This was inspired by my pediatrician, a relatively young man whom I called Dr. Handsome. I had assumed this was because his name was Dr. Hasen or Dr. Branson, but I recently found out his name was Dr. Ritger, so I guess I should have just died at age four when I decided to call my physician Dr. Handsome without so much as a pun to justify it.
– Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody, page 3
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Hardcover, 275 pages
Published November 15th 2016 by Touchstone Books
Rosalie’s mind was a shallow pool with few surprises.
– Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun
jesus christ edward that is rude as hell you stuck up lil bish
Sometimes I’ll be at work or a party and get that same feeling. I am not like these people. I don’t know what I’m doing here.
– Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody, page xx
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Hardcover, 275 pages
Published November 15th 2016 by Touchstone Books
I can do this, I lied to myself feebly. No on was going to bite me.
– Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
Except when I was born. My god, I was so fat. I almost killed my mother. And while that’s gross, it’s completely true. If we lived in a time before cesarean sections, she wouldn’t have survived. (I would also like to thank cesarean sections for sparing me the mental anguish of knowing I once passed through my mother’s vaginal canal.)
– Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody, page xvii
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Hardcover, 275 pages
Published November 15th 2016 by Touchstone Books
That night, I resolved to keep the crazy inside my head where it belonged. Forever. But here’s the thing about crazy: It. Wants. Out.
– Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody, page xii
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Hardcover, 275 pages
Published November 15th 2016 by Touchstone Books
When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy. Having two of them just meant that they stared at each other helplessly instead of at me.
– Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds, page 332
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ebook, 552 pages
Published December 18th 2012 by Hyperion
I felt it then — the way that the hold I had on her had suddenly sprung free. I had the strangest sensation of floating, of drifting farther and farther away with nothing and no one to cling to. I was standing right beside her, but the distance between us had split into the kind of canyon I couldn’t jump across.
– Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds, page 48
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ebook, 552 pages
Published December 18th 2012 by Hyperion
Beriel shone with it, like a sun, the Queen in her Kingdom. It was as if each breath she drew increased her pleasure, breathing that air. It was as if each hoof the chestnut planted onto the earth increased her strength.
– Cynthia Voigt, Elske, page 255
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Paperback, 384 pages
Published May 26th 2015 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Beriel gave this gift to Elske carelessly, as if to be trusted were the common fortune. But Elske opened her heart to take the gift into her care as if it were a babe.
– Cynthia Voigt, Elske, page 252
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Paperback, 384 pages
Published May 26th 2015 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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