Category: Books
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Behind the Red Door
“The girl has no face. Where her eyes and nose and mouth should be, there is only skin. A flat plane of flesh stretched tight as a mask.”
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The Wife Who Knew Too Much
“I’m writing this to raise an alarm in the event of my untimely death. This is hard to admit, even to myself, let alone to the world. My husband is planning to kill me. For obvious reason. He’s in love with someone else. And he wants my money.”
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The Hate U Give
“That’s the problem. We let people say stuff, and they say it so much that it becomes okay to them and normal for us. What’s the point of having a voice if you’re gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn’t be?”
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His & Hers
“Memories are shape shifters. Some bend, some twist, and some shrivel and die over time. But our worst ones never leave us.”
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Dear Emmie Blue
“I think of my balloon, and how far it traveled across those inky waves. I think of the wife world out there and all its possibilities. Maybe one day I’ll see the northern lights. and Someday I’ll fall in love”
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Red White and Royal Blue
“When Alex was a kid, before anyone knew his name, he dreamed of love like it was a fairy tale, as if it would come sweeping into his life on the back of a dragon one day. When he got older, he learned about love as a strange thing that could fall apart no matter how badly you wanted it, a choice you make anyway. He never imagined it’d turn out he was right both times.”
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Eliza Starts a Rumor
“A baby is like an apple seed. That tiny seed already contains everything needed to make an entire tree. The strong trunk, a host of branches, even the apples, it’s all predetermined in the DNA of that little seed. Most of the job is done. You just have to tend to it. Just like a baby.”
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Take a Hint, Dani Brown
“At one point, Dani realized with a blush that she was nodding along beside him like some sort of hypnotized acolyte. She stopped. But as she leaned closer to him, like the tide drawn in by the moon, it occurred to her that she could think of no one else she’d rather fake date.”
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Don’t Turn Around
“The smell hits her first: burnt rubber and gasoline. Then the pain comes. The roar of blood in her ears, the gurgled strangle of breath.”
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Miss Cecily’s Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
“Beneath the outward signs of deterioration, the same spirit dwells and looks on with dismay at the devastation the years have wrought. Inside, there is still an urge to dance under the stars, to walk swiftly across the fields, to lie on the shore under a blazing sun… today’s choices become tomorrow’s memories in a heartbeat — do make them count.”
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The Stranger in the Lake
“I untie the dock cleats and shove the boat into the water as gray as the sky. Sometime in the past few hours, gunmetal clouds have rolled over mountaintops, shooting down icy gusts that froth the surface of Lake Crosby into a million white peaks. My stomach churns, and not from the water’s chop.”
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The Guest List
“There are currents in this place that somehow find their way inside, despite closed doors and shut windows. They eddy and caper through the air, they kiss the back of your neck, they a prickle down your spine, soft as the touch of fingertips.”
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Happy and You Know It
They weren’t primed from birth like women were, told that they could be anything they wanted to be while handicapped at every turn by invisible forces, told that they were more than just their looks while also culturally programmed to believe that their value was tied to their desirability. Men aged into silver foxes while women aged into obsolescence.”
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Harley in the Sky
“The black-and-gold-striped building is blanketed by an explosion of twinkling lights. Built to look like a carnival tent that practically bursts with nostalgia, the structure is impossible to miss.”
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My Kind of People
“In the hours before dawn, she slips out of the house and runs… She follows the path that winds nears the cliff, the edge nipping at her feet, threatening to swallow her whole.”
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You and Me and Us
“Tomorrow is as much for you as it is for your dad and me. It’s about you and me and us. Our family.”
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Pretty Things
“Nothing is ever as pure as it seems at first glance; there is always something more complicated to be found if you peel back the unmarried surface of pretty things.”
The Bookend Diner 