Noticing Sentences

A Lincoln 2018 Finalist There are curse words in some of these quotes. They are left in for accuracy, but know they are there-- don't just cut and paste onto your Smartboard. :) I don't know... I'm not sure what to label these, but they needed to be saved. My dad got blown up in Afghanistan, and Ma and everybody we knew and plenty of people we didn't know but knew his name, all reminded me-- he sacrificed for all of us. He sacrificed for the good of the country. He died in the name of freedom. He died to prove to the wackos of the world who didn't believe in democracy, liberal economy, civil rights, and all that shit, that we were right and they were wrong. But for me, my dad was dead, so the frigging wackos won. And, seriously, who are the frigging wackos, anyway? I sure as hell didn't feel sane all the time. p31 All-American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely Custody . A police officer-- not the one who did this to me, but a different one, the

All the sass I stared at him. "You're... you're married? But I thought you got in trouble for chasing a wood nymph..." p124 The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan Discussion "This is why I don't use mortals," Luke said. "They are unreliable." "They are weak-minded, easily bought, and violent," the General said. "I love them." p135 The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan _________________________________________ Zoe shook her head. "I do not know how much they see through the Mist. I doubt it would matter to them if they knew the truth. Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than the monsters." p148 The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan ________________________________________ Apollo sighed. "You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear through the search." p157 The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan

Male Fragility/ Toxic Masculinity "A little sport," Natalia says. "They will be impressed by your riding prowess and your skill with a bow. But I think you will find their mainland stomachs less at ease with a bride who excels at knife throwing." "Is that so?" Katherine laughs. "Are they really so frail?" "I hope not all of them," Genevieve says quietly. p69 One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake _______________________________________ "Natalia prefers that I poison from the safety of her bosom," she [Katherine] says. "That is how the Arrons like to do it. Quiet and refined. Nothing pleases them more than pleasant dinner conversation that ends when someone's face falls dead on their plate." Nicolas lets his eyes move over her body. "There is charm in that," he says. "But I would see your hands around their throats. A memory to take with me on the night of our marriage." p136 One Dark

Another Lincoln Award finalist for 2019. Just a beautiful description I guess when you spend a life riding waves-- knowing that the ocean is heartless and millions of times stronger than you are, but still trusting that you're skilled enough or brave enough or charmed enough to survive it--you become indebted to the people who don't make it. p30 We Are Okay by Nina LaCour I have only just learned how to be here. Life is paper-thin and fragile. Any sudden change could rip it wide-open. p93 We Are Okay by Nina LaCour I was given cakes and cookies and rides to school. I was given songs and dinners at a table with brass candlesticks. I was given a man with a sensitive heart and a devious sense of humor and enough skill at cards to win me a year of private college-- tuition and room and board-- and I took all of those good things and told myself they made us special. Told myself we were a family the way Mabel and Ana and Javier were, told myself that we weren't missi

World-building Because Shusterman is the master at world building! Now the venerable structure was a historical site. Tours were given seven days a week by docents with PhDs in the study of mortal humans. p19 Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman Passion of performance was a thing of the mortal past, and true artistic style had gone the way of the dodo. Of course, the dodo was back-- the Thunderhead had seen to that. A thriving colony was now happily not flying on the island of Mauritius. p32 Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman His parents were "serial parents." They loved the idea of having families, but loathed raising them. Greyson and his sisters were his father's fifth family, and his mother's third. They had tired of this new batch of offspring quickly, and when they began to shirk their parental responsibilities, the Thunderhead took up the slack. p66 Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman "I'm going to learn how to drive, no matter how may times it kills me.