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“It was a pleasure to burn.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

“My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't.”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

“There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.”
― Louis Sachar, Holes

“There are only two kinds of people in our town. The stupid and the stuck."”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.”
― James Patterson, The Angel Experiment

“I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.”
― Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

“The sun peeked over the horizon like the head of a giant radioactive manatee.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Calamity

“This morning, my mother didn't get out of bed.”
― Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca

“WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

“It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal

“What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?”
― Erich Segal, Love Story

“Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don’t thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not -- you vault down down the stairs and make a run for the corner.
Only if it’s the last time you’ll ever see your mother, you sort of start to wish you’d stopped and did those things. Maybe even missed the bus.
But the bus was barreling down our street so I ran.”
― Emmy Laybourne

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the future, and everything sucked.”
― Greg Nagan, The 5-Minute Iliad and Other Instant Classics: Great Books For The Short Attention Span

“A burning map. Every epic, my friend Jack used to say, should start with a burning map. Like in the movies. Fucking flames burning the world away; that's the best thing about all those old films, he said -- when you see this old parchment map just ... getting darker and darker in the centre, crisping, crinkling until suddenly it just ... fwoom.”
― Hal Duncan

“Seated opposite me in the railway carriage, the elderly lady in the fox-fur shawl was recalling some of the murders that she had committed over the years.”
― John Boyne, The Absolutist

“I shouldn’t have come to this party.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“On Friday, June 12th, I woke up at six o’clock and no wonder; it was my birthday.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary Of a Young Girl

“If there’s one thing wrong with people,” Paul always said, “it’s that no one remembers the shit that they should, and everyone remembers the shit that doesn’t matter for shit.”
― Gabriel Bump, Everywhere You Don't Belong

“If you aren’t paying attention, it’s easy to miss when love changes. Sometimes it’s gradual—unravelling slowly like a ball of yarn rolled across the floor. Other times it’s lightning fast, triggered by something so powerful it cannot be quieted or undone.”
― Kelly Duran, Can't Take it Back

“I have never been among those who think that it is better to be dead than to leave Rome. In fact, I have fled Rome many times in order to preserve my life.”
― John Maddox Roberts, The Temple of the Muses

“Once when I was six I saw a magnificent picture in a book about the jungle, called True Stories.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“I am already at an age and additionally in a state where I must always wash my feet thoroughly before bed, in the event of having to be removed be an ambulance in the Night.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“Let me begin again.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“He'd never killed a woman in cold blood before, but now was as good a time as any.”
― Ronie Kendig, Storm Rising

“Danielle Reynolds had passed through so many towns that her footprints stopped leaving marks.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Taking Root

“Alice was beginning to get very tired of all this sitting by herself with nothing to do: every so often she tried again to read the book in her lap, but it was made up almost exclusively of long paragraphs, and no quotation marks whatsoever, and what is the point of a book, thought Alice, that does not have any quotation marks?”
― Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry

“The drought had lasted for 10 million years now, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey