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If I die I want Thorne to lower me down into my grave so he can let me down one more time. --Cinder

Lunar Chronicles, Marissa Meyer

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Arthur: Now, remember, in here you're not my servant, I'm just a simple peasant like everyone else.

Merlin: Simple part's right.

Arthur: What?

Merlin: I said the sun is very bright.

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Wit: I could hit you in the head with a hammer. A good bludgeoning would make you forget and do wonders for that face of yours.

Dalinar: Wit.

Wit: I'm only joking.

Dalinar: Good.

Wit: A hammer would hardly dent that thick skull of his.

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Leon: What is the job exactly?

Merlin: To kill Arthur.

Leon: Driving you mad, is he?

Merlin: Not for much longer.

(Both laugh)

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Elend: I kind of lost track of time...

Breeze: For two hours!!

Elend: There were books involved.

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Merlin: Don't you miss the vivid imagination of childhood?

Arthur: I never had one.

Merlin:....

Merlin: An imagination or a childhood?

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He said, "Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."

Roald Dahl

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Hello, would you like to destroy some evil today?

(Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance)

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Avoid roasted cabbage, don't eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life.

(The Inheritance Cycle, Christopher Paolini)

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Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense.

(Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance)

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Intriguing first sentences:

It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die. (Scorpio Races, Maggie Stiefvater.)

On the second Sabbat of Twelfthmoon, in the city of Weep, a girl fell from the sky. (Strange the dreamer, Laini Taylor.)

Joost had two problems: the moon and his mustache. (Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo)

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I'm heartily ashamed of myself Lizzie, but don't despair it'll pass and no doubt more quickly than it should. -Mr. Bennet

Pride and Prejudice

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The deep and lovely dark, we'd never see the stars without it. -the 12th doctor