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I am sixteen when my mother steps out of her skin one frozen January afternoon- pure self, atoms twinkling like microsco — Laura Kasischke, White Bird in a Blizzard
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
You're surprised at all the blood.He looks over at you, eyes wide, mouth dropping open, his face almost as white as his — Charles Benoit, You
If you had met my father you would never, not for an instant, have thought he was an assassin. — Magda Szubanski, Reckoning: A Memoir
Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the Angels if — Laurell K. Hamilton, A Kiss of Shadows
This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to sta — Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Here we are, alone again. It's all so slow, so heavy, so sad. . . I'll be old soon. Then at last it will be over. So man — Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Death on the Installment Plan
If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most Ill-adapted to its purpo — Arthur Schopenhauer
A mile below the lowest cloud, rock breaches water and the sea begins.It has been given many names. Each inlet and bay a — China Miéville, The Scar
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. — Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
I am Tersa the Weaver, Tersa the Liar, Tersa the Fool. — Anne Bishop, Daughter of the Blood
The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferr — Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
It was during Latin that the Austro-Hungarians arrived with their dogs and zombies to kill everyone at the Eden College — David Wake, The Derring-Do Club and the Empire of the Dead
That you should not be here when something we've both wanted happens is no new thing for me. Today too, as always, you'r — Sachin Kundalkar, Cobalt Blue
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these page — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded. And had I not been bo — Helen Grant, The Vanishing of Katharina Linden