I count off the second in my head. One minute passes. Then two, then four, and then finally, ten minutes.
Then fifteen. Twenty minutes.
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Legend by Marie Lu [GoodReads]
I count off the second in my head. One minute passes. Then two, then four, and then finally, ten minutes.
Then fifteen. Twenty minutes.
"You've fought off a gang of men twice your size, killed an angel warrior, stood up to an archangel, and wielded an angel sword." Raffe cocks his head. "But you scream like a little girl when you see a maggot?"Page 204
"Are you afraid to die?"
"No," he said."But I hate the idea of not living."
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Rook by Sharon Cameron [GoodReads]
He smiles at me still, broadly and without restraint or hesitation. Isaac had never smiled at me like that. Isaac had never made my breath catch, just a little.
Eli elbowed me. "How come I can only read your mind? You're not cheating, are you?"
I will live to see tomorrow's sunset. Make no mistake. I swear I will live to see as many sunsets as it takes. And I will kill you. With my own hands.
The opposing team's fans were still chanting. "Grayson Spencer, the losing Flame, sent he Frognals a sympathy card!" And "The fire of the Flames is going out, Spencer the loser's a layabout."
Grayson was pale as death.
"The first couplet doesn't rhyme." I said.
Henry nodded. "And the meter of the second one's all wrong. Idiots."
"Do you know why I like you, Max Cantrell?"
"Because your dad hates me?"
She laughed out loud. "No, that's why I used to like you."
"It's like that. I saw something. From the stage. And I can't shake the feeling that, I don't know, it's important."Page 66
Olivia swallowed, her throat constricted. This could be it. The break they'd been waiting for. "What did you see, Logan?"
"Ghosts aren't nomadic, so I'm sure our target will stay here in San Francisco," I said. "No use in leaving."Page 120
"I'll be around my whole life," I whispered, not quite under the breeze in the forest, the pounding of my heart, and the beating of my invisible and incorporeal wings. "That's a long time to me."
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Incarnate by Jodi Meadows [GoodReads]
"And you think that's going to endear your constable to you?" said Levana, abandoning her own untouched drink on the sideboard. "Assaulting his dance partners?"

Usually when I see Negroes working as janitors or cleaning women, I get embarrassed. I understand why they're doing it-it's hard enough to find jobs as it is-but I hate to think of any of us mopping up spilled food we wouldn't be allowed to eat if we were paying customers. But the food in this cafeteria isn't only for white people anymore. I'm here.

Kell wore a very peculiar coat.Page 1
It had neither one side, which would be conventional, nor two, which would be unexpected, but several, which was, of course, impossible.
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It didn't seem like such a terrible price, to not touch and not be touched. After all, I'd left behind the only person who'd ever shown me love and affection. But that wasn't the price at all.