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They feel strong under my fingers and yet I can sense the strain on each individual splinter, the constant stress these timbers are under.The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
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"I never participated much in class discussions at Ault - someone else always expressed my ideas, usually in a smarter way than I could have, and as time went on, the less I spoke the less it seemed I had to say."Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
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Dzieje biografii jako gatunku piśmiennictwa historycznego rozpoczynają Żywoty sławnych mężów Plutarcha (zbiór życiorysów 46 sławnych Greków i Rzymian) - greckiego pisarza i filozofa-moralisty żyjącego na przełomie I i II w. Słownik gatunków literackich by Marta Pawlus
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" Better the Coast Guard wonder why one of us was barefoot than wonder why one of us had hooves."The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
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"My parents humoured me; they were desperate for me to go to college."Lucky by Alice Sebold
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He unhooked it and quickly threw out his line again.The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George
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'Sounds like sexual harassment in the workplace to me,' Declan joked, and Jack sniggered.PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
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Unlike her mother, Colette couldn't seem to appreciate either Missy's need for or her entitlement to some detachment.Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
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"They stared at each other, Jane thinking, who could have guessed that Lore was so bitter?"Legacy of Silence by Belva Plain
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"Don't ring twice," said a very angry old man.Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh
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"I'm a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present."What I Was by Meg Rosoff
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"She turned off those emotional faucets, and they were rusty from disuse."The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood
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"I was a little dizzy - I laid my cheek on his chest."Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
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"In this position, my face was within a few feet of the surface of the quicksand."The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
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Bilbo heard the elves still singing in the trees, as if they had not stopped since he left; and as soon as the riders came down into the lower glades of the wood they burst into a song of much the same kind as before.The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
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"For the entirety of my marriage, I would estimate I have dreamed of Andrew Imhof every two or three weeks, almost always as he appeared to me the night of my wedding:present but elusive."American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
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'Mma Ramotswe paid her bill and left, and it was then. as she was walking down the fron steps of the hotel, that she saw Dr Komoti in the Mall.'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
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"But in nightmares the real picture wouldn't hold still long enough for me to look, everything melting."Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
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'Everything always turns out crap with you around anyway!'Before I Die by Jenny Downham
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"Once, some years ago, while airing in the garden, I seemed quite distinctly to see a sunflower transformed into a man's face, the face of a scrappy little boxer I admired at one point, a Mexican named Pepe Alvarez."Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
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The train moves more slowly than usual, and when he looks at his watch he sees that they are running well behind schedule.The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
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"Warm with the fancies of youth, pretty with the insipid prettiness of the formative period, possessed of a figure promising eventual shapeliness and an eye alight with certain native intelligence, she was a fair example of the middle American class - two generations removed from the emigrant."Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
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"This line of thought forestalled more familiar and disturbing ones, the ones that involved being kidnapped by Estonian mafiosi, blown up by animal rights activists, repeatedly stabbed by a bus driver with a grudge."Just In Case by Meg Rosoff
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"It had started out pretty well at the station in Xian."The Emperor's Code by Gordon Korman
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"The dog's soft eyes contemplated the world with calm compassion."Just In Case by Meg Rosoff
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"Merry Christmas," I whisper.The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
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"I don't know who you're talking about" she said and walked away. Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard
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"And I must set it down today so that I shall have it for ever, intact and lovely, untouched by the sadness that is coming - for of course it is coming; my brain tells me that."I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
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"Still what matters most is not some discovery made within those walls but rather within himself."House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
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"She had decided not to go to college after school and instead begun working as a secretary, moving from job to job every few months, ending with the awful job she had left so she could spend time with Gerry while he was sick."PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
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The jingoism and anti-Semitism, which had seemed relatively unimportant personal idiosyncrasies, now called for a clear stand.The Portable Nietzsche
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"I've spent the afternoon flicking through the book that Cal got me, A Hundred Weird Ways to Meet Your Maker."Before I Die by Jenny Downham
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"He forced his eyes to focus, desperately sweeping the crowd for the hit man, the smoking gun tossed away in the gutter."Just In Case by Meg Rosoff
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"Some of the most inspired word, some of the most profound thoughts in literature fall from her lips; in real life she could hardly read, could scarcely spell, and was the property of her husband."A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
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Począwszy od 1937 roku, nie było wątpliwości, że każdy aspekt pracy armii, nawet czysto militarne kwestie w rodzaju szkolenia i rozmieszczenia sprzętu, może stać się przedmiotem partyjnej debaty. Wojna Iwana: Armia Czerwona 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale
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"The judge's answer came across as hapless and pathetic."The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
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"The money she had accepted was two soft, green, handsome ten-dollar bills."Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
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"It shall be stopped, - your tide must not turn so soon, - nineteen is too young."Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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