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“Flight, oh wonderous flight! This is fun, Zalto!”
Nav’ Aria: The Marked Heir by KJ Backer
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“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”
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"May Ellen Bird was born on a Saturday, in the east wing of the third floor of White Moss Manor."
The Ever After by Jodi Lynn Anderson.
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"That's going to leave a nasty scar," said the doctor, without looking up.

-Emerald Green by Kerstin Gier
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Aurelio Zen lounged on the sofa like a listless god, bringing the dead back to life.

Vendetta, Michael Dibdin
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The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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"The symbol for Mars is a circle with an arrow pointing toward the upper right."
Mars: The Novel- Gerard DiLeo.
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There was a boy in her room.

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
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"The Sector Commissar requests your presence."
Incursion
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Adam stooped down, picked up a flat pebble, and tossed it playfully at a tuft of reeds just out from
the river bank.

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'It all started with an apple.' - A Sky Painted Gold by Laura Wood
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"The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Private Drive."
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Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

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My father has a glum nature.

Family Life, Akhil Sharma
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"Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick"

The Shining by Stephen King
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"When we got the letter in the post, my mother was ecstatic." The Selection by Kiera Cass
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