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[riverallen]

the way i immediately knew shatter me just by the way the chapter was headed

[_GachaBunni_]

“Look, i didn’t wanna be a half-blood.”

[kookie_]

"Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive were proud to say they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."

AND

"Look, I didn't want to be a half blood."

[MakkaPorj]

“You’d think you’d know what a killer sounds like” - Good girl bad blood

[AnaDjakovic]

I saw the locked up for 264 days and just KNEW it was shatter me

[Just_a_dam_halfblood]

Even before he got electrocuted, Jason was having a rotten day.

[Lost_Dreams]

“Thick, hot red liquid runs down my arm. Blood.”

[Daughter-Of-Poseidón]

“Look I didn’t want to be a half-blood”
Percy Jackson
“I wasn’t with Finny on that August night, but my imagination has burned that scene in mind so that it feels like a memory”
If he had been with me
“Pip knew where they lived. Everyone in Fairview knew where they lived”
A good girls guide to murder
“Cold fog had settled over the depot like a burial shroud, and Iris Winnie thought the weather couldn’t have been better”
Divine Rivals
“The last person who called me by my true name was my mother, with her dying breath”
Ash Princess
“ trust, neither thin, bottom frying pans nor Molinas grandma Julieta Ramires always said”
Salt and Sugar
“ In faerie there are no fish sticks, no ketchup, no television”
The cruel prince
“ The first time I had seen the statue in the fountain, I no idea what Vincent was”
Die for me
“” When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold”
The hunger games
“ daddy, I’m tired the little girl and the red pants and green blouse slide fretfully can’t we stop?
Firestarter
“ A sex tape a pregnancy scared two cheating scandals and that’s just this weeks update if all you knew of Bayview high was Simon Keller‘s gossip app tyou’d wonder how anyone found time to go to class”
One of us is lying
“ There’s too much blood”
Secrets never die
The first shoe hunting, I investigated with Lockwood and Co, I intend to say little in part to protect the identity of the victims in part because of the gruesome nature of the incident, but mainly because in a variety of ingenious ways, we succeeded in messing them all up”
The screaming staircase, Lockwood and Co
book one
Worst summer ever
Love and luck
I don’t think you grabs the urgency of the situation so let me break it down for you OK
Tell me what really happened
There are places you can go. Ariana tells him and a guy is smart as you has a decent chance of surviving to 18.
Unwind
Welcome to nightfall Oregon population 876 souls
In nightfall
Someone must’ve bitten off her nose
Quarantine the loaners book one


There’s many more I could recommend but I think that’s enough for today

[Book_Loverr_]

Pretty much all of the first lines of Percy Jackson books
"Look I didnt want to be a half blood"
"My nightmare started like this." (Proceeds to explain how his nightmare started)
"The friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school"
"The last thing I wanted to do on my summer break was blow up another school."
"The end of the world started when a pegasus landed on the hood of my car"
"Even before he got electrocuted, Jason was having a rotten day"
"The snake haired ladies were starting to annoy Percy"
"Until she met the exploding statue, Annabeth thpughy she was prepared for anything"
"During the third attack, Hazel almost ate a boulder"
"Jason hated being old"
Those are just from PJO and HoO but they are all great ways to intruige readers

[just_another_bookworm]

Legend is SUCH a good book, and the series with it is so good! The ending literally broke me and then built me back up again. It started my love for distopian novels. A must-read!

[x_Gisellie_x]

“It took seven years to get the letter right.”

-Caraval❤

[samaadritadasgupta-jocq]

“Look, I didn’t want to be half blood “

[NatalieHarrisonLim]

"To the girls who dream of meeting a prince but end up falling for the misunderstood villain"

[olive_taylors_version]

ahh i’m reading shatter me right now and it’s sooo good

[YourFavoriteAte]

I love Legend the end made me emotional 😢
And Twisted Love is probably my favorite book rn

[Corinneeee]

I wanna read shatter me and the fine print so badly, my sister has fine print but idk when ima read it since I’m already reading another one😭

[MadddddieJ]

I literally cried when I finished the Shatter Me series. I never wanted it to end. But I’m so glad they’re making a new book!! Especially in James POV!

[AVAMAVA]

Guys I 100% recommend the twisted series by Ana Huang my favorite was twisted games personally but that series actually hurt to move on from

[Tktks_rposts]

“I had never thought mutch abt how i would die” - twilight 😭❤️

[An_Athena_Kid]

"My name is Apollo, I used to be a God"