Sassy Sentences

"She cusses like a trucker with three flat tires."

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 08:27:59 -0400

“She cusses like a trucker with three flat tires.”

- unknown

"So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I..."

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:22:38 -0400

““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)

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

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:43:21 -0400

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

- Shakespeare’s Secret, p.66
Elise Broach

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

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:42:37 -0400

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

- Evermore, p.278
Alyson Noel

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

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:42:03 -0400

“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

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

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:40:56 -0400

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

- Evermore, p.158
Alyson Noel

Punctuation

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:39:00 -0400

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..."

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:38:12 -0400

“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

"There were… family difficulties,” he said with monumental understatement."

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:36:37 -0400

““There were… family difficulties,” he said with monumental understatement.”

- Birdwing, p. 262
Rafe Martin

"Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: “Kid’s gotta be a maniac."

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:35:38 -0400

“Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: “Kid’s gotta be a maniac.””

- Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli

"With great power… comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later."

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:35:03 -0400

“With great power… comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”

- The Last Olympian
Rick Riordan

"All right…I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s..."

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:34:09 -0400

“All right…I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

- The Great Gatsby, Chapter 1
F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The last thing I wanted was my embarrassing death by friut bats posted on YouTube."

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:15:57 -0400

“The last thing I wanted was my embarrassing death by friut bats posted on YouTube.”

- The Red Pyramid, p.235
Rick Riordan

"Mark my words, nothing smells worse than burned scorpions."

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:14:55 -0400

“Mark my words, nothing smells worse than burned scorpions.”

- The Red Pyramid, p. 142
Rick Riordan

"Spin us a yarn."

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:13:55 -0400

“Spin us a yarn.”

- Walk Two Moons, p. 8
Sharon Creech

"Merry meet and merry part and merry meet again."

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:13:07 -0400

“Merry meet and merry part and merry meet again.”

- Marked
by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

"Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing..."

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:12:30 -0400

“Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself? I reach for Stargirl and she’s gone. I’m not me anymore.”

- Love, Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli

"Why is it that adults are always telling kids to go watch television as though we have nothing..."

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:11:17 -0400

“Why is it that adults are always telling kids to go watch television as though we have nothing better to do?”

- Savvy
Ingrid Law

"Do you ever feel like life is just some weird dream and someday you’ll wake up and find that..."

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:09:00 -0400

“Do you ever feel like life is just some weird dream and someday you’ll wake up and find that you’re someone else entirely?”

- Savvy
by Ingrid Law

"Most monsters will vaporize when sliced with a celestial bronze sword."

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:08:45 -0400

“Most monsters will vaporize when sliced with a celestial bronze sword.”

- The Battle of the Labyrinth

Rick Riordan