At school I was careful not to look like I watched everything, but I did.

This is how it feels to die: It starts from outside and works its way in.

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.

Celestina Giuliani learned the word "slander" at her cousin's baptism.

There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.

Six people were thinking of Rosemary Barton who had died nearly a year ago...

The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.

Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.

In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.

There is a delicate-looking plant native to North America called bleeding heart.

It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.