1. "our dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley."
— uprooted by naomi novik
2. “in the myriad year of our lord – the ten thousandth year of the king undying, the kindly prince of death! – gideon nav packed her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and she escaped from the house of the ninth.”
— gideon the ninth by tamsyn muir
3. "on the second sabbat of twelfthmoon, in the city of weep, a girl fell from the sky."
— strange the dreamer by laini taylor
4. "it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
— pride and prejudice by jane austen
5. "you better not never tell nobody but god."
— the color purple
6. “before she was first bled, when she still had the name her parents gave her, marion shaw was a maid in a townhouse in the south of prane.”
— house of hunger by alexis henderson
7. “god as my witness, none of this would have ever happened if it were not for those two fools back in salalah. them and their map.”
— the adventures of amina al-sirafi by shannon chakraborty
8. "kell wore a very peculiar coat. it had neither one side, which would be conventional, nor two, which would be unexpected, but several, which was, of course, impossible."
— a darker shade of magic by v.e. schwab
9. "it is important, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army of sufficient size. for sister thorn of the sweet mercy convent, lano tacsis brought two hundred men."
— red sister by mark lawrence
10. “long before we discovered that he had fathered two children by two different women, one in dimoleague and one in clonakilty, father james monroe stood on the altar of the church of our lady, star of the sea, in the parish of goleen, west cork, and denounced my mother as a whore.”
— the heart's invisible furies by john boyne