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"Philadelphia had the musty scent of history. New Haven smelled of neglect. Baltimore smelled of brine, and Brooklyn of sun-warmed garbage. But Princeton had no smell. She liked taking deep breaths here" (Adichie 1).
Ms. P

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"He was some exotic plant and I was his favorite satellite" (Yoon 65).
Lara S.

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"She like one a them baby chickens that get confused and follow the ducks around instead" (Stockett 106).
Isabella W.

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"If chocolate was a sound, it would've been Constantine's voice singing. If singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate." (Stockett 78)
-CiCi

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"He was tall - that much I could see, as his legs spread out underneath his desk like tree roots." (Lee 36)
Francisco Guerrero

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"Baba's snoring so much like a growling truck engine" (Hosseini 13).
- Marko Sarich

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¨I would sit there for what felt like an eternity trying to figure out why time moved so slowly¨(Noah 10).
Anthony Barred

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"After a long sleep of 2500 years, the revolution has finally awakened the people" (Satrapi 44).

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"I'm like a man born blind who has been given the chance to see light" (Keyes 82). Amy Grabowski

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"I ran. Like the gazelle runs from the lion, I ran" (Noah 16).
Ben D.

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"Baba's snoring so much like a growling truck engine" (Hosseini 13).
- Marko Sarich

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“I became a chameleon. My color didn’t change, but I could change your perception of my color” (Noah 63).
Neil C.

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"Hassan's father, Ali, used to catch us and get mad, or as mad as someone as gentle Ali could get."  (Hosseini 11).
-Max Lahrman

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“Aunt Robbie, meanwhile, kept her part of the house like a mausoleum, the furniture swathed in protective plastic that felt cold and sticky on my bare legs when I dared sit on it.”(Obama 4) D.Lo

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"The guard- her name tag says Irene-- stops my bin from traveling onto the conveyor belt, as she's done every day. I look up at her and don't smile. She looks down into the bin, flips my phone over, and stares at the case, as she's done every day. The case is the cover art for an album called Nevermind by the band Nirvana. Everyday her fingers linger on the baby on the cover, and everyday I don't like her touching it. Nirvana's lead singer was Kurt Cobain. His voice, the damage in it, the way it's not at all perfect, the way you can feel everything he's ever felt in it, the way his voice stretches out so thin that you think it's going to break and then it doesn't, is the only thing that's kept me sane since this nightmare began. His misery is so much more abject then mine. ( Yoon 7) Angelica

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"I would have received the Governor General's Academic Medal, were it not for a beef-eating pink boy with a neck like a tree trunk and a temperament of unbearable good cheer." (Martel 5)
Nikolett F

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“It was like a big hole opened up in the walls of my mind and I can just walk through.” (34) - Nicole Polak

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“When I touched her shoulder she stiffened and trembled, but I pulled her toward me. Then it happened. It started as a hollow buzzing in my ears… an electric saw… far away. Then the cold: arms and legs prickly, and finger numbing. Suddenly I had the feeling I was being watched. A sharp switch in perception. I saw, from some point in the darkness behind a tree, the two of us lying in each other’s arms. I looked up to see a boy of fifteen or sixteen, crouching nearby. 'Hey!' I shouted. As he stood up, I saw his trousers were open and he was exposed.” (Keyes 77)

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"I've moved up another plateau, and now the streams of the various disciplines seem to be closer to each other as if they flow from a single source" (Keyes 115).

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"With Nazario I intend to own this neighborhood and turn El Barrio into my sandbox" (Quiñonez 25).
Jordan Kotlarz

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¨Heavy swamp air stood behind them, waiting patiently for its turn."(Owens 47)
Christina Beyer

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"Every breath felt like a hundred tiny needles sticking me in the chest"(45).
Nooreen

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"Inside we were all quiet, like the family of mice I had once stumbled upon nesting in the a tiny hole where the wall ended and the floor in the hallway of our apartment building began."
(Lee 13)
Brendan Sweet

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"Sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years" (Diaz 23).
Rachel Bober