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“I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful.” — Rae Hachton Copy Share Image
“I knocked at a second-floor flat in a dreary house, one of two hundred in a dreary Catford street.” — Derek Raymond Copy Share Image
“There is a delicate-looking plant native to North America called bleeding heart.” — Josh Aterovis Copy Share Image
“So I'm on my way to work and I stop to watch a pigeon fight a rat in the snow, and some… — Josh Bazell Copy Share Image
“There are only two kinds of people in our town. The stupid and the stuck." ” — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“It was shaping up as a beautiful morning. The last thing I wanted to hear about was murder.” — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Nobody knew me at Buckton. Clem had chosen the town because of that; and besides, even if I had wimp out, there… — Boris Vian Copy Share Image
“This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“On the morning after the daring theft of a priceless James Ensor painting from the Grand Palais in Paris, I was allowed… — Mark Zero Copy Share Image
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“A burning map. Every epic, my friend Jack used to say, should start with a burning map. Like in the movies. Fucking… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
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“The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
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“THE BOY WHO LIVED Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal,… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the future, and everything sucked.” — Greg Nagan Copy Share Image
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“When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Seated opposite me in the railway carriage, the elderly lady in the fox-fur shawl was recalling some of the murders that she… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“When my cousin Anil-da started telling us what he’d heard at the market about the groom’s family, at my aunt Moina-pehi’s wedding… — Aruni Kashyap Copy Share Image
“My name is Towner Whitney. No, that's not exactly true. My real first name is Sophya. Never believe me. I lie all… — Brunonia Barry Copy Share Image
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