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Go to page 53 of the book you are currently reading. Go to the fourth paragraph, or last paragraph if there isn't a fourth and cite the first sentence of that paragraph.

"Did you go out with him, though?"

Felicia's Journey by William Trevor

"The man finally removed his gaze and turned aside."

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

I left the cart and worked my way down to the wine and got a bottle.

- The Mist, from Skeleton Crew by Stephen King

"Pre-Katrina census figures reported around a quarter-million Americans of Italian descent in Louisiana."

Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table, by Sara Roahen

"The animal didn't respond, and Mothball laughed."

The 13th Reality by James Dashner

"I am not exactly sure who their father was-I had thirteen lovers at the time-but we got Peter drunk occasionally so he didn't have a clue."

The Dead Guy Interviews by Michael Stusser

"Oh that ugly hunchback."

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

"The German kaiser, covered with the blood of millions of dead people, wants to push his army against Petrograd."

Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed

The photo is of me as a baby.

As She Grows by Lesley Anne Cowan

"And who never made it because the bastards shot me down?"

Tree of Smoke Denis Johnson

"My dream of becoming a Crossoku millionaire is finally over."

The Timewaster Diaries by Robin Cooper

"On an improvised dissecting-table in the old farmhouse, by the light of a powerful acetylene lamp, the specimen was not very spectral looking."

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by Howard Phillips Lovecraft

"Who do you mean, my dear?

Pride and Prejudice bye Jane Austen

"We had better put the strait jacket back on him," Doc said.

The Devil Genghis by Kenneth Robeson

Mrs. Higgins: You certainly are a pretty pair of babies, playing with your live doll.

Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

"I got hungry, so I went down the hall and got a package of Devil Dogs from a vending machine."

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

"Although the cashier arrived the next day, Karoline felt as if she had made some kind of a stand, but in reality she had no defenses against Hardenburg, because, from the evening of the poetry reading onwards he asked so much from her."

The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald

Mr. Schultz was in his shirtsleeves and he wore suspenders and no tie, and he had a handkerchief crumpled up in his hand, and he was mopping his neck and ears as he advanced on the lawyer.

Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow

"From Martha's bedroom window, a shrill giggle echoed against the walls."

Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

"And that doesn't seem odd to you?"

- Folk Lure by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, from Single White Vampire Seeks Same, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Brittiany A. Koren

Stinkwort sat on the edge of the kitchen counter with a half-eaten Oreo in his hand.

Unshapely Things by Mark Del Franco

Every morning I awoke alone in our cold house and padded softly into the kitchen, where I prepared myself Pop Tarts, hot chocolate, and perhaps a small bowl of cold cereal.

The History of Luminous Motion by Scott Bradfield

Act IV of The Courier's Curse discloses evil Duke Angelo in a state of nervous frenzy.

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

I was being ungenerous.

The Evolution of Jane by Cathleen Schine

"Welcome to Bhutan, sir," says the young man in the gho, looping a white scarf around my neck.

The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner

"Course I'm Henry!"

At the Firefly Gate by Linda Newbery

"No thank you."

Shamus in the Green Room by Susan Kandel

"Does that mean you don't want to be engaged to me any more?"

The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

It caught him off guard, and when he looked quickly at Joanna, he know she had inteded to do just that.

After Caroline by Kay Hooper

"I got your letter of the 3rd February here this morning."

Volume 12 The Letters of Charles Dickens:1868-1870

"In 1942, after passing a rather superficial loyalty examination, Remington won an appointment to a critical wartime agency, the War Production Board."

Red Spy Queen by Kathryn S. Olmsted

"In Sarah's eyes, the charity of the settlers came too little and too late."

Sarah Winnemucca (Touchstone is incorrect) by Sally Zanjani

"The full heat of summer was upon him now, and was breaking down more of his remnants of civilization."

Earth Abides by George R. Stewart

"Instead, Fru Aaschild would sit with the grown-ups and talk."

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

"Due to your kind offices, I have received lovely, long letters from Mrs. Maubery and Isola Pribby."

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

I said, "it's about a bird that flies backward - it's not interested in where it's going, it's interested in where it's been."

100 years, 100 stories by George Burns

The widow was alone in the barn.

The Outlander by Gil Adamson

"Inwardly Houston was divided."

The Trail of Tears by Gloria Jahoda

"A bit fanciful," remarked the Titan.

Jack Spratt investigates The Big Over Easy by Jasper FForde

"I laughed."

Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb

"Keening".

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga

"I make a note:

Ask again about the box."

Hester Among the Ruins by Binnie Kirshenbaum

The big room was so quiet the stillness fairly hurt.

Shane by Jack Schaefer

"Just after turning onto the old 312, we pass a man on a bicycle witha a tall red flag attached to his saddle, waving in the wind as he rides, and a huge yellow sign attached to his back wheel."

China Road by Rob Gifford

"She was up."

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

"Other runners kept passing me, but I limped on, grimacing in pain."

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

Speaking of scientific advances, in 1951 the Chrysler Corporation began offering power steering in some car models.

- The Fifties: Domestic Prosperity. International Tension. Buffalo Bob., from Dave Barry Turns 50 by Dave Barry

Not having a daughter was one of Jacqueline's lifelong regrets.

The Shop on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber

Renate went over to this old man with the gray mustached, looked his massive figure over mistrustfully up and down, and blurted out: "M. Gauche, are you really a policeman?"

Murder on the Leviathan by Boris Akunin

"I'm stunned into silence," I said.

Maybe Baby by Matthew Miller

"Oh, I forgot."

Forever Liesl by Charmian Carr with Jean A.S. Strauss

Harry's eyes stuck on mine.

A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz

About half-an-hour after the breakdown the chains were unhooked from the lorries and the prisoners marched off ahead, crunching into the fresh snow, beating out a track and laboriously treading down the snow.

The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz

Throughout the days and nights there was much conversation as to how and why it had all happened.

No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod

"Don't worry!" Ruby hufed. "I just don't understand how you can be so calm about spiders."

Indigo Dying by Susan Wittig Albert

"I wish I could get her to budge, but she refuses."

Susannah's Garden by Debbie Macomber

Attending the districtwide women's conference, I feel happy to live within the warmth and love of my elder comrades.

Last Night I Dreamed of Peace by Dang Thuy Tram

"A punk chick."

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

That surprised me enormously because it meant the auctioneer knew who I was all along.

- The Venetian's Wife by Nick Bantock

"Do you know these lines, Eddie?" called out Charlie from the bow.

On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks

She caught my eyes, managed to choke out one last word: "Go!"

The lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

My mum used to send me these postcards from hospital.

I had brought three or four extra blankets.

- "Dolan's Cadillac," from Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King

The striking drawing that Stowe made of Hum that summer was used as the basis for an illustration for her children's story "Hum, the Son of Buz," which was published with other animal stories in Queer Little People (1867).

A Summer of Hummingbirds by Christopher Benfey

Using the cab's vidsystem he contacted Felix back on earth.

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick

Zwicky also was the first to recognize that there wasn't nearly enough visible mass in the universe to hold galaxies together and that there must be some other gravitational influence - what we now call dark matter.

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

In the 163rd year of the Hegira, the fifth of the Shining Face, Hakim was surrounded in Sanam by the Calph's army.

- Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv, from A Universal History of Iniquity by Jorge Luis Borges

"I was looking down at the sounding pole, and feeling much annoyed to see at each try a little more of it stick out of that river, when I saw my poleman give up the business suddenly, and stretch himself flat in the deck, without even taking the trouble to haul his pole in."

The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

"He nodded his head."

The Sea Wolf by Jack London

Margaret hadn't supported my efforts in the beginning and in retrospect I can't blame her.

Back on Blossom Street By Debbie Macomber)

"He said he just didn't feel any need for female companionship in itself: companionship to him meant a real exchange of everything on the same level, and sex meant sex, and I wasn't offering him either."

The End of the Road by John Barth

"Would you consent to having a cup of tea or coffee with me?"

See You Later Alligator by William F. Buckley

"But....?"

The Titian Committee by Iain Pears

"Ambrois de Quercy?" Josse said softly.

The Joys of My Life by Alys Clare

"Another reason why the present time is preferable to all others, is, that the fewer our numbers are, the more land there is yet unoccupied, which instead of being lavished by the king on his worthless dependants, may be hereafter applied, not only to the discharge of the present debt, but to the constant support of goverment."

Common Sense by Thomas Paine

A breeze rustled the top of the pin oak.

A Painted House by John Grisham

Chairman Sverdlov announced receipt by direct wire of advice from the Ural Oblast Soviet of the shooting of former Tsar Nicholas Romanov.

The File on the Tsar by Anthony Summers and Tom Mangold

The Indigo Man did not seem to have heard the question.

- Chapter 2: The New Friend, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

"And the twins, they're both well, I asked?"

The Crow Road by Iain Banks

Such words would have horrified antebellum society.

April 1865: The Month that Saved America by Jay Winik

News of Hickok's death spread quickly.

WIld Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane by James D. McLaird

Perhaps.

The Promise of the New South by Edward L. Ayers

"Darn."

from the story "Hell in a Handbasket" by Lucien Soulban in Blood Lite.

Waters did not much care for genuine blues singers; she called them "shouters" and was thrilled to eventually earn the epithet "the Ebony Nora Bayes," for Bayes - the composer of "Shine On Harvest Moon," who billed herself as the "the Greatest Single Woman Singing Comedienne in the World" - never, in Waters's words, "gave out with any unladylike shouts and growls."

Visions of Jazz by Gary Giddins

Entering an avenue of more pretentious homes, the litterbearers halted before an ornate gate where Lepus and Erich descended from the litter.

Tarzan and the Lost Empire by Edgar Rice Burroughs

(Only one paragraph on page 53, so I went for the fourth sentence instead.)

Konrad rented a piano but played only rarely; he seemed to fear music.

Embers by Sandor Marai

Fred looked down at his stocking feet, horrified, and hurried back into the store.

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

Spent an hour or so tidying up the grave.

Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright

But the bodyguard was still on his feet, Buchanan realized.

Assumed Identity by David Morrell

Not long after this he made some curious remarks to Grand in the course of conversation.

The Plague by Albert Camus

On the night of November 8, 1918, a few hours after the Republic had been "proclaimed," a telephone rang in the study of Ebert in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin.

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer

"They continued to wind under the woods, between the grassy knoll of the mountain, and, as they reached the shady summit which he had pointed out, the whole party burst into an exclamation."

The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe

It was a little odd to go walking with a dragon, and very odd to outdistance one; Temeraire might take one step to every ten paces of Laurence’s, but he took them very rarely, being more occupied in looking back and forth to compare the degree of cloud cover upon the ground.

His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik

"I can't fault your logic."

Salvation in Death by J. D. Robb

One of Cicero's central philosophical interests was the nature of the gods.

The Closing of the Western Mind by Charles Freeman

Pets provided something of a substitute family: "I have kept no end of pets, a tortoise, some bats, lizards and now a little hare, he is a very pretty little fellow, and we feed him on milk as he is too young to ear, he runs about the room and hides himself in Joseph's or my bed, Joseph pulls him about quite as much as any child."

The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh by David Damrosch

"What's that?"

The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

"Precisely."

The Death of Achilles by Boris Akunin

"There is nothing to tell you."

The Chosen by Chaim Potok

After Nakata left, Otsuka lay down again in the grass and closed his eyes.

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Like every new house, the house in Hanover-square – which had seemed perfection at first – was soon discovered to be in need of every sort of improvement.

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

They made me smile.

The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther

For two days we tramped upward on the bank of the Spiti River; then we followed one of the nearby valleys which would clearly bring us over the Himalayas.

Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer

After that Isreal pulled away and pitched his tent a distance beyond the tower of Eder.

NWT

"True enough." Sandra agreed, "but we don't spy on people, do we?"

Gallows View by Peter Robinson

'It's easy to operate,' said Twoflower, ignoring him.

The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

But the open water had vanished and the Admiral Tegetthoff was soon beset, drifting first northeast , then northwest.

Safe Return Doubtful by John Maxtone-Graham

The tide was turning and he could see debris drifting downstream in the yellow afternoon light towards the River Gate, a mere hundred yards downstream.

The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

All my love, Michael

Dream When You're Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg

With reform fading and Yefremov uncooperative, Gorbachev took a reduction in pay and became first secretary of the Party's Stavropol city committee, where he plunged into urban industrial development.

Arsenals of Folly by Richard Rhodes

"If it says so in the Bible it is so, Philip," said Mrs. Carey gently, taking up the plate-basket.

Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham

"I have set aside my Algebra and French and am going to tell you a long story about this prettiest of places West Point....."

Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point by Elizabeth D. Samet

Little Guan returned to the rice paddies.

Chinese Lessons by John Pomfret

"With so many risks to life and limb as well as numerous conditions that could make life almost insufferable, it is little wonder that the Georgians were fanatical in their pursuit of health."

The Knife Man by Wendy Moore

"When a political figure says that we need to 'set national priorities' about one thing or another, what that amounts to is making A categorically more important than B."

Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell

"As was to be expected, Mama, with dishevelled corsage, was sitting on Jan Bronski's lap."

Tin Drum by Gunter Grass..

We sat on hard-backed wooden chairs at a circular table in a glassed-in office at Lifan's corporate headquarters.

China Shakes the World by James Kynge

"She stood up, aranaged her hair, clumsily because she had no mirroor, and put away the signed receipt."

The Story of My Baldness by Marek van der Jagt

Ethel enjoyed reading, so I could stop at the bookstore, but I shouldn't buy anything too long, like War and Peace.

The Gate House by Nelson DeMille

"Christine," he said.

Christine Falls by Benjamin Black

And so he perceived my vendetta with Regal as equivalent to his weakness for porcupines.

Assassin's Quest By Robin Hobb

"The other towers?" she asked, still staring out the window.

Thursday Next: First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde

When it came to Rodo's comment about gratitude, however, the "CIA" that he'd "rescued me from" was not the Central Intelligence Agency of the U.S. government, but merely the Culinary Institute of America in rural New York - a training ground for master chefs, and the only school I'd ever flunked out of.

The Fire by Katherine Neville

Heirlooms: Time never changes, the memories, the faces, Of loved ones . . .

Mosaic: Pieces of My Life So Far by Amy Grant

These days, James went all the way to Sydney for provistions.

Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald

We had a series of birds' nests which we visited, careful never to disturb anything as we watched the eggs increasing in the nest.

To School through the Fields by Alice Taylor

"A screamin' one. You hear how he puckered when the s**t hit?"

Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwall

the fool
cool by diana ross

Just as Lavinia was a kind of substitute for her older sister, so Joel stood in for Emily on questions of remodeling and furnishing.

My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson by Alfred Habegger

But he had not only sent me his book.

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov

"You going to eat that last piece?" Joshua said.

Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi

"A very big part of which is erotic."

Bangkok 8 by John Burdett

"Now, I know what you're thinking, Mr. Holmes."

The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King

When you had children, you measured your years in theirs.

When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson

Lawson, Parris, and any others present at the parsonage during Abigail's fit must have been struck by the congruence of her behavior and that of one of the Lowestoft afflicted in 1662 and of the Goodwin children in Boston in 1688.

In the Devil's Snare by Mary Beth Norton

"She and Conni had been best friends until Kristina started playing basketball."

Red Leaves by Paullina Simons

Troy snickered.

Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore

The last paragraph was the jolt of fortitude that Nora so desperately needed.

Skipping Christmas by John Grisham

The last paragraph was the jolt of fortitude that Nora so desperately needed.

Skipping Christmas by John Grisham

"You don't understand, Urania; though there are many things about the Era which you have come to understand; at first, some of them seemed impenetrable; but after reading, listening, investigating, thinking, you've come to understand how so many millions of people, crushed by propaganda, and lack of information, brutalized by indoctrination and isolation, deprived of free will and even curiosity by fear, and the habit of servility and obsequiousness, could worship Trujillo."

The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa

And everyone's got to eat.

- Little Red and the Big Bad by Will Shetterly, from Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

Wife had pups, fifteen days ago, said the dog-fox.

- Spindle's End, by Robin McKinley

"Then why didn't you join the Party long ago?"

"The Last of Mr. Norris" from The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood

"Behind my human friends were my cousins-in-law, the Denali vampire clan.

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

Before I met Kurt, I had been a bird with a wing down.

The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming

"Well, why not?"

Towards Zero by Agatha Christie

"I'm going to grab a shower," I said. The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb

"The Traveller" had a holiday air.

The Stories of Anton Tchekov by Anton Tchekov

- Psiakrew - szepnął Geralt do Jaskra. - To on podał tę linę? Eyck? Nie Dorregaray?

Miecz Przeznaczenia by Andrzej Sapkowski

"That sounds like an interesting evening."

Scent of Roses by Kat Martin

Catherine Mikhailovna Frolova-Bagreeva, whose family had a small dacha just down the hill from Livadia, recalled that "it was not always pleasant to see the Heir coming, because he was a 'mischievous' child as our parents taught us to say."

The Fate of the Romanovs by Greg King and Penny Wilson

Half a millennium after Columbus labored in vain, only vestiges of the former magnetism of spice remain: the twin poles of attraction and repulsion.

Spice by Jack Turner

He walked past me and called over his shoulder.

-Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton

"I gathered the impression," she went on after a moment, choosing her words with care, "that a good deal of the raw data is coming from new human intelligence sources."

-In Enemy Hands by David Weber

He had, of course, but it was not to find himself safely back in the mountains or still trapped in the insanity.

War of the Ancients by Richard A. Knaak

Often we could ride side by side.

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Newport, the "American Eden," so like the Isle of Wight, had fostered in Channing a feeling for Wordsworth and Byron, those two romantic poets who had shared his moods.

The Flowering of New England by Van Wyck Brooks

"The old man sank slowly back into his chair, but this time with an air of resignation."

The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon

"Maybe de mule takes off after everybody, Sam said, 'cause he thinks everybody he hears comin' is Matt Bonner, comin' tuh work him on a empty stomach."

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.

"Do it in the morning."

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Regardless of the exact nature of Tubman's religious instructions, daily survival remained her biggest challenge.

Bound for the Promised Land by Kate Clifford Larson

"And who never made it because the bastards shot me down?"

Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

Aleximor stopped every fifteen minutes and stared around at black empty ocean.

Seaborn by Chris Howard

"What's in there?

The Manning Sisters by Debbie Macomber

The lawyer argued that if a wise judge with years of worldly experience could not pick out a homosexual, how could a mere bartender?

The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts

The Inklings -- J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams -- confronted Aleister Crowley in Micah Harris' graphic novel Heaven's War, illustrated by Michael Gaydos from Image Comics.

- "Introduction: Horror in 2004" from The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Vol. 16 edited by Stephen Jones

This time she meant a minute when she said it.

- Sati by Christopher Pike

I had a sudden image of Joan Sloan in her suit and gloves, standing next to the body at the mortuary and transfixing each mourner like the Ancient Mariner with her glittering eye and the news of Aunt Kathryn's latest marriage.

- Solstice Wood by Patricia A. McKillip

"Oh."

- Smoking Poppy by Graham Joyce

During the spring of 1926, he applied to Harvard and was accepted.

A Hero of Our Own by Sheila Isenberg

"How unkind, Niki."

A Pale View of the Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro

"No," Badri said.

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

"Again Willi carefully rolled up his tunic, groped for his watch in the little pocket in his waistband and held it up to his eyes:Eighteen minutes past - don't forget the watch!"

The Casualty by Heinrich Boll

'On vacation. He'll be back in two weeks.'

The Secret History by Donna Tartt.

He came charging back up onto the beach with his prize in his teeth.

Marley & Me by John Grogen

Then came Carin Hall, and everything that had come before looked understated.

The Forger's Spell by Edward Dolnick

"She can't be much good at spells," the inkeeper said, "or she'd have magicked up a much better place than ours!"

The Robe of Skulls by Vivian French

"The young woman raises herself with difficulty and takes the place facing the older Michaud, whose lips were smiling.

Therese Raquin by Emile Zola

He grunted and sipped his drink.

The Fall of Frenchy Steiner by Hilary Bailey, included in Hitler Victorious, edited by Gregory Benford.

"But what astonishes them; what makes them stand with jaws agape is this: near the peak, a dozen roofing boards have detached from the rafters and curled back in long, crazy looking hoops that stop just short of making a circle."

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

Clarke stared at him silently for a long moment, but finally, almost reluctantly nodded his head.
Sleepwalk by John Saul

"Ungh," he confirmed.

Storm Front by Jim Butcher

She put her face in Edward Bear's belly, for warmth.

The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter.

"And this was a crisis, whether people seemed to realize it or not -- the toilets in the main house were overflowing and there was a coil of human waste behind every rock, tree and every knee high scrap of weed on the property, and that was primitive, oh yes indeed."

Drop City by T.C. Boyle

You just might be able to buy finacial freedom for the rest of your life.

The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson

"The common driver has but two safety restraints: air bags and seat belts."

Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and its Aftermath by Michael Paul Mason

"What do you think?"

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

In the back of the car he looked through Ogilvie's envelope, finding it well arranged, as he had expected.

Half a Crown by Jo Walton

"Armand!" said Marguerite Blakeney, as soon as she saw him approaching from the distance, and a happy smile shone on her sweet face, even through the tears.

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

The day after hosting Hopkins at Ditchley Park, Churchill received an Ultra report that further confirmed the unlikelihood of invasion by revealing that German wireless stations linked with the headquarters responsible for Luftwaffe equipment in Belgium and northern France would no longer be manned after 10 January.

"How many times will you make love to me? she continued in the same mocking tone."

The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa

Clark Westlake was fourty-six years old, trim and good looking, with a perperual tan and only a touch of grey at his temples.

My kind of guy!!!

The Archangel Project by C.S. Graham

My interview with Maya came over dinner at her brother's favorite restaurant, the Hau Tree Lanai.

Obama: From Promise to Power by David Mendell

With some pressure and a little more punch, I induced Tom Wyndsour to explain his mysterious allusions by recounting the occurrences which followed the old Squire's death.

- Dickon the Devil by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, from Twelve Gothic Tales edited by Richard Dalby

If she had, however, expected any determined opposition from me, she was agreeable disappointed.

- Chapter in History of a Tyrone Family by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, from Victorian Ghost Stories

"If you're looking for a ride to Babe's, I'm looking for someone to show me the way!" she called out the passenger window.

- The Bar Stories: A Novel After All by Nisa Donnelly

He was one of the unsavory crew assembled by Squint in that tenth house of the row of similar dwellings.

The Land of Terror by Kenneth Robeson

There was no communication between Nathan and Roger.

- Boxes by Al Sarrantonio, from 50 Horror Stories edited by Al Sarrantonio & Martin H. Greenberg

"When Sammy got back he remarked, 'That Bwana should get him a wife to make him comfortable'."

The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley

"The spirits," she said, still trying to catch her breath.

The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont

Arthur thought about this.

Hitcherhiker's Guide To The Galaxie by Douglas Adams

Bill looks at Cotter and grins narrowly.

Underworld by Don DeLillo

But the mood was broken and a new mood took over the villagers as the sound from the clarinet reached them.

- The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen

Once they had conquered Vietnam, the French looked to their new colony to become a source of raw materials for their burgeoning industrial plant and a buyer for their manufactured goods.

Fire in the Lake by Frances Fitzgerald

"The coachmen were walking the horses slowly around to freshen them up before watering, the lackeys laying tablecloths out on straw left over from the threshing in the oblong of shade from the building."

The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

"Oh, I'll tell them myself, tonight, when they come home."

O, Pioneers! by Willa Cather

"The relationship between physical health and mental health is now well understood to have a strong connection to the sexual function, or dysfunction."

God Is Not Great

As they galloped up the red-lit road Rincewind glanced sideways at his travelling companion, currently trying hard to learn to ride a horse.

The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett in Rincewind the Wizzard

A broad smile bisected Amin's face.

Kahawa by Donald Westlake

"That is correct." More nods.

Bitter Is The New Black by Jen Lancaster

Gordon stood there a moment longer and then turned and looked up as if he sensed me in the window.

Runaway by V.C. Andrews

Appin Dungannon skewered the fan with an artic stare.

Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb

For months and months I had felt practically nothing, and now this, this thing, this thing like a speech that seem to be almost an outburst.
The White by Deborah Larsen

As they made their way to London, the wrangling began about money.

How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman

That was over thirty years ago, when he was a dreamy and impressionable youth of fifteen; and now, as the train climbed slowly up the winding mountain gorges, his mind travelled back somewhat lovingly over the intervening period, and forgotten details rose vividly again before him out of the shadows.

- Secret Worship by Algernon Blackwood, from Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood edited by E.F. Bleiler

Somewhere in her closet there was a pair of old slacks she hardly ever wore.

A Kingdom in a Horse by Maia Wojciechowska

With the enthusiasm of youth which had been so gradually yet surely awakened, she longed to do anything, to give anything, to be anything to show the intensity of her devotion, the unadulteration of her friendship.

- "The Countess Visonti" by Cora Linn Daniels, from Dark Angels: Lesbian Vampire Stories edited by Pam Keesey

"I looked to the front of the line, where a Chinese family seemed to be having some problems with the customs officials."

Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama

First, how did Victor happen to come to Martin's attention?

Shattered by Dick Francis

The fire blazed bright above.

- Vittorio, the Vampire by Anne Rice

"While snubing gods, including the big G, Iph borrowed some peripheral debris From mystic visions; and it offered tips......

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

'Am I ever likely to forget him?' he replied, with a fervour that pleased me.

The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont by Robert Barr

Pa: 'Must eat.'

Hide and Seek Clare Sambrook

The minotaur was an excellent cook.

The Book of Flying by Keith Miller

"A few weeks after this, the things which he used in his room began to be obscured, and at length to disappear, until at last there was nothing left there but the chair, the table, the paper and the inkstand; and, moreover, the walls of his room seemed to be plastered with lime, and the floor to be covered with a yellow, brick-like material, and he himself seemed to be more coarsely clad."

Borges: Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

I knew, years before, that Billy would be a favorite in my world.

Listening for the Bugles by Denny Spencer (no touchstones today?)

"The incident settled Luma's mind on the question of Ashton's."

Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town by Warren St. John

We entered softly.

My Antonia by Willa Cather

Beatty surmised correctly.

This Terrible Sound by Peter Cozzens

"Afterwards, Phil came to see me and we had a long heart to heart about what I was going to do with my life."

Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff

Trembling, fidgeting, Leodora told her.

Shadowbridge by Gregory Frost

"The most serious challenge to their social order since the Civil War" loomed on the horizon, historian John Hope Franklin wrote in 1972.

There Goes My Everything by Jason Sokol

In the afternoon the heat rose up from the ground in waves.

When the Emperor Was Divine by Otsuka

"Going?" I said.

The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson

"Now what?" I said under my breath.

- "Herself" by Diane Duane, from Emerald Magic edited by Andrew M. Greeley

After breakfast at a cafe across from the hotel - called, believe it or not, 'The Gay Gannet', Terry and I drove off in the Simca to revisit my old school at Shrewsbury.

Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years by Michael Palin

Yes, Helmuth had been tired.

The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch

Eddie often thought about the baby inside June.

Not The End Of The World Kate Atkinson.

"Yes. Pretty bad."

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

But it'd done the job of shutting Patterson up and Daryl fumbled about in the inside pocket of his blazer for that other arm; his retractable paw claw that retrieved pencils and things from the floor.

Thalidomide Kid by Kate Rigby

McIntyre sat at the top table, a hugh coffin-shaped cake containing his own effigy in marzipan before him, and listened, his ego aglow, while his fellow officers sang his praises.

Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor

We called all my mother's good friends Aunt.

Stuffed by Patricia Volk

He experienced a heady mixture of joy and grief and gaining his feet, slowly walked over to the animals carcass.

The Magic Lands by Mark Hockley

Roger's itinerary took him past 6 Berwick Street, home to a well-regarded local surgeon by the name of Harrison whom Rogers knew professionally.

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

And he went out, and stepped into sudden darkness.

The Lost Road by J. R. R. Tolkien

(I have a slight problem with the rules. What is the 4th paragraph? Does it include the 'part paragraph' at the top of the page? What about a single line of dialogue - is that a paragraph?

I'm getting around this by going to the 4th "indent" on the page whether or not they are proper paragraphs or just single lines of dialogue.)

"I've never said that I know anything about art," said Matthew.

44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith

I've assumed that I can interpret the rules in such a way as to give me the more interesting sentence ;-)

Dustfinger opened his eyes and blinked up at the sun.

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

"Look! Look! Look!" he screamed.

Alan Quatermain's Wife by H. Rider Haggard

She has been thinking, in the rare moments when she is not attending to her authors' egos or her baby's bowels or the understandably bitter little hearts of her stepdaughters, about what is wrong and has realized that she has nobody to consult.

When We Were Bad by Charlotte Mendelson

The woman who had caught me laid me down on the dusty ground.

The Bite of the Mango by Mariatu Kamara

"Supposing you'd asked God to do something," said Philip, "and really believed it was going to happen, like moving a mountain, I mean, and you had faith, and it didn't happen, what would it mean?"

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

He'd had, perhaps, too much wine.

Toll the Hounds by Steven Erikson

I put the baskets side by side on the kitchen table, and drank glass and glass of tepid water from the filter.

When We Were Young by John Burningham

'At four o'clock, therefore, we may expect this peace-making gentleman', said Mr Bennett, as he folded up the letter.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

"Frank Carlucci. Good to know you." His voice was pitched low and edged with something that might have been tiredness, but could have been drink.

Living Proof by John Harvey

Message 246...I do believe I remember that line.

He took the spoon, one of a drawer full of fancy, mismatched implements, into the crooked fingers of his left hand.

The Strain by Guillermo del Toro

She saw the man reflected in the mirror, and shock stopped her speaking.

The Wizard's Daughter by Barbara Michaels

I suppose we would say now that Bjarni was something of a throwback, a relic of some earlier more violent time, when the earls of Orkney and their Norwegian kings dreamt of a Norse-Orcadian dominion throughout what is now the British Isles.

The Orkney Scroll by Lyn Hamilton

Starting again, he jogged over to Old Church Lane.

At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon

You have no son to inherit?

A Rose for the Crown by Anne Easter Smith

"At the graves of the younhg children and infants -- and there were more than a handful, though not as many as those of young women who'd died in their twenties, more than likely during childbirth.......... "

Everyman by Philip Roth

Can you say run-on sentence.............?

lol@hemlokgang

"The ancient Greeks were similarly adrift when it came to human anatomy"

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

It must have been a trying time for mother though it passed pleasantly enough for me.

Drawn From Memory by Ernest Howard Shepard

"Who was that, Madame?" Charlotte asked as she rubbed a thick finger across her cheek and met her at the door.

Courtesan by Diane Haeger

Glaucus's scowl was downright terrifying.

Nobody's Princess by Esther Friesner

"Abelard suddenly arose

And laughed: "Emperor, Rome is ablaze

With slavering gutter fires..."

Abelard; (a book-length poem) by
Cedric Whitman

When they put him doing night police he felt important, phoning the fire department, hospitals, and police stations, trying to be efficient.

The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories selected by Margaret Atwood & Robert Weaver Short story - Last Spring They Came Over by Morley Callaghan

"He invites their warships into our waters?" Vivacia was incredulous.

Mad Ship by Robin Hobb

"Yes, Joshua, thank you."

Adam Bede by George Eliot

Nothing happened.

(book title withheld until the current "Who Am I?" has been solved lmao)

The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge by Harry Harrison

"And she did it deliberately."

The Sorceress: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott

"Come one, back to La Chaaba, you guys!"

Shantytown Kid by Azouz Begag

Time passed.

Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

" ʻOh, I donʻt mean I canʻt think of any.ʻ "

"When Stela Kemal heard a knock on the door of her apartment, she reached up to the crown of her head and pulled down her lace veil before she went to answer it."

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

correction to #268

Should have added the source:

Kingsley Amisʻs amazing The Crime of the Century (mystery novel)

"Suddenly, there was Steve McQueen."

Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea

"Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "may I have your attention for a moment?"

You always have mine roland

Thanks, Jack

it's Jacx...I assumed you could read lol Short for Jacqueline

"She was pregnant during that summer."

Next by Michael Crichton

"The gray pigeon hops ahead of its rival and lunges at the bread."

The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway

I'm reading four books at the moment.

"Admiring the airborne yellows caught between the bright rectangle of their home and the dark slashes of trees, she tried hard to ignore a sense of something hovering- something frightening that did not fit."

The Calder Game by Blue Balliett

"The raven hopped down to the pool's edge."

Doomwyte by Brian Jacques.

"'When it is so cold, no.'"

Fish by L. S. Matthews

"'Yet before the winter is three-quarters done' Merriman said, ' You will be creeping into this dell to look at the snowdrops that grow everywhere between the trees.'"

The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper

Unless it was Thursday, her Sing Sing day, or unless she'd gone horseback riding in the park, as she did occasionally, Holly was hardly up when I came home.

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

"What can I say to you, Vanya?"

The Insulted and Humiliated by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Needless to say, things changed when we left the ship.

All My Patients are Under the Bed Memoirs of a Cat Doctor by Dr. Louis J. Camuit with Marilyn & Haskel Frankel.

"In walks of emma (?)* wheat and rye
far from the mills
in voyant eye
What creature entranced in orange,
appears, neither far off nor near?"

--"The Council Reports in 8 Fragments"
(fragment) VIII (in Elegiac feelings American by Gregory Corso

*The publisher (New Directions) prints this poem in handwriting, so itʻs a little hard to decipher.

"On their way out, Henry and Keido didn't even pause to moon over the jars of penny candy."

The Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

"King Canute, they said, would appreciate the coming of Thore."

King Hereafter by Dorothy Dunnett

Intolerance and superstition has always been the domain of the more stupid amongst the common folk and, as I conjecture, will never be uprooted, for they are as eternal as stupidity itself.

Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski

"He allows himself to be born again with that smile, but he is no longer the same person, no longer the Hector Mann who has amused us and entertained us for the past year."

The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster

Shards and spears of ice reflect the lantern light through the foot-long holes in the hull, but in the centre is something much more disturbing -- blackness.

The Terror by Dan Simmons

This is another affectation of Drew's

Black Out by Lisa Under

" 'I tend to agree with Dr. Rassool' says the businesswoman."

Disgrace by J.M.Coetzee

"Gabor and I have been in love since Christmas."

Dial L for Loser, Lisi Harrison

"Yes, you did the bloody thing."

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

"Turtle Heart is a glassblower," said Turtle Heart.

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

I'd been wearing the glasses for close to a year when I finally realized who they rightfully belonged to.

When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris

"In the world and in us."

The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

How many centuries before the spirit forgets the body?

Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels

"See that you do not transgress again," Magistria said.

Violet Wings by Victoria Hanley

But Jason knew the truth.
-- The Justice Game by Randy Singer

"With his finger upon an old deal table he mapped out our course, and I looked at him amazed."

The House of Doctor Dee by Peter Ackroyd

"From above the window came a narrow ray of light, and lit Francisca's hands, the ring, her face."

The Taker by Rubem Fonseca

"The years passed."

Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom

Congratulations, comrade."

Rift Zone by Raelynn Hillhouse

And so it starts, thought the engineer.

Pompeii by Robert Harris

As Mal'akh crossed the Anacostia River into Maryland, he could feel himself moving closer to Katherine, pulled onward by destiny's gravity.

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

Trudy, who was not a mother to be taken lightly, whirled on the seat and grabbed the hair of both brothers.

Shiloh Autumn by Bodie and Brock Thoene

"Really?"

Blood Brothers by Nora Roberts

"Omar Khayyamʻs life was therefore spent unde the rule of the Seljuk Turks."

Unknown quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra by John Derbyshire

This was the part where Nieve always sighed, as though the young hunter were saying the words in her ear.

In the Country of the Young by Lisa Carey

Sara Jane found a school in Walnut Creek for her son that she described as perfect for her needs: the Palmer School for Boys and Girls.

Taking Aim at the President...
by Geri Spieler

The path proved easy to follow, well marked and trodden by many a Scout.

Eyes of Elisha by Brandilyn Collins

"I happen to know an FBI agent who will be interested to investigate you when I give him your e-mail address."

Terminal Logic by Jefferson Scott

"But that was a part of what was wrong."

Ghost Walk by Marianne Macdonald

As he entered the kitchen this March evening, he did not smell a warming meal, no boiled potatoes or roast beef.

A Flickering Light by Jane Kirkpatrick

"There was a little pause."

Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett

"Robert loved to watch the seasons revolve in Highgate"

her fearful symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

"Or bats", the chairman said. (assuming its fourth complete para on the page)

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Saul replied, "He who has separated himself from the Covenant has cut himself off from the vine of Israel. I shall glean the vineyard."

Man in White; a novel by Johnny Cash

" 'Beehernz,' Hopkins called, 'May we come in?'"

The means of Escape by Penelope Fitzgerald

"The cell, then, is the smallest unit manifesting life."
The Imprisoned Splendour
by Raynor C. Johnson

But I cursed Will too, for he had evidently been cowed by his parents' decree not to seek me out.

Mistress Shakespeare by Karen Harper

"When I next glance at the beadwork, I see each askew bead had been put right."

The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan

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