6th Period Great Sentence Beauty Pageant

A. “To have endured all the horrors he did, to have seen the worst of humanity and have our life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that honorable and good and brave person I knew him to be- that was magical."

B. “I’ve come to believe that in everyone’s life, there’s one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.”

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A. “Our work should equip the next generation of women to outdo us in every field. This is the legacy we'll leave behind.”

B. “If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.”

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A. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."

B. “In a voice that wasn’t much louder than the wind at the tops of the trees, his dad said.”

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A. “Another man wearing a coat and pajamas like my father lay dead in the street, a pool of darkness spreading beneath him, glinting in the streetlights.”

B. “I tried to follow with another sound, at a lower pitch, but my voice disappeared altogether and then my throat was as empty as an abandoned coal mine.”

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A. “In the spring the azaleas and dogwoods planted throughout the downtown exploded in a cacophony of color that was rivaled only by the ocean sunset of autumn leaves come every October.”

B. “Broken people don’t hide from their monsters, broken people let themselves be eaten.”

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A. “I’ve come to believe that in everyone’s life, there’s one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.”

B. “Like an executioner’s swing, the wave smashed against the boat with terrible finality, forcing Happenstance onto her side, the mast and sails crashing into the water.”

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A. How we live every day, our every action, and our every word is our CHOICE.

B. “It does not do to trust people too much.”

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A. ”If you provide the drive, dream, and vision, with God’s help, you can accomplish anything.”

B. “A sudden warm rainstorm washes down in sweet hyphens.”

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