! YA Heroines ! discussion

All you have to do is pick up the book you are currently reading and post the sentence 'choosen' from that book.

e.g.
Person 1: page. 3
sentence. 4

Person 2: flips to page. 3
finds sentence. 4
posts sentence
names the next page and sentence number

BTW Include the name and author of the book. And if the sentence is really spoilery choose the next sentence instead.


I'll start

page. 123
sentence. 4

"'You will tell us what we need to know,' I threatened"

Page 73, sentence 13

(Do we add the title and author?)

If we do, I was reading Guardians: The Girl, by Lily StVil

"I'm not sure what it says about me that, even though I prefer Sam's attentions to Jasper's, I still don't like Jasper turning that attention elsewhere."

From

Page 50, Sentence 8

"I didn't want to take any chances here and risk losing my balance or my footing."
Survival, by A.M. Hargrove

Page 1, sentence 1

Ooops I forgot to add that in the rules. LOL :P

"In a town house at a fashionable address on Manhattan's Upper East Side, every lamp blazes."
- The Diviners ~ Libba Bray

Page 70, sentence 3.

"I didn't even have a chance to respond."
-Obsidian, Jennifer L. Armentrout (On Kindle)

Page 111, sentence 11.

"Can you believe it? You and me in Manhattan? We'll be the queens of the city!"
- The Diviners ~ Libba Bray

pg. 68 sen. 7

"The scene before her meant something to the part of her she couldn’t access."
- Autumn Storm by Lizzy Ford (The closest book I have right now)

Page 10, Sentence 10

'I pounce on him. "My mother is a lady, damn it!"'
~Carter's Unfocused, One-Track Mind by Brent Crawford


Sentence 22, Page 222

simon would be traing alongside her until he became a journeyman'

Ummm ooops I'll just add a

Pg. 77
Sen. 7

Dead, how the call only went out like three days ago?
I'm reading on my Kindle so I guess its pg. 14 line 2 of
Ascension

Pg. 14
Sentence 2?

"Baba was there, watching, and he patted Hassan on the back."
-The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

Page 231, Sentence 5

"Three years on the run. Three years of hiding. Three terrible years full of fear and loneliness. For what? My life? Yes, I live and breathe and exist. Nothing else."

Touch of Power, Maria V Snyder.

Page - 2
Sentence - 2

"The knowledge that her child was dying shone in her brown eyes."

Touch of Power, Maria V Snyder.

Page 2, sentence 19

"He laughed, a scoff that didn't even move his handsome features."

Waterfall ~ Lisa T. Bergren

pg. 300
sen. 3

"She could hear them, raised raised boys' voices, and though she couldn't hear the words, she could tell they were joking with each other." City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare.

p. 53 sentence 5

"She sneaks out to bookstores, surprised when her father does not inquire as to where the piles of freshly bound volumes came from."
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern

Pg 21, sentence 12

Madame Romanoff bids me sit.

by Libba Bray

Page 111 sentence 11

"I had to get out of there."
- Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

Pg. 99
Sentence 10

"She gave me a slight nod, looking not at all suprised by my question."
Scent Of Magic. Maria Snyder

Last page of book last sentence.

"It tastes like chicken," Simon said, just to shut her up.




First page, first sentence

"I have been afraid of putting air in a tire ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Hardbine's father over the Standard Oil sign."
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsover (a selection for class)

Pg. 300
Sentence13

"If only she could just make it to the door, she told herself."
The Last Echo by Kimberly Derting

Pg. 121
Last sentence on the page.

"I will," he said. "With you right here, I will."
Peregrine-


I want to try this:
First sentence on the blurb at the back of the book or on the dust jackect of a hard cover book. If there isn't - pg. 23 sentence 1.

"Since his mother's death six years ago, Carter Kane has been living out of a suitcase, traveling the globe with his father, the brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane."
-The first sentence of blurb

and just because I want to, here's also pg. 23, sentence 1:
"'For anyone else, I would hesitate to grant unguarded access to the stone, as you've requested.'"
-The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordin

Pg. 301
fsentence 4

And she'd kissed him back...
but now she was in there with Jace, and Simon had a knotting, twisting feeling in his stomach, like he'd swallowed a bowl full of worms.

City of Bones - Cassandra Clare

Pg - 142
Sentence - 5

"Late in winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time thinking about death."
The Fault In Our Stars - John Green

pg 6 sent. 5

He stopped, lips parting as if the mere sight of me had rendered him incapable of doing anything else. A warm blush stole over my skin. This would not end well

pg 1 paragraph 2 of Deity

Jenny wrote: "Remember to put our pages and sentences too."

I'm reading on my IPad and there are no page numbers which can be problem sometimes

"My name is Carter Kane."
-The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan

Pg. 3, sentence 4

"I remember the cracked earth and the scratchy bushes and the used-to-be-greens that are now too close to brown."
Unravel Me - Tahereh Mafi

last page last sentence.

You know what, when I clicked on this link I was thinking "I'll probably have to give the very last sentence on the last page" and I was right. Weird.

"Two words spoken clearly inside my head: Mon ange."
-Until I Die, Amy Plum

Pg. 44, last sentence on page.

Kaitlin wrote: "You know what, when I clicked on this link I was thinking "I'll probably have to give the very last sentence on the last page" and I was right. Weird.

"Two words spoken clearly inside my head: Mon..."



Telepathy...

I can so clearly remember the last sentence of Until I Die, what a great cliffe.


"I touch his arm."
Unravel me - Tahereh Mafi

pg. 11 sen.1

"In the roads where the teams moved, where the wheels milled the ground and the hooves of the horses beat the ground, the dirt crust broke and the dust formed."
-John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Last page, first sentence

" As much as loss defined us, so did our capacity for hope."
- The Goddess Inheritence, Aimee Carter

pg 251, sentence 3

"The workhouse was in the next town, a two-hour walk or an hour’s cart ride away."
Tom Appleby Convict Boy - Jackie French.

Page 111 sentence 3

"It was merely curiosity; it overcomes me at the most inopportune times."
Lair of the Lion

Page 196 Sentence 8

"But it still felt a lot like dread." - Maggie Stiefvater, "The Raven Boys

Page 119 sentence 6

"She shoved hard on the guiding lever, forcing the vehicle to rise quickly."

The Girl with the Iron Touch - Kady Cross


pg 276 sentence 3

"And that helps, for some reason."
-Paper Towns by John Green

Pg. 245
Sentence 7

"Ethan and Genevieve were more than a story to me and Lena." - Beautiful Chaos by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Page 261 Sentence 11

"I hope that's like one of those traumatic events that is so damaging to my psyche that I just forget it ever happened."

-Radar from Paper Towns my John Green.

Kaitlin you have to post the next page number and sentence number :)

Page 20
Sentence 2

"She put the old metal colander on the step beneath us." - Beautiful Redemption by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Page 62 Second paragraph

"It buckled, tail whipping back and forth, then reared up like a snake, hurling it's body out of the water. For a moment it hung suspended in the air: translucent wing-like fins, gleaming scales, and wrathful red eyes. Beads of water flew from it's mane and it's massive jaws opened, revealing a pink tongue and rows of teeth. - Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo.

page 9
sentence 4