tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493070327813063556.post5770786360030009671..comments2023-11-04T00:31:21.550-07:00Comments on Notable Sentences...for Imitation and Creation: Colon(s)Lauren Wolter:http://www.blogger.com/profile/06869928122315802899noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493070327813063556.post-45827247822242354162013-05-06T18:10:02.177-07:002013-05-06T18:10:02.177-07:00“A break in the crowd reveals what they are all cl...“A break in the crowd reveals what they are all clustered around: a series of screens on the wall to my left.”<br /><br />Veronica Roth, Divergent, page 380alwaysinging411https://www.blogger.com/profile/00447442118301294210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493070327813063556.post-39054767778913484992012-12-06T06:43:50.009-08:002012-12-06T06:43:50.009-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493070327813063556.post-24470619973940253792011-08-09T18:40:13.500-07:002011-08-09T18:40:13.500-07:00"It was the usual stuff: a bake sale, eye exa..."It was the usual stuff: a bake sale, eye exams, a book fair, something about a sewage leak in the cafeteria." David Lubar, "Kid Appeal" Guys Read:Funny Business,Edited by Jon Scieszka, p72Tracynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493070327813063556.post-58581332207105140142010-09-01T06:27:31.894-07:002010-09-01T06:27:31.894-07:00I look at my little sister and think how she has i...I look at my little sister and think how she has inherited the best qualities our family has to offer: my mother's healing hands, my father's level head, and my fight.<br />Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, p. 184bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16291971858809409346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493070327813063556.post-12377249171836667922010-09-01T06:27:02.957-07:002010-09-01T06:27:02.957-07:00I look at my little sister and think how she has i...I look at my little sister and think how she has inherited the best qualities our family has to offer: my mother's healing hands, my father's level head, and my fight.<br />Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, p. 184.bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16291971858809409346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493070327813063556.post-529591774822532802010-06-09T09:28:12.618-07:002010-06-09T09:28:12.618-07:00"At sixteen she had a style of her own: and ..."At sixteen she had a style of her own: and she knew what style was."<br /><br />"Everyday Use" by Alice Walkeradwilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13349862617925569243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493070327813063556.post-67617719102791791792009-10-25T20:02:58.461-07:002009-10-25T20:02:58.461-07:00"When I stepped out into the bright sunlight ..."When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home... "<br /><br />First sentence of The Outsiders, by S.E. HintonvonFRINKenhagenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02985867023318182941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493070327813063556.post-68299073934207441192009-10-16T15:02:56.277-07:002009-10-16T15:02:56.277-07:00"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping ..."Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill" Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, p.34.K. Goldsteinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493070327813063556.post-31715312846472929992009-08-17T19:09:53.026-07:002009-08-17T19:09:53.026-07:00It’s a good show: Bobby and His Disappearing Break...It’s a good show: Bobby and His Disappearing Breakfast, now appearing on the Big Screen of Life in the Kitchen of the Weird. (pg. 5)<br />-Things Not Seen by Andrew ClementsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493070327813063556.post-30645818291070885902008-05-27T08:10:00.000-07:002008-05-27T08:10:00.000-07:00"She wore a long, straight dress made of some amaz..."She wore a long, straight dress made of some amazing woven material that brought to mind the double rainbow Turtle and I saw on our first day in Tucson: twice as many colors as you ever knew existed."Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees, p.138.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493070327813063556.post-709983368941871712008-05-07T03:45:00.000-07:002008-05-07T03:45:00.000-07:00"What Jason had been thinking, what had taken his ..."What Jason had been thinking, what had taken his breath away was this: He could make up someone, someone suspicious."<BR/><BR/>Robert Cormier, The Rag and Bone Shop, page 91Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493070327813063556.post-77971170014145014472007-10-07T16:27:00.000-07:002007-10-07T16:27:00.000-07:00"I can remember lying awake in a hotel in downtown..."I can remember lying awake in a hotel in downtown Washington listening to the sounds of an August night wash in through the open window: sirens, car horns, the thrum of neon from the hotel sign, the swish of traffic, people laughing, people yelling ..."(114; Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent).wsternitzkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09249426536009774266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493070327813063556.post-1938101109576457352007-10-07T16:26:00.000-07:002007-10-07T16:26:00.000-07:00"There are only three things that can kill a farme..."There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightening, rolling over in a tractor and old age" (p. 35; Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent).wsternitzkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09249426536009774266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493070327813063556.post-11508175527977755532007-09-02T11:35:00.000-07:002007-09-02T11:35:00.000-07:00"The interest around the table sharpened palpably:..."The interest around the table sharpened palpably: Some stiffened, others fidgeted, all gazing at Snape and Voldemort." J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, p.3.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493070327813063556.post-33475953515244858742007-09-02T10:51:00.000-07:002007-09-02T10:51:00.000-07:00"The reader is probably asking: Why would anyone g..."The reader is probably asking: Why would anyone go to Camp Green Lake?" <BR/>Louis Sachar, Holes, p.5.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493070327813063556.post-44916202652254055292007-09-02T10:47:00.000-07:002007-09-02T10:47:00.000-07:00"Stanley's father was an inventor. To be a succes..."Stanley's father was an inventor. To be a successful inventor you need three things: intelligence, perseverance, and just a little bit of luck." Louis Sachar, Holes, p.8.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493070327813063556.post-16106077988366178142007-09-02T10:45:00.000-07:002007-09-02T10:45:00.000-07:00"Here's a good rule to remember about rattlesnakes..."Here's a good rule to remember about rattlesnakes and scorpions: If you don't bother them, they won't bother you. Usually." Louis Sachar, Holes, p.4.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com