I stare at mine and wonder how they would look with color even though I like things better without color. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nancy” —I called her Nancy when I wanted her to know that I wanted to clear things up without fighting. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Her squash- blossom necklace, her bracelets, her concha belt, her earrings—I knew she had adorned herself with all of these things for me. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Very well. Briana, get your things, and go with your brother.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Dozens more Exclusion Guards arrived last night to help us gather our things and ready us for the return home. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I would do the things politicians only spoke of. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There were, however, things that Harry needed to buy. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“No, Armpit’s got dark skin. And he didn’t wear a cowboy hat. He wore one of those things, what are they called, a turban? I think he might be part Iranian.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Why would you want to remember? I dream of the day when things are nice again, and I can leave all this behind.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had gone to sleep upon a dreaming couch, in one of the hidden alcoves where special candles conjured visions of things loved and lost. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s all in the way you look at things.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The lunch bell rang while the principal was yelling at me, so when he finally let me go I grabbed my things and bolted. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You seem to have changed your mind about a lot of things.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

It’s more comforting than a lot of things I can think of right now. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

What I really wanted, I suppose, was to get straight all the things that happened between me and Tommy and Ruth after we grew up and left Hailsham. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dieter had a sixth sense that told him I was somehow out of place in the Academy, and he didn’t like things that were out of place. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And by the way, this isn’t one of those things where I tell you that, in life, we’re each both a little good and a little bad, all just trying our hardest. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“But I’m not quite sure that things are going very well—that is, things between us.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the very outskirts of the village, there was a large, simple wooden structure originally meant to provide cover in a rainstorm, then, when more solid buildings were built, to store things temporarily. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The first things out of our uncle’s truck were our desks. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

‘And I wonder many other things. Good-bye now! Take care of yourself! Look out for me, especially at unlikely times! Good-bye!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“First things first. Y’all two need to look out for each other when you’re working roots. Don’t let Jezebel go off by herself, Jay.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes mortals throw up. Or cry,” he says, clearly pleased I am doing neither of those things. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And with that he walked around the room, peering behind things, and bending, awkwardly, to look beneath the desk. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

A lot of things ended up going his way because I’d get bored with the fight and give in. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She would have known the right things to say. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the person on duty wants to check my face against the picture on my lab school ID, things could get messy. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was right then that God didn’t handle things too well. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Why did he go out of his way to spoil things? Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says there are no such things as discrete objects which remain unchanged, set apart from the flow of time. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was trying to sell him two shiny things. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Why had I not thought of those things before I fired the curtains? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there were some things that Wilson kids just wouldn’t stand for, and Melanie was afraid that April’s Hollywood act was one of them. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone was still talking and people were kneeling beside the damaged policeman, saying things like, “He’s coming round” or “How do you feel now, old chap?” or ‘The Ambulance will be here in a jiffy.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t really know what she’ll use it for, she says—just to look things up and maybe read the New York Times. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Both Aunt Nancy and George like to repeat things. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It might have been cozy, if not for the animal traps set up in a perimeter around the place, jagged-toothed things trailing chains. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They got a bang out of things, though--in a half-assed way, of course. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

"She didn't know you were alive. Why,--there're things between Daisy and me that you'll never know, things that neither of us can ever forget." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She had a way of calming things down with that Aphrodite charm of hers. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you see, Katniss, this will decide things. One way or the other. By the end of the day, they’ll either be dead or with us. It’s . . . it’s more than we could hope for!” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Always poking their noses where they shouldn’t be. Grabbing things with those little paws of theirs.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“He was the bravest of us all. Though my stumpy friend here can do surprising things with an axe.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Human beings can do all sorts of wonderful and noble things—people even give their lives to help others. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Athena told him how things were in his house and promised she would help him clear it of the suitors. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ishmael understood, sitting in his father’s place, how he’d arrived at the same view of things. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then she would tell the doctor when he made his rounds what needed adjusting or things like that. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The fact that these were the last things this man packed. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“And then things can get back to the way they were.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The worse it smells, the better things are going. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Coulter smiled at Lyra in a way that seemed to say, “You and I understand these things, don’t we?” and moved on to greet some other guests. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I needed to buy you good food, medicine for your fever, and things to shore up our shelter and make it comfortable. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I pick up things like that pretty quickly.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Most eight-year-old males begin to spend time away from their mothers, traveling with the big males, learning the sorts of things they need to know when they are grown up. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The times I have known things were wrong and told myself the best thing to do was ignore it. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And if I think about something which didn’t happen I start thinking about all the other things which didn’t happen. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’m only telling you this because I don’t want you to think I’m doing things behind your back. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

My mother and father ask me such things. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll just get my things packed,” I said, “and we’ll take off—just you and me—a couple of man-made geniuses on the run.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

If you do things like this to a human being, he or she goes crazy. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I ask Rae, slamming a lid back on my dad box and trying to refocus things. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Every now and then she muttered things like “don’t know what you were thinking of,” and “never would have believed it.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It was not until 335 BC—when, among other things, Athens was once more safe for Macedonians—that he returned, aged fifty, and founded his own school there, the Lyceum. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The first and last things she gave to her daughter were apologies. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

After ’while, it comes to you that they clean forgot that there were young folks right behind ’em and things get said you ain’t looking to hear. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s hopeless to even try to make you feel things.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said things suggesting that he might never be returned to his former Black Muslim post, and he now began to say things quietly critical of Elijah Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have sometimes watched men do mysterious things. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

By-and-by we find all the things which Jonathan have note in that wonderful diary of him. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Dimple was attempting to balance two water bottles and a pile of dripping paper towels when Celia ran up to her and took a few things. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The Ghost is grabbing the Roach’s arm, hauling him back from smashing more things. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Or, more accurately, things with Joaquin had been off ever since they had given him the car. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And after that I began to see terrible things. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

My left eye twitched, a sign that things were going to go bad if Krystal didn't shut up. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

They dashed to the nearest skiff, where they dropped their things and tackled the ropes, untying lines, hoisting sails. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I wanted to know the things Mom wouldn’t think to tell me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She smiled and said I could, saying, “Thank you for sharing that story with the class. Now they know, good things come from Greece.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

If I hadn't gone to that hospital, if I hadn't crossed paths with June's brother, if I'd found a plague cure somewhere else . . . would things be different? Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Above everything else, you must not show this letter to your father, for I must tell you some things about him. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after the same kids saw Lelia and me play with him in the front yard they started in with other things, teaching him words like mutt, mongrel, half-breed, banana, twinkie. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guided more by her intuition than by her knowledge of things or by logic, Clara managed to reach her daughter’s school without mishap. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It put things in sharp perspective for me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I have just a few questions, Mr. Gillanders. Just a few things we need to turn about in all this heat—is that all right with you, sir?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It has taken so little time to change our minds, about things like this. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like that song: One of these things is not like the others. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

As if to make things still more oppressive, M. Yoshoto’s handwriting was just barely legible. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

This thirst for worn things led to casual but habitual examinations of trash barrels in alleys and wastebaskets in public places. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eyes changed after they looked at new things. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, terrible things have already happened to me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We’d always done things as a threesome, riding our bikes around the neighborhood, going to the park for ice cream, playing board games at my house, and watching movies at Audrey’s. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

He’d tried out some things, gotten to know all sorts of people, and learned his own priorities along the way. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But tonight they did nothing to banish the sad things she'd seen. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“What did you just say? Something about wanting good things to happen?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“The white witch doesn’t feel things the way we do, do you understand? She’s all ice. That is her whole point.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

"Yeah, villains always think they're doing things for the greater good." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Some things have been brought downstairs, and some unsalvageable pieces thrown away. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

That was just the way things were back then, and Crane had been no exception. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caroline didn’t seem to know how to talk about important or shocking things, and April wouldn’t have asked her. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you square away the launch and meet me back up at the office? I’m going to walk up with Chambers here. Me and him’ve got things to discuss.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the weeks that followed, he explained a lot of things to Elizabeth; sextants and logs, spyglasses and dividers. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I want now is for Gram to tell me how to fix things again. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

One difficulty in talking about class is that the word means different things to different people. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

We could not detect either of these things ourselves. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

As I sat there, trying to focus on the shorthand book before me, I could hear some of the things the crowd was shouting. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why my Grandmother Clara wrote in her notebooks, in order to see things in their true dimension and to defy her own poor memory. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those machines, like a lot of things required by the USDA, are way too expensive for a small, local meat processor. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And on that long walk across campus from O-Hall to the dance, I kept wondering the same few things over and over. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He’s never considered Henry might feel any of the same things. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Wait. Your things. You left them all back in your room.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s not even that I bump into things. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Malory says that “they made either to other their complaints of many divers things.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Seeing things, eh? It was a skilled witch or wizard-who put the boy’s name in that goblet. “ Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Next morning, sure enough, many things had happened. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suzanne’s choices sometimes seemed like an affront to my way of doing things, a vote in favor of easing up and striving less. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Even if he had fallen in love with the young lady at first sight, he would have advanced slowly and with decorum—not rushing things. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tower room held objects that were very dear and precious to Count Olaf, and they were terrible things. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I almost had the impression that they were physically incapable of communicating with each other about ordinary things. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“All that comes from Dad’s side of the family. Also things like boogers. Our boogers come from his side of the family.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fear of things getting even worse and my not being able to get back home. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The wild things looked about them in terror. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The little man sniffed, and they packed up their things and walked on together. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder how different things would have been if Grams hadn’t died when I was so young. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It says he wants to break things, but never had permission. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

On this particular day, things took a severe turn. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I thought Bill and I were going to talk about the book, but we ended up talking about “things.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Because the study at Gombe has lasted for so many years, we have learned many fascinating things about chimpanzee behavior. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The mud shifted, the leaves stirred, the smell of overripe green things enveloped her and announced the beginnings of her very own howl. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was a Sunday in October, the air cool and pungent with dying things. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I told her of our desire to have the food improved and equalized and to have better clothing; the need for facilities for studying; our right to information such as newspapers; and many more things. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I had changed out of my wet things and cleaned myself off as best I could, I went into my parents’ room. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw all these things and more on the people in the Capitol. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Those two tattered rags were literal pieces of her mother, the only things she had left now. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The real Harry thought that this might just be the most bizarre thing he had ever seen, and he had seen some extremely odd things. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It feels like something that normal people do—go on dates, talk about small things, laugh. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Hazel, I have to be careful what I say. Important things are at work here. Some secrets need to stay secret. You of all people—you should understand that.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Bad things always happened when I got put on the spot. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But Im keeping up with my reading and learning new things every day and I know its going to help me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable,” Kainene said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The coach was right, the new Regis player could handle the ball and they were slowing things down, working the ball in and out, looking for the easy deuce. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She goes over all these things that supposedly keep me from living my own life. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother would be terrified and angry at the things I'm doing today, but how else am I going to keep myself out of foster care or jail? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He unzipped it and took out a few things. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Nature likes things in balance. My pa taught me that. Maybe the screechers kept the snail population in check.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

"It's the captive supposed to tell things, remember?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She always said things that didn’t make any sense, that sounded both good and bad at the same time. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kind of contact she hadn’t had in years, wrapping around and around her like a bandage, until all the broken things inside her were held fast, secure in the loop of Archer’s arms. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Those things on your tongue are called papillae,” I said, and then I realized that maybe this wasn’t the best time to be sharing nature facts. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The Wood smelled of damp things: rainwater soaking into fallen logs, softening the bark until it crumbled back into the ground. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Now, with the firings of seven principals, three secretaries and thirty-four teachers, including my own husband, I realize it is no longer enough for me to think these things. I need to say them.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are some things I have to do; I know this. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” I finally say, and my stomach starts to ache, possibly from the random assortment of things I’ve eaten in the last hour. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

It seems like my dad tries a whole bunch of things but never seems to finish any of them. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I remember pretending to know things and like things I didn’t just because I wanted them to like me. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Every other coven held meetings four times a year to discuss secret coven things in their grand houses. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

When he imagined himself getting squashed by a carabao or a jeepney, it terrified him, even though he wasn’t completely sure what either of those things were. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She said things like, “I like this for the title page, but let’s have it in orange.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maya left out the part where she was mostly the one who said mean things, and Claire was mostly the one who said the truth. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Life and work are the most wonderful things a man can have. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It all gets down to the little things. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere I look, there are little circles of women stitching, making the most precious things they can out of scraps of material. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He gave the truck back to Genie, who couldn’t help but think about what other things he and Uncle Wood might’ve had in common. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The exhibition was rather a success, and masters who had hardly ever spoken to me over the past four years would come up and say things like, ‘It’s quite extraordinary’ . Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had ended things so violently that night, I had a feeling he wanted to discuss this at his own pace, on his own terms. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I heard the crazy things some of the guys on the bench beside me yelled. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

And because he didn’t utter a word about his troubles, his beard began to express silently all the things he wouldn’t allow himself to say. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was the man who had given me wings—to go places, to do things I otherwise never would have dreamed of. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was suddenly there, that’s all—the essence of those things ... yet always gone before she could decide if it had been there or not. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had things she wanted to say and wasn’t ’bout to be stopped. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

And Marina answered him: “They are running away to the front all the same, they are taking things into their own hands, and it will be worse, you understand, if they steal airplanes to go.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

On the way home, she kept seeing for the first time all these things that most everyone else had stopped noticing because they’d seen them every day. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think you ought to see things like that,” he said, making haste to transfer from Lenina herself to the surrounding circumstances the blame for any past or possible future lapse from perfection. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a while to wait and wonder why God hadn’t handled things a little bit better. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was his aurora: it was telling him that he was still part of the great order of things, and that that could never change. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

There were things that she could make happen—things that she could not explain. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Certain things he still expressed with a foreigner’s simplicity. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know what I mean. There are so many things Arthur can be doing in this city he doesn’t live in. He’ll see all these people in school. There’s no way he’ll be there.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He would have a young way of explaining things I could bring home to my son. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes said things, and mine refused to listen. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Without telling me, he put it away with his own things for safekeeping. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was back in early March, when doing little stupid things like that felt extra special. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I mean, sometimes it is, but other times it's about other things, like our mom just being stressed out from work. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She wrapped these things in her First Communion veil and placed them in the box. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember that the police were always dropping by our house, shoving things around, “just checking” or “looking for a gun.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crammed things beneath my clothes; usually in my pants. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

She spent weeks calling Curt, waiting in front of his building until he came out, saying over and over how sorry she was, how much she wanted to work through things. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You did right to hold fast to each other,” I said: as if the monster-splinters were living things, and could hear me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She yanked her hankie out of her pocket and dabbed at herself over and over and said, “How can you ask me about things like that?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I told him one of the things that bothers me is about women. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“What makes you so sure? Look, Charles, things grow so fast in California they say you have to plant and step back quick or you’ll get knocked down.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What kinds of things do you enjoy doing?” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“He was...I mean, I know how he feels. And I was wrong. About a lot of things.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then again, considering how we had ended things after he’d beaten an innocent homeowner bloody, I wouldn’t be surprised if he’d progressed to breaking kneecaps for profit. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then again, I think most things are stupid, so you probably shouldn’t go by me. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Only in some chimookoman things, his cabin for instance, and his ability to play and win the white man’s game of chess with the trader, did he take secret pride. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Of course, people left behind on Earth would see things differently. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to keep in mind that the things Tom said about Scott and Megan came from Anna, and no one knows better than I do that she can’t be trusted. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But what other ways could I look at it? What other things could I do?” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

That’s what is meant, in this context, by “invention”: not making things up, but exploring what there is to say on a subject. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

There were so many things that could go wrong that Malcolm could scarcely manage to push them all aside in his mind. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t fair,” she said as her mother put the last of their things in a paper grocery bag. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His eyes said he understood, but that he had no choice but to see things through to their natural end. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He led a ghostlike existence between the tiny, dark shop and an even tinier back kitchen where he prepared his meals and which contained, among other things, an unbelievably ancient gramophone with an enormous horn. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

These words are Milton’s, but they express with precision what the Greeks thought lay back of the very first beginning of things. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was an article today in the paper that said some unkind things about her. It suggested she was an unfit mother.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I have some things to get in order. I’ll be in shul all day once I’m done up here; don’t you worry about that.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

But I’m not the kind of guy who punches things. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

‘Really old Butterbur has made a mess of things!’ he said. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Once we evolved into humans, things got pretty interesting. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When Mom or Dad ask me how things are going in school, I’ve always said “good”—even when it hasn’t always been so good. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

"Yes, of course. Just be careful. Traffic's terrible this time of day. And the rain will make things worse, especially on the turnpike." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some of the kids were playing with those spinner things. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She should bring it up, she owed him that, but a wordless fear had seized her, a fear of breaking delicate things. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Benji had wanted the truth, but now that he had it, things were worse. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I break things sometimes, and when I do, I try and fix them. We’ll fix these later.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

What we told each other was that Bill and Frances and the others would go on ahead, make sure things could be worked out, then they’d send for the rest of us. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

You never know what exciting things will happen. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I could think of about a thousand things I missed while I was at Thurmond, but dresses were not on that list. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I paced aimlessly and listlessly about the house, brooding, searching for things to do or food to eat—there was neither. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jumped up, feeling unexpectedly embarrassed, grabbed my things, and disappeared. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

If you look back at the brief quiz in the first chapter, you will find that you know things about music just having experienced and listened in your everyday life. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

They need to learn a few things first before they start making so many remarks about the younger generation! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

"Looks like rain," I tell her, in an effort to keep things normal. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Here, at first, it was silent, or he thought it was silent, but when he started to listen, really listen, he heard thousands of things. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the two best things were a shrunken head and a large stuffed owl. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The father was looking up, and Ifemelu knew that he was stunned by his own faith, stunned to find himself believing in things he did not think he ever would. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her eyes seemed weary, as if she'd seen too many things in her life that she didn't want to see. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“What about our things?” called a girl at the Ravenclaw table. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He could tell things apart that looked exactly alike to Marly—at least for a while—like Dutchman’s-breeches and squirrel com, and Solomon’s seal and twisted-stalk with their tiny bells, and violets! Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly, without even gathering her things, she turned and left. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“The things I know how to do might surprise you,” he replies. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

There were so many things Mother and Father always wanted me to be. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

When he came out he was bearing in his arms a great load of treasure: things of gold, silver, copper, and bronze; many beads and chains and jewelled ornaments. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But that was the way of things, wasn’t it? Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But even those things don’t explain his differences. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had to go — pack up our things. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Calder and I have been pretty inspired by—well, by his way of seeing. It seems like most people aren’t brave enough to question things the way Fort did.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Before I left, I went out and bought three things I remember well. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The best things that the Americans sent us were family books. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d loved it—until things got worse and its ticking sounded more like dark footsteps coming up behind me. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Out there amidst all the growing things, it seemed like maybe she’d just gone to the shed room to get a hoe instead being off in Heaven. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But then I remembered all the good things he’d done too. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Why should either of those things matter to him? I don’t belong to him.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It does no good to speak of such things. Not here. The time for all that is at trial.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

You can never be too careful when discussing such things. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then I stood on my cabbageroses carpet in my new funeral dress, in my bare feet, surrounded by my things. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was older now—heavier, his jowls thicker, the whole face tired out, someone who had had too much of all the bad things in life. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was ’xactly right when he said Mr. Leroy was looking at things the way he wanted them to be, not the way they really were. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I undress and lower myself into the silky water—my mother has poured in some kind of oil as well—and try to get a grip on things. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

At home, things hadn’t been quite so easy. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Moving one ear at a time is still one of the hardest things to do. I have to really concentrate. It takes everything I’ve got.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

They are tiny things, each with a rather surprising amount of bright red hair. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don’t know.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was like all the good and true things he’d ever done didn’t matter, and he, who he was, the legacy he’d worked so hard for, was dissolving, frittering away with every lie they told. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“And Mami,” I said as I sipped my afternoon café con leche, “Miss Jiménez said the experts will give us free food and toothbrushes and things...and we can get breakfast every day except Sunday...” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Some told themselves that the persecution was temporary, that things would get better. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Immersing herself in a third language, a third culture, had been her refuge— she approached French, unlike things American or Indian, without guilt, or misgiving, or expectation of any kind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Tut,” said Dallben, “there are worse things. Do you set yourself to be a glorious hero? Do you believe it is all flashing swords and galloping about on horses? As for being glorious...” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“My father is busy with his inventions and my mother has other things to worry about.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Clearly, these were the kinds of things that happened. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Aside from that we were both covered in bruises from sleeping on stones and being too exhausted to get up and rearrange things once we were lying down. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fence was probably there to keep people from getting onto the highway and doing stupid things—like sledding into the fast lane on snack trays—blit the chain-link was full of big holes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They bought us things like heavy cream for coffee, but we didn’t drink coffee. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It didn’t exactly come true, because things aren’t like they were before. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Char says Juju told her not to worry, Juju says she’ll handle things. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then this girl Jacey, who said random things at moments of stress, announced, “In Brazil more cars run on ethanol than regular gas.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Of all the things Digory had said this was the first that really went home. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

There were too many things, too many people, who could so easily ruin the life he and Cady had started together. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He believed that there were better things in the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Daniel looks down at the ground, though, instead of nodding to show Ms. Dale she got things right. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It’s like paranoia in reverse when people are really calling you insulting things and you deliberately pretend they aren’t. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“What we have today, with the things that are happening in today’s society, is ...” She held my hand—we found each other’s hands through the like, the waterfall, and— .. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, things reached a balance point where the heat bled through the hull as fast as the RTG could add it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In America the quirk was that people were things. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“We are at your command, and all things shall be as you say. Thus we swear.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Rosaleen made banana pudding, banana cream pie, banana Jell-O, and banana slices on lettuce leaf till August told her it was all right, just throw the blooming things away. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Many of the things I’m supposed to know seem so useless that I can’t see the purpose in learning them at all.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How are things generally at the university, though?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I try to stop questioning myself, or thinking about how to phrase things, and let myself talk. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She glazes over things she considers mundane, the traveling and the train, though Marco is certain they cannot be moving solely by train. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

You upset, but you figure you’ll find another job, when things settle down, when the white lady get around to forgetting. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“He’s big and strong. He’s got things under control.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid wanted to have a luck ceremony and then to put things away where they belonged, but Moon Orchid said, “I've got presents for everybody. Let me get them.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was a station agent. They found me different things to do.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Gravel, like all things in Coalwood, could be supplied by my father. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now I know only her chicks could turn things to stone, but still... Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

But I noticed that working with horses seemed to be one of the things that whites thought they was best at. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure things are going to work out ever again,” Mr. Dunlap replied. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

If your beauty is unquestioned, so many other things can go unquestioned as well. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Serafina shrank back; obviously the sailor in the launch hadn’t heard the latest state of things. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One would think you’d have better things to do with your afterlife.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Scythes are supposed to have a keen appreciation of death, yet there are some things that are beyond even our comprehension. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They were set in small grassless plots littered with broken things, bricks, planks, crockery, things of a once utilitarian value. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside my heart, odd things are happening as well. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Doctor had said once or twice she was real sensible with these things she picked up what she showed him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ached for her to come on this exciting night of the coup that had changed the order of things and throbbed with possibility, with newness. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was one of the things he loved best about her. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

At times I forget to tell you things and just play it by ear. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

And more — small things that registered slowly — how they never seemed to eat, the disturbing grace with which they moved. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Get out of here! Never touch my things again. Did you hear me? You get out!” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Because things are going so well with basketball?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

That even though things have gone wrong, we’ve tried to make it right. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Destiny or not, Thomas didn’t want to run into one of those things. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But then another shift in things took place, because he realized that they, both girl and stoat, were profoundly afraid of him, as much as if he’d been a ghost. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every week or so, I had gotten into the tradition of bringing her things I found while emptying the office’s rubbish bins. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I think about the bartenders, and wonder what diabolical things they'll be putting into my cocktail. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

There were things that had belonged to Lina’s parents, her grandparents, and even their grandparents—old, broken, cracked, threadbare things that had been patched and repaired dozens or hundreds of times. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

That meant more variables and a lot more chances for things to go wrong. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“But yeah, I am coming back. We only have two months left, after all. And if I don’t go back, things are only going to get worse.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Of all things, that is what I remember most. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I long for him to do the things that normal dads do. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Dante’s good at a lot of things. But he’s not very good at cleaning his room. Cleaning a room is too closely related to the word work.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“You can have some, too. That’s what I’m telling you. There are still a few good things left.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His childhood, his friendships, his carefree sense of security—all of these things seemed to be slipping away. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sugary things, cups of coffee, rides to school were not enough. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I have wished for many things over the years, but the first wish of my heart was that none of this was real. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“The few instances of it that I’ve had the misfortune to witness are among the worst memories of my life. And let me assure you, I’ve lived long enough to see some truly dreadful things.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Any kind of musical, artistic or storytelling talent was wonderful to them and they felt it their duty to nurture and guard these things. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wherever he went, troubling things seemed to occur. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

"For start. Nothing's promised you, man, but you ain't gonna know nothing till you try. Maybe get to build things like you always wanted." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Truth be told, there were plenty of things we wanted. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Remember when Daddy used to do things like this? Painting, mending stairs, patching the roof.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I loved the nurse and I thought she did a lot of special things so I told her in a whisper I snuck in to the gifted and talented speech. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Simple and complicated, as most true things are. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Both the Communists and the Nationalists wanted to make things better in China, he explained, but both did terrible things to people who opposed them. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t understand that, at least she didn’t understand how it made him feel when he heard her making plans and dreaming about things that cost money he didn’t have. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t the first time. Some things just can’t be fixed. Not forever.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There are things I really ought to have said about growing up in Faerie. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But how can I trust myself to do anything in this strange world, filled with things I've never touched or smelled before? Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

As I’m walking to my next class, I hear things like, “So horrible,” or “I’m sorry, but she’s hideous,” or “Why doesn’t she get braces?” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Are there some things that can so overtake our attention systems as to be addicting? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Thus the technology of music, of all things, was satirically portrayed as the ultimate triumph of hard-hearted commerce over humanity. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

We make our way down to the truck, which still waits for us by the upturned stump, and Jacqui hops in the back, pushing things out of the way until she gets to the box. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I told him that now that the argument was over, things would calm down. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

At six he would let the gathered court know about the current status of things. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Rule number one for scientists is this: There is always a logical explanation for things. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

To feel like things were normal for a minute. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later on I bought him a drink, played the bluff soldier, old Arctic hand, "more things in heaven and earth" line. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks! I guess I played well enough to get invited to one of these things. Are we supposed to be having fun now?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Why don’t you try clasping your hands together or putting your hands in your pockets and squeezing them into fists or one of the other things we’ve talked about instead of sucking your sleeve? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

"At the time we started, only slightly more than a dozen of these things had ever been discovered in the entire course of astronomical observation," Shoemaker recalled some years later in a television interview. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He thought that would clear things up, make her know he couldn’t be the Macon she knew, who was sixteen when she last saw him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the moments when Kamal is saying these things, it doesn’t sound so had. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She confirmed he’d been imagining things when she said, “Do you think I care what you like or don’t like?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“It was one of the most awful things I’d ever heard about,” he says, looking back. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But I knew that what she really wanted was to be somewhere else, where it wasn't the two of us trapped in a room thick with the things we weren't saying. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

First things first: Leo scanned the dragon for signs of damage. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The trouble, he explained, is that nearly all the things that would constitute warning signs already exist in some measure at Yellowstone. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Jim always wanted everyone to share his obsessions, to love the same things he loved. I think this contest is his way of giving the entire world an incentive to do just that.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Cancer Perks are the little things cancer kids get that regular kids don’t: basketballs signed by sports heroes, free passes on late homework, unearned driver’s licenses, etc. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It is too dark, she said, it smells un-lived in, of old things, like a museum. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“There’s all kinds of things look different in the moonlight. But me and Will, we don’t have Specters where we come from, so we don’t know much about ’em.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the women had newborn babies too, teeny fawn-colored frowning things, which the mothers wrap up in great big bundles of cloths and blankets and even little woolly caps, in all this heat! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m really not in the mood for his girlfriend trying to patch things up between us. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Can you run the house and take care of things until I get back?” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

They will start expecting things, beginning with a newer, braver Violet who isn’t afraid of her own shadow. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

That gives me two things to look forward to. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reach into my pocket and retrieve my list, and I add things to it. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

As if it were a sign that things might be returning to normal. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But her good intentions clashed with her need to talk with her uncle about the things that preoccupied her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A newspaper that only looks at the soft and gentle side of things is like a jellyfish, floppy and spineless. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m just thinking that there are certain things about your, um, lifestyle that would prevent you from giving one hundred percent here in the office.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

A fine mist wound its way inside Will’s nose, making him feel like—of all things—baking. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Whenever things went wrong and he was tired, Cilia was after him to help her nurse Isannah. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m expected to tell him stuff like this. He depends on me to find out things.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alby’s eyelids fluttered briefly as he continued; he looked like he could think of a thousand things he’d rather be doing right then. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I wonder what it feels like to be so unaffected that you can laugh even when horrible things are happening. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Not because I want to, but because the orders Alyssa is giving me now are the first things she’s said to me all day. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Just for a while, honey, until things settle down.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I mean, I guess they more or less agreed about things. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Even Clara, who had never before been interested in such things, began to talk about Prince Aidan, who was in the far south leading a military campaign. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel a lot of things, but I don't feel brave. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

More than that, she was believing things he had not told her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

What was the point in making things, if they only came to ashes? Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Did things begin to exist only when they were named? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“They’re thinking about expanding the rail route. Father and I came up to get a better look at things.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Every year, that was the order of things: There was Thanksgiving, and then Christmas, and then Khalid’s birthday, and then Mardi Gras. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“But he dealt with it very quietly. That was Rob’s way—to get on with things.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I knew before I even arrived that things would be chaotic. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But then again, one sees strange things every day. In fact, if you two orphans follow me out to the backyard, I think we will all see something rather unusual.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He’s trying to figure things out, work out where to go from here. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of her wanted to talk to Ben, to open her mouth and let everything out, all the things she was afraid of, even if it didn’t make sense. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I still have things to take care of.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Well, I have at least a hundred nicer things to say and am only prevented by embarrassment.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They were doing such terrible things to people that American and British gunboats had opened fire on them. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were saying all the right things, but it all felt wrong. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“You are beginning to fit things together,” remarked Archimedes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know. It’s one of my favorite things.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A day was named for roads and they all agreed to bring axes and things like that and chop out two roads running each way. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was hard because sometimes things didn’t look right to her anymore. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

‘That’ll be a lot more fun than fiddling around with figures. I hate figures. Figures are probably the dreariest things on this earth.’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ermis missed the occasional three-hour bus rides they had taken to Tegucigalpa to buy things, his mom’s spaghetti, how they would go to the tortilla store together. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And you are both those things: the presence and the absence. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“They didn’t get to the news tonight. Carter disrupted things while they were still telling stories. That’s something, I suppose. They’ll be back tomorrow night. It’ll give me something to do.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Terrible things can happen when you’re overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Because he loved true things, he tried to explain. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two things I loved most were fire and knives. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In just a few minutes, there was a long list of differences—things like advertisements, a purchase price, color pictures, comics, gossip columns, advice columns, world news. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

"You keep telling me I'm doing things you already tried, but unless you already found her, I need to see everything with my own eyes. Now, take me to the back door." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The second boy says, “Make them do things.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Besides, sometimes things that look pretty, like secret fire in the darkness, are really pretty ugly. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Rachel says it was part of a locomotive train, but she is famous for making things up out of thin air and stating them in a high, knowing tone. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good things come to those who bait,” Henry says. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He was still smiling, but the smile was doing strange things. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a mess, so many things out of place. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Rashid could almost imagine her bumping into things as she hurried to do as Tad asked. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There had been a general decision to take out one room of monkeys, and see how that worked, see how things went—see if the virus was spreading. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were the only living things in the white mask of his face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I left them there arguing with each other and took a short walk while they figured things out. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But, anyway, you wouldn’t imagine the value of those things. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I don’t want hawk-chicks that can turn things to stone, or make things float, or disappear, or even run fast. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe Sam Gardiner understood the look on the boy’s face; at all events he scooped up a handful of gum- drops and put them in the package with the other things. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why were they always taking things away from black people? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had about five words for things that most people had only one word for, and could use four of five in a single sentence. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room behind the woman was full of wonderful things, but what interested Nhamo most was the little girl. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strong evening odors of green things and living things were in his distended nostrils, drawing him toward them more powerfully than the smell of goat or wine. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I collected my things and started for the front office. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Now he’s arranging things around my living room: clothing, fabrics, and sketchbooks with designs he’s drawn. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The scientists, although they happened to call them magicians at the time, invented almost as terrible things as we have invented—except that we have become accustomed to theirs by use. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I’m the Librarian, I’m going to do great things. Things that would seem impossible to anyone else.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t even have to try not to think about how things were back in...the place I’m from. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s just for the boys, I guess, and I’m just tired and afraid and sad all at once, Robbie, and I don’t know which one I’m more of because I’m all those things so much.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She didn’t care that I couldn’t give her a lot of things. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I thought about it, then said: “It’s always good to know these things.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most obvious evidence that things were better here was the presence of longtime officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think you can manage to put the things in the fridge?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, there are a lot of things he and I don’t tell each other. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

And Sam, he know so much into things, Ah wants some information on de subject.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Oreos, those nasty wafer things that taste like dirty air, and those cheap strawberry cookies. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The first time I realized things were going to get nasty was the first week in April, when Charlie broke our friendship off at the pagoda because he believed the lies Jenny Flick told him. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

These things, in conjunction with the wild work we have in hand, help to unnerve a man.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The chief was always very kind and respectful towards these old women, as they knew a great deal too and they had seen many things happen during their lives. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“What my mother smelled like. So many things.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two workers, a young man in a nurturer's uniform and a volunteer, a girl of ten or so, were tidying things. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

If things had gone as usual that night, the other kids would have withdrawn to their cabins, leaving Ben and Loo to get acquainted. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We talk about when we were little, we tell stories, talk about the things we wanna do when we graduate. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Since he is the only neighbor I know, I learn things about him. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Even the good things are unspeakable, so how could I ask about deformities? The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For most students, all that mattered was that O High was in the news again, and not for any of the good things that happened there. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I gave Deacon a note for some things. I may not be in this afternoon, so dont you let him have anything until tomorrow, will you?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We move the coffee table, and some of the smaller things, but the chair, my father's chair—their chair—we leave alone. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I think maybe it’s the things we don’t want to talk about that are the things people most want to hear. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And she kept all sorts of sharp metal things on that keychain. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

And as hard as it is, regular communication is what gets things back to normal. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sand wore away the edges of things, but it didn’t tear them down as hungrily as rain and vegetation. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The first living things were not anything so complex as a one-celled organism, already a highly sophisticated form of life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn realized that he’d been trying to say things wrong before. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Because if we didn’t feel those things, what monsters would we be? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Over the past few years he’d seen a lot of things: destiny, prophecy, magic, monsters, fate. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But the men do not know these things. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Youth! Beauty! Your father could have made me immortal, hie could have taken me to Olympus, but he abandoned me. You can set things right, Jason. You are my proud warrior!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

These things Kazi tells me are the memories I was supposed to have. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It’s possible that Connectors learn about new information by an entirely random process, that because they know so many people they get access to new things wherever they pop up. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just...let me tell you how it’s been for me. I can’t tell you why things are happening as they are, but I can tell you the order of their happening.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had cast hundreds of small things since he had gone to work for Mr. Lapham, but nothing so intricate and beautiful as the woman with folded wings whose body formed the handle. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Basil shouted, several things happened at once. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She spread her blue silk shawl open and laid her things in the middle. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was still the same game and that didn't change things. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we know things we don’t tell each other too. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was grave dark and quiet except for the things that crawled in the night. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, darling. I won’t ever leave you for some one else. I suppose all sorts of dreadful things will happen to us. But you don't have to worry about that.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Before I could fly in space, however, there were still a thousand things I had to learn. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy was unconscious for two days after that, and he dreamed millions of things, some of them true. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she was proud of the things she made. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I am not a demon. I am not any of the things you want me to be. I am just a person. A person who borrows other people’s lives for a day.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I think of what Jacqui said, and realize that it’s not only things that get lost behind the cushions of the world. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“We’ll help you get your things inside, sugar. But we can’t stay. It’s getting dark. We need to get on home.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

For he is very wise, and weighs all things to a nicety in the scales of his malice. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She could put her mind on other things. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Despite my nervousness—and the speed with which I ate—I could hardly believe how rich and fine it tasted, filled with savory things I had never eaten and could not name. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We go on these things—we call them hits—to gather up supplies for the camp. Stuff like food, medicine, you name it. We also raid stores from time to time.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Hallucinating means you imagine you see things that aren’t there,” my father adds. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

In those days, if you had been interested by peculiar things, perhaps you would have had the luck to notice a knight-in-armour riding past the window. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the way things were and there was nothing to be done about such a basic thing. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

By now the band was blasting like nobody’s business, and the usual confusing things happened. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Our togetherness was one of the few things I had faith in. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I thought about jumping up to grab it but stopped myself, knowing it would only make things worse. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Those people might have much better things to do than to loiter about Levy Pants, such as composing jazz or creating new dances or doing whatever those things are that they do with such facility. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, if he had only known it, bad as things seemed the worst was over. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thrived on solving complex problems, prided himself on coming up with novel solutions, the kinds of things other people would never think of in a million years. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Or will, for Dad, tonight’s Goose Fair just be one more of the trillion things you even forget forgetting? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I imagined our things spread out on the lawn tomorrow. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

All these things had been taken from people by force or looted from houses and shops. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

This was because it fed on living things and had grown so fat and swollen in its greed that bits of the people it had eaten dripped from its scummy lips and crooked teeth. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It shows you things, like the matches. But this shows you the truth. It shows you the way things really are.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Rishi had heard once you were attracted to someone, your brain could actually rewire itself and make you think all kinds of sucky things about them were perfect. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She starts putting things back into her purse, starting with the red mint tin. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Somehow the topic turned to lighter things, and Ob and Mr. Underwood talked of the weather and the new bridge being built down the road. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

They always involve doing things Mum and Dad have told us not to. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because no one cared about long-range things like courting votes for the next election and instead cared about things like keeping valued, wealthy community members safe; there were no negotiations. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But in Shaker Heights, things were peaceful, and riots and bombs and earthquakes were quiet thumps, muffled by distance. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Eh! My son wastes money on these expensive things,” she said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Late-harvesting things were ruined, of course, and fowl died of both chill and rage. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, her thoughts turned to Amman, her family, and especially her late grandmother, who had always told her as a child that things happened for a reason. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The women gathered around and I showed them what I had while they laughed and did the things women do: flicked lint off my jacket, pressed me on the shoulder to make me sit down. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because I got in a lot of practice after what happened with Will. I have several choice things to say about her nose.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The idea of not being alone—of having someone who sees me, same way I see the things that no one else can see, makes me feel like I’m real. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And her friends were good people, but they had their own busy lives and she couldn’t do the things they did and they didn’t come around so much anymore. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She then collected her tennis things—racket, hand towel, and sun hat—and followed Selena. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

In Montgomery, students stopped one another at bus corners and by their lockers, saying things like “Have you ever heard of Claudette Colvin?” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Shuck things can climb the bloody walls, remember? Nothing we could build would keep them out.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe this is the way things are supposed to be, but it doesn’t feel right. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, there are nights where you can’t sleep, because these things you juggle take all of your concentration. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe Cari could afford to shred things before the day was even started, but he needed the luck. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You could eat out of my bowls. Don’t they have those things—people tasting cheese and wine together?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

More even than most teens, he tended to see things in black and white. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told my daughter, ‘Those poor kids must be dying of thirst, poor things.’ The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Little things; maybe something from a truck stop or a diner or a Holiday Inn. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

So I sat at the wooden worktable in the back of Ben’s wagon and chafed at wasting the day listening to him lecture me about things I already understood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Life might be difficult for a year or two, but I would tough it out because living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?” his mother went on. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I can count them up like the list the coroner gave us, taped to the box of things that had been found on their persons or retrieved from the wreck. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once there I tried to put things back where they belonged. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sorry I got mad at you, and I’m sorry about the things I said. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had started to say that since I could only plant and cultivate so much, I had not included beets—and quite a few other things, like pumpkins, turnips, squash, and so on. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I would probably have indigestion if I ate one—now that I no longer felt ashamed of the things I had always loved, I probably could no longer digest very many of them. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

These buildings have elevators in them, and wide foyers with plants, and are called things like The Monte Carlo. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They did things together, like building forts or kicking balls or fighting. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed up Henry’s things and left as fast as I could. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The answer is that what can be either singular or plural; it can mean “the thing that” or “things that.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was carrying a suitcase with my football things in it, and I walked up the street from the station in the town I had lived in all my life and it was all new. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He thought: Best of an island is once you get there—you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

She just kept it to herself, as she kept so many things to herself. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His bare feet were the most disgusting things Hazel had ever seen...and she had seen some very disgusting things. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was a far cry from what I used to eat in Cuba, but like lots of things in America, I had grown used to it and now actually liked it. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I sensed that there were things she would rather not talk about, and by the way she avoided questioning me, I think she guessed the same. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Another bad move is to go climbing a tall metal ladder in the middle of a thunderstorm when lightning is looking for just two kinds of things to strike: tall things and metal things. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“If you want to speed things up so much,” the man in black said, clearly quite angry now, “you could lower a rope or a tree branch or find some other helpful thing to do.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

"A disturbing thought. We are not the Free Cities, where such things are com-mon. Grand Maester Aethelmure wrote that all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mary Poppins gave them their supper and cleared away the things, stacking them neatly and methodically. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, y’all can pick up a few things for me from the store when you go out, okay, Sneaky?” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Ay sus. Don’t talk with your mouth full. And yes, I do. I think good things happen for a reason. And bad things, too.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She opened the refrigerator and I saw familiar containers of chicken salad, vermicelli, vegetables, stuffed squash, all things I had brought for Morrie. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We expect great things from men who have made such a noble stand against the designs of their fellow-men to enslave them. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Picking up the spoon and placing it on his head, speaking of revenge, these things helped him to put his heart together again. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then came the things I could disassemble, like the crew seats, several of the backup systems, and the control panels. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just want things to be normal again. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

In any case, I recall things reaching something of a climax one grey and drizzly afternoon when I was in the billiard room attending to Lord Darlington's sporting trophies. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She’d noticed that colors sometimes left their shapes when things flashed by so fast. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t kill them all, Leah explained, because then we’d have no eggs for omelets—one of the few things we knew how to cook. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But your definition of school isn’t really one thing, it’s many different things, Craig: extracurricular activities plus sports plus volunteering. That’s not to mention homework.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

But eventually, things came around to what Hand Clap had missed in the demons’ land. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had all these chores facing us, but some things you have to sit and mull over before you can go on. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I’m trying to be realistic about this. It isn’t that simple, is what I’m saying. There are all these other things.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She glances at me and, if I’m not imagining things, frowns a little. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“The bird only keeps good things about the future to herself, but you can bet we hear all the brown- trouser bits.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He closed his notebook and ran outside to help carry things into the kitchen. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They knew a tremendous number of things—but was it worth while Jcnowing all these things ifthey did not know the one important thing, the only important thing? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of you may say it is not good manners to be removing such things from one's chest at the dinner table.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

We talked about our favorite things to do. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“It is in a book, The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates, all the bad things that can happen to you outside the protection of this house. ” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ram was a dedicated person—that means he didn’t let go of the things that were important to him. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“I could scarcely see three yards in front of me where I was. And then the things went off out of the blue.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And the people in Barrington Heights used to do all those things. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes! He’d call them Treasure Trove Mondays because tourists had been dropping things on the beach all weekend. Remember the diamond ring?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

In the hospital, he’d said one of the first things he was going to do when he’d rested up was to teach Dallas how to chop wood and light the lanterns. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I kicked the shovel because I knew I’d stirred things up. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Some things were not safe to say, not even in the stables with his lordship in the hall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I guess you can really narrow things down in a major way, if you choose to. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Tendai realized the man who was the Spirit Medium might have petty hatreds, but mud-limu inside his body had no patience with such things. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Do all those things have to change because we know how our world was made? Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Thanks again for the blankets and things,” the nurse told her. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It wanted to talk about those things, but it didn’t know how to turn a man into the wind. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I always intend to and then she says these little sneaky things, smoke bombs and little barbs, and . . .” “Why don’t you tell her to stop torturing you,” said Marlene. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is better not to know some things. Knowing the wrong things can make you crazy.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Joyce was trying to think of motherly things she could do with them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” Phoebe said, “an agenda is a list of things to be discussed at a meeting—” “So maybe it’s for your dad,” I suggested. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

We hurried through the gate so we wouldn’t be late to Mr. Nossik’s class and fan the flames of hatred for all things Cade Hernandez so early in our week of freedom. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I ate the things I had stored and left the house only to get water at the spring. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But there’s lots of things you can do with a knife,” he says, “without killing a man.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

As we packed up her things to leave, I was going on about how insane the whole week had been. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Also, there are no role models: fathers, brothers, sisters that get up and go to work every day and who are doing positive things. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Little town like this, that’s what keeps things on an even keel. These folk will carry a grudge for fifty years about what their Tom said about our Kari.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There are mad things wrong with that theory, but I don’t have time to comment on them right now. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t understand. He was here. This was his camp. He left his things because he was coming back.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The man was telling them too much, and not the right things. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I am not hot, cold, dizzy or uncomfortable—because all of those things are words, which by that point in the seizure have floated away—pfft!—into space. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy and I sat motionless for a good five minutes and then quietly collected our things and moved on. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Now he was used to such things, a roadside commonplace, but back then, before the coarsening and general numbness, when it was a novelty and when everything was new, he felt it sharply. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When a company puts out its earnings, one of the first things it does is hand it to the wires—Reuters, Dow Jones, and Bloomberg—for distribution. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Some things we remember from our fathers, but no one taught us what it meant to run a home, to build a new life. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And that’s exactly how Mrs. Chiltington and her League of Concerned Library Lovers would run things when they became the board of trustees in charge of what used to be the Lemoncello Library. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“They are giving him more things to say in the play,” Lili explained, “because he did such a good job memorizing so fast.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Since we won your...uh, game, do you think we could have our things back?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“So, how did things go after I left? Did they finish cleaning up the blood yet?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I am like a room where things once happened and now nothing does, except the pollen of the weeds that grow up outside the window, blowing in as dust across the floor. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gets up and says she’s got more important things to worry about than what I’m hoping for. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, if Dionysus had gotten off his butt and actually started helping the gods recruit against the Titan threat, things must be looking pretty bad. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I sit back and cross my arms, biting my tongue on the hundred things I want to say in response. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Some things are easier here than on the bridge—in spite of all that’s happened—and you have to stop feeling sorry for yourself.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Because of erosion on the Earth, our monuments and artifacts will not, in the natural course of things, survive to the distant future. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bertha Nemur was not going to let me get the last word in, and if things went any further it would really get nasty. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Alma, I’m really sorry about the drama club fundraiser. I was planning all sorts of amazing things...and now everything is a mess. The money is gone, and Freebie is...” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He just kind of stretched things a little. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I,” said his captor, “am Nobody. And you need to change. Turn over a new leaf. Reform. All that. Or things will get very bad for you.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He’s still treating me like an honorary boy, still saying crude things about women. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The waitress delivers some fruit and biscuits and other delicious things. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

As she puts it, she instructed him: “Let them figure things out, and we’ll go from there.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He began to drop things and to trip. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Lukie, do you really need to know? Isn’t it enough to know—things are just different for you?” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

That was on my list of things you can wish on. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe Priscilla was thinking of other things that had just shown up in Finn’s barn, but he wasn’t going to talk about that. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They asked how things were going down at the church. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, above all, I learned that these things are all so simple that they could be written on the surface of an emerald.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe you hit him. What if his parents decide to press assault charges? I can’t believe you were so irresponsible. Are you still seeing things?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

At the first commercial, I asked him how things were going. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

My cousin Mlungisi was there, too, in the gallery, ready to post my bail if things went my way. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We,, I was eleven years of age, an event transpired that changed considerably the course of things at the College of Lucidity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It smelled of hot chocolate and fresh-baked brownies, hamburgers on the grill and wildflowers, and a hundred other good things that shouldn’t have gone well together, but did. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

For three weeks after we ran out of things to trade to the Anyuak, there was no food. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was surprised at two things: one, that he would take me there; two, that I felt a little sorry because I wouldn’t be going alone. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

To Milkman’s father, college was time spent in idleness, far away from the business of life, which was learning to own things. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Mrs. Janssen is grieving in a practiced way, the way of someone who is used to losing things. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He sent Ruel Thomas back up the hill to find out bow things were going there, to find Vincent to tell him that life was getting difficult and we need a little help. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Powers thought of the silver dollar in his pocket, and it suddenly occurred to him that if he were captured, "it was one of the first things they would take." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was like that little whale had opened up all these things they wanted to say to each other. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“But if I don’t lie,” I said, thinking things through, “then they’ll probably be mad at you because you didn’t make me go to school.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The field did have a few things to recommend it. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was one of the things he and Diana were in step on. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I feel I’m just definitely the most suspicious character on the train. You’ve only got to find a will in which the old man left me all his money, and that’ll just about fix things.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell her Calvin doesn’t mind the things about me. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

He stares stonily at me for a moment longer before looking to Sana, who nods, and Keenan, who offers a shrug that could mean any number of things. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“But I have brought myself to do horrible things. These hands might have slain you. And even now—how can I save you? What god, what man, will help us?” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I’d already noticed your horse worries a bit over blown paper in the streets—things like that. I suppose you know that, too?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made the hairs on her neck stand on end, but she told herself she was imagining things. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You called me a liar. I may be many things, boy, but a liar? Not High John. No, sir.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“You were always the bad one. Making faces at me behind your mother’s back, teasing and tormenting me, stealing my things. Why, you have my bear right now. Give him to me!” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Of course she was, much too young, and besides, she had more important things to do. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, if Natasha could hear his memories, she would point out the fact that they didn’t end up together, and that the same things that went right also went wrong. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I am trying to do two things: One is shake the rug good and hard. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

These are dark days I will tell you of, dark days and hidden things, concerning the ends of the earth and the death of the gods. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes it’s easier for people to make sense of things...if they can put the blame on someone.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

There are so many things I want to ask Adam, but I don’t want to overwhelm him. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Opinion at Booker T. Washington was sharply divided between those who admired Claudette’s courage and those who thought she got what she deserved for making things harder for everyone. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Those things are hellish. People being sick all over the place.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She sighed, "i say it tastes like folly, but what would a dry maid know of such things?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But that didn’t stop Nick from trying to liven things up. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a tendency for living things to join up, establish linkages, live inside each other, return to earlier arrangements, get along, whenever possible. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then making things difficult for hikers is something of a tradition in the eastern parks. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Anyhow, I’m feeling real good about things and minding my own business, and that’s when I notice Fin Chaser tied up to the town wharf. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

If my decisions reflected this abysmal reality, how could things ever get better? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m willing to answer his questions if it will clear things up,” Mr. Dalton said quietly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

You can see things that we cannot, you can see connections and possibilities and alternatives that are invisible to us, just as sraf was invisible to you. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“See that? Seriously, Ally. Only smart people say things like that.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I guess death, even with a mule, can change things. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were so many things you could do with a stick. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I would do my chores, but things weren’t the same at home. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know any of the right things. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I think he might be some of those other things, and cruel as well.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Or better than both: for they are steadier and keep their minds on things longer. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes folks who have things to say don’t say them.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

In my diary I wrote: What if Grandma is wrong?—what if God can’t fix things. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t have time for that. I’ve got other things on my mind.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Dicey was thinking about other things, about maps and food. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I heard some pretty bad things about that. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom lean share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began asking Linda things I would ordinarily ask them, like about words and phrases I had heard people use. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Mother smiled when Marly marveled at all the things Mr. Chris knew. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You must start at once. Today, in fact! I will send instructions to your school—Swansea? Swansong? You must remind me of the name—to send the rest of your things.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“You know how people are about things like that. White people are that way too. The Army might send someone to take you back.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“At least that was the way of things until Patton,” Lena said, more to herself now. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

His mustache moved up and down, a radar sweep for all things unruly. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

All the invisible things that eventually might be seen. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then the Eye began to rove, searching this way and that; and Frodo knew with certainty and horror that among the many things that it sought he himself was one. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Of all of the scenarios I had imagined—of all the things I thought had happened to those kids—this was too insane for me to have ever dreamed up. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My mother had died a few months before and I had been getting things in order for my father, a little bit at a time. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hit you if you’re late, if you have a leaky nib on your pen, if you laugh, if you talk, and if you don’t know things. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He needed to get things for me, just as I needed to get things for him. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I’m just...I’m figuring some things out.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

They can spot with accuracy, on the wing, small insects, and they will home onto things they like with infallibility and speed. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A charismatic eleventh-grade geometry teacher stoked her interest in math, and for the first time, she entertained the idea of a future that took advantage of her knack for numbers and all things analytical. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The things a schoolgirl has to do in the course of a single day! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Someone who likes to do the same things you do. That’s what...” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later, Tobias’s thumb brushes over the injection site in my neck, and a few things come together at once. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“If you talk about things you haven’t seen, you will get yourself in trouble. You know what I mean.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no.. Creepy is like spiders and rats and, you know, things that make chills run down your spine. You’re just....difficult,” said Gregor, trying to be honest but not flat-out rude. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Milton, quite simply, had ceased to think things through. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He writes to Vincent that “for many artists you are the most remarkable in the exhibition. With things from nature you’re the only one there who thinks.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Dad says it’s where Great-Uncle Jim used to weld things together to make new equipment and invent things for his farm. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

These are all things the PT has been making me do. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

It was too nice a day to worry about things. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No one’s going to try and kill you until we’ve sorted a few things out,” said Lupin. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“You think then we might be using the Russians as an outlet for something else, for other things.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But having come this far, he realized it was foolish to turn back now and leave things forever up in the air. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

You will see that he did the contrary of those things that must be done in order to hold one’s dominion in a region with heterogeneous customs, languages, and institutions. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I need you to hear what I’m saying even if you’re too young to understand. You can’t have everything in life that you want. Some things are meant for you. Some things just aren’t.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Already things were better here than they had been during the journey. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all started telling stories, then, of how fine and wonderful a thing it was to be a ghoul, of all the things they had crunched up and swallowed down with their powerful teeth. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

No sense in denying that such things happen. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

"But Ivy will be punished for it. As she should be. Meddling in our business and making things more difficult." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They didn’t make sense because the way things ended between us was not the way they were supposed to end. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Right, and things were so great back when everyone was ugly. Or did you miss that day in school?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They grab tiny things, too, and try to put them in their mouths. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But for weeks now, I’ve sensed that some big thing is about to happen, big enough to distract Mami from fussing as much over little things, which is fine with me. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Sit down. And I will tell you ten things about your mama.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe you’ve had things happen, or seen things happen at parties that you just couldn’t discuss. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Her face was a reflection of many things; a sum of many transfiguring, even violent events. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I notice things that I paid very little attention to before. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Doing these things would get you fired, Testo said; and one in ten of us would receive a notice of discipline from his office sometime during his career. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Friday nights there were always only two things on my mind: getting the hell out of the house and finding the party. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"You've been talking about me. And calling someone a monster isn't very nice. It's dangerous, actually. I cannot have anyone in the kingdom saying those types of things about me." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I’ve never seen it open, but if Dad and Grandpa Ted wanted to build on this spot, here’s my guess: It’ll have all the things I need. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Just don’t get violent on me. You seeing any purple rabbits running around or things like that?” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, as if they were moving themselves in her mind, things joined up. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They were concerned that my stand-out-in-a-crowd face might make me afraid to go out in public, let alone do things like talk to people. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“He’s not on fire. He’s burning oil,” Maddie said, because she knows these things. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I see some of the things I noticed yesterday—the birthmark, the scattering of pimples on her forehead. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Evelyn had moved in with her brother, who told me, “Perhaps it is for the best; maybe when things will have cooled down you will come back together.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She tried to act like it didn’t matter, but I bet after they left she threw things and cried her eyes out.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I would still wonder about other things,” Axel says, looking from the dense forest to his mom in the garden. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Burroughs said no, cheerily adding that we kindergartners had other things to get to, I demanded it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I try to sort things out quickly in my mind, but I don’t really know why. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

A man can trust his luck, but a society can’t; and cultural change, like random mutation, may make things chancier. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The only things I want are my lucky penny and the packet of letters secured in my pocket. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry. I’m sure there are still some things they can teach you.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Why did you do that? You could have hit her eyes or worse. Then what would we have done? How would a blind child survive here? You have to think of things like that now!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when things were normal, when Nan was alive and my mom was only depressed some of the time instead of all of the time, moments like this were rare. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Together, they formed a community of living things that nurtured one another. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I could hear him banging around his house, opening drawers, slamming things. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Filthy things, tom and stained and stinking of blood and urine. And thin. You must be cold. We’ll put you in lambswool, soft and warm. Perhaps a fur-lined cloak. Would you like that?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Each man lays hold of his things and looks again every minute to reassure himself that they are still there. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Girl, I got you out of bed. Now I want to get you out of the building and into the street. Why do you make things so difficult?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I never minded those things, but it seemed odd to me, in somebody else’s room. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He talks about the big bay window in the house where he grew up, and Henry doesn’t tell him he’s crazy for all the things he used to write and hide under there. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Santicl6 has had to be very careful this time around, smuggling in just a couple of things every few days. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

These things were wild, and they just kept multiplying. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He knew lots of things that he didn’t want to know. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The things they valued most in life were good social interactions and high-quality friendships. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As with most things, Ms. Byrd got her way. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

My family had been denied the things his family had taken for granted. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, but you were randomly chosen. Please gather your things and come with me.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He shook his head, and as he worked things out, slowly a new dark thought grew in his mind. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She wondered how many other things she would have forgotten, both big and small, things that she wouldn’t have even known that Peach needed until it was too late. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She wanted to ask questions, but how do you ask people things like that? Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I began watching her like a hawk, expecting to catch her eating things alone. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

All those things the guards say, they are true of Donay. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, I was interested to hear, he was telling them things I had told him months earlier: You can change the outcome; there are prospects and opportunities. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only suspense comes from whether I can access things fast enough. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

But then, beginning about 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens started doing very special things. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I ought to keep writing, not just for the paper, but something else, about all the people I know and the things I seen and done. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“But they have all those things,” I whispered, my voice sounding far away. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Also: “Learn wisdom from the pupil of the eye that looks upon all things and yet to self is blind. Persian poet.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pages of the book are covered with similar markings, though predominantly they hold other things. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In his mind Lefty Stephanides grew younger and younger while in actuality he continued to age, so that he often tried to lift things he couldn’t or to tackle stairs his legs couldn’t climb. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“We gotta run, baby girl. Uncle Jack is being moved back to his apartment at the assisted-living facility and put in hospice. We need to make sure there are groceries and things of that nature.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

He does, but for the entire distance to the gate, David walks with his head turned back, half smiling at me, like he’s willing things to be okay. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“When you’ve lived nearly two hundred years, some things are obvious.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She knows what I’m doing, trying to lighten her load, help her with little things, but she doesn’t seem to care. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

But in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don’t take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking of Jackson and the things he used to smuggle me makes me think of my mother—the silence from the postmaster every time Jackson came calling, or so I thought. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She was a strange and in some ways wonderful horse, capable of an odd interest in things and now and then great compassion. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Hibiscus is teaching me many things,” Redemption answered. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to do things differently. Take more care.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

People use poetic language to describe things they don’t understand. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Those were the things that kept a city orderly. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

"Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

After a while, though, things went back to normal, except that Sherm’s grandfather was gone. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

At first he tries to eat all of everything, but as the meal progresses he finds he must forgo some things to keep his appetite and his taste buds functioning. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shall see Zau again, and speak a little with him, and see things he has made. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

And all of these things are other people’s business. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Making things seems to satisfy some deep inner need for us. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

This was turning out to be one of the hardest things he’d ever done in his career as a veterinarian. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got carried away by things; for example, he was so fascinated by the tilting planes of solid geometry that he did almost as badly in trigonometry as I did myself. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just continued to feel comfortable in the way I saw things. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Besides, it’s good to change things up once in a while.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Mostly, by far and away, good things have been my lot in life. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

On each side of the fill was a great expanse of water like lakes—water full of things living and dead. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Miss New Mexico listed things off, using her fingers to keep count. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

In some mysterious way, from this horror of blank boundless vacancy the best of all things came into being. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate: they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Tending to the dead was an act of ultimate kindness, and such things were meant to be performed in silence, for an audience who would never acknowledge it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“God, I don’t know how they do things in California, but here, you don’t act like that.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

And in my family, all our hearts seem to have whole different things inside. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Yes, Lana. She had a lot of pain. She screamed and screamed until the things left her head and crawled into mine. Then we put her out of her misery.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Not everyone in eighth grade is going to know exactly the same things.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father is sick, and I worry about taking care of him as things get worse.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I thought about maybe writing for magazines just so I could see an article that didn’t say things like I mentioned before. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t argue with me. I know about these things.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but I didn’t mean to hurt you. You do and say things to hurt me on purpose.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Hugo didn’t say anything else, just went back to straightening things behind the counter. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

At night, instead of sitting and reading and smoking his pipe in the living room, as he had done before, Mr. Popper would put on his overcoat and take his things downstairs. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The middle-class parents talked things through with their children, reasoning with them. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“I think Grandpa makes up phony excuses for her not being around. This is a dangerous place. He has lied about other things. I get the feeling he’s trying to protect us from the truth.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Two things very low on my list of priorities, along with sex, kickboxing and becoming a rodeo star. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She wrote the usual things, printing out each word carefully. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Flux made you do things you didn’t want to do—he knew that firsthand. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Plus me and Mong agreed we probably weren’t even that important to them in the grand scheme of things. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

That was one of the first and simplest things she’d learned from the pamphlets Yuko had given her: Allah is just the Arabic word for God. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Walking down the street, you can't help but notice things that are happening. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse, but they were happy, as these things go, for a long while. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She sat with the girl, blowing bubbles—lovely, lurid, mostly magical things, with pretty colors swirling on their surfaces. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I have always believed that raising kids means more than just being a good parent and trying to do the right things,” Papa went on, his voice beginning to wobble. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Normally, Petey was too mad about too many things to list: her given name, her own face, that one horrible party, to name just a few. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Even after Papa’s hand grew cold, and Carmen understood that some things get taken away, no matter how hard you try to hold on to them. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

“No sun to thaw things out today,” he said aloud to himself. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Shin explained that he tolerated such things because Park had the good sense to whisper. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’d learn to say things the way he wanted to some day! Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

All living things on our planet are constructed of organic molecules—complex microscopic architectures in which the car- bon atom plays a central role. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But one knew of such things only through vague rumors. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As things turned out, it was a good thing rrty mom had watched that particular drum lesson, because it would be the last one we’d be able to afford for a long while. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It seems things are all going wrong, what with Red in the hospital and the Biscuit hurt,” he said. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And beyond that, there are so many things I love about him: he’s kind and strong and he believes in the intrinsic value of women as human beings; he’s fun and deep and loyal. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

In my opinion he is up to things, which includes things of this kind. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were trickster hands—long, graceful fingers made for prying open locks, hiding coins, making things vanish. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I wish your father were here. He understood things about you that I can’t get to understand.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A new shape for a teapot, a new inscribed design—these were things that the potters refused to reveal until a piece was ready to show to a buyer. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Boating was one of the many things she had studied without having any clear reason to do so. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had to be careful we weren’t makings things up, half remembered, half dreamed. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m going alone. You’re to stay here and keep an eye on our things.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Nat was busy at his desk behind the counter, writing things in his notebook. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s forty-six of those pieces of DNA in every human nucleus. We call those chromosomes —those are the things that were colored bright in that big picture I gave you.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In that brief moment, Velutha looked up and saw things that he hadn’t seen before. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rest my head on his shoulder and tell him about going to the museum and Ahnighito and all the things that had to go right for our solar system, galaxy, and universe to form. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

People leave gifts on our doorstep all the time, like flowers and sweets for the wonderful things he has done for them. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Nah, that story’s just one of those things you tell kids to teach them lessons, isn’t it? ‘Don’t go looking for trouble, don’t pick fights, don’t go messing around with stuff that’s best left alone! Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Two things, Eliot learned, made Mrs. Sen happy. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Instead his eyes just followed as Boobie danced and weaved and did all those things on the beautifully manicured, well- watered fields that L.V. had patiently taught him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of paying for things in other ways, through trade, felt entirely foreign to her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They also loved to trade us things we needed for the used T-shirts the UN gave us. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were at least a thousand people waiting in line to see things in the Hall of the Italian Renaissance. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were little white things falling out of the sky, and they seemed to be accumulating on the ground. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I do plan on saying one or two things to him after the reaping, when we’re allowed an hour for good-byes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He went around with his hair tied back in a ponytail, like a rock musician from the seventies, and talked a lot about things like reincarnation. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was saying all the wrong things and didn’t seem to realize it. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Just a lot of things to figure out.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Doc asked, “How are things going up at the Palace?” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My sophomore year, I took set design when I couldn’t get into interpretive dance. I’m pretty good at building things.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Prosecutors, he says, lose cases all the time around childhood abuse, around issues where it is hard for people to acknowledge the reality of the terrible things people can do to one another. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Two things that comforted me and quieted my worries, making everything wonderful, were being in church on Sunday and sitting all alone in my room listening to music. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It goes from 0 to 10, where 10 is for two things that are totally different and 1 or 2 might describe just the production-range differences between two batches of the same product. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Better get off those wet things, now. Then you should try to get some sleep yourself.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two con men she had been watching packed up their things and slipped into the crowd. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I bite my nails, trying to remember all the things I wanted to buy, but the dreams are lost in the roar of gunfight on TV and clanking dishes in the kitchen. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Vanessa, I’ve written you letters for years explaining, begging for your forgiveness over and over again. I didn’t mean for things to turn out this way.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I love it when people get excited about things I make. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“So I think he must not be getting the right things to eat,” Mario concluded his story. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If your mum weren’t the president and you were just a normal bloke living a normal life, what things might be like? What you’d be doing instead?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They would put back their heads and howl, and try to bite the cold thin things that stopped them being free. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I like trying to figure out how things fit together. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“Even with things like this, I’m still convinced there’s no better place to be a Muslim in the world than in this country.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Would she ever see and hear and smell those things again? The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Omaha, Nebraska. Sac City, Iowa. Alexandria, Indiana. Darwin, Minnesota. Hollywood, California. Alliance, Nebraska. Okay. Those are the locations of all the things she—well, or whoever read this book—found interesting.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Dr. Kumar said, “my job is to fix things on people’s bodies. Sometimes their faces.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They could not bring most of their things, so they had to make do with whatever was at hand. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a relief, I suppose, because I’d been imagining all sorts of awful things. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet, once you believed it was possible, so many things could be explained. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Raul explained that things went smoothly only when people worked together. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t open the curtain! Don’t open it! I have things in here.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

These are all things Arthur’s family doesn’t have to worry about as much. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like I was asking you to buy me an F-8, Mama. These things only cost a few bucks.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t like to dwell on these things. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

As always, I was adept enough with white kids not to get bullied by them, but the white kids were always going shopping, going to the movies, going on trips—things that required money. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until I couldn’t see the cars that I came back and things started feeling bad again. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was the perfect lighting for telling secrets and talking about things you would never talk about in the daylight. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Quickly, simultaneously, he falls in love with Maxine, the house, and Gerald and Lydia’s manner of living, for to know her and love her is to know and love all of these things. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some things you have to take a deep breath and just say. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagining her believing that things are different, that Justin has somehow changed. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades’s underwear? The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

There were so many things Rowan missed about being Faraday’s apprentice. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I can. Some things are even more important than a free college education. Including 323.443: ‘freedom of speech.’” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I just sat and watched the little things that did not matter. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It is a good thing for the entire enterprise that mitochondria and chloroplasts have remained small, conservative, and stable, since these two organelles are, in a fundamental sense, the most important living things on earth. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were frost giants and mountain giants at Balder’s funeral; there were even dwarfs, the cunning craftsmen from beneath the ground, for all things that there were mourned the death of Balder. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

On other days, just to mix things up, he worked Seabiscuit in the morning under his own name. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart jumped into my throat and my stomach dropped, leaving a gaping void in my chest where vital things belonged. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

And then they lost their edges altogether and became blurry blankety things that she had a great deal of trouble making any sense out of at all. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“He was my father, and those things were mine to get rid of.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“I...I take notes on things. The woods. The animals. Changes.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The cruel things Miss Peregrine had done recently made more sense now—that hadn’t been Miss Peregrine at all—but I was still left with a million questions. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But it’s a true thing in a world without many true things. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“There are other things you can do besides dance with them.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe they were just in an argument and they went to that restaurant to patch things up. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

"I grow weary of this, ser. There are things I must know." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They appeared to think that the Negro has done all of those “special” things they themselves have never dared to do. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The things that break your heart when you think there’s nothing left to break. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I mentioned it to Mrs. K., that evening, she laughed, and said, “That must have been Professor Bhaer, he’s always doing things of that sort.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know about interesting, but the diary I got for Christmas is sure making me think about a lot of things. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

That’s who the minders are like—the adults of Omelas, the ones who smile and go about their day and revel in the false illusion of freedom while their souls are withered, desolate things. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He nodded to himself, as though many things had now become clear to him, and drew on his cigar. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Washing, water, food, carrying things. Keep it safe.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The rink is operational year-round anyway, just have to adjust a few things here and there to keep other parts of the building open. So here’s the plan.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hideo is the one who gave me a way to even store those memories, who saved me from being thrown into the streets, who mourns his brother and loves his family and creates beautiful things. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

All these things were flashing through my head as Mr. Ray waited for an answer. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The problem is, I am also the girl who shot Will and lied about it, and chose between Hector and Marlene, and now a thousand other things besides. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I am a sharp dagger and Scotch bonnet peppers in rum—Ezili-Danto’s favorite things. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You and Jaja can have breakfast upstairs. I will bring the things up. Your father will eat with the guests,” Mama said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

That’s one of the first things I do after I take off my hearing aids for the night. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It felt that it had no limits, yet here was a boy saying that there were other things the wind should be able to do. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He once suggested to me that we take Mama to a dibia in his hometown, a man who is an expert in “these things.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I worry about what I’ve said today, the expression on my face, how I walk, what I wear, because all of these things need improvement. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

If they couldn’t control things either, the Code Green would be called and supervisors were to send all available officers to the trouble spot. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it's always funny because when Uncle Tony says things like, "Dinner's almost ready," I never have to ask what we having. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I noticed that she never denied the things Todd had said about the vampires and centipedes and spiders and puddles of blood. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

As I watch my friends alternately tease me, ponder serious things, and stuff their faces with junk food, I conclude that they’re still the best. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

So, I just opened my locker, put all my old papers and things in my backpack, and walked over the debris of books and papers and notes in the hallway to the parking lot outside. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But how could she not wear her special things for the first day of school? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Wondering what terrible things Mrs. Silver has told him. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mother Morlan’s house in the Out Isles was hardly bigger than a large dog kennel—but it was comfortable and full of interesting things. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she was tired of hearing me read, she thought of other things for me to do. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He likes to play with how things are usually done, even as he is still learning his craft. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I never understand how Pa knows things, he just always does, and he keeps us informed so we will not be careless with our information. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The last one is either Washington, D.C., or else maybe Annapolis or Chesapeake Bay. That one could be a bunch of things, actually.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

But then, despite my urgings, he dragged his feet; he had things to discuss with the inmate in the cell next to his, and the one next to that. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gets right to the heart of things, that Dawn Celeste. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I liked some things and hated some things,” I say. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The Commandant sees things. Knows things she shouldn’t.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It seemed that sixth-grade boys just normally kept a lot of things around that were perfect for the altar of an evil god. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know that these things must be memories, but they do not have the quality of memories. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When they were gone, I could see by the way she was slamming her own things into her closet, that she was angry. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s one of those things that you’re going to eventually do, I suppose,”Dad said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“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

He had finished writing the letter in his head, explaining things to Kiowa’s father, and now he folded his arms and watched his platoon crisscrossing the wide field. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Traditionally, dynamic markings are based on Italian words, although there is nothing wrong with simply writing things like "quietly" or "louder" in the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

By that time, though, he had other things to worry about. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Later, after knowing him a few more years, Bridge would decide that one of her favorite things about Sherm was that he was a terrible liar. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

"But she loves this country, even after all that. It took her in. When you move here from a refugee camp, you see things differently, I guess." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now they both work at Super Discount Fabric on Roosevelt Avenue, a street crowded with immigrants like us looking for cheap things. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe they had done some of those worse things themselves. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He turned back to the advertisements, for they were the things that interested him in magazines. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He locked the back door as they left, and somehow he knew that things would never be the same. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are some of the things you have to do before you go back to Georgia?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

That mania, to start with, for doing things in private. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was even nice enough to go and get my things from the dorm room. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Even though she was ashamed of herself for believing such awful things about Nehemia, knowing that Dorian and Chaol were safe made the misery worth it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

All these things would be settled some day, one day. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

All the good stuff is in between and around the things that happen. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

So when I wasn’t in school, Daddy kept me busy working ’longside him chopping firewood, clearing brush, fixing things ’round the house needed fixing. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The open locker glistened with shiny new things. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

In Mother’s flower garden she kept finding things that Grandma had loved. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then he said a few vague things about friendship and the friendship of kindly people to those less fortunate than themselves. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a time of silence, Edwin said, “The whale is graceful and gentle. Tonight, I learned those things.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It’s one of the few things people notice. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

They helped me to make sense of the things I saw, and from that, I began to make sense of the world and my place within it. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Mollie welcomed the verdict, but, as White knew, there were some things that no successful investigation, no system of justice, could restore. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“That was one of the most fun things I’ve ever done,” Mom said when dance class was over. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Jade, this isn’t fair. You get chosen to do cool things all the time, and the one time the school chooses me for something, you get jealous?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“He was here asking for opinions about the Abnegation leadership, and Christina told him there were more important things for him to be doing.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

So likewise those living creatures that are enemies to poisonous things, and swallow them up without danger, may shew us that such poisons will cure the bitings and blows of those creatures. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Ma would help Grandma and the aunts make good things to eat for all the people who were coming to the dance. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If things neural were going swimmingly with Vi, the number you detect would be about ninety- eight percent.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sneezed, then grabbed my book and the rest of my things and ran out of the lunchroom. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“That is better. And you are right, I do know these things.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I said, “He says things are not ready.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“How much impact can you have on living things?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“But... them bad things gone happen whether you here or not.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Pa spun into a fixing frenzy repairing tack, mending his boots, and moving from room to room tending to all the things he’d let go during planting season. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Who knows why they do half the things they do. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I can’t help. You’ve been standing here all this time and your luggage is still at baggage claim. Now, follow the signs to pick up your things. I’m sure you have family waiting for you.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They had a system in place that forced their commanders to stop and talk things over and figure out what was going on. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The only things that moved were the clouds. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But now that I haven’t been, it’s become one of the many things I miss about Pakistan every day. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Those aren’t the only reasons people do things for you,” I say. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were like turgid animals who did things mechanically. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to wreck things. And I would.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She felt far away from things and lonely. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He smells of burning things, hair and meat and fuel. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ray said it’s always when people die that we start thinking about the wrong things we did to them, and that reunerals were the funerals where the guilty came to apologize. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Axel’s never considered himself a pigeon, even if they do backflips and other interesting things. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to make things weird for you.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Pulling on the door handle behind me, I swiftly move into the peephole’s line of vision, in case Mom decides to check up on things. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Give things away? I can’t believe I heard that! What have they been teaching you!” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then again—being smart requires you to examine things from all sides—why pick on the guys? Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

It’s just astounding... of all the things to stop him ... but how in the name of heaven did Harry survive?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Hers is big and glittery with pictures of the things she wants in her life, like dreamy movie stars for boyfriends, or dollar signs, or colleges she’s trying to get into. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

And one of the things they had in common, at that time, was a vague and mysterious fear of the old mart called the Professor. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a third—things had been happening, all at once. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that time in Germany, all crawling things were called “worms” and all flying things “birds.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"But was it opened, sir? Someone might have gone into my things . . ." "Oh, no, nothing like that. Please forget the question . . . And tell me, please, what are your plans after graduation?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess I got sore because I knew she thought it was silly to keep those things, and she didn’t tell me she thought it was silly. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, we must admit, out loud, that it was because of race that we didn’t care much what happened to “those people” and imagined the worst possible things about them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It’s people who walk along the beach looking for things of value that might have washed up. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Reality: I don’t know why things turned out this way. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It don't matter what those things were, he was just there. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He felt things were often connected in ways that no one could yet explain in scientific terms. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, both of them had more important things to worry about. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They showed things like coffee pots, microwave ovens, and kitchen sinks. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it was, we were going short of many things. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the light flickered around the little den formed by the bridge overhead and the river- bank walls, Tree-ear suddenly had the sense of seeing clearly the things that had always been there. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“I kept trying so he wouldn’t find me, but I was going in circles and wherever I hid, there he’d be, I don’t know how, until I found these sort of hut things.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I wanted to get up and touch the things in the room, but I knew that if I upset the principal I might not be accepted as a new student. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Because you’re sick. Bad things could happen to you out here.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In those days there were many who could do such things, but Selitos was the most powerful namer of anyone alive in that age. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So many things made me crack up that I was always bursting into laughter in class. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Oh, An Yi. How could they say these things? How could they say them? A relationship between Teacher Ke and me? It’s all lies.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes me nervous, but I can’t help but wonder what she was gone ask me in Miss Leefolt’s kitchen, about do I want to change things. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He would try things his father would not dare. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She did so many things with that vacant look on her face—as if she was daydreaming of living somewhere else. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The way they run things on Six North has become clear to me: it’s all about keeping people occupied and passing the time. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“It made me happy to see you skipping the trains and making a go of things here,” the station agent said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

For now, the idea still forming in his mind, he said only, “We’ll see how things shake out.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But I’ve learned at least one thing: there are young people, even those of the opposite sex, who can discuss these things naturally, without cracking jokes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But combining those things with a hunt was like living a real-life board game, with a book as the prize. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The Dothraki do things in their own time, for their own reasons," the knight answered. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I made up things about what they said to each other with those looks. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Before things started, food was prepared in abundance with everyone’s help. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She preferred not to use her phone in the chamber because she wasn’t sure how the world of the hereafter felt about such things. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

But I did have two things going for me: I was fearless and eager to learn. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

No matter how bad things were, he couldn’t allow himself to be frightened. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I just waited for things to blow over, which I was convinced they would do on account of Charlie having a brain. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Discuss some general things with him when he gets kittenish. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I almost expected to see my doppelganger sprinting across town pursued by a mob, but I guess things didn’t work that way. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

‘I shall return to Isengard, and those who will may come with me. There we may see strange things.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Not only were things over with the band, but since our last conversation, I felt like talking and texting with Dad was awkward. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Because you have a weakness for beautiful things and I don’t,” I say with an air of superiority. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You always say the nicest things,” I said, closing my notebook. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

H: Okay, because you don’t want to ruin things with Lewis. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Two things were very clear to Lee: first, despite what Goll had said, no fire engines had arrived, and, second, his house was about to catch fire. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

It bothered him a little to lie about small things. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Zu was darting around the cabin, collecting her things, as Hina’s mouth ran a mile a minute. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

At first the others looked angry, like they wanted to scream and throw things. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

As it was, she only had half the things we needed, and we were exhausted and irritable by the time we got home. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Feeding and watering and shearing and lambing and even castrating and butchering, I do all these things. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I wanted somebody to say nice things to me. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then I was really confused because Mother had never worked as a secretary for a firm that made things out of steel. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was actually one of the coolest things that’s ever happened to me. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

By now, true morning light was seeping through its arched windows, reminding him of the time, but he just couldn’t make himself return to his room to pack his things, not yet. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jeavons asked me whether this made me feel safe, having things always in a nice order, and I said it did. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He felt that he had let things slip through his hands to such an extent that he could not get at them again. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They speak of small things: the intoxication of kola nut, or how no food hath tasted right for these twenty years without palm oil. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“You the one knows how to read. If I could read, I’d make sure I learned things.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“No, Tom. Sit down and try to listen. Lift those chessmen off the stool. Can you understand things when they are said?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was learning that some things take time, and worrying wouldn’t change that. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Unless people are forced to confront their lies, their brutality, their wrongness, how are they supposed to put things right? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Since 1993 what are some of things that have changed in your life? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Think about all the things she had going against her.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Real slow, I open her closet and just like I thought, forty-five things fall down on my head. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Is there an in-between time when the word means both things? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been walking around and playing things back in my head—he said, she said, temptation, release; if only I could settle on something, choose to stick, not twist. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mind was freed and she started to figure things out. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were each given several large cardboard boxes in which to pack our things. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I had a room full of my mother’s things, I do not know if I would let anyone inside. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Somehow we never run out of things to say. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Running through the woods north of her house, it amazed me how green things grew on top of green things that were still green and growing. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Everywhere they looked, piles of things teetered—books with leather and gold covers, gold and silver trays, bead necklaces hanging out of chipped teacups, old, creaking furniture of all kinds. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got two things to tell you,” he said when they were sitting down by the fire in the little sitting room. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I refused to look directly at her when I replied, “I like them okay, but my mama did bad things, so social services had to take me away for my own good.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Most of the things that matter were decided long ago—who you are, whom you married, what kind of life you lead. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Don’t give him another thought. He does odd things; I’ve tried to teach him better habits, but it doesn’t do any good.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Which was strange, because Daddy was usually not interested in things like our friends or what was going on in our lives. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Harry had gone again after Christmas, and the new gifts got to be just ordinary things lying around with the things you’d had forever and forever. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Bryson's father came in his room after his mom and told him the same things, minus the part about video games. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“There are books and things there which I want. You must remain here all the night, and you must not let your sight pass from her.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

But this notebook said everything he had to say to explain things to other men—to the men who sailed before the mast. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Terryl was trying to take the stigma out of family abuse, and show it’s not, among other things, something a family can just take care of itself. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Back then, though, things like that were kept private. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo was ill again in March, but with a great effort he concealed it, for Sam had other things to think about. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I was glad Mother wasn’t here to see the state of things. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was at this point that the first thing of all, the rather peculiar thing that led to so many other much more peculiar things, happened to him. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Playing with other children in the park, she had several times started to cry, and once or twice to throw things; she had lost a doll this way, and a dragon. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it’s my turn to go in, I gather the things in his desk next to mine and place them in a file box. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were so many things she wanted to ask Lazlo, who had been called “dreamer” even before she dubbed him that. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

James was going to be an engineer, and build things. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someday I’d like to feel comfortable enough around people to actually say the things I want to say. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It's like I didn't let myself see it before, but now that I see it, I can't believe the things I did to you. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Nothing to be nervous about! So it’s a big game. But in the grand scheme of things, in a world rife with famine, disease, war, natural disasters, and crime, is a game all that important?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He keeps telling me I ought to be writing these stories to go with his pictures, since Mrs. Lacey at school has been bragging on those things I wrote for English. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

And, unlike uglies, who had only their dorm uniforms and other disposable possessions, the two had actually spent half a lifetime collecting things before escaping the city. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s just that people have questions They are trying to sort things out for themselves.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One, because it’s nice. And two, because I want to tell you a few things without being spied on.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has a lot of interesting things about Anubis in his speech. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Thinking of his father living here alone these past three months, he feels the first threat of tears, but he knows that his father did not mind, that he was not offended by such things. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember,” Mother said softly, “if things don’t go well, you can come back to us. We expect you during school vacations anyhow.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it meant things between me and Trevor could get better. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I'm sorry that things aren't perfect here all the time for you. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Before you go, Antain. Why don’t you do us a favor, since we cannot entice you to apply your clever hands to the making of beautiful things, no matter how many times we ask?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

That’s when we started talking about the different things we could put Skittles on. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I started to think about all of the horrific things I’ve witnessed. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

As Pax kept watch, he thought of doing favorite things with his boy when he found him: tumbling together outside, playing hunting games, exploring the grassed yard and the bit of woods behind it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Can you just stop? Okay? I just want things to be normal. We don’t have a lot of time left.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I would give anything to go back to the day she died and do things differently. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

You have for many years trust me; you have believe me weeks past, when there be things so strange that you might have well doubt. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The school was, like most other things, just off the highway. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The house had regular, strict proportions, which was how Charles’s father liked things. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, no. Nothing like that. This place is paid off in a few years. I think I can make things work until then. I don’t want you worrying about that.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“How many of those things have you eaten? And since when do you eat regular chocolate? I thought you and Blaine eat only organic, fair trade.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then she said, “I think I’ve been assuming things about your life that I shouldn’t assume. And I didn’t ask you to tell me. I don’t have very broad experience, I guess.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

People like to do terrible things to other people when the lights are out, even if it’s daytime. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You ever wonder what it would be like to ride a clipper? Get out on one of those things?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I start bobbing around like a puppet, holding up outfits and saying meaningless things like “Don’t you love it?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I only ever did the things I was absolutely required to do. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I am still figuring out the logistics of interacting with physical things,” Marco says, flattening the raven’s wings and letting it limp down the length of his arm. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And so it becomes possible to figure things out. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Attendance at the Night Zoo had, like many things in Lkossa over the years, steadily declined, and it showed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

So many burials, and here I was wishing that I could bury a few things of my own. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“She can sense things before anyone else. Like a canary in one of your coal mines.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

If things got strange or frightening, she could always change her mind. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

We also had a hundred little things to take care of before we flew, such as designing a mission emblem and naming our spacecraft. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dorian watched in wide-eyed terror as Celaena thrashed on the ground, waving away things they couldn’t see. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As my ticket is ripped I'll briefly consider all the constructive things I could be doing. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It’s filled up with old furniture and dust and things in wooden boxes and under plastic tarps. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

How there were always two things on the table when you woke? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Soon, unless things change, the people will starve. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

There may have been elements of luck in the emergence of chloroplasts, but once these things were on the scene, the evolution of the sky became absolutely ordained. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘A knight in shining armor? What does a mouse know of such things?” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

This was hunger that he knew would be there always, even when he had food—a hunger that made him look for things, see things. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a lot like the kinds of things people have said to me at gallery openings, but in him I forgive it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh! very well,” exclaimed Miss Bates, “then I need not be uneasy. ‘Three things very dull indeed.’ Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

I hear my classmates now, the things they’re probably saying about me back at the temple. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She was putting her things and his into a suitcase. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s the first time me and her been together without things falling apart. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The day after all the excitement, Toby had drifted down the alley just to look things over, and he had found the land of Egypt boarded up. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got a sheet of paper and wrote down all the good things that had happened to me. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll use it only to sign important things,” he had promised me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother figured that once Sam realized that his own side had captured or maybe even killed his father he’d come home and help manage things. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were other locked doors in the University, places where dangerous things were kept, where old and forgotten secrets slept: silent and hidden. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was good, it seemed, at burying things. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

And she’d talked a lot about how we weren’t exploring our freedom nearly enough since leaving Hailsham; how anyway she’d always wanted to go to Norfolk to “find all our lost things.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Breathlessly, I tell her about seeing colors and about how I thought everybody saw things that way and then I found out that nobody did and I felt so alone and strange. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t worn it much since, but it was one of the few things he’d kept and brought to Chicago. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Lapham fussed about him and he ordered her to do simple things. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course we were born. We’re here, aren’t we? We just don’t happen to have any of those birth certificate things in our pockets.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

If you could just hear some of the things we talk about—ooh, we have some heavy discussions! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then lots of other things the Preacher did came rushing into my mind. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“You will see more interesting things the closer your sample is to the green river plants growing here.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

As things turned out, that particular visit was simply the first of a whole series of such 'unofficial' meetings between Lord Halifax and the German Ambassador of that time, Herr Ribbentrop. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like my heart might burst, I’m feeling so many things at once. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Did you and your brother steal my bike and the other things?” she asked. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“The one that you get all those stories about dragons from. Or did you just make up those things you told to my aunt?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, I don’t mean to be rude, but you see, it’s the rule that the king has to know things first.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But that he had done things far worse, and the effects were everywhere in the cloudless sky, on the dry brown hills, shrinking skin and hide taut over sharp bone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I need to see if my things are out at the Mauthen farm,” she said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And there are an infinite' number of things which didn’t happen at that time and that place. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Veneration of such things as ‘Turkey in the Straw’ is at the very root of our current dilemma.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I’m sure Hillary and I have things in common, and I’m sure she’s a great person, but… Me: It’s Hannah. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He always made a fetish of lateness, to indicate that his life was crammed with many things, all of them more important than I was, and today is no exception. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were these two things she could never believe. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The gates were both real and invisible things. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And then without missing a beat, he proceeded to say what he really wanted, which was more despicable than all the terrible things I had imagined. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's very strange, I thought, but things are so unreal for them normally that they believe that to call a thing by name is to make it so. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sort of like having built-in radar—you see things before you see them. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw these things with my Chinese eyes, the part of me I got from my mother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Gruwell wanted us to realize that we could change the way things were, and Miep wanted to take Anne’s message and share it with the world. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A garden was one of the few things in prison that one could control. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Harry had talked about so many things lately. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if the town had a way of eventually settling everything if only one was patient enough to let things sort themselves out. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Aisha resumed twisting, a sly smile on her face, and then asked, as if Ifemelu could not possibly understand how things were done here, “How long you in America?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“We can’t go back to where we came from. I’ve seen it, remembered awful, awful things. Burned land, a disease—something called the Flare. It was horrible—way worse than we have it here.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Edward said it wasn’t definite . . . that things change?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Okay, cheerful, distracting things,” Paolo said as they walked to a table. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But Momma keeps finding things for me to do. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Demons fear three things: cold iron, clean fire, and the holy name of God.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the dream, Professor Thomas kept laughing at me and saying things like, “Of course he’s guilty, silly girl.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Hell could freeze over but they would still come marching across the tracks, wrestling, kicking at each other, stomping into the classrooms where they fidgeted nervously all day and made things miserable for their teachers. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he likes being in control of his own little universe, being able to arrange things how he wants, like a god or something? Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She brings me things to eat and she fixes my bed and she says I was a very brave man to let them do things to my hed. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She just needed to say these things to reassure herself that we’d never do anything remotely like that—especially Lily. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He had learned that there were certain things one shouldn’t ask about, so as not to flee from one’s own Personal Legend. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been moving on instinct so far, but now I needed to think things through carefully. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But she’d seen friends do terrible things before, and it had become safer for her to believe the worst. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The whole point of exploring the woods was to find strange things, so he left the path and walked toward the ivy square. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Strange things were happening in the pit of his stomach. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He remembers, very specifically, a handful of things. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

That, and the fact they both had eyes in their head, meant they had two things in common. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Since her mother was talking about money, maybe she’d be honest about a few other things too. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I wanted to cry and scream and throw things. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got my prayer book out so I can write some things down. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They like to eat all kinds of things. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After you have all those things written into my will, I’ll sign the new version. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I kind of like being fooled about some things.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

All those pretty things I’d made—monogrammed towels, a tablecloth and matching napkins—it just didn’t seem right to be getting married without them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you for the cocoa, but I have better things to do than sit around and let you insult me.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

This guy thought the same way he did about a lot of things. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She tells the man her husband is late tonight, that he’s probably working overtime, and would it be at all possible to get'a few things and she’ll be sure to see him tomorrow? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

There is no reason why because it is dark you should look at things differently from when it is light. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She spoke in the voice she had learned from her mother when she wanted a second helping of the good things in life. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But no one ever cared what Ophie thought, and so she was stuck with how things were. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“When I think of the days I worked and the miles I traveled to achieve these things for the Woman’s building, my ire rises a little yet.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The biggest surprise has been the number of responses from officers’ spouses, many of whom say things like, “I didn’t really know what my husband did at work until I read your book.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the stables, I always knew where things stood. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, son, it isn’t that easy. The world isn’t going to kiss your boots because you learned to think. You have your answer. It’s no. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have things to do.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have done things I am not proud of, things that brought shame onto my House and my father’s name... but to kill your own sire? How could any man do that?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I put this on the list of things to include when I said some prayers, the first in a long time, that night in bed. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But while the adversaries forgot the war to remember things of the past, Úrsula had the gloomy feeling that her son was an intruder. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“The kids used to chase me around at lunchtime and beg me to say things in English. They were obsessed with America,” I explained. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And anyway, she had to act like she was cool about it, otherwise things would just get soppy. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

In the summer of '96 we also went back to Donoghue Elementary School to see how things were going. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

One side contains my exuberant cheerfulness, my flippancy, my joy in life and, above all, my ability to appreciate the lighter side of things. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” Doctor Snow says, “we’re just figuring some things out, is all. It’ll all be right soon enough. You just run on back home, make sure the goat’s okay.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Ivanhoe, The Prince and the Pauper, and some poems by Kipling and Tennyson were among the things I read in school the first year in the special class. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The faces were covered in purple patterns, tattooed in swirls of indigo, turning the dead faces into strange, expressive monstrous things. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Shopping is walking into shops and actually buying things they've got inside instead of just looking at them. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Shorty has all these goals and plans, and it starts to seem that those things are bogging him down. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Witness this, god of the zenith, noblest of the gods, and Lord Odysseus’ hearthfire, now before me: I swear these things shall turn out as I say. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like being with Jane again, holding hands and sharing things. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw ignored him, but he knew that Hooper was wondering, might even be able to see into his head and find out things. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I thought of a million things I had done, and a million things I still wanted to do; I prayed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But with things that are numbers, like height and weight, I could throw those into the equation if I wanted to calculate the odds of those kids having so much in common with us, and…. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I think it might be time to try some other things I’m afraid of.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha learned many new things; he heard much and said little. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lived those years, as do all young things, in a spell. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And Richter isn’t a bad person, and I’m not a bad person. We’re just people, and people sometimes do stupid things.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Although things looked blurred and made my eyes feel strange, I could actually see underwater. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was ti n, the age when things blowing up interested me, but I wondered who’d dare do this to Grandma. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We all have our skills. Yours is seeing things that the rest of us don’t.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

This goes on while I shake more hands and say more things, and the room gradually clears. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a sin to look at dirty things. The gods have punished you to make you blind.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the Frivolous Use Initiative, which made things like throwing water balloons illegal. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Not only was her voice robotic; she was also saying things that she never would have said before, expressing sentiments that seemed to be at odds with the mother Flora had always known. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Yeah, all things considered I should have ended up in the hospital after the previous night. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Block out the little aristocratic professor pacing in front of the hearth and the late hour and the dogs and the shelves brimming with interesting things. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I didn’t really know how to hope that things would work out for Bucky. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He had exchanged them for the most wretched things, for the transitory, for the pleasures of the senses, for high living and riches. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just need to do some things first.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I have to be watching the camera when it spells things out. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know he was desperate. That makes people do all kinds of crazy things.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I didn’t need those other things with me all of time. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Singer never knew just how much his friend understood of all the things he told him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Now we can do all the things we always wanted to do, like go abroad, but were prevented from doing by having a little daughter.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay if it hurts,” I said, “but are you still in your body after things stop working? Do you know that you’ve died?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said Charles uncomfortably, “Julian is funny about things like that.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how to feel about moving to the States—I just knew that I needed to say consistent things and not mess up. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We rearrange our things back on the wet sand and are about to settle down when I see them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Women were originally excluded, but now things are more equal for them too. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Coach shakes his head, and then says, “I told you not to ask too many questions. Be careful, Finley. And I’m sorry things worked out the way they did, but you made your choice.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Witch told him he was imagining things. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Hearing a bird sing in the rain is on my list of things to make a wish on. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

And here I am thinking of two things: One is Benny Kilmartin because that’s the last time I saw the pink in the air. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe it explained some of the crazy things he did. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I dan’t get down here but once a year in the fall. Forage for the hogs makes it worth moi while, but only just. There’s strange things in these woods. Especial off tae the north.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You see my family over there? They are fighting the witches that did this to you. That made you do things you didn’t want to do.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

If they grew too damaging, the farm boy handled things, emerging silently from his hovel, thrashing a few of them, sending them flying. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And things were about to get even messier. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“No, I was freaking out about, like, much bigger things. I was having kind of a crisis, and I wanted to reach out to somebody who understood.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

What if he’d had more activities in his life, more things to keep him out of trouble? The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In my haste, I took the pants from one set of shalwar kamiz and the top from another, so I ended up with things that didn’t match. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“James has some things that he’s really into, and he knows everything about them,” Jeffrey went on. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“Who has taught you to do these things? asked the father. ‘My mother. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Oh, baby, those records are so old. We’re going to have to take down this wallpaper because of the squares those things left on the walls.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I know. Trust me, I wish I weren’t so busy, especially with work. But it’s the way things need to be right now.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was Christmas night and the proper things had been done. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know that bad things happen to animals sometimes. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

We were both born here, we went to the same schools, we were taught the same things. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“How do you expect things to be going?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Once, recently, he had wondered if he ought to feel his own mothers absence, to want things that only she might provide. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I swear to God, this game is one of the best things in existence. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“What happened to you wanting to change things?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Now as she brought in the next course she seemed relieved that things were better. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got plenty other things to read. My, isn’t the cold something frightful?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we think it’s safe, we could try Mr. Lott’s room. The Robotics Club stores all sorts of things in there.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

All those things, all locked up, and then these just get handed to me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a hundred things on his mind, and a pipe at one of the rental properties had just burst. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Since this was the first day at school, we would be dismissed at noon, and surely things would improve by then. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As befuddled as I was, I made him promise he’d go back someday and get those things from our house in Kilanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mama had me, not you, and she held me, fed me, dressed me, all of those things. What do you know? What more is there to say?” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

All day he would go with his bag from house to house and on all things he would talk to them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But bad things falling on her—unkind words, nasty stares, foot blisters—she seemed unaware of. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I started inventing things, and then I couldn’t stop, like beavers, which I know about. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“All that stuff she said about your dad, though,” he says, “makes me kind of hate her. I can’t imagine what good can come of saying such terrible things.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The marketplace bustled in the background, but it seemed to be distant somehow, as if Hazel and this man were the only true things in the world. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Maybe...yeah, I think maybe I can share some things, though.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She was good at lots of things, if only people would notice. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For once in his life, he thought, he was actually doing things the right way. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bell rang out just then, and everyone began to slowly assemble their things. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The same thing happened with dogs and foxes, with ferns and flowers, with all living things. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And probably guessing Tommy was in danger of getting stick from the others, she went too far the other way, actually finding things to praise, pointing them out to the class. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it had been at school, even, things might have been better, they might have been protected by the crowd. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The young man reddened, “Well...I may have called it a...a few things.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

They walk in loops around the circus, sipping their cocoa and munching on chocolate mice and the sugary cinnamon pastry things, which are just as good as promised. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

These dirty, devil things that would give the sweet Baby Jesus doll nightmares in his cradle? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ben, I’m not going to blow up your spot. I will only talk up the good things. I’ll start with how you’re an awesome friend and an even better lover.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I was quite proud of the calm way I stared at all these gruesome things. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, here’s what I did. See, I found out at school there’s these things called wildlife habitats. You can have one in your own backyard, as long as it’s big enough.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

It was a way he kind of got through a lot of things. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You want her? Then I must tell you things about my wife.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Mamá, who up to now I assume had been too embarrassed to speak, was suddenly standing right in the middle of things. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I am in mortal terror at this turn, for I haven’t any idea what the things are called professionally. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I heard my answers—childish, impossible things. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was actually two strange wooden things: a folding desk and a small stool. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But maybe they didn’t have to keep things from each other. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“He has other things to do first. But he’s on the right track. He has begun to try to understand the desert.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At these things, I always try to position myself near the door so I can leave early. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So even as the police officer told us these unimaginable, world-breaking things, I was still crawling around in the wrongness of what I’d just done. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

That was morality; things that made you disgusted afterward. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Some described being transferred between bases eight or more times in as many years, in each instance needing to start over in settling their children into things like music lessons or enrichment programs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Nobody got in trouble because these things used to happen to me when I was a kid when I was seeing the doctors. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever things got really bad, and they were questioning the value of their lives, I would remind them that each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“And from the sound of things, she was feeling rather impulsive that night.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I would barely respond, ‘Just the usual things, nothing special.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Polly was finding the song more and more interesting because she thought she was beginning to see the connection between the music and the things that were happening. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

May be doing many things other people don’t know. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Other things take priority. Some of my investments will go toward those other things now.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Two things you should know about me. The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general,” he says. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

On January 24 another item in the Daily got things started. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Neither Pa nor Miss Marva Hendrix gave me much to work with, but sooner or later, I’d come upon a clue and piece things together. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

And he sees the best possible version of them—it's the way I imagine things in my head, but the only way I can make it real is to paint it. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the city, she’d owned lots of things—practically anything she wanted came out of the wall. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Krawiecka says things like, “Great God,” and “Mother Mary!” and without being irreverent. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Some of the things she knew, she told. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Some of the things he talked about even reminded me of Papa in some ways, as much as any white man could. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Start with the small things,” his mother said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“And what do you mean about things getting difficult?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

At the different stores we visited, we couldn't even try on clothing to see if things were the right size. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It is a matter of common experience that disorder will tend to increase if things are left to themselves. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been selling to friends to earn extra money for shoes and basic things his mother could not afford. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The truth was, I was looking forward to taking a break from the foundation for a bit, because things weren’t as perfect as they originally seemed. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Ms. Dale loves to unpack things, which is another important fact about her. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They was famous, all right, but they did bad things too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figured she would tell me the same things she always did, but I never got tired of hearing them. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She wrote other things too, words with smooth bell-like syllables, passages she wanted to memorize, but she always returned to the same sentence. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Exceptionally good, I'd say, based on the guys I used to know at his age and the things I see on TV. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She asked me to gather Lynn’s things that lay around the house. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She regarded female Scholars with a proper Jordan disdain: there were such people, but, poor things, they could never be taken more seriously than animals dressed up and acting a play. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Still, she thought that Wash started putting his things away faster when he saw her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She hated being called Stick Insect, or Pig-Eyes, or any of the other things uglies called one another. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

There were too many things that weren't up to us. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

What kinds of wild things is he doing?’ Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Already I was heavy-hearted in my soul for the flush commodes and machine-washed clothes and other simple things in life I have took for granite. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is preparing to take his registration exam, the two-day ordeal that will enable him to become a licensed architect, to stamp drawings and design things under his own name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He tells her about how he and Sonia occupied the kitchen on Pemberton Road for a day, stuffing a turkey and rolling out dough for pies, things his mother did not particularly like to do. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

People had a curious way of double-talking around things, saying the opposite of what common sense would dictate. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

These cells, with bars front and rear, had dense screens installed from ceiling to knee level to keep the occupants from throwing things out. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lots of things I don’t like, sir. Please, sir, let me go. I’m late.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom said I should have bought Erlan a chess set for his birthday, but I told her he likes lots of things besides just chess. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

She read the thank-yous, the little things they wrote, run her fingers over the ink. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The dishes rested briefly on a clean flour-sack towel while I dug another out of my things. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

My hopes for a change in the team dynamic quickly disappeared as things pretty much stayed the same. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And he begins, of all things, to cry. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Marshall was a busy place and good things could just happen. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or I’m that desperate for things to change. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I must have been imagining things, he thought. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been afraid of many things these past months, but when it comes to Jasmine, I realize that’s been my greatest fear of all. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

‘I don’t see any option except to stick to the plan. Split up, infiltrate, find out why they’re here. If things go bad -’ ‘We use the backup plan,’ Piper said. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"I guess I need a lot of things." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, man...I’m sorry I got us into this mess. I totally jacked things up.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Probably. This kind of newborn loves sweet, sticky things, but I can’t give ’em what they want.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“What Jack says doesn’t matter. It’s Dennis. Are you willing to talk to Dennis? He will say it’s the nature of things that you can always find what you need.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is the way things were done when I was young. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poet Hesiod, the first Greek who tried to explain how things began, wrote, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing these things could not be changed— despite the words of men like Matthew and Luke— I cared little for such matters. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the day, I was persuaded things would improve, even while I felt newly burdened by the weight of it all. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu obeyed, feeling herself in a trance, with things happening that she did not understand. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Yet you almost killed things at the start. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But she has so much more sleeve to hide things up,” he protests. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There was no clean punching or things you see in movies. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then he told her of all the things that were in his garden. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to bake things for me. I’m too fat. And you don’t have to wait here for me to come home. I’m thirteen now.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The only things he could use were the Martians’ physical appearance and their weapons. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He must know things about her that others don’t, now that he and Tori are leaders. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Still, a bunch of kids were out on the blacktop, doing blacktop things. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had taken part in a meeting of union leaders and had been commissioned, along with Colonel Gavilán, to mingle in the crowd and orient it according to how things went. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Fallen into the sea like other men before him and died because that was the nature of things. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But how did you get to Diagon Alley to buy your school things last year?” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I thought I was doing a good job keeping the pain buried inside, but apparently some things showed more than I realized. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“No, it was quite interesting really. You can see all the things people have bought.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something happens when guys watch guys doing things like this. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She had paid close attention to the things Baba Joseph considered sinful. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ma said newborn dragons love sticky, sweet things,” I tell Vik. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Let’s look around and grab things we might need—but don’t weigh yourselves down.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I began drifting from store to store, hanging around outside where things like apples were displayed in boxes and barrels and baskets, and I would watch my chance and steal me a treat. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were birds there, and he had eyes—he just had to bring the two things together. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I really will go, if you want me to. I just think we better talk it through with Haymitch. Make sure we won’t be making things worse for everyone.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Actually...I was born to do so many things. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

In the car, things were 100% silent until I couldn’t stand it anymore. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which was more like a narrow river, but people in Logan didn’t like to name things in a boastful way. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I noticed that lately there were things I would let myself think about, and things I wouldn’t. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ross was going to teach things like poetry and literature, and he was always making jokes that weren’t very funny unless you knew what he was talking about. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the desk you could keep things: books, notebooks. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Mother said made me very unhappy because I felt God was taking too long to improve things. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I’ve done terrible, horrible things to these lips in the privacy of my bathroom. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Two middle-aged women take the reins and organize things. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When Eblis walked up and kissed the king on his shoulders, two things happened: The devil disappeared into a sudden burst of smoke, and the king grew two snakes from his shoulders. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The things she had seen—the cages, the ice, the sea—should she have told Kaede and the others about them? Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“There were all kinds of things of which I was afraid at first...But by acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid,” Roosevelt stated. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

She’d say all the wrong things—that I’ve hit the jackpot, that I need to get into this boy’s pockets real quick, that I need to do something about that Carrie girl. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Only two things are certain: that the crust at Yellowstone is thin and that the world beneath it is hot. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Now Lorraine can blame all the other things on me, but she was the one who picked out the Pigman’s phone number. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

So Salva learned two things from Michael: how to read and how to play volleyball. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s very articulate, but he has no intuition about things, so he needs me to define the world for him.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Rowan knew that Goddard was capable of unthinkable things, but would he kill another scythe? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

In Phoebe’s bedroom, I said, “I’ve got two important things to tell you—” The doorbell rang, and we heard a familiar voice. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“You won’t get the chance to do anything with it if you don’t quit saying things like that. Tehlu watches over us, but he is vengeful.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If Mark hadn’t heard all the things the man had just said, he’d think he could be praying. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I guess even though things are kind of getting back to normal, I can’t stop feeling like Gram failed me somehow. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Annabeth commented on the architecture, but Percy kept his eyes open for other things. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Almost every day just before Mami came home I scrambled around to do all the things she’d asked me to take care of that morning. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

As he thought things over, he adjusted the shawl that was wrapped around his shoulders and gazed at the bamboo scaffolding that now surrounded his balcony. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

God, it was like he wanted her to eat his face clean off. park He almost told her all the things his mom had said about her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Rab never said to him, ‘Now, Johnny, you’ve got to learn to write with your left hand,’ but he would give him things to copy, take it for granted that he could—and he did. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the meanness of the suggestion that he should leave Polly behind suddenly made all the other things the Witch had been saying to him sound false and hollow. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Something ’bout being in the back of the buckboard makes children forget the growned folks are a couple feet away from ’em and lots of things that shouldn’t be told get said. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It happened again and again, and the people had to watch, unable to save or to protect any of the things that were so important to them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But I'm looking for understanding of bigger things. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Don’t make things worse by watching it coming. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Suddenly more things were falling at my feet. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He could see these things, but he couldn’t see what they meant. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know why I was thinking about all these things—except that’s what I always did. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I try to pretend that things are so easy right now that I could never even consider my life as a hole. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t have moved out in the first place if things hadn’t gotten so weird. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Cathy mended all of her clothes and put her things in order. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It is. It’s more than enough. And now let me ask you, how do you think you’re going to accomplish those things you mentioned?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“They do. There’s plenty of other things to be told, and all. You ever heard of the Nalkainens?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The attic and the cellar were full of good things once more, and Laura and Mary had started to make patchwork quilts. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They talked about it among themselves, the four girls, as they often did now about the many puzzling things in this new country. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But now, with a helpless human being lying in the cot, one so dependent on others that her very existence had to be proof of a higher goodness, things had changed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if I fit into things,” I said openly. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered remembering contrary things, but those were false memories, products of self-deception. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I have noticed one or two things have fallen in standard just recently. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

A voice-over kicks in atop footage of the girl doing perfectly normal human things, like, walking and eating. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Bad things can happen, baby. People like that sometimes abuse their power.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m good at lots of things,” she said, and then he kissed her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you don’t have things like that here,” he went on, “but surely you know they exist outside the wall?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

So often things you hear secondhand are not quite true. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course you did. You always have things to suit you.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve often thought about that day, and I’m sure now, in the light of what happened later, that we only needed to ask and Miss Lucy would have told us all kinds of things. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, things were smoothed out to the point where Tycho offered to pay Kepler’s moving expenses from Graz and assured him that the Emperor would come through with a paid position soon. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

You didn’t even need to be good at noticing things to see that. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

It was one of the things Mama did when our farm wasn’t making as much money. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He’s pretty good about things and he laughed too when I said, “Now you finish up while I go check on my cornbread.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The homeroom teacher is saying that if everyone gets things cleaned up quickly, we can have a paper airplane contest with some of these papers. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Let’s just say I had some things to take care of,” said Beverly. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

She ran out through the kitchen after her stepmother, who was about to go upstairs, and demanded, “What have you done with my things?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Parents are supposed to pass down physical traits to their children, but it’s my belief that all sorts of other things get passed down, too: motifs, scenarios, even fates. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Except I had a way of saying things with my fists and my feet even before we became Freak the Mighty, slaying dragons and fools and walking high above the world. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The old man hurriedly gathered up his things and took his leave. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Carlos, have they told you anything about how long before things get back to normal?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Two things are clear, though: he wanted to make sure no one would ever find out, and he’s the kind of person who could afford an expensive hotel almost every week. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

At length he admitted, “Yeah, I guess things are a little out of hand.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you didn’t agree to stay away, things would have been different. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She would go on like that for hours, connecting one offense to another until all of the things that chagrined her were spewed out. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mama was right. A person could get pneumonia. But I wouldn’t give her the satisfaction of letting her know. I guess I’ll have to put these lace things away until summer.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His futon and his table, his kettle and toaster and television and the rest of his things, remain on Amsterdam Avenue. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Rats have no thumbs and therefore cannot do many things that we can. They cannot make tools or weapons. They are masters of destruction, but creation evades them,” said Vikus. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Marv is suffering, completely alone, and he uses all of those things to sweep the guilt from his stomach every day. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“To try out our things, like you said. We probably should have told you.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

With all its imperfections, modern science is a technique that is sufficiently well tuned to nature so that it works—it is a practice that allows us to learn reliable things about the world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I could think of other things to do. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“I have a few questions for you two, things we can talk about in the open. Have you met a man named Warren?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

When the baby was finally born, Roberto, Trampita, and I were excited to see him, especially because we had worked so hard to get things ready for him. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

With changes in travel, communication, and mass media, the world had accelerated; things now happened so fast it was sometimes difficult to keep up with them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But once the threshold of 150 individuals is crossed, things can no longer work that way. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they couldn’t drop oil or salt, things that would have given the food some taste, so the food had almost no flavor at all. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hirschhahns were Jewish, members of the congregation on Freiheit street, and they were deeply concerned about how things were going in Germany. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But Havel had said that these were things they wanted; the only thing they needed was hope. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Mame wants you to sell some things and get us some food. There’s no way to buy in the ghetto, and there are eight other families in our apartment. We’ve already used what we brought.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“How can you just eat and drink things in a place like this?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“We work together. And if we...do this...it might complicate things.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The things you told me...well, it was a lot to process, as I’m sure you can imagine. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

He did not mention the incident at all, but asked me if I could bring him the following things: some pencils, plain white paper, a ruler, a protractor, and a drawing compass. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“She seems to know a lot of other things.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The kid was slowly beginning to collect things. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Arm realized he had claimed her without thinking, and whatever spirits listened to such things had made it true. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever neighbors or relatives came to talk about the bad things white people were doing, it was like adding height and weight to this monster that lived in my mind. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was what he was afraid of, something inside himself which always made him do things. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t tell you, Axel. I mean, what would I have said? He’s your dad. He didn’t want to be doing the things he was doing.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mom was always teaching us new things, telling us stories that we repeated to one another until we knew them by heart. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or were they seeing, of all things, a Panda! Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

All the masters showed signs of preparing to stand and leave, but before things could be called to a close I spoke up, “Chancellor?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Anyway, he had this view of things—that most human activity was utter folly, his own included, and that his existence in the world made others nervous. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were wonders for sale, and marvels, and miracles; there were things undreamed-of and objects unimagined. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I went over to him, fighting down anger and disappointment and began putting the things that he had scattered back into my bag. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

With Julia he felt no difficulty in talking about such things; Katharine, in any case, had long ceased to be a painful memory and become merely a distasteful one. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In the mornings of my eyes, I see three things each time. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She saw all the things, historic sites and museums and famous buildings. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

No matter how much I begged ’em, Pap nor Ma never would tell me what sort of things Cap’n Buck had did. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“I am not the man I was at Ruddy Hall. Seen too much death, and worse things too. My sons...” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It made things feel a bit more normal. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I refuse to look at her, bolting out of the room before she’s even gathered her things together. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“So far you only have two things—confused and scared.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“The child will grow up and find out things for herself. She will know that I lied. She will be disappointed.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is how things in Dauntless are decided: with nods and yells. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sadly, the newspapers and TV like to report all the bad things. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“In a little while we would say insulting things.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He packed their things quickly—they did not have that much anyway, it was not like Nsukka where he had been paralyzed with so many choices that he had taken very little. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now, however, when she had nothing to do and would go about with José Arcadio riding on her hip from dawn to dusk, this bad kind of time compelled her to leave things half done. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I said, desperate to break the silence and get things back to normal. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are some things I need to look up for school.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“We thought you should be informed, because who else can arrest the mayor? And once you’ve done that, the guards can put all the things he’s stolen back where they came from.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t try to explain the things he said, or the way he acted. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Bodega was a lost relic from a time when all things seemed possible. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

There were a lot of things I was afraid of—but not guys like him. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t meant to say all those things. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

After the broken phone and Dad’s expensive plane ticket, I didn’t want to make things worse for Mom and Dad. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I can feel all the list of things I’m going to get in trouble for, mounting and stacking up, right on top of my head. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I whispered the two things I knew would get her going. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

First things first after jumping from a train: you needed to check and make sure you still had what you jumped with. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You — er — your — I mean to say, some of your people were — were involved in those — those things, were they?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Something about this—the map and the pins—makes her remember things about her dad besides the fact that he left. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Whenever the words start to become distinct, I moan until they give me more painkiller and that fixes things right up. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She would say stupid things, and all the time the team started laughing. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Holding that book in my hands, I finally believed that whoever wrote me those notes actually knew about things before they happened. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Don’t give her a headful of things to worry about. Things you say, thoughts you have, will decide how people treat you.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

But we didn’t talk about those things, just about trading marbles and stuff I barely remember now. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Most of Trout’s novels, after all, dealt with time warps and extrasensory perception and other unexpected things. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If... if certain things should come to pass, I will send word to each of you. Things can change quickly in the game of thrones.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That made no sense, even to her, but it’s the way things were. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Everyone thought he felt sorry for what he had done, and going to this island was his way of making things right. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Since I developed this idea, I sometimes joke with him when I eat things. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

So I started walking, but Siobhan said I didn’t have to describe everything that happens, I just have to describe the things that were interesting. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He told me he would come back when things cooled down a little. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Playing cards in Park's kitchen, even if his mom was in there, was better than just sitting in the living room, thinking about all the things they'd be doing if they were alone. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

There were questions she didn’t even know how to ask, and sometimes she felt that if her parents really wanted her to know things, they would just tell her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Others told her that if she didn’t like the way things were in the South, she should go up North. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

She would not place her memory on things that strangers could barge in and take away. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She had an unlimited budget on most things, but that didn’t include getting her own computer. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Daddy used to tell me that once you speak positive, positive things will happen. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

They were solitary individuals who no longer believed in things, and didn’t understand that shepherds become attached to their sheep. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Denied admission to Harvard and Yale and the “right” beginning, he had become a self-conscious connoisseur of fine things. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Pa shouted, “Won’t find me fixing things! No, I break them. Kill them even.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Jack would be outraged at the very suggestion of such a state of things. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The greenish glow and the light from the two wands were the only things that broke the otherwise velvety blackness, though their rays did not penetrate as far as Harry would have expected. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He fell into another reverie, his eyes seeing things no one else could. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Listen to me, Sikander. There are only two things that are truly infinite, that transcend time and space. Love is one of them." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

As the car plunged, Milton only had time to be astonished by the way things had turned out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But I knew once I let him out he’d just run around and tear things up—excited that he’s free. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were so many places you couldn’t go and so many things you couldn’t do if you were black. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

"Certain things are expected of a queen. They will be expected of you should you ever wed Joffrey. Best learn." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I pretend to understand, but in the dictionary it says “go” and “going” mean action, moving, and lots of other things like business transactions. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

When it finally reached the road things weren’t much better. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Thinking the bad things he could do to me. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Dr. Z must have forgotten how much Branwell loved naming things, and Tina never got to know him well enough to find out. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen here. Don’t you be fretting for us. You stop this crying, you just riling that African boy up, honey. You don’t wanna make things no worser for him, do you?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I convinced myself that if I looked at her and smiled and she smiled back, things would be all right. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

That was one of the nice things about all the doctors at the hospital; he never saw any of them a second time. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was told and retold; things were forgotten, or shaped and changed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the beginning I could find sugar and chocolate, but those things have been harder recently, and I can only get them sometimes. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They are optimistic, because unlike the worldly Aristotle, they haven’t yet realized that “most things turn out for the worse.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“This tour will be your only chance to turn things around.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“After three years of largely listening and learning, I believed that I knew things about the situation in Vietnam worth passing on in my own voice.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There we are, out of our seats, talking, pinning things up. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Did you ever stop to think that the report sounded similar because you kept doing the same things to the children?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It made me sick, and all I wanted to do was get out of there, out of Mississippi, and back home where things and people weren’t so crazy. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Almost everyone she knew had packed their things and left. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I shoveled a spoonful of oatmeal into my mouth and thought things over. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

If Petey were keeping one of her lists of the things she hated, she would have to add: the fact that there was no justice. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But in a day I will have squared things with the Court of Shadows. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Nina took another step forward, and Hazel could see her eyes now, see all the things in them. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He stood in the storeroom, the scroll forgotten in his hands, and considered these things. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Another good thing about Sinaloa, she can cook things apart from octopus. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The man threw things at me, humiliated me. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly side of things. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Another stab of pain sliced through Thomas’s head—there were too many things to compute at once. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He keeps picking up things, puzzling over them, and then setting them down again. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

You could make three things: a bracelet, a bookmark, or a key chain. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Written around the edge were things like Time to make tea, Time to feed the chickens, and You’re late. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Not only do they drop the egg from three stories up, but they also have a point system for things like bounce factor and aerodynamic design. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Seemingly, there was no end to the things that could go wrong with human beings. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

He wanted to change things, but he’d figured out it couldn’t be with the rebels. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Hofstede’s job was to travel the globe and interview employees, asking about such things as how people solved problems and how they worked together and what their attitudes were to authority. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“You see, life is about putting things in perspective,” he tells me. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Get out of doors, Strange. Breathe air, see things. A man should have squint lines from looking at the horizon, not just from reading in dim light.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

At Kakuma, church helped give us hope that better things would come our way. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There seemed no point at all in trying to talk to her, no way that he could make her understand the truth of things, or what was going on in his mind. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“She thought it would make things easier for Mama. Finally, my mother said yes, because she did not want my sister to suffer hunger, but it broke her heart to have Jadzia separated from us.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have the answers to any of those things,” was his grave reply. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Years of listening to how gay people talk had taught me a few things. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

If you were open to eating lots of different things, wouldn’t that make your life easier? Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

On a certain occasion, months after Úrsula's departure, strange things began to happen. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

If things worked out the way I hoped, I'd someday mention in interviews that my accompanist was both my best friend and a midget. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There were valuable things in the west wing. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Genie exclaimed, now starting to see all the things he knew Grandpop hadn’t. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I was just...thinking about more interesting things! The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I glanced at him, wondering if things would still be prickly between us after what had happened with Lewis. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He said practically the same things every Saturday. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tied strips of fabric and foil along the lengths of them; the encyclopedia said that crows didn’t like movement or shiny things. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

No matter where I am, I usually have access to these things, and video games especially help me calm my mind. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was one of the things that had made us look even more alike—the only two consistently bareheaded women on the place. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was reluctant to fire any more arrows because they were valuable things and would certainly get lost in the undergrowth. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scuttle to the kitchen through the dining room and busy myself ladling things into bowls and serving plates. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“There are only so many times my son will let things pass. You must remember: You can’t forget your place.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Making soup illegal, outlawing rats, these things soothed the poor kings heart. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Sometimes things go bad even when other things are going bad. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Bai Shan unhurriedly put his things in his schoolbag and said, “I’m sure.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are getting older and things are changing. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I can assure you that being a grump about it is only going to make things harder” she said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I would go into things, and learn how they were managed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

To Jesse Beams he added, “We are finding so many things happening when we bombard nuclei that we are rather bewildered.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Miss Skeeter... I got some things to tell you,” I say. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I been thinking about changing things around here. Making things better,” he says. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe we could just talk about all the secret admirer stuff right there and things would finally be clearer. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

People say these things to make sense of the world. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He concluded that none of these things posed any obstacle to bringing healthy, legitimate children into the world, and he asked to be introduced to Clara. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had so much to ask her, “Do you like to lie on your stomach and look for things under the ice?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

How do we laugh and feel happiness despite the buried things growing inside? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z