Grab the Book Closest (#2)

[Lain]

"It has to be clockwise, for strength."

The Lost World, Michael Crichton

[stormwyrm]

In the first quarter of the twentieth century the preeminent experimental nuclear physicist, Lord Rutherford, expressed his disdain for those sciences higher in strata than his own, when he made the pronouncement, "In science, there is only physics. The rest is stamp collecting."

Math and the Mona Lisa: The Art and Science of Leonardo da Vinci, Bülent Atalay

[CaptainErotica]

Samantha has been skipping class recently, so the only way to see her is to visit her apartment.

Savage Worlds East Texas University: Degrees of Horror.

[JinxedGrace]

"we all know that," said Lyra. "We been playing kids and Gobblers for months, before you were, I bet. But I bet no one's seen 'em."

The golden compass - Philip pullman

[Lain]

"My experience with Michael does not include any of what he's been accused of."

[Wilderness Soul]

"The excessive debauchery made Korigan's pulse quicken, but not for the usual reasons."

[virtualblue]

No, I said, though Greeks often had large families.

-- Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon

[Lain]

Any state of awareness that differs from the normal awareness of a conscious person.

[Valerian]

"Once this door closed behind him, the only way back into the 'clean' room was through a radiation monitoring device equipped with sensors to detect alpha- and beta-particle contamination."

~Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster, by Adam Higginbotham

[Story Tale]

From the simplicity of neurons "talking" to other neurons arises the complexity of the central nervous system's brain and spinal cord.

[Lain]

"Time on your hands, eh?"

Into The Darkness by Harry Turtledove

[Dark Rabbit]

"A group G, is called elementary  if and only if it preserves one point or a pair of points on S2, or a point in H3."

Hyperbolic Manifolds: An Introduction in 2 and 3 Dimensions, Albert Marden

[Lain]

His new sword and leather sheath tapped rhythmically against the pouches of his tool belt.

Dreamlight by Amy Lynn McConahy

[Autumn52]

"Sure as she had given him life she had take part of it, and he knew not what to do."


JR Ward
Lover at last.


I have been reading this book for months and its weird that I am on page 56 right now. LOL

[Valerian]

Gruffydd remained the king of the Welsh from 1057 to his death in 1063, swearing fealty to Edward in exchange for the Confessor recognizing his dominion over the territory of Wales.

~William the Conqueror: A Captivating Guide to the First Norman King of England, by Captivating History

[Lain]

"But he'd been sober enough to take crush Vicksburg in the west."

The Warriors by John Jakes

[virtualblue]

He had a broad, fleshy face.

-- Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress

[Basileus]

They purchased mansions on the same street.

Ready Player One, Ernest Cline

[Valerian]

"Under Cluyt's direction work on the garden was complete by September 1594, less than a year after Clusius's arrival at Leiden."

~Tulipomania, by Mike Dash

[dakabn]

The other day, in a valley, alas,
A serpent bit Freron, tis said.

Great Short Poems From Antiquity to the Twentieth Century Edited by Dorothy Belle Pollack

[RainyHigh]

Burning wood was illegal, an offense on the level of murder with just as serious punishment.

From: The Orphan by Wendi Wilson

[Songbird]

It was as if a new birth, with stronger assimilations than the first, had converted the forest-land, still so uncongenial to every other pilgrim and wanderer, into Hester Prynne's wild and dreary, but life-long home.

- "The Scarlet Letter", by Nathaniel Hawthorne

[Valerian]

"The enterprise -- which went under the name Spanish Expedition Shipping -- planned to assemble a squadron of ships loaded with guns and cannon, which would then set sail for the West Indies, trading some of the arms to the Spaniards there."

~Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt, by Steven Johnson

[Songbird]

"Any given Dimir agent possesses knowledge of only a handful of alleyway contacts and dossier dead drops."

~"The Art of Magic: The Gathering: Ravnica" by Wizards of the Coast

[stormwyrm]

If you try to explain to people that "this was calculated by a formula called the Sturges' Rule," they will only get mad and say, "Who cares about Stur... whatever! Why did you set the interval to a weird amount like 69 yen?"

— The Manga Guide to Statistics by Shin Takahashi and Trend-Pro Co. Ltd.