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Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening Hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.

 

Northern Lights Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials)

 

again.... :D

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Peter Petford slipped a long wooden spoon into the simmering iron pot of lentils hanging over the fire and tried to push the worry from his stomach.

 

Katherine Howe - The Lost Book Of Salem

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Yayyy Lexie! :D

 

"Please tell me you don't believe in that stuff," said a voice beside my shoulder."

 

Stolen - Kelley Armstrong

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Thick cloud had pressed down on Berlin all night, and now it was lingering into what passed for the morning.

 

Fatherland - Robert Harris

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On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.

 

The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton.

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It was while she was lying in bed that Isabel Dalhousie, philosopher and editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, thought about the things we do.

 

The Lost Art of Gratitude by Alexander McCall Smith

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Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.

 

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

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Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.

 

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

 

This is one of my favourite Chuck Palahniuk books! Hope you enjoy it :welcome2:

 

My line comes down from Queen Ada, the sister of Malcolm IV, descended from King Duff, the first King of Scotland.

 

Cash - The autobiography of Johnny Cash.

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The opening line of the first Harry Potter book, French version:

 

Mr et Mrs Dursley, qui habitaient au 4, Privet Drive, avaient toujours affirm

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My Mother is standing in front of the bathroom mirror smelling polished and ready; like Jean Nate, Dippity Do and the waxy sweetness of lipstick.

 

Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs.:tong:

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There was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself - not just sometimes, but always.

 

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

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Everyone remembers where they were the day they heard that Paddy de Courcy was getting married.

 

This Charming Man - Marian Keyes

 

Ooh how's it going?, this book had a bit of stick for not being one of Marian's best, are you enjoying it so far?

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When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a pot of spaghetti and whistling along to an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's The Thieving Magpie, which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.

 

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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'When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along to an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's The Thieving Magpie, which has to be the perfect music for cookimg pasta.'

 

~ The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami :tong:

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People usually start life by being born.

 

The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers

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Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case.

 

The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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"Rock N' Roll," said Maxwell Karrien, opening the official looking envelope.

 

- The Garden Of UnEarthly Delights; Robert Rankin.

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