It seems like I should have thought to myself, Wow, a cat is talking to me, and that is not something that usually happens at a highway rest stop. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought he’d better get upstairs before his uncle came in. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Harry thought Flint looked as if he had some troll blood in him. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Nothing—I seen your light. I thought I could jus’ come in an’ set.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

A river, she thought; rivers led to the sea. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I rather thought that was their stock in trade,” he said. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I remember I asked old Childs if he thought Judas, the one that betrayed Jesus and all, went to Hell after he committed suicide. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I could hear Arturo behind me, working through his thoughts, trying to box in his frustration. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Sarcasm, Emma thought, because the emergency backup lights here were brighter than the ones on the stage. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It looked ancient and mysteriously beautiful, and for a moment, I thought it glittered magically. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

For the fiftieth or hundredth time that day I thought of Ross Wilcox. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these thoughts away, as a man apologizes to his guests, and leaves them, muttering something about a prior engagement. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of saying that out loud makes my stomach twist. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Oh, hell, I thought, do we have to argue now? A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sing Sing was chaotic, he thought, largely due to its proximity to New York City and the number of recent transfers from Rikers Island. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fumbled for so long that Lord Roke thought the dawn would break before he got the catch undone, but finally he lifted the locket gently away and stood up. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The two youngest Laphams were always insulting him, not only about how smart he was, but how smart he thought he was. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And while these surface thoughts were providing some distraction, I knew that the other nine-tenths of this mental iceberg, the deadly part that was hidden below, was all about Jeffrey. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for some reason, watching this annoying squirrel commercial made a new thought bubble up inside his brain. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why I thought he’d know something like that. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I thought you might like it,” Poppet said, sounding unnerved by his lack of articulate response. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I thought that was a little rude, but my tongue was thick with beer and I couldn’t figure out how to tell him to slow down. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the very use of the pronoun in my thoughts leads me continually to forget that the Karhider I am with is not a man, but a manwoman. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice held all the shock and condemnation of the small town, I thought critically. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She looked at me sharply, as if she'd sensed my thoughts. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her mom sent her and Michael out of the house, into the yard, which Terryl thought had less to do with any enlightened parenting philosophy and more to do with keeping Danny happy. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She has trouble organizing her thoughts and her actions. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe she wouldn't be known as the crazy lady, she thought. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She thought of Ekon and the way he smiled at her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Jam glared at it, ready to snap a retort, but Pet left before her thoughts could form a shape. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

For some strange reason I felt relieved when I thought about what I had to do. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theon thought of seeking out the bodies of the two men he'd slain himself to see if they had any jewelry worth the taking, but the notion left a bitter taste in his mouth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I thought it circular at first, but it proved to be eight-sided, a good thirty feet in height, and three times that in breadth. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Father will understand how hungry I was, he thought. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

"I thought I heard them here, Doña," Florentino, the gardener, was saying. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I really, really wanted to, but I was trying to do what I thought was the right thing. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The night before Halloween she woke up several times with those four words throbbing through her thoughts. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

His bitterness was so great I knew I would be thought a spy for the whites if I divulged my identity. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were on your way out.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I just thought you were either completely dead or alive. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of girls thought it was her birthday, and she had thanked them and unwrapped the presents without telling them she wouldn’t be fourteen for eight more months. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It meant that Cilia really thought Tremain was a fine name. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn't think so at first. I thought you were a crazy girl.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

But my thoughts kept straying back to John. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

At times he thought seriously of going with all his sorrows to see the chaplain, but the chaplain seemed so overburdened with miseries of his own that Major Major shrank from adding to his troubles. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He seemed to struggle with some emotion of his own, and Kaede wondered if he had ever had a daughter, for she thought he would make a good father. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The blood beneath my skin brings fear and restlessness into my thoughts. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not,” I said, though when I thought about it, it was sort of true. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He was dialed into the day-to-day demands of his life, but at the same time, especially at night, his thoughts seemed to roam a much wider plane. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The thought of the white cottage in flames, his memory of Dallben’s beard, and the heroic Coll’s bald head touched him all at once. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

They were climbing about on the rocks and we thought it would be fun to go and visit them. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was no time before he thought of something. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He asked me what I thought about Brew. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at the time I never give any thought to whether it is right or wrong. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought perhaps you’d like to go hang out with Adelaide,” her mother continued, as if she had not spoken. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

For some reason I always thought “triumph” and “trumpet” were the same thing, and I thought of my uncle as a trumpet. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The woman in Boston thought the story had some real zip to it, so she called the network news editor in New York. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby thought of himself as being totally aware and equated himself with Bhagwan’s concept of the Nietzschean “Superman” who transcends the constraints of society. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Is this a good time to tell you I always thought he was kind of goofy looking?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gathered the things in the order he thought them important, so pillows and dry blankets came first, and then nappies and baby milk and other things for Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“But you speak Arabic too? I thought you were from Belgium?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I opened my briefcase and realized that I'd never thought beyond this moment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He had the solution at last: There was a way to have Malfoy followed — how could he have forgotten, why hadn’t he thought of it before? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She thought she liked the sootiness of sex and its comedy; she laughed a great deal during the raucous beginnings, and rejected those lovers who regarded sex as healthy or beautiful. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

No one thought she would survive her injuries, but here she was, a young woman now with such strength. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He looked at the hedge and wondered about Chinyere, what she had thought of him, if she had survived. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I thought about following her again, questioning her until she admitted that something was going on, that she needed help, but I already knew. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He almost looked his father in the eye, but thought better of it. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The thought absolutely terrified her and she clutched Marcus’s hand convulsively. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I thought of the Kinshasa airport — dark unlit hallways, one steel hangar — and shuddered. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I just couldn’t stand the thought of people patting me on the back, telling me how impressive I was. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But since he was looking for “fire,” he thought he might as well start with “F.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I've thought about it a lot, and I came up with a list of twenty supplies you need to survive middle school when you don't have arms. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Jack thought his heart would thump right out of his chest. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

After all those tumultuous months, filled with turbulent thoughts, anxiety attacks, and headaches, it was finally settled. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about my white, bloated corpse floating in Puget Sound. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Calvin stopped, but so suddenly that Milkman, deep in thought about Ryna, bumped into him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought that he might have pushed Moss closer to the edge of panic, but his mother began to run her fingers over his scalp through his hair. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I always thought ladies liked to be honor guests at a luncheon, and said so. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I thought of something—it was possible Marcus had never seen a picture of me. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I thought perhaps I ought to help him, but I couldn’t think how. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than once, while staring at the wall, I’d thought of Our Lady. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had thought they were drawings Gram had done of the charmed folk in the Spinney. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was propelled forward by the thought of revenge. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would have killed me, thought Montag, swaying, the air still torn and stirring about him in dust, touching his bruised cheek. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I considered lying, then thought better of it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As a matter of fact, the way the Pigman was treating Lorraine and me you’d have. thought he liked us as much as Bobo. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I thought it was time to tell Margaret that he could speak. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I have been so taken up with the thoughts of leaving Bag End, and of saying farewell, that I have never even considered the direction,’ said Frodo. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Since the accident, I had trouble swallowing, and the more I thought about it, the worse it was. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

As though Ray hears Axel’s thoughts from across the driveway, he leaps off of Emmett and George’s porch and comes to investigate. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Surely, thought I, we are not marching straight into the enemy fire. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Once you owned an enormous chair like this, Pearl thought, you would simply have to stay put. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I thought about Papá sitting somewhere oblivious of our misfortune. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“You know,” he said after a while, “it’s kids’ stuff, but I always thought my obituary would be in all the newspapers, that I’d have a story worth telling. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s not his fault. He probably thought he was playing soccer with Kuda,” said Fist. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t thought the guy’s cheeks could get any redder, but they did. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But she thought of Poppy alone in the blackness, and her legs went weak. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I believe in thought transference now, vibrations in the ether, that sort of junk. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought, “Once this creature stood here. It was alive, had flesh and hair. It had its own smell. It could feel hunger and thirst and pain. It could enjoy the early morning sun.” My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I looked to my father to see what he thought, but he was staring into space, in another world. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“And you thought it might have something to do with Griswold’s next game?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I thought he’d be more likely to believe me if I sounded indignant. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh. I thought that the lady was in charge,” Ignatius said in his most stentorian voice, finding the man the only blight in the office. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it'd get sunnier once we crossed the bridge, but the weather’s overcast, a dull gray. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Help me stop shivering! he thought desperately, and Asta instantly became a ferret and lay close around his neck. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He bit back the retort that sprang to his lips, that she could take the blackthorn wand if she thought it made no difference, and he would have hers instead. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I suppose you thought no one would ever know.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It had been a thousand years since Meereen last had a king, and there were some even amongst the old blood who thought they might have made a better choice than him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One lunged at Bianca, and I thought she was a goner, but she whipped out her hunting knife and stabbed the warrior in the chest. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“When I arrived, Lorraine said, thought you would look like either Princess Diana or Janis Joplin.’ Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I have thought a thousand times, I guess, about how I so narrowly escaped death twice that day. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For millennia, he thought, they had existed almost without change in a landscape unmarked by their presence. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The room was so hot I thought the cornhusks might explode into flames. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be time for dinner soon, he thought. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He planned a second edition, in which he would demonstrate that everything that was thought to be new in his book was really old. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But if Dusty Muleman was starting to obey the law, I thought, how would we ever prove that Dad’s accusations were right? Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He thought he knew what was behind this, and as he had no wish to discuss Sirius’s death or any other miserable subject at the moment, he said, “What’s the time? Have I missed breakfast?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s totally fine. We had just met, remember? I thought you were going to say you snore like a lawn mower on purpose.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The destruction of the gnats was thought to be virtually complete. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I thought I might go back to Godric’s Hollow,” Harry muttered. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But I thought we were being warriors, you know? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Olinski thought, how unusual to find four sixth graders who listen to one another sympathetically, unselfishly. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

As she climbed the front steps of the cottage, she thought about what she might give to Beto. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now we are going to have a new noise, Eleanor thought, listening to the inside of her head; it is changing. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Good to go, thought Foaly, busy wiring the last dish on a watchtower. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He might have heard the kids were sick from anybody, but her first thought was that he must have seen Henry. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I can take care of them, he thought, thinking of Mr. and Mrs. Dalton. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The relatives in London thought he looked “uncommonly well and stout,” though that was often misleading. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside was a nest of straw and newsprint, and inside the nest was a bird—something, Abdulrahman thought, between a pigeon and a dove. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Cat thought it must be dyed and wondered why he had not dyed his hair as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Several times I thought I’d lose the thread of the story, and only sheer effort kept it going. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

This thought made Gareth feel sick, and, as he was also feeling ashamed of himself for running away from tire gralloch, he became uncomfortable all over. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the boy were here he could rub it for me and loosen it down from the forearm, he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was going to go over to him, but then I thought maybe he was whisper-crying because he didn’t want me or anyone else to hear him. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

And Dumbledore left the office, leaving Harry to his very confused thoughts. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The thought of Tyger playing intercessor on his behalf almost made Rowan laugh. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I thought, okay, Mason, don’t let that in your head. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

She said yesterday, “Things slackened off towards the end of term, I thought.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

And with that Mr. Wigg began to bob up and down, shaking with laughter at the thought of his own cheerfulness. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The iron bars were a relic of the old régime, and no one had ever thought of dislodging them. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

At first Ophie had thought this would give her a chance to sneak away to the attic to look for clues. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Hannah found all three men looking at her intently, as if they thought she knew. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He desired her with all his heart, but he would not go so far as to admit it, not even in his most hidden thoughts. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the boys speak a jived-up transitional language full of country glamour, think transitional thoughts, though perhaps they dream the same old ancient dreams. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment I did not find the ship, and then I saw that it traveled faster than I thought it would. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a funny thought, strange to imagine the bright stories in the dark ground, surrounded by scuttles and bugs. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Those imported domesticates may be thought of as “founder” crops and animals, because they founded local food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought he had a fine name and he came from Minnesota which made a lovely name: Ireland of Minnesota, Ireland of Wisconsin, Ireland of Michigan. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

And he thought of all the pain he had eaten to see Shirin again. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It reappeared, going away from the Sun, a little later, and was at first thought to be two separate comets. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“You say that as if it’s a bad thing, Percy. But you don’t realize how important you are. I thought Yancy Academy would be far enough away. I thought you’d finally be safe.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I just thought it was strange. You asking, I mean.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

In for a penny, in for a pound, thought Lyddie, and made her way into town. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t floating peacefully the way she would have thought. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I felt a pang of guilt for my disloyal thought. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I was distressed to see her, and thought how things might have turned out differently. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I arranged the photos on my desk alongside the souvenir shot of the capsule in which we thought Salim had been a passenger and the list of theories. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like, he thought, a breath from the vacuum between inhabited worlds, in fact from nowhere: it was not what she did or said but what she did not do and say. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The thought flitted through Winston’s mind that it would probably be quite easy to rent the room for a few dollars a week, if he dared to take the risk. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I thought again, harder, and shook my head with a look of feeble apology. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She knew that Doctor thought of her as a proper farm girl—a country girl. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Violet didn’t know anything about the girl at first except her name, her age, and that she was very well thought of in the legally licensed beauty parlor. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are so going to lose, I thought to myself, but I had to try. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I also wanted to say that I was sorry for ...” I stalled at the thought of actually mentioning open flame in the Archives. “... for what I did before.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I thought he was making it that way on purpose, just to go with his whole style. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“He wasn't in on it! I drew it myself. I showed it to him because I thought it was funny.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I have no place here, he thought, and Asha is the reason, may the Others take her! A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes. That’s what my mother said, anyhow, but who can really predict these things? It’s a shame, though. I thought for sure it would be a boy this time.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

You thought that I was just making you take a language test. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

And both thought it was; but they had never been more mistaken in their lives. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Those who knew him, like Lanita Akins, thought he was a brilliant politician who had provided blacks in Odessa with their first real public voice. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of excuses, involved myself totally in the farm. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know, I know. I’m sorry. I know there’s no time to waste, but I had to be sure you are who I thought you were. The best thing about dying is your friendship.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He unlocked the door and turned, looking both nervous and mean, which was odd, I thought. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

But then I thought how in some of the pictures the woman seemed like she was looking right back at me. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He thought about the strength of the storm, its duration, how oddly minimal the damage had been to this house. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But his face was worried and his thoughts were elsewhere. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He thought it would be marvelous to visit Paris. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about adding, “Saving puppies is what we do best,” but the man wouldn’t understand. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She thought of him out there in the night somewhere. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I thought they could contact my father and then send for help. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would not enter the thoughts of any other human. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t thought of it at the time but had simply recorded her pleasure. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ate some of the food and drank some of the water and only occasionally wondered what the hell we thought we were going to find at the end of the road. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not, Hannah thought, because they wanted to watch, but because they wanted to be witnesses. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she crossed the library with the vase in both hands, she heard what she thought was the sound of bare feet on the hallway tiles outside the library door. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“When I discovered the Poe manuscript, an idea clicked for me. I had long been a fan of Poe’s short story ‘The Gold-Bug’ and thought it would be fun to emulate the treasure hunt. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

No, the old maester thought, this is not you, not your way, you were always just, always hard yet never cruel, never, you did not understand mockery, no more than you understood laughter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The dream had pulled him down so deep that he was underneath thought, submerged in a place of pure feeling—and what feeling. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure Firenze thought he was acting for the best,” he said in his gloomy voice. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

When I received the message from her sister, I thought it had to be a ploy to make me hate Ella, and I resolved not to be taken in. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Still, she thought after quite a long deliberation, it was probably all right to tell her children, first making them promise to keep it secret. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You sold him for what you thought he was thinking.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And later on, as she watched her skinny little husband skulking around the bedroom in his purple-striped pyjamas with a pork-pie hat on his head, she thought how stupid he looked. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

She lay at a slant in the tunnel, holding herself there with her legs taut against the walls, and thought. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Like rain on a cold window, these thoughts pattered against the hard surface of the incontrovertible truth, which was that he must die. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

You wouldn’t have thought anybody’d want syrup for supper, but everybody did. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

They thought he might even be better for good. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Chicago is more beautiful than I ever thought. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

The thought makes me hesitate a moment, but then I plunge in. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was then that he thought of the decisive step, not only for the modernization of his business but to link the town with the rest of the world. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I thought she would come to the back of the boat and scold me in her gentle way. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d thought so many times what I’d say when I finally saw her again, but now I was tongue-tied and embarrassed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Even now, if I’m driving on a long grey road and my thoughts have nowhere special to go, I might find myself turning all of this over. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

"No, there isn't. You might have thought of a better story." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The wood was soft, felt soft to the point of his knife, and he thought that might mean they would waterlog, but then he decided it wouldn’t matter. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed any decisions away until the morning he woke up and thought about that day in Wentnor, when he was out playing and heard Molly calling him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mother thought it was extremely good because it describes a number of adolescent problems. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

La Bruja downstairs she thought of as the devil—her being below them made sense. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She had heard stories of scythes who did mass gleanings, but until now she thought they were nothing but stories. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I thought about her dealing with mine too, and how much harder it must be with two of us. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The pristine campus and well-dressed kids had stunned me on my first visit—the Bronx was not the homogenous ghetto I thought it was. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I thought of the fists and the feet the night before. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was thought that he died several days earlier, which would have made December 12 perhaps the last full day of his life. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us—to haunt our thoughts long after we’ve faced them. He would be delighted to know you’re still fretting over whatever nonsense he said.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

If they were stupid enough to bury it in a hole, he thought, then they’re practically begging for someone to find it and take it. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You thought I would like the fact that you’ve struck up a relationship with a mentally ill person?” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

So I build my own nest and feather it with thoughts of you. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I knew, of course, that Ginger referred to Nadia's beloved and talented dog, So I thought that perhaps Annie's Sandy was a video game played by the canine orders. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I would feel different—transformed—by my trip to Iran. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I thought the Powhatans were not cannibals,” I blurt out. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The girl was extraordinarily lucky, Mariam thought, to escape with relatively minor injuries, considering the rocket had turned her house into smoking rubble. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The thought of him not knowing me had been horrifying. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I thought I told you to let Luis bring it up.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I let myself out of the truck and hold the door open a second as a thought forms in my mind. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I thought of Moses leading the Israelites through the desert and God answering their hunger by raining down manna from heaven. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what the old lady thought, but she started yelling, and suddenly white visors and curious faces circled in on us. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Weylin had married a poor, uneducated, nervous, startlingly pretty young woman who was determined to be the kind of person she thought of as a lady. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

But still, the thought lurked out there, just beyond the reach of his headlights: he'd been dumped. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I always thought I would stay right here in Paintbrush Falls and just have a job the way my dad does. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I thought, as the wind blew against us, that he might have been wearing some spicy cologne, but that seemed ridiculous. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I thought the definition of a West Virginia virgin was one who could outrun her brother. What’s your problem?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a cross between a Russian military blouse and a carpenter’s apron, but it was warm, roomy and, I thought, handsome. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought, Shouldn’t Mrs. Bigio be grateful for my willingness to help? The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then he grinned like my old uncle, and he didn’t look hardened and long-faced like I had thought. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I was glad to see my father back, for his absence had meant biting hunger, and I thought his presence would mean food. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have never, ever until this moment thought of Lily or Mom as being afraid. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Help. Help me,” Brian thought he said, but heard no sound. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

There were things too hurtful to remember, thoughts almost as painful as Ramsay’s flaying knife ... A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I could make no sense of the subject; my own thoughts swam always between me and the page I had usually found fascinating. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Though a large vase of flowers had been placed on a desk in front of the small window, their perfume could not disguise the lingering smell of what Harry thought was gunpowder. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“What kind of answer is that? I thought Uncle Jack had finally gone off his rocker but I’m not so sure now!” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Charles often told this story; he thought it was funny. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of people and of objects and of ideas and the question was in him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I hadn't even thought about them, but he was right. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I thought about a lot of things,” Alex replied, trying to keep the anger out of his voice. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Every day he thought how lucky he was. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a minute I didn't think there was anything strange about it, and then I thought it was strange. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Dasch felt nervous excitement at the thought of being considered for such an important mission. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

But by the time all these thoughts had gone through his head, Tristran was already standing in the center of the clearing, an arm's length from the beasts. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

When they dismissed Archimedes as irrelevant they thought common sense was on their side; and their own experience of the world corresponded exactly to their claims. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His single fixed thought was that Gregor must get into his room as quickly as possible. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

That story they had told her—why, they were crazy, she thought harshly, and they were criminals. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reef enclosed more than one side of the island, tying perhaps a mile out and parallel to what they now thought of as their beach. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Well, Miss Spitty thought a cup of tea would be delightful, and Viola went off to make it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They thought they were drifting, milling aimlessly, but really they were being drawn toward people of status. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She looked so lost, and I thought she wouldn’t say anything at all, but then she said, “Okay.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

‘You soon broke down. Anyone would have thought you had a guilty conscience. I hope it was nothing worse than a wicked plot to steal one of my blankets.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She thought, I sure have felt a lot of hearts recently. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

And I thought afterwards: this is a betrayal. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had thought they would start a farm, as soon as they came to the end of the trees. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must be Christmas here every day, I thought. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

To be a black man is to be thought of as a criminal, and to be a black criminal is to be despicable—a social pariah. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I thought that removing her from this world would set things right, but I find that I was wrong. Her death has killed part of me, as well.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

This woman was apparently a skilled worker, and I thought it doubly unfortunate that she was not lending her talents to the creation of a pair of Levy Pants . . . pants. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The half that, maybe, in the most secret recesses of his heart, Baba had thought of as his true son. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up my spoon and thought of, well, Spoon. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Many South African whites I met during meals in the dining hall thought I was a black American. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shadow’s edges hardened, and just for a second I thought I saw a full face glaring at me—one-eyed and scowling. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Oh God, she thought, be prepared for the rest of the year to be mistaken for something you’re not. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

And as I watched Clarisse and Chris singing a stupid campfire song together, holding hands in the darkness, where they thought nobody could see them, I had to smile. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The mention of the Scholar girl is so incongruous to my thoughts that for a second I’m stunned silent, and Helene stiffens. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Good soldier, I thought, taking advantage of the element of surprise. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought I’d lost you,” she says when she reaches him, her voice a tremulous whisper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Of course it works,” he said, then thought for a second. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Growing more silent and almost unconsciously understanding each other in their glances, they thought that the time was now at hand to seek out a good honest man for her. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot go home, she thought, but I dare not stay here much longer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Building a house might be harder than I thought. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Once I thought there are no campfires and no holes but something else, too hard for me to understand. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Grandfather heard Sutpen move, sudden and sharp, and Grandfather said he reckoned, thought just about what he imagined Wash was thinking. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought he was appreciating the special light-up quality of my shoes, until he added, “You have grass growing on your legs.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I saw the house, the car. And...I thought it was you, I thought I saw...” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He thought, as most people would have, that I was about thirty. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It surprises me that Sam would be taken for a thief. I thought he was a man of greater patriotism than that, but people fool you.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She started to turn and I thought that she was going to flee back through the brush. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's as if I've thrown away all the good work they did on the opening ceremonies without a thought. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were sitting around your house all lonely and waiting to die.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I thought I might make a fool of myself by saying I'd have it with ice or gin or anything. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Or, more exactly, as she thought now, the shadow in which she had lived was fear—fear made more dense by hatred. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

If Grandpa had ridden home in the back seat with his arm around Miss Love, I’d of thought everything I heard was just a bad dream. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Later, as Officer Delinko was retrieving his third thermos of coffee from the squad car, he thought he saw a series of small white flashes at the other end of the property. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought of something, Ben,” Mary Anne said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t stop. You’ve got a real talent there. Funny, I never thought of El Patron as being musical.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ma says that old people in Kaintuck thought it was witch-talk to the Devil, talk they didn’t want Christians to understand.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were having so much fun I just never thought anyone would hurt himself. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

That was the first time I thought about God. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Octavian’s eyes glittered with harsh curiosity, like he might gut Percy just as easily as a teddy bear if he thought he could learn something from it. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

If she told this time, Marly thought, she’d never get to go anywhere with Joe again as long as she lived. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure what she had expected, but she knew she had not thought they would go after Pol first. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I’d seen her do that hundreds of times, but I’d never thought about why she cared so much about the blade. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I glance at Izzi, at the wonder and joy on her face, and sigh, pushing away the dark thoughts for her sake. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

My father thought that a long time ago there were a lot of buildings—you can still see some of the foundations—and people came to them to play and fish in the lake. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

These thoughts ambushed my mind, and I couldn’t fight the cloud of sadness that descended over me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He became handsome in your eyes, and you thought him your best friend. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Now wouldn’t you have thought that any being that was human...would have said something that day?” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was too calm, I thought, just like he was the night his dad was murdered. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her first thought was to pick a young teenager's romance of the kind that is written for fifteen-year-old schoolgirls, but for some reason she found herself instinctively walking past that particular shelf. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

In all this time driving we never once thought about gas. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I thought you moved to California,” I say. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“She was thought to be unique. Fairy connoisseurs travel from all corners of the globe to behold her.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

If my name had been Marjorie, I thought, I would not have been the sort of person to feel guilty. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Capehart housing of Freedom Bay, Ben thought, as he curved down Iwo Jima Boulevard, had all the architectural complexity and stylistic flamboyance of an oyster bed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I did, but if I started another one, I’d want it to be different. Not just the silly stuff, but also real thoughts, real writing, real life. ” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Even the thought of persecution left him undismayed, was rather tonic than depressing. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought of her mom back home in her art studio in Providence, scarred and shorn and still beautiful, full of fierce belief in the rightness of her daughter. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

To be honest, I hadn’t thought of her for months—no, for at least a year. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I thought about that for a while, and then I gave up. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi thought she’d seen her eyeing the guitar case, but she wasn’t sure. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They thought that would be interesting. But our Distracter showed that it was a bomb every time.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of the abbey, the monks, the rows of cribs, the wailing babies, and himself, silent in their midst. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Was that for media? I thought shop was your elective.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

But when she thought of David finding his parents on his own, Tally ran after him. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I thought she might change her mind, or at least tell me when she was leaving. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

For a moment, I thought I saw anxiety in her eyes—the same fear I’d seen in Grover during the bus ride—as if my mom too felt an odd chill in the air. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The design of the moldboard plow is so obvious that it seems incredible that Europeans never thought of it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was my most favorite book I ever read, so I thought the report would be easy. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered whether he was just telling me what he thought I wanted to hear—though there was no reason for him to lie. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Because the truth is, he couldn’t stand the thought of hurting anything, even a mouse. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

These thoughts weighed down on him, like rocks in his pockets. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

Etta bit her lip and thought it over; she squeezed her cheeks between her fingers. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Scientists at Los Alamos celebrated—and for a happy moment thought their job was done. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about going back in to help Lieutenant Carroll stop the fight, but by the time I turned around, Lieutenant Carroll came hurtling through the doors. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t finish the thought—wouldn’t allow herself to. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe Ali Shekari looked at his own scars in the mirror and thought that he was half of a half. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Emma was not convinced one way or the other, though she remained cynical and thought it was almost certainly trickery. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could live here forever, Lina thought, before she remembered that in a day or two they would all be leaving. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Any minute now, I thought, my mother’s voice would come calling down the stairs: “Yanek! Dinner!” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mama thought I was just putting on a show for Pefta and his SIM who came by often to check on the family. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about that look on his face, the one in the living room when we were both just happy kids still, playing around. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She thought back to a conversation she’d had with the goddess Aphrodite two years ago in Charleston . Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When we were told to love everybody, I had thought that that meant everybody. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Kit looked from one to the other, from her aunt’s barely restrained tears to her uncle’s waiting judgment There is nothing I can possibly tell them, she thought, except the truth. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

My thoughts chased round and round my brainpan. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first thought was the boy’s bread, but the rise and fall of the boy’s chest told me he hadn’t died in the night. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

At first, she thought that she might bead some tiny makazins for her dolls. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

And then a thought entered into my head. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Then she shook that thought free; she would never want him to know these horrors. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought about trying for secretary, but why should I limit myself when I have a shot at president?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He could not go back to the beginning, when he had not wanted to come here but nevertheless had thought he might get Hooper to be friendly. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Gherland thought as they walked, tendrils of worry curling around his heart, cinching into a hard, tight knot. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I looked at Mama’s face to see if she thought Kiyo was funny. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, one or two. You were passed out. Snoring and everything. Then I came on back over here, and just sat up and thought for a while. Candy Man.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Osh looked at me so hard I thought I might break. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I ordered another round of Elephant beers and we sat pondering our different thoughts. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I really thought I was done sneaking into the ghetto. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I think they’re like me, with aching hearts and racing thoughts. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday she'd had the thought that Ruby's gift expressed her nature, and it did, but not the way Minya wanted it to. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He explained quickly that I was his daughter, which everyone thought to be uncontrollably funny. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her image disappeared, and I thought to myself that Thalia had been right, so many days ago at Westover Hall: my mom really was pretty cool. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Before the letter, I thought maybe I could take them back to San Antonio, just for a while. Maybe the summer. But that won’t work anymore.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I never thought of my brain as anything other than the place where thoughts came from. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

All day long a terrible thought had kept crossing her mind: Maybe the Smoke was where she really belonged, but she’d lost her chance by going there as a spy. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I was not able to control my thoughts, I walked as if in a dream. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If terrestrial bugs could live on Mars, he thought, why not in Antarctica—which was by and large warmer, wetter, and had more oxygen and much less ultraviolet light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he thought the best way to honor Chen’s death was to continue to the summit.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was lucky he thought at all and didn't just pull out his gun and shoot me, resolving in a second the dilemma presented to him by this little Jewish boy. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I always thought a single marker joining the graves of a man and wife looked like the head of a double bed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It sat there tightly and grew, while he thought he was destroying it by fasting and penitence. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes darted over to his friends, and it was clear that they had the same thought. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I thought about Salim and the way his eyes shifted around the ground a lot and how he’d looked up towards the sky when Aunt Gloria was talking. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I always thought that you blew in from somewhere so cool, but you’re just regular. And you don’t make anyone happy anymore like you used to. You make everyone miserable.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“My prayers—all these years I thought He didn’t hear me, but He was listening all the time, just waiting His own good time to do His will.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the faint light or the way Joon, who was never still, did not even move his hands, but for a moment I thought I was seeing his ghost. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Roy Lee thought he was pretty much girl bait, and I guess he was, seeing as how he had a date nearly every weekend. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You could be arrested just for knowing what you know and not reporting it. I thought it would be better to avoid that.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I thought about how I would draw it on the back of a postcard to Fred. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I thought of what the scientist had written about our prairie dog ancestors, and I was worried. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Olanna hushed Baby, wiped her eyes and nose, and thought for a moment about the dog with its head full of sores. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I thought that if you were poor you were skinny. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about it while the Bellinis were fitting on the cover. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt thought he looked irritated, although it was hard to tell. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And David hunkered next to the tiller and held the Frog on course and thought, hokey or not, he would follow it. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw them in Santa Barbara when they came back and I thought I'd never seen a girl so mad about her husband. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

As I drifted off to a fitful, exhausted sleep late that night, I thought about what was the strangest thing of all that first day of combat. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Since you’re such an admirer of the gentleman, I thought you might like to see what he wrote about factory life in Lowell,” she said. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought girls always wanted to be married.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He started to speak, then thought better of it, and asked gently, “You are going to stay here in Connecticut?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I had thought about nothing else for several days. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"So, the performance is on for today? I thought it looked like rain again." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I once heard him explaining vigorously and quite unselfconsciously to Marion what he thought ought to be done to people who stole food from house refrigerators. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t help it. I thought I was going to throw up. I went back to Henry’s room and went to sleep.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He could keep his pride if that was what he thought was at stake. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought I felt one zooming around in here.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

My mother and father glance at each other, and in that one shared look, I can see what they’re thinking: our daughter isn’t as hopelessly lost as we thought. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then her restless thoughts would drift after the Dolphin. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was blowing from the west, and it was difficult to be certain but he thought he heard the low hum of an engine. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But I wait, kept awake by the thought of bodies hitting pavement, until his grip loosens and his breathing steadies. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Folk probably just saw the fire and thought it was a demon,” Jake persisted. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I thought he would come,” said Voldemort in his high, clear voice, his eyes on the leaping flames. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“We thought it best to go ahead and get him and his family out of town. They’re in Maryland, staying with Leanne’s sister.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She must have thought I was ignoring it or just thought she was joking around. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then she thought about the other lines of the prophecy: The twins snuff out the angel’s breath, who holds the keys to endless death. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Big Ma would have thought that was grand, but Papa wouldn’t have liked it one cent. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could I tell him about the apple tree, about what I had thought that morning while I picked the flowers and the poke greens? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He had the fleeting thought that it could be the last time he ever drank the stuff. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He thought of the burial mounds that dotted the Chinese countryside — the small mounds for nobodies, the big mounds for big shots. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of the man brought a wave of sorrow chased by anger, but she didn’t know who exactly to be angry at, so it just festered. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It seemed like Zero had lived at Camp Green Lake forever, but as Stanley thought about it now, he realized that Zero must have gotten there no more than a month or two before him. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She was not dwelling upon any particular train of thought She had done all the thinking which was necessary after Bobert went away, when she lay awake upon the sofa till morning. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought it would be longer than it was.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And so they were, he thought to himself after Sam had taken his leave. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I thought it was funny as I looked around and noticed we were all wearing our nightgowns and pajamas to greet the messengers from the President of the United States. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it sat for a while and it thought and eventually it came up with a plan. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were better than the others, Elias. I never imagined you would take a slave to your bed.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Vegas is full of girls who thought putting out a lot was a high idea once, but now they’re just washed-up jokes sliding themselves around oiled poles.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

To the right was a white curtain, drawn all the way over to hide what I thought was probably the living area. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Part of me wanted to laugh at the thought of Lin Nai-Nai maybe meeting Dr. Carhart, our minister, whose face would surely puff up, the way it always did when he was flustered. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unless I'm alone—without another member of the Das family around—my thoughts don't spill across the page. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He thought he was going to have a heart attack. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

At first Dad was irritated, because he thought one of the older children was butting in. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, well, there’s one of them with some spirit left, anyway,” he thought, as he made his way out to the sentries. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday I was watching her creation and I thought that it looked familiar. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“I thought only of what I would do if, when the countdown got to zero, nothing happened.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a store, he thought, just like a store, and he could not remember later how many he ate that day but he thought it must have been over twenty. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

One I thought I might never feel again. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

But even that thought struck her as slightly surreal. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"It barely cleared the review board. Some thought the pin could be used as a weapon, giving you an unfair advantage. But eventually, they let it through," says Cinna. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Adam struggled all night with his thoughts and the next day he drove out and shook hands with Bordoni and the Sanchez place was his. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But Finn didn’t like movies, and he thought the crows were nothing but jokers and thieves. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I always thought and now I have the proof that you’re a renegade.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Please, she thought, fervent—a kind of prayer to the bitter brew itself. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Aaron thought that someone was re-creating the Jack the Ripper killings,” she said. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As his car clunked and bumped along, Mr. Trepid thought about the red Cadillac convertible. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Once in the middle of a passage I looked into the sea of faces and thought, Do they know? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he had disappeared completely, I thought, it might be easier. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

They thought about poor Longneck and the human who had killed him. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was short, of course, and I’d always thought he was as bland as a glass of apple juice. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was perhaps a trifle annoyed with Tom for seeming to make so light of what even Gandalf thought so perilously important. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

On that happy thought, we turned our backs on the sea. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He had thought of going in there today, but the grass would be too wet. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I thought you might step in arid lend us a hand. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The thought that such a perfect field was sitting unused made Luma angry. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

To grow from a tiny cluster of grains to a baby planet some hundreds of miles across is thought to have taken only a few tens of thousands of years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

His last, comforting thought before he fell asleep was that even if the Potters were involved, there was no reason for them to come near him and Mrs. Dursley. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Right. When you were here a few days ago, everything was in order and locked up tight. You thought that Mother had gone to the Ludingtons’ farm.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Probably full of giant cockroaches and bats,” he thought. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought long and hard about what I should speak about today,” began the imam. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

They were called Alpha and Beta, and Abenthy fed them carrots and lumps of sugar when he thought no one was looking. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, her organs have seen better days. They are a little soupy. But I’m really surprised about the overall condition. It’s better than I thought.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Scientists who had put in their time with Ernest thought nothing of the hairpin turn in the lab’s priorities. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Someone up the street in the dark yelled, "Break it up! Break it up!" and I thought, Cops, and looked around for Clifton. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I thought on it and thought on it till I finally figured it out. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

The visit was tentatively approved by the NEC provided Walter went to the king’s palace in Nongoma; it was thought that going to Ulundi would suggest recognition of the authority of the homeland. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought maybe you could get some closure here.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

For the first few years she thought I worked for companies with security problems. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of a kid, of any of us, turning against our own kind made me want to smash the shelf we were leaning against into a heap of metal. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Parents, she thought, learned to survive touching their children less and less. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jeanne glanced at Jacob, saw the thoughts that were passing behind his frozen, glassy eyes, and wished that they were anywhere, anywhere else. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

"Oh. I thought the name rang a bell. Patients zero, aren't they?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

We thought we’d function in Wilmington as we had in New York, catching subways and buses and living off public transportation and the groove of the city. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t particularly want to be thought of at all. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s not really much to tell. I’ve technically never had a boyfriend. I thought Connor was going to be, but obviously that didn’t work out.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“So people are receiving some kids’ thoughts and don’t realize it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I study her, cool and objective in my corner, and because now the Shaper is dead, strange thoughts come over me. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought how lucky he was to have had a woman like her directing his life. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Granny passed away herself, I thought how dying was a lot like what happened when the Stokeses went to Brazil or when Uncle Buson rode off into the night. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The Serjeant thought himself clever, and smiled an awful smile in his spotted chops. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Such a little baby couldn’t have gone far, she thought. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes we came to a river and I was happy, because at the edge of most villages there was a river, so I thought we should be there any minute now. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I thought all of it—swordplay, knighthood—I thought it was a game.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And then I thought how the ocean would always buzz like this. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

As though he can read my thoughts, he gives me a wary look and moves imperceptibly to the left, putting slightly more space between us. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

All I want is to be cherished, she thought, and here I am talking gibberish with a selfish man. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the comfort brought by their decision to stay, it was a long night for Cora as her thoughts returned to the woman’s screams, and the ghosts she called her own. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He said, “I didn’t want them talking about us. I thought I did, but I didn’t.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

When Minho returned, safe and sound, Thomas thought he seemed very optimistic that it really was an exit. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I never thought getting into college would be easy, but I was learning to focus and have faith in my own story. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Dimple turned to Ashish, trying to push the swirling thoughts out. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A thought about whether people could die and then come back. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know about that, but no sense worrying about what may never be. But I don’t expect there isn’t any boy that ain’t never, at least, thought of swinging from the barn.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We got your message, Neville! Hello you three, I thought you must be here!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I thought the same, lord Captain ... but he knows things. He knew that we made for Slaver’s Bay before any man could tell him, and he knew you would be here, off this island.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I thought it such a perfect departure date. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I thought maybe he was embarrassed to be caught doing the dishes. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

One reason is that their type of farming takes a lot of thought and problemsolving. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They thought they owned this stretch of the creek. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her thoughts were interrupted by the trolley jerking to sudden stop and a scream from outside. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Yet even with the emotional pain it caused him, Charles thought Emma’s letter was beautiful. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it might be Liz, so I ran to answer it. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the eighteen shots of the back garden and the eighteen other shots, our last link to Salim. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never thought I could love Mama Ya-Ya more than I already do, but somehow, in this moment, I do. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I bled and thought about the people to be killed; I bled and thought about the people to be born. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew it was a ridiculous thought, but millions of miles are sometimes difficult to bridge. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Once more I took off my handkerchief—once more I thought of the cakes of bread in the little shop. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She's sure to have found out something, he thought, but suppose she tells me Capricorn has locked the book in one of his safes? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I thought: Could rats weave fish nets or make fish hooks? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Privately, he explained to McMillan that “we considered the existence of a relativistic limit so important that we thought we should communicate it to cyclotronists as quickly as possible, without endeavoring to give accurate figures.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When I returned to the office and saw her holding Otto, I had a crazy thought: It’s a good thing my mom’s here to help me take care of my hahy. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the Europeans once thought the earth was flat, but the Eskimos always knew it was round. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up to now very little news about the Jews had reached us here, and we thought it best to stay as cheerful as possible. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He often thought about the cold, distant regions in which the little creatures really belonged. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jay thought there was a shooting and immediately called me. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

We rest in silence for a while, thoughts caught in each of our imperfect minds. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Someone was bending over him and he thought it was Kate. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Where is the ramp?! he thought, unable to slow down. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

If I stay here, he thought, then I can still imagine that he’s home. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I thought about the picture of the cat walking on his hocks in the Cat Fantastic magazine. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It clung to her thoughts like an oily residue. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

So I said it again: “Let’s go somewhere together for Valentine’s Day” She put her hand on her hip and thought for a moment. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“In this one, it theorizes that dragons aren’t magical at all but are just normal animals that ancient people thought were magical. And the legends persist to this day.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Everybody thought so. Did you hear the murmur go through the Auditorium?” someone asked. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby began nervously, trying to arrange her thoughts: “It’s about my youngest son, Timothy. He is sick, too sick to leave his bed. And Moving Day is only five days off.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And in two years, he thought, you’ll wear out and die. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Most men thought the Labrador could have been lost from a hunting trip, but nobody could account for an unlikely bull terrier as his companion. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely, he thought, one of his scholarship offers was still good. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I flashed a weak smile, my knees going wobbly at the thought. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She had always thought the words a joke among the weavers, but here was this strange-smelling foreigner sucking Lyddie’s shuttles, leaving her spittle all over the thread hole. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

At first, I thought I would bring food to his cage, but then it occurred to me that Chester must be taking everything away that was given to him. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the hours I had whiled away staring at its beauty and how hard it had been finding the right name for it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about that, and then I wrote a note on the corner of my own notebook. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

But now there was a new imprecision in the way Mary Anne expressed her thoughts on certain subjects. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite his insane day and the million thoughts running through his head, his body took over and said: You will sleep now. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

As long as they were clean and neat I had not thought the material or the existence of lace mattered. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Longstreet thought: if this one knows it, they will know it. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I searched on the floor, my first thought being that Mr. Loomis, after he had used the tractor last night, had accidentally dropped it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t as dumb as he looked now, was he? thought Gilly smiling, without taking time to calculate which of her smiles to put on. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I thought for a few minutes, stymied about how to get out of math. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that era of anti-Communist hysteria, when anyone in America who read Karl Marx’s Das Kapital or wore a red tie was thought to be a Communist, the president of the U.S. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

It had dried; and the thought came to me that he had been dead for some twelve hours. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She remembered his “Good Perun” attempt at a greeting earlier when he had thought she was Slavish. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

‘But I thought it looked good, Salim,’ Kat said. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hesitated, but there was nothing else to do except run away screaming, so I grabbed what I thought were her wrists. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

For our purposes, however, the ultimate cause of the condition is less important than its systemic manifestation, which was a congenital inability to separate his thoughts from his feelings about them. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

At the thought of days, Aru slowly turned over her hand. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For that car ride back to Jean’s house, before we met Ray and had to leave them, I thought that was exactly where we had landed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

My body shivers, and the thoughts in my head become hot, confusing swirls. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I’d always played so close and so small, I thought I was hiding from everyone, all the time. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I was wondering about that myself. Then I thought that maybe you and me are alike a little.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I had a bat mitzvah to go to over the weekend, so we just thought it would be easier to fly here after that,” she said. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

But it didn’t happen in the five minutes Genie thought it would. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

So it is zero outside, Quentin thought; soon he will raise the window and do deep-breathing in it, clench-fisted and naked to the waist, in the warm and rosy orifice above the iron quad. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought she was going to say something cross. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that didn’t make the thought any less terrifying. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her fingers were so long, I thought maybe they had an extra joint. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although they were eager to get to Japan, a lot of our military leaders also dreaded that thought. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Nhamo would fade away, only to reappear later when she thought Mother wasn’t looking. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you said it didn’t matter either way?” said Harry, with a bitter laugh. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I thought I’d be ready for it when they took me away, but I wasn’t. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

And Milo, full of thoughts and questions, curled up on the pages of tomorrow’s music and eagerly awaited the dawn. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of Chicago, where you can go days without ever once stepping on a single patch of actual earth. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

She thought maybe he gave her a tiny nod. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep up my pace for the second mile, but I developed a stitch in my side, right under my ribs, and I was panting so hard, I thought I would faint. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Provided we get lucky,” she thought, “and the entrance isn’t guarded.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I once gave a lecture in which a listener thought that I subscribed to a belief in extraterrestrial visitors, when all I had said was that there undoubtedly were many cases of UFOs. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It couldn't always be this hot, he thought. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I had never thought of that before, but he’s right—we don’t know what’s happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Thomas thought about the Changing, and the fact that it brought back memories. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He no longer thought of himself as Cole Matthews, a juvenile delinquent from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But then she thought about the brain lesions that went along with becoming pretty, and a shiver passed through her body. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Surely, I thought, no country could be so dominated by unrepentant Nazis as to name a street after the notorious Nazi Reichskommissar and founder of the Luftwaffe, Hermann Goering! Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about all those months he’d spent creating the Argo II. Somehow, making a boat to sail from Ogygia seemed like a more daunting task. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in my befuddled mind one thought connects to another and I'm on my feet, teetering through the trees back to Glimmer. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was not quite the right occasion for the remark, but Penelope thought the children’s sincerity was clear. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

And the thought of going somewhere on my own was frightening. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. D. W. Bliss was one who thought that germ theory was unproven. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I thought he might tell me about something intangible. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I thought how hard it would be to walk around out there without a flashlight. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting, he thought, as he looked again at the position of the sun, and hurried his pace. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You said there could be trouble if someone goes into labor and Grandma isn’t home to take the call. I thought, He’s right, we need a phone! Silly me! Did I misunderstand?” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

So let’s thank God for small favors anyway, Shorty thought dispiritedly. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

What delusion was I under that I thought I could outwit him? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I lay for a moment with the thought that maybe if I just rested for a while, I would find the strength to go on. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Though it wasn’t the sea she thought about, or the dark fin rising above her, but rather the vision she’d had of the small green boat. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He told his plan to his friend, but with no thought of his going too. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her office must be up here, Harry thought. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Aristotle thought about the natural world in exactly the same way: that is to say, he saw it as the product of rational, purposive activity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He had rather thought the whole gang would be on him the second he got the bully down; instead they merely respected him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought I had, which is why she and Sam wigged out. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She held on to the phone and stared at the sunburst clock and thought about Mrs. Sylvester’s gigantic jar of candy corn. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He wanted to know what / thought about the movie Higher Learning. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Jefferson had thought that France was the wave of the future and England was a relic of the past. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“My father said that my great-grandfather had a small mill there, a flour mill. He thought the stone you’re sitting on was part of it, it’s worn so smooth.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He sat on the horse, turning his mind away, willing it away as a gun barrel swivels, and then he thought of his children, powerless to stop that vision. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nice names, he thought, even if they are a little unusual. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The boys move only their eyes, only their thoughts, tracking in their minds the passage of the two officers as they move between tables, seeking out the next boy whose father has been killed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I’d chosen the name because I thought it had a sassy ring. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, what do you know? You look just like I always thought you would too,” she said. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The most recent quote was, “He who doesn’t fear death dies only once,” which I thought was maybe some veiled reference to his father, but I couldn’t unpack it. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I reckon the bride thought that with the parlor windows shut, nobody could hear it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A hundred thoughts flew into her mind like a flock of upset crows. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He has stopped working on his canvas, the painting we all thought was going to be this awesome, earth-shattering piece of art that would be auctioned for a million dollars. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was modest and cramped inside, but walking in I thought, Wow. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Amelia glanced quickly at the hanky—making sure it was a clean one, Lyddie thought wryly—but she murmured a thank you and blew her nose. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of telling Audrey how I really felt scared me. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Lyra thought this young woman had a nerve, acting as if it were her own laboratory, but she nodded meekly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He agreed that the US program should be ramped up to recover the American lead in nuclear weaponry, but he thought his visitors’ fancies had far outrun the practicality of the Super. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I thought twins was supposed to be the same,” he marveled. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I smile at just the thought of it, feeling a wave of happiness overtake me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

What could she have thought of me in my zoot and conk and orange shoes? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, this is not the Sausun I thought I knew. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He looked so at home in that citified bar in his ranch outfit I thought he might well be somebody famous. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I’d run out of the house in such a panic to stop Juanita driving away that the thought never occurred to me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I thought at first it was Moaning Myrtle in there, but it turned out to be Hermione. She said something about that Ron Weasley...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

For half a heartbeat, Tyrion thought he glimpsed fear in the Hound's dark eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Momma and Dad had threatened to send Byron to Grandma Sands about a million times but we never thought it would happen. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, I thought there were enough of my people to do something about getting our rights and gaining respect. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As Chester drove Wendell, Kirk, and me to church that fateful Sunday, I thought about my best friend, Cynthia Wesley. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even the thought of it made her feel weird. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Tonight, it's Ochún who's supposed to fill our heads with thoughts and dreams of beautiful sparkling things, pretty faces, soft touches, warm hugs, tender kisses, and deep connections. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Well...I’ve had them for years. Just less intense. I thought they were, you know, just part of growing up.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Great tucks showed in his overalls where the folds were stuck together by the goo with which he was covered, and I thought, Tar Baby, and wanted to blot him out of my sight. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about telling everyone in town to stop their sinning, or drown and die. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of jumping out in front of it, but I hesitated, inhibited, unsure that I was really being pursued, and then it was too late. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You thought the victim, a child, was a large man.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“I thought you major gods were incapacitated,” she managed. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I thought of her following these guys, four years older than her, into abandoned buildings. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I grasp at the thoughts ricocheting through my mind, trying to corral them. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And Helena needed a dress, shoes, underclothes, a nightgown, and probably other things I hadn’t thought of yet. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But the thought of losing the mechanical man was too much to bear. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I carefully slip the treasured book into my bag and, after a second thought, add the notebook filled with my lyrics too. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The more I thought about what Holly’d said, the madder I got, until that simmer reached a rolling boil. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

To tell you the truth, I never thought Id see that money. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of saying a prayer, but I couldn’t think of one. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

My shirt was completely stuck to my back by this time and I was feeling brutal—dizzy, sick to my stomach, my thoughts slow and sticky as flies in Vaseline. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

As for me, I doubted if he had had any thought at all. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I thought to myself, Mr. Ray is right, the person in that casket can’t feel nothing. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Helene thought about the trip South with heavy misgiving but decided that she had the best protection: her manner and her bearing, to which she would add a beautiful dress. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I am expected, she thought with grim pleasure. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

For a moment she thought she saw its mouth stretch into a smile thick with smoke, fractures of light breaking through. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

They tarred and feathered a Pole they thought was a German. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yeller held onto his pig until I thought for a second they had him. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

But more than the pain in my leg, more than my wrist dangling in front of me, was the thought that I was going to die. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus what Koyré took to be the key concept that made possible the new science, the concept of inertia, was, he held, constructed by Galileo thinking about everyday experience, by a mere thought experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I thought then that Wayne Parr would always reign as our grand marshal. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

We thought we were imitating the reality of white people At sunset, I would leave for home. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t really thought there would be anything in these books. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

How many times had she felt a thought simply fly away, like a bird? The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“But I thought you were a Christian,” I said to my mother. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about Memorial Hall, a quiet corridor in the temple that bore a permanent list of fallen Sons etched directly into the stone walls. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe he thought love worked like a Ping-Pong ball and would bounce around between the three of us. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The eyes held no spark, no awareness of him, and in horror he thought, It’s dead, of thirst maybe. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Will the robe become so damaged during the Song that it will need repairing again?” she asked him, trying not to show how distressing the thought was to her. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All one had to do was be bold, do something nobody thought of. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Willie was in his thirties, or maybe even older, and was the kind of guy who thought that just because he was old it meant he knew more than anybody. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I was sure more people than just me had thought about it, right? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

They thought they were being clever with their name. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ho for the life of a sailor! he thought. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought, The minute I change clothes he’s going to show up. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I thought peanut butter was an especially odd concept: You were supposed to cook with peanuts, not pound them into a cream to put in a jar. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But I was interested in knowing what he thought it meant. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He certainly had those, thought Harry, looking around the room. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I thought him letting us use his building was an arrangement of love. He’s floundering in gold, he doesn’t need our rent!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew quite as well as Venus did that her looks were not improved by what she had gone through, and always in her mind was the thought that she might suddenly meet Cupid. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had thought the label was funny—a badge of honor—but now it was an indictment. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The car pulled ahead of him, and for a second he thought they were through with him, but then it swerved sharply into a driveway, blocking his path. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The Hound was right, she thought, I am only a httle bird, repeating the words they taught me. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Afterward, while I undressed in my room, I thought about escape. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Here’s a thought. Why don’t you get started on the readings this weekend and think about the materials for the map on Monday? It isn’t due for a while.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I thought he knew me well enough to know that something was wrong, and I often wondered if he knew right then that something terrible was about to happen. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I felt as blindsided as I had in the days after Jesse’s suicide, when I began to learn how truly broken the boy I thought I knew everything about had been. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I know it was you! How could you? I thought you were my friend! ” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

But as she thought about it, what other house was there north of the village, over the bridge? Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I don’t know which is more horrifying—the thought of being here for another week, or the thought that maybe the medication that I so despise might actually be working. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“I thought the greenseers were the wizards of the children,” Bran said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s nothing like how I thought it would be. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

They were like the moon: distant enough not to enter her thoughts too often; bright enough to inspire wonder. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

His thoughts remain preoccupied with the image of the girl from the theater. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

No wonder he was never able to play as well as people thought he would. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Reynie hardly felt like sleeping, but he did need to calm down and clear his thoughts, and so lying in his bunk he turned to his usual method. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was possible, he thought, he hoped, that he didn't get any of the bad bacteria. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Tucked away out of sight, I dare say,” thought Jo, who could forgive her own wrongs, but hotly resented any insult offered her family. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tho I must admit I find myself thinking it all a little bit louder to cover up thoughts about the hole I found in the swamp, to block it out behind louder Noise. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was like my thoughts about rain had brought it on. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of what I could do to contribute, besides collecting bottles and scrap metal. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Papa asked me again where I thought we should start hunting. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I am now ashamed of the thought, ashamed of my fear, of the generational chains I tried to clasp onto your wrists. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The guide was lecturing telepathically, simply standing there, sending out thought waves to the crowd. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought Mary Willis had definitely decided not to go. I—” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Rather than listen, I began to look out the window, staring at the cars driving by when I thought about my brother Kevin’s death a year ago . The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I thought they were going to tear us to pieces,” said the boy. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But, after a moment of thought, I was sure. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were certain it was empty,” Lazlo pointed out. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Looking back, Will thought that should have been a warning sign. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe she should show it to the mayor, she thought reluctantly. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Had she miscalculated her time, or...she had a darker thought. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Your mother thought we might find you here.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

As if to justify his crime, Ramsey said that even now “white people in Oklahoma thought no more of killing an Indian than they did in 1724.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Thomas thought he could see bright flashes of light far away, bouncing off the night sky. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She thought a while, then closed the book. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought at first I’d say nothing, just sneak away, but at the last minute I changed my mind and said No, it’s Daisy. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a fleeting instant, Harry thought he saw a gleam of something like triumph in Dumbledore’s eyes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Even turning around to put my back against it and push with my legs—which I thought might give me better leverage—didn’t help; it still sat there. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

She shakes her head, as if to clear the thought. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I thought I wanted to die,” she said, “but today when the storm came and I thought the ship would sink, I... I...” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He thought it might be annoying to rain on yourself all the time, but Auster didn’t seem to care. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I knew my mother thought the marriage was a scandal, but this was the first I guessed that she saw Miss Love as a scoundrel, a villain, out to steal hers and Aunt Loma’s inheritance. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

As the music reverberated upon the air, unbidden, unwelcome thoughts slunk into Harry’s mind... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The news that his master was still alive roused him to a last effort beyond thought of weariness. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The building was of ferro-concrete and in excellent condition—almost too comfortable the Savage had thought when he first explored the place, almost too civilizedly luxurious. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I never thought you were a nature lover, but you’re certainly interested in the sky tonight,” he said. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day while walking on a street in the displaced persons’ camp, he thought he recognized a woman’s voice. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Whatever Mama does,” thought Francie, “it will be the right thing.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought there must be as many sailors on the Common as there were pigeons. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The wiper blades, on a slow speed, gently pulled me out of my thoughts and into the car. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

My flesh crawled, remembering the ironic, almost humorous twist he’d put on the last words—oh, God, I thought, my God, how could I have listened to him? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

This was my first time having a girlfriend, so at first I thought, Huh, maybe this is just how it goes. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In fact, I thought it would teach them a thing or two about empathy, and friendship, and loyalty. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He thought of the grizzly bear his mother had intercepted at the edge of the woods. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

An icy wind howled, whipping its way through my scantily dressed limbs, and the thought of waiting another four hours numbed me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought of Henry’s hand on hers in the pink bathroom. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about it calmly, coolly, without feeling. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were cutting weight,” Toby said. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Often it was canned beets, which suited me just fine, as I thought they were horrid and we always had so much of them. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I could hear the jingle of the dog’s tags in the background, and I thought of the path he usually took, wondering where they might be at the moment. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He snorted and said he thought a hunter always whooped to his dogs. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I reckon she thought she was fixing to be next.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

From all the fast breathing going on you’da thought the five other scared people had come back and brought a couple of scared friends with them. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

That smile erased most of my negative thoughts. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He thought for a moment it had exploded; a roar of sound filled the huge hall, shaking dust from the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I’m not Chinese, Frank thought, but he didn’t dare say that. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I thought to myself, “There goes the best grandpa a boy ever had.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such little things, she thought as she fed them by hand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“We thought it’d be cool to have a party here. You okay with that?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“I—I thought I would be released. I dared to hope...but I am still here.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When Bitter told Jam that the angels must have had to do dark things, hard things, Jam had thought of Hibiscus and the way his eyes sometimes looked like sad stones embedded in his head. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Next summer, Nathan thought, he was going to be twelve, and then thirteen. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She had died when I was having terrible thoughts about her. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I removed my hat in memory of brave men, and Charley saluted in his own manner but I thought with great respect. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought, I hate them, I hate all of them, I hate them, I will do what I want. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

When they dropped me off, I was faceup on the ground, the front of my shirt wet with my tears, and it was much, much later than I thought it was. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

As I passed one green field after the next, I thought, I don’t remember the road into Clover being so long. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I kept my face still as a plaster mask, but inside my brainpan, thoughts chased round and round. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another, more alarming thought floats into my brain. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Marty thought I was laughing at something else, so he got started, too, and pretty soon we were all laughing, and so everybody at the icecream store was looking at us. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nat thought of what men said of Mr. Derby—that he could “see around corners.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought again about Bat Lady telling me my dad might still be alive. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I'd been so focused on obtaining the stay and then on what to say to Herbert when I got to the prison that I hadn't actually thought about witnessing the execution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Tucker scratched his head and thought a moment. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was better, for now, if Redemption thought he was saving someone else; everyone’s always braver when they think they’re the hero. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The major's words were not reaching him, and nor were his own clear thoughts. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Frank had thought Rome was full of tourists. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And caught it, he thought, and eaten it. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of Wednesday’s comment and smiled, despite himself: Shadow had heard too many people telling each other not to repress their feelings, to let their emotions out, let the pain go. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He was so caught up in his thoughts that he walked right off the footpath and fell down seven or eight feet. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever path my thoughts take—to the good memories or the bad—at least Cheetah my goat-rug is always here to lick away my tears. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Jake spoke, I watched David’s face and could almost feel the full range of his thoughts—starting with defensive anger and moving on to fear, then sadness, and finally horror. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I thought maybe it meant to keep going, that all would work out. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Let sleeping dogs lie, he thought to himself, remembering the dinner. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

When she thought about it that way, Sean felt like a dream she could never hold on to. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

There was one more obstacle and then, Nathan thought, he would be standing in front of Mother Water Monster herself. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

What have I got that IT hasn’t got? she thought suddenly. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who would have thought,” she says, her voice tired, satisfied. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t make a single one of the thousand thoughts racing around my head stay still for even a second. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe it — in the middle of this horrible experience, Jeffrey had thought of me and had even managed to find me a box of my favorite candy. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked over and thought I was dreaming. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The interviewer asked me how the peace deal would affect girls, and whether I thought it should happen. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And now the thoughts rush in: adjusting the blue prints, prepping the trailer bed, lounging on the finished deck with my friends while sipping lemonade from fancy glasses. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“I thought I’d lost the world when my house went up in flames, but Lord have mercy, that didn’t mean anything compared to when I thought I’d lost my sweet baby girl!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I hadn’t thought you were a fool,” he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

That is an omen too, thought Tyrion, but not as hopeful. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I thought it was going to stink, but it didn't. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was an ugly word, an awful thought. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The young are the same, always and everywhere, he thought, and he shifted the car into gear and drove on. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He walked and worked among his villagers, thought of their welfare, and could tell the good workman from the bad. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of all the married shepherds he had known. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember being comforted by the fact that Jesus, whom I didn’t even know, thought so much of me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Everyone eats in silence for a few minutes and tries to digest these heavy thoughts. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I thought the automaton was gone forever, but I was wrong. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

His inviting me to dinner showed that he thought I would accept his betrayal as easily as he committed it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer had never thought to wonder why Tool was amongst the ship breakers. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Something is wrong here, the onetime smuggler thought. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I thought about Mrs. at home sick, throwing up at the sight and smell of food. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m jealous of your thoughts tonight. They’re making you a litde kinder than usual, but some way I feel as if they were wandering, as if they were not here with me.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet that thought worked its way into her brain now. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

And so when the burden of being nothing lifts from one’s thoughts the idea of the immortality of the soul is like a light in a blinding storm. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trust Grandmother to take the glamour out of the scene, thought Nhamo. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Professor McGonagall ignored them, which Harry thought was distinctly unfair, as she had just told off him and Ron. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

‘He is often called that here. But I thought you knew enough Elvish at least to know dún-adan: Man of the West, Númenorean. But this is not the time for lessons!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Will thought he could feel all the atoms of his body responding to her command, and he joined in, urging his leaking blood to listen and obey. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tears began to seep into my eyes as I thought how I would look to all my friends. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For a few days, Vanderbilt thought Riddle would reconsider and run War Admiral in the Bowie Handicap. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We thrived on thought, books, music, and art, which she fed to us instead of food. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You warned me that only death could pay for fife. I thought you meant the horse." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I guess this place is good luck, he thought with a rush of anticipation. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She thought she knew what it could be, and if she was right, then it could be the beginnings of a plan. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Then in math I couldn’t do my drills because inside my head were loud scary doctor thoughts and I couldn’t seem to hear the teacher. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she finally looked down at Ulysses, his eyes were still closed, and a terrible thought occurred to her. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

"I rather thought it would be good for him." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Never thought I'd be doing this sort of a job in a house here. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“I thought I could tell it in a few sentences,” he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She thought she could feel their eyes, like bugs crawling on her skin under her clothes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I was preoccupied by this thought, though I was also comforted by the knowledge that other mothers and children had successfully done this before. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For a while last summer, I thought I’d heard them all, the natural questions of someone who hadn’t read the book. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while she thought he might have fallen asleep. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Dashiell Hammett’s real first name was Samuel. Maybe he thought using Dashiell would be too much of a giveaway.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe Ruth thought we’d be spending hours talking about my future; maybe she thought she’d have a big influence on whether or not I changed my mind. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Humans are, of course, vastly more complicated; even in situations of extreme subordination, we can pump up our self-esteem with thoughts of our families, our religion, our hopes for the future. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was terrible. I thought ... I thought it would be . . . Honestly, I don’t know what I thought. I’m not sure I was thinking at all. It was wrong. It was terribly wrong of me.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The news drove any thought of caution out of Odysseus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought that if that had happened to me, I would have given up and asked the Lord to take my life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

How could he have ever thought he truly controlled anything? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I thought about the rumors of peace by the end of the holidays. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the thought of the mayor coming to Mango Street makes me laugh out loud. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this I thought: Dear God—protect him—bless him, for living or dead, he shall soon be beneath the earth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The news came to these men, and their eyes squinted and their fingertips burned a little, and each one thought how the patron could not live forever and someone had to take his place. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I thought you weren’t going to say good-by to me,” she said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Well, you sit alone and we sit alone—but together, too—so I thought that we could all sit alone together.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Worse, that terrible thought is followed quickly by another. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But I thought he considered wanting war to be part of his role as the general, while part of the High King’s role was to keep him in check. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The next day Benton Sage thought constantly about what Rameel had said to him. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The thought came at once: If we have this, we can bargain with him. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“No,” I said after a moment’s thought, “I don’t think so.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I always thought hospital people would be real health nuts, but these guys eat junk food like it’s going out of style. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The pretty guide thought he was part of the class; the teacher thought that he was planted in the audience to pep up the discussion; the class knew that he was an imposter. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn to see the back door of the house hanging open, and my thoughts suddenly go wild. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I thought it could go on like that forever, and yet here I am, once again I was proven wrong. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw Nico over there as Mozart. I like the wig. But I thought he was George Washington.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He refused to teach me any sygaldry at all, and on top of everything else, he began to ration what little sympathy he thought safe for me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A tornado, Ives,’ Layla said, like she thought Ivy really didn’t know. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I thought about my brother and wondered if he’d been close to my aunt. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Cady tried to soothe the ache she felt in her chest, dull and worrying, whenever she thought too hard about leaving Miss Mallory and the orphanage for good. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Jack had thought his father very brave to help the German Jews. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He meant that Finn hadn’t seen what he thought he’d seen. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Viserys, was her first thought the next time she paused, but a second glance told her otherwise. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The other kid, who thought Fufi was Spotty, had to watch his mother sell the dog he thought was his. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I gasp against the pain of the thought, against the end of something barely even begun. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is horrible, the thought of him and September. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They were getting near it now, Harry thought, the reason Scrimgeour was here. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Marcus saw you stay behind after the whipping. He and Zak are telling everyone that you thought the punishment was too harsh.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I thought of my father, who had no time for my dreams. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I thought of what Marcus had said about going to the movies in my time machine, that if I didn’t leave until I was sixty-two, the ticket guy wouldn’t recognize me. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

A couple of my friends thought I was nuts, but everyone else, especially girls and female teachers, thought I was ... ummm ... “soooooo sweet!” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Folks thought, Mr. Chris said, that hepatica leaves were good for liver medicine because the leaves were the shape of livers. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The thought that I was hurting them now was a constant ache. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And then this thought came in my head and I smacked Rondell on the shoulder with the back of my fist. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I thought of our stash of worms outside. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He led her past the dead man in the brown coat—and honestly, thought Bod, if he hadn’t got scared and fallen the man would have been disappointed in his hunt for treasure. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Jest never thought to,” said Grandpa, grinning proud and draping his arm around Loma’s shoulders. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Given Brum’s interest in the dip of her neckline, she doubted his thoughts were particularly holy. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I asked Amil what he thought the reason was, but he didn’t know. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was easier than he had thought it would be. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within five years, his name was known in towns he had never heard of, let alone thought to visit. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Just when I thought today couldn’t get any better. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He tracked us back to the bam, I thought. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The sails started luffing, slapping in a breeze that wasn’t as strong as he’d thought while he was sailing but he decided to reef anyway. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I worked for El Patron for donkey’s years—thought he’d go on forever. But now I’m out of a job, and Mr. Alacran has been kind enough to offer me another.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The original organic food movement thought organic farming should be sustainable. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Then she leaves me to stew in thoughts I refuse to sell. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Without a second thought, Shin joined his classmates in thrashing Ryu. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“It didn’t matter that much to us what the public thought.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Ignatius thought of Miss Trixie and said, “Yes, there is one.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I knew what Lahore would be like, but it was one thing to read about it in a book or see it on television, and another to experience it for myself. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Indeed, it used to be thought that Brunelleschi had produced his demonstration images around 1425 simply because scholars wanted to envisage these images as immediately provoking new art and new theories. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Ever since she saw a woodcut of a missionary surrounded by jungle natives, Ethel thought it would be spiritually fulfilling to serve the Lord in dark Africa, delivering savages to the light. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

My first thought was: Someone is having an amazing birthday party. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The thought of meeting the other tributes face-toface makes me queasy. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Prosper, however, thought the mastiffs made up for that advantage. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the cut on his cheek, he thought. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

All through the day, I thought of my girlfriend. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Like the way everyone laughed at Sammy because they thought he was making mistakes with the dogs, when it was really part of the act. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. She’ll want to apply. But she hasn’t thought it through yet. Not the way we just did.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I always thought I looked more like my dad.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Harry sat and thought about this while Hagrid read his newspaper, the Daily Prophet. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I never thought that a person who lived over 10,000 miles away could impact me, but tonight, that changed. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Apollo 9 had called theirs Gumdrop and Spider, which I thought were neat names because the command module teas shaped like a gumdrop and the lunar module did look sort of like a spider. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was about to move on, with the thought of peeking through cracks in the building’s front shutters, when another man appeared. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

When she woke up she thought only about doing the family washing. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked way ahead of her so she wouldn't see my sour face and got lost once again in my own thoughts until Grandma's voice brought me up sharply. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Even at the time, he thought it odd that she did not speak to him. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Hadn’t I, always, but ever and ever, thought that life was just one great risk for the living? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we are the grown-ups: this is the crux of it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was more than a name, Ivy thought as she underlined it twice. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Pax thought back to the vehicles that had passed the day before, the ones that smelled like his boy’s father’s new clothing. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

As terrified as Citra was, she did not want to leave the scythe alone with his own thoughts, so she went into the living room with him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Do you know what I’d do if I thought your money or hers either bought one cent of this?” she says, putting her hand on her dress. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I really didn’t know her well at all, certainly not well enough for her to dislike me — or so I’d thought. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I hate her, Eleanor thought, she sickens me; she is all washed and clean and wearing my red sweater. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I always thought it would mean playing video games in your pajamas all day and eating cereal from a huge mixing bowl. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

He thought of his own home, just five miles away, and the young married couple who waved from time to time as they jogged at sunset along the shore. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were this great mighty thing and yet he gains.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought my uncle had done that,” I tell him, even though none of us would have thought of it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Big Time Henson stood on the stoop in front of 171 West 145th Street and thought about what he had to do. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could have been much, much cruder, and even Joey admitted that he thought Casey would be jealous because Chas’s costume was so much gayer. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Slowly I nodded, trying as I did so to think of a tactful way to withdraw, when my eyes met his and suddenly I thought: Why not? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Something was being made, and even if it wasn't anything specific, it was something, and I thought that was pretty cool. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I will not let them live for strangers to ill-use,” she thought— Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, there are a lot of wounded. So I’ve sent a wire to Koch’s office for confirmation, but thought you might be able to solve the matter more quickly. Did you see him?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He waited impatiently for the end of class, and when the time finally came, his feet raced his thoughts all the way back to the house. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He thought he was smooth but what he came out looking was creepy. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was the reward promised me by Simon Bass, perhaps it was the thought of having to fend for myself in this unfamiliar territory, perhaps it was both. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the three of us swinging at the beach. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I don't know if Mellie cried at the thought, but I surely cried into my pink satin pillow that night. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I had thought they were adults and maybe citizens of Brobdingnag, at least. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he traced the prison’s history, he saw progress, the “puritanical” practice of the nineteenth century evolving into the “more enlightened social thought” of the twentieth. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is what Colin thought in the long silence that followed: would he want to know? An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I grew guilty at the realization that the white man might have thought so too. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes said thanks, but his lips could not yet speak; too many other words and thoughts were crowded in his mind that evening. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought she could see the Specters from time to time, in an oily glistening of the air; and it was Lyra who felt the first shiver of danger. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Send him away? But why? I have no objections to him being a card-holder. I was just curious, that’s all ... I thought perhaps you had been speaking to him,” Chacko said. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The article had appeared ten days ago, and Harry still got a sick, burning feeling of shame in his stomach every time he thought about it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As if reading my thoughts, Mr. McShane turned off the air conditioner and powered down the windows. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I thought no more of Mrs. Fairfax; I thought no more of Grace Poole, or the laugh: in an instant, I was within the chamber. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Frankly, I really shouldn’t hang out with them at all, since I tend to end up evacuating small soldiers while indulging depraved thoughts after watching them flirt with each other for hours. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Leo thought: You should’ve seen him when he had a body. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Francie roamed the Brooklyn streets in the lovely nights of fall and thought of Ben. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who knows . . . maybe it’s better to be like the crystal merchant: never go to Mecca, and just go through life wanting to do so, he thought, again trying to convince himself. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just thought that...you know...if I were Charlotte in the play, my mom might...” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

That Devon was alive and you thought I was confused but I’m not because I know that Devon is dead and that’s why I’m calling him Devon- who-is-dead and you’ll get used to it. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

If some mystical clarity of thought came when you looked death in the eye, then I knew Morrie wanted to share it. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two young people had spent a lot of time earlier looking all around as if they thought they were being followed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I thought I was doing a pretty good job of it. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cracked thought hits me and I want to laugh. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I sort of thought we were all on the same page. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The thought appears in my head, but I hardly know what it means. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Once she left, I got myself up, which was way more painful than I thought it would be. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The right hand was bandaged, and the left hand — which I thought was bandaged — just had an IV stuck in it. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was trying to quieten me—worried, I assume, about what the receptionist thought, what the other patients thought. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To think that I... that I thought—” She drew her knife. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I might as well be asleep, he thought. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

If the castles thought themselves secure, the cabins needn’t worry. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I thought he would know. The Feds must have told him they were coming.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Dicey could follow her grandmother’s thoughts easily now, now that she knew what the woman was talking about. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as he thought about it, the more he began to wonder. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

But Dustfinger must be told what happens to him, she thought, he must. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Obviously they did not want to go to the regular clinic to have an Army nurse take their blood: that would be a tip-off to the military authorities that they thought they’d been exposed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But why is it, I ask you, that in some men, thoughts of action never move from the head to the hand?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I thought sitting on one of those red velvety couches chock-full of fringy pillows was probably akin to suffocating. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I thought all the tears and nausea pooling in me would come up and I’d choke when he picked up the receiver and I had to speak. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

But then when Marlena pulled the blanket back from his hair and I saw that it was red, I thought I might actually faint from joy. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I thought, I’m raising a strong brave girl. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“We thought the tent was….We’re looking for...prisoner...the emperor we thought maybe...” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“We thought Albie would benefit more from going to a new school,” he told Grandpa Park. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The men had their backs to Tristran and Yvaine, and were resolutely facing the village as if they thought it sinful to observe the preparations occurring in the meadow behind them. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of every lawyer, every judge, every public official with whose name he was familiar—but the thought of each one of these white men was bitter in his heart. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Don’t blame your father, Pet said, interrupting her thoughts. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

And as for what Day told me . . . my temper rises at the thought of it. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Until then, I had thought I was the last one out of the ghetto. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

On the whole, Mariam thought that he had weathered the years considerably better than she. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Men came and went, but if you had asked me, I liked it well enough that I had thought I could of stayed forever. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time I ever saw it I thought the façade was ugly but I liked it now. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Then, just when Evan thought the afternoon couldn't get any better, it did. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I thought I might have to if he came after the kid who told Mr. Small the truth, but Sean never did go after him. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was back at her starting point and thought she was bound to see the others, or hear their calls. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As I lay in bed that night, I thought it over. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Well, maybe I'm relying too heavily on chance, Victor thought. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had thought it was only a raiding party. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been able to follow along with the conversation up until this point, but I dreaded the thought of having to speak. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She started to run, but then she thought better of it and walked steadily out there. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought of Nestor begging with his last breath for his Shu masters to return. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And the night before that, beside the window, when I thought he must have felt so caged. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then the other said, “Massa Charles’s property,” and I thought they would never stop. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I practically see his mind spinning, his thoughts beginning to derail. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

My cheeks burn again at the thought of Gale. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She must have come to feel so powerless, I thought, that the one thing she might have done—pick up the phone and call an ambulance—never even occurred to her. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Even though he knew I was in the same room, Dad thought for a moment and then wondered aloud, quite honestly, “What about?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I thought we were going to fight again. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

It really annoyed me that that’s what people thought about me. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

It was sort of a rap poem, and I thought it was pretty good. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I thought with longing of the house my grandmother had before she sold it to come and live with us, and then with my Aunt Libby. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I thought she was going to faint and fall over. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

There was a light in them, as if the green flame had sunk deeper into the dark wells of his thought. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

How strange his life had been, he thought He had wandered along strange paths. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of the second person, especially one as green as Derek, had not somehow hit him until just then, in late afternoon. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

‘And even in these latter days dwelling in the trees might be thought safer than sitting on the ground,’ said Gimli. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were supposed to be with Teddy at your mother’s?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes I fell silent and all my thoughts seemed big, very big, so endlessly BIG I couldn't get out of them. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I thought that the burning pain in my chest was Deborah. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They chose to ignore our calls for discipline and thought our advice feeble and unassertive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their bodies are here, but their thoughts are on the city walls, and their hearts as well. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t thought of myself as being too old for anything. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's not even like that, she thought as she walked to the bus stop. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

It was, she thought, like refusing to hand over maintenance records at the sale of a secondhand car. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I thought your brother would have told you. It’s a classic.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Something terrible happened here, I thought, feeling a cold drip down my spine. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She thought she saw a doe, her huge, glossy eyes peeking out from behind an evergreen, but then it was only the vanishing tail of a bounding rabbit, leaving long, trailing pawprints in the snow. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is what he says to get my attention when my thoughts are far away from where my body is. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought she was coming home from her cruise the next day, but she showed up a day early. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

She thought she understood when she saw the flames. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But then I’d thought that maybe I could pick up some valuable information from a group like this—so many locals, some who might even know Day personally. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The universe, he once thought, may well be made up of infinitesimal pieces of string, in thirty-two different colors. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He thought much the same must be going on in the other rooms of the Homestead. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“For years I thought I was going crazy. I couldn’t tell anybody. I couldn’t^—” Her eyes narrowed. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

For real, my thought process went out the door. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But he thought it was “far better to have had you marry me on faith and hope—then to have you fall desperately in love with me, than the other way around.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And yet, for a moment she even thought of defending herself. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Lost in his thoughts, little Willy got to town before he knew it. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Con refused to give up; his stomach churned at the thought of losing Shae. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

No doubt Will Solace thought Nico was a monster now, for letting Octavian kill himself. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He thought reason, opinion and authority should all give ground before experience, but he lacked the language in which to express this simple idea. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He looked at the giant’s face and thought he could see a glimmer of benevolence there. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I thought, It's happening, the it too terrifying and vast to name with anything but a pronoun. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

My thoughts and feelings were a wild, conflicting jumble. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I could tell her there won't be a sheriff left when I’m done, but I doubt she’d go along with the plan if she thought it was predicated on unsavory business. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

If we had to take in another family, I thought bitterly, I’d probably have to share the hall too. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the three faces and I thought bitterly, One of them has done this to me....Which one? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He listened quietly, staring off into space, and I assumed he was collecting his thoughts for an answer, but a few minutes later he cleared his throat and shook his head. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was something I’d thought I desperately needed for a while. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“How come this one walks in daylight? I thought they could only walk at night? There’s one that kept stealing some seeds from my nali’s cornfield. I think sunlight harms it.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Next time the hinges squeak, I will follow, Ranofer thought as he went back to his mat. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I took out my dad’s electric clipper and buzzed off my whole head of hair to shorter and shorter lengths until I thought it would be easy to shave with an electric razor. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before every science class, Mrs. Turton always spent a few minutes telling us something about the world that she thought we might find interesting. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“We thought you died, Jimmy! In the car. In the lake.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And she thought wars were partly encouraged by books and movies. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her lips began to tremble, and Meggie thought she was going to cry, but the next moment the familiar Elinor was back again. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

That was the last thought he recalled, because the next was that it was morning, and everything was stranger than Genie had even imagined. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The stags were the queerest to watch, for of course the antlers came up a long time before the rest of them, so at First Digory thought they were trees. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“And just ranting and raving. He admired Nixon, he was very anti-communist. So he just thought it was a betrayal of the country.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When he asked Mary Anne what she thought about the new nun in their lives, Mary Anne did not answer; she put up her two hands and covered her throat. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry and Hermione thought it best to accept their chocolate quietly. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Most blacks thought I was either stupid or too intent on pleasing the whites. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of the tens of thousands of Americans who’d lost their lives. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Hall thought it was ‘not quite’ but very nearly true to say that ‘engineering owed nothing to science’ until very late in the eighteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Malcolm thought he could hear the hyena’s laugh, and from the way Alice’s eyes opened wide, he knew she could too. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

His voice shook a little as he said, “I thought you would know me, Vetch.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Inej thought of the Ferolind with its cheerful flags, and tried to hold that image in her head as she watched the peacock feather sink into her skin. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Like peeling an orange, he thought sort of. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

My thoughts seemed undeveloped by comparison to the sophisticated dialogue around me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the more she thought about it, the more surely she knew there had never been a moment like that. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I thought she would turn and go, but she went on standing there by the door. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t alarmed exactly, but since I seemed to be the only person around, I thought I’d better go and investigate. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rick was a stranger—perhaps the four males thought he was hurting Jojo. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tristran thought about the star as he brushed down the horses and picked out their hooves. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then he had an idea; he wondered why he had not thought of it before. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Patient then asked what I thought about liars. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

She had thought carefully about a plausible excuse and, after much thought, had come up with a topic that no one would have questions about. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Only a baby would have thought it really happened. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I kept trying to figure out a way to tell her that, but all of the ways I thought of were weird and wrong. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“In those days, no one thought in terms of one bomb destroying a whole city.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn't have seen it coming, because she never thought it could happen. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I thought Poseidon was going to get mad, but he just looked at me and winked. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I thought they were coming to welcome me back, but then I saw they were chasing someone—Zoe Nightshade, racing toward me like a cheetah, dodging campers with no trouble. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She hugs the dog and says, “Oh, Mason. I thought your house was still sleeping.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Papa thought it would be just as nice on Sunday, maybe better. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I’d rather trust a bunch of humans not to hunt a species to extinction than trust an LEP consultant, thought Mulch. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think much of it, so I thought, “Hey, why not?” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Not be in it The more I thought about it the more I had my answer. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recall how wonderful I thought Milton was. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

As I hurried past, she shut it off and said, “I thought you were going swimming down to your little friend's house. What happened?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She came home on the evening of that last day with a bouquet of roses, and for a moment I thought maybe Nathan had brought her flowers to celebrate her final day of work. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Adam thought how a man doing an ugly or a brutal thing has hurt himself and must punish someone for the hurt. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Since we’d moved to a colored neighborhood, my mom thought the cats would be okay. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And then, just when I thought that I might jump out of my skin from worry, the fire door opened. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I first thought she was bringing it to Miss Love as a welcome-to-the-bride present. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Like the way you can memorize someone’s gestures but never know their thoughts. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

To escape into someone else’s head would be a blessed relief....Nothing that even Snape had left him could be worse than his own thoughts. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We said good-bye to the boys, but as we walked away, I thought of something. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

But her memory nagged at her: She’d thought the same thing before, after the kids in Arizona with the same names and ages as Emma, Finn, and Chess had been kidnapped. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“They looked at my name tag. And then they looked at each other. And then one of them asked me if I knew you. I thought that it was a funny question to ask.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

When I found out that I didn’t make it, I thought that was the end, but my mom convinced me I could try again. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

And though few of them have met before, by the time the plats principaux are cleared, an observer would have thought that they had known each other for ages. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

RON: He even thought we had a daughter. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

He took the cab ride again, and thought about Henry, nervous all day and watching over him like a ... a trainer. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Byron had made me promise not to tell anyone what had happened so everybody thought I was just being lazy. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking away from her own face in the mirror, she thought blindly, Journeys end in lovers meeting, lovers meeting. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

As Minli watched them turn into figures of shadows, seeming to dance toward their home and village, she thought of her own Ma and Ba waiting for her in her home far away. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I could fly from a bullet. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

I thought of the pills in my backpack. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

For an illogical moment, I’d thought she might mean my brother. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

As I ate, I thought how each chunk of chicken on my plate would be cut into three pieces in Aunty Ifeoma’s house. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I would have to clean floors for a thousand hours to earn a thousand dollars, I thought. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

At one point, the bench posed the question as to whether or not I thought a one- party state was a viable option for South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was pretty clear from Mrs. Baker’s glares the next morning that, somehow, she thought this was all my fault. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I thought for a moment, wondering whether the truth or a lie would go over better. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I thought about it, and figured that Little Tomato must be who the song was for—the person the singer was singing to. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

On the ride home, I thought about how even our brains have rooms. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I might have thought the same thing, if I hadn’t observed you beforehand.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She thought that previously, when God did not make the same traps out of the months and years that the Turks used when they measured a yard of percale, things were different. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was a cumbersome way of doing business, but it got the job done and went far beyond what Archimedes needed to solve his thought experiment. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Because right then, I did care what people thought. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I thought the Negro paper believed in reporting the truth,” Stella pressed, frowning. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Beating Molly must have boosted my rank more than I thought it would. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

We are fools to meet them on the Blackwater, Davos thought. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At first I thought he meant me, but then I saw the spiders were leaving the jar, crawling over the thick edge and down toward the earth to safety. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“He thought it was his fault, didn’t he, Shady? Because he helped Ned raise the twenty-five dollars to join the army underage and then Ned was killed. Because he thought he was a jinx.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The more he thought about it, the more he was glad that he agreed to let X-Ray have anything he might find. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She’d thought crossing the creek would save her, but this path led to a hill at the creek’s edge—a natural ramp. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I was doing research for a...book report and found something I thought James would be interested in. Is he here?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She spotted a wood wagon and thought to climb up on the back where she might be able to see, but others had the same idea. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But the Huntsman only raised his eyebrows, and Kaede thought she recognized his expression. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Like how you thought it would be easy to take the lawn business away from me?” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you might like an explanation for why I’m not dead,” he says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In a way more felt than thought, he sensed a connection between Nipper’s absence and Dorothy’s words, which had been haunting him without letup. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He watched his mother stir the yogurt, her face solemn, thoughts adrift. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

With these thoughts in her mind, she was delighted to find one day that Poseidon was absent from the gathering in Olympus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a word that explains this, she thought. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She smiled at everyone on her way back, but hearing the yelp she let out afterward, I thought she’d sat on a tack. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Since it must, they thought, presage the fall of some kingdom, the comet encouraged, in some sense precipitated, the invasion of England by William the Conqueror. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malfoy, who had reached for the glass eye, said, “I thought you were going to buy me a present.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I thought about how close I was to my old apartment. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes fell upon the stone ridge to his left and he thought at first he should build his shelter against the stone. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night I thought I heard his feet dragging around the house, scraping gravel. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke filled my head, muddled my thoughts. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

No wonder the bird had such a terrible disposition, Shirley thought. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Generose hadn’t thought that living in the United States would force her to decide between working and watching her children. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s different from what I thought,” she said. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about that last night as I tossed and turned. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

With remarkable prudence he acknowledged that his calculations could be wrong if "sources now unknown to us are prepared in the great storehouse of creation"–but it was clear that he thought that unlikely. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They’d say that it was because they liked Reagan’s policies, or they thought he was doing a good job. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you had the clue memorized,” Mr. Remora said, sounding more disappointed than suspicious. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The thought of standing on floors of glass made her queasy. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The grain was slow coming up in the Salinas Valley, and the wild- flowers came so late that some people thought they wouldn’t come at all. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought talking about his mother would spark something in Charlie's eyes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I’ve never thought about it before, how weird that was, how much he says without really saying. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"Oh, don't be silly. You were so devastated by the last person who dumped you. I thought I'd spare you the further humiliation. This way you're all settled." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I got back on, and when I finally thought I had gained my balance, I pushed off on what was my boldest attempt, steering around the corner and gaining speed. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I always thought of Nan as tough as beef jerky. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I thought about the way I had once loved purple so much. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But just as that thought ran through my head, a pack of guys who lived in the neighborhood passed me on their bikes, making me wish I was the last boy on earth. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I thought you just said it all goes to the bank.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

His mother, however, not knowing who he was, planned to kill her son’s murderer, as she thought him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edward thought that maybe she had fallen asleep. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

I thought of the little boy who hugged me outside of church, creating reconciliation and love. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I thought he’d be one of those quiet types who was awkwardly gentle and clumsy, the kind of mild-mannered guy who says, “Am I hurting you?” when I can’t feel a thing. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can help me. I thought I knew everything, but you...” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

As it was, he thought that on the attendant’s evidence he could give a certificate of death by misadventure in falling from bed. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I thought it meant someone had found die cay. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

You would have thought that in time she would have got over her first love affair and found another love, but she did not. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was leaning over the seat of the bus laughing in her ear about her coat, which I always thought was cool. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

What he meant, I am sure, is that he had been under an enchantment that had now lifted, though I daresay he did not dare use those precise words for fear of being thought insane. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Dear boy,” he said, as I sat down by his bed: “I thought you was late. But I knowed you couldn’t be that.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

As I lay in bed I thought how lucky I was to be going to school and to have a job. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The thought of that would have been something for my Sketchbook of Impossible Things before now. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Jimmy thought that was cool although it sounded like spy code to me. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I thought you said they couldn’t film you in the bathroom.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

They quickly found that of ten cell lines thought to be from nine different species—including dog, pig, and duck—all but one were actually from primates. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The train shivered with them at the thought but went on and sure enough there was ground up ahead and the trembling became the dancing under their feet. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never thought much about the “whites only” and “coloreds” signs posted above public facilities. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’m a coward, I hate the thought of pain. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d thought that if he could get back to land it would be over. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I've been wondering...I mean, I thought you might be able to tell me something." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She was barking so loud I thought my ears would fall off. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He never thought to feel underneath, but that was where the men were, each tucked under the middle ram, holding on to the great fleece. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought for a second, then the answer jumped out. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He went slowly at first, but the thought of those archers at his back soon drove him to a canter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I’ve thought about this a lot, because I realize it would have changed everything that happened later. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He thought of burying himself deep in the snow of the roof, but he knew that that was impossible. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Was he agreeable?”—“He was generally thought so.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Whatever anesthesia had carried me through the event was starting to wear off and with each passing second the thought of sitting around all night, alone, was seeming more and more unbearable. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She could teach Ari-Eil a thing or two yet about revulsion, she thought. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I sat on a wooden bench against the wall and thought about Saidu’s words. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Nobody wanted to stay behind in the movie theater, not even Riccio, although on the entire journey he kept declaring how horrible he thought it was that they were spying on Scipio. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Paul Martin, a paleontologist who was one of Haynes’s Arizona colleagues, thought otherwise. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then a thought runs across her face and she grins. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She vaguely knew that divorce was an affliction, but she did not regard it as a proper subject, and gave it no thought. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I live...while he lives? But I thought...I thought it was the other way round! I thought we both had to die? Or is it the same thing?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But deep down I knew these thoughts for nothing more than childish daydreams. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He thought of times in the past when he and Antonapoulos had been unhappy. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When I first found Daddy’s notebook, I thought it was cool that he wrote about me as a superhero. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

People saw me coming and welcomed me, he thought. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex thought of the man who had been his only relation for as long as he could remember. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

At first he thought he was looking at Tam Lin, but this person was younger and leaner. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had read A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie and, like everyone, I thought Williams was a genius. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I thought at first that it was the Methodist minister. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

First, Richard was irritated at the thought that he still was a foreigner who could be attacked, and then he felt grateful for Madu’s concern. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s clear from her voice what she thought I was asking of her, and I swallow hard. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Any job for her would be odd, I thought. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“This is no mistake!” the announcer calls out, as if answering the thoughts in my head. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing to worry about. Do you think Derby would send the Astrea now if he thought there was any danger? He knows things are quieting down.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

As an ethnomusicologist or researcher for your classroom, however, it is important to be able to articulate the culture’s beliefs about music by observing people’s behavior and thoughts about music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It was a gesture which, if anyone had still thought in such terms, might have recalled an eighteenth-century nobleman offering his snuffbox. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I thought, nature certainly works differently on mountains than in valleys. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” I said, and the thought nearly knocked me back against the van. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Leave now, he thought, come back some other time, when it's less crowded, when Henry's around. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was shining hot, like it thought it was still July, and November drizzles were a whole season away. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She thought about the nonexistent intruder at school. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I thought black guys from New York were supposed to be smart?” he said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had counted forty-nine flares when she thought she heard movement at the bottom of the tree. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Izzi does as he says, and reluctantly, I follow, my whole body rebelling at the thought of putting my life in the hands of a Mask. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She should smile like that all the time, Park thought; it made her face cross over from weird to beautiful. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Once, for a second, he thought he heard a break in the noise, some part of a word, but it could have been static. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought he might have been telling me that I had him to thank for so wondrous a trip. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of not getting a final glimpse of him was too much to bear, so I raised my eyes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was the only thought in my mind. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He thought: but the truth is much more than that. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The wall will fall to the wind as the windy hill will fall, and all things thought in former times: Nothing made remains, nor man remembers. And these towns shall be called the shining towns!” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one had an abortion without regret, she thought; abortions were an action of last resort, when there was no better option. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She stood in the same circle as he and Susan, and he glanced at her and thought she was the mistress of one of the politicians. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He thought he’d lost it for a second, but then he scraped rust and a moment later he was perched again. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I thought of maleness, I thought of whites with political or economic power and blacks with muscle. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Cas thought about those words now as she watched Tad checking his phone and walked to meet him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

"My talk is perhaps too bold,” continued Siddhartha, "but I do not wish to leave the Illustrious One without sincerely communicating to him my thoughts. Will the Illustrious One hear me a little longer?” Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inej thought as she looked for the guards patrolling the roof above, trying to pick out their shapes in the dark. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He thought it was at once the most fantastic and the most logical petition he had ever received. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “It was stranger when I discovered others didn’t have theirs weighed. I thought they must be very uncertain.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But, Dad, in this case winning was everything, he thought. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t bear the thought of sitting idly by some fire, sticking pins into a wax doll while miles away a drug-crazed draccus rolled in the flaming wreckage of some innocent family’s farm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I thought I was the last one out of the locker room, but as I turned out of my aisle, I saw Greg sitting on a bench, leaning toward Freddie's locker with a key. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve always thought of myself as nosy, but I guess I’m just nosy about stupid stuff. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I didn’t understand until I realized they all thought I was one of the Italian kids. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I was going to Andrea’s for the weekend and I would see what she thought. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The infinitesimal time period o drops right out of the equation, oy/ox becomes y/x, and o need never be thought of again. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Polly was finding the song more and more interesting because she thought she was beginning to see the connection between the music and the things that were happening. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Still, if Foxface thought it was dangerous, maybe it's time for me to get out of here, too. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

At first I thought Grandpa didn’t know Uncle Camp was standing right behind him. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I felt my face go hot and actually thought I might cry. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Harry thought even Professor Sprout seemed distant with him -— but then, she was Head of Hufflepuff House. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I thought about it the entire walk home from Blue Spot, which is probably why I don’t remember which candy bar I bought that day. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The mouse became nervous and, after the manner of his kind, began to say what he thought the rabbits would like to hear. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid thought that her niece was like her mother, the lovely, useless type. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This whole thing probably seemed simple to him: Ocean thought I was pretty and he’d told me so; I hadn’t told him to go to hell, so here we were. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

While not an atheist, Maman had never in her life given a thought to religion. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

But it was only when they were at the cage that they realized they hadn’t thought the whole plan through. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I thought we saw something moving—” His eyes widened with surprise. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He’d head out when his mind was filled with restless thoughts. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

I supposed Frith was thinking about it too, and I thought how much easier it would be if we cast aside convention and let him join in with us, if he had anything to say. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Billy was a good runner, which, considering the range we hoped to attain, I thought we might need to help us find our rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He thought the show was going extremely well. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Oh God! my soul groaned and I thought that it would burst and I would die huddled against the evil house. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks away, reaches into her cloak, and pulls out something I thought I had lost at the hospital. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Nobody knew how old she was—we thought she was about sixteen—much too old to be in our class. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought they likely were rushing to the place where Cade Hernandez and I had jumped into the Little Buffalo River, and how long ago was that, anyway? 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He thought she might be moving, though only slightly. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

And they walked on, silent with the fullness of this thought. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Like, whadaya doing? I thought I told you not to be friends with her.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew I went to a party, but nobody, not even my sister, thought it was because of that. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

As Gene thought about it, he realized that the building was very much like Kitum Cave. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about Rocky then; his baptismal name had been Augustine, and “Rocky” had been as close as he had wanted to come to the Indian name old Grandma’s sister had given him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought he was about to say hit’s time to pray. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Every now and then, he placed his wand-tip to his temple, removed another shining silver thought, and added it to the Pensieve. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He would turn his thoughts toward Hatsue then and keep them there until at the verge of sleep the war swam back to spill forth horribly anyway in his dreams. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And if you knew that—if that’s what you thought—then why did you steal my notebook? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Probably Wash had never thought to cross the lines that marked out who could be loved and by whom. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I know. I thought her name was Renee, but I was wrong. It’s Love.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At first he thought he must have made some sort of mistake. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Some of the old-timers considered this sentimental and some thought it wasteful and to some it was sacrilegious since there was no provision for it in any sacred volume. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was hungry, so I grabbed two, and when I came back, Miss Winthrop was deep in conversation with an older woman I thought I recognized from church. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel breathed away the trembling and thought warm thoughts. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

At first I thought she would drop me, but since I was already in what the others teachers called “dummy” English, where else could I go? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She could not, she had thought as she bent to kiss the baby’s flushed cheek, have loved this child more if it had come from her own flesh. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It sounds good. It sounds just fine. I’m just tired is all. I thought we’d be resting up a few days,” Florida said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I took his icy hand, needing the support more than I thought. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

We held hands, thinking our own thoughts, watching people arriving at the station, watching others hurrying away. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

How funny, Reynie thought, and marking down his answer he felt somewhat cheered. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody had given his accent a thought until the war came along, but suddenly we knew. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Who knows? Stranger things have happened,” thought Jo, as she fussed about the room. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

What kept me from it was the thought of Falconer. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Going over the same thoughts over and over. When my thoughts race against each other in a circle.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

By the time Mr. Birkway got to me, my heart was clobbering around so hard I thought it might leap straight out of my chest. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The flames must be scaring them, too, she thought. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The more I thought about that, the more I believed it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I think he really thought if the boys wanted to go mini golfing, it was as simple as getting in a nice car and going. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She had an accent that I thought was Australian, but I know now was Texan. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He warned her about what she was really in for with this man devoted to his specimens and his thoughts. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he had thought of them as a sea of simple brutes, clapping, swaying simple brutes, all of them accepting and pliant before the pastor in his designer suit. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He banked alarmingly, and for a moment Mrs. Frisby thought he meant it literally. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He felt a sudden rush of affection for them all, and out there under the sweet gum tree, within the sound of men tracking a bobcat, he thought he understood Guitar now. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were so happy I thought they were the ones that got in. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I know I should search the house, but just the thought of it takes too much energy. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I thought if I just ignore them and their allusions of grandeur, then they’ll eventually forget about it. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Eliot thought she was just practicing while they waited for Mr. Sen. But then she gave a signal and turned. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He screamed himself hoarse, then just when Dad thought he had calmed down, he gripped Dad around the waist and flung him like a sack of grain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He fell silent for a moment, his eyes lost in thought. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

No surprise, my dad thought this was an outrageous fashion choice. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He had already carried that dream for a long time, and despite what he thought of Odessa, it was impossible to let it go. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps I missed him,” thought Bod, but he did not believe this. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

As long as she kept busy, she could thrust away thoughts of her real predicament. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time I thought of him, I lived the horrible tragedy all over again. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember my mean mouth, I remember how wise I thought I was. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought for sure we’d take the exam on a computer like we do when we practice, but they insist that this is tradition. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“If you thought that, why didn’t you tell me?” she says, her voice louder and her eyes avoiding mine, avoiding me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He started chopping again, cutting the aluminum away in small triangles, putting each one on the raft as he chopped—he could never throw anything away again, he thought—because they might be useful later. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no idea where Sachsenhausen was, or how far we would have to go, but just the thought of walking all day made me feel exhausted. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought back to my darker days after college when I battled depression and uncertainty, unable to find a job in the corporate world like my friends. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Naomi thought maybe if she kissed him long enough he wouldn’t ask again. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Since going off to private school—and hanging around the Object—my tastes had been changing, becoming refined, I thought. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I thought of Ob, this particular cold morning, not even bothering to fix his usual cup of cocoa when he got out of bed. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about telling Sohrab that I had made the team. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he looked so proud and fine people thought he must be a great gentleman’s son in misfortune. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is nothing but a thought exercise—obviously there is no right answer—but it may help clarify the impact of abortion on crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

They thought the carefully stored bag was probably full of gold; at any rate, they wanted to see what was in it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry thought he was the only one who had noticed this, until he saw Bill’s eyes following the goblin up the stairs. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I had never had someone put that much time and thought into helping me develop as an athlete. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Dad’s depression affected Mama a great deal, and I thought she became distant even when he wasn’t around. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“But, Lenina . . .” he began protesting; and as she immediately untwined her arms, as she stepped away from him, he thought, for a moment, that she had taken his unspoken hint. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you’d be busy studying. I heard you got into the school. What are you going to do now?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Hull House had become a bastion of progressive thought inhabited by strong-willed young women, “interspersed,” as one visitor put it, “with earnest-faced, self-subordinating and mild-mannered men who slide from room to room apologetically.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

At first, I had thought it possible its limited success was due to my not having spoken clearly enough. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

His stomach hurt, and the thought of running the rest of the day suddenly depressed him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Malcolm had made a reasonable job of it, he thought, but he was glad to let her take over. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were one of them,” Lore said. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you taught this boy the basics. My father is Zeus, of course.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Joy to the Heart looked puzzled, as if he had never thought about it before. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The storms had been bad, all right, he thought. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I never thought of it that way. To me, you’ve always been the girl who knows the right answers.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He had taken the scraps back to the water with the thought they might work for bait, and die other fish came by die hundreds to clean them up. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first she thought she hated him for what they'd done to Lady, but after Sansa had wept her eyes dry, she told herself that it had not been Joffrey's doing, not truly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The veil of security I thought the uniform provided had been lifted, and now we hustled in our black dress shoes and stained wool pants through dirty fields and grassy yards. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I want to ask him more about our former home, but Meng is quiet now, lost in his own thoughts. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother who thought that nothing having to do with my father was in the present, that everything involving him was in the past, in the old days, in her old days. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I’m going to remember never to hit or to scold my children for crying, I thought, because then they will only cry more. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After lunch I thought you might like to play in your room with the rats.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Lilya’s story is told in hindsight—she didn’t live long enough to be able to reflect on her youth, and much of our knowledge of her thoughts is filtered through the memories of her friends. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I thought I told you to put that tire on the back of the car,” I says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing I thought about was the van that had broken down on the turnpike that morning. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

No one thought about the recent departure of Mia and Pearl from the house on Winslow Road. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was ashamed of the way she thought sometimes, up in her blanket. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She thought often about Alice, the delicate quality to her smallness and fairness, the incredible strength of her piano playing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

For a moment I thought Charles might lose his composure. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and thought real hard about making my breathing slow down. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

With all of this thought out, Bigger was still unwritten. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The entire time I thought I was an invisible wallflower, I was intimidating to Hannah Macintosh? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe, in a battlefield choked with the tormented thoughts of broken men, he cannot hear mine. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Petra, three houses away, followed the flashing lights on her ceiling, her thoughts falling into rhythm with the pulse of blue. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I shuddered at the thought of what the students would say or do to her if she made it. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced at him a second or two longer than I thought was necessary and then went back to her attendance roster. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A short distance away, he found a hatch in the ceiling of the tunnel—a square wooden panel that must lead, he thought, up into the storerooms. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was still morning, so she kindled a fire from the pot of coals and roasted yams while she thought. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Yoren had dragged her into that alley she'd thought he meant to kill her, but the sour old man had only held her tight, sawing through her mats and tangles with his dagger. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her mother paused, and Candice thought she would say more, but she just flipped over the fish to season the other side. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I thought of the highlighted Whitman: “If no other in the world be aware I sit content, / And if each and all be aware I sit content.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He thought it made her look tough, like she was ready for a brawl if it came down to it, as if she might have a razor in her shoe. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He thought my Observations on Fashion exceeding Seasonable & we retired some miles down the Road and purchased him a Shirt out of some Negro cloth & some Breeches, which we got at a very fine Price. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“That is what we must do as well,” Penelope thought. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I’d thought Sally was going to open up, start really talking to me, but she didn’t either. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In fact that’s why I stopped by today—” “And here I thought you merely enjoyed my company,” she said, turning back to her needlework. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was more touching than I thought there would be. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, Jennet told me that one night a visiting mayor fell out of bed, hit his head, and thought he was a cat, so he slept all night on the floor watching the mouseholes.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Holiday said that she wanted to help me see my strengths, but I thought I did see them. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

But I'm struck with a thought that would knock me off my feet if I weren't already sitting. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I have never thought about living anywhere besides here. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I must remember all this, he thought, to tell Elizabeth when I...He felt his cheeks get hot. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

My own thoughts were at war within me as I pondered what Hamlet and I had done. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

If that was going to feed everyone in the cave, Malcolm thought, trying to distract himself, there wouldn’t be much on anyone’s plate. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I thought about what Medusa had said: I was being used by the gods. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

My mother's gone, she added in her thoughts. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It’s such a strange thought that at first I dismiss it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The thought of that makes every bone in my body ache. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I was stricken, too, by the thought that Mr. Kendall might have found the bit of treasure I’d kept back for myself. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I mean, I thought you were going to slice her in half with the window!” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The guy at the copy shop thought you were in college. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

At least, she thought she rolled her head. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I thought of Martin Eden sinking lower and lower, forcing himself deeper and deeper. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I thought you hated molasses,” Tony said as they trotted along. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

His thoughts were interrupted by Sticky’s nervous voice crying out: “Sticky Washington!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

At that point, there were no thoughts in his squirrel head, not even thoughts of food. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The thought of leaving the children alone while the search party was still at large had been simply unacceptable to her. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Part of me thought he was hitting on me—ready to use the fact that I was now alone to ask me out. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The storm was loud now, just like her crying, and Ivy thought she heard her name all mixed up with the wind, like it really was making them one. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The thought of Father off visiting someone in the Jewish Hospital and completely unaware of what was happening, the long wait for Mother, the heat, the suspense—all this reduced us to silence. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And I thought of the other kind of peace. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Luckily, that wasn’t the reason; he just thought it was bad manners to seem so eager. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But the thought was troubling, and Doha began to worry. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

When I thought about Mtisha I could hook up some pictures of us getting married, going shopping in a mall, the whole thing. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd thought it was a joke too and laughed. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi thought she saw his eyes brighten a bit. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

After the lord of the dark world below carried her away she was never again the gay young creature who had played in the flowery meadow without a thought of care or trouble. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Doris's training had made me soft, I thought. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

But instead, he sat on his roof, pushing away thoughts of the dogs on the overpass. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I thought the thing in her hands was an umbrella until she cranked the pump and the shotgun blast blew the giant twenty feet backward, right into Nico’s sword. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

William wrote of attention in 1890: “Everyone knows what attention is. It is the taking possession of the mind in clear and vivid form out of what seem several simultaneous objects or trains of thought.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Instead the Inka selected the son he thought most qualified. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And for as long as I can remember, when she thought no one was looking, she played chicken with the stove, seeing how long she could keep her hand over the flame. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He was flattered, it was true, yet his expression clearly showed that he agreed with Reynie, that he rather thought someone should have given him such a present before now. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Because you will surely die then, Glerk thought but did not say. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I thought that what I needed was to have something more in the World than I had. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cynthia thought for a second, a smile creeping onto her lips. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

She un-laced my breeches, he thought, outraged, and she said ... oh, gods, and I said ... A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

This dame thought and acted like a man—only tougher, quicker, and more clever. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Amari glanced at the sky and smiled as if the thought was comforting. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, perpetuate means to keep something going!' Like I am perpetuating your stupidity, Adina thought. “ Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“And Johnny loved those pralines you did. He thought I was the smartest girl he’d ever met when I gave him those.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Kira thought again of the untouched expanse across the back and shoulders of the robe. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My thoughts grew illogical and fuzzy, and I distantly realized that I might actually succeed at falling asleep. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to think about Doll, about how she must have felt, but his thoughts had already moved away. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, I thought she was only embarrassed, but then she looked up, smiled, shook her head, and covered her face again. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The yellow wisps stood up on end like a circus clown’s, and I wondered how I ever thought she was cute. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about how the white people could come into our community and do whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The thought of them missing us makes me happier. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Nick Wall, aboard Stagehand, thought he had it too. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe there's no way, he thought, no way to change this country. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But still it’s frightening to realize that my fate is in the hands of men who are not the giants I once thought them to be, men who don’t know all the answers. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Coach thought I was making them laugh, but it was her. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I tried to get my mind around this shocking bit of information, but the music and the girl and the insanity of the situation were sort of fracturing my thoughts. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I wanted to say something, to yell that I was sorry, that I thought R.C. was evil and messed up, but they were too far to hear by then. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

At times Trueba thought he caught a glimmer of murderous hatred in his eyes, but there was never cause to rebuke him for any insolence. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to need a defibrillator,” I’d joked, because of course, I thought she was just teasing me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We had all thought President Kennedy was off his rocker when he declared we’d land a man on the moon. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mind was a tornado of thoughts and questions and anxiety while she recorded herself playing the violin section of Paganini’s “Cantabile for Violin and Guitar” for the CD she was making for the Beiderman. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But I thought to myself, Not this time, anyway. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never seen someone stutter like that; I thought he must have been joking or playing around, so I laughed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The thought of abandoning my team and sabotaging their chances at a win... Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said my dad, “we thought he was going to be big.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had always thought he was younger than me. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That man would get on my nerves. Didn’t matter where we were going, he needed some kind of hat. He thought his head was shaped funny.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was harder than I thought it would be. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, I came to drop off your Christmas present. I thought your dad hated me, but when I called to see if I could come over, he sounded like he might cry from happiness.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She had thought, though, that he might laugh at the impossibility of her plan. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Bobby thought and played, pondered and moved, all the while becoming drenched. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I thought to make kissy smacks, but he would be the last person on this earth to blow kisses at me. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

And no man’s our friend, she thought, but this time she held her tongue. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

If he thought about it too much, it hurt. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It would be something to live in a circus, Dicey thought, always moving around, always heading for somewhere new. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, but I assure you we have all thought of it so much,” continued Lady Crowan. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She had made that face once, and thought it funny. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I move my peas around with my fork, and my thoughts drift back to the aptitude tests. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

So, first, I thought I did a decent thing. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I thought English would be simply a version of our Korean. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

What kind of person, for that matter, saw a woman and even thought spider? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She shuddered at the thought, terribly familiar though it was, of the hideous bloodshed, of the agony of the victims. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he thought that a drowned chicken was fair game. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I thought living out here would protect us. I thought we could hide.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

And the principal looked over her record and thought she might well try it with hope of success. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a completely irrational thought, but it’s hard knowing that my life could be much better had I only been born looking a bit more like my momma. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

At first, I thought they had been sent out to calm the crowd—or was it to apprehend would-be play pirates? The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

His kiss was enjoyable, almost heady; it was nothing like her ex-boyfriend Mofe, whose kisses she had thought too salivary. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Here you were all grumbling and carrying on,” said Mr. Big Bucks Ballard, “but I guess it wasn’t as hard as everyone thought.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

"I don't know. I thought the cops got him, too, but they didn't." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I thought it might be a lady pirate, since the words sounded something alike, but then again, I thought it might be an umbrella. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

It got funnier and funnier, so we finally had to stop singing around Middletown because I thought that Mrs. Windermere was going to drive off the road, that’s how hard she was laughing. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You put it there! Don’t deny it! You thought, Let’s take Granny out to lunch. Let’s play a trick on her. Oh, you worthless hooligans! Even the She Elephant isn’t this bad!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, Grandma, I thought, ready or not, here I come! Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought that it might have been the lid to a fancy gold pen. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“You should’ve thought about that before you plunged us into this mess! Just look at you....The horror.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But curiously no one had ever thought to wonder where all the ash came from. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

This time Ruth heard me, but she must have thought I’d meant it as some kind of joke, because she laughed half-heartedly, then made some quip of her own. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had seen them before, especially over the garage, and she had thought that they were drawn by the smell of paint. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was happy to be a source of inspiration to young Muslim girls in France, or anywhere else, but I hadn’t really thought of myself as a role model for kids except as a fencer. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They had been too nervous to leave him alone or with Mrs. Villalobos again after the cuco attack, and they thought Seven was at Thorn’s house. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I thought it was me and Dowdel on our wedding day.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Laleh told us how her teacher had googled pictures of Iran to show the class where Laleh was going, which I thought was pretty cool. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But by the time she thought she might have enough to get them back to San Antonio, there was another problem. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

You thought I was testing your will, but all I wanted was to be near you. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I watched the stream of cabs going down Fifth Avenue, and thought about my mom’s apartment, only a litde ways uptown from where we sat. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

For, along with the steps of the plan ran all the thoughts he held on to about his mother. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“An exception to a rule. Lily thought we should try to convince them that three children would be appropriate for our family.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I will never look down from those windows, she thought, and tried to imagine the narrow iron stairway going up and around inside. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

TV\\«*rjcla>j, December f Harvey had outdone himself, Alex thought as he carried the sled into his old basement apartment. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“She doesn’t like you? I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

In the morning dark, he had thought of what might go wrong, of why he might not make the team. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason thought he had zeroed in on Cupid’s voice—at the edge of the amphitheater about twenty yards away—but he wanted to make sure. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Worse than I thought,” she said, as though talking to herself. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was the slim edition of The Gold-Bug wedged between the trash can and the wall that consumed his thoughts. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

What have I got that IT hasn’t got? she thought sud-denly. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They concluded: The “motivation to disclose our internal thoughts and knowledge to others may serve to sustain the behaviors that underlie the extreme sociality of our species.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I thought it was about dressing them up and buying them clothes,” she recalled. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He paused; started to speak but thought better of it; shook his head. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He wanted suddenly to return to the mute’s quiet room and tell him of the thoughts that were in his mind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I looked at the sky, feeling all sorts of wriggling anxious thoughts, but even I knew it was getting too dark to go tonight. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She thought her hands seemed to locate the root or herb she was seeking before she actually saw it. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s only one of him, she thought, and he's right here. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I have serious thoughts about running,” he said, pausing now from the eating. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was more beautiful than I had thought it would be. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They thought Arnold had told me to come to his place, and they’d been planning to force me to give them money when I came. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Robin smiled at the elder boy and patted him on the back, while the Wart thought despairingly about his dog. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are like children, she thought crossly, daring each other to go first, ready to turn and call names at whoever comes last; she pushed her plate away from her and sighed. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I would use all of them, just because she thought I couldn’t. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

This is no place to be voicing such thoughts. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, “Can I have your apple?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Amari thought about it and realized that what had happened to her really was one drop of kindness in this huge sea of evil that surrounded them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Singleton thought: He was texting when the crash happened. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I thought of everything I could do, of the different places I could go, and at last decided to stay in the ravine. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I thought you were good at math.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up exhausted, not knowing why, as though I’m working hard in my sleep, moving my thoughts like so many stones in the dark. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, I thought myself very lucky when I found a room in a two-story house on Jesus Green, a superb location less than ten minutes’ walk from the lab. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“I thought you wanted us to stay together forever.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This is what fresh expressions are becoming. food for thought. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought it was, but it’s not. I did a really dumb thing, didn’t I?” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Why, I thought you’d been here all the time. Where have you been?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” sighed Grandpa, as if he had read Jimmy’s thoughts. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

In a brief moment of sympathy, I thought, Yes, these poor dead babies. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I started filling the rests with thoughts, things I would have written to Fred in a postcard. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The thought to bring Nina a cup entered his head, and he crushed it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“They thought I was trying to kill myself. I wasn’t.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Gimpy said thats what I thought it was some kind of a gag. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I was imagining this, but I thought the teen- aged girl looked happy to see me. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He could not endure the thought of being left alone with his mother, with nothing whatever to put between himself and his guilty love. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Expulsion, I thought numbly, as if I had never heard the word before. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Hard to believe, he thought, that this wouldn’t have happened long ago. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I asked if he thought it was possible Isaac and Edmond and Osbert were all still living together and he shrugged and said Anything’s possible, but there’s a lot of trouble about. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around him people were feasting and celebrating because they thought they were finally safe, but he knew better. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yessum,” he said, trying to get into his voice some of the pity for Mrs. Dalton that he thought Peggy expected him to feel. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I tell myself that these thoughts are ridiculous. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I have mean thoughts sometimes, because I can't help the things that pop into my head, but I don't want to be like that. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

You can lose yourself in repetition—quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wallace, he’s so flustered he just digs in his money drawer and gives Judd change for a twenty, and afterward I thought what did Andrew Jackson have to do with it? Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Cook hadn’t spoken to the woman directly Ophie might have half thought the strange white woman was a ghost. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

More often, the theme was politics and the awkward cold war thought up by the American paranoids, who should be back in the law offices of middlewestern towns. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

All along, I thought this was about that stupid poem. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Well, he thought not long after he finished that bunch, a handful more would not hurt. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Until then I had had no thoughts of anything but my own pleasures, no higher ambition than to eat well and become a champion stick-fighter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought I heard my sister but—” The piercing shriek cuts me off. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because I thought forever was like Mars — far away. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

He thought he could maybe listen to that music all of his life. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The thought would come into my head and I’d push it away. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

For a second I thought he was Ares, because this guy looked exactly like the god of war—tall and buff, with a cruel scarred face and closely shaved black hair. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The sun was rising, shedding gray light over the golden forest, and in the shadows she thought she saw something moving in the distance. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I nearly cry at the thought of someone poking at her body, but I push the tears down. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, lost in thought while brushing his teeth, he put moisturizer on his toothbrush, not toothpaste. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then I thought, how could this Doctor Gordon help me anyway, with a beautiful wife and beautiful children and a beautiful dog haloing him like the angels on a Christmas card? The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Janssen opens the door, staring at me as I stand in her back garden with her dirty garden stake, the one I’ve just used to do what she thought was impossible. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Even the shades of Men are obedient to his will,” I thought. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I wish that you would let me alone. I am addressing a political meeting tonight, and I must organize my thoughts.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been keen to hear what people thought politically. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought a minute, got out her library scissors, and sat me down on the back steps. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought maybe he should stay with Boots, but he felt as if he could trust Dulcet, and he didn’t want to upset her again. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She stood for a moment in deep thought; unable to think of anything to say to help Mr. Tuffett, she stole quietly out of his office. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

If there was one person I thought I knew, depended on, and trusted utterly, it was my mother. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

In his letter, Howard pointed to what he thought was the motivation behind the attack on his integrity: the rivalry with War Admiral. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about asking her what he should do in case of an earthquake but didn’t want to sound like a wimp. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He honestly thought he was doing his girls a favor, and it confused him when the thanks never came. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I thought you done slipped back out doors. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how often he’d thought about it, the reality came as a blow. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genie asked, trying to push the thought of the fire truck further back in his brain. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But I, being poor, have only my dreams, thought Joseph, remembering the Yeats poem. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I was so scared! I thought they were from my mother’s school.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra listened awhile, and then lay back in the deck chair with Pantalaimon curled around her neck, and thought of the grand vision the goose daemon had brought with him. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“You may say what you chuse—but your countenance testifies that your thoughts on this subject are very much like mine.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Lice Peeking started laughing so hard, I thought he might have an asthma attack and fall on the floor. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

If Tobias intended to rescue me, he would have thought it through; he would have brought others. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And although Stella thought Jojo would have been exhausted from all the excitement, he tossed and turned until late in the night. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“When I came back, I thought I was going to be able to sell my dad’s house and leave immediately,” she said. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

At first he thought he was losing his balance—it even made him stumble once or twice—for the buildings were two or three degrees out of the vertical, all leaning the same way. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There were all kinds of music in her thoughts. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There were calls to make, letters to write, permits to secure, and other things I'd never thought of. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Though I never have, I thought I might faint. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if he thought himself the only one privileged to address the white man as “sir,” and I had infringed on that prerogative. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought they were all fat, but Father said no. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about calling her himself, but she’d already yelled at him once when her ringtone had woken up his mum. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Still, though, there were those tourists, he thought, as he walked down Hill Street toward the docks. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Well, he thought, let's see how badly off you are. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of thought that isn’t easily finished. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you thought her locker . . . ?” “I don’t know. I thought it might hold a clue or some-thing.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he thought that he might go to some man to buy some medicine to put into her food to make her quiet, but of course he never did this. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I thought I had a few packets left. Anything else you need?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“How foolish. I thought we were one pew up,” she whispered. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I left you a note a couple of days ago. I thought we should talk—” “I didn’t get a note.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought maybe he had cramps from all the laughing, but I wasn’t sure he hadn’t punctured a lung, and I was trembling as I bent down to check him out. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I thought writing to my fave female filmmakers would be way more fun than writing to myself. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But suppose something had happened to him....Meggie shook her head as if to drive away the bad thoughts that had wormed their way in yet again. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I thought it was a lovely story, especially the part about the fig tree in winter under the snow and then the fig tree in spring with all the green fruit. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He fired again, but the shot missed widely, and I thought I heard him curse. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Jo thought she was asleep, she lay so still, and putting down her book, sat looking at her with wistful eyes, trying to see signs of hope in the faint color on Beth’s cheeks. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spoke to me, and I responded, not in words but in appreciation and consideration of their thoughts. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He thought of Nok, her piercing blackbird eyes and the vengeful way she'd looked at him before he leaped from the cliff into the water. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She felt them pelting her with dirty thoughts. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I thought she might sleep, especially after staying awake all night, but she didn’t. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

They got closer, a man and a woman, both squinting to see if I was who they thought I'd be. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I was lost in thoughts that were as dark as the clouds that hid the mountain. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

All those months, my thoughts crammed into a formless world? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“I thought this was a business establishment,” Mr. Robert said. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, there is a place in the world where the white people are even poorer than you ever thought possible. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, your hand was shaking so badly that I thought you were going to screw it up. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I thought she was a very distant relative. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had to let the thought of my dad splash around my stomach with whatever a short rib was, while my regular-size ribs felt like they were being bent. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

It had swelled even more quickly than I thought it would. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alec held up a hand as if he thought Mark would go charging after the guy. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But not even that thought can keep me from becoming a puddle in Mrs. Malloy’s arms. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Just as she had never seriously thought of having a child until now; the longing in the lower part of her belly was sudden and searing and new. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Where the best of thought Father said clings like dead ivy vines upon old dead brick. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, the thing with Victoria showed me that not all non-groundlings are the arrogant, judgmental beasts I’d always thought them to be. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Despite the late night, she knew that her mother would be extremely upset if any of them even thought about missing church this morning. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I thought of how Yakov’s hands had looked when I had cleaned them. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Nya thought it was funny: You had to have water to find water. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without them, we would not move a muscle, drum a finger, think a thought. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a chance to rip off the corporations, which we all thought was a funny idea. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back then, I thought she meant she was having a heart attack, that she was feeling all the symptoms we learned about in health class: a tight chest, pain in your arm or jaw, indigestion. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It meant my parents thought I had problems with my brain, and not the kind of problems that made it hard to do math or learn to read. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When I had finished the eighth grade back in Mason, Michigan, that was the last time I’d thought of studying anything that didn’t have some husde purpose. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

How you never really saw him, just thought you did. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you said she went to a private school in Boston.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, she thought he was going to let the topic die. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I see. Okay. I didn’t realize. I thought, Heather, you know? But this makes more sense.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

They thought about numbers a lot, and shapes, and the size of the universe. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“She has had food. She has had servants. Her daughter went to college. There wasn’t anything she thought of that she couldn’t buy. I have been a good husband.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” Catherine said, but she was only four years old and mostly thought she should say “yes” because that’s what everyone else had said first. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Stagecoaches to and from Philadelphia were stopped; postmasters used tongs to dip mail and newspapers from the city in vinegar and other substances they thought would purify them. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

It was the first time anybody white had ever called me Miss. They cared what I thought. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I thought it lost, but it appeared again, beneath a fallen tree perhaps or struggling on the other side of a muddied ditch created by the winter rains. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

We were asked to write the letter grade we felt we deserved, then write a brief comment on why we thought we deserved that grade. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I lay there and thought how life was like a Littmus Lozenge, how the sweet and the sad were all mixed up together and how hard it was to separate them out. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I could hear Mr. Merrit breathing into the phone. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

How could he have thought this was a good idea? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The thought of our being together near the tree on that special day, listening to carols, really sparked romantic daydreams. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I saw two men enter bringing the food and all other thought ceased. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I can understand how the thought of a chicken would make him hungry. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

If they were where they could talk, Toby thought to himself, one of them would be starting a sentence and the other finishing it—as if they had Siamese brains, or something. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was so discreet and gentle that she finally forgot about his proposal; she even thought it might have been some sort of joke on the count’s part. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z