Author
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Title
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First Line
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Anderson, M.T.
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Feed
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"We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck."
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Dickens, Charles
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David Copperfield
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"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."
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Marchetta, Melina
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Jellicoe Road
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"My father took one hundred and thirty two minutes to die. I counted."
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Barrie, J.M
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Peter Pan
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"All children, except one, grow up."
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Eugenides, Jeffrey
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Middlesex
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"I was born twice: first as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petosky, Michigan, in August of 1974."
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Robinson, Barbara
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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
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"The Herdmans were the absolute worst children in the history of the world."
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Gaiman, Neil
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Anansai Boys
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"It begins, as most things begin, with a song."
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Lewis, C.S.
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Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."
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Austen, Jane
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Pride and Prejudice
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
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Roach, Mary
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Stiff: Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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"The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of the time is spent lying on your back."
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Tolstoy, Leo
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Anna Karenina
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"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
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Snicket, Lemony
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: A Bad Beginning
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"If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book."
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