Grab the Book Closest (#2)

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gaggedLouise

"She saw that she had been wrong about the bartender; he was actually listening."

-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

Good girl but bad  -- Proud sister of the amazing, blackberry-sweet Violet Girl

Sometimes bound and cuntrolled, sometimes free and easy 

"I'm a pretty good cook, I'm sitting on my groceries.
Come up to my kitchen, I'll show you my best recipes"

CassieBear

He told her that he'd been a fool to take her to bed so soon: if he'd waited, he'd have been able to win her over.

Sis and Bud; a novella from the book Be My Guest by Rachel Ingalls
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Cailleach

But even as alcoholics are drawn to the state liquor store after a stint on the wagon, they always come back to each other.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, millennium I  by Stieg Larsson

CassieBear

This tradition began long before science developed as a method, discrete from everyday practice and folklore.

The Science of Harry Potter by Mark Brake with Jon Chase
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AmberStarfire

"I'm sure he isn't tampering with the vision!"

It's actually from this one of mine. I was laying across the bed and a paperback copy was sitting in a cardboard box covered with owl images beside me.


AlienSexFiend

Cultivate "the faith to doubt," encourages the contemporary Buddhist author Stephen Batchelor.

Mister Morgue

"And there it was, a crumb on a wizard's beard." - Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

(I should note that this is the book I'm currently reading on my Kindle, so it's kindle page 53...)

yobo

"The woman, the dark one with the grey in her hair, was their leader."

Jim Butcher - Fool Moon (Dresden-files)

FroreQueen

Under normal circumstances, that trust would mean I was safer with him.

Silver Borne - Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson)
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“If one knight charged with his lance held rigidly sideways, to sweep his opponent out of the saddle, the other knight with his lance held directly forward would knock him down a lance length before the sweep came into effect.”

-- T. H. White, The Once and Future King

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" 'But,' says I, 'my case will be doubly hard; for as they carry it ill to me now, because he desires to have me, they'll carry it worse when they shall find I have denied him; and they will presently say, there's something else in it, and then out it comes that I am married already to somebody else, or that I would never refuse a match so much above me as this one was.' "

Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe
"To live honorably, to harm no one, to give to each his due."
~ Ulpian, c. 530 CE

CassieBear

Please note, this was the second closest book to me. The first one had a sentence that crossed that PG13 line in my own opinion.

"I'm running late."

The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowling)
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AyyNaniMoose

Macroplata, an earlier piliosaur, had a crocodile-like skull.

The Complete Guide To DINOSAURS And Prehistoric Reptiles -Chris McNab/w Consultant Prof. Micheal Benton

Valerian

John's father, Henry, the 8th Duke of Rutland, had been Honorary Colonel of two of the regiment's battalions; he had personally recruited a large number of the soldiers.

The Secret Rooms: A True Story of a Haunted Castle, a Plotting Duchess, and a Family Secret, by Catherine Bailey
"To live honorably, to harm no one, to give to each his due."
~ Ulpian, c. 530 CE

William Blake

"The clinical distinction is based on the type, frequency, and intensity of the behavior (e.g., a child who daily lines up objects for hours and is very distressed if any item is moved)."

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition

CaptainErotica

It's big, it's fast and when it's wet it is more than dangerous.

Danica-Crossing The Line

CassieBear

Shirt, sweater, two coats and the disgusting scarf he refuses to throw away, May marvelled.

The Water Room by Christopher Fowler.
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Mimetisme


He understood the need to protect others.

Dark Hunger -Christine Feehan
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"If any prig could have comprehended such a lay or a sharper cogged their dice so well, they might have been elected to Parliament rather than sent to Newgate."

The Fatal Tree Jake Arnott

Mimetisme

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Zaphod

"The Eighth Air Force had stuck us where the sun never shines, sixty miles up the coast from London with only two miles of land between us and the gales blowing in from the North Sea"

Yeager - An Autobiography

AmberStarfire

"Zakath stood atop the knoll, holding his sword" if I don't count the first partial sentence. If I do, it's:

"Garion moved quickly, his feet avoiding almost on their own the windrows of years-old dead leaves and the fallen twigs and branches which littered the floor of this ancient forest."

Seeress of Kell, David Eddings


Valerian

"The main floor theater featured more than a dozen vaudeville shows and movies a day, and Leo could invite guests downstairs to enjoy topflight acts such as the escape artist Harry Houdini."

~Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation, by Dean Jobb
"To live honorably, to harm no one, to give to each his due."
~ Ulpian, c. 530 CE

CassieBear

Perhaps you could follow an old treasure map or walk down the train tracks in hopes of seeing your first dead body.

How to Survive a Horror Movie by Seth Grahame-Smith
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savvi

Vous entendez cette émission à la radio.

-Saison 1 Méthode de Français (French textbook)