Random Quotes: p123, para5, next 3 sentences

[Charm]

"So does kickboxing. More useful too. So what do you get from this ....... besides bored?"

Haunted by Kelley Armstrong :)

[Sedge]

"That's enough!" said Beorn. "Sit down and be quiet! Now go on, Gandalf!"
So Gandalf went on with the tale, until he came to the fight in the dark, the discovery of the lower gate, and their horror when they found that Mr Baggins had been mislaid.

The Hobbit - J R R Tolkien

[poppy]

Thomas, who had taken a typing class at JFK, rolled a piece of paper into the machine and tried a test sentence: Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. I typed one, too: Thomas Birdsey is an asshole. Ma said, all right, all right, that was enough of that kind of stuff.

I Know This Much Is True ~ Wally Lamb

[Rawr]

'Buried deep beneath the limestone of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, Chicxulub is one of the largest meteorite craters yet found on Earth. Some estimates put it's width at over 300km (185 miles). At the end of the Cretacious Period, 65 million years ago, a comet or an asteroid that may have been more than 10km (6 miles) wide crashed into the Earth at this site.'

- My fantastic Earth encyclopedia :mrgreen:

[lexiepiper]

It seemed overwhelmingly clear that Halpern had done something truly unkind to someone. And yet, the small nagging thought tugged at me that it was, just as overwhelmingly so, too easy. Something was not quite right here.

[Charm]

Halfway across, I stopped as a fresh wave of the scent came over on the breeze. I looked up to see a short, sturdy figure under a dim streetlight. She wore a hooded cloak of somekind, high heels and a short skirt.

Broken by Kelley Armstrong.

[Charm]

"Bella!" I heard someone call, and it sounded like Mike. I looked around to realise that the school had become populated while I'd been sitting there absentminded. Everyone was in t-shirts, some even in shorts though the temperature couldn't be over sixty.

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

(Its actually paragraph four in my copy, there is no paragraph 5 on page 123 :blush:)

[Ben]

Was it trivial that a beautiful women had wanted him? He suspected it was. Was it immature and vindictive to imagine Gloria getting wind of the encounter?

The Savage Garden. - Mark Mills.

[generalkala]

The Kaiser nodded. 'That must be the epitome of your Waffen SS culture, what you all aspire to. It is the kind of action that wrests victory from the impossible and the effect on the morale of your enemies spreads wider than any individual action.'

The Kaiser's Last Kiss - Alan Judd

[Charm]

"I've never been able to afford to be too finicky," I said. "That's not my nature." If Alcide expected or wanted me to ask for smelling salts, or to beg him to save little me from the big bad wolf, he had the wrong woman.

Club Dead ~by~ Charlaine Harris

[Nollaig]

'Buried deep beneath the limestone of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, Chicxulub is one of the largest meteorite craters yet found on Earth. Some estimates put it's width at over 300km (185 miles). At the end of the Cretacious Period, 65 million years ago, a comet or an asteroid that may have been more than 10km (6 miles) wide crashed into the Earth at this site.'

- My fantastic Earth encyclopedia :mrgreen:

The smilies on here need a heart I can post when awesome people post awesomness.

[lexiepiper]

So eat regularly, and preferably five smaller meals to keep the metabolism going. You should never feel like you're 'starving'. It can also help to eat more fiber, like choosing whole grains such as brown rice instead of white, and whole grain or sourdough bread instead of white bread.

Kathy Balland - Lose The Diet

[Kylie]

It was three days after the satisfactory resolution of the Patel case. Mma Ramotswe had put in her bill for two thousand pula, plus expenses, and had been paid by return of post. This astonished her.

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

[Weave]

'Nope. So we got this thing all sewn up. Maybe we'll even regain control of the Baltic terrorities.'

Let the right one in by John Ajvide Lindqvist

[Sedge]

The restaurant was closed down until all the work stipulated in the order had been completed.
Thank God I have another string to my bow with Pie Crust Productions.

There is a new notice in the window of Hoi Polloi.

Adrian Mole - The Cappucino Years by Sue Townsend

[Mazer]

"You will not be harmed or held here, Mr. Fletcher - not if you cooperate with our inquiries - but you are being deported, let's be clear on that. Kicked out. Given what you Americans call the bum's rush."

Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales by Stephen King

[SweetiiPie85]

Borgin squinted at her. Harry had the nasty feeling he knew exactly what Hermione was up to. Apparently Hermione felt she had been rumbled, too, because she suddenly threw cautions to the winds.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K Rowling

[Charm]

Coughlin was still focused on me. 'And you didn't go into the shop none? Just Mr. Herveaux here?'

Dead to the World ~ Charlaine Harris

[Charm]

That was a poser for Felicia. She mulled it over. "He holds grudges," she said, frowning.

Definately Dead ~ Charlaine Harris

[lexiepiper]

Already he was in a game with the highest possible stakes, and neither craps nor blackjack, nor baccarat could distract him from the knowledge that his life was on the line.
So Denver in the early morning.
As he had taken lunch in his hotel room, so he took dinner.

Dean Koontz - Your Heart Belongs To Me

[chrysalis_stage]

- F**K you!
- The virtue of the mysteries of the Christian faith commands thee!

And he holds the Bible over her like a brick about to shatter her skull, summoning all the strength of his belief, his faith a force inside him, deep as the centuries.

Vellum : The Book Of All Hours - Hal Duncan

[Charm]

"One of you needs to come down to the loading bay to get a suitcase that belongs to your party. We can't read the label."
"Oh ... okay."

All Together Dead ~ Charlaine Harris

[Ben]

'Naturally, naturally,' murmured Borgin, bowing again.
Next moment, the bell over the door tinkled loudly as Malfoy stalked out of the shop looking very pleased with himself. He passed so close to Harry, Ron and Hermione that they felt the cloak flutter around their knees again.

Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince. - JK Rowling.

I posted the three from page 122 because I believe Sweetipie posted the one's from page 123 further down. :mrgreen:

[page turner]

Time is only the rim of the plate and keeps coming back to itself. the world is made up of repetions.
I don't understand.


The shell magicians - Kai Meyer

[nippysweetie_1]

In "The Laugh of the Medusa" Cixous associates a feminine text with subversiveness. "It is volcanic", she says. How could the qualities recognised above be seen as a threat to or undermining the status quo of existing power structures, particularly that of patriarchy? Literature and Feminism, Pam Morris. You did say random book!

[Weave]

'You haven't played a musical instrument, at least not for some years now, have you?' were the first words out of her mouth.

'No' I said, taken aback. 'You're right.'

~Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

[Kylie]

'Good. Thank you, Eddie.'
Flotsam bowed obsequiously and departed.

The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde

[peacefield]

"But get this," said Connie. "I couldn't find Mercy anywhere. I know that records can sometimes be incomplete from this period, but it just seemed kind of strange to have her vanish with no trace whatsoever."

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe

[Stephanie2008]

"But the smile vanished from his face at once: Viktor Krum had dropped into Luna's vacant seat. Hermione looked pleasurably flustered, but this time Krum had not come to compliment her. With a scowl on his face he said, 'Who is that man in the yellow?'".

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling

[Charm]

She remembered this, but how could she trust him? ?How could she even trust her own memory after all this time?
She asked, 'What about my mother? You said he killed my mother.'

Skin Privilege ~by~ Karin Slaughter

[Sedge]

Dean Matthews is wrong. I have fought with memory my whole practicum only to find that it is not the enemy at all, and being an historian is not some saintly burden after all. Because Dunworthy is not blinking against the fatal sunlight of the last morning, but into the gloom of that first afternoon, looking in the great west doors of St Paul's at what is, like Langby, like all of it, every moment, in us, saved forever.

The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction (from Firewatch by Connie Willis).

That sure is one long sentence!:eek2:

[page turner]

That's impossible, he whispered grimly.
Oh yes? she replied in the same tone.
From last time, repeated Aina sadly, and her gaze was turned on distances that Jolly didn't even dare to imagine.

The Water Weavers - Kai Meyer

[chesilbeach]

It was exhausting, propsecting for grief like this, unsure if grief was even there to be found. Perhaps it was just too soon. For the moment I felt more pity for a trapped fly that buzzed against the window.

The Other Hand - Chris Cleave

(The fifth pagagraph from the top of page 123 actually takes you to the top of page 125 - large font, large spacing)

[lexiepiper]

Leo followed and took in the interior, especially the portraits of the family trio on the walls. Doctor Mutatkar smiled out of a photo that, judging from the age of his daughter, looked to have been taken recently. Outwardly, everything seemed to indicate a happy and successful family.

Richard Jay Parker - Stop Me

[Sedge]

But the stone steps based on calendar dates are not the only things that tower above the green roof of the jungle, for observatories were built too.
The observatory at Chichen is the first and oldest round building of the Mayas. Even today the restored building looks like an observatory.

Chariots Of The Gods? by Erich Von Daniken

[BookJumper]

"Everyone on this list,' he said, "is going to regret ever hearing about this class."
He walked down the hall, and Phoebe let him go, tears of frustration and shame gathering at the corners of her eyes. She could go in the office and tell someone what just happened.

"Generation Dead" by Daniel Waters.

[Sedge]

"I'm toast, blondie. I can never beat her on this feminist trivia, Nan. Probably right up your alley, too."

The Deadhouse - Linda Fairstein

[Adam]

"Were so to. And someone tried to steal me bag."

The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly

Random quotes are hilarious :lol:

[page turner]

What's that? he asked Nari, pointing across the water to where the tiles shone in the morning light. She shrugged. Some of the priests say it's just a design.

Brother Night - Victor Kelleher

[Kylie]

Academic to me then, the sad fate of the creature. Asterius, through no fault of his own, born a monster. The poisoned fruit of betrayal, a thing of shame hidden away; I don't understand any of that at eight.

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

[page turner]

Sergeant Simmons stumbled and fell to his knees.n Anastasia, dizzy, sat down hard. Upstairs, Richard started crying, and a low groan sputtered from the raggant by the door.

Dandelion Fire - N.D.Wilson

[Ceinwenn]

"Palden Lhamo - or at least her statue from the Jokang Temple - will be carried by monks to the banks of the Lhasa River," Penpa explains. "Thousands of people will have gathered there. On the opposite bank will be a statue of her lover, carried by monks from another temple." - A Year in Tibet by Sun Shuyun

[eurpho]

"You were curious."
I stared at her, aghast. "A little," I conceded. "But it's not my concern, Mrs Bell. I shouldn't have touched it."

Isabel Wolff - A Vintage Affair

[chesilbeach]

"It's distilled from the wings of the papilio obscurus," he continued. "Found only in the Balkans. Butterflies have a sort of dust on their scales."

Black Butterfly by Mark Gatiss

[Charm]

The newcomer didn't have to go any further. Steve lurched up from the table, slapped a hand over his mouth and sprinted for the toilet. As the sounds of retching and splattering echoed out of the bathroom the newcomer grinned, snatched up Steve's forgotted buttie and rammed it into his gob.

Cold Granite ~ Stuart MacBride

[Ta'veren]

(When I came in years later with a pack of Chesterfields in my breast pocket, Uncle Oren sneered at them and called them 'stockade cigarettes.')
We finally reached the window with the broken screen and he set the toolbox down with an audible sigh of relief. When Dave and I tried to lift it from its place on the garage floor, each of us holding one of the handles, we could barely budge it.

On Writing by Stephen King

And incase that book's too cool and intellectual, here's the same from the other book near me, which I'm also reading:

She was only gone a few moments, but Rand was uncomfortably aware of the eyes of the remaining Aes Sedai. He tried to return their gaze levelly, the way Lan had told him to, and they put their heads together, whispering. What are they saying?

The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan

[chesilbeach]

Halfway across, I stopped as a fresh wave of the scent came over on the breeze. I looked up to see a short, sturdy figure under a dim streetlight. She wore a hooded cloak of some kind, high heels and a short skirt.

Broken by Kelley Armstrong

[Chrissy]

'Hello...'
'It's Lucy, Lucy Myers.'
'Hello...'

'The Safe House' by Nicci French'

[page turner]

'The second course is coming up! It's roast beef! It's tender and juicy!'

[SweetiiPie85]

It would be tempting fate to leave it home. With a sigh, I folded it over my arm and stepped out into the brightest light I'd seen in months.
By dint of much elbow grease, I was able to get both windows in the truck almost completely rolled down.

Twilight by Stepehenie Meyer

[Chrissy]

After the chapel, the Moorish bell tower. Pender took advantage of the elevation to call Dorie's number; he tried it again as they strolled though the gardens behind the church.

'Fear Itself' Jonathan Nasaw

[chesilbeach]

"I don't understand."
"Why is human magic impossible?"
"Because it doesn't work."

No Humans Involved - Kelley Armstrong

[Charm]

There is no paragraph 5 on this page so this is the last paragraph.

Logan stood on the top step, looking up and down the deserted street. 'What did you find when you searched the other buildings?'

Dying Light ~ Stuart MacBride

[page turner]

For another... He wasn't quite sure what the other was, though he had a nasty feeling it had something to do with narrative patterns, whatever the hell they were.
Probably, he muttered to himself, a sort of Paisley.

Snow white and the seven samurai - Tom Holt

[chesilbeach]

"They tried to set you up with him and you said no?" Dena sounded incredulous
"I was dating Simon." The truth was I probably would have declined anyway - money and Republicans and sausage did not strike me as a particularly tempting combination.

American Wife - Curtis Sittenfeld

[Sedge]

He moved down the slopes of the Urals slowly and deliberately, and began the tiring journey through the headlands of the Pechora, a route he clearly knew towards an objective he had often thought of returning to: the prehistoric denning ground of the ancient Pechora pack. As he approached, a watching wolf (and there was one) would have seen that his bulk was deceptive: he was more than bulky, he was huge. His fur was dark and shaggy, in places patchy from fights long since forgotten; his face was so scarred and torn about the eyes that one of them seemed a shade higher and wider than the other which, with the permanent frown he had, made it seem that not only was he thinking about attack, he had just decided to launch one.

Journeys To The Heartland - William Horwood

Obviously not three of the shorter sentences in the book!

[Charm]

In a reeducation camp. The officials said that she got sick. But they never told me what her illness was.

The Stone Monkey ~ Jeffrey Deaver

[Ben]

'Across the walls the neon runs in vertical strips every metre or so and in between the neon strips are huge display cases, wall mounted and protected by black wire meshing.' 9987. - Nik Jones.

[Sedge]

It took a while longer to obtain from Hakins the place where Ryan was to hide up, and by that time it was much too late to do anything further until next day.
All through the night the blizzard swept over the outpost, and the wind howled in fury, piling the snow up against the shacks that made up the one main street. Faintly in the wind was heard the distant calling of wolves, but nobody troubled overmuch.

Boru, Dog Of The O'Mally - Joseph E Chipperfield

[pipread]

Another Tarot tradition. Many people believe you should never buy a deck of cards for yourself. That you should always wait for the right deck to be given to you as a gift.

Labyrinth ~ Kate Mosse

[peacefield]

I saw the white hair first. A thin young man, about the same age as the punt touters, but looking old before his time, his hair worn to his shoulders, so that it blew slightly in the wind as he leaned against the metal of the bridge, flanked on either side by Japanese tourists taking photographs. He wore no hat and his university gown was scarlet, not the usual black.

Ghostwalk - Rebecca Stott

[amethyst]

"It's against the wall, as it always is," she replied. "It does appear odd - I see a face in it!"
"There is no press in the room, and never was, " said I, resuming my seat, and looping up the curtain that I might watch her.

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

[chesilbeach]

"He's not in trouble."
"Good. I mean, he's not my boyfriend but he's basically a good guy."

Betrayed by P.C. and Kristin Cast

[page turner]

"I figured that one out already." I swollowed hard. "I was going to ask if you believe in ghosts."

Stargazer - Claudia Gray

[Charm]

'This thing with Jocke. He would always tell us when he was going somewhere. You know. ....'

Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

[amethyst]

The will to live is so strong that given the choice of two deaths one will alays choose the one that buys more time even if it is a matter of seconds. People will jump to their death from a burning building rather than burn with it. For in those few seconds of accelerating flight the god that refused to save them from the fire might still reach down from heaven and bring them to earth alive.

Random Acts of Heroic Love - Danny Scheinmann

[NovaLee]

"Still, he would be torn, not wanting to leave us-and while any able-bodied man could always be of use on a homestead, he was by no means a natural farmer, let alone a gunsmith, like Manfred and his father. If he himself were to wed, though....

I gave Ute McGillivray a glance, and saw her watching Mr Wemyss and his inamorata with the contented expression of a puppet master whose puppets are dancing precisely to her tune."

Breath of Snow and Ashes ~ Diana Gabaldon

[Sedge]

Weeping, Diment pulled his belt out of its loops and began to make a tourniquet.

Hunton was talking on the phone with Roger Martin, the inspector. Jackson watched him while he patiently rolled a ball back and forth for three-year-old Patty Hunton to chase.

The Mangler - Stephen King (from Ray Bradbury Introduces Tales Of Dungeons And Dragons)

[poppy]

It's lips were thin and ascetic, and it's eyes were a demon's eyes: they had seen too much and gone too far, and under their gaze he felt less important than a fly.
'What happens now?' he asked.
'Now,' said the demon, in a voice that carried with it no sorrow, no relish, only a dreadful flat resignation, 'you will be tortured.'

Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman

[Kylie]

'Well, you saw how she was carrying on with every man she could get hold of - even Mr Kennedy, and he's her own sister's beau. I never saw the like! And she certainly was going after Charles.'

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

[Ilona]

"To keep our practice in its pure form is our purose. Sometimes I feel there is something blasphemous in talking about how Buddhism is perfect as a philosophy or teaching without knowing what it actually is. To practice zazen with a group is the most importaint thing for Buddhism - and for us - because this practice is the original way of life."

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind - Shunryu Suzuki

[vinay87]

Beldin shrugged. "He didn't believe me. He can't accept the fact that Angarak society disintegrated."

Belgarath The Sorcerer ~David and Leigh Eddings.

Shame on me for not having what I'm currently reading (or supposed to be reading) on my desk as opposed to a book I've read four times already.

[Nicola]

"For the first time, her courage seemed to waver. Her eyes filled with clear pretty tears. A tiny weariness showed itself in her."

The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice

[jankensan]

Only after inspectors discovered the ruse did Mitsubishi begin to deal with the suspected problems, recalling over 700,000 cars for defects including bad brakes, fuel leaks, and failing clutches. A similar scandal arose in June 2000 at giant milk producer Snoe Brand, whose tainted milk poisened 14,000 people, as the result of careless sanitation procedures that had gone unchecked for decades. At Tokai's nuclear plant, Mitsubishi Motors, and Snow Brand, no worker or manager ever drew attention to a situation dozens or even hundreds of people must have been aware of for many years.

Dogs and Demons by Alex Kerr

It's not as boring as it sounds from this...:lol: