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I would type out the first line of Stephen King's 'The Shining' which i'm re-reading at the moment, but it's quite bad >_< Certainly draws you in lol! Here it is;

 

'Jack Torrance thought: Officious little *****'

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I didn't like Clyde Nunley the first time I met him face-to-face in the okd cemetery.

 

Grave Surprise~Charlaine Harris

 

So far, apart from a couple of hitches, Plan A was working out fine.

 

Dead Simple~Peter James

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^ ^ I remember that most vividly from years ago!

 

'The 'Red Death' had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was it's Avatar and it's seal - the redness and the horror of blood'

 

- I know it's a couple of sentences, but it sets the scene brilliantly.

 

'The Masque of the Red Death' - Edgar Allen Poe

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Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.

 

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ~ J.K. Rowling

 

*sighs* the amount of time's I've read that line.

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*sighs* the amount of time's I've read that line.

 

But how many times have you read

 

"Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."

 

 

Believe it or not, that was from memory :blush:

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