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"Even with my owl tat, the tunnel was pitch dark, and all I could hear was the wind screaming like a banshee overhead." From the novella, "Skin Deep" by Karen Chance in the anthology, Inked
Next post: Turn to page 10, sentence 5.
Next post: Turn to page 10, sentence 5.
"Step One : unlock seventeen locks on apartment door, fling myself into the living room-which-is-also-my-bedroom and begin stripping off clothing."From The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Next post : Turn to page 150, sentence 1.
"I haven't heard nearly enough about you," he said, and Nina wanted to kill them both.From Anyone But You by Jennifer Crusie
Next post: The last sentence of the last page.
"She'd sure given him a real taste of Paradise."
From Midnight's Master (Midnight, Book 3) by Cynthia Eden
Next post: Page 47, Sentence 12
From Midnight's Master (Midnight, Book 3) by Cynthia Eden
Next post: Page 47, Sentence 12
"She trembled as she blew back the tissue paper over the engraving and saw it folded in two and fall gently against the page."From Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Next post : page 17, sentence 3.
"My Noise churns and bubbles like a stew on the boil till finally I have to stop for a minute to calm myself down a little."From The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Next post: page 3O, sentence 9
"She kicked off her sandals, unbuttoned her blouse and removed it, unfastened her skirt and stepped out of it and went to the basin wall."From Atonement by Ian McEwan
Nexr post : page 77, sentence 7.
"But it was the spell, hovering in the air inside the gazebo, that held me fixed, like a hot palm against my throat."
From Magic in the Shadows (Allie Beckstrom, #3) by Devon Monk
Next post: Page 92, sentence 13
From Magic in the Shadows (Allie Beckstrom, #3) by Devon Monk
Next post: Page 92, sentence 13
"She let out a sob."
From Vicious Circle (Persephone Alcmedi, Book 1) - Linda Robertson
Next post: Page 199, Sentence 19.
From Vicious Circle (Persephone Alcmedi, Book 1) - Linda Robertson
Next post: Page 199, Sentence 19.
"I'm a Cursor, and I think the First Lord is right."From Furies of Calderon (book 1 of the Codex Alera) - Jim Butcher
Next post: page 53, sentence 7
"It was the random, helplessness of it, more than anything."From Losing Julia by Jonathan Hull
Next post: page 5, sentence 5
"But she- but I- oh, just forget it!"From Keep Me in Mind by Nancy Holder
Next post : page 111, sentence 3.
"And this time, they stayed on the roof, in the waking world, the place where the real magic happened."
From Believe In Me (Believe Trilogy, Book 3) by Jessica Barksdale Inclan
Next Post: Page 218, Sentence 18
From Believe In Me (Believe Trilogy, Book 3) by Jessica Barksdale Inclan
Next Post: Page 218, Sentence 18
"She could never love anything or anyone so selflessly as they did."From Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Next post : page 48, sentence 15.
"A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship."From The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Next post: page 201, sentence 17
"But if you'd picked up that toy, you might've lost a finger or two."The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
Next post: page 69, sentence 4.
"His lips are blue and his gold teeth glint."Before I Die by Jenny Downham
Next post: page 99, sentence 1.
"And now he's maneuvered you into the position of being his fiancee?"Dead And Gone by Charlaine Harris
Next post: Page 44 sentence 8
"He was a crafty man, and resorted to many means to accomplish his purposes."Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs
Next post : page 105, sentence 6.
"Please, please write to me so that I can breathe again and so that my heart can find some peace."From Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
Next post: page 1, sentence 1
The stench of death hung in the alley like smoke in a bar-so thick Caleb Locke swore he could see it.From Zombie Moon by Lori Devoti
Next post page 204 sentence 5
"An old caretaker and his wife were the only human beings she saw, not too often and merely of necessity ; they live some distance from the mansion, near the stables; the caretaker attended to the grounds and the horses; his wife attended to the house and cooked Dominique's meals."From The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Next post: page 60, sentence 8
An though sword,ax,bullet and fangs entered this ancient body, he retained no scares Her Vampire Husband~Michele Hauf
Next post: page 300 sentence 4
There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain.Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Next post: page 195 sentence 9
"'Cause you're my one and only true friend!"From Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Next post: page 127, sentence 10
"Christ, Jenny had told me it was "incisive, intelligent and really well written." "Love Story by Erich Segal
Next post: page 50, sentence 5.
"What has a scarecrow to do with your heart?" Calcifer asked.Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
Next post: Page 122, sentence 4
He didn't turn to face her, but she sensed he knew she had approachedThe Vampire's Quest~Vivi Anna
Next post: page 40 sentence 5
"This was a moment of clarification for Nicole - she knew from that moment that acting was the only life for her."Nicole: The Unofficial Biography Of Nicole Kidman by Chow Victoria
Next post: page 97, sentence 9.
"I cried: "Well, but - The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon." "The English Patient-Michael Ondaatje
Next post: page 68, sentence 7
"But it was different this time; she withheld her own opinions; she didn't make Natasha, Andrei, and Pierre part of her world, as she had Luise and Emilia, but entered their world the way one sets out on a long and dazzling journey, or enters a castle which one is allowed to visit, even stay in until one feels at home, but without ever really shedding one's inhibitions."The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Next post: page 222, sentence 2.
In my dream, he was human and we walked together in the sun.Dead And Gone by Charlaine Harris
Next post: page 48 sentence 4
"She would possess astounding beauty, exciting envy and desire in every man who beheld her; she would spring from magical lineage, so that their offspring would inherit outstanding magical gifts; and she would have wealth at least equal to his own, so that his comfortable existence would be assured, in spite of additions to his household."The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
Next post : page 107, sentence 7.
"'Your man do that to you?' he says, staring at the scars on my arms and the few peeking out from my eye patch and hair."Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce
Next post: page 89, sentence 4.
"When people do business with the coal company, they're dealing with outlaws"
- Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal- Silas Housepage 127 sentence 9
"Only she could ease him, but she never did."
Running Scared (Sentinel Wars, Book 3) - Shannon K. Butcher
Next Post: Page 235, sentence 5.
Running Scared (Sentinel Wars, Book 3) - Shannon K. Butcher
Next Post: Page 235, sentence 5.
"Group dynamics were the purpose and focus of these meetings."Dark Lover by J.R. Ward
Next post: page 99, sentence 11
"The impulse of gratitude swelled my heart, and I knelt down at the bedside, and offered up thanks where thanks were due; not forgetting, ere I rose, to implore aid on my farther path, and the power of meriting the kindness which seemed so frankly offered to me before it was earned."Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Next post : page 300, sentence 7.
"'It'll scare yer ter death,' he warned."A Woman of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Next post : page 198, sentence 10.
"There are two things in the world, as I have found out, which cannot be prevented: you cannot keep a Zulu from fighting, or a sailor from falling in love upon the slightest provocation!"King Solomon's Minesby H. Rider Haggard
page 2 sentence 5
"If I could find a man that versatile and dependable, I'd marry him."
Agnes and the Hitman by Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer
Next post: page 246, sentence 12.
Agnes and the Hitman by Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer
Next post: page 246, sentence 12.
"You have the most casually arrogant attitude towards drugs."The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Next post : page 133, sentence 3.
"And all the time on my own, alien and isolate, without a soul I could trust."The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Next post: page 208, sentence 10
"There is a world of accumulated feeling back of the trite dramatic expression--"I am going away." "Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Next post: page 212, sentence 12.
Mindful of vamps' extreme hearing I added, "I appreciate that Eric",as if we were friendly acquaintances.Dead And Gone by Charlaine Harris
Next Post: page 300 sentence 2
"'For the moment the worst is over,' he announced."The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Next post: page 123, sentence 4
"Perhaps she thought locking me away would keep me both safely in one place and out of her sight."Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Next post: page 159, sentence 15.
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Here are the rules: you turn to the given page and sentence of the book close to you and post that quote, then you post a page number and sentence number for the next person to use.
* This game is a lot more fun if you don't cheat! write the actual sentence not the one you think sounds best *
First post: turn to page 100, sentence 10.
the next person to post must post the 10th sentence on the 100th page AND chose the page and sentence number for the next person.