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Another Little Piece by Kate Karyus Quinn “Confession is good for the soul, they say. I'd imagine this is true. But my sins were too convoluted. And from the little I understand--too damning.”

The Whispering Skull by Jonathan Stroud

Eeny Meeny by M.J. Arlidge “Which would you sacrifice - your life or your conscience?”

Through Dead Eyes by Chris Priestley Alex joins his father on a business trip to Amsterdam. During the day he hangs out with the daughter of a family friend. They visit the usual sights but also coffee shops and flea markets off the beaten track. At one of these markets Alex spots an ancient-looking mask. Before he knows what he's doing he buys it. Later, in his hotel room, he feels compelled to put the mask on. Alex is sucked into a parallel Amsterdam, one from centuries before which begins to reveal the dark past of both the building he is staying in and the little girl who once lived there . . . edging stealthily towards the terrible twist.

In the Woods by Tana French “For a moment, I felt as if the universe had turned upside down and we were falling softly into an enormous black bowl of stars, and I knew, beyond any doubt, that everything was going to be alright.”

The Supernatural Enhancements by Edgar Cantero “This silence here was somewhat heavier, lonelier than the preceding one. The former was an elevator silence; this one was a walking-through-the-woods-by-night silence.”

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt “Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?”

On a night after the apparent suicide of high school student Elias Malmgren, a blood-red moon fills the night sky. Minoo wakes up outside her house, still in her pajamas, and is drawn by an invisible force to an abandoned theme park on the outskirts of town. Soon five of her classmates--Vanessa, Linnea, Anna-Karin, Rebecka and Ida--arrive, compelled the same force. A mystical being takes over Ida's body and tells them they are fated to fight an ancient evil that is hunting them. The park is a safe haven; the school, a place of danger. The six are wildly different and definitely not friends…but they are the Chosen Ones. As the weeks pass, each girl discovers she has a unique magical ability. They begin exploring their powers, but they are not all firmly committed to their mission--to discover the truth about Elias's death. Then a horrible tragedy strikes within the circle. Newly determined to fight the evil forces, they begin to learn magic from The Book of Patterns, an ancient work with a will of its own that reveals different things to different witches.

The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells “And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people, broken and wounded, betrayed and unpitied, that Griffin, the first of all men to make himself invisible, Griffin, the most gifted physicist the world has ever seen, ended in infinite disaster his strange and terrible career.”

More Than This by Patrick Ness “I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.”

The Nightmare Affair by Mindee Arnett “I didn't want to be a part of anything special. Bad things happened to special people. Usually failure followed by an early death”

This Dark Endeavor | Such Wicked Intent by Kenneth Oppel “There is a passion in you that scares me.”

Valkyrie Cain - Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy “You look angry," he said. "You put me on hold." "For a very good reason." "You put me," she said very, very slowly, "on hold.”

We have always lived in the castle by Shirley Jackson “I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.”

City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare “The hearts of Nephilim were like the hearts of angels: They felt every human pain, and never healed.”

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman “Books were safer than other people anyway.”

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern “The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.”