Showing posts with label Teaser Tuesday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Teaser Tuesday. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

[Meme]Teaser Tuesday [#75]

I count off the second in my head. One minute passes. Then two, then four, and then finally, ten minutes.
Then fifteen. Twenty minutes. 

Page 16

Legend by Marie Lu [GoodReads]
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

[Meme]Teaser Tuesday [#74]



"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
End of Days by Susan Ee [GoodReads]
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

[Meme]Teaser Tuesday [#73]



"Are you afraid to die?"
"No," he said."But I hate the idea of not living."
Page 175
Rook by Sharon Cameron [GoodReads]

Me too kid, me too.
Tuesday, July 7, 2015

[Meme]Teaser Tuesday [#72]

 
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Daddy always says I was born with a gold nugget in my left hand and a pickax in my right.

Page 20

Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson [GoodReads]
Tuesday, June 9, 2015

[Meme]Teaser Tuesday [#71]


 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. 

Page 147

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas [GoodReads]

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

[Meme]Teaser Tuesday [#70]


Eli elbowed me. "How come I can only read your mind? You're not cheating, are you?" 

Page 107

Split Second (Pivot Point #2) by Kasie West [GoodReads]
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

[Meme]Teaser Tuesday [#69]

 

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.

Page 11

The Wrath & the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh [GoodReads]


Tuesday, May 12, 2015

[Meme]Teaser Tuesday [#68]


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." 

Page 115

Dream a Little Dream by Kerstin Gier [GoodReads]



Tuesday, May 5, 2015

[Meme]Teaser Tuesday [#66]


"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."

Page 42

Liars, Inc by Paula Stokes [GoodReads]

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

[Meme]Teaser Tuesday [#65]



"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."
Olivia swallowed, her throat constricted. This could be it. The break they'd been waiting for. "What did you see, Logan?"
Page 66
Get Dirty (Don't Get Mad #2) by Gretchen McNeil [GoodReads]

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

[Meme]Teaser Tuesday [#64]



"Ghosts aren't nomadic, so I'm sure our target will stay here in San Francisco," I said. "No use in leaving." 
Page 120

Shutter by Courtney Alameda


Tuesday, March 24, 2015

[Meme]Teaser Tuesday [#63]



"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." 

Page 73

Incarnate by Jodi Meadows [GoodReads] 



Tuesday, March 17, 2015

[Meme]Teaser Tuesday [#62]




Kestrel saw Arin flinch away, hard, from the hand she'd lifted to touch him. It fell as if burned.

Page 177

The Winners Crime by Marie Rutkoski [GoodReads]



Tuesday, March 10, 2015

[[Meme]Teaser Tuesday [#61]



"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?"

Page 93

Fairest by Marrisa Meyer [GoodReads]

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

[Meme]Teaser Tuesday [#60]


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.

Page 48
Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley [GoodReads] 



Tuesday, February 24, 2015

[Meme]Teaser Tuesday [#59]

 


Kell wore a very peculiar coat.
It had neither one side, which would be conventional, nor two, which would be unexpected, but several, which was, of course, impossible.
Page 1
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab [GoodReads]

This is the first two sentences of the book and I adore it! It's very Neil Gaiman-y!
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

[Meme]Teaser Tuesday [#58]



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.
Page 19
The Sin Eater's Daughter by Melinda Salisbury [GoodReads]

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

[Meme]Teaser Tuesday [#57]



"So the thing is..." he lowers his vioce. "you know I'm gay, right?"

Page 156

To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han [GoodReads]