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My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered. — Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Who is John Galt? — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
This date had started as bland and was speeding right along to abysmal. — Katherine McIntyre, Captured Memories
I died on a bitter cold night. Beneath a black sky and a bruised winter moon, I tried to fly, hoping my arms might act a — Jennifer Archer, Through Her Eyes
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. — Blaise Pascal, Pensées
She was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when she decided to summon the devil and sell her soul for fame. As you — G.H. Finn, How to Trick the Devil
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost — William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Maybe punching her enemy right in the nose wasn't the smartest way to get out of class, but it was definitely a much mor — Ophelia T. Starks, Nightfall Academy
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. — Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed — James Joyce, Ulysses
Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be — Téa Obreht
If a lioness spends her hours pacing back and forth in a cage of gold with the finest meats at her disposal, does that m — Kristen Reed, The Kings' Council
I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress. — Norman Mailer
The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through...ringing throughout the house was an alarm bell that no one — Jonathan Franzen
What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? — Erich Segal, Love Story
Did you wish upon a star and take the time to try to make your wish come true?Did you try to paint the sunrise and find — Lora Leigh, Lawe's Justice
We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge. — John D. MacDonald, Darker Than Amber
I am a vampire, and that is the truth. — Christopher Pike, The Last Vampire
That year the Ribeiro's daffodils seeded early and they seeded cockroaches. Now, ecologically speaking, even a cockroach — Janet Kagan, Mirabile