Guy looked like a refrigerator, but T was talking smack, as usual. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Neanderthals and archaic Homo sapiens probably also had a hard time talking behind each other’s backs—a much maligned ability which is in fact essential for cooperation in large numbers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And here he was talking quietly to me and this no doubt the first time he'd tried to tell anyone about it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped talking and took a few more breaths. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

All the time we were showing the movies the civilians were talking to the villagers. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you have difficulty talking about your feelings?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The three of us were sitting down and no one was talking. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

These days everyone is talking about having to hide. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She stopped talking, blinking against the icy rain. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But at one point, Craig was talking about something, and Sam turned to me and smiled. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“They can talk. Who ever heard of a talking lettuce?” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Then it was no more strange than talking into a telephone, because he was really talking to Lyra. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped talking and watched the weather forecast, focusing on any detail he could. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Have you seen the news? The whole world is freaking out! And the gunter boards are going apeshit! And everyone is talking about you, amigo.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She’s talking about the carved wood details on the legs and on the ledge where the sheet music goes. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

As our buggy wound its way up through the bottoms, Grandpa started talking. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door opens and the others arrive, including Madge, all talking, and putting together their instruments. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s not that. I don’t mind talking to you. So don’t apologize for it, okay? I just don’t do much talking. It takes getting used to.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Three other guys stand nearby, laughing and talking. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Four steps away from the fence, where he was talking to a female Dauntless guard with a gun balanced on her shoulder a moment before. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Okay, I know we’re just talking about a few puny little owls, and I know everybody is crazy about Mother Paula’s pancakes, but what’s happening out there is just plain wrong. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's no talking my way out of this situation. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Julia and Isabella start talking to each other, and I watch them as if I don’t know who they are. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

She listened a moment to Katie and Johnny talking in the kitchen. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m really glad you started talking to me.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They’d walk across the island, through the quiet green cemetery, past the foundation of the Tripp house, and then around the whole island, hardly talking, hardly needing to. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

If she wants to, my mother said; she had a way of talking about me to others as if I couldn’t hear. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shook her head, but he kept talking. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d like to talk to you, honey,” she says in the same voice she uses when talking to Crazy Charlie, the town loon. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Butterbur had at any rate not changed his manner of talking, and still seemed to live in his old breathless bustle. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“What we’re talking about,” said my mother, “is how handsome you are, and how brave you are.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking around the table, she saw that the adults were all suddenly very busy talking to one another. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost every day the paper had something about the case, and even if you didn’t read the paper, anywhere you went in the county, you’d hear people talking about it. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Dr. Tamba took our passports and did all the talking at immigration. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The door to the chapel was open, and inside both of Scarlett’s parents were waiting, her mother in tears, her father worriedly talking to people on a mobile phone, along with another policewoman. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Probably sick of hearing Aunt Heidi talking about babies, which I bet you she does a lot. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She follows Daddy out of my room, and I know they are going to be up late talking about this. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Like, I knew what he was talking about, understanding stuff about Teach that he didn’t before. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Aureliano Segundo discovered that friendship a long time after it had begun, when he heard the child talking about the killing at the station. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“People aren’t talking. I think this might be the secretest election we ever had. People just won’t put out an opinion.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I don’t even know how but we got to talking about what made us scared. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Grampa seemed worn out, tired, and like his mind was on something else, and I just didn’t feel like talking. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

If I felt like talking, I would explain that she couldn’t pay me enough to play on her basketball team. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He stroked my hand absently, not thinking, talking to Beatrice. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s your problem. The one I’m talking about was on Montgomery, not Broadway. By the Transamerica building—that old steel-and-concrete pyramid.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Everyone in this room knows what I’m talking about. Stop calling me a Nazi.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“They were just talking, see, and Daddy said we had to decide.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

"What are you talking about, Ghost? I care about all of you. Why you think I'm out there every day coaching y'all?" Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Then I watched his expression change, and he began talking with more animation and excitement than I'd ever heard from him. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was a Friday night, and guys clustered on the street corner, talking loudly. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

All the while she was talking, she was busy doing things for them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was anxious to defend himself and almost broke his silence for the first time—but before he could get a word in, Gaily was talking again. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Several men and one woman, all wearing business suits and carrying briefcases, were talking to the uniformed men. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about?” said Ron, but Harry, sprinting across the grounds toward the forest, didn’t answer. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Hazel suspected that Strawberry’s talking had the real purpose of preventing his own questions. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now she was talking to him in a way that was not foolish and childlike, designed to entrance, but instead was human and pained and adult. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I hate the idea of everybody at school talking about me behind my back. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“The guards say he’s been talking in his sleep...always the same words...‘He’s at Hogwarts. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

With tears in my eyes, I started talking to him. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you talking about Marcus? Because he’s Divergent. Genetic damage had nothing to do with it.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

When she rides the elevator down and heads across the floor, she can hear them laughing and talking loudly. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A couple of others were talking and unloading gear. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Behind me, in the jeep, my daughter Kathleen sat waiting with a government interpreter, and now and then I could hear the two of them talking in soft voices. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were standing now, the priest was talking to us. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the intercom clicks off, people are up and talking. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

When I was small, she’d read stories to me about talking bears and magic wardrobes and take me over to the pond in the park to show me the ducklings. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear Bertha in the kitchen talking to some of the cats while she fed them, scolding one of them for killing a bird. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

At first she did not know who he was talking about, and she wanted to say, no, she would never hurt me. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know what I mean. People not really talking to us anymore because we don’t go to the Jovenes meetings and all.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

George heard her name coming from kids talking to their parents, as well as the word boy. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

And at the same time she remembered Unferth's fascinated talking on this subject, here, in the very hall where they now stood. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Whitaker had both hands in his pockets and rocked back and forth on his heels as he stood at the bottom of Mr. Ray’s stoop, talking. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You better be talking about his height,” says Daddy. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what you call it or what used to be there, but I’m talking about the kids that are there now.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Odenigbo and Mama were talking beside a water tank, for so long that mosquitoes began to bite Olanna as she stood waiting, so she climbed into the car and pressed the horn. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re talking about arithmetic, Sonny,” he said, and tapped the Bible. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time I could think of, more talking wouldn’t help. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't know what you're talking about," the boy said, more puzzled than ever. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve been talking about what happened after Ben’s funeral, after I ran off. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure that’s the ship you want. My dad was just talking about a ship. It’s a big coincidence to have your ship and my dad show up at the same time.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Reverend Buckminster had said nothing about not talking with her, or throwing a baseball with her, or sitting by the green-blue sea with her. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I stooped down beside him, not knowing what he was talking about. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Grace couldn’t imagine sitting with them, talking about Peach. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Ivanito shouts at the sky, talking to a million people at once. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had begun talking to refugee groups, and I posted details about the events on Facebook. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Mai has done a lot of talking, but it's the resident from unit #11 who makes the difference. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

At the time, texting was still relatively new, but talking on the phone and driving was by now ingrained and done widely. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t grasp the fact that I was talking to Oprah face-to-face. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He was laughing and talking and telling stories and singing the whole time, all the time it took to pick the last of the beans and pull all those carrots and beets.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody was talking to everybody else: Where will you live? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The lady and the man start yawning, talking, shifting in bed. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d order us to sit down on the floor—we usually stood at assemblies—and there’d be no announcements or performances, just Miss Emily talking to us for twenty, thirty minutes, sometimes even longer. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘What is he talking about?’ the Queen said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

People milled out in the hallway, talking and laughing, no one paying attention to us. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

People stopped talking throughout the room as they noticed the pair and watched as the co-chairs of the charrette came together and raised their glasses in the air. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It has been nice talking to you, jisie ike,” he said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We often fall asleep before she goes up but there are nights we hear them talking, grunting, moaning. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

At first I had no idea what he was talking about. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He could hear them talking but they were farther away than the memory of the dream. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She and Joey tried talking to me, but I didn’t say anything. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Before too much glory could be heaped upon his brother, Pierrot added, “We heard you talking at the pool.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure if she’d closed it once or even taken a breath the entire time Mr. Griswold and Jack had been talking. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I remember Octavia talking about this during the wedding shoot, and I see a possible chance to allude to the uprising. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Cut that out. Stop it. Enough!' In the background, William sits upright in the water and quacks. “I’m talking to you, too, duck!” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And the younger bears, was she talking to them? The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Look who’s talking. I don’t know how you had the nerve to receive communion at chapel this morning.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, we were talking about Henry’s secret literary career.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We play without talking, taking turns, trying to outwit each other. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Actually, if I'm being honest, I don't really remember talking to Momly about anything. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

On the other side Brothers was talking his talk and walking his walk like he owned the world. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He starts talking about Tariq and how wrong it all is. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She joined him and they went a little apart, talking too quietly for Lyra to hear, though Pantalaimon became an owl and turned his great ears in their direction. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Together the Vanderbeeker children clambered down the steps to the kitchen, all talking at once. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He was always talking about the woods, the berries that grew there, the strange haunting cries of some of the birds, the loud sound their wings made when they were disturbed and flew up suddenly. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is it just a coincidence that I am eating a ten-year-old’s snack and simultaneously feeling like a ten-year-old because I’m talking to my mother? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A natural extrovert, he would leave the hotel as soon as we arrived and hit the streets, learning by seeing and talking to people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the time I had been talking, I had been unconscious of myself, of what I was saying. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think back to the intensity I’d seen on his face during our first meeting, when he was talking about his newest creation, about his passions. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He glanced guiltily at Jimmy, who was still on the phone talking about his missing rolls. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I bounce my ball and think Ju Mi is talking, talking like she always does. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

A nameless fear had grown within Francie while she listened to her mother talking. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way I see it, it’s not really gossip if I’m talking about myself. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

For a second, I didn’t know what he was talking about. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

But Rumfoord could hear Billy talking to himself from time to time. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But thinking about her hurts me; talking about how she makes me feel hurts me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

After a Harlem street rally, one of these downtown “leaders” and I were talking when we were approached by a Harlem hustler. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"They think the seizures are all bad," Max says, and I'm guessing she's talking about her parents. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The adults spend at least twenty minutes talking about traffic. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And talking is just easier now, and it’s easier than not talking, and everything I say is the right thing, and he nods and laughs and presses my palms. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I have no clue what she is talking about. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Deborah told the man she’d been talking to me for a book, and he warned her not to talk to white people about her story. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like this dream, I’m cold, and that’s a fake beard. Who wears a fake beard in a dream? Why do you sound like you’re talking underwater? What did you give me?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“You heard the man, get on outta here. Don’t no one want to be hearing none of the mess you talking. We ain’t ’bout to brook your nonsense. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Too clever, sometimes. He’s always talking back these days, raising his voice. He’s changed. He has so much anger in him now.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

After he left, Jinjoo admonished her sister about talking too much. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

No one’s talking, the tension so thick in the air you’d need a machete just to make it to the refrigerator and back. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He wanted Master to keep talking, so he could listen to the sonorous voice, the musical blend of English words in his Igbo sentences. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It's just the two of us talking, and it feels both deliciously terrifying and fascinating. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But what’s worst is when Ma quits talking and starts doing something to make a lesson permanent. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Keisha is doing the talking in her group, but she is making everyone laugh. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

In the Golden Day he had seemed more curious than anything else—until the vet had started talking wild. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had not wanted anyone to see me talking to her. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two women are talking: one in English, another in Turkish. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

But Howard went right on talking like he didn’t even notice. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

A little man in a top hat was talking to the old bartender, who was quite bald and looked like a toothless walnut. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“I warned you about talking those African words,” Polly reminded the girl. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d go long stretches without talking but then pick up the thread of our friendship with ease. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Lula stood talking with her mother, the tiniest beads of sweat on her nose, her loose hair a silver-and-gold cataract in the sun. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

And I wasn’t great at talking for myself either. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was talking about his idea of me: the radical Jew, the conniving Jew, the greedy and ambitious Jew who would kill a king for a taste of power. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He’s talking to a policeman who is writing things down in a spiral notebook. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

They fall silent as we enter, and it’s obvious they’ve been talking about us. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But instead of talking, I looked straight into her red fiery eyes with what I hoped was disdain. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I’d simply been on a long vacation. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the neighborhood was in the streets talking about it. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then I saw Papa talking with Rupesh Uncle and my other uncle, Raj. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“What were you guys talking about?” he asked, speaking even faster than usual, as if he was concerned—or jealous. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Like if you took a social worker into my house and he talked to my parents, it would he like talking to that wall over there. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. But what I’m talking about would mean that we still have to spend a few more years with me not making as much as I’d make full time at Floyd’s.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, some bet was made before supper, and just after supper Aron lost the bet and paid off. What were we talking about?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

This time Mom’s using her normal voice, husky, like a cave’s talking to you. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Which I guess was supposed to make me want to start talking, but it didn’t. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Like all the bells that ever rang still ringing in the long dying light-rays and Jesus and Saint Francis talking about his sister. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even know what she was talking about. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He actually liked sitting for hours in conference rooms talking about international TB control. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Lucy,” she said, breathing heavy and talking slowly. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Everybody else is spilling their guts and you’re talking in private. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I told you I didn’t want you talking about creepy dead stuff this summer,” says Liberty. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Landau starts talking about chemical compounds and genetic differences, and everyone is bouncing in their seats. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Please don’t pretend you don’t know what I’m talking about, okay? I’m not an idiot.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Is that an encouragement pose, like, Go on; keep talking; I’m listening. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I figure they don’t want to hear about the C he got on his science test or how he was grounded for the past two weeks for talking back. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She probably didn’t feel like talking to anyone right now, least of all me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe he hadn’t fit in as naturally as Liam and Zu had, but I saw him talking to other kids as he worked. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I think I smiled a lot and everyone was talking and laughing and it all seemed so normal. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

There was lots of food and lots of talking. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did most of the talking—I was still sort of translating—until Radar logged in and joined the room. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

We were talking about the picture of a movie star I’d once given him, which has been hanging in his room for at least a year and a half. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Soon she would be talking strategy and battle moves and breaking out her dice, just for luck. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

‘How is I possibly going to get near enough to the Queen of England’s bedroom to blow in my dream? You is talking dumbsilly.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was begging. And I made her promise not to send it without talking to me. That was supposed to be part of the deal.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Viola and I keep our talking to a bare minimum so we don’t give any more away. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

When Master Lester started up again, he was talking to a free people. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was insane to be talking about stairs now, in the middle of the night, in his room. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Often, after a disturbing memory or dream, talking to her—just being with her—makes me feel better. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced up at the hospital and suddenly turned away, talking as he walked. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

A group of people stand around my unfinished house laughing and talking, holding old-fashioned bottles of root beer. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He’s talking to me, looking at me directly. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what he was talking about, but I backed off. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Nobody answered “Speak for yourself, sir,” commanded the peregrine, looking straight before her as if she were talking in her sleep. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s not why I said hold on, I said it because we have some talking to do first.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“As far as we know, Dave thinks so. That was him I was talking to. I have his notes; they were in his desk. He says all he knows is here.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

My mom was having a difficult time talking about Deborah as if she were a statistic. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

First, you could hear sighs of relief from the people whose journals had not been read, and then people started talking a mile a minute. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, him too. But they were talking about Herodotus saying there were giant ants and gryphons guarding gold mines, and how he made this stuff up.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“I do trust you. It’s everyone else in this stupid world I don’t trust. And things are happening here, too. I mean, they will. We’re talking about things happening.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

But this Headmaster we were talking about wasn’t just tickling you when he took out his cane to deliver a flogging. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who knew not talking about Capone was going to be so hard? Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are scared, looking at the back door every ten minutes, afraid they’ll get caught talking to me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“That house we were talking about? It’s on Walnut Street.” Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to tell several to quiet down—there was supposed to be no talking at all at this hour. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He repeated himself, talking slowly, trying to make a very confusing thing simple and clear. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And talking about it helps get him out of himself.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Sitting in a circle passing a tissue box back and forth, talking about how hard it is to watch your parents skinny up, watch their hair thin and fall out, watch their bodies turn disloyal. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

So it all had to wait until the Rosses could get around to talking with Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Chung and get everything all decided—and by then it was already Thursday. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she couldn’t stop him, she mentioned my story about the TV news sports man talking about my brother. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was finding out what I knew, what I thought, and somewhere in that day, I realized with a kind of shock, or stunned belief, that we were actually “talking.” This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Stanley didn't know what he was talking about. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Don’t stand there in the middle of the floor talking about heaven. Move! You’re a mouse, not a man. Yau’ve got to scurry. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

‘Stop that talking!' shouted the Deputy Head. ‘I want absolute silence!’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

After while he seemed to sleep, but in no time was coughing again and talking. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We were just talking about it, on my porch. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I know all about that. You’re talking about my sister, Norma. I read about it in the papers. From what I remember of her, I imagine she’d have given you approval for my execution.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Matt, my sparring buddy, didn't know what he was talking about. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He was watching her, smiling, and she suspected that she was talking too much. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Don’t ask him. He’s very tired. He doesn’t like talking about it.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was the one who pushed him out by talking to my parents and betraying his trust. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But I was talking about the money shortage. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A few moms are waiting for tryouts to finish and talking on their phones. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Once again physicists are talking about the cosmological constant—the mysterious term that Einstein added to his equations to balance the push of gravity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about? We’re already here. His studio is, like, thirty feet away.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"What you talking about?" he asked, wiping sweat from his bald head. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s full of electrical impulses. It’s like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it—” He stopped talking. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

We burst out laughing, then began talking about the baby. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The only thing I could do that kept them talking awhile before they hung up was to tell them I was calling from TV Quiz and that they had won a prize. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t like talking to adults in general. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

We were already in bed when I heard them talking loudly on the porch. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way up, it hit me that it was truly strange to come over here without talking to Annemarie first. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The other tributes have already gathered offstage and are talking softly, but when Peeta and I arrive, they fall silent. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But you have to understand, there were hundreds of forms to fill out, and nobody knew English all that well, and the rules changed all the time, and the agents hated talking to us. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps your father would be right if he were talking of men.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was talking to Alpert, I happened to mention that I was going to be in Los Angeles in a few weeks. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had noticed that while Malcolm X was talking, he often simultaneously scribbled with his red-ink ball-point pen on any handy paper. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I was sort of confused about what he was talking about. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I got a little light gig I’m trying to build into something and she talking like a stone lame. Maybe she wants me to deal.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded even though I had no idea what she was talking about. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He discovered a comfortable lounge in tourist class, complete with a screen for what were then still often called “talking pictures.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The papers were always talking about the debt owed to society. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Not like that at all. Mr. Ray came over and we just sat up talking for a while. I think he was having a tough day.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The two of us were always less interested in talking about the intricacies of our new existence and more interested in sponging up bits of gossip and everyday news from home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“My parents are sending me to Crimson—to that hospital. I heard them talking about it.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Really good now that I’m talking to you. You’re making my day. No, my month.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Seeing families gathered together, sometimes talking, sometimes not talking. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I have heard them abroad in the schoolyard talking about First Communion day, the happiest day of your life. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I asked, kind of desperate, because I suddenly realized they had been talking for a while and I had no idea what they’d been saying. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d jumped on the road immediately after talking with her mother. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad were slouched at the dining room table, talking in hushed tones. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

My adrenaline was still pumping from all that trash Lu was talking. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“I know. They're all talking about it—I heard them. They say she can work magic like you, and now Capricorn doesn't have to wait for you anymore. He doesn't need you now.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She looked across the living room at Salvador, who was talking with Valentin. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The last thing I want to do is talking. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wen was soon talking without prompts from Pete about his giant China, about the provinces, and poverty, the backwardness of people and leaders. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who was that other boy Lauren was talking to? He seemed a little old to be hanging out with us.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The white-coated owner was leaning on the counter talking to the two or three customers. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The others had been talking of the child, Mrs. Weston giving an account of a little alarm she had been under, the evening before, from the infant’s appearing not quite well. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

He continued his rant, talking about how he was being “persecuted by the Jews,” and claiming that “the Holocaust never happened,” and using four-letter words to describe “the Jew Ellsworth.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Back then, we had assumed he was talking just about us. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Guardian Angels we’d started hanging out, talking about space and astronomy. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

One night at a college dance, I was talking with a cute boy. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes, now you’re back,” he said, and for the first time they stopped talking and just stared at each other. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Instead of talking she leaned across the seat and planted a long kiss on Luke. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He heard the voices of two men talking over the sound of water running in the sink. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both Florida and Dallas jumped back, stuffing their hands in their pockets.“Were you talking to me?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The lobby was full of men dressed in suits or sport coats standing in small groups, drinking, talking, and laughing. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

There are many of them, smiling and talking to the kids, sometimes patting them on the head. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without consciously realizing it, he found himself talking to Martin the Warrior. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t see the point in talking when you don’t have to.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Every time I went in, I saw Papa sitting on the floor, surrounded by men, talking, laughing, eating, and smoking. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

These females are actually talking about how to kill me. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“And that was the one Luster was talking about now,” Shreve said. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “No, I got nothing to say here. I’ll do my talking out there.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘This is Leo we’re talking about. He might come back any minute. Then we can take turns strangling him.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She leads me through the house to her bedroom, talking. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Behind her the three guys are walking off, talking and laughing. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one answered, even though I could hear someone talking inside, and I guessed that #1 meant the first floor, so I knocked again. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“So this is the rascal we’d been talking about,” the principal, a tall, wiry man, foppishly dressed in a black pin-striped suit, said to my mother as we entered. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He figured even Coach Hedge wouldn’t mind their talking after curfew if it meant giving her information that might save her life. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She’s talking about how hard we all worked and how we all became friends and how really, every one of us is a queen in her eyes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were long, silent lines at the markets, and knots of people gathered in the squares, talking in low voices. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Marly felt herself beginning to tremble, because she was beginning to know what they were talking about. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Disoriented and uncommunicative, he was forced off the bus in Hurtsboro, Alabama, after unnerving some passengers by talking loudly to himself and gesturing wildly at objects he imagined were flying around him. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Anatole and I took turns rocking his limp little body, talking to him, trying to coax him into the world of the living. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only was it the obvious guess, but Maurice already had been talking in terms of helices at a summer meeting in Cambridge. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

But the worst was when he felt like talking—these were times she really hated because she was forced to stay in his room much longer. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What are you talking about, lad?" replied Captain Nips. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

The two spend days exploring together and talking, getting to know each other away from the rest of the family, becoming more than brothers. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

At this point I wanted to explain my situation at home, but Mr. Penney kept on talking. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Harry wondered why he hadn’t spotted him at once, as Hagrid was so large, but standing up carefully, he saw that Hagrid had been leaning low, talking to Professor Moody. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Most times I only hear the word strong when Arthur is talking to Sonny or Henry about the heavyweight champion of the world, Joe Louis, or some other boxer he loves. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“A bunch of us have been talking about how Long and Tate seem to target certain students more than others.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A long beat passed before I realized that Breashears wasn’t talking about hauling a body off the mountain; he and his companions were bringing Beck down alive. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was talking to Barbara Walters—I mean, as if he were some kind of huge celebrity. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The family lets Amélie do most of the talking when the Nazis occupy their kitchen—she appears to have a head full of feathers but utterly charms the visitors with her fluent Alsatian German. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She dried her eyes, and grew cheerful at the prospect They were still talking of the dinner and the allurements of city life when Mrs. Pontellier herself slipped around the comer of the house. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

I returned to my bedroom to see Lily sitting cross-legged on her bed and talking on the phone to Nathan. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Emma does all the talking and I hold up my drawings so I can hide my face behind them. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

His gruff voice was the one I’d heard talking with Luke earlier. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Caroline mutters something about not having time for such things anyway, and Bailey attends alone, grateful to be able to enjoy the trip without Caroline’s constant talking. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One afternoon Tim came by my house and we started talking about the dance. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Ibtihaj, I was talking to some of my colleagues at work, and they all think you should apply to be a substitute teacher,” she said, while pulling pots and pans out for the evening meal. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He stopped talking about the silence between him and his father. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I noticed you talking with Humboldt Koper outside the smoking lounge last night.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I hope she didn’t hear me talking to the mirror. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I guess,” I said, faking a smile, wanting him to scoot along, stop talking. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

It ain’t aggressive, mostly people just talking things out, praying about it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The press had more than the usual fun with such an esoteric engineering concept, calling the new planes “wasp-waisted” and “Coke-bottle shaped” and talking about the “Marilyn Monroe effect.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When she started talking, it was all about how nobody is defined by any one thing they’ve done in their life. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Valley’s dad had also arrived at some point and was busy talking to the Dimblewits near the podium. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

When you see me and Esteban talking in Spanish, you just say, ‘Teach me.’ Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He didn’t understand what Favonius was talking about, or why Nico seemed so shaken, but he had no time to think about it. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you don’t need to do as much talking as you think,” Auntie Idris tells her. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“I don’t understand what you are talking about.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was coming into our kitchen yesterday morning, I overheard Daddy talking to Mama about how “sturdy that place still seems. They used to build stuff to last.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

While the commons began their walk home, talking of the day's jousts and the matches to come on the morrow, the court moved to the riverside to begin the feast. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Here he found Blackavar’s escort talking to the sentry on duty. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t talking about Michael, I tell her. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They were so just talking about you!” said Maya, giving them her dirtiest look through her black-framed glasses. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Everyone was talking in hushed voices, and I began to think that forestry camp had to be better than some juvenile jail place, too. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

And Chess wasn’t just talking about Mom’s phone. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

If they were still on the Renegades, the rest of the Renegades would’ve never been talking about them in the bleachers, and I would’ve never said what I did about Zoey. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Because the virus I’m talking about is a form of smallpox. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Miss Love had a sparkly way of talking and she laughed a lot. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

"You were talking before about doing things in this country instead of Africa. Like what?" The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have different ways of talking to Tía Darma. His way is not very effective. But I can tell finding him is important to Marcus.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

As the group was talking to Joana, a starving dog approached the sailor. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

One of the guards noticed them talking then and slashed at Besa with his whip. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whatever. Lucille Ball talking to me from the TV is weirder by several orders of magnitude than anything that’s happened to me so far,” said Shadow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Leave talking, man. Deliver the Queen and remove yer body quickly from this court” Lancelot pulled himself together with a sort of final care. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were talking about the Lazarus Burger and how it was just a Number Three without cheese.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Who do you think you are, talking to me like that?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

PS I was talking to Gregory, our mailman, yesterday about how I write you letters sometimes because I miss you. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe he was talking to us, but nobody answered him. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Alexandra was talking to her: “I told you. It’s something your father brought home from a citizens’ council meeting.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Francie remembered how Papa had described her that day he and Mama were talking about her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sensing she was truly done talking this time, Dorian cleared his throat. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

"I can't go the rest of my life without talking to you. I need you." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m not talking about this anymore. You gonna turn the movie up, or what?” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She gave the book back to me, and they started talking about prom again. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I remembered the story recently, when I was talking to Ann. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It crossed my mind that he was no longer talking to me but to Deborah. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear people talking about me everywhere, though they would stop speaking altogether when I walked by. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

After class, while I packed up my luggage of schoolbooks, I heard him talking to the professor how he'd gotten stuck and couldn't think of anything. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Richard’s friends knew his mom ran a tight ship—no disrespect, no talking back. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Hi,” she said again when Dimple was within talking distance. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Harry remembered the few weeks when they had not been talking to each other in the third year; he had not enjoyed trying to bridge the distance between them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think so. I mean, I’m used to people talking about me. Being mean. But this was different.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

To my horror, everyone stopped talking and looked at the mother of the birthday girl. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

No one is talking, not even among themselves. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Just as we were talking about it, a new Feeling blossomed painfully inside me. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“It drives everyone in my family crazy. Stop talking about it! You know that scene in the deli from the movie When Harry Met Sally? That’s what I feel about food when it’s really good.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He started talking to me as if he’d known me all my life. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some other kids came and started talking to us about the game. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Or I can look at whoever I’m talking to but shift my attention so that I’m listening to Kat. “It’s an exercise in selective attention.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We’re talking overhead, he goes on, not someone making money for themselves, and when you consider what Jesus gave so that we could enjoy eternal life with him in Heaven . Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what, but she keeps talking. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Obinze said, “Mummy, we are more likely to fill it out without mistakes if you stop talking.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

If I could deck her I would, but I'm trapped in a hole in the dark, so all I can do is listen as she keeps talking. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When a boy was bad, he wasn’t sent to the principal’s office for a licking; he was sent down to Mr. Jenson’s room for a talking to. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Danielle. I overheard you and Mom talking about her. And before you start, she already scolded me about eavesdropping,” Candice said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Think you can help me get out to that nest that you and the boys were talking so much about?” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I’m not just talking about talent,” Dad said. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just fixes me with the kind of glance that invites me to keep on talking. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon in 1938, Glenn Cunningham stood in the Los Angeles Coliseum locker room, talking with reporters after winning a race. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

It occurred to Lina that this might be what her grandmother had been talking about for so long. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

On our way to the door, we ran into Mrs. Terry, who was talking to a lady in a fancy hat with flowers on it. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s the only master who stops and says, Do ye understand what I’m talking about? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure who she was talking to—me or Luke or Kronos. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Behind the only closed door in the hallway, someone is talking. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know where I’m talking about? J.T., Digger, and I used to go fishing there? Swimming, too, sometimes.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“The Bird don’t like us talking about Victor,” he said. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I liked picking up my book satchel each time the bell rang and looked forward to talking about something entirely different the next period. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Eventually, with Moch clutching the cup, the boys just drifted away, leaving Burke alone on the float, still talking as the newsreel cameras continued to roll. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But like I already owned up to, lots of things were coming together to make me want to talk and not pay too much mind to who it was I was talking to. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She paced back and forth across the linoleum floor, picking the red polish off her nails and talking an incoherent stream about a murder she’d heard about on the news and the traffic in Atlanta. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes a boy reminds me of Antonio, the way he used to gaze at me, like I was a miracle, like I was giving him a gift just by talking with him. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was all a show for the guy she was talking with…when they were actually talking. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“You wanted us to talk, so I’m talking,” the woman said. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

So I’m not sure why it hit me then that I was talking to Clancy Gray. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Shortly before the meeting was to begin, a police officer saw Walter and me outside the cinema talking with Father Huddleston, one of the leaders of the opposition to the removal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It travels from centre to centre, right the way across the country in a matter of days, and suddenly every donor’s talking about it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Judd gives the man a ten and gets him to talking, then—when Mr. Wallace gives him change—says he give him a twenty. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some children were running up and down the aisle, laughing and shouting, and a number of younger men lounged near the door, talking loudly and gesticulating with their hands. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

We drove over to the Castleton theater and watched a 3-D movie about talking gerbils. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Or what would happen if she ran out of stories, her mind went blank, and she knew if she didn’t keep talking, he would kill her. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He’d put the whole thing down to my being young and foolish and talking big. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When you’re doing the talking or writing, the scrambled sentence isn’t so amusing. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we strolled the aisles in Walmart, I could tell they were talking about us, but I couldn’t make out what they were saying. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter if he’s just reading chemistry trivia off index cards or eating a hot dog or embarrassed because his parents are talking about his childhood or even now, looking tired and wearing glasses. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

"I was talking about smoke! Don't you want to be rescued? All you can talk about is pig, pig, pig!" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The man talking to the woman at table number three spilled his beer on her lap. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later, they were finishing their first highball in the living room and were talking in the manner peculiar, probably limited, to former college roommates. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

We began by talking of old times, but when we were alone, the first subject he raised was the leadership of the organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they exerted their right to come, and I have many, many times reflected upon how, talking to us children, they began to plant the seeds of division in our minds. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t understand most of what he was talking about, but I didn’t want to be disrespectful and turn away, so I kept my head turned toward him. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I translate this into "No one will overhear us talking" in my head. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He starts talking slowly, like I’m a tourist, which is insulting. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He had turned from me and was talking in that colored-to-white way of speaking that we used. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither of them are talking, but at least they aren’t fighting. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

"But...how could we be? We're not religious. What are you talking about?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, you just keep talking to yourself, because we got stuff to do.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I’m probably talking too fast and getting too excited, since I can feel my heart thumping. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what you’re talking about, son. You must have dreamt that.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quendy was at first really nice and normal, talking about how it was good to see that we were doing okay, and how she was okay, and everything was fine. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was very thin and perpetually astonished and somewhat gap-toothed, and his manner of talking alone was enough to convulse them, and he enjoyed it. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So my mom called him back, and I could hear her talking to Mr. Tushman on the phone. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He was talking in a straight, loud voice that rang through the terrible silence in the synagogue. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Here was this man who had so much to say, but wanted us to do all the talking. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mostly, it’s a bunch of Mexican ladies sitting in a circle, complaining about their problems and talking about how God will help them endure. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Maybe she could help me understand what the empousa had been talking about—the camp burning, my friends imprisoned. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Completely,” I say, pretending I have a clue what she’s talking about, but she calls me out. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“All she wanted to do was get into bed with someone. That’s the only thing she kept talking about all night long.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about? Look at him. Does he look like he has a concussion?” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

But then Laleh started talking again, making fun of the special effects. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Doesn’t talking to people for so long wear them out? Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Just put it out of your mind. What an idiot,” she added under her breath as if she were talking only to herself. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, Everybody was talking about Proposition 187 and the planned walkout in school today. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

That idea sets me off, and over the next few days, whenever I'm not talking to my folks or Alicia or not eating or sleeping, I'm being a detective. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lady is reading a newspaper and immediately starts talking to Mom in Spanish. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I glanced at Dad, hoping he’d ask him what he was talking about, but he was watching MacDuff chase a squirrel. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

So by the time Tata Ndu gets around to saying something, you can be pretty sure the whole village is talking to you. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They advised us to be careful talking to him. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Deen reached down and placed a sturdy hand on Sam’s head but kept talking. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I was just talking about those jerks,” I say, not giving her the satisfaction of being shocked by what she said about our parents. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The way he was looking at me, though, we might as well have been talking about the weather. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As he comes back I can hear him talking to somebody. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about? I’m not scared.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone stopped talking as she passed and headed into the kitchen without saying a word or looking at anyone. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Frank studied Hazel and Leo carefully, as if trying to read what they’d been talking about. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Why was singing any more embarrassing than talking was? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Ruffian? What ruffian? I'm afraid I don't know who you're talking about.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Then Papa turned to the music teacher with a happy, hopeless expression on his face, shrugged his shoulders, and the two of them began talking about opera again. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is no use talking of expansion, either of you,” Mother said. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. At first, that’s all it was, didn’t expect anything to come of it. But then last semester, we started talking more and spending more time together, and it like...evolved.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She was talking to Mary Elizabeth about how Craig might be “the one” and how she was trying to think of ways to keep it going long-distance while she was at school. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, her letters go on and on until the ink gets smudgy and I am not always sure what she is talking about. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was what everyone was talking about on the bus ride back to the cabins. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He is not helping so I say, Yes, even though I don’t like talking to strangers. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this way she banged directly into something solid, unmoving, and talking. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Even talking to a lost royalty was better than being alone in the wood. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She listened to them complain about how boring their upcoming weekend would be because they were going to the community pool again, and then they started talking about a dance class they took together. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Old age,” she said, laughing, “the first sign of old age is all this talking when we could be doing something else. ...” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were glaring at each other silently, and I felt that they had not really been talking to me. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But she say I feel more happier talking like she talk Can’t nothing make me happier than seeing you again, I think, but I don’t say nothing. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My life today—a very great deal of it—is spent in airplanes, rushing from one country to another, raising money, talking to groups of people, and starting Roots & Shoots in schools. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Alma had planned to be out of the house and instead was with Cabot Searcy, playing golf and talking about her aspirations to become a wildlife photographer. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I just wanted us to be talking and joking comfortably, like we were on the couch together back home, but some tension underlay everything. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

So we spent hours talking about politics, looking at photos, and making predictions about what will happen when all the American soldiers leave. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I love Julie, but I’m really not in the mood for talking about her new little family when mine’s falling apart. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Not really. Only now and then. It’s not really talking.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

"I been running in the park, build up my wind, get in shape, strengthen my legs—" "Slow down. What are you talking about?" The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had gone in with Larry, but he was busy talking up some woman and I had wandered off on my own. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, so because the art room is now the A-R-T-T room, no one gets in trouble for talking here. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He tried talking to me at school this morning, but I pushed him away because he’s the reason I’m in this mess in the first place. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Coach had his window down and was talking to Mr. Jefferson, the neighborhood sweeper. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“They are different. Don’t you go talking bad about them.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Hi, Colonel Causey, this is Mary Anne. Please pretend that you’re talking to my mama. My brother and I have been planning this for a long time.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone was drinking and talking about the war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I'd been browsing the stacks, when suddenly there were Jilly and Deidre following close behind me, talking loudly enough for me to hear, but not loudly enough to be shushed by the librarian. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t be tricked into talking—I didn’t need to be. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"Yes, his blue eyes. We were talking about his blue eyes. Such a handsome boy!" The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Basically, all the kids from all the fifth-grade classes poured into the cafeteria at the same time, talking loudly and bumping into one another while they ran to different tables. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Americans don’t really look at one another when talking. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And talking loop theory is better than going into pointless hysterics.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But he knew that when she was neither singing nor talking, her face was animated by her constantly moving lips. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

IT1 spend as short a time talking to her and testing her as possible. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I move closer, wondering if he might be talking about Dutchy. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“The day you started talking to me again.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I’m so surprised he’s even talking about it that I don’t speak for a good long while. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Like me and her were talking even though I’d just hung up the phone. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

We were in the kitchen talking and she said she loved my name. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The lawyers take turns talking to the judge. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the entire walk, across the heaths and fens near Cambridge, Lessing did all the talking; Watson said not one word. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She would literally show up, begin talking, hand us the money without even acknowledging it, and start the dance class! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Mrs. van D. can be won over by talking openly to her and admitting when you’re wrong. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Sitting here, talking about whatever, he’s not intimidating like other popular kids. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think Mom and Dad would want me talking to you without them here,” I said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s something wrong out here. Those destroyers are talking about hits, but where are the metal-to-metal sparks? And the boat wakes—where are they? And boat gun flashes?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

All the same people clustering together and talking about the same things. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He remembered his father talking about how he had gone over to watch. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t get the concept that driving while talking on the phone was almost just as dangerous as falling asleep behind the wheel. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I heard it in the hallway, talking to Eric, before I got attacked. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She was alone, pacing slowly, talking under her breath, pointing and directing remarks to an invisible audience in the room. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced over at Ben, who was talking animatedly, a coffee stirrer dancing in his mouth as he spoke. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I think she was talking to me, but I was looking at all the stuff on her desk now. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

And that was guilt talking, because my father almost never asked about me. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“I heard Mom talking to Dad last night. She’s been going to dinner with Mrs. Kitamura almost every night this week.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t mean to frighten you. I don’t like talking to people. It’s very—difficult for me.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Shay! People have been talking about you and Tyler online! Like you two are—” Before Isabella can finish telling me what people have said about me and Tyler, he appears out of nowhere. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t care who saw me talking to the boys today. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“What on earth are they talking about?” the Old-Green-Grasshopper said to the Centipede. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was sobbing, talking so fast his words were layering on top of each other. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Unless Safer was wrong about Mr. X not talking. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Dadi quietly woke us and we had yogurt and day-old roti without talking. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If the guard he asked said, “No,” that would mean he was definitely talking to the truth teller. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

A man and a woman are talking to each other. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

This is a term Dad uses with Anthony when they’re talking through baseball stuff. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t ask me. Trust your gut! Does Obnoxious Kid talking about your body that way feel in your gut like an attack?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I never feel like talking about it,” I said, but it was all slur and no edge. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She was still talking in the phony cadence, but her gaze was steely. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

There was just no talking to some creatures. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The closed door shields me from the sounds of people talking, feet clomping. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

And while he’s doing this, which is humiliating, four more doctors enter the room, and he starts talking. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

"This kind of behavior is exactly what I'm talking about," Ma says. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The instant she stopped talking, I forgot what she said. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brevis did not know what she was talking about and opened his mouth to tell her so. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Most of us Marines were spending more time joking and talking about how the war had to end soon than worrying about the impending battle. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were sobbing, talking to themselves, trying to figure out how to get the exhausted man on board. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

When the detectives asked me where I was, I couldn't even remember the day they were talking about. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your mom is a real firecracker, by the way. I overheard her talking to my mom last night. She’s very...colorful when she’s mad.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the act of exhorting was designed to enhance the prospect by talking about it as if it were a foregone conclusion, which Washington most assuredly knew it was not. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He gulped his first glass and then settled down to enjoy his second when he heard a drunk talking to the bartender. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought he was referring to things like poverty and hunger and wars in countries I didn’t know the names of, but now I think he was talking about himself. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I turned back to Arnold, who was still talking. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw your husband out here last night. And the cookies. And the rose clippings,” she said, talking faster as Aunt Rose’s indulgent smile melted into a disapproving frown. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But Bridge knew the Em she was talking about. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was a look that said Nok didn't know what she was talking about. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When I noticed Tanu standing there staring at me, I suddenly realized I was talking too much, and I closed my mouth. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

A new instructor, a knight named Dulcamara, is talking about rules of inheritance, probably in anticipation of the coming coronation. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

None of us is talking; we’re all just trying on a bass, holding it, strumming it. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“That’s what I’m talking about, Tandy, that’s the exact thing. They don’t know if it was one of us. Maybe you gave a key to a boyfriend—” “You know I don’t have a boyfriend.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I’m curious to know what Nico is talking about, but as the bell rings, he crouches behind his desk and rummages through his backpack. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Bigger saw Gus cup his left hand to his ear, as though holding a telephone receiver; and cup his right hand to his mouth, as though talking into a transmitter. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The man he was talking to was small and far away, behind a wall of glass. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now here the spirit was, once more, just when Ophie was talking to the dead regularly. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Stars and Stripes had a story about the Pueblo, and some guys were talking about the possibility of the U.S. getting involved with Korea again. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around, wondering who Jay is, and see she's talking to the parrot riding on her shoulder. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

One second we were all sitting there, talking about him, watching him eat his lunch. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

His hands are working the face from behind and he’s talking in Spanish, his words growing more and more hostile. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She stayed outside and played with Little Arliss and the pup till her grandpa finally wound up his talking and tobacco spitting and got ready to leave. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are as persistent as your grandson,” I said, “but being older you should know better. We were talking about Selvam. Kenny thinks he will be good. He is shaping well.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was strange for only a moment, talking to a mouse. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew exactly what I was talking about. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked talking to her like this, first thing in the morning. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t always pay much attention when you kept talking about codes all the time last winter,” Chess said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ms. Rochambeau has stopped talking and is looking like she’s waiting for me to say something. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

John Kerns and his crew slowed to a roll when they saw me talking with Nicole. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

When they return, they keep talking about art, the thing that connects them. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She put her arm through his, and did most of the talking, if not all of it. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I ask, but they start talking to each other, leaving me out. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Noodles squinted his eyes like he didn't know what I was talking about. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Donna does all the talking, and Pri dances while a small crowd begins to form around her. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The guard outside his door could hear Dasch talking to himself. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I remember President Hoover, people talking about him anyway. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody is drawing symbols of racial hatred all over the school, and we’re talking about Wi-Fi? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Visiting the Muslim restaurant in Harlem, I asked how I could meet Minister Malcolm X, who was pointed out talking in a telephone booth right behind me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been talking for quite a while, and Ugwu’s head ached. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Anyway, what if she and Babbage really hit it off talking about ciphers? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I could tell her I have pains in my legs from trying to keep up with her but she’s not singing and I know this is not the day to be talking about my pains. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t just talking about getting us off the ship. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Talk, talk, talking, on and on and on,” Fern said. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was talking to me, too,” I point out. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Which reminded him of something else they’d heard down there, ironically from the pilot himself when he’d heard him talking earlier. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Via was about to say something to me, but then someone else came over and started talking to her, and before I knew it, I was kind of alone in the crowd. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

During one long halt Bluebell had overheard him talking with Hazel, Fiver and Blackberry, and later had told Pipkin that it sounded for all the world as though Bigwig were being reassured. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In retrospect I have to think it was the kind of connection that makes people decide to phone each other at the same instant after fifty years of not talking. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But talking equipment is one of those things you just have to do, like chatting to your mother’s friends in the supermarket, so I said: “Oh, yeah? You happy with it?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He’s done this before, practicing scales or something while we’re talking. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't know if she was talking about the colored people or the police. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

But now she’s talking to him and I barely hear what she’s saying because the rush of blood has filled my ears. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tram stop to tram stop, we sat at separate ends of the car, not talking. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want religious people talking about a God I don’t believe in,” says Gat. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Professor Lupin looked cheerful and as well as he ever did; he was talking animatedly to tiny little Professor Flitwick, the Charms teacher. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

At that moment the girl turned toward them as if she had heard them talking. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Even when they can’t stand each other, they still always know what the other one’s talking about when nobody else does. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped talking about us getting a better education than other kids. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Of all the people who’d come to the Lackses over the years talking about the cells, he was the first to tell the family anything specific about what happened to Henrietta at Hopkins. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“So, say he was a ballplayer talking trash to you on the court,” Goldy said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Rukia had so much information on the first woman governor and senators from the encyclopedia, she couldn’t stop talking. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I wanted to keep walking but he kept talking, his back now to me, the top half of him behind the glass door to the beer case. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Lord. The man fell asleep in the middle of talking to me.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She used to sit next to me at the conference table, and when the visiting celebrities were talking she'd whisper witty sarcastic remarks to me under her breath. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Out in the hall, I heard my father’s wife and her friends talking. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about? A poacher? And what do you mean, ‘capture a book’?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But because they didn’t want to let the staff know what they were talking about, they had to adopt a strange, half-careless, indifferent manner, while listening with passionate curiosity. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

My brain almost froze at the possibility of talking to Arletta. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

People say your ears burn when people’re talking about you, but I get a hum in the cellar of my stomach. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Baba and Uncle were leaning over a rail, talking in deep, serious voices. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear the boys at the table, laughing and talking about who they would date and who they wouldn’t. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I stand near my bedroom door to see if I can hear what our parents are saying, but they’re talking too low. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Ten dollars?” she says, like she was talking in her sleep. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Buttercup was talking very fast: “Was he stabbed?...Did he drown?...Did they cut his throat asleep?...Did they wake him, do you suppose?...Perhaps they whipped him dead....” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was a fire in the fireplace, and students were scattered around in armchairs, talking quietly or reading. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

And it was nice to be with our neighbors and friends, drinking lemonade and talking and singing along with my parents. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

"Oh, I get it, you're putting the blame on me. If you had given her a good talking to about kicking people when I asked, she might not have ended up a common criminal." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

They finally got around to talking about SAT scores, which I have never taken. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Percy couldn’t believe he was talking about the end of the world with a loaf of Wonder bread in his hand. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then he saw she was completely at ease, grinning and talking with her escorts, and Leo realized that the mermaids were laughing. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

No music from next door, no loud talking on the stoop, even the rats scratching in the wall are quieter. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Sheed said, “Come on, lady. What kind of secrets are you talking about?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

This is the first Sunday we’ve been here in a while, and the only thing church folks love more than talking about people is talking about people who haven’t been to church. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Instead it was his father who did the talking, saying that the man had gone to St. Xavier’s, and then B.E. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Why do you do that? Don’t you get tired of people talking about you?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I have put off talking to her about Frightful long enough. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t necessary, since we heard Mother and Mr. van Daan downstairs talking to Hello, and then the two of them came inside and shut the door behind them. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Zimbardo isn’t talking about environment, about the major external influences on all of our lives. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is more talking, and then I spy Liz and her mother walking down toward the end of the block and turning the corner. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Before, he’d wished she would just say something, and now he wished she would stop talking. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“He was talking about learning,” said the Wart. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grinned to herself and glanced around the room, taking in Pol talking with Tulan, Parsa’s two daughters racing out the door with rock sugar in their fists. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I remember my brothers sitting around the table talking very intently about what we were going to do, how we would keep the family together. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was talking to someone, maybe a nurse, and she sounded tired and upset. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I don't like talking on the phone in front of people—it makes me uncomfortable, and I feel like everyone is listening. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They ended up hanging out together for hours, listening to music and talking. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He knew perfectly well what I was talking about, but didn’t know what to think— or do—about it. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The corporal patted him on the head and continued talking. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I can tell that she is actually listening, Addie must realize this, too, because she doesn’t jump in with her own ready-for-action mouth and lets me keep talking. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was difficult to know what the point would be of talking about such a thing. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

His hands would jerk nervously, for in his dreams he was talking to his friend and Antonapoulos was watching him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

On the bus, some of the people are sleeping, others are staring out the window or talking softly. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

When she doesn’t say anything, I go on inching and talking. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Everybody was talking about the possibility of a truce before the holidays were over. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to shake off the feeling by talking. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They kept talking about the singer’s stomach problems all the time, though. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

It kind of freaked Chess out to hear her talking about the alternate world like it was a fact. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They are black like the people we are talking about when we say, “So and so is blacker than black, he’s blue'black.” The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe this was the same Padre de Jesus talking who several months back hadn’t know his faith from his fear! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rappers and basketball players were always talking about buying their mamas houses and cars. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“But I heard a man talking,” I said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I’d finally told Nan about being called Donut Hole, instead of talking to my teacher or telling me to stand up for myself, she’d packed. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

In the locker room the coach was talking about how we had to overload one side of their zone and block off the defense when we swung it to that side. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a news announcer talking in front of our dorm, then interviewing Hammie, who looks awake and dazed as she clutches a blanket around herself. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even Pollard, who had been jabbering gaily with reporters since his arrival, stopped talking. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I started thinking about the radio, about the people talking about people who talk about animals like they people, and I just...I just...lost my appetite. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

As soon as Sohrab saw the lettuce, he let me go and ran back inside, talking to his mom in Farsi at warp 9. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The men were all around him, and he was talking to them by asking questions. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I was talking about how it’s not fair for you,” I said. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Nat got there he found Mr. Derby talking to a tall, sturdy man with bold, black eyes—Captain Henry Prince. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you have tenant rights or something? My dad is always talking about tenant and landlord rights.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When Ty'ree started talking, his voice was low and even, like he was reaching way back to remember. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Are we talking about a weekend or a year?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I asked him what his problem was and he started talking about how he didn’t have a problem.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She was downtown, shopping; she was standing on the street talking to your grandmother when he rode past. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

“None of your business. Get talking, Van Eck.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Spent? What four thousand dollars you talking ’bout?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He always spoke to me as if he were talking to a grown-up, using real words and assuming I would understand him. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Boo ignored her question and continued talking to himself. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Traffic, people talking, sounds all the time— the hum and whine of the city. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

This only goads them into talking further, in lowered voices, their heads leaning in toward each other. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

That was the problem which Bernard had come to discuss with him—or rather, since it was always Helmholtz who did all the talking, to listen to his friend discussing, yet once more. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kiss him to get him to stop talking. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Is this what they were talking about in our kitchen last week? Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“The Susan Marie was on the move?” asked Alvin Hooks, the prosecutor, who stood with one foot perched on the witnesses’ podium as if he and Art were talking by a park bench. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We didn’t go out for almost a week, but when I saw Captain Stewart talking to Gearhart I figured something was up. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because,” she starts with a defensive laugh, “we weren’t talking, and if it was good news I didn’t want to have to be fake and suddenly happy for you. I needed time to prepare.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They were talking about a move as soon as there was enough money. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pilate had never heard the word “navel” and didn’t know what the woman was talking about. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jayden looks at me like he has no clue what I’m talking about. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Coach spent a lot of time talking to all the moms and dads—mostly moms—especially of the vets. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Relativity, quantum mechanics—on such nights he seems happy enough talking about whatever Werner asks. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“But other people,” he said, “I don’t hear them talking about revolts. Nobody else wants to make a pillbox.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard Hugo talking about me to other Hugos in his rowing club. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

But while she was talking to me, she was looking at Colin, and her expression was funny, as if her stomach might be floating too. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

A woman was walking towards the door, talking loudly to her companion. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She wishes they were somewhere alone instead of at Will’s house, where she can hear Robert and Tracie downstairs talking and having a glass of wine. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Though I don’t believe in anything, I know it’s important to sound religious when talking to old people. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I asked her what she was talking about. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m tired of hearing about Dray, talking about Dray, and seeing Dray. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He said the words with a particular kind of scorn, and Koffi had the sense that, perhaps, he wasn’t just talking about the sky anymore. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Pa looks at me and Ma like we’re supposed to know what he’s talking about. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want you up in this house talking about ‘slaves,’” she says. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma’s talking to me and Miss Jackson at the same time. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I've shoveled about halfway through the mound when I realize no one's talking. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Uhmma patted the seat next to her and continued talking to her friend. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I know he was talking about Boy Scouts and Eagle Scouts but he also said that about anything I had to do. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a PSF had escorted us to our new residence, it had been with several warnings: no talking after lights-out, no leaving, no use of freak abilities—intentional or accidental. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He went out on a promotional tour to gather a cast of thousands, contacting four hundred friends, mostly movie people, and talking them into coming to the track to cheer his horse on. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later I had to start talking to keep Miles awake. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I would hear them talking about how I looked fine, how they wanted to break my cherry. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After dinner, he sat around for a while, talking to me and Mama and making Little Arliss some toy horses out of dried cornstalks. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

All those years of talking, all those street corners—I kept my sister to myself. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Maybe by someone from that other house? Or by the ‘criminal’ those boys were talking about?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

As I lie on the bed I can still hear the talking and laughing coming from the house where the feast is going on. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Too worried that if I started talking, I might say something I couldn’t take back. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

That I traded them in for just the idea of talking. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

When she’d first come, she’d overheard him talking to the younger one, Finn, about counselors and doctors and shelters for girls like her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“And all I’m saying,” said Cotton, “is when you don’t know what you’re talking about, you shouldn’t talk so much.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He’s talking too fast, as if he’s the one who rammed into a car, his hand trying desperately to push down the trunk that has flown open. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I kind of expect her to ask me what I’m talking about, but she doesn’t. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I agreed with him that he couldn’t have done anything else, but I told him I wished he could somehow get around to talking about it with his father. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The game of darts was in full swing again, and the knot of men at the bar had begun talking about Lottery tickets. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The Men and Dwarves were mostly talking of distant events and telling news of a kind that was becoming only too familiar. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Navid,” I said, trying really hard not to have a heart attack, “what are you talking about?” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“They have poison inside them,” said Jule, still talking about the vipers. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Tali said grimly, “It’s only talking to me, then.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But I feel awful that Soojin’s family is having this big moment after waiting for so long, and I’m not even talking to my best friend. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Recovering himself, however, shortly, he turned to his partner, and said, “Sir William’s interruption has made me forget what we were talking of.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I did the talking to our inmate, a Latino in his twenties. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon, even though we was white and colored, we got to talking like we was just people. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is still panting but doesn’t say anything right away until he says, What are you talking about? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have been talking about nothing very important. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says to me, “I wasn’t talking about Chelsea a lot.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“No—no, I’m the one that’s sorry. I didn’t mean to blow up at you. God, it was like Dad was talking through me. I’m so, so sorry.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then she was walking toward him and taking his hand and talking to him fast and desperate. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

If I tell him me and Tyler aren’t talking, does that mean he’s going to try and talk to me? A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe it was still raining, that it was the same day, that we had only been talking for an hour or so. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

She says, talking to her husband, ‘Sweetheart, I don’t have any money.’ In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The repairman seemed disappointed, but he kept right on talking. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Jermaine stopped talking to me just before he died, okay? We had had a argument.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He’s talking to some of the older boys so I take my time walking down the stairs, through the school yard and back to the apartment. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Do you see what I’m talking about?” he asked, his pitch rising. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

That’s the last thing I want, so I stop talking immediately. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I think if I hadn’t been talking about using the chamber pot I would not have understood him at all. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are talking too much,” the doctor said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

His brother was doing most of the talking. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Well, it's just as well that he has a brother who can do the talking for him,” Ida smiled. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m talking about the worst thing I ever did to the person best qualified to know how awful it is. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

When a fellow architect asked Sullivan for suggestions on how to improve one of his designs, Sullivan replied, “If I told you, you wouldn’t know what I was talking about.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Once the chickens settled, the night birds got to talking. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They were talking about some cute boy who had looked at one of them. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay. Lots of times, there are performances at lunch or sing-alongs at dinner. That takes the place of a lot of the talking.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

When I got to the ’partment, Biddy was talking into her tape with door closed. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"You were wearing your brown corduroy trousers," I say, talking so fast, it makes me shake inside. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s kind of like how we’re not talking about what happened. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Quisqueya stopped talking, her eyes wide, her face nearly as red as her hair. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I wonder if the aunts have been talking about me. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Luke stared at Coach O for a second before he understood he was talking about the match with Lowry. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She waved her hand ’round a lot whilst she was talking to the men, like they couldn’t hear her good. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

"People will assume you're bad if they find out you were born here, so don't be talking about it." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“I have a hard time talking to you, you’re so pretty,” he finally says. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“If I’m not talking to you,” I announced, “I might have to find another guy who’ll listen.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I thought them days was long gone,” says Dad, talking to himself. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Steve, as a result, spends almost all his time on screen talking directly at the camera. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be talking to himself about how hard life was in Russia, and then he lurched out of the room. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He might be thinking she was talking to him in code, suggestively conveying her taste for the full-blooded and sensual. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“What do you think I’m talking about? The day Marcus hit you. The day you bled all over your Yankees jacket—the day you shut me out!” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Really sweet! And I’m not talking about the cinnamon bun smell.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Closer to the fire sat a group of rangers and a few king’s men, talking quietly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They’d march north for a time, then east, then north again, skirting the villages, no one talking except in whispers. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had waited so long for his breakthrough, despaired so many times, and he just wanted to be alone for a little while with a pencil and some paper and a calculator and no talking. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

They burned our house, and yet he kept on doing the same thing, pushing his agenda, talking his big talk. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were red, and I suddenly realized that when she called me a coward, maybe she wasn’t talking about the prophecy. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

They crowded around, a summer program advertised on the front and back of their yellow T-shirts, laughing and talking. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t hear his response because I was pulling my shirt on, but when the phone got back to my ear, I could hear him talking to Ben. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

They were talking too much, and too loudly. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

A breeze came in the night and we heard the men of the anti-aircraft gun on the next roof talking. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She was all cheerful and kept bouncing herself on the bed and talking about where we were going. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone is talking about how many lemons for roasting chicken—and I remember chickadees. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He’s actually talking about my sister Kate, but he doesn’t know that. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Since we’re talking about religion, can I ask you a question?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She was talking about people who weren’t afraid to say things. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

All of it was too much, and when the boy stopped talking his chest twitched a half-dozen times and blood ran from his mouth and down his cheeks. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Pong, you are talking around and around the thing you want to say, and we both know that's my job.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Pa and Ma and the visitor would sit talking a little while before they went back to work. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We were talking about the prince," Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Now, where you be going off to?” the man that had just been talking asked. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trouble was, it was too much like people talking and interrupting each other. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I just can’t believe I’m talking about theater with another guy and he’s not slamming my face into a toilet. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mam says he’s talking a lot of bloody nonsense and he says she shouldn’t say bloody in front of the children. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you were a clone. There’s no mistake about that. But we’re talking about international law now.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were moments—not just today, moments every day since they'd met—when Eleanor made him self-conscious, when he saw people talking and he was sure they were talking about them. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Deydey and Fishtail sat in the corner, talking low and thoughtfully, drinking Grandma’s tea. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I look over to where Ma and Mrs. Howard are talking, see Ma nodding her head. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad sat together on the smaller sofa, talking together quietly. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Nam looked back at me once, and I was certain they were talking about Paul and Guzzo, and therefore me too. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The truth is that when I got home from the auditions, I didn’t feel like talking to Tanisha, Pop Pop, or TJ. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Are you talking about filing at a time like this? I am prepared to contact my attorneys and have them sue you for making me get on that obscene stool.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would come to buy a potion but would usually end up talking to Doc for a while. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The table was covered in food, and there were people standing around it talking. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“And I’m talking about you tool” the colonel declared, whirling to rage at Yossarian. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They had to have a name, or not be referred to at all, and talking about them—especially if you were safe and snug at home, or in Jordan College—was delicious. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

If he’s talking to Malachy and I think he’s talking to me he might go into a rage and have a fit that will carry him off. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The one that makes it sound like she’s talking to a baby. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what in the world you are talking about.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was talking very fast, completely unperturbed by the sparks flying around it and the flames licking its ears. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

One man went mad, tearing at his hair, talking nonstop of chickens and the chicken car. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Keep talking. Tell them about watching the mountain go down,” Haymitch insists. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He wanted to say talking to girls, but he decided to keep that to himself. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Chino is standing outside the little gatehouse talking to a man in khaki. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He seemed annoyed with me, perhaps because I should have told them this straightaway, instead of wasting all day talking about myself. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think Aleef would be pretty good at taking attendance, or Grace, or—” I stopped talking because I realized no one was playing tetherball. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

We just pretend to think about talking, and we mention from time to time that one of these days, we really should sit down and talk. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

‘Little micies is always talking to each other and I is hearing them as loud as my own voice.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are talking about me in other rooms. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Lolo is right here, talking to me, the same as always, but he’s disappearing a little bit at a time. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

That was the Gravedigger, talking like she had any say in what happened to me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t planned on talking to any girl. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Who in the world would want to spend their Saturday night talking about God? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

After working near one congenial-seeming inmate for a long time, he’d become so comfortable talking to him that he’d confided to the inmate about some problems at home and a shortness of cash. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently, I've uttered the magic words, because Tiny takes a deep breath before he starts talking, as if—fancy this—he has a lot to say. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I almost ask whom he’s talking about, because I can’t quite believe he’s admitting that high and mighty Cardan is affected by anything. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They came when Will was at school, and one of them kept her talking downstairs while the other searched the bedrooms. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sounded as if she were talking about someone else, as if the table were not made of sturdy wood. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll take that as a no for talking about his parents. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Fern held Pa’s hand while Big Ma, Vonetta, and I lagged behind without talking. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I didn’t bother to ask who he was talking about because it didn’t matter. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You’re a fine one to be talking about integrity, with the stunt you just pulled.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I saw Mr. Galanter talking to the next batter, who was nodding his head vigorously. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Merpeople were emerging on all sides now, watching him eagerly, pointing at his webbed hands and gills, talking behind their hands to one another. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Is this guy really talking to me about poetry right now? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

You need to use have only if you’re talking about two different times in the past: Until last year, Whiskers was the only cat to have googled on his own smartphone. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was talking to Wash, and Beto saw the look that passed between them before they knew he was watching. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But then we made up a new game in which the object was to keep a stranger talking on the phone as long as possible. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Commander does the talking for me, to this man and to the others who follow him. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Talking to Ms. Rosalie may be harder than talking to the cops, honestly. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

His only way of talking to her is at the home of his mother’s cousin Maria Edelmira Sanchez Mejia, one of the few family members who has a telephone. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

So it occurs to me she’s talking about later, you know, about after we leave here. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well then, let’s just give them a couple minutes to simmer and get their talking over with.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As Tommy Lacks stood by his crop praying for a good price, Henrietta and the cousins ran around the tobacco piles, talking in a fast gibberish to sound like the auctioneer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He is a curious Baggage, the Fiddler—odd — unspeaking, & there is a Jest that Capt. Draper hath asked me to be the Acquainter owing to me talking for 2 Men & he talking for None. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

What did that make Father then, Charlie Chaplin, waddling around duck-footed, waving his cane and talking without any sounds coming out? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I could see the cops eyeing us and looking at the coffin and one of them was talking on his radio. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Can we talk about—" I cut myself off while Mina stops to adjust Regina's blankets, and start talking again once we’re moving. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

So he wandered around the apartment all day, in and out of rooms, talking to himself, just like a kid in diapers. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. It sure was boring. Who did most of the talking anyway?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shasta thought they took a long time going past, for though he had been talking and thinking about "two hundred horse" all day, he had not realized how many they really were. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Grandma India would hand me the receiver with a scowl on her face, but neither she nor Mother Lois forbade my talking with him. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked to speak to Detective Inspector Gaskill, but they said he wasn’t available, so I ended up talking to Riley. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Justin kept right on talking as he made a clean slice down the middle of the earthworm. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Izzy and Tee were sitting on a bench, Izzy splayed out in Tee’s lap like an old sweater, and they were talking quietly. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I can tell by her sarcastic tone that it’s me she’s talking to, not God. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forcing my way quickly through the crowd, I stood on the steps facing those in front, talking rapidly without thought but out of my clashing emotions. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls of the room facing the theater were covered with a parade of young people in medieval costumes dancing, playing, and talking with one another in an idyllic country setting. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

This is the key that made Father falter, the one he thought I was talking about. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“I think, in light of what we’ve been talking about all these weeks, family becomes even more important,” he said. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the castle, the guards remained loitering about, talking amongst themselves. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, the lady was not talking to me.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Has anything happened here? I thought I heard the servants all talking together a while ago.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t hear a lot, and sometimes I wasn’t sure if no one was talking or if I just wasn’t hearing what they were saying. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hated the thought of the islanders talking about me as if I were news. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“It means so much to hear that from someone who doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a breeze blowing down the hill and the men had gathered outside, standing on the sidewalks, their hands behind their backs, talking amiably. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I told you, Monsieur, in the next coach, talking to my colleague.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they walked off down the trail together, still talking, and the hidden cat heard their voices receding in the distance. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He led us back to the counter, talking to Sohrab in Farsi. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But somehow we never got around to talking about it that Shabbat, and on Sunday morning we were both back in school again. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But something happened that was almost like talking. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dauntless is split in half,” Edward says, talking around the food in his mouth. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I would move off a discrete distance, out of sight, but within easy talking distance. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The boys surged forward, all talking at once. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm in the upstairs bathroom talking to her because I don't want Jamie to hear. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I had no idea who he was talking to. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Maya had no idea why she couldn’t stop talking. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“How do folks around here feel about all this talking back to the Russians?” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, she seemed not to be interested at all in talking about who the attacker might have been. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

There were two padres, one sitting and talking to a man lying on his side, the other praying by a shape under a blanket. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“We,” the princess said, struggling for the word in the common language, “were talking with the weather.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I just keep sewing, stop trying to explain myself, stop talking. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

People are everywhere, all dressed in black, all shouting and talking, expressive, gesturing. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Tai heads for the bed Dorothy wakes up in when she finally makes it home, and grabs one end and starts talking. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

She had come over to me and started talking. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra wasn’t sure how to answer that, but fortunately he just kept talking. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“No. They’re not talking. They stopped talking to him when he ran oft with me.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man was somewhere close by, but Will couldn’t see what he was doing, and meanwhile Lyra was talking to him. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The youth knew me and had no reticence in talking since he was sure I was “one of them” so to speak. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard them talking, clear as anything, heard every word, they didn’t know I was there. Down by the pond, they didn’t know I could hear. So that just shows how much you know!” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I would rather be talking to you,” he replied; “but as it seems a matter of justice, it shall be done.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Some man was talking to him in a low voice and attempting from time to time to lay a hand on his shoulder, but Wilson neither heard nor saw. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Everybody around us was talking about you. I didn’t let on that I even knew you. I just said, ‘He isn’t that good,’ and everyone argued with me. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last Saturday, I chaperoned a dance at the university and Rufino spent the entire evening talking with me. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was talking now about his appearance the previous morning on the “Today” show. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As he listened to them talking, Tristran was ready to burst with irritation and frustration, but he bit his tongue and said nothing. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not talking about the father of the child, I’m talking about our father,” said her brother. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no proof, but I wanted him to stop talking. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The audience will have been beside themselves, knowing I was in the tree, that I overheard the Careers talking, that I discovered Peeta was with them. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He left the door open, and Eleanor could hear him talking to someone, probably in the kitchen, probably Park's mom. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

They are staring at me with that familiar Mia-sprouted-another-head stare, but I keep talking. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“And I definitely knew I was gay, and there was definitely no talking about that. There were no ‘out’ students; there were kids who seemed effeminate. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

"I have no idea what you people are talking about." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I was talking about back then: about how after Ruth and Tommy split, all my plans got confused. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice was urgent, and she wasn’t talking to me anymore. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Me and Conner? What are you talking about? We were just talking.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

One day, Kelley was talking with a buddy of his who was getting ready to leave Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He was talking loudly, but I could not hear what he was saying. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

From off on the right, his heavy bulbous body lurching dangerously on the spindly legs which barely supported him, came the Overbearing Know-it-all, talking continuously. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was talking on his radio when he saw me, and he motioned for his deputy to get out. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

While I was talking he kept moving around me so if I wanted to look at him sideways I’d have to move too. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know who I’m talking about. Great big boy. Wears glasses.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Although Father hasn’t noticed I’m not talking to him, as far as I can tell. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eddie Diamond and some of the others tried to nudge her into talking about the ambush—What was the feeling out there? The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess Emerson wasn’t talking about armbands, but I think he was talking about doing something brave. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“May have at one time. But not no more. I hear the insurance folks been down talking to her brother.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were voices—two girls talking at one of the dining tables. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

But when Inkatha was informed that the election date was not subject to mediation, they refused to see the mediators, who left without talking to anyone. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just the thought of those cozy afternoons in that warm house, talking about books, hearing about the history of ideas! The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I don't feel like talking, so I let her write and keep my back turned to her so that she can't see my face. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It’s the other one talking now, and as ludicrous as it sounds, it’s actually quite hard to recognize them without their balaclavas. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then she answered and I realized I couldn't face talking to her. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

But being a specialized group, leading special lives, associating only with their own kind, they would have made it possible for me to cross the country without talking to a local town-bound man. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma was talking ’bout her own ma and pa, my grand-folks that I never met. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I see the smirk on Edward’s face and stop talking. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

While Emily Sue was talking, I was sliding deeper into my seat. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Without talking about it, she and Rishi began to make their way to the sliding back door. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

People were listening to them talking about the loss of the old ways in the changing world. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She kept talking, but Ivy’s attention snagged around what June had just said—I missed you—and wouldn’t let go without a fight. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure whether Marcus was talking about the mask on the chair or The Incident. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The giant woman wouldn’t stop talking about it, describing the scene in morbid detail for the others. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I looked at him all crazy, said: “What are you even talking about?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I only want you to be safe,” she said, still talking slow. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Two black women sat stirring the beans and talking about a shared memory back from the city, about a play where the main actor had been too drunk to recite his lines. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Once we're on the Kennedy Expressway, we start talking again and work out the rest of the plan. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hated talking about it all the time, but I was just as mad when everyone avoided bringing it up, as if it wasn’t on my mind day and night. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They don’t know what the policeman is talking about. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I knew our teacher wasn’t talking about a cold house or the army. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t understood Mom’s next words, either: “What am I talking about? I have to do this. There isn’t any other choice.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what Luke was talking about, but Annabeth buried her head in her hands like she was about to cry. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

We were talking about his death sentence, and his tail is still wagging. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It is a whirlwind, all of them talking over each other, arguing happily, exactly like old times. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Ginika’s parents had been talking for a while about resigning from the university and starting over in America. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We walk the rest of the way without talking. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

For a second, I’m not even sure he’s talking to me, so I turn around to be sure he doesn’t mean someone else. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

"What're you talking about, Charlie? You better talk to me, 'cause I don't have a lot of patience for your junk tonight. I'm about ready to send both of you packing." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The children crossed to the farthest corner, made sure no one was in earshot, and all began talking at once. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was prohibited from talking to more than one person at a time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he keeps talking I will love him, and I don’t want to love him. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have practice today,” he said, talking about football again. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re making very, very, very, very deep calls, way deeper than what humans can hear. They’re talking to each other. Isn’t that so awesome?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“That wouldn’t interest me very much. Doctors stay too right on the surface. They’re always talking about cells and things.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Gawaine said: “I am not wishing to talk about it It is base to be talking.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wireless companies “designed everything to keep people talking in their cars.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I did everything I could to get his attention, short of talking to him. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

There followed a series of robed speakers, each talking for no more than fifteen or twenty minutes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

President Truman was leaving in a few days for Potsdam, Germany, where he was going to meet with Joseph Stalin to begin talking about post-war plans. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another long pause—she’s talking to me and doing something else, multitasking, the way busy wives and mothers do, tidying up, loading the washing machine. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you talking about how Rosaleen got the bruises and the cut on her head?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to ask her what Cara and Joey had said about this newspaper they wanted to print, but before he could get a sentence started, she was talking again. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

So when I was finished talking about Joey, Doc Mom said, “Okay, Ryan Dean, I am not a therapist anymore. Now I’m just a mom.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

If they talk too long their gums get sore and the teeth have to come out.Then they sit talking by the fire with their faces collapsed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He kept talking, but I was only half listening. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was talking to God about it all the time. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“He’s always talking about himself and his problems. Like you. You’re both self-centered. Only, you have a low opinion of yourself, so it’s tolerable. He has a really high opinion of himself. It’s a pain.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Dr. Strayer said that, in a few states, like California, talking on a phone was illegal while driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Look at me when I’m talking to you, boy.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

If he hears a single boy in this class asking foolish questions or talking about The Collection again he’ll flog that boy till the blood spurts. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s all right, Louise,” he said, as though he were indeed talking to a child. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And once he said to me, talking about Salamano, “If that isn’t pitiful!” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

To me, there’s no point in talking about things that might have been. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about, for heaven’s sake?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

While they were talking, Harry Cat came in through the opening at the side of the newsstand. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is looking through my chart and talking to one of the nurses who normally sits at the big desk in the middle of the room. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any- one who has been without money for a long time will know what I’m talking about. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His mother had answered the phone and was very impressed when she realized who she was talking to. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Yes! Stop asking me that. C’mon, let’s go back out there and stop them from talking about my brother, ’cause you know they’re talking.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“They’ll be talking about this one for years,” he said hoarsely, “a really unexpected twist, that. . . . shame it couldn’t have lasted longer. Ah yes. . .. yes, I owe you . . . how much?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As we folded and stamped all the flyers, I kept talking, telling Liz all about the Christmas float our church was doing. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way the men were talking, our lives are not in God’s hands but in Pupo’s. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I struggled to come up with anything clever that would make her need to keep talking to me, looking at me and my socks, so we wouldn’t have to hurry to her class. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

When people talk about him, really they’re talking about one of my friends. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For weeks, all day and far into the night, he met with his counselors, talking, praying, moaning. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cautiously lower my hands, wondering why she’s talking to me. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Who said I was talking about you? Did you hear me say Fabulous? No. See? You need to work on your English comprehension.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As they were talking, he heard Nasser's voice from the porch. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She’s leaning on a windowsill talking to like five hundred guys at once, wearing the tight red ruffly dress she made that Mom forbade her from ever wearing out of the house. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but I didn't understand what she was talking about. Did any of you?” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She had a brush that had a mirror on the back of it and was checking herself out in the mirror and brushing her hair while she was talking. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

But then Dad got right down to business, talking about how they all had to play their part and pitch in. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know if she was talking to me or to herself, but either way, it wasn’t reassuring. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He was talking about Rabbi Elijah of Vilna, the eighteenth-century opponent of Hasidism. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

We had plans to keep talking, and then in the fall, we would decide what exactly we could do. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Dimple had to actually roll up the car window while Mamma was talking this morning so she could leave on time. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what expert he was talking about, but at that moment, I wished so much that Gran could have been here to teach me alongside Doc. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

All the grownies had their plates and were sitting at the tables talking about horses or whatever. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Other girls our age, I’ve heard them talking about boys, or other girls, or clothes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Brook is at the podium and she talks but I don’t know what she says until I hear her talking to me. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was also my reward for making excellent grades and not talking to others about our mistreatment by the white people. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Has a hearty appetite, does her share of the talking. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

This means that not only was Ren the one I’d been tracking at the Wardraft, not only was he inside the Dark World recently, but he is talking to others there. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He asks, “Are you talking about in real life, or comic books?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A few days later, Beatrice overheard Mandela talking to his younger brother. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

For a start, it very much depends on which Europeans you are talking about. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She tried talking tough to me, but I just went to my room and closed the door. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He stopped talking as he stopped climbing the stairs, and he turned back to Anya, still shaking with anger. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She knew why I was there, and had plenty to say on the subject, but seemed utterly exhausted at the idea of talking to me, yet another white person wanting something from the family. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The Town Gran swept into the room, and everyone seemed to find their seats and stop talking at once. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“But we’re not talking about taking refuge. We’re liberating the one thing in the world that gives us a fighting chance. The power in that Story Box...” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

After a minute or two, as I heard myself talking, I felt self-disgust. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I feel guilty for talking about my problems so much over the last few days. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The community's presence at the hearing got people talking about what we had presented in court, and that encouraged more people to come forward with helpful information. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But, as far as Berg could make out, Heisenberg was talking about a completely different subject. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, Jane? I will spare you the trouble of much talking; I will answer for you—Because I have a wife already, you would reply.—I guess rightly?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

And I don’t know how it happens, but as soon as she says it, we all stop talking and follow her into the theater. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It fell to Finn once again to do all the talking. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got no idea who I’m talking about, do you, Officer?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that he followed them around, talking and asking questions. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The answer depends on your perspective— on which end of the journey you’re talking about, the origin or the destination. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But here he was, his eyes alight, talking about carrying people to safety, how his arrival at any given house or overpass was met with cheers and thanks. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

When I came back, she was fixing her own dinner but still talking away at Katz. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Better not let your mum hear you talking about my school,” said Harry coolly. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

After fifteen years of believing my family had died, I would soon be talking with them. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They quit talking then, and drifted off to sleep, and I tiptoed out. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Worse than I thought,” she said, as though talking to herself. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Straight boys didn’t call nothing cute unless they were talking about a female. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about? I failed my Trial.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But as the conversation went on, I forgot I was talking to the president. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then why are you just standing there all moony, talking about Natalie? Why is it different if she wears lip gloss than if girls in your class wear lip gloss?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When recess arrived, the other girls began talking softly about a book they were all reading. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

‘I am not talking to the pants. Meeting in the mess hall. We’re almost at Olympia.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

On the way to school, Momma has the car radio turned to a news station, and they’re talking about a big Black Lives Matter protest happening in front of the Wilshire Community police station. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I cried more now, but I kept talking to him. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Is such a stupid thing to fall asleep talking. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to stay with Papa for a while. Keep on talking or doing whatever you were doing.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They just seemed to stop talking at some awkward, cliff-hanging moment and then Mom would attend to washing the dishes and Dad would silently read the newspaper. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He nodded at her, in a way that he hoped was respectful, because he could not take the risk of talking. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

People were mingling, laughing and talking and exchanging more “in case of war” tips. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Don't you two horses forget yourselves and start talking, whatever happens." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I wanted to talk to her, except I didn’t really feel like talking to anyone. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the van was talking, talking loudly and at the same time, nearly shriek­ing, which is how Afghans talk. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"A blanket7. That's so wild! A blanket? From Sears . . She pauses, then, "Oh, man ... we could be talking about a big lawsuit here. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the inmates had been leaning against their bars, talking; they stopped when I came into view. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I catch enough of the conversation to realize that, bizarrely, they're talking about Rembrandt. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

With Annie, we would start talking about something like soccer and the next minute we’d be talking about rowdy soccer fans in Europe. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was the girl in the play talking, not me to Maxim. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, students wandering back to their dormitories were talking and laughing. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Jeremy never loses,” she says, so proudly that she could be talking about herself. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Soon all the women were seated around picnic tables and talking in shrill voices. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Theon dropped back and followed well behind them, talking and joking with the guardsmen. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Papa was talking and Mr. Little was listening and nodding every now and then. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t do much talking, but he didn’t have to. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach Hedge danced around the firing platform, pumping his fist in the air and yelling, “That’s what I’m talking about!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’m just gonna pretend like we’re on the phone together, talking about what everybody else talks about when they call home. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

—So go ahead—you were talking about the walk you took with Keisha. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You liar! You were on your way to the Frelimo camp. I heard you talking to your assistant,” Uncle Kufa shouted. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be honest, I can almost understand what Mrs. Kluck is talking about. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He was talking about Richmond, Virginia, where he grew up. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they looked at me as if they had no idea what I was talking about, why I was so anxious. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I love the song. I can’t lie though, knowing that a sixteen-year-old girl is talking about being strapped and stuff like that, it caught me off guard.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

This argument is an instance of the pitfalls that you can encounter in talking about infinity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nok, your father and I have been talking, and we think it could be good for you to stay here in Tanaburi for the rest of the school year.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Then I walked over to the table where the two men sat talking. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“He’s not talking about you. Not yet. He’s just calling me stupid.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Don't keep me awake by talking so much." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Hibiscus also didn’t like talking about the revolution; he wasn’t interested in reliving the old days. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

But she tried to crane her neck to see what Jacob was talking about. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Gradually, we started talking more, confiding in each other and expressing ourselves in ways we never had. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Uncle Lee had a habit of talking out of the side of his mouth. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Anthony had come with his father, but the children had been told to make themselves scarce, which pretty much was what Stella was usually told when grown-ups started talking grown-up stuff. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I’m not talking a peck on the cheek; his mouth is smothering mine. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Emenike was one of the few people for whom “to read” did not mean “to study,” and so they would spend hours talking about books, bartering knowledge for knowledge, and playing Scrabble. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I know I’m talking fast and excited, but I can’t stop. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I'm going to be talking to someone again. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bod could hear the two policemen talking heatedly—“Your bloody niece!” was used, and so was “If you'd kept your eyes on the road!” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It was mainly just us talking about what it must've been like and all that. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Her brother talking about prioritizing his own interests over hers wasn’t that different from her prioritizing Mr. Griswold’s game over the cipher challenge. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

On Third Avenue they would all go off to the market together first thing in the morning, talking and pushing and stopping to lecture to children in gutters and streets. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went into the living room where my mother stretched out on the sofa and my father began talking about what had been going on in Hankow. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed then that everyone was waving and exchanging greetings and talking, as if they were in a club where people are glad to find themselves among others from the same world. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh, that one. He might not even get a name at the next Ceremony. They’re already talking about keeping him here another year. He’s not doing well. They call it failure to thrive.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

To judge by the tone that might be Kat talking. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sort of stopped talking, but we stayed sitting there and drinking a while longer. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then the fear was gone again, and McCoy was just a lonely man in a lonely room, talking to himself. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“We were just talking about Bun. You haven’t seen him the last couple days, have you?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Where before the air was full of talking and shouting and movement, my world is now frozen. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

After breakfast Bill and I were sitting warming in the sun on a bench out in front of the inn and talking it over. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Once Ignatius started talking to them people, they’d maybe get mad and lock him up for good,” Mrs. Reilly said, but she was thinking that even that alternative wasn’t too unattractive. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

What other good could come of talking to the dead? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Malvolio smiled and nodded as if she understood what the heck Mr. Huxley was talking about, even though she didn’t. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“What kind of black hole are you talking about?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Danny broke the rules by coming closer and talking to me—warning that we had to stay alert, no matter what. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was first saying it I didn’t like it because I thought maybe he was seeing things but now I was seventeen I was beginning to understand what he was talking about. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

By then I was so mad at him for talking bad about my mom I was no longer afraid. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kathy hadn’t given much thought to the storm this client was talking about. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

His fellow drinkers were talking about dragons now. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Pearl threw a quick glance over her shoulder, as if Mrs. Richardson might be talking to someone else. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Outside, he was talking to Papa Oji and some of the other men who were standing by the compound entrance. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was very solemn and refrained from talking. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Can we please stop talking about Skeleton Woman?” said Eddie, Sam’s twin brother. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

More important, I’m worried I’ll go back to using her as a crutch now that I’m not talking to Jamie, and I don’t want our friendship to be about her holding me up. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She breaks down crying, talking about how we had taken advantage of her and confused her. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn't worth talking about such things and getting the whole family in trouble. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They were talking and laughing together, paying little attention to the music. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Suited people get on and off, talking loudly about Very Important Things. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Brunner shot Johnson a look and went on talking about how Intelligence had got wind of heavier than usual traffic near the stream. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our principal is on the phone, talking to someone, but it’s hard to know who it is. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Harry heard talking at the door, and someone laughing, and Uncle Vernon answering curtly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Mostly, my cousins did the talking and Aunty Ifeoma sat back and watched them, eating slowly. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. People are talking about organizing a neighborhood watch patrol or even hiring a real guard to sit in the guardhouse.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

—There’s nothing wrong with thinking about or talking about death, Andy. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just by talking without a chaperone present, we were committing a social taboo. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was talking about the crooked heart and the “We love you, Mommy” on the case, too. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“What in God’s name are you talking about?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Neither was Claudette when she had been arrested and people started talking about her, but now she was, and she would have to deal with it. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Right now they’re talking to Mrs. Roth, whose family lives on the other side of the valley. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I thought I heard you talking about our birds and our boats,” Sairy said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I stop talking to you for a few days and all sorts of stuff happens. The most exciting thing for me was dinner with my dad at Michelangelo’s.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“This was the kind of performance people will be talking about for years. The Celtics are NBA champions once again!” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

For all I know, Saint Rene no longer exists and I’m just talking to nothing. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t know any of these people, but Miss Joe seems not to notice, because she keeps talking. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When we could hear the music real clear, and folks talking to each other and the sound of sticks cracking in a fire, we started cutting through the trees. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Of course, eventually, those Friends started talking and sharing about the Lord. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I heard her talking with our next-door neighbor while we were shelling pigeon peas. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

We set down our cups and started talking. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Federio always followed Mrs. O’Brien, and Mrs. O’Brien always followed Mrs. Callaway in talking and pushing and even in buying an apple. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night, Enrique and a friend start talking about gangs in Honduras. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As he said this, he noticed that Cowslip had joined them and that Strawberry was talking to him quietly. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Ducky were talking about the football play-offs and wondering if it was going to snow. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

My cousin doesn’t understand that I can be very awkward and that I don’t like talking to strangers. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I’m impressed by your initiative,” Mom said, “but that’s not going to get you out of the punishment your father and I have been talking about.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked together for an hour, talking during the whole time. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a huge shock, but I don’t feel like talking about it in front of Emily. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes,” I say, pretending I know what she’s talking about. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ti Jean says you might be talking to a demon who will steal your spirit. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

In study hall, I overhear people talking about Aimee Hall’s mom. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Even the people that think it’s a “joke” like Mary Elizabeth can’t stop talking about what a “joke” it is. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The parents noticed that their children were talking less, and that rather than speaking to one another in the language of people, they were beginning to use grunts. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Other than the Halloween party, we didn't really do anything besides talk on the phone a few times—and even then, I did all the talking. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Is that what they were talking about in the lunchroom yesterday, when they were so obviously talking about me that even Maya—who can be so clueless about social stuff—felt sorry for me? Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I hula-hooped on the South Lawn to show that exercise could be fun and made a guest appearance on Sesame Street, talking about vegetables with Elmo and Big Bird. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And Xan was fairly certain she saw the child talking to a crane. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Men were looking at me, and talking in low tones. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father is standing on the walkway talking to someone. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

As I shook my head, Julian said: “Are you talking about the baby chicks in science? Those get donated to a farm at the end of every school year.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The silence seemed to go on interminably, before either Mr Smith or Mr Jones found it in him to mutter: 'I suppose we were talking a little out of turn there. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Campbell started off talking about the vegan recipe of the week and then moved on to responding to comments from last week’s episode. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He said: “It’s better talking here than around that partition.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

They took to huddling on the float before and after workouts, talking about what, precisely, they could do to make each row better than the one before, looking one another in the eye, speaking earnestly. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I was talking to our horses, giving them one final brush- mg, when somebody right behind me said, “Fine animals, horses. Wish I’d thought of them.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You know the one I’m talking about, Father.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It sounded so weird, June talking about boys. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about, dependent?” the man said between spit bubbles. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paced below the scoreboard, talking aloud like he was gearing up for a big speech. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

If Bobby Gene hadn’t been there to stop me talking back to Mom, I don’t know what might have happened. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Jessie had been heading backstage to wish her good luck before she performed when she overheard Jefferson Jamison talking to someone. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Then there was no more talking or shouting, just sobbing. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Someone knocked at the back door, and Petey heard her mother talking to the vet. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

There are four of us, and Four is only talking to me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Imagine walking around in that world—interacting, playing, talking. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He kept talking about how the designated hitter in baseball was bad and why basketball was a commercial success and what teams looked promising in college football. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Certain that no one would be successful Odysseus left the contest and stepped out into the courtyard where the swineherd was talking to the keeper of the cattle, a fellow as trustworthy as himself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aye, I see what you are thinking of, the pianoforte. What is to become of that?—Very true. Poor dear Jane was talking of it just now.—‘You must go,’ said she. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

I see Captain Smith talking to a tall, dark-haired man in a red doublet. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He seemed to understand this, and sometimes he would catch my eye from across the room when other people were heatedly talking or arguing and nod affirmingly. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were just talking about Truth or Dare. Played out in seventh grade or still cool?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

"You should not fight so hard, boy. I see you talking to the heart tree. Might be the gods are trying to talk back." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Who even this gigantic white boy, wit’ his sorry, trashy self say is talking proper and dressing good as a prince and doing jus’ fine, and writing us letters in his own hand! The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

When you talk about Churchill’s “great rolling periods”— meaning his long, mellifluous sentences—you are primarily talking about sound effects: the gather and surge of a sentence toward its climax. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I overheard Ultima talking to my father and mother. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nana, on the other hand, sang and hummed when she wasn’t talking, which almost never happened, because she always had a new story to share. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It’s almost like she isn’t talking to me or Sam. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The only thing I could do was to stop talking to people other than Bailey. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, come on, it’s kind of hard to take you seriously when you’re talking about the Great Wall of China and Egypt and stuff. Those are just big goofy dreams. They’re not real.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stop talking and take out the envelope. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or if we were talking about something and there wasn’t just one opinion, he would say, “Anna, what do you think?” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I’m not good at talking to old people either, to be honest. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He realized the others weren’t laughing and talking any more. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He startled me into talking before I could think. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere people were talking and arguing and listening to Chester. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re talking about the gentleman who did the interview about the King Lords?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The trouble with screen talking is it keeps going on and on until someone finally decides to get back to real life. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I'm lucky, I get 'em talking to each other. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed to have started talking with meanings which were separate from the words they used. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents start talking to each other in Urdu, the primary and personal language they share. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Moushumi had been facing backward, leaning over and talking to her friends, who were in the two seats behind her, and when she turned back around he was in the neighboring seat. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped talking so that I could fight back my tears, but I didn’t put down the microphone. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

She began, circumspectly, by talking about Mirabelle, as she had been for months. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lyra ignored completely the Librarian on her other side and spent the whole meal talking to Mrs. Coulter. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But he was stealth cool, the only one in their room that knew what Liam was talking about when he started in on Japanese horror flicks or articles from back issues of Rolling Stone. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I had learned a long time ago that you shouldn’t talk about your game—your game should do the talking for you. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Hush, we talking bidness here. Go clean a cabinet or something.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“My first order, and only one day to complete it,” the woman was saying, almost as if she were talking to herself. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had to wait until the talking died down. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother ignored her; she was talking to the shop assistant. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Listen. This aint for outside talking. I dont mind telling you because you and me’s the same folks, come long and short.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was the last of the flour. Pooh’s talking about bringing some groceries over later this week. I almost said no, but...” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Hollister’s in there, talking to someone. Do you think he might help us with the Black Cat clue?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Bloom wanted us to know that he thought talking to our families, and soon, about the possibility of being taken hostage was a good idea. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I have to clean this up," he says, like he's talking to himself alone. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

She explained, “Coach Bright and my brother, Antoine, are in there talking to him.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The death was not reported in the newspaper, and when Hugh related the story to his friends, they said, "You saw the movie about the talking car?" Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Sorry. You’re not boring me. I like talking to you. I, uh, I’m really tired. Exhausted, but I know I shouldn’t sleep because I don’t have time for naps.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then, without so much as a pause, she began talking directly to her mother: We miss you, Mama. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I looked around and saw a shopkeeper talking with a guard and gesturing in my direction. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Dude,” he replies, “we were just talking about that yesterday. It was all over the news.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I busy myself at the sink, washing the cutting board, so I can avoid talking to her. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He'd been standing off to the side talking to Whit, the assistant coach. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

When I reach Tobias’s old room, I sit on the bed and look out the window, where factionless and Dauntless are gathered around the fires, laughing and talking. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

But Lily was talking about Seattle, a place Toby could barely picture, let alone care about the weather. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Only a moment since, as it seemed to him, they had all been talking together. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wait for her to explain, but she seems to think I know what she’s talking about. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I could imagine them now, talking excitedly, laughing in the little kitchen. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She switched back to talking to it in her head. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t you tell me you were the witness they’ve been talking about?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“If anyone around here is talking nonsense it’s you. Get those children to the door!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I hear her voice one more time, talking to Poe. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

They lit cigarettes in the evenings as they sat in the kitchen, talking through their workdays. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was odd to be sitting on a million-dollar horse, talking to Priscilla Willis in the middle of the night, but then it was a relief to be talking to someone besides the cat. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“All you ever said was, ‘Ignore it, Vera,’ and now you think this creep from last night is worth talking about? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

And even so, they would all have to be wired together, intricately and delicately, as we are, communicating with each other, talking incessantly, listening. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Taggart only said to let her do most of the talking until I was invited to share—and when I was, to speak my mind as I wished. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Last night, Ivy went downstairs to the Bishops’ kitchen for a drink of water and overheard Taryn’s parents in the living room talking about the Aberdeens’ house. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And then again, you will hear these same persons talking as though Lord Darlington did something unusual in receiving hospitality from the Nazis on the several trips he made to Germany during those years. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

One day Dad was just gone, and we stopped talking about him like he’d never existed in the first place. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Opal,” he said, “what are you talking about?” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Henry’s tone and attitude had changed when he was talking to the foreman. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across this circle, a quiet finger of water, hemmed in by concrete, marked the corner of a narrow area where people thronged, eating, talking, sitting and watching one another. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She giggled and started talking like we’d known each other for years. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about? My house is your house; my food is your food.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She leaned forward, talking urgently and quietly and closely. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Leroy, this here’s moving too fast! You got to be careful. That’s a lot of money you talking ’bout to buy your family, and money can make folks do some crazy things.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She just kept talking about the office, personnel and scheduling, holding up the beat. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were talking the other day about the wonders of the natural world. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone stops talking then and looks at me. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as he got the “Roger” from the other end, he would start talking. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he heard that, he immediately started making calls and talking to lawyers and doing whatever he had to do to arrange for the four of us to move in with him and my grandma. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When Dad was tucking me in that night and we were talking about the book, I asked if he could think of a solution to that problem. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the tale, I puffed out a breath, tired from talking. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Zion asked me, like what we were talking about was actually true. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She’s always reading or sending a text, talking to someone, leaving a voice memo, or adding another to-do item to a to-do list on the to-do app she never closes. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“I could fly one of them things if I had a chance,” Bigger mumbled reflectively, as though talking to himself. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas picked it up, completely fascinated that the Maze was so structured, and studied it as Minho kept talking. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

A group of poor folks thought we could get something done by talking it out. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When she began, it didn’t sound like August talking at all but like somebody talking through her, someone from another time and place. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Be quick," he says, and I do my best to look purposeful while stifling my pride over talking my way past them. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She crawled in my bunk and held me, talking soft and remindful to me of all the things I had to live and be patient for. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she did not say the words out loud anymore because Raymie’s mother was very upset, and talking about dishes and spoons running away together was not appropriate. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He had no interest in talking, and besides, Maria did enough for both of them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could remember Dad talking to me about my name, telling me, It spans the whole alphabet, because we wanted you to know you can be anything. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Well, maybe she’d thought she told me when she started talking about how you trim a cat’s toenails. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were talking about the other wand, the wand that changes hands by murder. When You-Know-Who realized my wand had done something strange, he came back and asked about that other wand, didn’t he?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We liked talking out our choreography, counting out the steps, and naming our crazy dances—the hot oil and flour, the butt pinch, and the pumpkin patch. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“A religion different from the religion of the Lunas,” I was again talking to myself, intrigued by the easy flow of thoughts and the openness with which I divulged them to my father. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so excited and talking so fast that they teased me. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is LeAlan Jones and I just feel like talking tonight. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The victors, both this year’s tributes and their mentors, are standing around in small groups, talking. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure if she’s talking to me or someone in the room beyond. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When I got on the coach the driver had not taken his seat, and I saw him talking with the landlady. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

We sit and drink for a while, not talking, and I watch them. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were dressed in matching sweaters stitched with the Valley Hope crest, and it took me a moment to realize they were talking to us. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

On the advice of his lawyer, the senator’s aide wasn’t talking anymore, but everyone was speculating that he had always intended for Diana to die. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The first officers, on the other hand, were talking to their boss, and so they overwhelmingly chose the most mitigated alternative. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She really didn’t say any more other than that, although she kept talking. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, through clenched teeth, she warned, “Stop talking, or I’m going to hex you to be my toad’s wife.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Corporal Reynolds is talking to the guards posted at my block. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She is talking loud, raising her voice above the traffic and noise around her. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I stop talking because suddenly the girl put her fists before her eyes and lean over to bury her face on the edge of the bed. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three hands shoot up, but then they all start talking at once. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Lee Lee gets to talking about one of our friends who isn’t really our friend anymore. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I mean, all of a sudden here everybody . . . 8TH JUROR: I’d like to call for another vote. 10TH JUROR: Listen, I’m talking here. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He barely seemed to be talking to me. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m also talking on company time, so I got to leave the stockroom, but best of luck with your search and tell Dylan I said bye!” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Tiny's talking to Gary onstage, and because the acoustics are fantastic in our auditorium, I can hear exactly what he's saying even from the back. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I doubted he meant to get all girly talking about his father. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then something of the despair that Iran had been talking about tapped him on the shoulder and he said, “I don’t know; maybe it doesn’t make any difference.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

On TV, talking heads wrung their hands over a lack of traditional feminine values and wondered if girls’ sports were to blame. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

‘You want to see the mess my mom was talking about?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Stop talking,” I tell him, pushing aside any twinge of sympathy. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Really dressed all-out with a country way of talking and a old-style hat made out of purple plaid. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Do you think that history professors chat about the reasons for World War One when they meet for lunch, or that nuclear physicists spend their coffee breaks at scientific conferences talking about quarks? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

These days were spooky enough without her talking to herself. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I could hear him talking to my mother. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I think I’m going to try talking. Not just to you and Judy and the people on my list, but to everyone.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tommy, sit your butt down. What are you bloody talking about?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I guessed she was used to his way of talking. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Telling it like it is, like talking was their weapon. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t she know how dangerous this could be, talking about this while the whole world can see us? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Jacobs kept talking, and everyone kept doing the things they were doing. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

But once his grandfather left, Sherm realized that with the guys at school, talking was like a game where everyone piled on jokes and the winner was the person whose joke ended up on top. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Before long, though, they were laughing and talking on their rides, and Grandpa was howdying and joking with everybody he saw. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She has a way of talking sounds like her lips are too tight for her face. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The music’s off, and Seven’s friends stand around, talking in hushed tones. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, that’s what I heard too,” Lyra said, with no idea what he was talking about. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Technically, you’re brainless. This is exactly what I’m talking about. You need to give her space, Jay. Tell me you didn’t text her.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Bull was talking and smoking one Camel after another. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fine by me. I don’t particularly feel like talking to Seven anyway,” Valley said, and stomped off angrily in the direction of the Cursed Forest. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I knew there was no talking Dad out of it, but I couldn’t give up without trying. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

That was probably why her friends had all stopped talking to her. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

From the hall I heard them talking, but when I opened the door they all fell quiet and looked at me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

All my mind could concentrate on laying there was the sounds of them surfer kids across the way talking in their low voices and laughing and being all happy. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’s dead weird talking to her in English. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Do you dare to suppose me so great a blockhead, as not to know what a man is talking of?—What do you deserve?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“He finds help. A clever talking squirrel. An old drunken swordsman. A mad hermit in the woods. That sort of thing.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I open my mouth, but she just keeps talking. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ray sighed and mumbled as if he wasn’t talking to me, even though he was. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Ahead of me, people would be talking and laughing their heads off, and then they’d see me and stop talking. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I make my mouth close even though it just wants to keep talking. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

J.T. was still carrying on but he was slowing down and the growling noise was like him halfway crying at the same time he was talking. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was telling him about receiving the recruiting letters from colleges, talking about how I knew I could make it to the pros. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Pete kept on him, talking so gently and sweetly that he seemed all the more furious in his discipline, and I thought he had to be murdering himself inside to hold the line like that. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t appreciate him talking that way about Dad. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mia shared very little in return, but she’d learned over the years that people seldom noticed this, if you were a good listener—which meant you kept the other person talking about herself. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They would wander from house to house, they had their seasons, but I’m talking about where they most often slept. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not many people can get away with talking about your family like that, but Kat can. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Seriously, have you been talking to my mom?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Whites tried to entice “their” blacks to stay, talking up the perils of the North—race riots and cold weather, both of which would bring misery and death. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When I asked her why I need to keep out of trouble if I’ve never been in trouble, she started talking about purity and how many middle school girls have lost touch with God. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Just hearts,” I say, “everywhere,” but my customer has no idea what I’m talking about. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Bad habit of mine, talking out loud to fish. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t stop talking from the second he showed up. He was great. He loved it here. I could easily see him going to the University of Chicago.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What in the hell are you talking about?” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

As he sat down, Toby was still talking. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what they were talking about, but I knew I didn’t want to go inside. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He spoke softly, like he was talking to a frightened animal. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

While Grandpa did the talking, Papa and I did the driving people around. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

That was certainly the sense I got from talking to a lot of the call center operators on the floor. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, I practically dragged Pascagoula upstairs so Mother wouldn’t see us talking and asked her everything. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But I don’t feel like talking most of the time, and today everyone is going to be asking about my quinceañera. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

If he irritated Papa, he would stop talking. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But Styx was talking about the sort of stuff you could buy. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about?” both his parents asked. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I couldn't believe I was actually talking to a piece of metal. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about?” he asked, licking his lips again. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The hour for dinner came and I was wedged at the table between talking and laughing adults. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tendai hoped, as sometimes happened, that Mrs. Horsepool-Worthing- ham would use up all her anger in talking and not really do anything. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking—” I take it out of my hoodie pocket. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And I couldn’t even ask because I would be breaking my own rule about not talking about the accident. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Then, squinting up at me, he went to talking like I had all day long. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Omer knew exactly what she was talking about the minute she started to describe it. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

My words came out in such a rush I wasn’t sure if I was talking about Gideon or Jinx. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was playing stronger, putting some muscle on me and talking stuff Fletcher missed a short jumper but their center put it back up and in. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

"How did you learn he was to be executed? Who have you been talking to?" An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

My mom grabs my hand and squeezes it, an indication I should stop talking—but fear and anger are waging a war inside me right now, and I can’t stop myself. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He knows what he’s talking about. 4TH juror: The boy talked with his friends for about an hour, leaving them at nine forty-five. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dastardly stuff—you do well on a test; you make a girl laugh; you have a particularly lower-body-simmering experience after talking online and rushing to the bathroom; you think it’s all over. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

After the first few days, he began trying a new method: he would let Faro off the leash but keep him close, either by talking to him or whistling softly, I could not hear which. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

On the way to the restaurant, Maxine does most of the talking, because I don’t really have anything to say to her, plus it’s hard to walk and talk at this pace, going uphill. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

One night Werner and Jurta tune in to a scratchy broadcast in which a young man is talking in feathery, accented French about light. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

About the same time that the Soviets began working on putting another woman in space, they also began talking about a space station, built from separate modules. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

How strange it was to hear Dorian, son of the man who had banished and outlawed all traces of magic, talking about powerful amulets. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We go house to house, talking to the woman of the home. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

More importantly, there was no reason for the studio to be talking to the house unless Bitter was in it, so that alarmed Jam. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“And we were talking. She asked me if I would show her some harp fingerings, but it’s been a long time since I played harp.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was so excited that I was talking a mile a minute, but I was talking to myself. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have to tell John Kwang the first thing about my father and our life, at least in relation to what he was talking about. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chuck continued talking, taking a completely unexpected turn. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I prefer to see the face of the person I am talking to,” said Kaisa. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was new, this sudden unexpected sensation of being important, of having Giles, and Beatrice, and Frank and Maxim all looking at me and talking about my dress. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had one of these very raspy voices, and he never stopped talking, practically. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Jomo takes care of the compound. He comes in three times a week. Funny man, I’ve seen him talking to the croton plant.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They must have been thinking the same thing I had, that Moonface would kill me just for talking to him. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

We came in to find the woman we’d been following talking to a much older woman with silver hair, who seemed to be in charge of the place. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Thomas didn’t feel like talking about it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I walked over to Vera, who was outside talking with some teacher. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

What are you talking about? 8TH JUROR: But supposing he really did hear it. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a week or so later, I wasn’t actually eavesdropping or anything, I was just passing by, really, when I heard my parents talking in their room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Those were the words Mother used when Marly first heard them talking about it. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She discovered that she liked talking to strangers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Let this be a lesson to you,” replied Merlyn, “not to swear. I think we had better change the subject” “We were talking about Kay.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, most jurisdictions in the country had no mechanism for reporting whether a driver had been on a phone, even talking, let alone texting. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I was coordinating the actions in different parts of the country, and talking by phone with regional leaders. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shrugged his shoulders, like he had no idea what I was talking about. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The courtiers, bishops, heralds, pages, judges, and spectators were talking as they came. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night I overheard my parents talking in hushed voices. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The huntress was standing at the end of the table talking with another young woman, who was dressed similarly in hunting green. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Like not going into Miss Lilian’s house and not touching the piano and not talking with our mouths full and not interrupting. And not, and not...” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The creature behind them jerked and moaned, and Harry and Dumbledore sat without talking for the longest time yet. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

My face must’ve given away my thought because Mrs. Walton keeps talking. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And nobody else was talking either; no mention about the laundry workers who appeared and disappeared; no mention about the sitter. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Jessica were talking animatedly about the snow fight as we got in line to buy food. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I thought talking might come easier for us up here, where there's more to see, but I'm still tongue-tied and Mabel is still silent. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It’s a pretty wide conspiracy, involving everything from his car’s faulty ignition to his father’s nagging about college to his English teacher’s “gay way of talking.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Um...well, not a date. I was talking to some guy earlier this year. Nothing came of it, though.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And even though everyone is talking about me, nobody but Fina says a word to me. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

From ahead came noises: the sound of many rats talking, a sound of hurrying and thumping and of machinery running. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It had occurred to Malcolm already, and it came back to him now, that what he was doing in talking to Dr. Relf was very like what St. Alexander was celebrated for. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She asked short questions that kept me talking. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She is talking to Rebecca and a couple of her other friends. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Everywhere Robin looked, there were students, walking about or talking on street corners. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Julia asks, pretending she doesn’t know what I’m talking about, and acting all innocent. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

When I don’t say anything, she starts talking about our project. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Mother and Daddy were talking in the living room. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was about to tell them about Lightning but Miles started talking first. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

But also many houses where nothing was cooking, where no one was laughing or even talking, dark rooms full of weary faces and scroungy dogs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Anyone who tells you otherwise is talking out of their butt. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

As he ordered at the counter, he watched Dimple, totally relaxed in a way she hadn’t been with him, talking to Celia. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Where are you coming from, looking so flush?” one said to the other, talking far more loudly than necessary. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They would turn to Maxim then, talking of people and places I had not met or did not know, and now and again I would find their eyes upon me, doubtful, rather bewildered. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Long before the year was up, Janie noticed that her husband had stopped talking in rhymes to her. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m talking to her, not you. You know nothing serious happened. I told her I didn’t want to mess with her but she kept pushing herself on me,” I said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

And then there is silence, so I put the pillow over my head because when they stop talking, I know what that means. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Char was talking to three of the soldiers who had been in the ogres’ guard at the menagerie. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I don’t say a word, so she keeps talking. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

In between the crowing contest, the backwards bicycle race, and all that, you’d see folks gathered together, talking and laughing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Since Shay had run away ten days ago, she’d started talking to herself. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And he was lucky that the kid didn’t feel like talking, because despite the complete weirdness of everything that had happened within Thomas’s known reach of memory, he felt calm again. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

When I got to talking about Jermaine, I realized that I didn’t feel as sad as I had been before. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Some months later, when I was talking to Ginny, she remembered Paul’s call and said, “I just think it’s so cool that at forty he still does that. I’d miss it if he didn’t.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I must have fallen asleep in the middle of talking the night before. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“In Garret’s Hardware there were white men talking about standing guard outside the theater.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s talking about Uncle Spencer, my dad’s brother, who helped us move today. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They were preoccupied, as they had been all morning, waiting for the principal to start talking. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Sohrab and I sat out in the garden talking as the evening chill descended on us. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

"I've seen it in some of those homes I worked in. Television gets the best of the family love. People stop talking to each other," she said. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He just kept talking, knowing that I couldn’t help but hear. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was a black man talking about physical defense against the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was even a day someone was talking to him at the lunch table and he didn’t respond. Just sat staring straight ahead.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Like, he couldn’t have been talking to me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Dude, you just have to see them to know what I’m talking about.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I saw the area that Captain Stewart had been talking about. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we started completely ignoring Jack: not talking to him, not answering his questions. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Please take it off. You wouldn’t be talking like this if you hadn’t been wearing it all day.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As soon as we were alone, Andrea began talking about Shanghai. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Little and Papa had been talking over by the side of that group and they walked over. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The warders usually sat in an office at the northern end talking among themselves. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Mr. Wallace is doing more talking than I figured. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it went on much longer than when he was talking about my crime—so long, in fact, that finally all I was aware of was how hot a morning it was. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

It’s a punch in my gut, and she’s not even talking about me. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

From upstairs, the thud of feet on floorboards and children’s voices, two or three at least, talking at once, rising, falling, and rising again, perhaps in dissent, perhaps excited agreement. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I knew they were still talking about hair, how long and thick mine looked. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

We’d had fun the whole day, riding the rides, laughing, and talking. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

And to Matilda she said, "You've got a nerve talking to your father like that. Now keep your nasty mouth shut so we can all watch this programme in peace." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t stop talking, she thought; what do I have to explain in all this? The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Heard you talking about poor Myrtle,” said Peeves, his eyes dancing. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Or May or June, or Black Madonna Honey, and I wouldn’t be sitting here talking to her. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He enunciated every syllable, as if he were talking to someone mentally handicapped. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They keep talking, without moving, without seeing me anymore even though I am still gripping the tunnel opening. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

We sat with the Gypsies on fine, handwoven carpets, talking and eating stew by the shimmering light of twin campfires. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

"Kind of the same. At first it was just my parents. Then I started talking to this blind girl." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front door opened; they stopped talking and turned their heads. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Brandon is staring at the television screen, but he’s still talking to me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he could hear them talking to one another, but he did not understand the words. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The whole bus be laughing now cause Minny don’t like nobody talking bad about her white lady except herself. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

At this point Terry seems to be talking to herself, or possibly to Jack, and there’s little Molly can do but bite her lip and nod to show she gets it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She was talking as fast as she could think. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

But with another scheduled execution fast approaching, condemned prisoners were talking about the electric chair constantly when Walter arrived. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Was it Billy you were talking to on the tapes?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When I walked into the living room, Mom was sitting on the couch, talking to Dad, her knitting bag next to her. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The Washingtonians were ready to storm out of the room, but Burke kept on talking. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But even if they wanted to share the particulars of the days toil, finding someone outside of Langley who understood what they were talking about would have been well nigh impossible. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I knew I could never forget my past, but I wanted to stop talking about it so that I would be fully present in my new life. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

As Howard Hiatt had done, Sachs began talking to influential individuals and institutions about using Farmer’s clinic as a world model. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

As soon as she was gone, Summer and I came together like magnets, talking excitedly at the same time. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Like a skulk of foxes taking to its dens, the soldiers had retreated to their trenches: a few still digging, others working on equipment, still others talking together over charts. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I seed them talking to them white women: 'How you feel? The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw you,” is what she said, as if we had been talking together only five minutes before. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s talking about the time I was dusting her Baby Jesus doll, when I dropped Him and His arm broke. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He quit when the researchers started talking about injections, because he thought they’d infect him with AIDS. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But the idea of not talking to them here was so preposterous to him that he had a hard time grasping the concept. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When Witching Hour said the ‘two of you’ had secrets, she was talking about me and you, Otto. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

"What are we talking about now? The city? Or a boy?" A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“I don't care if you want to talk to Emery. You just confuse me. I mean, we had a huge fight. We weren't even talking. And you never let people inside,” I point out. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Benji was done talking about basketball and his slim chances of making the team. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He was talking to me before lunch, and he noticed my sweater and asked if I got a sleeping bag. And he figured that after nine days getting here I had too much SpagBol left.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I knew they were talking about it because they kept looking over at me while they were talking. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He had a little baby on his knee, who he was talking to, even though babies don’t understand language, obviously. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I want to add that I can’t imagine calling Soojin any of those other names, and that it would feel like I was talking to an impostor—but I don’t. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He nodded emphatically and then began to whip his hands through the air, talking, almost frantic. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Aunt Florentine had a knack for talking sense to folks. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not really even talking about your height,” she said. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He was talking loudly to the others and gesturing at Moniek. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Were they talking about someone working for the hedge fund? Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

She gave him a look like she was talking to a four-year-old. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

After we ate, we starting talking, and before we knew it, it was four o’clock in the morning. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Sisters told her this was just her madness talking. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was a pleasant change from talking to his sheep. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hate talking about weight with skinny people. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

He said his name was Mr. Browne, and then he started talking about what we would be doing this semester. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I think she can tell talking about summer school is awkward and touchy for me. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

They are talking right to my head and not to each other here in fourth-period study hall. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I wondered why, but I had no time to think of that, because Frith had come in, and was offering me sherry, and Beatrice was talking to me again. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She had been talking all the afternoon, and had wound herself up to the story-telling pitch. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Likewise, when we talk about a proof, in rhetoric, we’re not talking about what, colloquially, you might understand by the term. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, and despite Cassiopeia’s rather adorable attempts to teach it polite party conversation and socially useful phrases, the squirrel was not talking. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He didn’t even know who he was talking to. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The Hotel-Dieu dining room is big and somber and full of people talking about U-boats off Gibraltar and the inequities of currency exchange and four-stroke marine diesel engines. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He started talking about how we had to be more aggressive, how we had to go out to get the VC. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was surrounded by chess officials, players, journalists, and the merely curious, and within hours of touching down in Yugoslavia he was at the board playing, analyzing, and talking chess. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey could follow her grandmother’s thoughts easily now, now that she knew what the woman was talking about. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor in Insterburg taught me that talking to patients often calmed them. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I listen because as long as I know they're not talking about me, I'm invisible to them, and that's exactly what I need. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He explains that the moment he decided was this summer, when he saw Richards on TV talking about the Youth Congress program. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Everyone started talking at once—not about what had just happened, but about anything else. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I really don’t like talking to her. She makes me nervous.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

If things didn’t get better soon, I was going to turn into one giant walking talking zit. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain said, “I’ve been talking with Buck- lin. He’s told me your problem.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad was oblivious to the “feels” and kept on talking. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He was already talking trash to some of the Kinnow players, reminding them about something that had happened last year. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Might be tough talking Arthur into that one, but I think he’ll come around. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

You've heard some of the fellas talking about someone rattling around in the woods at all hours. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Here, she had to launch herself into the talking, for instance during a lull, as now. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What you think I did? I turned around and asked if she had a problem with me. Ol’ trick, gon’ say, ‘I wasn’t even talking about you,’ knowing she was! The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And when he said this, he seemed to remember everything else, and why we’d been talking about his animals in the first place, and the energy faded from his face. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

People stopped talking and eating to snicker about it, but no one seemed surprised. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“You do, but I’m not talking about that. I mean do you really want to be the last one left? To die alone?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky had turned light before they stopped talking. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

They sat together for a long time, talking. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was true, sometimes when William and Judith were talking about the house it was all she could do to keep her mind from wandering. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

One thing he loved talking about, though, was how Muhammad Ali didn't have to fight in the war. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Shucks, this is one of the bad things about talking to librarians, I asked one question and already she had us digging through three different books. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I sat there on the stoop and thought about the nonsense Chris was talking. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He acts as if I’ve been talking to him all these years. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

And then before she could make a guess at what he'd done, her kids were inside the salon and they were both talking at once. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“David! This is your son were talking about. The boy’s never even been suspended.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But whatever they were talking about must’ve been super interesting, because they kept on talking. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

They were talking about letting us have our own class. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Standing out in the cold talking with the young Innuits had given me a chill. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gale has to kick me under the table before I realize that she’s talking to me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I didn’t like being dishonest, especially with Chasca, but I disliked talking about my scar even more. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you don’t mind talking about it, do you?” she said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And then we agreed that it wasn’t worth even talking about, it didn’t mean anything anymore. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Starr, we were thinking we could get shots of you and Diane walking and talking around the courtyard,” John says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

My mom walks out of my room and I hear her talking to herself again. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

But somehow in all this talking, we ignored the major thing. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited, and when he started talking, his voice was real low. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Pilate singing all day and talking off the wall. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they came in as though they were talking about “Somebody stole my mother’s purse last night.” Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigwig remembered the night in Efrafa when he had calmed her by talking of the high downs and the certainty of their escape. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm not talking about texts, Tiny. You didn't tell Jane to get back together with that guy." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The barbershop was full of laughing and talking when we stepped in. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I was running all the why’s around in my mind when I heard them talking. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fina and Ruby are also really good about not talking about my vitiligo. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Amy was going to be disappointed, and I was going to continue to be the odd one out on Monday when everyone was talking about it at school. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Nobody is talking about Teddy, which leads me to believe that he’s not here. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to know what Nali and Uncle Jet were talking about. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Wheeze. I was talking about not doing anything. It would be a marriage of convenience.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like he knows what I am talking about. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Our classmates are talking and laughing, so I’m really the only person who notices Russ’s return. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swallowed a few times before he started talking again. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“We have no choice. We have to take the risk of talking to newspaper people. Who is going to feed us and put a roof over our heads if I don’t get my job back?” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to stop talking with my hands, and to keep my heels consistently on the floor. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Even talking, making words rise up her throat and out of her mouth, exhausted her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You stopped talking to me!” she says, a hint of frustration rising in her voice. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

"You know what I'm talking about. The ways I frustrate you. The way you look to your father for reassurance when you can't stand my questions." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I always enjoyed talking to my grandpa but I didn’t want to talk about Rubin’s death. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been talking to one another for a couple of minutes at the most. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“What you scared of? She sure likes talking to you,” I said. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then we left the house with Mum and Aunt Gloria walking behind us, talking up a storm. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But it’s kind of hard when you aren’t talking to me.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Maxie handed me another stack, and we stopped talking to concentrate. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

And I hope he knows that what I actually mean is: I’m sorry for talking back to you the other night. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Who you talking to, doofus?” one asked, and then he snort-laughed. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“How come you made a decision like that without talking to us about it?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

They were drinking beer and talking about the indigenization decree, the civil servants being jobless. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I have too much to do,” Mama said, talking to herself as she stood in the middle of a living room full of boxes. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He liked it best when he was with Ron and Hermione and they were talking about other things, or else letting him sit in silence while they played chess. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There's a lot of noise and loud talking around her. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first day back at school, everyone is talking about all the amazing presents they got and all the cool vacations they took. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Halliday’s boyhood home on Middletown couldn’t really be classified as “neglected,” but maybe he was talking about a different house in his hometown? Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, people were standing in grocery store lines and talking about the cities of my childhood, Kandahar, Herat, Mazar-i-Sharif. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

For months he had been talking to Chinese and Korean gang leaders, in an effort to halt their street extortion and violence, negotiate some kind of settlement. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few other students are gathered inside the grounds, joking and talking nervously. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would have liked to continue talking about his mother. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of the year Mr. Greene went through a whole day talking about how we could use math. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you want to find the letter you was talking about last night?” said Burke. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu woke up one night to go to the bathroom, and heard Blaine in the living room, talking on the phone, his tone gentle and solacing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Days ago, when she faced Khione on the Argo II, Piper had started talking without thinking, following her heart no matter what her brain said. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I could hear them talking, but not exactly what was being said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Stop talking, take off your costume, and give it to Olivia! Okay? Come on, everybody! Let’s go! Go! Go!” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I let my eyes wander as Mrs. Brewer continued talking. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For those of you who don’t know,” Leroy went on, “I’m talking about the murder of your brother and mine, Bobby Hutton, during a raid by the Oakland Police on the Black Panthers’ Oakland headquarters.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

When I’m in town, I invariably sit talking by the hour with my old friend Yama, the God of Death, and a private phone’s a must for our little chats. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then we spend the rest of the lunch period talking about what Dad told me about Gram’s childhood and what I found in her closet. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She tried to help by talking about the same topic. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, that silly metal detector of his. Naming it Homer and talking like it was a family member. ‘Should we take Homer to the beach with us? Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Several persons were talking at once, and Victor’s voice was predominating, even over that of his mother. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

As though she was talking to a deaf person. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure I have no idea what you are talking about,” Xan said. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

My leg starts twitching just imagining what it’d be like standing up there talking. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

At an age when his sisters and brothers had been talking and toddling around, he still lay docilely in his parents’ laps. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up, and I got the strong feeling he didn’t know he had ever seen me before, that he didn’t remember punching Sal or talking to me about the sun. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m talking about you!” the thin, dignified colonel bellowed as loudly as he could. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Gamble was talking very quickly, head moving in jerky twitches. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m done talking about this,” he said as he turned to the boat. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“In my opinion, you’re talking about taking a much greater one.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They spent lunch talking about projects they were up to. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In the dark he could pretend that it was the three-eyed crow who whispered to him and not some grisly talking corpse. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t think those doctors know what they’re talking about,” Dad said. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although she was talking to me, she really didn’t look at me much. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

When the night wound down, I escorted Sohrab and his mom out and said good night to the living room, where all the ladies sat sipping tea and talking over each other in Farsi. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I heard you talking last night to Ellen. About the pageant.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“That’s nice. But I still have no idea what you’re talking about. Who do you have to tell what? And why?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“So those journal entries—the places where he seemed to be talking to himself—‘Trust Ledroptha Curtain’ and all that. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even Chet, but only because Mr. Frederick was about to start talking again. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Malik says in his best Sonny voice, “‘Have I really been talking to a guy who thinks swagerific is a word?’” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about?” asked Harry, startled by Dumbledore’s tone, by the sudden tears in his eyes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She wondered if he was talking about publication order or chronological order, but asking seemed a bit too hoity-toity. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Jesse spends much of his time on Hotline, talking to friends all over the country and around the world about music, software, sometimes actual news. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the women in front of us turns around and gives us the eye that tells us to stop talking. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He’s wondered when Henry would finally start talking about the royal family. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And, again, he saw himself in a green park talking to an old man, a very old man, and the wind from the park was cold, too. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t ask him which part he’s talking about because I know, too. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Someone snickered and Thomas quit talking, hoping he’d gotten his point across. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Obinze looked up and saw that she was talking to her son but she was watching him, with something wistful in her eyes. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Or I didn’t feel like wandering around looking for someone to save me from talking to someone else. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Joseph tried to remember all the facts he could about Blink’s life, but neither of them had liked talking about their families very much. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In a moment we heard him and Auntie talking. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Strangers kept wandering up and talking at me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

From the dining-room there came the sound of the dinner bell and a sudden glad outbreak of talking. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As if she were talking to someone far away, I heard her say in a low voice, “I don’t know what to say. I can’t seem to find the right words.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if he were talking through his nostrils. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Grandma,” I said in a breaking voice, though my voice was beginning to break anyway, “are you talking about the brakeman’s ghost?” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was remarkable how he could show every one of those brilliant teeth even when he wasn’t talking. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Because I didn’t figure he was talking about himself. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

After talking it through with both Barack and my friends, I decided to interview for the university hospital job, to at least see what it was about. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I was talking to Mr. Collins,” he said. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some bootblacks sat together under a tree talking to a soldier. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Then he laughed and said: “Oh, I see. You’re talking about me not...getting so angry.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of the guards talking excitedly at Blackcliff’s gate as two horsemen came up the road. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would just be too painful, that maybe it’d be easier for you to erase us. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got home we were talking of the old time—which we could all look back on without despair, for Godalming and Seward are both happily married. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Max flitted around, talking to people encouragingly, one hand on the shoulders of those especially nervous. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I knew I deserved a whupping or at least a talking to. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without her knowing it Blanca was talking to me about Bodega. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Kids were talking, shifting around, and slowly making their way to the carpet. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what us he was talking about, but I knew right then and there, I wanted to be a part of whatever he was. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had few forms of entertainment, so we made a game of talking. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Because I knew, as the receiver of many beatings, the one thing that doesn’t help is talking back. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Everyone else is talking, animated, excited, hopeful that this year, our first year, we’ll win miraculously and then head to the regional Islamic Quiz Bowl competition, even though the other two teams are more experienced. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“What are you two talking about? Why don’t you get out of here? I’ll think of something, okay? Tell Sean I’m sorry.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The brick walls are all the problems we have been talking about. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

All the women were talking at once and all the men teasing George, but everybody was still for a minute, when Grandma looked like that. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t that what Mama was just talking about? Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s hard to read when people are talking,” I say. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

"No talking," he said as he wrenched the jug from Ned's hands. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z