Impressive

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• Impressive
• Openers

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The Cay

• Like silent, hungry sharks that swim in the
  darkness of the sea, the German submarines
  arrived in the middle of the night.
• Theodore Taylor

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Tom Sawyer

• Tom!
• No answer
• Tom!
• No answer.
• Whats gone with that boy, I wonder? You, TOM!
  
• No answer.
• Mark Twain

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Matilda

• Its a funny thing about mothers and fathers.
  Even when their own child is the most disgusting
  little blister you could ever imagine, they still
  think that he or she is wonderful.
• Roald Dahl

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Where the Red Fern Grows

• When I left my office that beautiful spring day,
  I had no idea what was in store for me. To begin
  with, everything was too perfect for anything
  unusual to happen. It was one of those days when
  a man feels good, feels like speaking to his
  neighbors, is glad to live in a country like
  ours, and proud of his government. You know what
  I mean, one of those rare days when everything is
  right and nothing is wrong.
• Wilson Rawls

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The Hobbit

• In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
  Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole filled with the ends
  of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare,
  sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or
  to eat it was a hobbit-hole and that means
  comfort.
• J.R.R. Tolkien

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I Cant Believe I Have to do This.

• I cant believe I have to do this! I cant
  believe shes making me do this. What is she
  trying to prove? Shes lost her mind. She hates
  me. Maybe its just a sick joke. I cant
  believe I have to do this.
• Jan Alford

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Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

• At School they say Im wired bad, or wired mad,
  or wired sad, or wired glad, depending on my mood
  and what teacher has ended up with me. But there
  is no doubt about it, Im wired.
• Jack Gantos

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Skeleton Man

• Im not sure how to begin this story. For one
  thing, its still going on. For another, you
  should never tell a story unless you know how it
  is going to end.
• Joseph Bruchac

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Series of Unfortunate Events The Bad Beginning

• If youre interested in stories with happy
  endings, you would be better off reading some
  other book. In this book, there is no happy
  ending, there is no happy beginning and very few
  things in the middle
• Lemony Snicket