Grab your nearest book!

[Lisa]

"The two men shared a small room like a monk's cell, crowded by a mountain of photographic equipment Darrow insisted on cleaning and moving into the room each night so none of it would be stolen."

The Lotus Eaters: A Novel

[Jenny]

"So with me: I own the stars, because nobody else before me ever thought of owning them."

[Rona]

"Was not life exciting when every simple act acquired the complexity of a dangerous secret mission?" - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

[Jennifer W]

"She's one of those who think that knowledge is power and forgiveness: If I know that I belong to a self-satisfied elite who are sacrificing the common good through an excess of arrogance, this liberates me from criticism, and I come out with twice the prestige."


The Elegance of the Hedgehog

[Beth]

"Otherwise, she would see that a pattern of serial killings was still a pattern, to give only one example out of millions."

Once Upon a Day: A Novel by Lisa Tucker

[Karen]

With swiftly growing hope, Laura, said,"and she must have gotten out of the tank after the killer left.

The Door to December by Dean Koontz
Which I haven't started yet, it's just the closest book to me :)

[Kim D]

Even more I didn't want to see myself in action.

From High Five by Janet Evanovich. I love these books!

[Kat]

"If you miss one of these XT days, don't worry"


Marathon: You Can Do It! by Jeff Galloway

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

"Judging by the fumes, it's some kind of spirit"
"The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

[Marialyce]

"And you did it because even you recognize that this is far more than just a scoop in your magazine. For once, you're not an objective reporter, but a participant in unfolding events. And, as such, you need help. You're not going to win on your own"
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Steig Larsson

[Jennifer W]

"Some collectors show extreme behaviors that straddle the border between eccentricity and pathology."

Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things

[joanna]

"You knew, you knew that was going to happen and you didn't say a word."

[joanna]

from The Time Traveler's Wife

[Jessika]

From Snow Falling on Cedars:

"In this manner he was able to peel back the dead man's face as though it were the skin of a grapefruit or an orange and turn his forehead inside out so that it rested against his nose."

Debated on posting this or not, but then decided it was so gory that I had to share! Just to explain, this book isn't a horror or anything, but this is a scene during which an autopsy is taking place.

[joanna]

Jess wrote: "From Snow Falling on Cedars:

"In this manner he was able to peel back the dead man's face as though it were the skin of a grapefruit or an orange and turn his forehead inside out so ..."

wow - now that has to win for the most dramatic pg. 56, 5th sentence!

[Jessika]

Jcamato wrote: "Jess wrote: "From Snow Falling on Cedars:

"In this manner he was able to peel back the dead man's face as though it were the skin of a grapefruit or an orange and turn his forehead i..."

I know! I wasn't expecting that to be the sentence I'd land on, but then when I did, I figured it was too good not to share!

[Monica]

"He had good aim; one spot on the wall of Operating Theater 3, just above the light switch and perilously close to the glass instrument cabinet, was his usual target."

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

[Suze]

"The Duke turned slowly, negligently, as though without intent until he saw Katherine."

Katherine by Anya Seton

[Dee-Ann]

"A little stunned, I follwed from a few yards behind, remembering to put the distance between us that I would put between myself and anyone else."

[Dee-Ann]

The short second life of Bree Tanner

[Judy]

"The new weapons were extremely costly, and the military needed mathematicians to devise new methods for assessing their effectiveness and the most efficient ways to use them."

from A Beautiful Mind, The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash, by Sylvia Nasar

[Mirza]

It was so like her own name Nora anyway, she felt she had been meant to be called that always.

Evening Class by Maeve binchy

[Kat]

"Perhaps you have never thought of yourself as a thinker."



The Confident Student by Carol C. Kanar

[Elizabeth☮]

"While her coffee was cooling down, she dumped in sugar straight from the bowl in the shape of a little house that sat on the table, filling her cup right to the edge."

the queen of palmyra - minrose gwin

[lew]

"And why was he so unjust to her at the last? she involuntarily reproached the dead general." -The Lock and Key Library, "The General's Will" by Vera Jelihovsky

[Stephanie]

"Finally I reached Peggy."A Soft Place to Land

[Maria]

"Marcus gave me an Isn't-That-Great? grin."

Charmed Thirds

although technically the closest book to me was a Rachel Ray cookbook so here's that one....

"Add the sliced chorizo and cook, stirring frequently, for 2 minutes"

:-)

[Martha]

"You have failed to pay your debt to Pockmarked Huang."

from Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

[Rebekah]

"Even supposing that da Silvestra had marked the pool correctly, what was there to prevent its having been dried up by the sun generations ago, or trampled in by game, or filled with drifting sand?"

[Kesha]

"Whenever she could, Jessica avoided the people who came; no part of her could rejoice in the wanting in their eyes, in knowing that she was what had brought them here."

The Living Blood by Tananarive Due]

[Regine]

"Residents lost trust that Metalclad was serious about cleaning up, feared continued groundwater contamination and eventually decided that foreign company was not welcome."

Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate Naomi Klein

[Jennifer W]

"She turned, in the dim lamplight, and I perceived that she was untying the lacings of her skirt."

March

[Kimberley]

"Just as I had come to this conclusion I heard a heavy step approaching behind the great door, and saw through the chinks a gleam of coming light."

Dracula

[Linda]

"Let's waddle home, kids," Dad would say.

The Glass Castle

[Monica]

"She was pretty, but her hair needed combing-there were mats in it thick as a dog's-and she had kept her jacket on the table, as if she were used to leaving places in a hurry."

The Passage by Justin Cronin

[Bloomin’Chick (Jo) aka The Eclectic Spoonie]

"When, if ever, will I get it?"
A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman by Joan Anderson.

[Denise]

"But, no."

(I'm serious, that is the whole sentence it is from The Penny Pinchers Club by Sarah Strohmeyer

[Jane]

"But now the booming was only his racing heart and the only voice in the night was the faraway sound of a police siren"

The Shining

[Denise]

"The covers were usually the best part."

An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland by Michael Dirda

[Mirza]

"It always comes through someone else, most often Owen."

Enchanted, Inc. by Shanna Swendson

[Denise]

"Wanagi had held five arrows, the sixth at his bowstring; he had known that either theses arrows kill the grizzly or the grizzly kills him."

Hanta Yo: An American Saga by Ruth Beebe Hill

[Tanya]

"It's practically finished as far as I can see." - Ghostwalk

Haven't read the book yet, so I no idea the context.

[Kristina]

"Me? Hassle a pretty woman?"


The Killing Room

[Sheila , Supporting Chick]

"We are the fire that will consume them, belly and bowel, head and heart, many flames of us, but one fire."

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

[Leslie]

"And there Tewfik fought, and died with his four hundred men," said Mather, pointing forwards.

The Four Feathers by A.E.W. Mason ( I told my son to go to the living room and bring me the first book he saw.)

[Debbie]

"It's only fair."

not much to go on . . . clue - historic fiction/WWI/17 year old Frieda Mintz/VD/quarantine

[Cammie]

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

Did Bay say anything to Claire about David?

[Dianne]

Do you like it?

[Sherin]

*This is the third sentence coz this happens to be the last one on page 56 :)*

"Oak found that the value of stock,plant and implements which were really his own would be about sufficient to pay his debts,leaving himself a free man with the clothes he stood up in,and nothing more."

From 'Far from the Madding crowd'

[Patty]

"She looked at him, her head bent to one side; her chestnut hair was gathered carelessly at the back of her neck, but it looked as though it were bobbed, standing, light and fuzzy, as a shapeless halo about her face."