Grab the book closest

[Rhedyn]

In the womb everything comes to us in a wave of motion.

~The Four Elements, Reflections On Nature ~ John O'Donohue.

[Valerian]

Many butlers, however, appear to have viewed the job as a celibate calling, perhaps because it was so difficult to envisage where the career servant would stand in any society outside the servants' hall.

Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times, by Lucy Lethbridge

[Rhedyn]

Otherwise, Kerrick would have lost his patience with Quain long ago.

~Scent of Magic by Maria V. Snyder.

[avorae]

Page 56 is a character sheet for Horace Farrow...

Scion Hero by White Wolf

[Rhedyn]

She flashed me a triumphant smile as she linked her arm in mine.

~Cold Magic by Kate Elliot.

[wander]

"Whether it's the people next to us turning into Titans, a hair-covered Titan throwing boulders at us, or a handful of Titans popping up inside the walls."

~Attack on Titan, volume 13~

[Oniya]

Guard against life-bale  beloved Beowulf
best of warriors  and win for your soul
eternal counsel -- do not care for pride
great shield-champion!

(Beowulf: an Updated Verse Translation, by Frederick Rebsamen)

[Emjay]

"He was the eldest of the six children of the Reverend Theodorus and Anna Cornelia van Gogh."

- What Are You Looking At: The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art by Will Gompertz

[Lilias]

'The resultant data also lends support to my argument that Artemis was originally a parthenogenetic goddess.'
~Marguerite Rigoglioso, Virgin Mother Goddesses of Antiquity

[Valerian]

"Weeks later the French, Scots and English signed the Treaty of Edinburgh, in which it was agreed that all foreign soldiers, French and English alike, would withdraw from Scotland."
~Anna Whitelock, The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court

[Wolven Soul]

Aech was one of the highest-ranked combatants in the OASIS, in both the Deathmatch and Capture the Flag leagues.

Ready Player One, by Earnest Cline

Great book chock full of 80s nerd culture.  Totally recommend it.

[SpiralSpider]

The sand castle was reluctantly abandoned, its moat half dug.

[AmberStarfire]

"The tall, slim, dark-haired man appears in Waterdeep as a rich trader, clad in purple robes, with a bodyguard of four or five men, and his crony Greeme, a 5th level CE fighter who uses poisoned weapons."

(AD&D Forgotten Realms 'Waterdeep and the North' by Ed Greenwood).

[Beautiful Mystery]

As she continues talking, the therapist helps her explore her transference:

(Ronald J. Comer, Abnormal Psychology)

[Vergil Tanner]

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

- G. R. Watson, The Roman Soldier.

[MsMonster]

"Of these, she liked best one that showed them sitting in a leaf-dappled light amid picnic debris and looking at one another with expressions that, though unsmiling, seemed mirthful and full of delight."

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

[EmyKat]

"We wanted to create a robot but did not want it to come across as cold and lifeless, so we decided to make it look more like a clay figurine."

The Legend of Zelda ~ Hyrule Hystoria
(wow I'm a nerd lol)

[Stella]

"The courtiers, who now came in, were very grand and noble; but he who could see it all knew very well what it all meant."

'The Travelling Companion', from the Complete Illustrated Works of Hans Christian Andersen.

[Autumn52]

"What would you like to do this evening?"

Fifty Shades Darker

[AmberStarfire]

A slightly dust-covered copy of PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja.

"While numbers are the most common choice for array indices, there's another possibility. You can also use strings as indices to create what's called an associative array."

[DukeJohn]

The Sun Also Rises sitting on the edge of my bookshelf next to me-

"So do you, my dear."

[Vergil Tanner]

"All was dark-skied and hazy, and small chips of rain were starting to fall."

- The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak.

[Kurzyk]

In 1994 she systematically demolished Gaskell's myth with a 1,003-page fire-hose of a scholarship called The Brontes.

The Talent Code ~ Daniel Coyle

[Rhedyn]

Some people 'sense' rather than visualise their meditations; others find that the images are faint and patchy.

~Living Magically by Gill Edwards.

[Autumn52]

"What would you like to do this evening?"

E L James Fifty Shades Darker