IRS Text Collectors: Language Worth Noting
"I am also aware that I could be terribly injured in a host of troubling scenarios that would cause my own family to avert their eyes from my horribly disfigured face and body, including, but not limited to, being: burned, pushed into a tub of acid, dragged by a speedboat across a coral reef , used as a guinea pig by a evil scientist, used as a guinea pig by a good scientist who is forced by someone else to perform evil science, melted, pushed into a chipper, strapped to an outrageously large pendulum featuring an almost ridiculously gigantic razor and then sliced in half, attacked by varmints, dunked in honey and buried near a fire ant colony, plus subjected to a whole lot of realy gross things I wouldn't even find in a horror movie."
NERDS By: Buckley, Michael pg: 10
"I screamed to wake up my parents, and they burst into the room, but there was nothing they could do to dim the super novel exploding inside my brain, and endless chain of intracranial firecrackers that made me think that I was once and for all going, and I told myself - as I've told myself before - that the body shuts down when the pain gets to bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass."
The Fault in our Stars, Green, John, pge. 105
"It is tedious when someone says that if you don't stop crying, they will give you something to cry about, because if you are crying then you already have something to cry about, and so there is no reason for them to give you anything additional to cry about, thank you very much."
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Slippery Slope , Snicket, Lemany, pge. 50
Tessa
"NOT MY DAUGHTER YOU BITCH!"
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, by Rowling, J. K., pge. 736
Olivia
"Your very funny Jamie especially considering how tragic your life has been and how limited it will be in the future!"
I Totally Funniest, by Patterson, James, pge. 112
Jack
"Once upon a time
I made an apple tree
It grew too tall to climb
It shadowed over me,
On every reaching limb
The apple blossoms flowered
But when the fruit came in
The apples all were sour,
Once upon a time
When promises were made
The stories all were mine
But now the stories fade."
Wonder Show, Beraby, Hannah, pge. 168
Tessa
"Something about her posture put me in mind of a spring pigeon."
Dear America: Voyage on the Great Titantic, by White, Ellen Emerson, pge. 10-11
Shannie
"The Icewing was frighteningly beautiful, with horns like deadly icicles and sharp spikes at the end of his whip-thin tail."
Wings of Fire: Moon Rising, by Sutherland, Tui, pge. 42
Wyatt
"Fate is a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you don't always like."
The Slippery Slope, by Snicket, Lemony, pge. 21
Wendy
"I resolve to be a sociopath and murder you all."
Crazy People by Pierce, Lincon pge. 387
Cyrus
"In a Western, you can tell who the good guys are and who the bad guys are and the good guys always win, Bob says Westerns are nothing like real life."
The One and Only Ivan, by Applegate, Katherine, pge.24
Shannie
"Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not, or that you feel good this morning, or that it is a morning to be good on?"
The Hobbit, by Tolkien, J. R. R., pge.17-18
Gabby
"Here and there a wild plum leaned out from the bank like a white-clad girl tiptoeing to her own reflection."
Anne of Green Gables, by Montgomery, L. M., pge. 25
Shannie
"Her father, she saw, had been devouring plant food."
Goosebumps: Stay Out of the Basement, by Stine, R.L., pge. 45
Wendy
"The only thing worse than a boy who hates you is a boy who loves you."
The Book Thief by Zusak, Markus; pg. 52
Tessa
"My love flew like a butterfly, until death swooped down like a bat." A Series of Unfortunate Events by Snicket, Lemony; from the dedication
"Although Mumford had promised not to gossip, he let the cat out of the bag." Monkey Business by Edward, Wallace; pg. 4
"Music has charms to tame the savage beast." A Series of Unfortunate Events by Snicket, Lemony, pg. 37
"Humphrey, we worked to our fingers to the bone to win you for the night." Summer According to Humphrey by Birney, Betty; pg. 56
"The grass shimmered with silvery evening light, and the flowers were such brilliant colors they almost glowed in the dark."
The Titans Curse by Riordan, Rick
Kyra
"Dallas leaned far out of the window, his eyes fixed on a bird flying lazily through the clouds above, as if spotlight were aimed on the bird."
Ruby Holler pg. 1 by Creech, Sharon
“ I didn’t want to process the idea that-the girl I liked had been possessed by a dung beetle and was now having dreams about pushing a giant sphere of flaming poo across the sky.”
The Serpent’s Shadow pg. 240 by Riordan, Rick
Reese
“Tippy Tinkletrousers was in trouble.”
Captain underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers page 26 by Pickely, Dave
P.T.
“ The earth shook him and Nerdy knew the dinosaur was moving, he could hear its soft hooting cry, and despite the pain he forced his eyes open and still he saw nothing but flashing spots against black.”
Jurassic Park pg.197 by Crichton, Michael
Kyle
“And then the tulips burped giant burps, which created a tornado that made the Statue of Liberty fall over, crush a tug boat, which made a wave that washed all the way to the white house and got muddy water all over the president’s polka dotted underpants.”
No Talking page 71 by Clements, Andrew
Jonathon
“My moms says worry is like a leaky faucet – every drip makes you imagine something bad on the way . . . do something . . . trouble . . . trouble . . . do something . . . do something . . . do something.”
No Passengers Beyond This Point page 1 by Jake’s IRS Text Collector:
“Karkaroff had a fruity, unctuous voice; when he stepped into the light pouring from the front doors of the castle they saw that he was tall and thin like Dumbledore, but his white hair was short, and his goatee (finishing in a small curl) did not entirely hide his rather weak chin.”
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Caleb’s IRS Text Collector:
“I’m talking about a two foot cylinder of celestial bronze, capped on both ends with god level explosives.”
The Lightning Thief
Riordan, Rick
Pg. 106
“He was lying in a bower made by a living tree with branches laced and drooping to the ground; his bed was of fern and grass, deep and soft and strangely fragrant. “
Lord of the Rings by Tolkien, J.R.R p. 84
Adrianna
“Over to one side lay the tiny town of Dar es Salaam, the houses white and yellow and pink, and among the houses I could see a narrow church steeple and a domed mosque and along the waterfront there was a line of acacia trees splashed with scarlet flowers.”
Going Solo p. 22 by Dahl, Roald
Addison
She exploded into yellow powder, vaporized on the spot, leaving nothing but the smell of sulfur and a dying screech and a chill of evil in the air as if those two glowing red eyes were still watching.
Page 12 from the book The Lightning Thief by Riordan, Rick
Jo Anne
“And then behind the casuarinas was what seemed like to me a jungle, a great tangle of tremendous dark- green trees that were full of shadows and almost certainly teeming, so I told myself, with rhinos and lions and all manner of vicious beasts.”
Page 22 from the book Going Solo by Dahl, Roald
Addison
“The green of the moss, of the reeds, of the grass, the red of my skin, of the ladybug’s back, the blue of your belly, of afternoons sky, the brown of the bank, of the eider duck’s eye.”
From the book Peach and Blue by Sarah S. Kilborne
Kaylyn
“ The sweet tartness explodes across my tongue.”
From the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Rebekah
“ In a flash the shiny sport car thunders down the road.”
From the book Lamborghini by: Randall, C, Hill
Caleb
“Spanish. Bestow great attention on this and endeavor to acquire an accurate knowledge of it. Our future connection with Spain and Spanish America will render that language a valuable acquisition.”
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Peter Carr, August, 10, 1787
Reese
“ Above Castle Corona of one summer day, a string of clouds, like the wings of downy white doves, whisked across a pale blue sky, gently but purposefully sailing toward some distant oasis.”
From the book Castle Corona by Sharon Creech
Wendy
“Adrenaline shoots through me as I sling the pack over one shoulder and run full-speed for the woods.”
From the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Rebekah
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2011-2012
Jesse
Flutter
By: Erin E Moulton
“His collar sounds like a million bells splitting the darkness.”
Kylie
Flutter
By: Erin E Moulton
“I squeeze Dawns hand, and we lean our heads up against the glass, trying not to smear to much, and we send all our love straight through the wall, cause not even a solid wall can stop that coming through.”
Bianca
Matilda
By:Rhonald Dahl
“Looking at her, you get the feeling that this was someone who could bend iron bars and tear telephone directories in half.”
Jesse
The Candy Makers
By: Wendy Mass
“Pajar drawings on the wall fluttered.”
Leah
Harry Potter and The Order Of The Phonix
J.K Rowling
“Excitement exploded in his stomach.”
Ray
Pictures of Hollis Woods
By: Patricia Giff
“Its edges crushed but it had a beautiful color, almost like the sea itself with the sun shining on it.”
Chloe
The Little Prince
By:Saint Antoine Exupery
“But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy no friendship, and so men have no friends anymore.”
Bianca
The BFG
By: Rhonald Dahl
“It tasted of vinilla and cream, with just the faintest trace of raspberries on the edge of the flavor, and it felt as though hundreds of tiny people were dancing a jig inside her and ticking her with their toes.”
Bianca
Loser
By: Jerry Spinelli
“Her eyes are gleaming, but shes not crying, and like stones, he drops each sound into those crying eyes.”
Chloe
The Little Prince
By: Saint Antoine Exupery
“And now here’s my secret, a very simple secret, it is only with the heart that one can see rightly of what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
David
The Phantom Tollbooth
P.151
"It's my favorite program fifteen of silence and after that there's a half hour of quiet and then interlude of lull."
The Serpent’s Shadow pg. 240 by Riordan, Rick
Reese
“Tippy Tinkletrousers was in trouble.”
Captain underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers page 26 by Pickely, Dave
P.T.
“ The earth shook him and Nerdy knew the dinosaur was moving, he could hear its soft hooting cry, and despite the pain he forced his eyes open and still he saw nothing but flashing spots against black.”
Jurassic Park pg.197 by Crichton, Michael
Kyle
“And then the tulips burped giant burps, which created a tornado that made the Statue of Liberty fall over, crush a tug boat, which made a wave that washed all the way to the white house and got muddy water all over the president’s polka dotted underpants.”
No Talking page 71 by Clements, Andrew
Jonathon
“My moms says worry is like a leaky faucet – every drip makes you imagine something bad on the way . . . do something . . . trouble . . . trouble . . . do something . . . do something . . . do something.”
No Passengers Beyond This Point page 1 by Jake’s IRS Text Collector:
“Karkaroff had a fruity, unctuous voice; when he stepped into the light pouring from the front doors of the castle they saw that he was tall and thin like Dumbledore, but his white hair was short, and his goatee (finishing in a small curl) did not entirely hide his rather weak chin.”
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Caleb’s IRS Text Collector:
“I’m talking about a two foot cylinder of celestial bronze, capped on both ends with god level explosives.”
The Lightning Thief
Riordan, Rick
Pg. 106
“He was lying in a bower made by a living tree with branches laced and drooping to the ground; his bed was of fern and grass, deep and soft and strangely fragrant. “
Lord of the Rings by Tolkien, J.R.R p. 84
Adrianna
“Over to one side lay the tiny town of Dar es Salaam, the houses white and yellow and pink, and among the houses I could see a narrow church steeple and a domed mosque and along the waterfront there was a line of acacia trees splashed with scarlet flowers.”
Going Solo p. 22 by Dahl, Roald
Addison
She exploded into yellow powder, vaporized on the spot, leaving nothing but the smell of sulfur and a dying screech and a chill of evil in the air as if those two glowing red eyes were still watching.
Page 12 from the book The Lightning Thief by Riordan, Rick
Jo Anne
“And then behind the casuarinas was what seemed like to me a jungle, a great tangle of tremendous dark- green trees that were full of shadows and almost certainly teeming, so I told myself, with rhinos and lions and all manner of vicious beasts.”
Page 22 from the book Going Solo by Dahl, Roald
Addison
“The green of the moss, of the reeds, of the grass, the red of my skin, of the ladybug’s back, the blue of your belly, of afternoons sky, the brown of the bank, of the eider duck’s eye.”
From the book Peach and Blue by Sarah S. Kilborne
Kaylyn
“ The sweet tartness explodes across my tongue.”
From the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Rebekah
“ In a flash the shiny sport car thunders down the road.”
From the book Lamborghini by: Randall, C, Hill
Caleb
“Spanish. Bestow great attention on this and endeavor to acquire an accurate knowledge of it. Our future connection with Spain and Spanish America will render that language a valuable acquisition.”
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Peter Carr, August, 10, 1787
Reese
“ Above Castle Corona of one summer day, a string of clouds, like the wings of downy white doves, whisked across a pale blue sky, gently but purposefully sailing toward some distant oasis.”
From the book Castle Corona by Sharon Creech
Wendy
“Adrenaline shoots through me as I sling the pack over one shoulder and run full-speed for the woods.”
From the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Rebekah
_____________________________________________________________________________
2011-2012
Jesse
Flutter
By: Erin E Moulton
“His collar sounds like a million bells splitting the darkness.”
Kylie
Flutter
By: Erin E Moulton
“I squeeze Dawns hand, and we lean our heads up against the glass, trying not to smear to much, and we send all our love straight through the wall, cause not even a solid wall can stop that coming through.”
Bianca
Matilda
By:Rhonald Dahl
“Looking at her, you get the feeling that this was someone who could bend iron bars and tear telephone directories in half.”
Jesse
The Candy Makers
By: Wendy Mass
“Pajar drawings on the wall fluttered.”
Leah
Harry Potter and The Order Of The Phonix
J.K Rowling
“Excitement exploded in his stomach.”
Ray
Pictures of Hollis Woods
By: Patricia Giff
“Its edges crushed but it had a beautiful color, almost like the sea itself with the sun shining on it.”
Chloe
The Little Prince
By:Saint Antoine Exupery
“But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy no friendship, and so men have no friends anymore.”
Bianca
The BFG
By: Rhonald Dahl
“It tasted of vinilla and cream, with just the faintest trace of raspberries on the edge of the flavor, and it felt as though hundreds of tiny people were dancing a jig inside her and ticking her with their toes.”
Bianca
Loser
By: Jerry Spinelli
“Her eyes are gleaming, but shes not crying, and like stones, he drops each sound into those crying eyes.”
Chloe
The Little Prince
By: Saint Antoine Exupery
“And now here’s my secret, a very simple secret, it is only with the heart that one can see rightly of what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
David
The Phantom Tollbooth
P.151
"It's my favorite program fifteen of silence and after that there's a half hour of quiet and then interlude of lull."