Grab your nearest book!

[Patty]

[Dianne]

"One of those marvelous twig arbors!"

[Misty]

"This was a vital point." from The Unlikeliest Hero by Booton Herndon

[Tammi]

"and walked away when Whit started talking about poetry. But"

[Dianne]

I wanted to go with a house that had separate bedrooms for each of us, but no kitchen.
Survivor

This is a book my daughter is reading. (strange)

[Kay-tee]

He sometimes caught himself comparing Salander to his daughters

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo--Steig Larsson

[Lisa]

A better test is holy water, but it can be awkward trying to douse a potential demon to see if the water burns.


Demons are forever-Julie Kenner

[Valerie]

"I don't have that much money on me."

From Romancing Miss Bronte by Juliet Gael

[Brenda]

"This book is dedicated to the most wonderful friend I have ever known,and to women everywhere who are trapped in corrosive and humiliating relationships like the one Nicole did not survive"-Faye D. Resnick

[Liz]

Olivia reached back for a few strands of hair, twirling them together around one finger and inspecting their dry, fraying ends. - WISH by Alexandra Bullen.

[Beanie]

Well, this is obvious. =P

"I haven't the slightest idea," said the Hatter.

[Lisa P]

She had thought herself immune to these feelings, and now she found that she was wrong.

Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati

[Becky]

Having lived in America for fifty-nine year, I've nearly perfected my relationships with the pigeons, the sparrows, and the starlings of New York City.

The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt (on Kindle)

[Sherin]

The track was muddier than it looked.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

[Dianne]

Yanking it out, she saw with annoyance that the date had smudged

The Postmistress

[Skena]

"unable to swallow my turkey at dinner , I'm hungry now "
Good GriefbyLolly Winston

[Diane]

"When you damage any part of the brain, you change input to the frontal lobes, and when you change input, you change output."
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior

[[deleted user]]

"Eat This Not That" 2010 ed.

"So unless he plants to eat carrots and celery for the rest of the day (and we know he doesn't), find a healthier chicken alternative."

[Sally906]

"...The recipe for baked beans is quite probably based on a Native American preparation where beans were cooked in bear fat and maple syrup..."

From Cat Flaps and Mousetraps: The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives by Harry Oliver

[Melissa]

"Junior Mints are never stuck to the armrest in the backseat"

[[deleted user]]

"My Lady will do as she sees fit."

[Mary]

Determine whether or not the amount of steel used in the beam (b=14 in., d=21.5in., As=5.08 sq in., f'c=5000 psi, and fy=50,000 psi) of Example 3.4.1 (Fig. 3.4.1) exceeds the maximum, in accordance with ACI-10.3.3.

From the book "Reinforced Concrete Design" by Wang and Salmon. lol. (Yes, that is really the closest book to me. About 6 inches further away is "Sh*t My Kids Ruined," which would have been far more entertaining, I'm sure.)

[Melissa]

LOL Mary - that is a very very interesting as well as informative sentence there ;)

"The duke approaches."

[[deleted user]]

"The guiding principle behind armistice talks should be to deal first with the status and the rights of the 3.5 million Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza and turn later to the approximately 6 million Palestinians living in the diaspora."

[Bonnie]

He dug the grave first - not too deep.The Search

[Kristen]

"And someone else said, I been in earthquakes, a man in a suit and tie, this ain't no earthquake, a distinguished man, an educated man, an executive, this ain't no earthquake." from Falling Man

[QueenAmidala28]

It was his task to wake at first light to start the fires in the fireplace and the stew-stove in the kitchen.

[laut]

Shiva could make a four quid tip in an evening if the blubberous white divorcee in the corner was lonely enough and he batted his long lashes at her effectively.

[[deleted user]]

Sarah always said that conversations with daemons were impossible, because they began in the middle.

A Discovery of Witches

[Lauren]

"Jocelyn had drunk just enough to feel companionable, not quite enough to feel witty."

[Sherin]

It didn't pause at the door to the restraint room,but disappeared beneath it

The Green Mile

[Mandy]

wow. talk about a compound sentence. here goes:

"She had been a dancer, a wild beautiful woman of noble, though poor, birth; Goldmund's father said that he had lifted her from poverty and shame; and since he couldn't be sure she was not a heathen, he had arranged to have her baptized and instructed in religion; he had married her made her respectable."

anyone care to guess the book? Goldmund is part of the title .....

Narcissus and Goldmund by hermann Hesse

[Chris]

"A four poster bed was partly hidden behind thick velvet curtains and made up with pillows and cushions and blankets"

[Chris]

Coram Boy - Jamila Gavin

[Diane]

Bean warned her, and she knew it, but she chose Achilles for their papa anyway.

[Diane]

Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card

[Sherin]

@Chris&Diane:
*Just assuming you don't know it already :)*

You have an option to edit the post at the bottom right.

[Chris]

Sherin wrote: "@Chris&Diane:
*Just assuming you don't know it already :)*

You have an option to edit the post at the bottom right."

Thanks Sherin, I thought mine looked different!

[[deleted user]]

"She had dreamed of the day when she would be older and could get one." The Children of Willesden Lane

[[deleted user]]

Lauren wrote: ""Jocelyn had drunk just enough to feel companionable, not quite enough to feel witty.""

I love this, what book is it from?

[Helen]

"Click the adjust tool."

This was the closest book, EQ 5 Design cookbook.

[[deleted user]]

"When the lesson's over, she rushes back to laying down." The Help

[Anna]

"This is a fate Percival could not begin to accept"

From Angelology

[Sherin]

He clapped a hand over his mouth and slowly turned in a complete circle,looking at this place to which Speedy's "magic juice" had brought him.

The Talisman

[Cassie]

There was, however, one major check.

The Vanderbilt Era: Profiles of a Gilded Age

[Stephanie]

There was no question about it; he knew what she really was.


The Pagan Anthology of Short Fiction: 13 Prize Winning Tales

[Carly]

"A cold northern wind was pushing the temperature down quickly, and the searchers began to realize that if they hoped to find the little boy alive, they needed to find him in the next couple of hours."

The Rescue

[Kristina]

"When he took them he told himself it was for art".
The Virgin of Flames

[Diana]

"Warm water is delivered in two copper pans as the agony subsides. 'We should confess,' Dr. Maeno proposes to Orito in Dutch, 'the baby is dead. Then amputate the arm to deliver the body.' "

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

[Stephanie]

My mother leaned toward me and in a tense whisper asked if I needed a drink of water, which was Mom-speak for keep it together, people are staring.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
-(from page 57, 56 is a picture page)