Grab the book closest

[Lilias]

'Daylight was streaming through it, a welcome sight after the dimness of the corridors.'

~Darren Shan, Zom-B Circus

[Vergil Tanner]

"Yet, even after several more unsuccessful rebellions during the seventh century, Assyria still resisted incorporating Tyre, along with the cities of Arvad and Byblos, into one of the three provinces into which the rest of Phoenicia had been divided."

- Richard Miles, Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise And Fall of an Ancient Civilization.

[Scathmadra]

Dear Josh, we stopped by to f*** you, but you didn't answer the door.

[Thesunmaid]

maggots feed upon your cold meat corpse.

*this is from a book of poetry from my friend Jon that he wrote as a character for a Larp.*

[Strangefate]

Sensitive and affectionate, the young prince allowed himself to be moulded into the patterns his elders chose, believed unquestioningly in the mission they had planned for him, subjected his judgement utterly to theirs and turned as by second nature to Bouillon, to his chaplain or to Anhalt for advice. 

- C. V. Wedgwood, The Thirty Years War

[Vergil Tanner]

"We know from Valerius Maximus that Rutilius in 105 BC introduced the methods of the gladatorial schools into military training, and from the author of the fourth book of the Strategemata that Marius was so impressed by the troops trained by Rutilius that he preferred them to his own."

- G.R. Watson, The Roman Soldier.
[I have a history shelf that is closer to me than my fiction shelf, ok?]

[Strangefate]

There was a land-hunger in Normandy, whose thickly populated estates offered no scope for ambitious and restless young sons and landless knights.

- Steven Runciman, History of the Crusades, Vol. 1

(I'm literally sitting next to my bookshelf and the history books occupy the nearest shelf, so I know the feeling.  )

[gaggedLouise]

Death, death!

-Eyvind Johnson, A Romantic Story (partly autobiographical novel about the author's dog years in early 1920s Berlin and Paris, a bit like A Movable Feast but with a less famous and glamorous cast of characters. The sentence just before was ten lines long, a winding description of somebody's face and posture...relieved I would not be transcribing that one!) 

[Warlock]

Fågelhundar, Dressyr och Jakt

''Vanligen dresseras de stånde fågelhundarna, both english and continental, med hjälp av tvångsmetoden.''

[gaggedLouise]

Fågelhundar, Dressyr och Jakt

''Vanligen dresseras de stånde fågelhundarna, both english and continental, med hjälp av tvångsmetoden.''

Approximate translation of the above (I'm not familiar with dog training or hunting terms): "Usually the upright bird chaser dogs, both English and continental, are trained through the coercive method."

(hello there, landsman!)

[Vergil Tanner]

"Justin's text implies that Philip undertook the building of some fortifications and temples, and that the cities were to be in charge of their own works, probably with subsidies from him."

- Nicholas Hammond, Philip of Macedon.

[ @Strangefate: Haha, I love it, don't get me wrong - a lot of it is pleasure reading - but it does make me look like a huge dork. Probably because I am one. ]

[Warlock]

Approximate translation of the above (I'm not familiar with dog training or hunting terms): "Usually the upright bird chaser dogs, both English and continental, are trained through the coercive method."

(hello there, landsman!)

The techincal term would be ''pointing (bird) dog'' or just ''pointer'' (There's also a Pointer breed), instead of ''upright bird chaser dog'', otherwise the translation looks fine. :)

(Hello to you too.)

[yobo]

The closest book was Skip og post i Hamburgruten 1853-1865 (Ships and mail in the route to Hamburg 1853-1865). A stamp book, and page 56 was blank.

[Sindara]

"They're more trouble than they're worth."

The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss

[Vergil Tanner]

"And if someone were to reply: 'There have existed many princes who have accomplished great deeds with their armies who have been considered generous,' I would answer you: 'A prince wither spends his own money and that of his subjects, or that of others; in the first case, he must be economical; in the second, he must not hold back any part of his generosity, for the prince who goes out with his armies and lives by looting, sacking and ransoms, and who lays hands on the property of others, such generosity is necessary; otherwise he would not be followed by his soldiers." [His 'reply' continues for quite some time, heh.]

- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

[Kevben Battleheart]

"The Old Wolf inspires such unshakeable loyalty that he has led the Sons of Russ into unimaginable terrors and emerged with victory grasped firmly in his claws."

- The Space Wolf Codex, Phil Kelly (Was the closest thing. I was looking through the book earlier for something while I was constructing an army focused around Grey Hunters and drop pods)

[Strangefate]

The wonderful writer Albert Murray, who is a jazz historian among other things, told me that, during the era of slavery in this country, an atrocity from which we can never fully recover, the suicide rate per capita among slave owners was much higher than the suicide rate among slaves.

- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., If This Isn't Nice, What Is?

[AmberStarfire]

On the other hand, human intellectual knowledge is set in order by God with angels acting as intermediaries, while those things coming for the benefit of man that pertain to the bodily aspects, whether external or internal, are distributed by God through the intervention of angels and heavenly bodies.

- Malleus Maleficarum -

*Winces slightly*

[alexpractice]

Her kiss was like a draught of cold water and yet immediately excited my desire for it was full of an anguished yearning.

-Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

[Oniya]

"We know from Valerius Maximus that Rutilius in 105 BC introduced the methods of the gladatorial schools into military training, and from the author of the fourth book of the Strategemata that Marius was so impressed by the troops trained by Rutilius that he preferred them to his own."

- G.R. Watson, The Roman Soldier.
[I have a history shelf that is closer to me than my fiction shelf, ok?]

(I've quoted a math book and a knitting book already in this thread...)

[Vergil Tanner]

Red Phoenix: Yeah, I did an essay on the Malleus earlier this year....not a pleasant or easy book to read at all. Heh.

Oniya; True. I suppose you tend to get some weird lines, don'tcha?


My entry:



"His [Pope John Paul II] polytheistic hankerings were dramatically demonstrated in 1981 when he suffered an assassination attempt in Rome, and attributed his survival to intervention by Our Lady of Fatima; 'A maternal hand guided the bullet.' "

- Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion.

And because it's out and out funny, here is the next line: "One cannot help wondering why she didn't guide it to miss altogether."

[AmberStarfire]

"In some respects, he wouldn't have been far off."

~ Ghosts of Manhattan by George Mann

(It's jutting out that tiny bit further than the other books on the shelf, so that makes it a tiny bit nearer).

[yobo]

"At du skal ha barn med fyren, kanskje?" ("That you are having a kid with the guy?")

Frognerfitter by Alexa Bohwim.

[MiraMirror]

"There we would begin the evening with an icy Coke and the throb of the jukebox, while Father drove to a quiet bar across town where sometimes he met his friend Jerry and sometimes he sat alone, reading library books and taking measured sips of a single beer."

Into the Forest by Jean Hegland

[King Serperior]

<Make your move, Marco!>, Rachel said.

- The Proposal by K. A. Applegate