“There is nothing more humiliating than being topless in the backseat of your boyfriend’s car when someone decides to throw an egg at the windshield.” Shut Out Kody Keplinger Read more

“I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.” Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs Read more

“It was asleep in there, behind the door.” Police Jo Nesbo Read more

“The man in Black fled across the Desert, and the Gunslinger followed.” The Gunslinger Stephen King Read more

“Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.” Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell Read more

“The tower, which was not supposed to be there, plunges into the earth in a place just before the black pine forest begins to give way to swamp and then the reeds and wind-gnarled trees of the marsh flats.” Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer Read more

“In the end, I abandoned my new life, along with the people who had helped me to put it together, and I returned to the world of strange games and secret systems they had saved me from.” The First Verse Barry McCrea Read more

“Monday, 4:28 a.m., the narrow French Quarter room was smoky with cheap candles that smelled of honey.” The Sentry Robert Crais Read more