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I'D NEVER GIVEN MUCH THOUGHT TO HOW I WOULD DIE - though I'd had reason enough in the last few months - but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this.

 

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

 

Mine too :D:D

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ALL OUR ATTEMPTS IN SUBTERFUGE HAD BEEN IN VAIN.

 

Eclipse ~by~ Stephenie Meyer.

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The snow started to fall several hours before her labor began.

 

The Memory Keeper's Daughter- Kim Edwards

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The air in the closet was damp and oppresive, fat with female smells, smells that seemed to invade his skin, silently, deftly mingling with his own sharp odors, his own cloying musk of fear and excitement.

The Violet Hour - Richard Montamari

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"More than half a century has passed away since I, the youngest of the mourners, attended the funeral of my dear Aunt Jane in Winchester Cathedral; and now, in my old age, I am asked wether my memory will serve to rescue from oblivion any events of her life or any traits of her character to satisfy the enquiries of a generation of readers who have been born since she died."

 

From 'Memoir of Jane Austen' by James Edward Austen-Leigh.

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It was nearing midnight and the Prime Minister was sitting alone in his office, reading a long memo that was slipping through his brain without leaving the slightest trace of meaning behind.

 

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The Dunbar's are a good looking family - even the old ones - and massed in black, as they are now, impressive.

 

A Lifetime Burning - Linda Gillard

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I see..." said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window.

 

Interview With A Vampire. - Anne Rice.

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I was upon the fringe of Suffolk, a county rich in agricultural detail, missed by my untutored eye.

 

Corduroy by Adrian Bell

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I'd had more than my fair share of near-death experiences; it wasn't something you ever really got used to.

 

Breaking Dawn ~by~ Stephenie Meyer :friends0:

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I'd had more than my fair share of near-death experiences; it wasn't something you ever really got used to.

 

Breaking Dawn ~by~ Stephenie Meyer :D

 

Mine too ;) I've been a few steps behind you all week.

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'Wat vroeg je, Andy Bissette? Of ik 'die rechten begrijp zoals je ze aan mij hebt uitgelegd'?

 

I'm reading a Dutch translation actually of a book which was written in English. Now I'll translate it back to English as well as I can:

 

'Wat did you ask, Andy Bissette? If I "understand those rights as you've explained them to me"?'

 

(from 'Dolores Claiborne' by Stephen King)

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Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the bottom of Kgale hill.

 

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Bill was hunched over the computer when I let myself in his house.

 

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The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.

 

The Thief of Always by Clive Barker

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The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.

 

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In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.

 

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'About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an hansome house and large income.'

 

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I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.

 

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When I look back on everything that's happened to me over the last ten years I find it hard to believe that I haven't gone totally crazy.

 

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I found the note taped to my door when I got home from work.

 

Dead to the World ~ Charlaine Harris

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