Grab the Book Closest (#2)

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Kore

Goats. Huh.

Skin Game, Jim Butcher

weatheredshade

Frealaf, Helm’s sister’s son became king - Lord of the Rings Appendices, Appendix A

Lady Shadow

Maybe some guy in the kitchen just said "Look I've got a lot of spare macaroni, and these cows have got too much milk"

(Eddie Izzard's new book, this guy is nuts!)
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yobo

His parents and elder brother had died.

A Dozen D-Days: Canada's Invasion of Normandy - John Gilbert.

Gypsywoman

His mother was mild and sweet,his father a man of moods and spendthrift, and behind them both was his grandmother who was rich.

The Umbrella Thorn by Peter de Polnay

Just because the road is rocky doesn't that mean your spirit should be rocky too!

Lady Shadow

"Change enough that he'd risk himself to protect a random nobleman?"

From the Well of Ascension from the Mistborn series
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
Ambition is like a V8 engine.
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Valerian

Detectives from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office had arrived and joined Bill, Hendricks, and Frost.

The Death of an Heir: Adolph Coors and the Murder that Rocked an American Brewing Dynasty by Philip Jett
"To live honorably, to harm no one, to give to each his due."
~ Ulpian, c. 530 CE

gaggedLouise

"In Rome there was an outbreak of official rage."

- Louis L. Snyder, The Second World War, 1939-45 (the line refers to Mussolini being displeased with the Nazi-inspired murder of Austrian PM Dollfuss in 1934)

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"

Caelia

"Did something go wrong?"

Splitered, by A.G. Howard

CassieBear

"That," she said, pointing to the picture -- a rather vivid chromo entitled, "Christ Blessing Little Children" -- "and I was just imagining I was one of them -- that I was the little girl in the blue dress, standing off by herself in the corner as if she didn't belong to anybody, like me."

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
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greenandgold

"It's why they wear those masks and why they live in the woods you should be scared."

The Walking Dead: Volume 27: The Whisperer War By: Robert Kirkman

Lady Shadow

"We no longer lose our sense of sanity, and we no longer become our reactions"

~It's Up To You - The Practice of Self-Reflection on the Buddhist Path (Written by Dzigar Kongtrul
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
Ambition is like a V8 engine.
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CassieBear

His glasses reflected Brett's sweating face.

Short story "Phoenix" in the book Personal Demons by Christopher Fowler.
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Madame BookWyrm

"My troupe was not some poor batch of mummers, japing at crossroads for pennies, singing for our suppers."

The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!
When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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CassieBear

The wind was still blowing the wrong way, but it had lessened, so she could catch the conversation.

Lirael by Garth Nix
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Skye


"I've got some information for you." Zoe Walker said.

-- Clare Mackintosh, I See You
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Phoenixrisen

#141
Weapon: Many martial powers, as well as several divine powers, can only be used if you're wielding a weapon.

Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition Player's Handbook

That's actually from the 4th edition Player's Handbook, just saw my error.
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Zulma

"Observe relative ribcage and pelvic bone sizes."

Drawing the head and figure by Jack Hamm

CassieBear

I am a recovering drug addict.

Parliament of Whores by P.J. O'Rourke
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Valerian

(Sadly, page 56 is a blank page between sections, so we'll move on to the next printed page.)

Her funeral saw an extended parade of ceremony suitable not just for a queen but for a king as well as an outpouring of public grief, both recognition, perhaps, of the doughty part she had played in trying against the odds to preserve the independence of her duchy.

Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe, by Sarah Gristwood
"To live honorably, to harm no one, to give to each his due."
~ Ulpian, c. 530 CE

CassieBear

Aside from the earlier ones from Hélène, nothing.

Too Hot to Handle by Mary Jane Maffini

(There weren't five sentences on page 56 so I started there and counted until I got to the fifth sentence.)
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Valerian

Burnham hoped this second report would at last compel a decision.

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
"To live honorably, to harm no one, to give to each his due."
~ Ulpian, c. 530 CE

CassieBear

"Aren't you worried he might do a bunk?"

Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler
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wander

You got a choice;

Either my #1 of Tank Girl All Stars or a manga tankoubon of Prison School.  ;D

CassieBear

Sure, a weirdo job, but life wasn't all retail sales and oatmeal, after all.

Chiller by Sterling Blake

Not sure what the weirdo job is...
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