Teaser Tuesday — When Two Become Three

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Should Be Reading. Here’s how it works:

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“When you feel angry at your spouse, ask yourself, ‘What do I want from my spouse right now?’ and then try to turn your anger into a request. I have found that when one person is angry at his spouse over something, that anger is often a secondary emotion.”

– When Two Become Three: Nurturing Your Marriage After Baby Arrives, Mark E. Crawford, PhD pg. 52

Teaser Tuesday — Now and Then

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“Anna looked out the window. The thatched roofs were wrong, the man hitched to the plow was wrong. She was pretty sure this was Ireland, given the accents and the landscape, and that was very wrong. And it wasn’t now, not Anna’s now.”

– Now and Then, Jacqueline Sheehan pg. 58

Teaser Tuesday — The Little Giant of Aberdeen County

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“All he knew was that when he walked into Brenda’s kitchen, I was alive, well, and buckled into a pair of black-and-white denim overalls like a train engineer, the sorrowful dog curled loyally by my side in a corner, Amelia crouched next to me, watching with savage interest as I wielded a pink plastic doll leg. My father glanced around, but there was no evidence of the rest of the figure.”

– The Little Giant of Aberdeen County, Tiffany Baker pg. 43

Teaser Tuesday — Fire

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“There must have been two hundred raptors, flashing bright colors against an orange and pink sky, high up where only the luckiest of arrows could reach them. Their screeches made her cold. Her hand flew to the edges of her headscarf to check for stray hairs, for she knew that if the raptors discovered what she was, they’d cease even to notice the human army”

– Fire, Kristin Cashore pg. 77

* NOTE: Fire is a “companion” novel to Graceling. While the publishers say you can read and enjoy Fire without having read Graceling, and I agree, if you do want to read both, read Graceling first! Events in Fire will spoil Graceling! *

Teaser Tuesday — Stealing Home

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“Now nobody has ever before asked me to choose anything I’ve ever owned. Every autumn a group of nice white people come to our church with boxes of clothes and shoes they spread out over all the benches. But that’s not the same. Sometimes there’s nothing there that fits me and I have to wait until spring when they come back again.”

– Stealing Home, Allison Pittman pg. 82

Teaser Tuesday — Graceling

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“Well, and she knew they must have this conversation eventually, and she preferred to have it in the dark, where his eyes wouldn’t unnerve her. Katsa pulled the quiver over her head and laid it on the slab of stone.”

–Graceling, Kristin Cashore pg. 76

Teaser Tuesday – A Sweet Disorder

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“Here we are on the queen’s barge, and you look as if this river led to Hades.”

“If only you understood the truth of those words,” I said, aware I could not tell him of all that had passed.”

–A Sweet Disorder, Jacqueline Kolosov pg. 210

Teaser Tuesday — Brisingr

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“Ir’s riskier to stay. I paid for my room. That’s all the innkeeper really cares about, not whether we snuck out early.” THe two of them parted for a few seconds as they circumvented a decrepit wagon, and then Ayra added, “the most important thing is to keep moving. If we linger, the king will surely find us.”

–Brisingr, Christopher Paolini, pg. 146

Teaser Tuesday — The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

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My body had grown so used to traveling in reverse that whenever we stopped, I found that my whole field of vision swam at me. I had first noticed this when I was hiding in the bathroom of the Cowboy Condo during one of our numerous station stops. I had become increasingly convinced that the railroad knew my exact location and it was only a matter of time before they send one of their bulls to come and kill me.

–The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, Reif Larsen, pg. 172

I honestly cannot say enough good things about this book; it totally charmed me.

Teaser Tuesday — Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

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Hermione jumped to her feet. She hadn’t looked so excited since they’d gotten back the marks for their very first piece of homework. “Stay there!” she said, and she sprinted up the stairs to the girls’ dormitories. Harry and Ron barely had time to exchange mystified looks before she was dashing back, an enormous old book in her arms.

–Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling, pg. 219