Category: Book Quotes
Brace Face
Final Audition
Legendary Hero
Contractions
Mom’s eyes darkened. “Hamlet, you know how I feel about the use of contractions.”
The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet
Erin Dionne
Top Ten
In many ways, the ghost in the jar had been a thorn in my side for ages….It was thoroughly, defiantly, exultantly reprehensible; in fact, if you wrote down the ten most unsavory character traits you could imagine, the skull possessed the nine worst on the list, and it only lacked the tenth because that one wasn’t quite bad enough.
The Creeping Shadow
Jonathan Stroud
Signature
If you assigned a number to each letter of the alphabet—a somewhat common practice in Bach’s time, apparently—J. S. Bach’s last name added up to fourteen. B (2) + A (1) + C (3) + H (8) = 14. He used the sum of the letters in his name in creative ways in his compositions … it was Bach’s way of building in a cryptic “signature.”
Giant Pumpkin Suite
Melanie Heuiser Hill
Buried Fire
Wednesdays in the Tower
The Maloneys’ Magical Weatherbox
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