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ebd6b5e	Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.	young-adult nerdfighters mystery ya	John Green
3a640a4	The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightening, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. I could have seen it rain frogs. I could have stepped foot on Mars. I could have been eaten by a whale. I could have married the Queen of England or survived months at sea. But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.	young-adult ya-lit ya	John Green
c1fd2af	People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.	people ya	Maggie Stiefvater
aaeae61	A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.	canvas isla-and-the-happily-ever-after stephanie-perkins teen-fiction contemporary contemporary-romance ya	Stephanie Perkins
c126aa5	"I showed him the Post-it. "You see They're from Lily." "Who's Lily?" "Some girl." "Ooh... a girl!" "Boomer, we're not in third grade anymore. You don't say, 'Ooh... a girl!'" "What? You fucking her?" "Okay, Boomer, you're right. I liked 'Ooh... a girl!' much more than that. Let's stick with 'Ooh... a girl!"	teen ya	David Levithan
483a395	I decided to deflect her attitude by giving a long, Southern answer. I come from people who know how to draw things out. Annoy a Southerner, and we will drain away the moments of your life with our slow, detailed replies until you are nothing but a husk of your former self and that much closer to death.	young-adult shades-of-london the-name-of-the-star southerners ya	Maureen Johnson
bff54ff	Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain--Maddy glanced at Tally--and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities. He always thought that some people could think their way out of it.	ya	Scott Westerfeld
9acfe43	Why had my life suddenly become a Nancy Drew mystery from hell?	ya-paranormal ya	Rachel Hawkins
293f592	"I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if we got organized, and assigned a certain number of corpses to each living person, would there be enough living people to remember all the dead people?" "And are there?" "Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about"	the-fault-in-our-stars ya	John Green
78329ef	This thing between them, the force of it, could devour the world. And if they picked it, picked them, it might very well cause the end of it.	rowaelin eos rowan-whitethorn ya	Sarah J. Maas
be552f5	With every breath I take, I will always love you.	romance ya	Jennifer L. Armentrout
2eb9e77	"Chaol," he said, looking over his shoulder. Dorian's eyes were frozen, his jaw clenched. "Treat her well."	fantasy love ya-fiction chaol crown-of-midnight dorian throne-of-glass celaena-sardothien price princess ya	Sarah J. Maas
1b039d5	You make me wish I had a soul so I could be worthy of you.	romance ya	Jennifer L. Armentrout
4dd73d3	"We're enveloped in pitch black. "Wait here," I whisper. "Are you getting your ax?" "Handcuffs." "Kinky. But, okay, I'll try it."	spa-and-the-happily-ever-after stephanie-perkins teen-fiction contemporary-romance ya	Stephanie Perkins
5e20ed2	I said you were beautiful. I slept in your bed!	romance love ya	Stephanie Perkins
6abd30e	Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.	the-fault-in-our-stars ya	John Green
5cefc49	"I bought you love poetry! 'I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.'" I blink at him. "Neruda. I starred the passage. God," he moans. "Why didn't you open it?"	romance ya	Stephanie Perkins
1c4e7f4	"She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "Yes," he said finally."	literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires	Holly Black
f596190	Nothing makes you think you might need years of therapy like saying the word breasts in front of your mother.	humour fiction funny dare-you-to new-release ryan-stone katie-mcgarry breasts ya	Katie McGarry
4fe2f14	Because you're beautiful, Layla, and while I may say that one word to you a lot, I don't simply toss it around. And I've seen many, many beautiful things. People as beautiful as demons are atrocious. You, by far, shine brighter than any of them. It's more than what's on the outside. It comes from within you. I've seen a lot of things and nothing, nothing, comes close to you.	romance ya	Jennifer L. Armentrout
42d5bac	You're the most incredible girl I've ever known. You're gorgeous and smart, and you make me laugh like no-one else can. And I can talk to you. And I know after all this I don't deserve you, but what I'm trying to say is that I love you, Anna. Very Much.	romance love ettiene-st-clair young-adult-romance ya	Stephanie Perkins
c600499	"Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?"	literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires	Holly Black
513668d	"I trail my fingers across his cheek. He stays perfectly still for me. "Please stop apologizing, Etienne." "Say my name again," he whispers. I close my eyes and lean forward. "Etienne." He takes my hands into his. Those perfect hands, that fit mine just so. "Anna?" Our foreheads touch. "Yes?" "Will you please tell me you love me? I'm dying here." And then we're laughing. And then I'm in his arms, and we're kissing, at first quickly - to make up for lost time - and then slowly, because we have all the time in the world. And his lips are soft and honey sweet, and the careful, passionate way he moves them against my own says that he savors the way I taste, too. And in between kisses, I tell him I love him. Again and again and again."	romance love etienne-and-anna ya	Stephanie Perkins
d085f93	He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.	mad dark teen monstrous tana sci-fi gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown insane ya	Holly Black
50cdd9d	Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It's a battle or a dance as to whether you let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous.	young-adult celestine flawed ya	Cecelia Ahern
3970b8a	"I frowned as my fingers throbbed. "Wait a sec. There's a chance I can't work with fire and you let me do that?""How else am I going to figure out your limitations?" "What the hell!" I pulled my hand free, furious. "That's not cool, Blake. What's next? Trying to stop a moving vehicle by standing in front of it, but whoops, I can't do that and now I'm dead?"	funny death-jokes ssupernatural training ya	Jennifer L. Armentrout
f38d5b9	He whom the gods love dies young.	literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires	Menander
cb8c66c	Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.	literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires	Holly Black
e564ace	It was just a kiss and it was nearly too much and it still wasn't enough, and it was just beautiful.	romance ya	Jennifer L. Armentrout
fb22702	I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?	dark books tana teens gavriel paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya	Holly Black
cbef5e6	It's hard as hell to hold onto your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist.	the-fault-in-our-stars ya	John Green
bba3603	I laugh, and it sounds like I've been sucking helium.	standalone isla-and-the-happily-ever-after stephanie-perkins teen-fiction contemporary contemporary-romance ya	Stephanie Perkins
385e756	Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.	literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires	Holly Black
82d3568	"Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't we?"	literature dark romance books beautiful gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires	Holly Black
ceccb87	I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.	literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires	Holly Black
c344569	"What's a slut?" I ask him. "A girl who puts out too easily." "Puts out what?" I imagine Greer putting out dinner and don't understand what Iwan wouldn't like about that. "Puts out, you know..." His face, already beet red from our run, turns a darker scarlet. "Sex." I wonder where Greer puts the sex out."	funny ya	Rachel Cohn
5619f65	It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.	young-adult the-name-of-the-star maureen-johnson ya	Maureen Johnson
fee373b	"Are you sure?" Aidan asked, "Gavriel's still a vampire." "He warned me about you and about them. He didn't have to. I'm not going to repay that by-" she hesitated, then frowned. "What did you call him?" "That's his name," Aidan sighed, "Gavriel. The other vampires, while they were tying me to the bed, they said his name." "Oh." With a final tug she pulled the blanked free and tossed it over to 'Gavriel"	literature dark romance books beautiful gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires	Holly Black
f5847f5	I'm sorry,' she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, 'I'm sorry Courtney. I'm sorry Marcus. I'm sorry Rachel. I'm sorry Jon. I'm sorry I'm alive and you're dead. I'm sorry I was asleep. I'm sorry I didn't save you and now I'm taking your things. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.	literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires	Holly Black
7060fd3	It's only a scratch, don't cut my arm off!	young-adult carrie-vaughn swashbuckling jill steel wound diana teen ya pirates	Carrie Vaughn
0ef2444	You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.	literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires	Holly Black
f36adcf	"I just read this great quote by Junot Diaz, he was talking about true intimacy, and he was saying that it was the willingness to be vulnerable and to be found out. That's what I felt that YA did. It wasn't pretentious, and it wasn't hiding its heart. It wanted to be found out...	junot-diaz vulnerability young-adult-fiction ya	Libba Bray
9b8ce98	I was in love with him. I knew that much was true. Love was the swelling, hopeful feeling in my chest every time I saw him. Love was the way I could forget about everything when I was with him. Love was the catch in my breath when he looked at me in his intense way. Love was the gasp he could draw out of me with the simplest of touches. Love was the way I could... I could be myself around him, know that I didn't need to be perfect or worry about what he was thinking, because he accepted me.	romance love the-problem-with-forever ya	Jennifer L. Armentrout
42ea1d6	"Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. "No," she said softly, "Oh no. No." "Leave me," said Gavriel. ....."Shut up or I might," she told him."	literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires	Holly Black
549d24e	His wax-white skin was cool to the touch when she brushed his neck to find the knot of cloth. She'd never been this close to a vampire,never realized what it would be like to be so near to someone who didn't breathe, who could be as still as any statue. His chest neither rose not fell. Her hands shook.	romance tana sci-fi gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya	Holly Black
16d5baa	"He let out a hiss of pain,then smiled that crooked, sheepish smile he always fell back on when he was caught doing something bad. "Sorry. I-I didn't mean to. I just- I've been lying here for hours, thinking about blood."	young-adult dark boys imprisoned blood tana teens paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya	Holly Black
6ffb76b	In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.	literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires	Holly Black
e91f5d2	I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas Tree Agnostic.	spirituality religion isla-martin isla-and-the-happily-ever-after agnosticism christmas-tree christmas beliefs believe belief teen ya	Stephanie Perkins
7310826	His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no local kid infected the night before.	literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires	Holly Black
d8dfd71	Maybe your unspeakable defects give you power too?	ya	Rachel Cohn
5462290	I like music,' she said slowly, 'because when I hear it, I...I lose myself within myself if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once.	ya	Sarah J. Maas
7718289	please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown	literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires	Holly Black
f3e5ed6	My chest clenched as I looked down at the oil-stained asphalt. Here but not. Existing but not living. I knew that feeling. Lived it for several years. Some days it felt like I was still wearing that feeling like a heavy jacket buttoned up too tightly.	romance living love the-problem-with-forever ya	Jennifer L. Armentrout
49d1ff1	"Quinn spoke their language--all mystery and inside jokes, scarred souls and statement shirts. It was a beautiful moment for him--in his element and completely happy. When they started playing, he leaned over and whispered in my ear. "See that guitar?" I nodded. "That's a 1969 Martin D28. Hear me when I say if I had to choose between a beautiful girl and that guitar, I'd choose the guitar. Natch." He took a huge gulp of water, clearly affected. "Naturally," I whispered. "It could be why you're still single."	romance music love glass-girl henry-whitmire indie-band laura-anderson-kurk martin-guitar meg-kavanagh perfect-glass quinn-o-neill rock-band teen-fiction teen-literature long-distance-relationship guitar young-adult-fiction ya	Laura Anderson Kurk
b33adb1	Belonging to a place isn't nearly as necessary as belonging to people you love and who love you and need you.	ya	Zilpha Keatley Snyder
288e0f2	"Help me out," I pleaded. "You've left me alone to deal with this situation, and now we're being dealt the consequences." I swore I heard Tom growl. I actually pulled the phone from my ear to stare at it to make sure it hadn't turned into a tiny lion." --	young-adult fiction fantasy humor gabriella-moretti joseph-carter keepers timeless-series tom-morris novella ya	Laura Kreitzer
7357952	Why don't you check out those teenagers in the middle row? They've been going at it like dogs in heat ever since the previews. They're probably both werewolves. And even if they aren't, you should throw them out on principle alone.	werewolves zombies young-adult-fiction ya vampires	Rusty Fischer
d1e8f95	"I had this guy's file pulled this morning, along with the rest of your neighbors. His name is Desperado." Pause. A few seconds passed. He was waiting for my reaction. "Did you say Desperado?" I couldn't stop the snort of laughter that bubbled to the surface. "Yeah," the Director confirmed. "He changed his name when he turned eighteen. It was Melvin." I was still laughing. "'Cause Desperado is so much better than Melvin."	fiction fantasy humor joseph-carter keepers timeless-series tom-morris novella ya	Laura Kreitzer
55f96b2	Don't touch me. Don't tell me how beautiful my eyes are, how soft my hair is, how you love to hear my voice. Don't. Don't pretend you are falling in love with me. I know you are lying, and every word you say hurts even more. Let us just be friends, if we can start there. Can't we? Can't we at least be friends? Get to know each other a little? Before the wedding, and the bedding, when I will have to take you as my lord and husband?	marriage fiction love empire historical-fic marie-victoria the-ring-and-the-crown royalty princess kingdom prince teens ya	melissa de la cruz
0d7be9f	"I lived in New York City back in the 1980s, which is when the Bordertown series was created. New York was a different place then -- dirtier, edgier, more dangerous, but also in some ways more exciting. The downtown music scene was exploding -- punk and folk music were everywhere -- and it wasn't as expensive to live there then, so a lot of young artists, musicians, writers, etc. etc. were all living and doing crazy things in scruffy neighborhoods like the East Village. I was a Fantasy Editor for a publishing company back then -- but in those days, "fantasy" to most people meant "imaginary world" books, like Tolkien's . A number of the younger writers in the field, however, wanted to create a branch of fantasy that was rooted in contemporary, urban North America, rather than medieval or pastoral Europe. I'd already been working with some of these folks (Charles de Lint, Emma Bull, etc.), who were writing novels that would become the foundations for the current Urban Fantasy field. At the time, these kinds of stories were considered so strange and different, it was actually hard to get them into print. When I was asked by a publishing company to create a shared-world anthology for Young Adult readers, I wanted to create an Urban Fantasy setting that was something like a magical version of New York...but I didn't want it to actually New York. I want it to be any city and every city -- a place that anyone from anywhere could go to or relate to. The idea of placing it on the border of Elfland came from the fact that I'd just re-read a fantasy classic called by the Irish writer . I love stories that take place on the borderlands between two different worlds...and so I borrowed this concept, but adapted it to a modern, punky, urban setting. I drew upon elements of the various cities I knew best -- New York, Boston, London, Dublin, maybe even a little of Mexico City, where I'd been for a little while as a teen -- and scrambled them up and turned them into Bordertown. There actually IS a Mad River in southern Ohio (where I went to college) and I always thought that was a great name, so I imported it to Bordertown. As for the water being red, that came from the river of blood in the Scottish folk ballad which Thomas must cross to get into Elfland. [speaking about	young-adult fantasy bordertown urban-fantasy ya young-adult-urban-fantasy	Terri Windling
bb81515	Have you thought of doing it? Being a cattle farmer? If that's what it's called? I think we should do that, but replace cattle with bunnies and then we don't milk or eat the bunnies. We just let them multiply. Then we'll take over the world. Me the queen. You the king. Our bunnies the army nobody can defeat.	young-adult romance bunny-army bunny-queen chasing-impossible katie-mcgarry pushing-the-limits rabbit bunnies young-adult-romance rabbits ya-romance cute bunny ya	Katie McGarry
02b06a9	"Where the hell is your guard?" She shouts. Damn if she doesn't sound like Haley. "I'm tired." "Do I look like I care? You're getting the hell pounded out of you. If you want to tap out, then tap out, but don't stand there and let him win."	gym-feud kickboxing mats muay-thai muay-thai-for-women tap-out ufc cage guard mma gym training fighting ya	Katie McGarry
270c28b	I looked in the mirror and realized that I was already dead. I let you kill me one piece at a time, starting when I was, what? Eight years old? Nine? You killed yourself and then you came after us.	suicide depression twisted tragic ya	Laurie Halse Anderson
623fce4	"My stubborn little witch," he said softly. "Don't believe for a clockwork minute that you are unlovable. If I were a mortal, a man not doomed to walk the earth as a haunted specter, I would be the first suitor in line. Please believe that." She hiccupped. "You... you'd want to court me?" Jack laughed. "Court you? I'd follow you around like Finney and stare at you all moony-eyed. I'd spend my days fending off your other would-be suitors, my evenings charming Flossie, and my nights stealing kisses at your window." --	romance witches mad-scientist pumpkins paranormal halloween ya vampires	Colleen Houck
04eef8b	The only way, I thought to myself, that this could get any weirder would be if it turns out he has that dead body's head on ice where in the basement, some ready for transplantation onto Cindy Crawford's body as soon as it becomes available.	high-school ghosts supernatural ya	Meg Cabot
aab45d0	I can't go on saving the world if it means neglecting my duties as a cheerleader.	wolves shifters paranormal urban-fantasy ya vampires	Mari Mancusi
de1d8a6	O-kay. Kind of freaky. I'm now standing in an actual tomb, in pitch darkness, with only a vampire to keep me company. Last week if you'd sworn on a stack of Bibles that I'd be okay with all of this, I wouldn't have believed you.	vampire-romance ya	Mari Mancusi
cd6aa74	And then he kisses me. Yes, the beautiful vampire, the dark general, the one who never gets close to anyone, leans in and presses his lips against mine. This kiss is soft. Gentle. Light. Like a butterfly's wing whisking my lips.	vampiric paranormal-romance urban-fantasy ya vampires	Mari Mancusi
74bb295	Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice in Wonderland would say...	romance urban-fantasy ya vampires	Mari Mancusi
786eb7e	Once bitten, totally smitten.	romance vampires-romance urban-fantasy ya	Mari Mancusi
8d257a1	In fairy tales, the heroes are punished when they run away from a task. The heroes, not their younger brothers...	heroes family fairytales punishment siblings hero ya	Cornelia Funke
edfc484	They should install elevators in this place. What if they turned a handicapped person into a vampire? Talk about your discrimination lawsuit waiting to happen.	vampire-romance-series ya	Mari Mancusi
715769b	You know, being bitten by a vampire one week before prom really sucks. No pun intended.	ya vampires	Mari Mancusi
19bead1	Why be a vampire if you aren't going to take advantage of the basic wardrobe?	wolf-shifters paranormal urban-fantasy ya vampires	Mari Mancusi
33edfeb	As I walk down the halls of Oakridge High, dressed in a black lacy Lolita dress, fishnets, and platform boots, swinging my Beetlejuice lunchbox, I wonder if this really was such a good idea.	wolves shifters paranormal ya vampires	Mari Mancusi
b09d0a8	My sister, lover of the night, vampire of the Blood Coven, never before seen in anything but the color black, wants to be a pom-pom waving, football field-dancing cheerleader?	shifters urban-fantasy ya vampires	Mari Mancusi
7b2f84f	A vegetarian vampire is weird.	wolves shifters paranormal ya vampires	Mari Mancusi
811a508	So not only do I have to go out and fight evil villains, I have to take up woodworking, too?	romance urban-fantasy ya vampires	Mari Mancusi
3b43a03	Once a generation there is a girl born who is destined to slay the vampires.	romance urban-fantasy ya vampires	Mari Mancusi
8f876fc	For all I know, the guy is Dracula.	romance urban-fantasy-romance vampire ya	Mari Mancusi
a7e6ec5	I can barely breathe. I feel like I'm going to explode. Jake Wilder is kissing me. French-kissing me. Is he even supposed to be French-kissing me for the play? I thought... Oh, who cares if he's supposed to or not. He is, that's all that matters.	vampiric-romance ya	Mari Mancusi
567f12d	"Now Sunny, don't get mad, but ..." Rayne begins, her voice trembling. I shoot her an angry glare. "But WHAT, Rayne?" "I, uh, think you've accidentally been turned into a vampire."	ya vampires	Mari Mancusi
a1dd0a3	I never said becoming the slayer would be a field trip to a Justin Bieber concert.	romance ya vampires	Mari Mancusi
a38f5a2	I began to feel that this city is my home. It came nearer to my heart, not so distant. That's how it started, but now it's different. I am enjoying making friends my age in my church-non-Bengali friends who don't know the customs that keep a widow so lonely.	indian-americans immigrants ya	Mitali Perkins
8b855bf	"Oh, is that my report, father?' said Mike, with a sort of sickly interest, much as a dog about to be washed might evince in his tub.'	school-story ya	P. G. Wodehouse

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Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.

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John Green

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The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightening, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. I could have seen it rain frogs. I could have stepped foot on Mars. I could have been eaten by a whale. I could have married the Queen of England or survived months at sea. But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.

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John Green

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People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.

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Maggie Stiefvater

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A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.

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Stephanie Perkins

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"I showed him the Post-it. "You see They're from Lily." "Who's Lily?" "Some girl." "Ooh... a girl!" "Boomer, we're not in third grade anymore. You don't say, 'Ooh... a girl!'" "What? You fucking her?" "Okay, Boomer, you're right. I liked 'Ooh... a girl!' much more than that. Let's stick with 'Ooh... a girl!"

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David Levithan

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I decided to deflect her attitude by giving a long, Southern answer. I come from people who know how to draw things out. Annoy a Southerner, and we will drain away the moments of your life with our slow, detailed replies until you are nothing but a husk of your former self and that much closer to death.

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Maureen Johnson

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Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain--Maddy glanced at Tally--and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities. He always thought that some people could think their way out of it.

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Scott Westerfeld

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Why had my life suddenly become a Nancy Drew mystery from hell?

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Rachel Hawkins

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"I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if we got organized, and assigned a certain number of corpses to each living person, would there be enough living people to remember all the dead people?" "And are there?" "Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about"

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John Green

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This thing between them, the force of it, could devour the world. And if they picked it, picked them, it might very well cause the end of it.

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Sarah J. Maas

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With every breath I take, I will always love you.

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Jennifer L. Armentrout

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"Chaol," he said, looking over his shoulder. Dorian's eyes were frozen, his jaw clenched. "Treat her well."

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Sarah J. Maas

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You make me wish I had a soul so I could be worthy of you.

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Jennifer L. Armentrout

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"We're enveloped in pitch black. "Wait here," I whisper. "Are you getting your ax?" "Handcuffs." "Kinky. But, okay, I'll try it."

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Stephanie Perkins

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I said you were beautiful. I slept in your bed!

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Stephanie Perkins

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Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.

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John Green

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"I bought you love poetry! 'I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.'" I blink at him. "Neruda. I starred the passage. God," he moans. "Why didn't you open it?"

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Stephanie Perkins

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"She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "Yes," he said finally."

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Holly Black

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Nothing makes you think you might need years of therapy like saying the word breasts in front of your mother.

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Katie McGarry

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Because you're beautiful, Layla, and while I may say that one word to you a lot, I don't simply toss it around. And I've seen many, many beautiful things. People as beautiful as demons are atrocious. You, by far, shine brighter than any of them. It's more than what's on the outside. It comes from within you. I've seen a lot of things and nothing, nothing, comes close to you.

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Jennifer L. Armentrout

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You're the most incredible girl I've ever known. You're gorgeous and smart, and you make me laugh like no-one else can. And I can talk to you. And I know after all this I don't deserve you, but what I'm trying to say is that I love you, Anna. Very Much.

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Stephanie Perkins

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"Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?"

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Holly Black

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"I trail my fingers across his cheek. He stays perfectly still for me. "Please stop apologizing, Etienne." "Say my name again," he whispers. I close my eyes and lean forward. "Etienne." He takes my hands into his. Those perfect hands, that fit mine just so. "Anna?" Our foreheads touch. "Yes?" "Will you please tell me you love me? I'm dying here." And then we're laughing. And then I'm in his arms, and we're kissing, at first quickly - to make up for lost time - and then slowly, because we have all the time in the world. And his lips are soft and honey sweet, and the careful, passionate way he moves them against my own says that he savors the way I taste, too. And in between kisses, I tell him I love him. Again and again and again."

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Stephanie Perkins

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He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.

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Holly Black

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Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It's a battle or a dance as to whether you let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous.

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Cecelia Ahern

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"I frowned as my fingers throbbed. "Wait a sec. There's a chance I can't work with fire and you let me do that?""How else am I going to figure out your limitations?" "What the hell!" I pulled my hand free, furious. "That's not cool, Blake. What's next? Trying to stop a moving vehicle by standing in front of it, but whoops, I can't do that and now I'm dead?"

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Jennifer L. Armentrout

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He whom the gods love dies young.

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Menander

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Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.

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Holly Black

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It was just a kiss and it was nearly too much and it still wasn't enough, and it was just beautiful.

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Jennifer L. Armentrout

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I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?

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Holly Black

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It's hard as hell to hold onto your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist.

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John Green

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I laugh, and it sounds like I've been sucking helium.

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Stephanie Perkins

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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.

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Holly Black

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"Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't we?"

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Holly Black

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I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.

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Holly Black

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"What's a slut?" I ask him. "A girl who puts out too easily." "Puts out what?" I imagine Greer putting out dinner and don't understand what Iwan wouldn't like about that. "Puts out, you know..." His face, already beet red from our run, turns a darker scarlet. "Sex." I wonder where Greer puts the sex out."

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Rachel Cohn

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It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.

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Maureen Johnson

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"Are you sure?" Aidan asked, "Gavriel's still a vampire." "He warned me about you and about them. He didn't have to. I'm not going to repay that by-" she hesitated, then frowned. "What did you call him?" "That's his name," Aidan sighed, "Gavriel. The other vampires, while they were tying me to the bed, they said his name." "Oh." With a final tug she pulled the blanked free and tossed it over to 'Gavriel"

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Holly Black

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I'm sorry,' she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, 'I'm sorry Courtney. I'm sorry Marcus. I'm sorry Rachel. I'm sorry Jon. I'm sorry I'm alive and you're dead. I'm sorry I was asleep. I'm sorry I didn't save you and now I'm taking your things. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

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Holly Black

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It's only a scratch, don't cut my arm off!

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Carrie Vaughn

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You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.

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Holly Black

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"I just read this great quote by Junot Diaz, he was talking about true intimacy, and he was saying that it was the willingness to be vulnerable and to be found out. That's what I felt that YA did. It wasn't pretentious, and it wasn't hiding its heart. It wanted to be found out...

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Libba Bray

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I was in love with him. I knew that much was true. Love was the swelling, hopeful feeling in my chest every time I saw him. Love was the way I could forget about everything when I was with him. Love was the catch in my breath when he looked at me in his intense way. Love was the gasp he could draw out of me with the simplest of touches. Love was the way I could... I could be myself around him, know that I didn't need to be perfect or worry about what he was thinking, because he accepted me.

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Jennifer L. Armentrout

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"Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. "No," she said softly, "Oh no. No." "Leave me," said Gavriel. ....."Shut up or I might," she told him."

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Holly Black

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His wax-white skin was cool to the touch when she brushed his neck to find the knot of cloth. She'd never been this close to a vampire,never realized what it would be like to be so near to someone who didn't breathe, who could be as still as any statue. His chest neither rose not fell. Her hands shook.

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Holly Black

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"He let out a hiss of pain,then smiled that crooked, sheepish smile he always fell back on when he was caught doing something bad. "Sorry. I-I didn't mean to. I just- I've been lying here for hours, thinking about blood."

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Holly Black

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In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.

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Holly Black

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I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas Tree Agnostic.

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Stephanie Perkins

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His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no local kid infected the night before.

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Holly Black

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Maybe your unspeakable defects give you power too?

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Rachel Cohn

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I like music,' she said slowly, 'because when I hear it, I...I lose myself within myself if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once.

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Sarah J. Maas

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please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

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Holly Black

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My chest clenched as I looked down at the oil-stained asphalt. Here but not. Existing but not living. I knew that feeling. Lived it for several years. Some days it felt like I was still wearing that feeling like a heavy jacket buttoned up too tightly.

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Jennifer L. Armentrout

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"Quinn spoke their language--all mystery and inside jokes, scarred souls and statement shirts. It was a beautiful moment for him--in his element and completely happy. When they started playing, he leaned over and whispered in my ear. "See that guitar?" I nodded. "That's a 1969 Martin D28. Hear me when I say if I had to choose between a beautiful girl and that guitar, I'd choose the guitar. Natch." He took a huge gulp of water, clearly affected. "Naturally," I whispered. "It could be why you're still single."

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Laura Anderson Kurk

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Belonging to a place isn't nearly as necessary as belonging to people you love and who love you and need you.

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Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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"Help me out," I pleaded. "You've left me alone to deal with this situation, and now we're being dealt the consequences." I swore I heard Tom growl. I actually pulled the phone from my ear to stare at it to make sure it hadn't turned into a tiny lion." --

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Laura Kreitzer

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Why don't you check out those teenagers in the middle row? They've been going at it like dogs in heat ever since the previews. They're probably both werewolves. And even if they aren't, you should throw them out on principle alone.

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Rusty Fischer

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"I had this guy's file pulled this morning, along with the rest of your neighbors. His name is Desperado." Pause. A few seconds passed. He was waiting for my reaction. "Did you say Desperado?" I couldn't stop the snort of laughter that bubbled to the surface. "Yeah," the Director confirmed. "He changed his name when he turned eighteen. It was Melvin." I was still laughing. "'Cause Desperado is so much better than Melvin."

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Laura Kreitzer

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Don't touch me. Don't tell me how beautiful my eyes are, how soft my hair is, how you love to hear my voice. Don't. Don't pretend you are falling in love with me. I know you are lying, and every word you say hurts even more. Let us just be friends, if we can start there. Can't we? Can't we at least be friends? Get to know each other a little? Before the wedding, and the bedding, when I will have to take you as my lord and husband?

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melissa de la cruz

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"I lived in New York City back in the 1980s, which is when the Bordertown series was created. New York was a different place then -- dirtier, edgier, more dangerous, but also in some ways more exciting. The downtown music scene was exploding -- punk and folk music were everywhere -- and it wasn't as expensive to live there then, so a lot of young artists, musicians, writers, etc. etc. were all living and doing crazy things in scruffy neighborhoods like the East Village. I was a Fantasy Editor for a publishing company back then -- but in those days, "fantasy" to most people meant "imaginary world" books, like Tolkien's . A number of the younger writers in the field, however, wanted to create a branch of fantasy that was rooted in contemporary, urban North America, rather than medieval or pastoral Europe. I'd already been working with some of these folks (Charles de Lint, Emma Bull, etc.), who were writing novels that would become the foundations for the current Urban Fantasy field. At the time, these kinds of stories were considered so strange and different, it was actually hard to get them into print. When I was asked by a publishing company to create a shared-world anthology for Young Adult readers, I wanted to create an Urban Fantasy setting that was something like a magical version of New York...but I didn't want it to actually New York. I want it to be any city and every city -- a place that anyone from anywhere could go to or relate to. The idea of placing it on the border of Elfland came from the fact that I'd just re-read a fantasy classic called by the Irish writer . I love stories that take place on the borderlands between two different worlds...and so I borrowed this concept, but adapted it to a modern, punky, urban setting. I drew upon elements of the various cities I knew best -- New York, Boston, London, Dublin, maybe even a little of Mexico City, where I'd been for a little while as a teen -- and scrambled them up and turned them into Bordertown. There actually IS a Mad River in southern Ohio (where I went to college) and I always thought that was a great name, so I imported it to Bordertown. As for the water being red, that came from the river of blood in the Scottish folk ballad which Thomas must cross to get into Elfland. [speaking about

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Terri Windling

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Have you thought of doing it? Being a cattle farmer? If that's what it's called? I think we should do that, but replace cattle with bunnies and then we don't milk or eat the bunnies. We just let them multiply. Then we'll take over the world. Me the queen. You the king. Our bunnies the army nobody can defeat.

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Katie McGarry

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"Where the hell is your guard?" She shouts. Damn if she doesn't sound like Haley. "I'm tired." "Do I look like I care? You're getting the hell pounded out of you. If you want to tap out, then tap out, but don't stand there and let him win."

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Katie McGarry

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I looked in the mirror and realized that I was already dead. I let you kill me one piece at a time, starting when I was, what? Eight years old? Nine? You killed yourself and then you came after us.

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Laurie Halse Anderson

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"My stubborn little witch," he said softly. "Don't believe for a clockwork minute that you are unlovable. If I were a mortal, a man not doomed to walk the earth as a haunted specter, I would be the first suitor in line. Please believe that." She hiccupped. "You... you'd want to court me?" Jack laughed. "Court you? I'd follow you around like Finney and stare at you all moony-eyed. I'd spend my days fending off your other would-be suitors, my evenings charming Flossie, and my nights stealing kisses at your window." --

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Colleen Houck

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The only way, I thought to myself, that this could get any weirder would be if it turns out he has that dead body's head on ice where in the basement, some ready for transplantation onto Cindy Crawford's body as soon as it becomes available.

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Meg Cabot

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I can't go on saving the world if it means neglecting my duties as a cheerleader.

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Mari Mancusi

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O-kay. Kind of freaky. I'm now standing in an actual tomb, in pitch darkness, with only a vampire to keep me company. Last week if you'd sworn on a stack of Bibles that I'd be okay with all of this, I wouldn't have believed you.

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Mari Mancusi

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And then he kisses me. Yes, the beautiful vampire, the dark general, the one who never gets close to anyone, leans in and presses his lips against mine. This kiss is soft. Gentle. Light. Like a butterfly's wing whisking my lips.

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Mari Mancusi

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Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice in Wonderland would say...

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Mari Mancusi

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Once bitten, totally smitten.

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Mari Mancusi

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In fairy tales, the heroes are punished when they run away from a task. The heroes, not their younger brothers...

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Cornelia Funke

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They should install elevators in this place. What if they turned a handicapped person into a vampire? Talk about your discrimination lawsuit waiting to happen.

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Mari Mancusi

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You know, being bitten by a vampire one week before prom really sucks. No pun intended.

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Mari Mancusi

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Why be a vampire if you aren't going to take advantage of the basic wardrobe?

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Mari Mancusi

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As I walk down the halls of Oakridge High, dressed in a black lacy Lolita dress, fishnets, and platform boots, swinging my Beetlejuice lunchbox, I wonder if this really was such a good idea.

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Mari Mancusi

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My sister, lover of the night, vampire of the Blood Coven, never before seen in anything but the color black, wants to be a pom-pom waving, football field-dancing cheerleader?

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Mari Mancusi

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A vegetarian vampire is weird.

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Mari Mancusi

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So not only do I have to go out and fight evil villains, I have to take up woodworking, too?

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Mari Mancusi

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Once a generation there is a girl born who is destined to slay the vampires.

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Mari Mancusi

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For all I know, the guy is Dracula.

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Mari Mancusi

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I can barely breathe. I feel like I'm going to explode. Jake Wilder is kissing me. French-kissing me. Is he even supposed to be French-kissing me for the play? I thought... Oh, who cares if he's supposed to or not. He is, that's all that matters.

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Mari Mancusi

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"Now Sunny, don't get mad, but ..." Rayne begins, her voice trembling. I shoot her an angry glare. "But WHAT, Rayne?" "I, uh, think you've accidentally been turned into a vampire."

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Mari Mancusi

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I never said becoming the slayer would be a field trip to a Justin Bieber concert.

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Mari Mancusi

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I began to feel that this city is my home. It came nearer to my heart, not so distant. That's how it started, but now it's different. I am enjoying making friends my age in my church-non-Bengali friends who don't know the customs that keep a widow so lonely.

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Mitali Perkins

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"Oh, is that my report, father?' said Mike, with a sort of sickly interest, much as a dog about to be washed might evince in his tub.'

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P. G. Wodehouse