1 month ago
She cusses like a trucker with three flat tires. Cite Arrow unknown
1 year ago
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. Cite Arrow John Green (Looking for Alaska)

(Source: venebelle)

Cite Arrow via constructionpaper
1 year ago
The inside of the house was not so different from the outside: shabby, cluttered, interesting. Cite Arrow Shakespeare’s Secret, p.66 
Elise Broach
By Valentine’s Day, Miles and Haven are in love - though not with each other. Cite Arrow Evermore, p.278 
Alyson Noel
My attention was focused on two things: Riley, just in case he started to attack again, and the door. Cite Arrow The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, p.96 
Stephanie Meyer
No, I just…” He turns away, leaving both the sentence, and me, to dangle. Cite Arrow Evermore, p.158 
Alyson Noel
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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

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.] Cite Arrow

The Red Pyramid, p.7

Rick Riordan

There were… family difficulties,” he said with monumental understatement. Cite Arrow Birdwing, p. 262 
Rafe Martin
Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: “Kid’s gotta be a maniac. Cite Arrow Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli

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