Then she lay awake for a while longer, thinking of a gray bird dancing in its blood. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Since my failed phone call, I’d been thinking hard about how to reach him. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Gradually, however, she found herself thinking about it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been walking around thinking that our new house was big and grand to the point of being over the top, but then in April I went to England and met Her Majesty the Queen. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Why am I thinking about romance with a boy I’ll never see again? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Still, even with the beer and all, it’s sort of cool, the two of us watching the same show and probably thinking the same things about it. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

At least it kept her from thinking about the match girl. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I watched him for a few minutes, thinking about what a strange kid he was. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But the risk of being able to win over anyone, he found himself thinking, was that you might pick the wrong people. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“When you said ‘Enemy Way’ this morning, I was thinking about your uncle.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It really made me mad, Grandpa thinking he could buy me like I was Uncle Camp’s funeral. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I hear from your mother that you’re thinking about being an engineer,” he said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The coastguard watched them go, thinking how brave and doomed they looked, until they were so far away that he could no longer hear the clinking of their armor. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after thinking about even hitting on an older girl, a woman, the nerves really started to take over. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“My parents are thinking about moving out of the county.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He lay in bed, thinking about the sufferings of his friend and colleague Dr. Musoke, fearful of what sort of organism had gotten loose among the medical staff at the hospital. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And they are—when they attempt to masquerade as men. They aren’t capable of right thinking, of human morality. They are meant to be controlled.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Without thinking, Jule pulled off her running shorts and then her bleached, frayed Stanford T-shirt. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“No, sir, I suppose not But you have been thinking about it, haven’t you?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“And here’s where we’re thinking of moving our nesting site next year.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t thinking about running a record time or qualifying for the Olympics or being a spectacle. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

While I was thinking that statement over, it went on to say that “people eat grasshoppers, hairless caterpillars, ant eggs, and termites.” Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t say anything else, so now I’m just thinking and writing. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He was pleased with himself for thinking things out, and not going to pieces, like Hooper. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Without thinking about it, Luna raised her hands to the sky, letting starlight gather on her fingers. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He paused for a moment, thinking miserably of the morrow. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

What could old Badger have been thinking about to let him in for this? And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

In the back of my mind, I still keep thinking about the figure. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Wondering if, for no good reason I started thinking about Sears and Roebuck or Shake ’n Bake, would it be because some Illinoian had thought it two days ago. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh, of course!” said Jane, thinking that was the safest thing to say, but not knowing in the least whom they were to pay their respects to. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Lost them,” he said, thinking about the two boys who had offered to “watch” his and Sairy’s gear. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I will speak to Zau again, really speak to him, face to face, he kept thinking. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Momentarily the crowd stood dazed, thinking that the bullets were plastic and had been fired into the air. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“People are always thinking I’m so stupid because I’m big and strong and sometimes drool a little when I get excited.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Just thinking about it made his head hurt worse. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

My stomach is dancing at the sight of all the food, but my mind can’t stop thinking about Mrs. Walton’s nosy behind calling my house. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t used to having to stop his brain from thinking about whatever it wanted to think about. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

All we can say is that when it comes to thinking about really hard things like physics, they are both clearly smart enough. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Heisenberg said, “I would like to know what Stalin is thinking this evening.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if that was what Rose was thinking about when she had built her own tiny version of the same building her mother had dove off of. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The reason I am thinking so far in advance is because school is terribly lonely. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Surely Luke was thinking about Mark’s seventh birthday, or maybe his eighth. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Pleased about how people are thinking for themselves?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The storm above the ship seemed to lessen just a bit, as if the other venti were thinking, Oh, crud. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Wednesday afternoon meant Herbology, in the greenhouses under a baking-hot sun; then back to the common room once more, with sunburnt necks, thinking longingly of this time next day, when it would all be over. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I asked Jonathan why he was disturbed, and he answered, evidently thinking that I knew as much about it as he did: “Do you see who it is?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Without thinking, I reach up and kiss the dimple when what I mean to do is kiss his cheek. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then I get to thinking what it will mean if I can get the fish to shore and sell it to Mr. Nagahachi. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The tribesmen are always in search of treasure,” the girl said, as if she had guessed what he was thinking. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I was not there, he was thinking, I must be somewhere in the vicinity. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I love Chuck Close’s work, too, and I was thinking it would be fun—though really ambitious—to try and do this huge portrait with all the little squares the way he does. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

That night, squeezed into her drawer bed like a step-sister’s foot in Cinderella’s shoe, Shirley could hardly sleep thinking of what the surprise might be. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Alex keeps drinking, keeps alternating between thinking about it and forcing himself not to think about it, disappears into the crowd and dances with pretty European heiresses about it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I keep watching Sandy for a second, thinking about everything I heard my mom and dad talk about last night. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He knew she was thinking of Tom, away somewhere in Kentucky or Tennessee with Grant’s army. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

That said, I can’t help thinking Mom would not be happy about this. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yeah," I say, thinking of the steely look Max gets in her eyes when she's made up her mind about something. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I explain to him that I arrived on leave only an hour or two since, thinking that he would then trot along. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apart from the excitement of meeting a thinking person in prison, I liked talking with Larson because it gave me hope that the inmate-officer gap had some chance of being bridged. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was studying that big Catholic-looking cross around the neck, and probably thinking over all we’d heard about Brother Fowles going off the deep end, plus every curse word ever uttered by the parrot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bridget McHill. Thanks so much for coming over. I don’t know what these people were thinking...” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“No, I mean I want to read what you’re thinking. I’m pretty sure it’s not about housekeeping.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Jesper worried about Nina, but thinking about her made him feel guilty. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I wonder if her dad is going to have dinner with them tomorrow, and if not, if Edie's thinking about what it’s going to be like having Thanksgiving without him. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I used to, when I was hiding here, I kept thinking of when I was littler, you know, younger, before I was good friends with Link. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I kept thinking, what’s the worst that could happen? I go to jail. Mom has a conniption. I get grounded for a year.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking the same thing. What song should I sing?” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

"Beck," Lewis said, "I'm coming around to your way of thinking. How fast can you get going if you're untethered? " The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she waves it away like it’s the least important thing to be thinking about right now. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She, Harry, and Ron glanced at one another, and Harry knew that they were all thinking the same thing. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I didn’t like the way Kat was thinking. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I keep hearing her calling me. I lie in bed and I can hear her calling me from outside. I keep thinking she’s out there.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I stood there thinking, Songololo and Otto were already working on bringing their friendship back into full swing, shrieking and humping and wrestling. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana kept thinking how everybody was a little like everybody else and nobody was the same. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t fair, I kept thinking, even though I had no right to complain. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Without thinking, when I saw Mr. Reamer the second day I was at mission school, I spoke the polite Navajo greeting my parents had told me I should always use to an elder. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She laughed quietly, thinking of Matt and his mischief. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Neely was the only teacher to assign something over winter break, and his “homework” was simply to keep thinking about our scientific process experiments. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"Because I'm thinking about you," he said, exasperated. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Reading Malthus and thinking about the natural world, Charles realized that nature was not happy and peaceful, as Paley had described in his natural theology books. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh! I guess I was thinking of something.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Why he’s thinking about this now he couldn’t say, but... Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I mean to. I guess I’ll go now, before I get frightened thinking about it.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start thinking: if I won the Excelsior Award, I could have a plaque right next to one of Mom’s. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I’d been thinking a lot about Mom, and I had about a million half questions swirling in my head about her, but that wasn’t what he was looking for. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then I felt badly for thinking the worst of Miss Trotter now that her tone had changed. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Her father is thinking about taking a job in Dallas and she wouldn’t mind moving again, nope not one bit, because she’s heard kids in the South aren’t as stuck-up as they are here. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason, I kept thinking about Mr. Neely and taking charge—and I’m not sure how, but apparently I managed to fall asleep, because I woke up to the sound of my phone ringing. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Bax. I was kinda thinking I was supposed to leave the two of you alone. Is everything okay?” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was thinking of Singer and the free day ahead. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

His off-center Mohawk could make you do a double take, thinking he was tilting his head when he really wasn’t. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I stare distastefully at the shiny black liquid, never having been much of a fan of the stuff, but thinking it might help me stay on my feet. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I know,” I said, thinking of Baba, wishing he could have seen me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He felt stunned; it was as though a beloved pet had turned suddenly savage; what had the Prince been thinking to copy such a spell into his book? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Archie squirmed uncomfortably in his seat, thinking of the Vigil meeting at which he had announced that Brother Leon had asked support for the sale and how he’d pledged the backing of The Vigils. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

With utter disregard for the Indigenous ways of thinking about the land, both sacred and nonsacred, the colonizers viewed all the land and resources they saw as things to own and to exploit. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The way he looked carried so many powerful connotations that it stopped the normal process of thinking dead in its tracks. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

To make things worse, he was having trouble finishing thoughts and thinking up solutions. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I joined the family and serious thinking began. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

She managed a smile, but she was thinking: Another promise. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But in thinking of them remember that to many they /are tokens of mockery. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot know she is thinking that from just one look. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He rode quoting Shakespeare from memory, thinking of the picket line ahead somewhere in the dark. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of that critical thinking involves recognition that “America” is a name given to two land masses by European colonizers. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

You remember thinking while braiding your hair that you look a lot like your mother. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, Sister,” Antain said, feeling a familiar stab of shame just thinking of that awful day when he left the Tower with a note. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Egypt was lost and gone forever, and there was no use thinking about it. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she was thinking of the big gathering, where Angeline might meet someone and go away with him, far from her mother’s gaze. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I grab some chips, and with my mouth full I say, “I’ve been thinking.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I felt he knew exactly what I was thinking. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The next second I’m thinking, Sit for a bit. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

After meeting a black grammar school friend of my sister’s, I remember thinking that she wasn’t really ‘black.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked thinking of our island as a woman whose body was a garden of flowers, whose feet were caressed by waves, a land whose sky was never cloudy. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Through all the fear and hardship Campion remained steady and vigilant, holding the survivors together, thinking ahead and encouraging the exhausted to keep going. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing I needed to worry about was the student body thinking I was a bed wetter when they had formed such kind opinions of me already. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I cannot stop thinking that she is dead, and I cannot stop thinking that she cannot possibly be dead. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

But I wasn’t thinking that far ahead, at least not yet. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I shift my position on the chilly floor, cupping the warmth from the hot water I’ve poured over the dregs of my tea, thinking of how close Max came to suicide on the train. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I looked at him, thinking, Is he in on it too? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the tub, I sat for a long while without moving, without thinking, listening for what I knew I would not hear elsewhere in the house. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking of driving down to Washington— maybe go to the Smithsonian or the National Gallery. How would you like to keep me company?” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I remember curling up in it, feeling safe and happy, thinking, This is what marriage is —safe, warm, comfortable. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was thinking: We don’t have two hundred men left. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to be angry at the memory of the creature, enraged, but the truth was that even now, thinking of that moment drove a spike of raw fear into his bones. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m always thinking: How does everybody else know that? How do they know how to act? Why do they all seem so at ease?” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I often found myself in situations where I had, without thinking, said too much to too many with too little caution. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“But I been laying in there thinking I ought to be setting out here with you till you went to sleep.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blood, men killed, that was what they too were thinking of, the dark past with its promise of more darkness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I-I've been thinking. About the fire last week. About the man whose library we fixed. What happened to him?” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The regent was loath to have me visit Qunu, thinking I would regress and fall into bad company back in my old village. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far away from home, his heart hardened and ruthless, he knew they were thinking of him. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes personality has nothing to do with a person’s choice of faction,” I say, thinking of my mother. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I remember looking around the confines of the campus, thinking I would be lucky to ever get out of Tampa again. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine what she might have been thinking, trying again to see through time and space, to get inside her head just for a moment. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“No. That’s what most people call it. I have no idea what it means, though,” Benton said, thinking about the nickname. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The great philosopher and archaeologist R. G. Collingwood proposed a fairly straightforward technological determinism: new machines encourage new ways of thinking. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Just thinking about it brought the tightness back to Jinny’s belly. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I am thinking over and over and over again: There is nothing I can do to get Frightful back. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But such opportunities were rare: all talk, all teaching, all thinking for that matter, at my school was in Tsonga. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late that night after the fire was made, the cold supper eaten, the surface dust removed, Nel lay in bed thinking of her trip. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I waved to them and all the time, I’m thinking, Gloria, you have no idea how lucky you are. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Kept thinking about it after I sent you that email this morning. Would they come back?” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was thinking, if the car had wrecked, it wouldn’t be so bad. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He rushed forward, thinking to move away from this swampy area that harbored and bred such creatures. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

When he stroked his mustache like that, it meant he was thinking and choosing his words with care. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t have to be perfect, okay? You just want some semblance of what you’re thinking.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Oh no, Uncle! But I’ve been thinking . . . why does a man have to die, anyway?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was carefully designed, like someone had spent a lot of time thinking about it. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I finished thinking on it, I knowed I didn’t have no choice but to go find Ma. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Thomas sat back against it himself, panting from exertion, thinking. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

His breath stopped and he blinked his eyes in the red darkness, thinking that he should be acting more calmly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been doing a great deal of thinking, but not saying much. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

As it sometimes happened, Paul seemed to know what Jim was thinking. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I can't front, just thinking of Lu and Ghost holding each other like that made me want to burst into laughter. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Without thinking, I put my hand on my head to see if it was true. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I know what you are all thinking,” he said. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Everyone but Sunny, who was chillin', trapping his laughter in his face, as usual, so nobody knew what he was really thinking. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Well. This is no time for daydreaming. You’re supposed to be writing, not thinking.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“People might start thinking that the Wallses are building a dynasty.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As weeks slid past, he began making plans to seek another job, thinking that he had been permanently laid off. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Words streamed out of me so fast I couldn’t keep up with them, and that’s all I was thinking about. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He let out a whoop, thinking he was quite a riot. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When she hadn’t been thinking of him, all she’d really been thinking about was him. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I kind of drifted out of the conversation and started thinking about Ice again. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

But all I remember thinking was how much fun living in our minivan was going to be. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When he reached her he saw that she was quite conscious, her eyes wide open and calm; he stood above her, thinking, ‘Yes. She is the one who owns the terror’. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mine definitely flipped. They want me to be a marine biologist. I’m thinking about it.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The words were out of his mouth before he realized what he was thinking. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

‘I’ll say no more and go on thinking. But what’s the black sneak got to do with it all? That gobbler with the flapping hands?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He gazed about, trying to pick someone, thinking only that he was more thirsty than he had ever been in his life. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn't stop thinking about those two nuns. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Actually, he probably wasn’t worried that I’d be uncomfortable, I’m sure he was thinking that his other employees would be uncomfortable around me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Lately, I had been wondering if she had been thinking about me when she got in the water with sharks. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I can see that she's thinking, so I give her a minute. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We wished to defend; we demanded confrontation; we felt all the transports of issueless rage, thinking of the rebels and their cries of self-congratulation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“You came here with it, litde fool, thinking you could you threaten me!” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She had thinking to do; the possibility of someone helping Wick still danced just out of sight. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

But when my friends would tell me they had cousins they'd never met—cousins who lived within an hour's drive—I couldn't help thinking: What is wrong with these cold and detached people? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

All the times when she got mad at me, was she really thinking about them? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

By tradition they belonged to Percy, who had killed the gorgons, but Frank couldn’t help thinking, What if I could use thfem? The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to pray with me a little, maybe? Or I could read you some passages that I’ve been thinking about a lot. They might give you a little peace.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

As I walk, I’m surprised that I’m not thinking about the game or losing my starting position. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which is typical butthead thinking, because of course it's a big deal, if your father happens to be in prison. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

To keep myself from thinking about the bad part, I rummaged through our pile of moldering belongings until I found Clematis. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The cord had twisted itself into a bit of a knot, and for a second or two I actually panicked, thinking it might be irreparably tangled. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Or because I’m still thinking about my spots? How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Mi, I’ve been thinking,” he said, so seriously she almost giggled until he reached into his back pocket and pulled out a folded stack of bills. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You weren’t thinking of going in that boat, were you?” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he ruins it: “Days like today. Problem-solving, thinking on your feet, dealing with the unexpected—these are the life skills that will help you find success in your future.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking about my dad, how his eyes moved when he smiled, and about his voice, which was easy to listen to. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Without really thinking about the logistics, I foolishly suggested that we write letters to Zlata and invite her to our class. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Just thinking how you sell something, is all. Land and stuff.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cows were as restless as spring, thinking there might be new grass out in the fields, even though the snow was still pretty deep. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

What had his father been thinking when he went over the cliff? Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Unless it was what she herself was thinking. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe he was texting me, just when I’d been thinking about him. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She just staring at the words, thinking about something else. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t a soap opera star at all, but a head-and-neck surgeon, though I kept thinking of him as some­one named Armand in some steamy soap set on a tropical island. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Reading The Arabian Nights again has started me thinking...can stuff like this really happen? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

As Cole lay thinking about the sparrows, pain surged back and forth through his body. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I pushed the roast beef around on my plate so Mama wouldn’t feel bad, but thinking about Bucky so hard made me lose my appetite. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

But one night, two weeks after they took him to his bed, Prudencio Aguilar touched his shoulder in an intermediate room and he stayed there forever, thinking that it was the real room. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they even felt sorry for me and just thinking about their pity I want to die. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was single- minded about it, and I later realized that it was a way to keep myself from thinking negatively. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without thinking, the heirs seated themselves at the assigned tables. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

And no one, especially not the idiotic sages around here, is capable of understanding us, since we’re more sensitive and much more advanced in our thinking than any of them ever suspect! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He found himself thinking of his sisters, perhaps because he'd dreamed of them last night. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But soaring around, this way, that way, Icarus’ flying pleased him so that he began thinking he was flying on his own merit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bill looked at me looking at people, and after class, he asked me what I was thinking about, and I told him. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Malfoy went haring after him, clearly thinking Harry had seen the Snitch there.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

But now I’m looking at him and I’m thinking about what an enormous hypocrite he is. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I'm not really thinking about what I’m doing. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw sat down on the ground as well, thinking about it. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

By this point I’m thinking that Stephanie might win the pageant. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But all I'm thinking now...please stop me, Lord! How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After they dried me off, Mom asked what was I thinking, to do such a thing? The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was only in the thinking stage for this one, but it was going to be about my daddy’s secret sister. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“The message said: The Greek has arrived. Or possibly: The goose has cried. I’m thinking the first interpretation is correct. You seek to join the legion?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They were thinking of the moment in the adamant tower when that sparklike idea had flashed between them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

My father was career law enforcement, and if he thought I needed a security team, I really had a lot of thinking to do. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

His tone sounded for a moment so much like Abenthy’s that I forgot myself and spoke without thinking. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He sighed, and I knew he was thinking of Hari, so I began to read aloud to Sassur from my favorite poem. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

As we drove silently down 1-4,1 found myself thinking about the day that the guy in the gray suit showed up dead. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It’s obvious that Vanessa is thinking, Oh, right, and that’s when it sinks in. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking, I really am a good salesman. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Behind her she heard Gabriel cry: “Bless your name, Jesus!” and, thinking of him and the high road of holiness he had traveled, her mind swung like a needle, and she thought of Deborah. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“If you were the stone fish,” she said, still thinking hard, “that means you were also the statue for the magistrate that broke...” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But it’s only because he’s thinking about it. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

How did Donne know that the new philosophers were seeking new worlds, not only by thinking of the planets as worlds but also by looking for worlds elsewhere in the firmament? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She was still thinking about the pig when the teacher said: “Fern, what is the capital of Pennsylvania?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Looking at Grovers face, I wondered if he was thinking of Pan. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I tried it again, thinking about Caliban and Sycorax—the rats, not the monsters in the play—because I wanted to make the “strange stuff” come out more like a hiss. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Hamlet stabbed at the arras in my room, thinking it hid a spy. Alas, it was your father, and now, oh! Now he lies dead.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The class giggled and I grinned, thinking they were laughing at her, not me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She waited, perhaps thinking Rowan might respond to that, but he did not. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I just listened, but I couldn’t help thinking about the Anna I knew. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

He had evidently been thinking and had his mind made up; for, almost before he looked at the patient, he whispered to me:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Dude, it’s open. And everyone is asleep. Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Especially the way when he’s thinking about something, he’ll twist the ends like he’s trying to unscrew them. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Being helpless and thinking baby thoughts and dreaming baby dreams and messing up his pants again and smiling all the time. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He continued to study Rick intently, his face turgid; Rick could not fathom what Garland was thinking. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“What I was thinking was you don’t have to go right away,” Dad said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Your father and I were thinking—maybe it would be good to go to Mardi Gras this year.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

There she was over there on the other side of the table thinking I was an angel, and here I was on my side feeling about as far from an angel as anybody could be. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

In her reply, she thanked Andresen for thinking of her but told him she had no time to spare for his puzzle. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

That was what he was thinking about as he stood on the beach with his boots off. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I said, aware he seemed angry but thinking he was just putting on an act for April Fool’s Day, “Oh yeah? What did I say?” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I’m afraid I’ll stutter.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He placed his hands on her breasts just as he had placed them on Mary’s last night and he was thinking of that while he kissed her. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry,” she said, “I know I’m not supposed to laugh, but sometimes I can’t help it. I keep thinking of you tickling your teacher,” Another giggle spouted. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Still, each of them bought a piece of cold-wrought iron from the smith, heavy as they could swing, and none of them said what they were thinking. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Though I hadn’t mentioned it, I’d been thinking the same thing. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I reached for the rope without thinking, trying to seize it from Sender’s hands so that I could haul Yakov up and keep him from drowning. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

‘I been thinking a lot tonight,’ her Dad said. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I could hear the wheels sliding and it slewed around and backed and whirled and just as I was thinking what the hell they were up to, I saw that red tie. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking of buying the ice plant here in Salinas and trying to ship some things.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a dry, uninspiring little kiss, and I remember thinking it was too bad both our mouths were so chapped from walking five miles in that cold wind. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Even though I’m not looking directly at her, I can tell what she’s thinking. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Like “lips touching, me tasting her strawberry lip gloss, her probably thinking my breath smells like hot dogs” kissed. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But I remember thinking that the disinfectant smell of the hospital ruined the cake’s taste. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“I wish I could give you the magic red stone,” Pinmei said without thinking. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Yet it marks the birth of a new way of thinking, a way of thinking that continues to be our own. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This is the kind of thing you live your whole life thinking about probably. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I was thinking like the seventh-grade president, and our project needed him. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Word is her family's thinking about moving out of Chokecherry. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Iran—To the Iranians’ way of thinking, Bobby was Jewish, and they had no interest. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, don’t be. I’ll have loads to do. There’s a prank to plan. But I was thinking you should stay here, too. In fact, I have composed a list.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I froze, thinking I was for it, but then noticed she was carrying on as before, except now she was mouthing her address at me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As with the other two-faced words, ask yourself whether you are thinking of the whole or the parts. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without thinking, she spent all the money meant for rice and bought the painting. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I mean, no, not really. Right now I’m just thinking about how meaningless it all was. The faction system, I mean.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

My family is thinking of everything but my personal safety. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon he was completely blind, his knees and back and head all against the rock, and for a moment he panicked, thinking Lindsey had tricked him, and would leave him, wedged in here. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I made my way backstage, thinking: Did that just happen? How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Emma only nodded, and smiled.—After a little thinking, and a very tender sigh, he added, Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Turner’s mother raised an eyebrow and remarked that he had started to become a real Maine boy, thinking of the tide and the weather. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I know that; yet I keep thinking about it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Say the word so hard and so loud and so many times, it becomes something different to us—something so silly we laugh just thinking about it. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Not one word. She deserves to have the rest of her time thinking both her grandsons will be fine, Otto.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I should have. I was really stressed out and wasn’t thinking straight. I’m sorry.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

There is nothing, repeat nothing, wrong with Who are you looking at? or The better to see you with or We are such stuff as dreams are made on or It’s you she’s thinking of. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Not knowing what I did, thinking foolishly that another wave was upon me, I began to run. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just thinking about it leaves me so agitated I toss and writhe until Walter tells me to knock it off because I’m keeping him up. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Far as I can tell, you weren’t thinking at all,” she snapped, now furiously stirring. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Both of them were thinking about what they were about to do. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Presently, Alex is thinking about breaking his nose with the coffee percolator. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her father had put the puzzle aside, thinking Candice was too young for it. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Halfway through the woods, I’m thinking that what I’m about to do could get my dad in a whole lot of trouble. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, thinking she was about to correct my kick. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

"I made the cocoon so she'd stop squirming," I say, not wanting her to know that I'd spent a lot of time thinking about how to be better than her, better than everyone. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He waited for a few minutes; then right as he was thinking about leaving, Eleanor opened the door just enough to slide through. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

One cool, damp, mid-December day, on her way home from harvesting another field of carrots, Lupita, who as usual was thinking of Salvador, felt the motion of the truck change. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

No, no, no, no, is all I come up thinking. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I was in bed thinking and it suddenly came to me,” she said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Putting his arm around her, he said, “Anyhow it’s over. And I’ve been thinking; maybe Harry Bryant can assign me to a—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt craved a mutton chop with a tail to it; Kermit was hungry for strawberries and cream; and Cherrie couldn’t stop thinking about pancakes smothered in maple syrup. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I stood there for a while thinking about the first settlers and how they had killed one another over beaver and fox pelts. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking, any normal person would automatically fie on a woman biding for her husband. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Now it seemed to him that he was always saying or thinking that he didn’t deserve some bad luck, or some bad treatment from others. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Watch out for snakes,” my mother said, but her voice was so happy, I knew she wasn’t thinking about snakes. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you were with English you got into the habit of using English expressions in your thinking. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She was still thinking about this when she experienced a very rude awakening. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t understand what the man could be thinking! You’re just trainees, for heaven’s sake!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

We look at each other, probably thinking the same thing. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

What hurts is thinking of those I’m leaving behind. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“William came over to father’s way of thinking two months ago. Even before his house was raised, when he had to pay such high taxes on his land.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

In front of us, just a few yards down the dimly lit hallway, I see the locked doors and my stomach sinks, thinking of the way Eric's sweatshirt rolled away from Max. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I’m still thinking about what Miles said yesterday when we arrive at Christ Temple. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I felt like a perfectly normal person, who was not cohabitating with a demon that forced me to think thoughts I hated thinking, and I was just feeling, like, I’ve been better this week. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But now, thinking about children, he was thinking also as a man and a potential father. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My thinking is black,” she said, uncharacteristically glum. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mom stopped and blinked hard, which is what she does when she’s thinking about something. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t see how the mammoth walls could possibly be mobile—felt so sure of it he relaxed, thinking Chuck was just playing a trick on him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I nodded, thinking how I’d study my favorite subjects: poetry and George Washington and the map of America. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good thinking,” I tell him, because value comes in many forms. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

So, it occurred to me that I've been spending a lot of time thinking about you and rereading your emails and trying to make you laugh. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She’d been thinking that they would have to wear striped pajamas like the prisoners in the old photographs, yet she’d seen no one dressed like that in the camp yet. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The event, however, was most joyful; and every day was giving her fresh reason for thinking so.—Harriet’s parentage became known. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

I wrote a note to Mrs. Bradley that read: “Suicide. It’s something I’ve been thinking about. Not too seriously, but I have been thinking about it.” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

AD, I realize there is nothing relaxing about thinking of all the fun you are supposed to be having. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

"Well, no," he says, and you can tell he's thinking about it real hard. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“What's that supposed to mean: SHE doesn't want him back?'' Ida's voice startled him out of his worries. “What on earth is she thinking of? The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

As if he heard me thinking about him, he turns in my direction, all silhouette in the firelight, a perfect painting, so good it makes my fingers flit at my side. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I knelt by his side for a long time, crying, thinking of all that had happened. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking about finding a place to study ancient theology.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I scrunched deeper into my seat thinking about the calls, especially. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I slumped into my train seat and turned to look out the window with my chin cradled in my hand, thinking back to when J.T. first came to public school. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The lawyer smiled sickly and nodded, thinking: Don’t do me any favors. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You is talking to a human bean, that’s what I is thinking!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then my thinking part steps forward and quickly realizes what I’ve done. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I can't stop thinking about our conversation in the parking lot and what you said about what I took from you. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Without thinking, he turned the bag over and dumped the contents on the ground. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes at night, in secret, I still limp purposefully around my apartment, like Mr. Hyde, trying to recover my old ways of seeing and thinking. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot help thinking that if only I knew more about them, and how they maintain our synchrony, I would have a new way to explain music to myself. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what I was thinking,” she said. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

You wonder what they’re talking about and, even more so, what they might be thinking. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

We’re still cheering inside, but we’re also thinking about six million lives snuffed out by the worst kind of evil the world has ever known. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It happened so suddenly that at first the agent cringed and doubled over thinking the hailstones were bullets from somebody behind or off at a slant below his exposed rear. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t help thinking about the last time he’d held a bucket of popcorn in a crowded place, but they safely reached section B, row M, seats 1 and 2 without incident. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I took deep gulps of air, thinking about the trouble I could get into for saying things like that to people like Ria. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She was not even thinking of the furnace; she was just a little ashamed of having been seen in the basement in her kimono. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I think about him in the elevator and down the long hallway and every moment until the moment that I have to stop thinking about him, when I enter the office. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Ellsberg said he wanted his two children, who live in this state with his first wife, to know that he is well and thinking of them,” reported Oliphant. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Gherland, thinking fast, affixed a kindly expression on his craggy face. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Then, later in the day, I would see the calendar and start thinking: did I check today or didn’t I? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They all seem to be thinking the same thing—Finally... The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking, Let’s forget for a while how I feel toward you and how you feel toward me: I just wouldn’t do you this way. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deep-set eyes made it hard to tell what Edwin was thinking. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

We were about to leave court for the last time, and I started thinking about how much pain and suffering had been inflicted on Walter and his family, the entire community. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He’s stopped wearing the watch, thinking of them. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were dazzled and dizzied by the vision of the future they planned to share, which Lexie wanted so badly, sometimes, that she lay awake at night thinking about it. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Thirty thousand children volunteered, thinking they were going to Palestine. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Easy,” I said, thinking of the stolen pen hidden in my suitcase. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

A chemist, thinking to learn by the most direct possible means the dose acutely toxic to human beings, swallowed a minute amount, equivalent to about .00424 ounce. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He thought until he realized that he was thinking in circles. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She laughed, thinking of the way Ana and Clara would react to the idea that she might marry the prince. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But thinking of Tariq was treacherous because, before she could stop, she saw him lying on a bed, far from home, tubes piercing his burned body. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I probably wasn’t even thinking about how a stomach is a balloon full of stew, gurgling around behind your belly button. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He placed his right hand on his chest and added, “It’s like nothing I felt before. I can’t stop thinking about her!” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

But we hadn’t spoken since yesterday, and since I didn’t see her in school and since she didn’t respond to my texts after school, I started thinking I might not hear from her. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“Why not enjoy the next few days and the last few dollars? Next Thursday, your life will return to normal. You areCinderella at the ball. Stop thinking about what happens after midnight?’ Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking of what Mrs. Quintana had said: Remember the rain. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Then I started thinking about the bills and about what I would see the next day at the hospital and about the schoolwork I would miss by being absent. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just thinking of Amah cut into her chest, but she knew her words were true. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I glance down at my sneakers, thinking about that Churchill quote. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She was still thinking about Caillebotte’s Paris street on her way to the grocery store. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“And thinking made it so. Here I am.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I’m actually wearing my tracksuit and standing in the water, thinking of those lyrics about love going to waste. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Ever since we’d started bomb drills at school, I couldn’t help thinking my days were numbered. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm so tired I'm not even thinking clearly. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Okay, so I’m thinking there must have been something to spark this scoreboard legend,” Tucker said. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Faber heard, and Beatty, thinking it was meant for him, heard. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we followed her for like twenty minutes, thinking this was hilarious...until she went into a cutlery store, and we watched her purchase a nice new butcher knife. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I stayed on the edge of the raft for a long time, thinking about home and rubbing Stew Cat’s back. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it had not been for the vein of light around the edges of the drawn shades he would have passed on, thinking the house deserted. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced behind him, thinking he could bolt back into the tunnel the way he had come, but the doorway had disappeared. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Not even thinking, I jumped out after him. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rutherford had carefully specified that he was thinking in terms of “the means at present at our disposal.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“How do you know what works for girls? Or maybe you’ve looked these over with Ruth. Sorry, not thinking.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jumped to my feet to pull in the spear, thinking that I might have a chance to throw it again. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking about you . . . and the accident.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks at her phone, and I wonder if she's thinking about calling Jacob before she turns it off. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"Never has there been a more exciting time to be young and to be a student. Thanks to the Führer, you will learn the new thinking in Germany." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

But the way she helped me—as no human, really, could have helped me—by breaking down the interspecies interlock and letting her mind come into my thinking...There was such care, such love. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

While he’s thinking, I wait for the phone to ring with the news that there’s been an accident. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The patty melt has been pushed aside in favor of the herb-encrusted medallions of baby artichoke hearts, which never leave me thinking, Oh, right, those! Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She put down her work and got up, thinking, “I will be the first to say, ‘Forgive me’”, but he did not seem to hear her. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Louis said half derisively and half with admiration, “He’s always thinking about how to change things. He’s never satisfied with the way they are.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I realized I was thinking about my strange vision of Annabeth pulling me out of the Styx River. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

No matter what I said to Heather and her entourage, they would still walk away thinking it was my race and not my high school record that got me into college. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Laura tucks against me while I’m thinking how to tell her about the white girl that I met. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask, thinking this is like asking the Pope isn’t he religious. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I know! I’ve been thinking about that very fact for months. I’ve also been thinking about lunch for at least fifteen minutes. I thank you for your time and concern.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m thinking this is not Roman,” I said helpfully. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes thinking about him made my body too heavy to move. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

All these years teaching and she still doesn’t know that thinking is the trouble with groups. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I keep thinking about the day I saw Kamal, about the way he kissed her, about how angry I was and how I wanted to confront her. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I was thinking about calling him tonight,” I lied. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Looks at the walls around it like he’s thinking about how that got built. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking, under the bed. I’ve been thinking for a while. You’ll have an income now. You could apply for more rooms.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Clear thinking requires a command of the English language, and fifth grade is the ideal time for every girl and boy to acquire an expanded vocabulary. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not thinking of any extraordinary flights. I only half comprehend her.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so far up inside the beat that I wasn’t thinking at all — my body just did everything, perfectly, almost by itself. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want Milo’s mother thinking that she and her son were friends. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"And me thinking I'd picked a boy with brain," he said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!" said the head. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

For a moment, he considered thinking of her tonight. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"I've been alone. By myself I went, thinking what's what I know what we need. An assembly to put things straight And first of all, I'm speaking." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But thinking on it, Ophie realized that she had never heard anyone refer to the old woman by her first name. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

When in Mr. Gardner’s employment, I was kept in such a perpetual whirl of excitement, I could think of nothing, scarcely, but my life; and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

She peered into the tubes, laughing to herself and thinking, Nothing’s happening. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“What are you thinking about?” he says into my ear, softly. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I’m angry having to lie there on the disgusting bedpan until Mami gets home and can’t stop thinking about the car accident. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She was crying too, and I’m sure she was thinking: We didn’t come all this way for you to drown in this lake. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"But, you know, you did a good job— the way you approached that data collection. Good clear thinking, Bobby." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an odd sensation to be thinking of someone and have her unexpectedly appear. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Of course he thought of little else, but it was a dull circular thinking that came back to the starting point again and again: Where had he gotten it? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking to ask, when he says: “How about a Sprite, then?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He stares back at me and nods a little, like he knows what I’m thinking, and agrees. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I started thinking about all the great times we’d had— Dad, Abbey, and me—on our sunset trips. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I drifted off, thinking about me and my mother’s old story challenges and wishing we could play another one. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I went on thinking about something to tell the cow-boys; and after a while I began to get an idea. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I can't help thinking of the birds here—how they disappear in the wintertime, heading south for food and warmth and shelter. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Eleanor had been up all night thinking about how he was probably done with her, and now she just wanted to put herself out of her misery. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Get this—I was even thinking of asking J.T. to come with us. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Not sure if I was trying to shield you or if I hoped things were better, but it's something l’ve been thinking about since Justyce was unfairly arrested." Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I shrug and take another bite of the warm, salty pretzel, thinking that this is the best day in forever. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been thinking about how to tell you for a long time. Longer than you can imagine.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I am learning the pathways of the heart, Eleanor thought quite seriously, and then wondered what she could have meant by thinking any such thing. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Because I don’t want Meggie thinking I’m some kind of a magician, too.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And during all those times, Chess would just be sitting there thinking about Mom, and suddenly realize half an hour had gone by. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Tobias and I stand there for a while, and I think I know what he’s thinking, because I’m thinking it too: How can something so small control so many people? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I even think depression is caused by thinking about things that depress you. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lit a candle, set and wound the clock, and sat for a few minutes thinking what I must do tomorrow. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I push my finger in the lock over and over again, thinking I can somehow get it to open. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She liked thinking about her notebook like that—decomposition. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There’s fresh and canned pumpkin, and I smile to myself thinking that soup joumou is just what my family needs now. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

This was not his world; he had been foolish in thinking that he would have liked it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She has to know what I’m thinking, right? Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

That kind of thinking starts with families, mostly. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I told Mr. Muhammad, when I visited him in Chicago that month, that I was thinking about a very serious step. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up a french fry, thinking how his hand had touched it and now I was putting it to my lips. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You go along, thinking you can deal with it, thinking maybe they’re not so bad, and then you—” He cuts himself off. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lefty Lewis looked out of the windshield like he was thinking. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“You aren’t precisely right, though. I do want to know what you’re thinking — everything. I just wish . . . that you wouldn’t be thinking some things.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I was letting it run, thinking maybe it would change to hot, but it was still ice after five minutes. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

We told her we were thinking about going to some club called the Rumble Spot that we’d heard about on the feed. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If Papa were here,” thought Francie, “he’d start to sing, ‘My Wild Irish Rose’” She heard her mother sigh and wondered whether she, too, was thinking.... A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He raised his ears at the sound, and I put him down, thinking that he wished to bark at them as he always did. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I light a cigarette and stub it out, thinking, Don’t start up again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She understood when I said I was thinking about all I had to do; she probably thought I meant homework and chores. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In late spring, as the days grow longer and warmer, the snakes will all slither back to their thinking spots. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was one word, one syllable, which without thinking he spoke indistinctly, the ancient beginning and ending of all Brahmin prayers, the holy Om, which had the meaning of "the Perfect One” or "Perfection.” Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

They might even steal their present back she thought, and realized with a pang how quickly she had reverted to thinking of them as though they were a single unit once again. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have a crush on her; I wasn’t even thinking about girls that way yet. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

That, while I do feel more integral to the trio as of late, I still can’t stop thinking about finding him and Jupiter in bed together? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

She did this without thinking, as it was an old habit with her always to toss grapes when she ate them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed that Fred and George had been right in thinking that they — and now Harry, Ron, and Hermione — were the only ones who knew about the hidden passageway within it. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I spoke without thinking, but Lissa saw nothing out of the ordinary in my words. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I went inside and sat on my bed facing the wall and tried to stop thinking, but I had a severe migraine that night. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

So I grew up convinced that science was supremely dull, but suspecting that it needn’t be, and not really thinking about it at all if I could help it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She stared at him, shocked, thinking, he couldn’t, he wouldn’t. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hand the check to her but Miss Hilly all wrinkled up, thinking. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

All this time we’ve been more or less thinking we were the one and only white people who ever set foot here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, some of us were too busy with more important things, like saving parents from a funk, to be thinking about the science fair. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Felt the tension between the urge to pull over and change the Band-Aid and the certainty of Daisy thinking me crazy. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“If he eats meat he sure isn’t thinking about where it comes from.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The old man narrows his eyes and says what I’m thinking. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

My feet against the door of the stall, my head against my knees, I’m thinking of what I would say to a dead woman and wondering how I am ever going to go to class. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Harry in the country was different from Harry sitting on the back steps reading the newspapers and thinking about Hitler. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem fair that he’d get a free bike for doing what he was told rather than thinking for himself. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

All the afternoon the house was very quiet and still, as though it were thinking its own thoughts, or dreaming perhaps. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe that Mundín was thinking about a girlfriend at a time like this! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

They try to incorporate Gogol into similar plans; this summer, for example, they are thinking of renting a house on the coast of Brittany. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Barack was the only person I knew who had this kind of faith, thinking that a book could solve any problem. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Don’t tell me what to do,” said Isabelle, but after thinking about it she pulled another bobby pin from her pocket. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

"I was just thinking the same about your parents! They are only an hour east of here. Why don’t you go and get them?" When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Although Zita denied that there was any sexual intimacy with Bobby in the six weeks she stayed in Los Angeles—“I wasn’t thinking of that,” she said—he was falling in love. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was quiet for a moment, thinking, Jesse decided, about her former school, which he saw as bright and new with a gleaming gymnasium larger than the one at the consolidated high school. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“My mom doesn’t have another family! She doesn’t lie! She isn’t a criminal! You can stop thinking about any theories that make her a bad person!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they were all thinking the same thing, wouldn't it be weird and sad if Mami did end up in Bellevue? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She is thinking about her seventh-grade field trip to Wild Waves. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She said it without thinking, not even sure what the something was. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I wished I knew what she was thinking. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He spun the story out, even though he’d told it before, thinking it would help to keep her awake, not realizing for a moment that that was her purpose with regard to him. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I had been thinking about the 1,001 Nights and wondering what would happen if Scheherazade was sick or dizzy one night and fell asleep right in front of the villain king. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I keep thinking,” David said, “the whole thing might tumble open if we could just move the exact right boulder ” “And not the exact wrong one, the one that makes the whole thing crush us?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I can’t stay,” I said without thinking, struggling against the urge to gawk openly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It's not easy for me to say what I'm thinking, but I'm trying anyway because it's important. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was still thinking about the lines of prophecy the harpy had recited—about the son of Neptune drowning, and the mark of Athena burning through Rome. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We do a lot of collective thinking, probably more than any other social species, although it goes on in something like secrecy. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His wife, poor ailing soul, done passed on, and he thinking about coming North.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She did not speak, but I felt as though we were thinking the same thing—how different it was for Jaja and me. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I guess we were all just thinking about that car zooming up to our house with the lights on. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Just thinking about the car made his stomach flip, tossing the butterflies every which way. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“An old woman’s hand, I am thinking, wrinkled and feeble. I pray Daenerys returns to us soon.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So I start to ask Janae, thinking that she might have the answers, but her eyes are fixed on the setting sun, and I'm sure her dreams are floating with the clouds. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I'm lying awake in the dark on a hot summer night and I'm thinking, Treasure in the sewer? Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I knew exactly what he was thinking: how can we steal this page? how can we get it away? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Was it he, the traveler? or herself? or was she thinking of the cross of Jesus? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Now he had lost them, he possessed none of them any more, neither fasting, nor waiting, nor thinking. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I pulling weed, and I thinking, my grandchildren need cabbage be healthy. Come. We cook soup.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“To hang out with—” I started, without thinking. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

"Not really. I can't—I don't know what I was thinking. I'm not even a hundred percent sure of what I know." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I am thinking a June wedding. Is very nice in the ROC in June.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“So it’s like five in the morning, and suddenly I’m wide awake, which is weird, and for some weird reason I’m thinking something’s weird.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Oh. Well, not really, I just type in some words—” “I’ve been thinking about what you said the other day,” she breaks in. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Hazel shivered, thinking of the massive statue that took up most of the hold. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The old woman would be awake now, thinking about going shopping as she did each afternoon. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm thinking now about the passengers on board. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Lyra could see what he was thinking: he was going to say that this had gone too far, they must turn back, they were taking this foolishness to irresponsible lengths. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’m so busy worrying that I might stink from PE, and thinking about the potential awfulness of being on the track team, that I don’t even hear Ms. Jacobs ask her question the first time. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

And from the study of things underfoot, and from reading and thinking, came a kind of exploration, myself and the land. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, both music aptitude and music achievement are dependent on audiation; i.e., our music learning potentials and our music learning achievements are based on our music thinking. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Gandalf was thinking of a spring, nearly eighty years before, when Bilbo had run out of Bag End without a handkerchief. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He took long walks by himself around the Shropshire countryside, thinking. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She chewed her lip, thinking back to last night. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Or alerting anyone that she was interested in it, she realized, thinking about those men who must know she’s Surly Wombat. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And the whole time I was chasing things, I was thinking that Otis must be some kind of snake charmer, the way he could play his guitar and make all the animals turn to stone. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Disregard! I can’t do any of this. It was stupid. I wasn’t thinking. I had a bad moment.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He turned away, thinking: Five of ’em sleeping in one room and here’s a great big empty building with just me in it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then he got up and started pacing, thinking about what little he knew about fission and the possibility of building atomic bombs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked up and to the side, thinking. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I said, whipping out my phone, thinking I’m texting Ximena Chin my address like the big dork that I am. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Without thinking, I allowed my face to spread to a grin as though overjoyed to serve her. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which isn't to say I'm going to stop thinking about it. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

My stomach squeezed up and my face burned just thinking about that. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t, so now all I’m thinking about is what I promised myself I’d tell her as soon as we finished singing “All Night Long.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He tried to imagine what the old man was thinking as he built these toys. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He was thinking: It’s weird and I wish I knew what the hell it is. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It seems odd that women once spent such time and energy reading about such things, thinking about them, worrying about them, writing about them. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know what yer thinking: how can I not know if all day, every day I’m hearing every thought of the two men who run my house? The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Barack was writing what would become The Audacity of Hope—thinking through his beliefs and his vision for the country, threshing them into words on his legal pads late at night. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Whether Miss Love was now Grandpa’s wife or still just his housekeeper, she wouldn’t put her own money into plumbing if she was still thinking about leaving Cold Sassy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The older man lifted his hand to rest on the boy’s shoulder and let it hover just above for a moment, before thinking better of it and letting it drift back down. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They had all been thinking the same thing but nobody had been courageous enough to talk about it. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The problem is people grow up thinking that material things are what makes them worthwhile. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help thinking about my dream, with Annabeth crumpled and lifeless in Luke’s arms. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Hattie dismissed me eventually, and I spent the hours till dawn imagining my release from the curse and thinking about my reunion with Char. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I'm panicked, though, thinking that at any moment Liz or her mother will turn around and see my sneakers or my elbows and call the police on me for sneaking into their truck. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We did not say a word to each other but each of us knew what the other was thinking. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Wang Lung appeared he shouted roughly, thinking from the basket that he had come to sell something. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes just thinking about Jenny Flick draws her into my life, you know? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I was just thinking about all those war stories you tell me about.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

An experimental study of the effects of improvisation on the development of children’s creative thinking in music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I fell asleep thinking about the potential look of disappointment on my parents’ faces when I told them I didn’t want to be a doctor anymore. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Also, Leo kept thinking about his meeting with the revenge goddess Nemesis at the Great Salt Lake. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I read the other day about how some... some girls get unbalanced, start thinking these—well, these unnatural thoughts.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I, ah, wanted to...I know we were going to talk about that story, but I’ve been thinking. I think I might be able to help you find out what happened to you.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t thinking of home, where Ben and Luster were eating cold dinner at the kitchen table. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking of Abuela’s salty egg idea, and it makes me look over my shoulder for a second, as if Edna and the girls are right there. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I’m still thinking about the dog I saw. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’m suddenly thinking of my art assignment, how I have to make a flyer for a local business. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

But I was thinking that maybe now was the time to change my wish. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Puts a fly in my head thinking about what happened to Benny Kilmartin. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I can tell she’s thinking long and hard about whether she wants to see me—whether she wants to talk to me. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“They have dictionaries at school,” said Moon Orchid, thinking this over. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was walking home alone after school, thinking about what to get Annemarie for her birthday. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I wanted to, and I wanted to know what the hell was going on, but I suddenly had a shock, thinking about what she'd just said. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I was just thinking. You know, about what Picasso said. But I’m still thinking,” he finished. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Forgive me, Doli, I was thinking of something else. When did you say you were going?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

But I was too tired because I hadn’t slept the night before because I was thinking about not being able to do my maths A level. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I shivered, thinking that he had wanted to say it to me. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Nailer said a prayer to the Fates, thinking of the disappeared captain of the Pole Star, and followed her in. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But, Papa, I'm just not in that place of thinking of him—or any boy—in that way. Can’t you understand that?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Do you know why I call it a thinking cap?” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

All night I did not sleep, thinking of the man who once had called to me. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started thinking maybe some sort of miracle had taken place and she’d somehow gotten cured. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every generation seems to produce a few marquee academics who advance the thinking on black culture. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

His life was always directed by the art of thinking, waiting and fasting. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cooter thought on it for a second then said, “Well, sir, I thought I did. But now I’m thinking that maybe Elijah give me some bad information!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Dad’s annoying in either form. Me? I was called Heracles. Then the Romans came along and named me Hercules. I didn’t really change that much, though lately just thinking about it gives me splitting headaches...” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I tried a smile, but I couldn’t stop thinking about Dr. Hyde. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She clutched the edge, thinking she was being sick, her shoulders shaking. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I guess everyone else was thinking the same thing, because they looked pretty confused. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I sat in my chair, not thinking anything at all. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“What in the hell were you two thinking?” she asks. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For whatever reason she’s thinking about waterfalls now, I’m glad she is. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shut up. So I had a stroke of inspiration. I was thinking about the whole story with Namrata, and I was like, you know what? I’m searching for Hudson Panini.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

His expression was distracted again, and I didn’t doubt that his vast machine of a brain was busy thinking about a half dozen things all at once. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Downstream from where they merge, they are both dead—I have looked many times, thinking that maybe, after all this time, the water in Burden Creek might be all right again. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Certainly, madam. I was thinking the same myself.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Once when I first met you I spent an afternoon thinking how we would go to the Hotel Cavour together and how it would be.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mtisha said no, that she wasn’t thinking about cutting me loose, but there was a moment of hesitation before she said it. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

All the next week Ralph went to bed thinking of his idea. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was pleased, thinking we were on the exact same wavelength. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I took a step back and waited, thinking to ask whoever was coming what was behind the door. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Despite my shock, I remember thinking, “Well, you didn’t miss much this week, Dad-wise.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll go back, thinking it will be so terrific—and what will we do? The same things all over again? We’ve done just about everything exciting about Egypt.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like anything. I mean, I like this girl. I was just thinking you would want to help me here. Invite me to stuff when she’ll be there. I don’t know.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Owls hooted over the roofs and bats flitted in the dusk air above the stream, and still Ged sat thinking how he might, by force, ruse, or sorcery, learn the Doorkeeper's name. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I know what you were thinking, but I wasn’t. Trying to. Kiss you.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I woke up early, feeling very cheerful, thinking that there was someone to talk to even if he was sick. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Afternoons were her time with Mia, and she spent the last few periods of the day anticipating what Mia might be working on, thinking of things to share. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His refrigerator was full of things you tossed into the cart without thinking about it just because they sounded good. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He did not stir; he lay still, feeling that by being still he would stave off feeling and thinking, and that was what he wanted above all right now. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Although Regiomontanus died in 1476, the Epitome was not published for another twenty years, when it set the young Copernicus thinking. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“No, I was just thinking about the way you tricked Narcissus and those nymphs...” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Marco only stares at her as she approaches, thinking her a dream. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I think we—Faith and I, anyway—were thinking about Stan and his contribution to the scene outside our windows. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking more along the lines of the ring stock car,” says August. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t really want to bring this up, but I can’t stop thinking about it,” she says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“See that!” he said, pointing at the kitchen floor, but I couldn’t stop thinking about his eye. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was thinking of a big globe of the world, suspended and swaying from a limb of one of his oak trees. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I ask, thinking of the childhood wounds on my own legs. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I keep thinking and thinking of all the worst-case scenarios until I feel like a tornado of worry and consider going back to bed. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Frank Oppenheimer, who was standing outside his brother’s office, remembered thinking, “Thank God it wasn’t a dud.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Veil, ve have a castle also, not as big as this, nor as comfortable, I am thinking,” he was telling Hermione. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Are you thinking the same thing I am?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

May 11—After all this thinking and worrying, I realized Alice was right. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a matter of time, the author suggested, before museums would respond to the public’s thinking. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Sam woke up thinking that he heard his master calling. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Jason couldn’t help thinking of Terminus, the talking statue-god back at New Rome. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“This is you thinking I can’t handle it,” Axel says, and not in a calm voice. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But then Chess did glance down at his brother, thinking it would help his own resolve. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

At this moment all I'm thinking about is what I'd give up for the chance to kiss her or to run my fingers through her dark hair. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Thomas couldn’t stifle his worry about what Newt was thinking. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The Lord will provide, I imagine Dad thinking. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Henry tried to break it down into little bits, thinking six letters at a time would be good. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was about to log out when the sidebar ad changed from one that tried to sucker you into thinking that only a 99-inch television was acceptable when watching X-Factor to one about weed killer. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Of course, my dog, Wishbone, heard his name and ran over to Cotton, probably thinking he was about to get something good to eat. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He took a sip of whiskey, spit in front of him and went quiet for a few seconds, like he was thinking about it. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Luke gulped, unable to keep thinking in his new identity quite yet. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was so tiresome—people always thinking you might steal. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Jan Dorlich must have been thinking about riding in a mail cart when he said we could get there in half an hour. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

After thinking it over, I decided it was too dangerous. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When I emerge out of the nuclear mushroom of this thinking, burnt to a crisp, I’m at CSA. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I started thinking I’d died in the storm, and this was some weird limbo where you didn’t care what happened to you. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back at home, I sit at my desk thinking about my mother’s question: Why do I want to start a magazine? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I end my patrol in the doorway of Mom and Dad’s bedroom thinking what I always do: The room’s still waiting for her to come back. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

They all looked at me, thinking it over, then nodded. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because I wanted to be with my boyfriend before his parents get home. I was thinking we could try again. You know.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

She must have known what I was thinking, because she stood up. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was thinking about the story and how much he wanted the cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

For of course he was thinking, just as you would have been, of all the reasons why the house might have been empty so long. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The frightened mother, thinking Sissy was from the immigration department, let her in. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wilson says that we toggle back and forth between our conscious and unconscious modes of thinking, depending on the situation. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I was still thinking about Nazario, but I had to let it go. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Is Vincent thinking of himself as despised and rejected, esteemed not? Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“The mandragora—” I murmured, thinking of its deadly powers. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But thinking about her own divorce, Dedd admits the math doesn’t always work out. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Now that we are both mice, I think we ought to start thinking a bit about the future." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Over and over, thinking of the unlucky pair of refugees who were supposed to be ferried back to England on my return trip. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He took a sip of wine and said not a word, thinking of Jaime. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Though she says nothing for a while, he knows what his mother is thinking, that he is willing to go on vacation with someone else’s parents but not see his own. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

After thinking about it for a while, I said, “I like Santa Maria. So if you decide to live here forever, I will too.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And I laid there on the hard concrete, for the second time in a week, tears flowing down my cheeks, thinking about each one of those names. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I wonder what she was looking at, what she was thinking about. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re thinking we want to play ‘Seven Nation Army’ for the spring concert on Wednesday.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I ask, thinking about the raincoat in my arms. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking I knew him, and he kept proving to me that I didn’t. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It always caused a tiny jump start in my chest, me thinking that my own mother had stared at this same picture. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

You remember thinking while braiding your hair that you look a lot like your mother. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

For a second, I laughed in side, thinking of that, but just for a second. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I go quiet, thinking of Hilly’s bathroom plan and accusing the maid of stealing and her talk of diseases. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

For the first time since the crash he was not thinking of himself, or his own life. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been thinking for months now about what to name this child, mentally combing through all the people she’d known, the books she’d read in high school. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But somehow, when I wasn’t thinking too good maybe, I took it down. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s ten o’clock and I’m in my bedroom, just thinking about the story. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I led them proudly up the mountain, thinking about dinner and what I had that would go around. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He scanned the temple’s interior, thinking: If I were designing a secret passage, where would I put it? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Coming from your boyfriend, I've been thinking was kind of a scary line. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Dad didn’t respond, but I knew what he was thinking. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“No, in truth, I am thinking how much this convent is like a prince’s court,” I say, then hasten to add, “A place I have read about in books.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He wanted to tell Ms. Hussey that he’d been thinking about important stuff, but he didn’t know how to say it. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I need to keep thinking about anything but the bed. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking about coming to see you and your dad after the funeral. But I didn’t know if I should. How’s his foot?” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I’m pretty stupid for thinking I could get any sleep tonight. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I have to take care of the cow,” said Jonathan, almost without thinking, and handed the bucket to the soldier. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had some thinking of my own to do. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m thinking, I’m thinking,” she said, her voice filled with desperation. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There’s a lot that doesn’t bear thinking about. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The two of them together would make one of the best farms in this section. Say! You thinking of getting married?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

That night, l’m lying in my sleeping bag thinking about the rabbit and the snake. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

In anger, yeah, but also to ask: What were you thinking? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I sat down in the shade beneath a sycamore tree, thinking of the unfilled hours ahead, replaying the conversation in the coffee shop, remembering the look on Martin’s face when he said good-bye to me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was going to think about Eleanor sitting in class, thinking about him, carefully writing his name someplace she thought only she would see. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

As I was thinking about these things, I fell out of the hammock. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Just make sure I ain’t dying, was what I was thinking as the cuff tightened around my arm. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“There are no mice in our court napkins. You are thinking of spiders.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had plenty to think of, of course, but sitting alone, just thinking, is pretty slow. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

They made me think of dinner, which made my stomach speak, which threw off my thinking. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I was thinking, “Who cares whether the little rug rat meant to hurt Jeffrey? He did, and now there’s no way to take it back.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I’m thinking this, I catch sight of a few other employees down in the lobby below, their necks craned curiously up in our direction. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Special opportunities, he kept thinking, over and over again. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

And then, while Darryl goes on and on about my mother, I start thinking about crying. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Mini seemed to know what she was thinking, because she placed her hand on Aru’s shoulder. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She hated thinking about the scary toothless lunatic’s house, but once it was in her mind, it raced around in there, bashing up against every little bulging gray cell. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

When developing your lesson, start by thinking outside of the box. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It’s so blank and empty, I can’t tell what he might be thinking or feeling. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why I was thinking about Auggie this morning. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“People wanted to believe them,” I mutter, thinking about poor Othello from the lecture and his willingness to die for Professor Ghering's delusions. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m thinking about it. Karim wants me to, especially before we have children.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Still, those writers would likely have been thinking of Indians without him—the essayist Montaigne had noted the same antiauthoritarian attitudes a century earlier. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

These were once Ymir’s brains, and who knows what thoughts they are thinking, even now. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“And when we free Thanatos,” Percy said, “he might claim your life. And Hazel’s. Believe me, I’ve been thinking about it.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I was thinking about the wine when I saw the cow-boys. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Puts a fly in my head thinking about the day that Moonie will move away. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“Percy is too nice,” Annabeth grumbled, but I couldn’t help thinking that maybe, just maybe, she was a little • impressed. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t stop thinking about the dead woman. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Francia’s still looking at me, her brain thinking who knows what. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I knew what he was thinking, and I wondered if he would tell Mike the truth about how many kids actually escaped that night. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Well, yes, but I was thinking something else, you know? Like a prep cook or something.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Kiowa, after all, had been a close friend, and for years I’ve avoided thinking about his death and my own complicity in it. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt pretty stupid talking to a T-shirt, but he was really thinking of Annabeth, and his old life. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I remember first seeing the picture of Amélie and thinking that was the worst thing that could ever happen to me. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They had been behind German lines before many times—living like woods creatures, living from moment to moment in useful terror, thinking brainlessly with their spinal cords. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not secrets. I’m writing about things I’ve been thinking about.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

"I've been thinking about it all the way back from your cottage and I believe I've got just a tiny little bit of an idea." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Here I was, thinking how quickly it happened that I fit in with her friends and how we are easy with one another as if we have shared years of laughter. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They are busy and thinking of ways to be busier because such a space of nothing pressing to do would knock them down. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been thinking about it for the last couple hours, actually,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I stare at the profile of her giant bun and shrug, thinking it best to keep my mouth shut. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey made herself stop thinking about the sailboat in her grandmother’s barn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our cowboy scrunches his brows, surely thinking, why are his refugees so picky? Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She’d been thinking up ways to get them in and out of trouble all summer long. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks to Dad for his opinion, but Dad’s been thinking about something else. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He himself had been enmagicked as a young boy, and he knew the consequences of the action—the odd eruptions, the disruptions in thinking, the unpleasant extension of the life span. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I respond, but really I’m thinking about Plutarch showing off his pretty, one-of-a-kind watch to me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have this idea that the reason we have dreams is that we’re thinking about things that we don’t know we’re thinking about—and those things, well, they sneak out of us in our dreams. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Finn could tell that Emma was doing what he did sometimes, where she was so upset she was just talking and talking and talking to keep herself from thinking about how upset she was. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

And the whole time, I’d be thinking, “Yeah, but have you ever heard the story about how I killed my sister when I left the rez?” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Valerie called me a few days later to follow up, I told her I was still thinking the offer over. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But when it comes to cause and effect, there is often a trap in such open-and-shut thinking. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

We’d actually deceived ourselves into thinking that a toy made of tissue paper, glue, and bamboo could somehow close the chasm between us. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t help thinking it, but I wish I had a different mom. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Like should stick to like. You don’t see Jews calling in Christian doctors,” said Evy, thinking she had made a telling point. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, closing her eyes, she sighed deeply and furrowed her brow, thinking hard. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Ghosts, dreams,” she’ll say, disgusted, thinking I’m too crazy to bother with. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

There were about twenty other Americans in there, sitting on the floor with their backs to the wall, staring into the flames—thinking whatever there was to think, which was zero. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew he was thinking about his dad. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The gangs already owned the territory—real estate was, in essence, their core business—and they were suitably menacing to keep customers from even thinking about ripping them off. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Now I have one for smiling, one for laughing, one for crying, one for frowning, one for thinking, one for pouting, and six more besides. Is everyone with one face called a Milo?” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

It takes forward thinking to write science fiction. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bleeding from his chest wound appeared to have stopped and he was thinking straight. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Now that I’m sitting in class thinking about what she went through, all I can say is that I’m glad we’re still together. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe each of them is thinking their own dream—of daddies and uncles, brothers and cousins one day being free to come on board. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

All of them are concerned with the development of a new language for thinking about, talking about and writing about science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“This is something I’ve been thinking about for a long time.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

They began pushing and jostling, and each of them was thinking only about saving herself. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t have been able to just sit in there without thinking about everything that went down with Lovey’s mom. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As he spoke there was a sort of smile which Elizabeth fancied she understood; he must be supposing her to be thinking of Jane and Netherfield, and she blushed as she answered: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

That was enough to reassure the young women that their commander was thinking about them as they flew out into the dark and the antiaircraft fire. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

To blacks way of thinking, there was no sense in suffering the humiliation of public tongue-lashings and insults. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

Whatever he was thinking about, Annabeth could tell it wasn’t pleasant. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As the ambulance pulled away, I kept thinking it was a dream, that it wasn’t happening, because I'd always thought Vinny was invincible, that we all were, actually. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Just before he pulled himself through, though, I told him: “I just wish I could stop thinking about it, man. That’s all.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Other young men were thinking along the same lines and we would all meet to discuss these ideas. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just did what had to be done, without discussing it or thinking about it. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know she is thinking about how she almost lost me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And we kept thinking, “The next time danger comes, it will be my turn to go.” Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d like that fine—and thank you for thinking of me.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember standing there thinking, You just fell off the beam on national TV. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She noticed Jason studying her, as if he knew exactly what she was thinking and didn’t like it any more than she did. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Say what you thinking about me and your silver. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Some of the hobbits looked at Frodo and laughed and clapped, thinking that Mr. Underhill had taken as much ale as was good for him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Good hard thinking is always a lot easier with food.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I’ve spent all these weeks getting to know who my competitors are, without even thinking about who my teammates are. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Old Nanny sat there rocking Janie like an infant and thinking back and back. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“That’s one answer, but I’m thinking of something else,” Mark said, grabbing hold of the end of the garbage truck once again. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

One day when I was thinking very hard about being alone, Frightful gave her gentle call of love and contentment. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas waited for Chuck to laugh or smile, thinking it had to be a joke—who ever heard of someone being cut in half? The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

If a black person says diverse neighborhood, they are thinking forty percent black. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Though I tried to put it out of my mind, I couldn’t help thinking that there were two of us: my body and I. And I hated that body. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It occurs to me that if I kill him, I can finally stop thinking about him. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Without even thinking, I asked, “May we get the books from our American families?” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

In America the white men are thinking ‘I won’t touch a black woman but I could maybe do Halle Berry.’ Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Right where his favorite thinking spot used to be. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She couldn't stop thinking about what he had said. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

But my hesitancy only triggered something in Czerny that I will forever associate with New Yorkers—an instinctive and immediate push back against thinking small. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t thinking clearly, the grooves in the concrete were moving in and out of focus, but I knew enough to know that my body wasn’t being hit anymore. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I keep thinking, but I cannot make them come out right. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He felt spied upon, and ashamed of what he had been thinking, as though it had all been spoken out loud, in the dark church. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I remember thinking of mathematics as a kind of omnipotent protector. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke: Yeah, well, I was thinking about, maybe, going. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

And then I start thinking about what not breathing sounds like. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He shivered while thinking his way through this. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

"Marry me, bright light, and sail the ship of my heart. I cannot sleep at night for thinking of your beauty." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Weese always knew you were there, and what you were doing, and sometimes what you were thinking. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When he looks again he studies the face more closely, still thinking that perhaps it’s a mistake, that a tap on his father’s shoulder will wake him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When something bothers me a lot I keep thinking about it, like I’m replaying a tape over and over. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

‘It means I am very good at thinking about facts and how things work and the doctors say I am at the high-functioning end of the spectrum.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should almost be done with school and thinking about a career, or maybe even university. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Pet angled its head, and she could almost see it thinking, matching, measuring. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

After Papa had left, I started thinking, “He doesn’t even talk to me like I was a boy any more. He talks to me like 1 was a man.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles Wallace looked at Calvin probingly for a mo-ment; then an almost glazed look came into his eyes, and he seemed to be thinking at him. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so scared. My thinking gets all mixed up, and I feel like the whole world is falling on me.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I recall looking around at my fellow inmates, thinking: Would someone, anyone, just shout out the word tired? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

‘Well, Mr. Frodo,’ said Sam, ‘I’ve been having a look round and thinking a bit. There’s nothing on the roads, and we’d best be getting away while there’s a chance. Can you manage it?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the morning as I walked the halls, amid my hecklers, I couldn’t stop thinking about what it would be like to feel as though I were in charge of myself. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I talked inside my head all the way home, thinking up schemes, holding conversations with Bando and Dad and Matt Spell. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t particularly imaginative in how I thought about the future, which is another way of saying I was already thinking about law school. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Can you see how the Huangs almost washed their thinking into my skin? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had also started thinking about death, wondering what it felt like. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He kept replaying the accident, thinking about the two dead men and their families, worrying what might happen next. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Pretty much. Transporters respond to the intention of the traveler. I sure wasn’t thinking about this place—were you?” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

They’d traveled all this way without thinking very hard about the task ahead of them. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I was thinking of how and what to say when I fell asleep. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I'd been thinking how Gypsies wanted the rest of us to be gross, so the grossness of what they're not acts as a stencil for what they are. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Interestingly, there is often an affective connection between music and the emotions, and musical intelligence may share common thinking processes with mathematical intelligence. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

We two black boys, each working for ten dollars a week, stood staring at each other, thinking, comparing the motives of the absent white man, each asking himself if he could believe the other. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am sad thinking I have finally replaced the other red dress that the soldier burned. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ovid is as always thinking of his audience. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shook my head and rubbed my eyes, thinking I might be dreaming, so I pinched myself and looked at the windowsill. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The whole time Lee Lee is talking, I am thinking about York and Sacagawea, wondering how they must have felt having a form of freedom but no real power. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His thinking had changed during the time he was at the lake. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I start thinking about ways I would make her shut up. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She fastened on this question with enthusiasm, all the time aware of something she was not thinking. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

‘Imagine it please. This human bean who says he is fifty has been fast asleep for twenty years and is not even knowing where he is! Not even doing anything! Not even thinking!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t call it because I was thinking about Zoey and what she may have said when she found out what I’d said about her. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He should be thinking about the job, the money, getting out from under his debt, making sure his father didn’t suffer for his antics. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I’m ticked off that he even got me thinking about such nonsense as Broadway. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee was thinking: we must continue the assault. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My palms start to sweat thinking about the one last year, where I played the piano and then sang my first solo. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He set his teeth and tried to stop his mind from thinking, and he struggled on. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

That house was, as Bilbo had long ago reported, ‘a perfect house, whether you like food or sleep or story-telling or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all’. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He started past her into the house; then, without thinking, and without looking at her, he offered: “If you ain’t got nobody waiting for you I’ll walk you a piece on your way home.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I went on thinking for a few seconds, then said: “Tommy, think back carefully. You said she got angry...” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been thinking of the man ever since he had left his room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

No one disturbed her, and she used to lie there on Beth’s little red pillow, planning stories, dreaming dreams, or thinking tender thoughts of the sister who never seemed far away. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I draw them without thinking—flight, flight, feather, wing. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

As hard as I want to not think about the nightmare, here I am, lying in bed and thinking about it. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

One theory is that our brains evolved because our primate ancestors began to engage in more sophisticated food gathering: instead of just eating grasses and leaves they began eating fruit, which takes more thinking power. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All this time, there I was thinking you were dying a the cancer or sick in the head. Poor Miss Celia, all day long.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And I am thinking how I don’t have anything new in that notebook for him. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I pinched my way around the pies with my good thumb, and they did look better, although no one would be fooled into thinking they were Viola’s handiwork. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Not with them looking at us like that and thinking we were useless because we were so young. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

As the addict’s new image of himself builds, inevitably he begins thinking that he can break the habit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look away, wondering if everyone in town will be thinking the same thing. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Richard didn’t understand why his family was gasping, thinking that it was because of the slight to his new fiancée. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I was just thinking . . .” She tries to make up something. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, they were fools for thinking that they could tame her! Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I am thinking that there is no way we are not going to win this thing. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dad walked away cursing, exasperated, but probably thinking that Shawn would get tired and go back to being foreman before supper. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Up to now he had been thinking only in temporary terms. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, I was afraid he’d begin thinking about something so ridiculous as soon as he saw this week’s Saturday Evening Post. I hope you succeeded in showing him what an atrocious idea it is.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Even if I hadn’t seen Bas in months, wouldn’t I still be thinking of him every day, mentally tracing his name on everything I saw? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

What he wasn’t thinking about in this moment was Michael Jackson, or the red truck, for a change. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In our hooded parkas, we roll like logs down the cold, wet snow, thinking the next thing to touch us will be the hard rubber of a car tire. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’m spending too much time thinking about Sahil when I need to be thinking about his brother instead. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I keep thinking I must of done sumpin’ made them think . Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I know what I know when I look at you mooning around and shaving taters down to nubs. Who else could you be thinking of?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody, a third party, agreed the fishing had gone sour, the bank seemed all dried up real sudden, he’d been thinking on fishing at Elliot Head, couldn’t tell but maybe things was better there. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her family forgot about her, her best friend betrayed her, her crush...well...she wasn’t exactly sure what June was thinking, but based on her silence and tears, it couldn’t be anything good. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I bet she’s thinking she made a big mistake assigning me to that event. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Be sure you thank your ma and pa, Elijah. Tell your ma I ’predate her thinking ’bout me. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I keep thinking and staring, and then I notice something new. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He was outside of his family now, over and beyond them; they were incapable of even thinking that he had done such a deed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Not saying what I might or might not be thinking, bro.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

To people accustomed to thinking of maize in terms of dark or light yellow kernels of corn on the cob, the variety in Mexican maize is startling. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But when I woke up this morning, I found myself thinking about what Ms. Singh said when I asked her for advice about writing. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking about what had happened that morning. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Landry News used to be something Cara did completely on her own, something with a single voice and a single vision, an extension of her own thinking and her own two hands. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

What you’re doing now is listening to me, in the parlor of your mind, but also speaking to yourself, thinking about the parts of me you like or the parts that aren’t funny enough. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I fell asleep thinking what the line might mean. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

My clue to the Jew’s question and challenges is that among all other ethnic groups, his expressed thinking, his expressed concerns, are the most subjective. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lay smoldering in my bag for the next couple of hours really thinking that if I can get out of this tree, I won't have the least problem taking out my new neighbor. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But somehow, even fifty years later, I keep thinking that there might have been another way, beside war, to achieve the same end. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve always been good at not thinking about the things that are really troubling me. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When I don’t, I’m thinking about him out in the rain all afternoon, head on his paws, watching our door. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew Julie was thinking the same thing, but she also knew not to say so. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Royal Brougham’s interest in what Al Ulbrickson was thinking was far from casual—much more than just a desire to fill out his daily column with yet another terse Ulbrickson quote. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure we can find it easily enough,” Reynie said, but privately he was thinking about Sticky’s words—“half the night.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

All night, I lay awake thinking about it, turning it over and over in my mind. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We kids usually kept our hunger to ourselves, but we were always thinking of food and how to get our hands on it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I must stop thinking about the impossible and solve the problem of what to do now. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only, thinking about it, he did fool me, didn’t he? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes even I questioned this path I’d chosen, but I had to shift my thinking and convince myself that the struggles I was experiencing served a purpose. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Good thinking,” I say, noting how different this kid is now than the Kelton I met at the beach. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was thinking out his first touch for her—a kiss, one hand to her long, soft hair, the other to her waist—when a thundering roar filled his ears. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We both knew what she was thinking, but I don’t think either of us was ready to say it out loud. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu ate her food slowly, thinking how much she wanted to remain there with them, in their rapture, forever. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I prowl around to the servants’ entrance, thinking to leave the oil in the kitchen. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He moved backward to the gate, thinking he’d better run away. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After decades of neglect, I find myself thinking about departed great- aunts and -uncles, long-lost grandfathers, unknown fifth cousins, or, in the case of an inbred family like mine, all those things in one. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He tried to think of O’Brien, for whom, or to whom, the diary was written, but instead he began thinking of the thing that would happen to him after the Thought Police took him away. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I won’t, Ma,” I said, and went ahead anyway thinking that man could live by tennis alone. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And well I was thinking why would I do that? The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

But Lawrence was thinking about 100 million or even 200 million volts, not Chadwick’s mere 60 million or 70 million. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I was thinking that it was all very complicated and would only get more so. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I’d spent most of the bus ride home thinking about jellyfish. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

If she suspected this, she would have shut up tight, and been more prickly than ever, fortunately she wasn’t thinking about herself, so when the time came, down she dropped. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every waking minute that we are in the presence of someone, we come up with a constant stream of predictions and inferences about what that person is thinking and feeling. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking about Char and wishing to talk to him. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Father was different—always in the background, drawing, planning, thinking. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When Yakov knocked, I opened the door, thinking it was them. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I would treat myself to a glass of Coca-Cola while thinking what to do with my prize. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Time to go to school and stop thinking. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

An aspiring writer could be forgiven for thinking that learning to write is like negotiating an obstacle course in boot camp, with a sergeant barking at you for every errant footfall. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I wish I could be, but the depression voice is thinking terrible things. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Even in the cave of sleep, without dreaming of it or thinking of it at all, she felt its presence. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, he is a natural athlete, but doesn’t go around talking sports all the time or thinking it is the end of the world if his team doesn’t win. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

That gets me to thinking that Neutral Milk Hotel is going to see me just as surely as I'm going to see them, so I give myself a once-over in the rearview. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

"You been so quiet. You thinking about James?" The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he went back to his job as an examiner third class, but of course he kept thinking. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t stop thinking about it or talking about it. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Without even thinking, I blurt, “Yes! Of course! Anything!” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Stop thinking about Nick, stop thinking about Garrett, and definitely stop thinking about if it's a cliché to kiss on prom night.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

So thinking, he sat down upon a chalk boulder in the fire's light, and he tugged at his boot. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m thinking about doing something scientific for the talent show.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I gasped, thinking I broke it, but when I looked, the sliver of wood revealed a keyhole. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Who threw it at you, anyway?” asked Harry. “/ don’t know. I was just sitting in the U-bend, thinking about death, and it fell right through the top of my head,” said Myrtle, glaring at them. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes if I’m concentrating on my form or my time, I don’t notice that I’ve run past it, but today I’m not thinking about those things. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

But I think I want to go in a different direction for the end footage than what I was originally thinking. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I can’t stop thinking about the way he was that day in the car, about how things felt between us. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely, it must kill old priss face to have to put rave notices—“Excellent” “Good, clear thinking” “Nice Work”— on the papers of someone who so obviously disliked her. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Stop thinking of the worst, Moss told himself as he sat down. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You are small,” my grandfather said, as if he could hear what I was thinking. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I do run into him again, I’m thinking he shouldn’t have any hard feelings. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“You guys disgust me just thinking about something like that.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Had you been thinking about doing something like that for a long time?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she was thinking, The apple don’t fall far from the tree. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

We have the same mass, skill level, patterns of thinking. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The professional people she met in college and now Allen had different ways of thinking about spending and saving money and carrying oneself. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

"Now we come to the most important thing. I've been thinking. I was thinking while we were climbing the mountain." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He looked down at the paralyzed Dolohov, thinking fast as the lock clicked and Ron used the Deluminator to plunge the café into darkness. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Candice had always wondered if her parents had moved into their five-bedroom house thinking they’d have a lot of kids, and if they were disappointed when it ended up being only her. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She herself was wearing a knitted jacket buttoned up to her chin, and when Meggie wasn’t thinking of Mo or Capricorn she wondered whether Elinor might melt away inside it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I keep thinking Mom is going to have a heart attack any minute. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had lots to talk about and enjoyed each other’s thinking. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

On the day they left for Nigeria, she collapsed onto her bed, crying uncontrollably, and thinking: What is wrong with me? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You know what I’ve been thinking? I wonder how much it would cost to hire a private nurse.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Manifest had been a refuge for him and he’d allowed himself to be lulled into thinking that bad things didn’t happen there. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And ever day she say, “Nuh-uh, you ain’t leaving me on this sorry earth without you,” but I tell you, I was sure enough thinking about it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

You’s the worse of ’em all ’cause you tricked me into thinking we was friends, you tricked me into thinking you wasn’t one ’em laughers. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

As I was walking up the stairs to my dad’s old room, and I was looking at the old photographs, I started thinking that there was a time when these weren’t memories. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Dread doused Harry’s jubilation: Ron was saying exactly what he had suspected and feared him to be thinking. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We watched her go, each of us thinking our own private thoughts. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was poor Silky she was thinking of: His chestnut coat dulled with lack of care, burrs stuck in his forelock, he was distrustful of humans, and prone to bite, at least at first.... The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He didn’t mention Anna until we were sitting there in the car park and I was thinking about holding his hand. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kept thinking about one word—forever—and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Some previous fears surface, and I cringe at the idea of her noticing me and thinking that I like to hang around school yards. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Harry did not want to admit that he had not been thinking about the sword at all when he suggested they go to Godric’s Hollow. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe deep down a part of me was always thinking about him. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Your only fault, Isabel, is too much kindness to the undeserving,” I murmur, thinking of her goodness to me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He was thinking that now when he wheeled about at a sudden breath behind him and saw Mrs. Cobb staring. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I should have been thinking of my friend, teetering between this world and whatever comes next, but instead I thought of what I said to Tobias. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“What could your father possibly see in that woman?” said Raymie’s mother, almost as if she knew what Raymie was thinking. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what I was thinking, but when Henrietta looked up and glared at me, I grabbed the jam jar and ran for the hose. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

"The joke. You said you were thinking about something else." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking about Flaca, and how it would be the next night when she stayed with me. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“That boy was generous, wasn’t he? The other day, I was looking at this watch he bought me and got to thinking ’bout it.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Glad to hear you say that, Viji. I’m happy to see how you have adjusted. But I’ve been thinking about where you need to be.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I wished I could go right on thinking we were having breakfast, paindng signs, and learning our rights. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I... saw,” I say, thinking a the bus. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Then what did you think I was doing in there? I’m pretty sure whatever you were thinking was terrible. But you want me to believe you’re really a nice guy.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He even made noise when he was thinking. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been thinking of Wells as the interloper, busting in on my Mom brunch with his tiny ears and his Daughtry love. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Some people don't know it, but the catcher has to do a lot of thinking. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shouldn’t I be happy, contented and glad, except when I’m thinking of Hanneli and those suffering along with her? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Just when I'm thinking that maybe this won't be so bad as long as I can lie down in a bed, I notice how dark the town is. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

You had to be walking, be moving, be thinking. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what I was thinking,” Sovoy said suddenly, getting to his feet. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking about my mother and what she wrote to me. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I said, even though, thinking about it, I knew that wasn’t true. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I could tell she started thinking that maybe this wasn’t about Mr. Tushman getting fired, after all. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

If thinking were enough to engender the new science it would have begun not with Galileo but with the fourteenth-century philosopher Nicholas Oresme. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But every now and then, when I steal a glance at the Girl, or feel her eyes on me, I helplessly drift back to thinking about her. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I asked if he was engaged or had any special girlfriend, thinking maybe that's what was the matter, but he said no, he made a point of keeping clear of such attachments. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I shouldn’t be thinking about his body; I should be thinking about him. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I told Granny that I planned to make some money by selling papers and she agreed, thinking that at last I was becoming a serious, right-thinking boy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night at home, he’d picked up his guitar and leaned back in his living-room chair, thinking and dreaming. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

As he ran down the boardwalk to the deep swim he was already thinking about the annoyance of having to make the passage back to the Orleans with one hand above water. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s kinda what I had already been thinking, but I said, “What do you mean?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has gone on to a new and different life, and in thinking longingly of the past, he has been giving thought and interest to something that no longer really exists. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We hardly have enough for ourselves, and you throw our food to the dogs. What can you be thinking of?” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

One might be forgiven for thinking that it is Temple and Swift, the critics of modern science, who live in a disenchanted world, not Wotton, its advocate. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“You can wear my white shirt and tie,” I said happily, thinking that he was giving in. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

But I'm thinking of those three kids hanging on to Cecelia when they took her away. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the midst of the happy, talkative commotion, I remember thinking, This is so my scene. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

For some strange reason, I found myself thinking about Hoover Dam, and the odd mortal girl I’d run into there, Rachel Elizabeth Dare. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The wax was thin and cold, and I flipped it over and over in my hand, thinking. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When you are circling your opponent, probing his strengths and weaknesses, you are not thinking about his color or social status. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Judging from the footage, people don’t even know what had hit them—and even if they had, the code will stop them from thinking about it now. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see his face, but I knew what he was thinking. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, without even thinking, I put the caterpillar in my mouth. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then, Hanako had leaned against her family, thinking not about them or where they were going but about her cat, Sadie, whom they would be leaving with a neighbor. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I waved to them and they waved in return, some better than others, and I felt a little more relaxed thinking they were nice. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I were you, I’d start thinking about pains in my gut.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He tried to object when the roaches gave their food to Boots, thinking he would share his own. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And so, even though I was scared of the hawk-chicken and Ms. Griegson, and I was still riding my bike as fast as I could to keep up with Chris, I started thinking. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I noted the fact without thinking anything of it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a towel from the bathroom, wrapped it around myself like a cape, and flopped into a chair at the kitchen table, thinking about what Officer Parrelli had said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking I had slept and was awaking after dreaming of a tiger. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Nazis must have been thinking the same thing. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the way, what is it with Ethiopians thinking they are not that black? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Just thinking about saying the words out loud made me nervous. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Tata Price, white men have brought us many programs to improve our thinking,” he said. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He placed her on his shoulders so that she could grasp at a cashew leaf above and then put her down, thinking how tiny, how light, she was for a six-year-old. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But then I couldn’t help turning back to see what Grandma was thinking. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

What the heck had she been thinking, wasting Mamma and Papa’s money, coming out here on basically a whim and a wish to meet Jenny Lindt? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He had asked Nephew to wait, thinking he would survey the area quickly and come back later on his own. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isaac because he always knew by a sort of navigational instinct where Edmond was and what he was thinking, in case it wasn’t totally obvious anyway just by looking at us. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The man said uneasily, “Not thinking he had a need for it, I gave it to my dogs. I do beg your pardon.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know whether she was saying what she believed or was just trying to keep me from thinking that my father was dead. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking about what Seanie had said—about why I didn’t just get it over with and kiss her. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He went to work early on Saturday, glad to be doing physical labor so he wouldn’t drive himself crazy thinking about the concert and Tatiana. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Without even thinking, I dive fully into the linen closet, squeezing myself next to the laundry hamper, Rolf’s rumpled uniform clutched in my fists. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was a good plan, but when we got there, I couldn’t stop thinking about what I had seen. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He tilted his chin down and appeared to be thinking very hard about the gravel at his feet. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Flora felt cheered up all of a sudden, just thinking about eating seal blubber and doing impossible things, surviving when the odds were against her and her squirrel. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Harry could tell that Uncle Vernon was thinking it over, even if his teeth were bared and a vein was throbbing in his temple. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I have no idea what he was thinking, but I thought back to all our chess games. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

One morning she poured the contents of an inkwell over the boy's head thinking that it was rose water. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

And now, without thinking, I find myself looking directly into my house, and 1 can’t look away. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mean hunger like you’re thinking of it,” he had told her. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Fog clears from my head a little and I’m thinking it was really stupid to keep throwing the harpoon even when the fish were out of range. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

On account of Independence I’d been thinking more about money than ever before in my life, aside from story problems for sixth-grade math. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kind of joke that makes you laugh the same way two years later, just thinking of it. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Any merchant who advertises ‘Honest Scales’ must have been thinking about weighting them,” she says. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was thinking, It’s the bus driver’s job to ask, and to ask politely. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Nhamo shook her head to keep from thinking about the village. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I don’t think that we spend a lot of time thinking about the importance of these kinds of people. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody would play with me, except my cousins on occasion, so I would often sit alone on the stoop of our hut, thinking. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t afford to indulge in that kind of thinking. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I was thinking of running away from home and joining my friends in the junkyard. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she felt terrible for thinking that about someone who had only ever been nice to her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Jennifer stared at the glowing candles, probably thinking of all the wishes that had been made there. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Despite the encroaching darkness and my pessimism about the government’s policies, I was thinking about the future. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the same thing I was thinking. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m thinking you can do just about anything if you want to.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

As time went by, I found myself thinking of Dad more and more, and I was troubled. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The truth is, she’s been thinking about killing herself on and off for years. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They’re probably thinking I won’t be able to relate to their grandson, that I might even be a liability for him in the new neighborhood, and I completely agree. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Jean,” she whispered, “I can’t picture anything anymore. All I keep thinking about is my father. Alone in Shanghai.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Junie, I’m so sorry that I was only thinking about what I was feeling and how angry I was, and I didn’t even see that you were hurting. I was such a bad friend.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He cannot understand how the white man can show the most demeaning aspects of his nature and at the same time delude himself into thinking he is inherently superior. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slung my travelsack over my shoulder and looked around one last time, thinking that perhaps it would be best if I left without any troublesome good-byes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It came down to two lines of thinking. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I’d never felt nervous around Paul, and suddenly, just thinking about him made me sweat. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Percy charged straight into it faster than Jason could yell, Dude, what are you thinking? Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When people saw her lively and impulsive spirit, they thought her name, which meant quick thinking, suited her well. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I was already thinking and feeling like a criminal, distrusting everybody. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I worked, my mind wandered and I started thinking about Marcus. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It cracks me up just thinking about it. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Everybody’s head down, working and breathing and thinking their thoughts and helping the people around ’em. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was suddenly silent, thinking of his mother. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever it was, she probably wasn’t thinking that one of her stories had finally come true—a well had eaten her grandson. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I just keep thinking . . . that in some way I belong here. Like maybe this place can be home.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“He seems so sincere,” Bobby later remembered thinking. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t stop thinking about the tiny birds strewn in the grass. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I’m thinking of wearing sandals more and combing my hair into a bun. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I wished I would stop thinking about these things. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I felt stupid and selfish for thinking about my birthday party when so much was happening. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Today I woke up thinking about Kazi and followed the smells of breakfast into the kitchen. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He put his hand upon her shoulder, pressing it just softly enough to let her know that he was thinking about her. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was just thinking how odd it was that there was no one else in the woods when she felt a shaking on the ground and heard hoofbeats in the distance. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She said nothing; she was thinking how to get to see him, how to get him out. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I stayed awake, hands crossed on my chest, staring into the starlit night through the broken window, and thinking that maybe what people said about Afghanistan was true. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was probably thinking to himself, Whoa, that dude can get up! Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I thought back on how naive I’d been just hours before, thinking jail wasn’t so bad and I could handle it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Who cared if your product got twelve-year-olds and grandmothers and preachers so addicted that they stopped thinking about anything except their next hit? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

And even if they weren't, I could feel them thinking about it. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps I was looking at the small bird and thinking of him. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I hope you're not thinking of going down to that protest." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Wow...I just...wow. I know I keep saying this, but you two are really something amazing. I keep thinking of all the things you could do—how much help you’ll be to us. Incredible.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I knew we were going, even after she poured a second cup of coffee and stifled a yawn like she was thinking of bed. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Eleanor had spent so much time thinking about what it would be like to finally come home and how much she missed everybody—she thought they'd throw her a ticker tape parade. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He left off thinking and let his body do the work. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m thinking of giving it up,” she said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“No one ever asks me these questions. I like that you ask. Most people just assume they know what I’m thinking.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

As I finished the bed, thinking it looked surprisingly comfortable, a terrible black feeling came over me and I shuddered, aching at the sudden loneliness. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Now you have your thinking cap on, Naheed,” her mother said. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“From the white school! What were you thinking bringing her here?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was thinking about something Edward had said, about the red-haired female at Charlie’s house, at the school, where my records would be. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In math I spent the entire time thinking about how Momly's arm was probably at an obtuse angle when it broke. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I realized that he was still thinking about his milkshake. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They kept on thinking they saw things, and there was one time: when Polly was perfectly certain she had seen a tail, dark figure gliding quickly away in a westerly direction. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

She thought, I wonder what Mum's thinking right now. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I remember thinking that I would have enjoyed flying in space with Colonel Belyaev, despite the fact that our two countries were not friendly in 1967. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, so you were thinking the same thing? No matter. I never really look past my eyes. That way I always feel pretty. Windows of the soul, you know.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead he spent the night thinking of all the things that could go wrong just trying to get the dead bird out of the house. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I kept thinking about you inside the Osprey. Whether you would get used to it. Stop worrying about the rats.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was just thinking of the one Sing Sing story I’d heard at the Academy that had really stuck with me. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those emails—those letters—were the one place Henry could say what he was really thinking. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Just thinking about JT in his underwear made my heart beat way too fast. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep thinking of Olga’s underwear, the hotel key, and that strange smirk on her face when she died. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

"Willow doesn't want to have a session today. But we were thinking maybe we would all go for ice cream. Chocolate-dipped cones would be nice." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Instruments are prostheses for thinking, and act as agents of change. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the old man said exactly what he was thinking. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But above all she was thinking of the children. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I’m thinking that maybe there could be if I wanted it bad enough. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colonel Catchart grew awfully depressed for a moment as he wondered what Milo was really thinking, and whether he had already got a black eye with him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

"When I was waiting for my parents at the airport, I kept thinking of something I wanted to ask you." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And then The Mac stops talking and drifts off, staring out your window and you’re left wide awake, thinking of all your broken pieces. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A year before the accident, when Mother had first heard of muscle testing and energy work, she’d dismissed both as wishful thinking. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Foragers usually didn’t waste much time thinking about next month or next summer. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I seen her do that, I know what she thinking. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know what to say. In the end, she actually asked. She said: ‘Tommy, what are you thinking?’ Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began thinking about my own education again. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

After a whole day of wrangling the babies and thinking disgruntled thoughts about those pennies, I launched a new campaign at dinner that night. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I shrugged, dried my hands on the dish towel and followed him, thinking if maybe I was in trouble and what for. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

"So now I know where I am," I said, "and with whom —" "Don't twist my meaning. For all of us, the committee does the thinking. For all of us. And you were hired to talk." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the rest of my life I’d be sick thinking on what might have been. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He ran his finger along his nose like he always did when he was thinking of something he probably shouldn’t have been thinking of. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I go by King,” I tell him without thinking much about it. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The witches were thinking of nothing except The Grand High Witch up there on the platform and her great plan for wiping out all the children of England. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

She was thinking furiously, trying to see if there was a trap in this, or danger. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Of course, that's who I was thinking of. It must be the hair," I say. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I laughed again, thinking at first this was more trying-to-get-the-sandwich business. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours and a fixed salary and very little original thinking to do. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, thinking of my own little accident. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I thought about all of this as I painted, and since Jay was quiet, I figured he was thinking of Daddy too. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I listened to the talk and watched the TV and couldn't stop thinking about it. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what I was thinking. The pain is making me addled.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“Are you thinking of how much you’ll miss us when you go home?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“But all the same,” insisted the Savage, “it is natural to believe in God when you’re alone—quite alone, in the night, thinking about death ...” “But people never are alone now,” said Mustapha Mond. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking about what Ainsley said and wondering what a person who excels looks like. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking how, ’bout a year ago, I was fooling around up on the ridge and come across a dead dog. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t try to work out what any of my fellow passengers were thinking but kept concentrating on the order of stops, and at Earl’s Court I got out. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked across the treetops, thinking through his response. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Colin didn't answer, but he was thinking that Lindsey Lee Wells, for all her coolness and whatever, was a bit of a wimp. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Then I started thinking how Papi and Tío Toni might not even have a glimpse of sky and fresh air or a bite of food and all my positive thinking went out the window. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He closed the door and stood again before the furnace, thinking, Cats can’t talk. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Columbus Day,” I said, anxious now, thinking I was going to get some important background information. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I guess Josh doesn't have any trouble not thinking," Park said. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Nathan sang the Change song again and instead of thinking of water solidifying, he thought of it liquefying and transforming into mist. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t really thinking about it, but some-where on the edge of her mind she wanted to be ready for a quick getaway. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t help thinking of the sports connection—like when a team nobody takes seriously comes together for a playoff push. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Adams was on record as thinking that the belief in life everlasting was more important than the thing itself. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Those tennis courts were perfectly fine until that crazy fool from the city went and had them dug up. I mean, come on. What was she thinking?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I knew that he knew exactly what I was thinking. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I knew what I was thinking: The spot is mine. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Brian had once had an English teacher, a guy named Perpich, who was always talking about being positive, thinking positive, staying on top of things. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It took quick thinking to duck that fast.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep thinking about when Al Capone was a baby. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking about how regret begets regret begets regret, and about the cycle I’ve just broken. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was thinking he was definitely going to have to upgrade his craftsmanship if he wanted to sell his feeble-looking creations in the States, but it turns out it wasn’t exporting he had in mind. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

SCORPIUS/HARRY: I know the—Voldemort thing isn’t—true — and—you know—but sometimes, I think I can see my dad thinking: How did I produce this? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

He falls asleep from the worry and soon Malachy drifts off and I lie there thinking of jam. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

My mouth watered thinking about the food as we rode our bikes the few blocks to our once-a-week dinner spot. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“He’s thinking about being a mining engineer,” Dad said doggedly. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Penelope wondered what on earth they could be thinking of. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

What that tuna does, it gives me a whole new way of thinking. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And because Daniel is a great friend, and because Daniel has a very imaginative mind, in the next moment, just as they hit the first stair, Daniel says, “So...I’ve been thinking about Rufflet.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She sat under a tree throughout the following day, thinking about this sad event, when she suddenly heard a bird in the branches above her. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“No, what really happened is she came in here lonely and confused, I think, and thinking that she belonged in a place like this...” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“What I’m thinking right now is that everyone in life needs to have had at least one brilliant, inspiring teacher.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But that’s not fair, Dimple found herself thinking, her temper flaring. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was thinking about the blue jumper and the hair grip. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t thinking about the new president or for that matter the old president, either. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The handsome SS man is thinking again, trying to come up with words. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Let me tell you what I was just thinking, Mama. I was just sitting here praying that we would go to war.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell Twig was thinking, wondering what I wasn’t saying, but she didn’t ask. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My heart beat faster just thinking about all the secrets and mysteries waiting for us inside. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He knew they were thinking of the same thing. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Common sense is just a name for the way we’re used to thinking. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She can tell what I’m thinking just by looking at me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ruth held on through the holidays, but when we were taking down the Christmas tree, she told me that she’d been thinking that the First Presbyterian just wasn’t quite right for us anymore. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Without his thinking, he moved to face the sound or sight, moved to make ready for it, to deal with it. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom would leave early this morning, thinking I’d catch the school bus on my own. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“That is probably what Hero’s father was thinking after the wedding date was set,” she said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then he stares at me long enough for me to wonder what he’s thinking before sending me back to my seat. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I can sometimes make stuff happen just by thinking about it. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He smiled, thinking of Owen again. and Owen said it was one of the few words that sounded just like what it meant. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mina’s determination not to take any part in the discussion set me thinking; and as I could not argue the matter with her, I could only guess. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

If we give chronology the decent respect it is due, it is clear that Madison's thinking began to change before Jefferson returned to the scene. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He set up the deception so that British scouts stopped his horseback couriers and grabbed the fake documents, thinking they were real. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was all unpacked and thinking about packing again when you came.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then Mom asked her, “So where are you thinking of going?” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Something I have been thinking about for a long time. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

With a clear mind and a happy heart, now I could fall asleep thinking about one thing—winning. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And then, thinking of her mother, she saw herself as small, weak, and helpless, and she began to cry, suddenly, crushed as much by outrage as by shock. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gathered brush and made a fire, thinking that I would push it back into the cave. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to successfully ignore those reports and misdirect people into thinking the problem was under control? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He must work inside, Lon observed, but he left the house today without thinking to change his clothes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Without thinking about it, we both walk in the opposite direction. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

This was why Harry spent as much time as possible out of the house, wandering around and thinking about the end of the holidays, where he could see a tiny ray of hope. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

But I knew she wasn’t even thinking about not coming back. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, as if she knew that I was thinking about her, she turned her head. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the minute we find some bread or whatever and scarf it down, we immediately start thinking about the next thing we’re gonna put in our stomachs. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I started thinking that the only thing I wanted to do was go find that red kayak and bring it in. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He gives me a look like he’s thinking the same thing. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Every morning when she took up the house telephone and spoke to me, and I answered “Yes, Mrs. Danvers,” she must be thinking of another voice. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway,” I said, dragging out the word, “I was thinking maybe I could help her out.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure yet,” said Harry, thinking privately that Sloper would be very lucky to get back on the team. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In some of the small towns, people thinking I was with the band even mobbed me for autographs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm thinking about Blue—always Blue—because really, my mind only wanders in one direction. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Closing her eyes tightly, she tried to head it off by thinking of terrible things. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“You know what he’s thinking about?” said Bigwig. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zola and her father and the villagers are watching with their mouths widely open, as if they are thinking, What creatures are these? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

At Dr. Holiday’s office she asked me what I had been thinking about during the week. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Lately Boori Ma had been thinking that the stairs were getting steeper; climbing them felt more like climbing a ladder than a staircase. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

And besides, there’s the Red-Throated Divers to look at and wonder what spectacular thing the mother diver is thinking about showing her kid next. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And then, hardly thinking on it, I whistle. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles was more anxious to strike in deep than Adam was, but then Charles had had the time to think of it, and to Adam it was a new field of thinking and feeling. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d never have guessed how many people spent their lives thinking about jellyfish. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“That wouldn’t be too bad,” said Harry, thinking that he would simply ask Hagrid for a niffler to do the job for him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

If you are thinking I am making this up, read Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter....Don’t let millions of people down who regard you as a genius and an example to themselves. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking about the Square students. They’ll think you go to Harvard. Have you got too proud to attend classes too?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Put it down, old man," I said, thinking, Why am I acting from pride when this is not really me? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to be thinking like that, which of course made it all the more difficult to stop. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Reynie had gone to bed thinking of the people he might one day—if everything turned out all right—consider a part of his family. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Because it meant you were thinking of me, even if only a little bit. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Fought off this assault, thinking all the while coldly, calmly, perhaps now we are approaching the end. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” I answered, “I was thinking for the moment we would be married at home. Naturally I don’t expect a church, or people, or anything like that.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was thinking about something else--something crazy. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I'm not gonna lie, I felt pretty weird thinking about calling my house back in Stockton. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I’ve been so caught up in thinking about what I’m going through that it didn’t even occur to me that Fina might need a friend right now, too. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I've been thinking about Max since I left her on the sidewalk. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I can tell he’s thinking by the way his face is all scrunched up.Finally, he says, “What do your mom and dad say about it?” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I miss telling her about what I’m reading, what I’m thinking, asking her about work, listening to her carry on about Aunt Joan and whatever drama she’s gotten into. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I remember thinking that if I wrote slowly enough, the bell might ring before I could finish. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I’d spent the past two months thinking she was miserable, and it turned out that wasn’t the case at all. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richard thought that maybe I was thinking of managing the team. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m constantly shrinking- The truth of the matter is that Father is thinking of business and profit, of shillings and pence. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Jon had just been thinking that all the meat in the world surrounded them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, mam, I was kind of thinking that maybe she’s with him again, like that time she was in Florida. And maybe she had him to call to see if we knew she was gone. ...” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had started back with my arms filled when I turned to look at the sky, thinking from the feel of the wind that a storm might be close. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to take her up for the night, but she’s thinking about calling it time to go home. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could simply make eye contact, and I’d know exactly what he was thinking. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I’ve been lost in thought, thinking about what these sessions with Kamal are actually supposed to achieve: am I really planning to rifle through his desk drawers if he happens to leave the room? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, without thinking, I grab my napkin, press it against my jawline, and cringe in pain. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I say, thinking for a second of all those men who disappeared outta Prentisstown, all the ones who vanished while I was growing up. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

But I simply had to stifle it by imagining what I’d be thinking in twenty years when it would all come down to the same thing anyway. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

"Why, yes, it is," the minister says, and winks as if he knows what I'm thinking. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I probably imagined her or maybe I just dreamed of her and my memory is all mixed up, but I couldn’t stop thinking about it. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry for thinking that you...you know.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know why I was supposed to write everything, but I could tell she liked thinking I was a writer, so I decided to be one. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was thinking, I hope I’m never in a job where I have to lie like that. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“The other day old man Ku’oosh came to the house. He told your grandma what some of the old men are thinking. They think you better get help pretty soon.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

As if Max has sensed what I'm thinking, she zips up her backpack. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I started thinking that if I burned the house, he would lose all his money. He ought to lose it. It’s all he ever thinks about.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And seeing the garden in this forgotten condition reminded me of something I once read in a fortune cookie: When a husband stops paying attention to the garden, he’s thinking of pulling up roots. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” I said, and was thinking about the pie so much I didn't hear another word the girl said about Amish cooking secrets. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that didn’t go well, since I was afraid of thinking. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking about what I had done. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“This sphere, if it’s made by the guy I’m thinking of...” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And he was thinking about Lina, whom he hadn’t seen for several days. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I remember thinking, Okay, I’ll start with their hair, make it fall out strand by strand. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lights are out at Freak's house, and I'm thinking: The stars clicked off and I don't even know why I'm thinking that, it's like a dead voice in my head or something. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

But he leaped sideways, thinking that it was all a fine new entertainment. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

And I was so busy thinking about how ridiculous it is to have a basket of leaves in a bathroom that I said, “No.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

So when Savery built a model he would have been misled into thinking he had made a breakthrough. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Shirley’s talking so much she’s barely eating, and I’m thinking how cold her eggs, bacon, and cheesy grits are going to be. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I said, thinking of how I had often bested Laertes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want people thinking that’s who I am,” I say to Supreme. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I told myself to put the book back on the shelf, to go back to my homework and stop thinking about the miracle orchids. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Go down very slowly, she told herself over and over, not thinking of more than the steps which seemed almost to bend and buckle beneath her feet, go down very very very slowly. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since Kim Bazemore kissed him in Sunday school, he’s been acting all religious, thinking less and less about basketball, and more and more about GIRLS. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

I sank down into the bedcovers, thinking and thinking and occasionally reading a couple of pages of Anne of Green Gables, to help put me in a writing mood. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I had to set aside thinking about Bianca and keep us going forward, the way Thalia was doing. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I wish I knew, because now I’m thinking the worst. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“So you never met anyone you wanted?” he asked in a serious tone that made me wonder what he was thinking about. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She scrambled up in alarm, thinking it was her stepmother. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not the ha-ha funny but the funny where you be thinking: Huh. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He didn’t like thinking too hard, except about math. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He’d probably been thinking the same thing I was this year: Where am I going to be next year, and what the hell am I going to do with my life? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But nobody could tell what the crocodile would be thinking, as it liked to lurk in the water and show only its eyes and the tips of its nostrils above the surface. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Then, as soon as he said it he braced himself, thinking I would catch feelings, as if I thought he was saying I don't run fast enough, and judging by Saturday, I don't. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Then she came close and said softly, “You aren’t thinking of getting married?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And now I recognize a familiar expression on my father’s face, the expression he wore so often at the dinner table, the faraway look of a man who could never stop thinking about business. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He kept thinking of Ella, their freakishly smart harpy friend from Portland. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I’m so miserable mad, it hurts, but there ain’t nobody to hit or cuss, so all I can do is go home and mope around, thinking of things I’d like to do to Tyler Croft. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer waited, thinking he would see her torn apart, but then she curled her legs under her and she was suddenly aboard, clambering up the side of the train car. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed there even after my arms got tired and my eyes dried up, sitting there and thinking about her until the light got gray. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Go away!” he says, and when I don’t leave, he joins the dog watchers—but I can tell he’s really not watching, he’s thinking about what I said—which is all I wanted. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Soon she starts breathing heavy, and I know she’s knocked out, but I stay up a long time thinking about what she said, about Isaiah Dunn being her hero. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“I think, but with that thinking I still try to justify what I’m going to do. I’m a little stubborn with my thinking.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I’m happy to see that Ellis is as annoyed as I am, but I’m working really hard not to get paranoid about why Ellis said anything about people thinking I’m gay in the first place. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Since when is it the policy of the American government to confiscate the private property of its citizens ? Shame on you I Shame on all of you for even thinking such a horrible thought.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then there'd be no one to tell me what to do—or how to think about things when I was going along thinking the wrong way. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

For the past few weeks, thinking about Akivo had given Barry the feeling—a secret, happy feeling—that maybe he wasn’t really the scared little kid he saw in the bathroom mirror. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not at school—no, what was I thinking? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

No one's reading about the missing kids, though they're probably thinking about us. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“You don’t look Jewish to me,” I said, thinking of Melissa Miller in sixth grade. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“He isn’t thinking very well anymore. It’s a kind of disease in the brain that makes you forget.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I’m not thinking about Aurora Coffee, and I’m not thinking about Blue. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

As Maniac ate and talked and laughed his way through dinner, he couldn’t help thinking of the Beales. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Olanna gently placed a pillow beneath her head and sat thinking about how a single act could reverberate over time and space and leave stains that could never be washed off. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was discovering a new power in himself: he was able to stop thinking things he didn’t want to think. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She was so busy thinking about the one she needed to rescue she didn’t think at all about the one she was leaving behind. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The youngest boy, the one Finn was already thinking of as Other-Finn, was perfectly snaggletoothed, with one adult front tooth partly grown in and one front tooth missing entirely. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Geoffroy’s work appeared in a context where chemists were already trying to escape from alchemical thinking. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Had she been fooling herself all this time, thinking that no one noticed the truth? A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I knew of what he was thinking, and wanted to speak for him, but dared not. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Yolanda tries to distract him by asking what he will buy with his money, what he most craves, thinking that on a subsequent visit, she might bring him his own little antojo. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I get to thinking about Sandy Sanders who, as of this morning, still hasn’t been found. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking, everyone is in such a festive mood, and Leah is just not that far away, in miles. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped thinking, “Why pick on me?” and started thinking, “I am chosen.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m so busy thinking about what I’d do with the million dollars that I don’t notice Angel marching over to our table. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been thinking more about what we talked about the other day. Maybe joining the NAACP, or going South to help next summer.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Jinx gathered up his money and inched his way toward the door, mistakenly thinking he could slip out while the two women argued it out. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I think Mr. Neely has managed to brainwash me with his hashtags and experiments, because I kept thinking about the scientific process during therapy. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

While I am thinking of what to do about the police going after the hungry childrens, I am wondering where are the parents of the childrens? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

But I kept thinking of seeing them together the day before, and besides, Mrs. Winterbottom looked too terrific to have been held captive. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Now it is five in the morning and I am still at the writing desk, thinking over my strange two days. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t stop thinking about the trouble he was in, but he also found himself haunted by The Winter’s Tale. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Now as I study the darkness in the room around me, I’m thinking about lies again. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

All my life, I grew up thinking of the High King and Prince Dain as our unquestioned rulers. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I had forced myself to stop thinking about what I had done to that undercover PSF. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I laughed with the others, thinking: A holy holiday for Clifton. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Crouch could be thinking along those lines,” he said slowly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Cat got on the porch this morning, bout give me a cadillac arrest thinking it was Mister Johnny.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But suddenly I am thinking of Gale and his forty-two names in that big glass ball and how the odds are not in his favor. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then he looked over their heads at me and I looked back at him, and I knew we were both thinking the same thing. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shivered thinking about Lettie, Deputy Collins, and that voice in the marsh. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been thinking. All my old schools had pep rallies for the football team, no matter how badly they played. Could we do something like that for the town?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I just kept looking at her beautiful face and thinking, Man! Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I felt jittery, wondering what she was thinking. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Without thinking, Malcolm darted to the nearest bed against the opposite wall and pulled himself underneath, clutching the blankets and the oilcloth. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I watch it, hands on the edge of the tub, chin on hands, my body dragging downward from this ledge, not thinking about anything. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn’t belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Just thinking about all those people looking at me while I’m up in front of the class has my hands doing their shaking thing. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Every day I kept thinking about what had happened on the river, and I couldn’t seem to get the traction I needed for forward motion. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He was thinking maybe Mr. Munch was trying to be his emotional support dog, except not a dog. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Just big mats of floating plants going by with stilty-legged birds walking around and around on top, every one of them no doubt thinking he’s king of the world. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m thinking about work. Thinking about you now. What’s this about?” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Trunchbull sensed what the child was thinking and she didn't like it. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“If I hadn’t,” he wrote, thinking of Hulbert, “I might not be alive today.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

People are passing by on the street, and they glance at Antonio and his boom box, thinking he’s just some kid blasting music. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a cry of indignation, and everyone began thinking out ways of catching Snowball it he should ever come back. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“I’ve found another job,” I said, without really thinking about it. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Tübingen authorities recommended Kepler, who was rather startled to be offered the post just when he was thinking about starting life as a clergyman. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I thought it was love, but thinking back, lust and love, they seemed awfully close to each other at the time.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I could tell she knew what I was thinking. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Emma almost got distracted thinking about how weird life must be in sixth grade. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He’s got his audience thinking less and less about whether he’s pulling a fast one and more about the marvelous thing they’re about to see. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

And she began to scream, thinking she was now on a journey to Buddhist hell. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever Kasigi was thinking—if he was thinking—I was the one paying the price. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Yes, of course it’s his fault. This whole situation is his fault! Julian, what the heck were you thinking, writing notes like that?” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

But when she told me to be careful, I knew what she was thinking. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s he called?” asked Julius, watching him, thinking what it might be like to be in the tiger’s hide—in his head. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Kaede fell asleep again; the dogs stretched out, content, on either side of them; but Taisin lay awake thinking for a long time. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I’m sketching out some faces, thinking of the perfect color for the hair and eyes, when Hiroshi takes a seat next to me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“What are you thinking?” he asked impatiently after a few moments. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

At first I assumed he was keeping himself awake because he was afraid of nightmares, but then I started thinking that maybe he’d been asleep when they’d come to take his fingers. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She yawned, stretched again, stood up, and walked slowly down the length of the library and back again, thinking as strongly as she could of absolutely nothing. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I watch Lou Anne slip away in the parking lot, thinking, There is so much you don’t know about a person. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As I turned away from the bookstall, I found that, by thinking his name, I had somehow conjured up Falconer, and to my dismay, he was headed directly for us. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

When we first moved to Kilanga, I remember thinking the children must get plenty to eat because their bellies all bulged out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old woman’s own eyes seemed to look into the distance, thinking of the terrible things she had seen and could not heal. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Or maybe he was thinking about strangling me again. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t need to be thinking about it all alone.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one last dash across the desert they had reached the drawbridge—could Merlyn have guessed what he was thinking?—and were staring down into the moat It was the season of water-lilies. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a similar way, writers stop thinking—and thus stop writing— about tangible objects and instead refer to them by the role those objects play in their daily travails. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Well, when I wrote that, I remember thinking that those cliffs they were jumping off, those were the Cliffs of Insanity that everybody tries to climb in The Princess Bride. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Because when you get down to it, thinking of somebody as 100% human seriously gets in the way of hating them. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I turned to meet it almost without thinking, and clubbed it down as it lunged at me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And I, the former mystic, was thinking: Yes, man is stronger, greater than God. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking, “Are we really in hiding?” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He’d been thinking about the accident and about the scene where it happened. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Wait,” I say, thinking, of that morning in the elevator, “does he wear a baseball cap with a fish on it?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Of course, I’d been thinking about it since last Halloween, so I knew right away. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He was probably thinking that what the Englishman almost said was, “Not the usual thing on an American ship.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell they knew what I was thinking. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure when exactly to bring up my brother to Libby, who I assumed was thinking the same thing. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I was especially thinking about my steer, number 534.I knew that on the next day, he was going to be sent to the slaughter-house. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Genie was thinking he could maybe hide under that blue sheet, and he could tel! that Ernie probably wanted to do the same. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He said not to get caught up thinking the play was “too fancy.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Harry looked around, worried, thinking of dementors, then realized that the carols had finished, that the chatter and flurry of churchgoers were fading away as they made their way back into the square. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m not selling anything. I’m thinking of buying and then renting,” Macon answered her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed wrong, like those football players who finally retire and have to face that first Sunday at home, watching on TV, thinking, I could still do that. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was thinking about this tonight, actually, that maybe I want strangers to think I’m cool since people who actually know me don't. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“What I was thinking about was not a mill, but electricity. If I could build that dam up a few feet higher—there’s a good flow of water. It could run a small generator.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Without thinking, he sprinted toward the pond, beat his wings, and flew away. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He paddled off, thinking it was about time to call Kathy. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Without thinking, I rolled to one side and came up kneeling. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he’s thinking: How do these pieces slot together? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“We do need more books for research,” I said to Rose, after thinking on it for a while. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Scythe Curie raised her eyebrows, considering the response, and said, “Acceptable. And thinking of the family is a nice touch—even in a hypothetical.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I played like I was thinking about it for a sec, rubbing on my chin and all that. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Each time he heard the girls talking together he drew himself up straight and laughed carelessly aloud to himself as though thinking of some private joke. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As soon as he heard it, Toby remembered reading something about the Egyptian priests making predictions, but he just hadn’t been thinking about the oracles in connection with the Egypt Game until that moment. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you talk to Stephanie again, let her know I say hi and I’m thinking of her.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Andrew, reacting without thinking, pulled my mom to the passenger side, flipped over her, jumped into the driver’s seat, slammed the car into gear, and raced to the hospital in Linksfield. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Was he thinking the same thing about Papa? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She’s set in her thinking—and that kind of thinking is the reason we have things like the Holocaust in the first place.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

My theory is that it allows blood to pour into the side of the brain you need for whatever bit of thinking it is you have to do. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m so caught up in thinking about Carmetta, I forget to be worried and just run my race. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I would walk to the pink house to use the bathroom and think, My mother sat on this same toilet, and then I would hate myself for thinking it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I probably should have given him a polite reply, but I was thinking about Luke and the other Children’s Home kids who might never be adopted. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“These two I did thinking they were made of metal,” he said. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shouts of agreement arose and I looked behind me, seeing the men who had followed me and thinking, What did he mean, destroyer? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In halls and offices people are sitting around thinking future thoughts about projects and bridges and fast-clicking trains underneath. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was seriously thinking of placing you in the school system, teaching. But, now, I don’t think that you’ll fit.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t tell what he was thinking; I just knew my pulse quickened every time. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Our customers, though, generally were so straight thinking and speaking that they were never hurt by his attacks. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t wanna say what I was really thinking, so I just said, “Yeah. It’s cool.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

We many of us had escaped, and so, upon the town’s falling, we would be conveyed to our former masters—at which thought, my spirits froze, thinking upon Mr. Sharpe and his devices. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He listened with beating heart, thinking that Gebu was coming to punish him for some error, and expecting every second to hear his step on the stair. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Once again the thinking was left to him. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He was thinking about omens, and someone had appeared. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

These people were all stuck in the past, setting up their booths at the art fair and thinking themselves successful because they'd sold a silk screen of a footprint in the sand. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

We sit together in silence, both thinking, until I speak again. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“No. Never. Orpheus came close. . . . Percy, you’re not seriously thinking—” “No,” I lied. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I start thinking I know more Spanish than I thought, because I’ve translated more words in the last hour than I did all last year in Spanish class. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I waved it in circles a while, thinking what I could tell next. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Because unless the tube is on or there's music playing, it's just me, thinking. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the back of my mind I’d been thinking I had saved him and Miss Love from the gossipers. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I lay in bed that night thinking that I ought to get a job after school. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But I found myself thinking carefully now before I said anything to him. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Heading toward the crosstown bus, I passed a liquor store, and without thinking about it, I went in and bought a fifth of gin. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Funny thing was, I was thinking just those thoughts when the dice stopped rolling. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In District 12, we'd all be thinking about bed right now. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She had been thinking about the mystery all night, but she just couldn’t put it together. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t stop thinking about the look on JoJo’s face right before the sharks attacked. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just thinking about the young doctor gave her a feeling of contentment she had not experienced in a long while. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I cried in a woeful voice, thinking of the life within my woman’s body. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I’m reading history notes, thinking, This is nice. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

But all day long, though Jane and Michael had watched her anxiously, she had not seemed to be thinking about it at all. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

But his prose revealed the depth and subtlety of his thinking about how landscape could be modified to produce an effect in the mind. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

That he felt South Africa was not such a bad place after all, and he was thinking of someday building a vacation home here. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weird thing I keep thinking about, what if something happens when I get older and I turn out to be another accident of nature? Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Jubi, honey, I’m so glad Nan called. I was just thinking about you.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

And I kept thinking about that, not just in class, but for the rest of the day—that that's kinda what running was to me. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Actually, I was thinking of trying to get my captain’s license back,” he said matter-of-factly, “so I could guide in the backcountry again.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I can tell. You’ve got a hearty appetite just thinking about it.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

But even thinking that was off base, because there was no comparison. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And what did she mean when she said to Dicey that she knew what Dicey was thinking. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

No way I’m gonna let myself cry or throw up from thinking about that man. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

What was she thinking, trying to mail his treasures to New Jersey? A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Dumbledore!” said Harry without thinking, because it was he whom he yearned to see, and to his surprise the gargoyle slid aside, revealing the spiral staircase behind. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The weirdest thing is that you know that you’re more alone than anyone, but that more people are thinking about you than ever before. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hovered in the doorway, frowning and thinking of swans gliding away in the pond in the park. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if Erin is also looking up at stars tonight, maybe sitting on some roof somewhere, thinking about me. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking this might be a pinkie-swear kind of moment, but I let it pass; I’m outgrowing that baby stuff. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Then Bertha told us about some woman in the grocery store who fainted in the cereal aisle but I wasn’t really listening because I was thinking about Wishbone. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

But it startles me so much that without thinking I blurt out, “I could say the same about you.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

This one day just before school was supposed to start I was moping around the back yard and thinking again how pointless and stupid everything was and Grim comes over and says, ''You know what? Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

If the other kids weren’t fond of having a magician in the Bureau before, I can only guess what they’ll be thinking now. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I had just dozed off after a round of thinking about all that Mom had said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was thinking, Should I run to the water and try to pull him out? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the others were only thinking of how they'd get through and hoping the soldiers would not ask any questions. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

And just like before, on the porch, everything I was thinking and feeling spilled out. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I opened up Gone with the Wind and started to read, but the whole time, I was thinking about Otis, worrying about him not being allowed to play his guitar for people. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course not, Sheriff. Jane is terrible with a rifle. I was thinking more along the lines of the sickle, a weapon designed specifically for the close-combat techniques of an Attendant.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Or maybe he’d try to steal her cells, thinking they might be valuable like her mother’s. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

By the time the party had ended, Dusty wasn’t thinking too clearly. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

So sweet, it’ll give you a cavity just thinking about it. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I’d been thinking the same thing, but looking at my little sister’s worried face, I couldn’t let her know I didn’t like it, either. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Either she was not a bruja, or to their way of thinking, she had powers that belonged to the Devil himself. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone said later she’d gone off into a daydream, but I was pretty sure, as was Ruth, that she was thinking hard about what to say next. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kept thinking about Snowbell and about the way Snowbell’s eyes gleamed. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

And I remember looking at the two of you and seeing you together and thinking how you were really differant with him. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Asta was silent for a few minutes, but he knew she hadn’t gone to sleep; he could feel her thinking. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

That’s what we were talking about but I was really thinking about what Mtisha had said the day before, that I was scared of math. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You sure? Your fans might start thinking you have friends.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

And then for some reason I started thinking about “Something in the Way She Moves,” so I asked, “Is a love song a love song?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Avery was in and out of jail until he turned twenty, when in the midst of a psychotic episode he wandered into a strange house, thinking he was being attacked by demons. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

‘Long time I fell,’ he said at last, slowly, as if thinking back with difficulty. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She seemed to know just what he was thinking, and to be thinking the same herself. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I walked away, thinking furiously about Manet’s advice and what he had let slip in our conversation. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Mama,” he said without thinking, “tell me again about the kids in the Big House.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I'm thinking this place needs a real garden. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I snapped my eyes shut, trying not to imagine what he’d been thinking, huddled up under his red velvet bedspread while we’d been talking and laughing a couple feet away. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking so much about Langston Hughes, I get to my apartment before I know it. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I’m just thinking of an excuse to leave, since she’s not, when Vanessa comes clomping up the steps. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

My grandfather told me Clara fainted the day he put the skin of the animal down as a rug, thinking it would please her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe there could be a ceremony whereby someone like her was taken into the family; just thinking of it made her prickle with happiness. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember thinking two things as I sat by the fire, watching this scene play out. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Smith was thinking that he needed a strong and intuitive jockey for this one. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am thinking she means dishes, until I realize she is talking about Alice’s pig. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I washed one side of my face better than the other, thinking that I might wash away the redness. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m not. Seriously. I was just thinking about something. That’s all.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“He posted this on social media? What was he thinking?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

After Mom pays the bill and we start toward the mall, I am still thinking about what she said about making friends. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He sat on the edge of his four- poster, thinking hard about everything Aragog had said. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

But to Chinese ways of thinking, the guest bedroom is the best bedroom, where she and her husband sleep. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what I’d been intending to do, but when Ruth said this, for some reason, without really thinking about it, I just stepped out of the car. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good hard thinking and good hard work never hurt anybody,” Mr. Trepid would say. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I squirm in my chair, thinking of how to talk to him. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Well, I was kind of thinking it might be nice to take a break from school. After graduation, I mean. Do something different for a while.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Yes okay but I’m thinking of someone your age. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her dad studied a group photo of his beloved Beats for so long Emily wondered what he must be thinking about. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He kept thinking of what Alby had said about the Flare, and what it could mean. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Her stomach felt fluttery again, thinking about how everything about June was pretty, inside and out. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“So, I’ve been thinking a lot about some of the answers you give during discussions. I love it when you share your opinions.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I was thinking about Brett and my mind stopped jumping around and started to go in sort of smooth waves. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Then she said, “You know, I’ve been thinking that it’s time to tell your parents what we’ve been up to. It’s not good that we’ve been lying to them for this long.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I’m a fool for thinking that my little stunt last night would have attracted anything less than a spotlight. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some people started worrying, looking ahead to ripe beans and tomatoes and thinking about strangers coming in. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

OMG, was she thinking of the times Fizz and I used to whisper to each other in prayer when our foreheads were on the ground and we thought no one was watching us? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

"Are you thinking of breaking the law? You'd better tell me." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

You’re living in the moment on a cloud somewhere, not thinking, not considering costs, effects, consequences. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Every time I try to sleep I start thinking about horrible things. Seeing Freddy. The cops and divers who kept pushing Bridget and my mom away. Reporters.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Riccio had finished and was looking at him apprehensively, but Scipio was quiet, thinking. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t waste time thinking about the future until the night the sluggers abducted me and told me the world was going to end. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I looked over to him and Guzzo as if reading their faces might tell me what they were thinking, or whether Guzzo had said anything. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was irrational, and Colin hated thinking irrationally, but he couldn't help but wonder whether perhaps being in the presence of the Archduke might reveal something to Colin about his missing piece. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

"Was that the summer we spent in Beirut or, no, I'm thinking of the time we sailed from Cyprus and took the Orient Express to Istanbul." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He crawled back to his house a few hours later, thinking that he didn't mind at all anymore, having to hide. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m thinking this paper is full of bad news. I’m thinking of flipping to the funnies for a change.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Just what I was thinking. They make for the dæmon, don’t they? And our dæmons are long gone. It’s worth a try, Lee.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Not many,” I say, thinking of the lazy, hateful look Cardan gave me by torchlight in the hedge maze. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He smoked in silence, thinking of nothing, and listening to the sound of the wind that brought the scent of the desert. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, caught in his eternal dilemma, Bernabe started thinking about how people always tried to kid each other. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Or thinking of it? All your folk should have been inside Udûn before yesterday evening. You know that. Up you get and fall in, or I’ll have your numbers and report you.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Ummmmm,” Mark replied, rubbing his chin as if he were thinking hard about it.Then he snapped his fingers.“Oh, The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

You get butterflies in your stomach and you can’t stop thinking about the other person. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And yet—thinking on what he said—I asked myself if I were to live by questions, what questions would they be? Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing, really,” I say. ^t was just thinking, I’m surprised the factionless agreed to work with Dauntless so easily. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It wipes the smile off my face, though, thinking about those conversations. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped thinking about fresh, cool air; I just wanted to breathe and not be crushed. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was only thinking of Sticky to take his mind off himself, for the prospect of groping about in the darkness intimidated him more than he cared to admit. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The central cavity of the massive room is so stark and white, I blink hard, thinking I must be in the wrong place. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I lift my weapon, focusing on Miss Duncan and trying to decide if she is indeed a revenant instead of thinking about the deep burning in my poor scrawny arms. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But I was still biting my lip so hard, thinking about eggs and birthdays and allergies and not crying, and I didn’t think about it. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Although I wanted to draw comfort from my room, from my bed, from the light breeze coming through my window, I kept thinking instead of Father and getting dressed. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But then he couldn’t stop thinking about it. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There was almost no one around but the people on the other courts, and they were thinking only of their games. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Just thinking about what the Doctorita will do when she sees the drawer makes me shudder. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

You're thinking, yeah right, the goon is barely out of seventh grade, who does he think he is? Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I say, thinking Muhammad would get so excited if Mom joined something with Saint Sarah’s mom. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I wonder what I was thinking, believing myself clever enough to be a spy in Faerieland. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Even thinking of how far I've come, into a city that terrified my mother, doesn't help me right now. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I trudged through the next day barefoot, cloakless, and thinking grim thoughts about my life. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Surround him!” the king yelled, “Save the horses!”— and suddenly I knew I was dealing with no dull mechanical bull but with thinking creatures, pattern makers, the most dangerous things I’d ever met. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first is that truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

An Erudite woman comes out of a stall, and I scramble to my feet, draw the stunner, and point it at her, all without thinking. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I kept my mind busy with thinking about how one day I could help to turn the tables on them with bitter revenge.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Lorne one day sent them to the butcher for stew meat, and they, thinking it was an errand a cat might enjoy, carried her with them. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t stop thinking about the bizarre incidents at the Mother Paula’s property. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No . . . well . . . the rest of the world isn’t like the clinic. Other places, people stare. Or they huriy away, and I know what they’re thinking. ‘ Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking I could show you how to carve a sculpture.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That was just me thinking crazy one day. I don’t even know why I just said that.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat propped against a tree, watching the red sentries passing to and fro in the firelight, hearing their quiet passwords and thinking about the excitements of the day. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But...maybe I imagined it....I wasn’t thinking straight....I passed out right afterward....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I would say that the whole life of any thinking African in this country drives him continuously to a conflict between his conscience on the one hand and the law on the other. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

You know, she never would have dreamed I was even thinking about her. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would all be isolated from each other, each thinking it was alone. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He’s even thinking about redoing old paintings, such as The Potato Eaters, and, if Theo likes, one of the old church tower at Nuenen, The Peasants Churchyard’ He thinks he can make something better now. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I gave Herbert one last long hug, but I was thinking about what he'd said. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“You can see your character in your face,” I say to my daughter without thinking. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, he couldn’t help thinking that Octavian looked like a watered-down, unhealthy version of Will Solace - like a photo that had been copied too many times. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Watching the little girl wash up, Jinny couldn’t help thinking about how absolutely new she was to all this. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Oh, maybe I’m just thinking up trouble, I told myself. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is where I went from thinking about becoming a writer, to writing. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I shake my head, thinking about Yule May in jail, and Miss Skeeter without any friends left. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

All my life I had done what I was told to do without question, without thinking about the right or the wrong of it. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Or maybe I’m thinking of homecoming. I don’t know. Oh, here we go.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I laugh at this, thinking it’s funny—whether it’s true or not. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I guess not,” Stella said, thinking back to what Mama had said about her grandmother not sleeping for twenty years. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking of the race-off today, and the Relays Friday. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I was staring at him that night, and staring into a cold cup of tea, thinking. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

George will never get to reunite with his sister, and she died thinking he had been murdered by Jeanine. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I’m really much too busy to be writing such a letter today, but I know you are probably thinking of me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“They made me think and thinking’s made me scared a little. . . .” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking of an Ohio Star,” I said. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It sounds like Mustafa has been thinking about what to say. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Even Lyell, who did not agree with everything Charles was thinking, urged him to publish something about his theory of natural selection. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I breathe in the salty air—thinking of the first deep breath thousands of immigrants once took as they sailed into New York Harbor, dreaming. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She cursed her aunt and uncle—what could they have been thinking of to bring the child here? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

So the helicopter might be some use, Kyril Montana was thinking, as he climbed slowly through the trees. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is beyond my conjure, I’m thinking. I’ll try, though. Just not here. I need Old Familiar for this. Let’s go.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

At the same time, he was thinking, calculating. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I take a look at the screen, thinking it has to be Elsie. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It’s the kind of smile you smile when you’re thinking someone over and trying to decide how you feel about them. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I was thinking about the word handle, and all the unholdable things that get handled. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

And just as there was a cleanness about his body, so there was a cleanness in his thinking. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ramo was not on the trail I was traveling and, thinking that he might be coming back out of sight along the other one, I called to him as I ran. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard him creep up the stairs and then I started thinking all over again. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As a boy I was occupied with the gods and sacrifices, as a youth with asceticism, with thinking and meditation. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have been thinking about Jess all day, unable to focus on anything but what I saw this morning. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was when I and a lot of other students really started thinking about prejudice and racism. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

When Jacqueline and I stepped out into the yard to wait for the burning, I raised my head toward the sun thinking, One day I may just see my mother there. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I knew he was kidding, but I hugged him from behind anyway, just thinking about it. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Without even thinking about it, I grabbed his hand and closely inspected the red part. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Caroline was such a quiet person it was hard sometimes to know what she was thinking. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Beats me. I haven’t had time to think about it. There’s a difference between remembering and thinking, at least for me.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

And he did nothing except lie awake in the dark, thinking of her body there in the funeral home, not her anymore, but a thing suddenly, cold and pale. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But taking a break and thinking things out makes sense. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Anyone who is thinking about committing suicide is weak, and when you tell someone you are thinking about killing yourself, you most certainly are broken,” Diana said. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Spassky gaped for about ten seconds, thinking about what to do, and finally sat down. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was thinking of her mother and wondering who might disappear this time. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Well, my brother’s an idiot,” I responded reasonably and, to my way of thinking, objectively. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I swallowed hard, thinking of the letter that had come. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

For the first time since the crash his mind started to work, his brain triggered and he began thinking. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost without thinking, Jess grabbed hold of the twins, gripping their arms with all her might. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

“When will you learn to keep quiet?” asks gunman, just as I am thinking the same thing. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children looked at one another, thinking of all the things they desired. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I could tell he was thinking the same thing I was thinking when I first heard her name—who would name their child Love? The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They sat looking out over the hills, thinking of the woman who had written in the notebook. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was so pleased with this piece of deductive thinking that I nearly forgot to get out when the train stopped. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, thinking about lies made me think about Granny. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’m sure they’d rather go on thinking they are the brains of the family and I am the dumb blonde. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet I keep thinking about him, and thinking about his eyes unblinking in Frenchy's, waiting for someone who didn't exist. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

They were both thinking the same thing: Surely Justice Strauss would have a book on inheritance law. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

But I was just thinking about me and about how ridiculous it was that everyone except me was getting so freaked out over a stupid bloody nose. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

To her way of thinking, that actually made the day pretty interesting, and she was excited to tell Mom about the new trick she’d discovered for surviving school. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I spent a lot of time thinking about what Eddie said about getting my head right. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was clear from the beginning that he and Jomo would not get along, the cook and the gardener, each thinking himself better than the other. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He tried not to think about Ted Lavender, but then he was thinking how fast it was, no drama, down and dead, and how it was hard to feel anything except surprise. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Important thinking can be done in the car when no one needs conversation and there’s nothing to do but put the mind into high gear, just like the car’s engine. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z