Sassy Sentences

A spot for me to deposit all the quotes I collect on random PostIts from my reading...

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The truth, she found, felt smooth, like a skipping stone in the palm of your hand.

― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

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“Like mold on books, grow myths on history.”

― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

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She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

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You look so blindingly cute right now, I feel like I need to make a pinhole in a piece of paper just to look at you.

― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

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“As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.”

― John Green, Paper Towns

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She laughed, and the desert sang.

― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

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She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.

― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

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You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.

― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

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I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top.

― Wendy Mass, Every Soul A Star

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She cusses like a trucker with three flat tires.

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[havingarockytime]

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”

John Green (Looking for Alaska)

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The inside of the house was not so different from the outside: shabby, cluttered, interesting.

Shakespeare's Secret, p.66 Elise Broach

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By Valentine's Day, Miles and Haven are in love - though not with each other.

Evermore, p.278 Alyson Noel

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My attention was focused on two things: Riley, just in case he started to attack again, and the door.

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, p.96 Stephanie Meyer

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"No, I just..." He turns away, leaving both the sentence, and me, to dangle.

Evermore, p.158 Alyson Noel

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Punctuation

Dash: He smelled interesting - like ol-timey spices, copal and amber, like the incense shops in Covent Garden. (p.45) As if that had been on my to-do list for Christmas hols. See Dad - check. Develop strange powers - check. Defeat an evil god of chaos - check. The whole idea was mad! (p.103) Elipses: I couldn't see his face very well, but it looked red and moist and... well, let's just say I was glad I couldn't see it better. (p.63)

Colon: I wondered what that would be like: a normal family trip, no magic problems or monsters chasing you. (p.263) Bast had an interesting definition of interesting: a boiling lake several miles wide that smelled like burning petrol and rotton meat. (p.346) The Red Pyramid Rick Riordan

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Sadie hadn't changed much either since last summer. [As I'm recording this, she's standing next to me, glaring so I'd better be careful how I desribe her.]

The Red Pyramid, p.7

Rick Riordan