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Powstanie '44 by Norman Davies

Next: page 96, sentence 25

It depends how long are the sentences.

- Siostra Stasia.

Lala by Jacek Dehnel

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They had never mentioned this when I was in wardrobe, and I had endured no hair or makeup tests like in the old studio days.
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch by Alison Arngrim.

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They reached New York in the middle of July, and they were like horses in the home stretch.

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test- Tom Wolfe

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"I had first, however, provided for my sustenance for that day by a loaf of coarse bread, which I purloined, and a cup with which I could drink, more conveniently than from my hand, of the pure water which flowed by my retreat.

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

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"It's about life cut short and love lost."

The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood

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"The only things that were really mine were my stuffed-rabbit collection from when I was a little kid and my canopy bed."

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

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"You could have switched places at any time"

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

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"The next morning, aching and chilled to the bone, she turned off along a road so narrow and overgrown that she felt certain they'd gone wrong, or that the girl had played a trick on her."

The Bride's Farewell by Meg Rosoff

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"She had got that fur coat after all - probably from that cigar clerk and then had gone away with him after she had protested so much feeling for him - the little beast."

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

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"These people moved and breathed, they ate bagels in the dining hall, carried books through the hallways, wore clothes other than the ones I'd memorized."

Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

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Elizabeth would have thought of this possibility.

Rumors by Anna Godbersen

Next Page 58, Sentence 1

"Why does the slave ever love?"

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs

Next Page 210, Sentence 15

There was nothing I could do to help, and it would have been wiser on my part to have kept clear of the house altogether and taken the dog and myself for a long walk.

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Next: Page 323, Sentence 13

"Yes to everything for just one more day."

Before I Die by Jenny Downham

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"Even from twenty feet away Clarissa could tell she was born poreless."

Maneater by Gigi Levangie Grazer

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"I'm thinking - maybe the way to get to Ciaran is through Killian."

Changeling by Cate Tiernan

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Trudno było wypoczywać na wakacjach ze Stalinem.

Stalin. Dwór czerwonego cara by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Next: Page 206, sentence 14

"The Grange is not a prison, Ellen, and you are not my gaoler."

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

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But on that night, I was absurdly hammered (I remember because it was my twenty-second birthday and I had spent the evening in my room with my Discman, a Chet Baker box set, and a jumbo bottle of Bailey's Irish Cream).
Waking Beauty by Elyse Friedman

Next: page 49, sentance 23

"She was his oldest child and, now that Gerald knew there would be no more sons to follow the three who lay in the family burying ground, he had drifted into a habit of treating her in a man-to-man manner which she found most pleasant."

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Next: page 44, sentence 6.

She had never been staying there before, without being struck by it, or without wishing that other Elliots could have her advantage in seeing how unknown, or unconsidered there, were the affairs which at Kellynch Hall were treated as of such general publicity and pervading interest; yet, with all this experience, she believed she must now submit to feel that another lesson, in the art of knowing our own nothingness beyond our own circle, was become necessary for her-for certainly, coming as she did, with a heart full of the subject which had been completely occupying both houses in Kellynch for many weeks, she had expected rather more curiosity and sympathy than she found in the separate, but very similar remark of Mr. and Mrs. Musgrove: "So, Miss Anne, Sir Walter and our sister are gone; and what part of Bath do you think they will settle in?" and this, without much waiting for an answer-or in the young ladies' addition of "I hope we shall be in Bath in the winter; but remember, papa, if we do go, we must be in a good situation-none of your Queen Squares for us!" or in the anxious supplement from Mary, of "Upon my word, I shall be pretty well off, when you are all gone away to be happy at Bath!"

Whew! I thought that sentence would never end! Jane Austen sure knows how to make a sentence last!

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Next: Page 88, Sentence 4

"If she planted a seed, she'd have to dig it back up and look at it every day to see if it was growing."

Before I Die by Jenny Downham

Next: Page 308, Sentence 9.

The news we heard is that Mithridates is camped abou a hundred miles to the west.

The Death of Kings by Conn Iggulden

Next: page 5, sentence 14

"I cannot trace out exactly the influences, nor deal in any scientific way with the chromosomes passed on to me."

Letting Go by Philip Roth

Next: page 15, sentence 4

"From the mundane (we ate four boxes of cereal or two dozen eggs for breakfast everyday) to the unusual (on Christmas we put a baby gate around our tree to protect the ornaments from the kids and the kids from the ornaments) our normal was never ordinary."

I Just Want You To Know by Kate Gosselin

Next: page 26, sentence 11

"Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature."

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Next: page 260, sentence 5.

D'Artangnans only sorrow was that he could not get a message from his friends.
(the three Musketeer by Alexander Dumas)

sorry if i have translatet the sentence wrong =)

next: page 130, sentence 7

"God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance."

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Next: page 211, sentence 2.

W tymże samym roku 1843, jak i w roku 1844, już po posłuchaniu u papieża, Ram udał się do Frankfurtu, do Rotszylda, również z przesłaniem od Towiańskiego.

Bohater, spisek, śmierć. Wykłady żydowskie by Maria Janion

Next: Page 6, sentence 4

' Imagine it, Zoey - being terrified all the time.'

Before I Die by Jenny Downham

Next: Page 406, sentence 6.

'She Smelled Good'

The Enemy by Lee Child

Next: Page 202, sentence 6

I swear it's true!

'They kissed passionately for a long minute."

Disillusioned: A Stan Turner Mystery by William Manchee

Next: Page 26, sentence 26

"There was a note of finality in the gesture, and I didn't dare ask my next question, namely: How on earth have you managed to live alone in a state of perfect grace, away from the local authority and the endless stream of oppressors who populate every minute of every normal life?"

What I Was by Meg Rosoff

Next: Page 222, sentence 15.

"where the world and the sky are one"

The Portable Dorothy Parker

Kayla, you forgot to post the page and the sentence for a new poster. (Let's not kill the game!)

Oops. I'm sorry. That's the second time I've done that.

Next: Page 83, Sentence 10

@ Kayla : No big deal, can happen to anyone.

"Of course I thought I would never know peace or happiness again, I would never be forgiven, I should never be forgiven."

American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld

Next: Page 251, Sentence 1.

To his great relief, Ron was lying on his bed in the otherwise empty dormitory, still fully dressed.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K Rowling. Next page 101 sentence 32

She turned to look at him, his face in profile, staring petulantly at the ceiling.

One Day by David Nicholls.

This was actually page 102 because there wasn't 32 sentences on 101. Next Page, 333, sentence 3.

"The walls trembled, the ceiling was crushing her, and she passed back through the long alley, stumbling against the heaps of dead leaves scattered by the wind."

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Next : page 222, sentence 6.

"Another moment of silence."

a single thread by Marie Bostwick

Next: Page 7, sentence 3.

"Cecilia's enthusiasm, for example, seemed a little overstated, tainted with condescension perhaps, and intrusive too; her big sister wanted each bound story catalogued and placed on the library shelves, between Rabindranath Tagore and Quintus Tertullian."

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Next: Page 37, sentence 7.

"In a moment it tumbled, softly, onto the plush white carpet."

Envy by Anna Godbersen


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I looked down at my hands, not wanting to catch my classmates' eyes, but all the same I was aware that no one was taking their seat at my table.

The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant

Next: Page 280, Sentence 6

Dad takes my hand "Give me the pain", he says.
I'm laying on the edge of the hospital bed, in a knee-chest position with my head on my pillow. My spine is parallel to the side of the bed.

Before I die by Jenny Downham

Next: pg. 36, sentence: 1

"She was dying."

A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly

Next: page 91, sentence 16.

The room is dark and Sea and I are in our sleeping bags lying on the floor in my bedroom, head to head.

ARC of My Fake Boyfriend is Better Than Yours by Kristina Springer

Next: page 13, sentence 6

"The stone was black, blank."

Eclipse by Cate Tiernan

Next : page 55, last sentence.

"I was to join the houseparty, posing as a guest."

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

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