Grab the Book Closest (#2)

[clonkertink]

"Instead, the Republic Navy has developed new flight suits for combat missions.

[Geinkotsu]

"I love to visit new cafés and restaurants, so they most certainly inspire me."

Sketching from the Imagination: Characters, Trudi Castle

[Snabbigon]

Load the story "Wong" from the Teacher Resources at ckla.amplyfy.com or prepare to display the Gran Big Book.

[Hawkwood]

"That is, that natural law possessed no very strong theory of the state"

[Argyros]

"Harvath noticed the bulge of a rather large weapon beneath his sport coat and guessed that this was no ordinary taxi driver."

– Brad Thor, Path of the Assassin (2001)

[Valerian]

"The collapse of the Darien venture, and the near bankrupting of Scotland, led directly to the Act of Union with England in 1707."

The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of the Earth's Antiquity, by Jack Repcheck

[Argyros]

"His voice was thin and reedy, like a querulous old man in a nursing home."

– Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret (2013)

[Argyros]

“The rule of law as we know it is being challenged and thwarted everywhere by the priests.”

– Jack Whyte, Knights of the Black and White, 2006

[Shekinah]

Syr laughs with a smile, bowing her head and saying, "Sorry."

-Danjon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darō ka 1 by  Fujino Ōmori

[DaisyOtt]

"We weren't exactly gentle with each other."

Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino

[Trilby]

"Pour the oil into a large cast-iron skillet, add the bacon fat, and heat over high heat."
   
"The Blackberry Farm Cookbook", Sam Beall
   
(I happen to be in the kitchen)

[Argyros]

“So he’s to proceed unfettered, free to say and do as he wishes?”

– Michael J. Friedman, Death in Winter (2005)

[TeraMelon]

"She ought to have been appalled by herself, by what she'd done"

- Margaret Atwood, The Heart Goes Last (2015)

... The book on the top of my random library pile

[Hawkwood]

"This is a nine-person court that sits in the nation's capital, Ottawa"

Surprisingly tame for a book called Is Eating People Wrong?

[Hrairoo]

Whatever his issues, I couldn't fault his taste in music.

― Chloe Neill, Some Girls Bite

[virtualblue]

"I don't want any of that."

– Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

[clonkertink]

“The faculties are called into no exercise by doojg a thing merely because others do it, no more than believing a thing merely because others believe it.”

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

[Hrairoo]

I take a step back, the skin of my wrist prickling. Now I know that look.

― Laura Thalassa, A Strange Hymn

[fluxterd]

"so you had an interesting climb up the mountain, did you?"
The Tibetan book of the living and dying - Sogyal Rinpoche.

[Basileus]

An exact calculation must therefore be made before the commencement of the war as to the number of troops and the expenses incident thereto, so that the provinces may in plenty of time furnish the forage, corn, and all other kinds of provisions demanded of them to be transported.

- Vegetius, On Roman Military Matters, Book III

[Skade]

"The monster hurtled out of the sky, flapping its ridiculous wings and roaring like a grizzly bear with a hundred-watt amp."

From Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan

[Lilias]

'Names, like familiars, have a way of finding magical people.'

~Llewellyn's 2002 Magical Almanac

[Hrairoo]

"I stand uncertainly, berating myself for screwing up again, when suddenly a hand slips into mine."

― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

[Basileus]

We cannot yet explain the engineering principles used in the anomalous balancing and adjustment of the vast rock masses, though the function of the arch was clearly much relied on.

- H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness

[Mimetisme]

“Why do I have to see them again?”

Poison Orchids by Sarah A. Denzil

*Note; the said book is on my Kindle