Random Quotes: p123, para5, next 3 sentences

[Peacefield]

"No one can live forever, see? Not even in someone else's body. No one can get past that sword."

 

The World to Come by Dara Horn

[nursenblack]

Ma would have covered her.

When I'm watching the movie in my head, just after the hands on her shoulders, that's usually the end. Everything goes black.

 

Mathilda Savitch by Victor Lodato

[Mitch_Carter]

Chase blew out a breath. 'Damn. He's copying it all"

 

Karen Rose - Scream For Me.

 

Mitch.

[Clare_Star]

Last is the door of death. The final resort. Nothing can hurt us after we are dead, or so we are told.

 

The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss

[Stephanie2008]

"God, no wonder she looked so awkward. Do you think she was going out with Rick then?". "God knows, probably".

 

Ralph's Party by Lisa Jewell

[BookJumper]

Phoebe shrugged, her gaze drifting outside as the bus rolled to a stop in front of the Oakvale mobile car park, where Tommy usually waited for it.

"Probably... could not... get a word... in... edgewise," Colette said.

"Har-de-har," Margi said, "you are such the little comedienne."

 

The Kiss of Life (Generation Dead 2) by Daniel Waters

[Pixie]

"Rois kept bringing me things to cheer me up-some of them walked, I recall. A caterpillar once, and a beetle with bright wings. A hummingbird's egg."

 

Winter Rose by Patricia McKillip

[Coffin Nail]

The man sat in a wheelchair, his back turned to the visitors.Here was the owner of the van in the driveway. He pivoted his chair around to greet them, and Jane saw a thatch of limp brown hair and eyeglasses with thick tortoiseshell frames.

 

Mephisto Club-Tess Gerritsen

[Stephanie2008]

"People didn't fit into slots - prostitute, housewife, saint - like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water. I ran her stocking up my leg, smelled the Ma Griffe."

 

White Oleander by Janet Fitch.

[Peacefield]

He turned to the sink and began halfheartedly washing the dishes. "The book can be replaced. Memories can't."

Blood Ties Book One: The Turning by Jennifer Armintrout

[Karsa Orlong]

'I was set up,' Miz said incredulously. He flapped his arms as he turned back to look at the others. 'Some 'person of dubious parentage' had me steal the ****ing necklace and let Lebmellin think he was going to double-cross me, but they had it all worked out; ****ing Mind Bomb sh!t and the guns it switched off.'

 

Against A Dark Background - Iain M. Banks

[MountainGirl]

"No one has been allowed to go into it for ten years, was Mary's careful answer. But it was too late to be carful. He was too much like herself.

 

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

[chesilbeach]

"Hello." His eyes weren't just light; they were - pale a share of blue so faint it was almost silver. Scary-cool.

 

Glass Houses - Rachel Caine

[Guest Eliza1]

Brython - brith'on, n. a Celt of the group to which Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons belong. - adj.

 

Thats page 123 of the Wordsworth concise English dictionary. The lines are tiny so I went with the fifth word on the page

[Nienna]

"Speak gently then; and don't look so malicious," said my calm, but provoking aunt. "We shall return home safely, and then," she added, with solemn significance, "I have much to say to you." So I went home prepared for a formidable lecture.

 

- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte

[Escargot]

Shaking her head hard as if to dislodge the memory, she padded in front of the mirror, reaching her forearm forward to wipe the condensation from the cool glass.

I want you, but no' for that, he'd said, and now as she peered at herself she wondered why he wanted her. She tried to imagine how he saw her.

 

Cole, Kresley: A hunger like no other

[poppy]

'Silly ******,' said Dink.

'Wot's up, Dink?'

'This geezer's having a bath.'

'Ain't Friday, is it?'

'Wot's Friday got to do with it?'

 

Mister God This Is Anna by Fynn

[nursenblack]

I ripped down the note.

Visit with me in the New Year. There is much I wish to tell you.

 

The Last Will Of Moira Leahy~Therese Walsh

[Jessi]

'She threw down her pajamas and raced out of the bedroom.' Nicholas Sparks, the Last Song

[Pixie]

Mr. Whittier, our old, dead monster.

Mrs. Clark, our new monster.

"Today," the Matchmaker says, "is going to be a long, long day."

 

Haunted by Chuck Pahalniuk

[chesilbeach]

Was it Clary's imagination, or did his eyes seem to linger on Maryse when he said that? She didn't have time to wonder; the Inquisitor made a sharp noise that might have been amusement or disgust, and said "It's settled then. Let me know when he's well enough to talk, warlock."

 

City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare

[Elin]

"I suppose it doesn't matter," Maggie said harshly. "It won't get a chance to tell tales."

Jeb sighed and pulled a bandanna - all but hidden by his beard - from around his neck.

 

The Host by Stephenie Meyer

[Lukeozade100]

I wish he thinks, spoken words could be captured in a locket.

'My pronounce,' Miss Aibagawa asks, 'is not very good?'

'No no no: you are perfect in every way. Your pronounce is perfect.'

 

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

[nellemarg]

The people who ran both these dance schools had more pressing concerns than repainting the walls and mending broken light fittings. Dance was always at the forefront of their minds.

Sonia was mildly suprised when her friend did not turn up but soon became absorbed in the lesson.

[Pixie]

For several long minutes I hovered outside the door. Not a sound. I eased the handle open and looked in.

 

The Ghost Writer by John Harwood