Grab the Book Closest (#2)

[DukeJohn]

A Deng Xiaoping biography on the end of my bookshelf.

[Rainbrows]

"Let me slooshy more."

-A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess

[clonkertink]

"A boosted damage roll adds an additional die to this roll."
-Warmachine Prime: Rules Digest

[MistyMoon]

She had learned to make it when we were twelve: Wensa had traded away the lace veil she had been married in, twice her hight, to a woman in Smolnik, in exchange for teaching Kasia the recipe.

Naomi Novik ~ Uprooted

[Saxman172]

"Nothing edible, of course; the starving young sailor would have broken into them when is situation became dire."
- S, J.J. Abrams & Doug Dorst

[Majere]

‘Who knows? A little bald man with a robe and a broom’

[Valerian]

"They then shut and barricaded the gates, and summoned reinforcements from the surrounding districts."

The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall, by Christopher Hibbert

[bluBubbles]

"I rubbed at her shoulders and she purred with the ease my kneading hands brought her."

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

[Zaphod]

Is it my Love? ask again
That Question, speak again in that soft Voice,
And look again with Wishes in thy Eyes.
O no, thou can'st not, for thou seest me now,
As she, whose Savage Breast has been the Cause
Of these thy Wrongs; as she, whose barbarous Rage
Has loaden thee with Chains and galling Irons:
Well dost thou scorn me, and upbraid my Falseness;
Cou'd one that lov'd thus torture what she lov'd?

The mourning bride. A tragedy by William Congreve

[Avernale]

All the Sebiros moved quickly, and had been further differentiated from the Lucky Wander Boy by the identical sinister grins that had been pixel-carved into each of their faces.

[virtualblue]

Fabel looked directly over the table at the unknown man.

-- Craig Russell, Blood Eagle

[Silas Wolf]

This pleasant feeling was lost completely when the giant thunderhead came into view over the horizon.

[virtualblue]

He was a big, strapping man, with blond hair to his shoulders. -- Brimstone, by Robert B. Parker.

[SepiaSunfury]

Examples include mindfully preparing and eating meals, driving with your full attention, and taking a shower or bath with awareness of the experience.

[virtualblue]

"Statements like this, which could be interpreted by an unfriendly critic to mean that the oneness of God was less truly one than the oneness of divine and human in Christ, sounded 'tritheistic' not only to unbelievers outside the church but also to other Christians."

-- Jaroslav Pelikan, The Spirit of Eastern Christendom (600-1700)

[Envious]

"Be very afraid."

Interesting Times, Terry Pratchett

[despickable]

Just Ignore Him.  Alan Davies

[Sekah]

Be propitious, and do
     not condemn
An innocently loving strategem.

- "The School for Husbands," Molière, from a collection of his works called Tartuffe and Other Plays.

It was in a stack of books, so I'll add some others from the stack!

[Sekah]

As you remarked the last time we went by
The Institute: "I really could not tell
The difference between this place and Hell."

- Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov.

This was the second in the stack next to my bed.

[Sekah]

"Many a petty noble," wrote historian W.S. Davis, "will cling to his frayed tippet of black lambskin, even in the hottest weather, merely to prove that he is not a villein."

- A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age, by William Manchester

The third in the stack.

[Sekah]

Nowadays, we have so few mysteries left to us that we cannot afford to part with one of them.

- "The Critic as an Artist," Oscar Wilde, The Portable Oscar Wilde: Revised Edition.

The fourth in the stack.

[Sekah]

Himiko whispered one line of an English poem as if it were a spell.

A Personal Matter, Kenzaburo Oe.

Fifth in the stack

[Sekah]

Mr. ___ small like his daddy, his brother stand way taller.

- The Color Purple, Alice Walker

Only two more in the stack, I promise!

[Sekah]

He was one of those people who say they are ill if they fail to 'take a turn' after dinner.

- Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert.

One more in the stack after this.

[Sekah]

But we were doomed to write what we wrote and, ah, we lucked out with a public.

- Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation About Writing, Kurt Vonnegut & Lee Stringer.

Stack's done! There's another right next to it, but I'll spare you. My room is 99% books haha.