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“Just then Angie rushed back into the kitchen. I was stunned at how she was dressed. She had on a dressy long-sleeved blouse and a pair of cut-off jeans. The jeans were more of a shock, because until that very moment I had never seen her bare legs. She always wore ratty pants, and the most I had ever seen of her legs were flashes of skin when she had holes around the knees in her pant legs. Now the jeans she wore weren’t cut really high, but high enough. Her legs were still somewhat tanned from Florida, and they were in good shape, which caused something good to stir in my stomach.”
― Tom Upton, Plague House

“Thirty, forty miles?”  “Well,” said Lila, verbally pouting. “I guess we’d better settle in for a long trip.”  She pushed her body even harder against Raj, then glared at the side of her father’s head. Lila and Trevor got along with Meyer, but they were still teenagers. Piper, recently a teen herself, tried to understand, but often there was no use. Somewhere around your twenty-second birthday, teenagers started sounding like melodramatic idiots no matter what you did.  “That’s another reason to get a hotel room,” Piper said. “They might let planes fly again. We can take the Gulfstream.”
― Sean Platt, Invasion

“Needles …” Cole started. “No, Cole,” Needles snapped, his laughter stopping suddenly. His eyes blazed with fear and insanity. “People just don’t go out in the middle of the night and walk into the woods. People don’t just disappear in mid-step. Something’s wrong here. Really wrong.”
― Mark Lukens, Ancient Enemy

“He jerked the man into the dark corridor, and they set out again. Dorian was glad to be out of the humid, freakish place with the snakes and flying invisible birds, and who knew what else. He wanted to barricade the entrance, ensuring that nothing made it out, but there was no time.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Atlantis World