many of my clothes herself, even though she couldn't do it very well, so I had on a home-sewn shirt while the other kids were wearing cool T-shirts with English sayings like "Remember to Vote."

(Pg 36, Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok)

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I told myself these were just random, unconnected blips, but I couldn't shake my suspicion, and before I knew it I was getting all worked up. I had to keep telling myself to calm down and be reasonable. It's crazy to suspect a guy of murder just because he lied about his job and has a bill stained with something that looks like blood.

(Pg 30, In The Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami)