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I don't like killing, but I'm good at it. Murder isn't so bad from a distance, just shapes popping up in my scope. Close — Graeme Shimmin, A Kill in the Morning
Simon Glass was easy to hate. I never knew exactly why, there was just too much to pick from. I guess, really, we each h — Gail Giles, Shattering Glass
On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apart — Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market. — Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Toward the end of February 1954, James Beard was at work in his Greenwich Village kitchen doing what he most loved to do — Laura Shapiro, Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America
Feast or famine. My plate is suddenly full. — David Wong Louie, The Barbarians are Coming
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very muc — J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
I am girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white.Remember this. — Cecelia Ahern
Fifteen years ago I killed my sister. — Adam Rapp, Nocturne: A Play
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. — Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
This is how it feels to die: It starts from outside and works its way in. — Sarah Wylie, All These Lives
The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is. — James Carlos Blake, The Friends of Pancho Villa
If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it. — James Carlos Blake, Red Grass River: A Legend
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. — Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
I should probably start with the blood. — Robin Wasserman, The Book of Blood and Shadow
Goldenrod Moram had a first name that sounded like it belonged in the middle of a fairy tale, where she would be the daz — Sarvenaz Tash, The Mapmaker and the Ghost
Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-seven years: with an idiot—in this case, Rebecca A — Mira Grant, Deadline
My story ended where so many stories have ended since the Rising: with a man—in this case, my adoptive brother and best — Mira Grant, Blackout
Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas—but not zombies. — Mercedes Lackey, Dead Reckoning
Feathers fell from the sky. Like black snow, they drifted onto an old city called Bath. — Stefan Bachmann, The Peculiar