- The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
- "Stealing one last look at the air above, Nella steps inside."
- The Blue Line by Ingrid Betancourt
- "The sea and the sky have turned into one."
- The Storyteller of Marrakesh by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
- "Everywhere around them was silence."
- Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee
- "I am out the door and in the potholed and rutted driveway, scrambling ahead of Taylor, greedy with wants and reckless from hope."
- Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
- "When Margaret grows up she will have a daughter, who is to be Peter's mother in turn; and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless."
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
- "All that remained was the sound of the wind slipping through a stand of white birch trees."
- Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
- ""I am free," she replied, holding tightly to Tao's hand."
- Something Special by Iris Murdoch
- "The long night was ahead."
- Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom by Sylvia Plath
- ""I have been waiting for you, dear," she said."
- One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan
- "The branches of the portia tree had spread themselves across the sky."
- Frida Kahlo: An Illustrated Life by María Hesse (Translated by Achy Obejas)
- "I hope the exit is joyous, and I hope to never come back."
- The Beast's Heart by Leife Shallcross
- "But I never saw her again."
- Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
- Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag
- "The words rush into my head of their own accord: ghachar ghochar."
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
- "And it was signed simply "George.""
- Lilith by Jean Plaidy
- "She laughed, and her laughter was a challenge to Kerensa, to Frith and the future."
- Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
- "I told her to wait there, and that we'd be back for her, and Olivia stood aside and let Mia drive on."
- A Fugitive in Walden Woods by Norman Lock
- "We never spoke of that night again. / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania July 17, 1864"
- Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle by Ingrid Betancourt
- "I fell to my knees, looking ahead to the world in front of me, and I thanked the heavens for everything that was still to come."
- The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
- "It was a heavy-duty bolt."
- Orhan's Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian
- "Soon the larva will disappear into the protective confines of its cocoon, where the possibility of transformation awaits."
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- "And that is what you have just finished reading."
- What We Become by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- "And so he opens the door, picks up his suitcase, and strides down the corridor, into the void, whistling "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo." / Madrid, January 1990 / Sorrento, June 2012"
- The Room on Rue Amélie by Kristin Harmel
- "I struggle to my feet, and in the waning light, I gently lift my sweet Charlotte into my arms for the last time and begin the long walk down the hill, across the fields of poppies."
- The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi
- Wildwood by Colin Meloy
- "Into the deep, dark woods..."
- Snow & Rose by Emily Winfield Martin
- "And the ending of that story is the beginning of a different story altogether..."
- The Little Book of Feminist Saints by Julia Pierpont
- "Dietrich, for her part, would always refer to that time in her life as "the only important thing I've ever done.""
- The Boy, The Bird and The Coffin Maker by Matilda Woods
- "And so, in the mayor's coffin, the boy, the bird and the coffin maker sailed toward those distant lights and the promise of a new life on the magical island of Isola."
- The Fairy-Tale Detectives (The Sisters Grimm #1) by Michael Buckley
- The Bed Book by Sylvia Plath
- "Beds of amazing / shapes and sizes— / NOT just a white little / tucked-in-tight little / nighty-night little / turn-out-the-light little / bed!"
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- "Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth."
- The Fox and the Star by Coralie Bickford-Smith
- "Beneath the blazing sky of stars, Fox made his way through the forest."
- Wizzil by William Steig
- "It'll be a whole new hayride."
- Forest Therapy: Seasonal Ways to Embrace Nature for a Happier You by Sarah Ivens
- "And in those moments, we were—and we can still be, even as adults—our best, truest, happiest and bravest selves."
- The Littlest Family's Big Day by Emily Winfield Martin
- "Good night, little wanderers!"
- Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
- "And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after."
- Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon
- Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon
- "Show your work, and when the right people show up, pay close attention to them, because they'll have a lot to show you."
- The Flower Fix: Modern Arrangements for a Daily Dose of Nature by Anna Potter
- "Individual flowers can then be placed within this grid-like structure and will be held in place naturally by the interlocking stems."
- The Composer Is Dead by Lemony Snicket
- ""But those who want something a little more interesting... should go to the orchestra!""
- Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
- "The wind across my forehead was like a living thing."
- Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
- "Truly, would you not for less than that go around the world?"
- The Riverman by Aaron Starmer
- ""For today, let's believe that anything is possible.""
- Ogre Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
- "We kissed and were wed."
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- "This was a base libel on Badger, who, though he cared little about Society, was rather fond of children; but it never failed to have its full effect."
- Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World by Yee-Lum Mak
- "Redamancy (noun, English) / the act of loving the one who loves you; a love returned in full"
- The Iron Giant by Ted Hughes
- "All they wanted to do was to have peace to enjoy this strange, wild, blissful music from the giant singer in space."
- The Moomins and the Great Flood by Tove Jansson
- "And there in the valley they spent the whole of their lives, apart from a few times when they left it and travelled for a change."
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- "He bowed low, down to the ground, bowed to the motionless sitter, whose smile reminded him of everything that he had ever loved in his life, that had ever been valuable and holy to him in his life."
- Cinnamon by Neil Gaiman
- "So, in the end, nobody was eaten, save only the Rani's elderly aunt, who was gradually replaced in the popular mind by the portrait of her, which hung in the town square, and was thus forever beautiful and young."
- Frogkisser! by Garth Nix
- ""What Could Be Next for the Frogkisser?""
- From My Window by Otávio Júnior
- "What do you see from your window?"
- Home by Carson Ellis
- The House of Paper by Carlos María Domínguez
- "As the illustration of the ship and the fishes began to dissolve, I saluted the great Joseph and turned for home."
- Oddfellow's Orphanage by Emily Winfield Martin
- "A family stitched together from the scraps of other families, living together in the enormous house made of brick that is called Oddfellow's Orphanage."
- The Whisper by Aaron Starmer
- "Alistair didn't make a sound."
- How to Be a Hero by Florence Parry Heide
- Franklin's Flying Bookshop by Jen Campbell
- "So they all hold on tight, as Franklin takes flight, reading books by the light of the moon."
- Home in the Woods by Eliza Wheeler
- "The shack all wrapped in tar paper looks different now—warm and bright and filled up with love like I feel inside."
- The Fairy's Mistake by Gail Carson Levine
- "And they all lived happily ever after."
- Doña Eremita, reina de la carretera by Quentin Blake
- "Y en la delantera, con su fiel perro Mambrú, iba Doña Eremita: reina de la carretera."
- Lovelykins by Quentin Blake
- I Left the House Today! Comics by Cassandra Calin
- ""Oh my gosh! Thank you! I've been trapped for decades! I'm finally freeeeeeee!""
- Operatic by Kyo Maclear
- "May you all have a long, happy and freaky life."
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