“On a very cold and lonely Friday last November, my father disappeared from the Dictionary.” The Word Exchange Alena Graedon Read more

“On the steps of the old mission house, the sergeant sat with the boy who called himself Robin, and watched a pigeon being swallowed by a pelican.” Tigerman Nick Harkaway Read more

“They never found his hands.” The Forgers Bradford Morrow Read more

“A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves.” Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Caitlin Doughty Read more

“Where’s Papa going with that axe?” said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast. Charlotte’s Web E.B. White Read more

“The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years – if it ever did end – began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.” It Stephen King Read more

“Since it’s Sunday and it’s stopped raining, I think I’ll take a bouquet of roses to my grave.” Collected Stories Gabriel Garcia Marquez Read more

“Looking back, none of this would have happened if I’d brought lip gloss the night of the Homecoming Dance.” Rebel Belle Rachel Hawkins Read more

“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