That word sassy has always rubbed me the wrong way for some reason, like articulate. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She was from the “wrong kind” of family but embedded in a pious Mormon community that, like many communities, visited the crimes of the parents on the children. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was as if nothing wrong could happen in a world where things balanced so stilly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His army papers—” “They could be wrong,” Adam said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

How can he be expected to obey a law that feels so wrong? The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to say, No thanks, wrong door, just looking for the bathroom. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It showed clean river with narrow banks where he guessed the lake was and if it was inaccurate about this one thing then it might be wrong about all things. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Almost every week I do a new chore wrong and her fists come flying at me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t learn and there was something a little wrong with his coordination. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something had to be wrong with me, but one really good advantage about being dirt-poor is that you can’t afford to go to the doctor and get bad news. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In a class of geniuses, I had copied from the guy who got it wrong on purpose. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Something was wrong; she did not tie her wrapper just to go to the toilet. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

All the letters stay the same, but they are moved around—transposed—into the wrong places. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They could never find anything wrong with him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Dad—there’s something wrong with her,” I was babbling. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Nope,” I said, because I was pretty sure she was wrong. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was kind of limping like something was wrong with one of his legs. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I said this, I knew I was wrong. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then it had all gone so maddeningly wrong. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Something was terribly wrong—she knew it the moment she saw him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Evidently he thought that I was shying away from the "gonnegtion" mentioned at lunch, but I assured him he was wrong. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“But the American embassy gave her a visa. She didn’t do anything wrong,” I insist. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

One day I brought him the wrong kind of greenery, and he sulked and wouldn’t eat it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“If I were you, I would do a better job of pretending that selfless impulse is going away,” he says, “because if the wrong people discover it... well, it won’t be good for you.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Party with me. It’s good stuff I got here. Real good. It’ll make you feel like nothing’s wrong.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In our time together, I’d never known him to be wrong about anything. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He began to explain what I did wrong and why my mother was so angry. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I’m wrong, but I’m willing to run against him to test the theory. It is all up to Mr. Riddle.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think we got off on the wrong foot,” I said. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t like students who stand out for “all the wrong reasons.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Wait a minute, Sunny. My hearing must be acting up, ’cuz I thought I just heard you say you were wrong about something? The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Once you do, your fingers fumble and hit the wrong keys. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the elfin knights and soldiers had turned out, and they were standing in their battle ranks, ready for action if something went wrong. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

There was nothing much wrong with the dead animals, nothing that he could put his finger on. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She—you know—chose the wrong side. It wasn’t pretty.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t going to blow over in one night. She’s being stubborn. I didn’t do anything wrong!” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

At this point, Galileo had a sense that something was wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When we marched down the streets of Birmingham in 1963 for our legal rights, we did nothing, wrong. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Enough. He was not wrong. Never trust a sellsword Or a queen, thought Dany. “Is there some man in the Second Sons who might be persuaded to ... remove ... A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mary had no idea what was wrong, but she sensed a disturbing coolness in her boyfriend. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Powell brushed his mustache the wrong way, “So help me, Mike, another fool remark out of you, and I’ll take away your rattle and teething ring.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

She took a few wrong turns, and Scythe Curie didn’t correct her. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Thanks for the heads-up. This is wild, isn’t this wild? It feels wrong.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Charlie keeps dancing like nothing’s wrong as the guy lifts his sunglasses. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“We made a mistake, sir. You see, there wasn’t no sign. We just got in the wrong car, that’s all. Sir.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

With their hands free, they took up tools and beat from the bush their own food and shelter and their own fine business of right and wrong. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only I was worrying about the wrong things. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Their mathematical theories might be beautiful and consistent and might seem to explain the nature of the universe—and be utterly wrong. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

What if my mother had held the mirror wrong and had missed Lynn’s feeble breath? Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were dozens of them, intricate, enmeshed, one building on the other—one wrong, all wrong. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

"I want your oaths on that. If even part of what I suspect is true, Ned and my girls have ridden into deadly danger, and a word in the wrong ears could mean their lives." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

But the trick was this: If you went through the wrong door, the room you entered had an electric floor, and you got a shock. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I now understood how wrong that thinking was. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It’s one thing to knock each other down, but kicking snow in someone’s face...that’s just wrong. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

When the meeting adjourned, Mott hugged Bush and thanked her for taking the lead, and Stanton realized she had been wrong to underestimate the female leadership. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She’s opening the folded pieces of paper wondering what went wrong. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

But after ten minutes in the car, when we pulled up to Christiana Hospital, I had a sinking feeling that I’d gotten it all wrong. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It struck me for the first time, how wrong it was that I'd never seen it. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Jasper, knowing something was wrong, as dogs always do. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“There was nothing wrong with him. His wife made off with a lot of the money.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I pull out the wrong textbook, and then my science folder spills to the floor. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Close it then. There must be something wrong. Why would something as valuable as the Prince’s private zoo be left unlocked?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was wrong to open people’s letters, but it was right, it was essential, for her to know everything. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I had my suspicions about Eric, who was walking away, his back toward us — in the wrong direction for his next class. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Something wrong with your head? Who told you to come after me?” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

And scared, so scared that maybe she was wrong. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He had been assuming, since his own enterprise had gone agley, that the Queen was a pure woman; and that he, in seeking to enjoy her, was in the wrong. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d watched the way she assessed the terms of their deal, probably finding a dozen loopholes to get herself out of it if things went wrong. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing wrong with that, it’s not a problem to me, anyway. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was wrong to believe that the sluggers had given me freedom. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“No need to be sorry, sweet child. You did nothing wrong.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the time it never occurred to any of us that we were doing anything wrong—if copying CDs is wrong, why would they make CD writers? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Annabetfi wanted to sneak up the path invisibly and grab the Fleece, but in the end I convinced her that something would go wrong. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I thought he would be stuck up like all those other important people, but I was wrong. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

If Baba was wrong and there was a God like they said in school, then He’d let me win. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Surely by now everyone can see that the game has gone wrong. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were so many variables, so many ways to go wrong. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes. And there were times when it was very dangerous to think the wrong things, or at least to talk about them.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Maybe Mom wasn’t so wrong when she called me a brat. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“What’s wrong with the set?” she muttered, and began clicking through the channels. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I promised him!” he screamed, realizing even as he did so that his voice was laced with something wrong. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

"And then—hullo! What's wrong with the Human? It looks pretty green. Why, I do believe it's quite faint. Perhaps it's mortal hungry. When did you last have a meal, youngster?" The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Young, yes, and politically naive, but even so the American war in Vietnam seemed to me wrong. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His punishment was deserved, but his daughter suffered as terribly as he and she was innocent of all wrong. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would probably hold a grudge and blame everything that went wrong on me! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I say that because...I always thought people like Lee and Dale were wrong. Like, they were living in sin.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m doing this all wrong. Never mind your father’s song. We’ll talk about it after he finishes it. Knowing Lanre’s story might give you some perspective.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ma said magic was leaving the city, but maybe she was wrong. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

That was what was wrong; he had let that preacher talk to him until somewhere in him he had begun to feel that maybe something could happen. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Our fathers sleep in the tomb, but the wrong done to them can never sleep,” they said. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s missing an arm and one of its legs is turned the wrong way. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

And so I think that even if there is a reason, it may be wrong. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He was so impressed that he very nearly told Mr. Croker about the wooden acorn that unscrewed the wrong way too. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I think of all that is still wrong—my manman in New Jersey. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“He said James was lethal. What if something goes wrong, and they get separated? If something happens to any of them, Carlisle, Emmett . . . Edward ...” I gulped. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Miss Thomas said, “There’s lots wrong, but not with that car.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

But when I did, I knew something was wrong. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And then I tried to say the refrain from “Tere Bin,” but it came out wrong, and I ended up saying something about burning lentils. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

You go along for years knowing something is wrong, then suddenly you discover that you're as transparent as air. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he has before, he finds the instruction too academic, concentrating on the wrong things. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They had been told about how wrong it was to hate, but he had scarcely listened, for it had not seemed an emotion with which he would ever have to do. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing wrong with the child’s lungs, but nevertheless you’d better take her. The country air will do her good. We simply can’t assume responsibility for her. I’m sure you understand.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t say I’ve drawn the wrong thing, or that surely there’s something else I do after school besides going to bed. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She relaxed, knowing it wrong to go on, but knowing it wrong, too, to stop him, to stop this rocking, rocking. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small ones, like you get in the wrong checkout line. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to fight anymore either. But you don’t know what it’s like finding out something might be wrong with someone you care about. I’ve been there before, and believe me, it’s really scary.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I disliked him so much by this time that I didn't find it necessary to tell him he was wrong. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

As soon as the truck turned the corner in the road, I immediately knew I'd done the wrong thing. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t start, Mary—there’s nothing wrong with teaching children about fitness and health.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Empathy was the wrong tack, as it only seemed to irritate him. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

"Watching him through the glass, I could practically see his mind working: he had discovered something wrong." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her words were always tinged with apology, like she knew she was saying the wrong thing but didn’t know how to stop herself. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She felt her son was hanging out with the wrong crowd. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

"Listen, the phone will attract the wrong attention. How are you going to explain having one when no one else in the world has it? I'm doing you a favor, Zack." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The only way of rescuing the theory in the light of the new evidence would have been to say that all the navigators were wrong: America was not where they thought it was. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Aristotle thought his method was necessarily trustworthy; he was wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And I thought to myself, My uncle was wrong. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Every bed has a right and a wrong side,” said Mary Poppins, primly. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

But others were just ordinary folk, in the wrong place at the wrong time. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Don’t listen! I’m wrong! I’m wrong! It’s a mistake! I’m wrong!” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Sneaky acts like nothing’s wrong at all; he’s laughing and joking with these guys the same way he used to with me. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Milton asked what was wrong with their values. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I found Henry this morning. He knows he did wrong, and he’ll be coming home this evening. I thought you might like to know.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I sat to a silent supper all by myself the second night home, I figured out what was wrong. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

No, I was wrong; I didn’t jump off the roof because I wanted to be like the Dauntless. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Her voice was so serious I thought something might be wrong. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She seems to think there’s nothing wrong in what she’s doing; she laughs with delight, her eyes sparkle, her cheeks are flushed. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Have you ever taken the wrong freeway entrance? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tore out the knee of my pants and had to make do with the wrong color thread for mending. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Convince teammates everything went wrong because of me.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But he looked at Mameh and said he didn’t know what was wrong with her. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys cuddle with me, sensing something is wrong. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That doesn’t seem right,” said Milo helplessly, for, with the bird taking everything the wrong way, he hardly knew what he was saying. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have to get my mind focused and stop listening to myself— because I send myself the wrong way sometimes. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I truly realize and I understand that I was wrong to not pay closer attention.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

This has gotta be taboo for a Last Friend to say, but I’m not wrong. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

This is your chance to make right what once went so utterly wrong. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Sure,” I said, fully expecting something would go wrong the way it always did. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

When Stick was in trouble, it didn’t feel wrong. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

It is important to note that Hofstede wasn’t suggesting that there was a right place or a wrong place to be on any one of these scales. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But he had also told me that they were carefully engineered to hold the weight, and something had to be done wrong to make them explode. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still, Richard takes one look at my face, streaked with grease and tears, and knows something is wrong; Dad sees nothing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was the wrong person for this task, the wrong person in the wrong place. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s something wrong,” said Hazel, staring at the approaching rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Pollard was wrong about Seabiscuit, then his strategy would hand the victory to War Admiral. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bridge had never in her life thought about the right way or wrong way to make a fist, but standing there in the Bean Bar, she felt strong. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

There is nothing wrong with Lucas, and that is what is wrong with him. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when she arrives at University Hospital, the doctors can’t seem to find anything wrong with her, except for possibly some signs of malaria. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His grandfather—Toby had only met the man a handful of times before he ended up on the wrong side of a knife in a bar in Startown—had taken his chances in Nashville. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was wet and so cold he felt wrong to her, and she had to work to suppress a shudder. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He didn’t think the universe owed him an apology whenever something went wrong—unlike another son of the sky god she’d recently met. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Scipio straightened himself up as if that would prove Hornet wrong. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew it was wrong, the whole time,” Tobias said in between gasps. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t get me wrong. I’m no expert. Got it all off the Internet! Easy as falling down.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered why I seemed unusually agitated today, and asked if anything was wrong. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think you have the wrong son,” he said. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She bought me the wrong kind of skates--I wanted racing skates and she bought hockey--but it made me sad anyway. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Relax. You got this all wrong. Listen, I just wanted to inquire of you one thing.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, his mom gave it to me. It is...was for us. For our school project. Why? What’s wrong?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Nothing wrong with the boy having a mind of his own. God gave him that.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I decided right then that if I had to do the wrong thing to keep my chickens safe and bring them home, that’s what I was going to do. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Nick had said, “But I didn’t do anything wrong, Mom. And neither did that lady from the newspaper.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was tall and skinny, skinnier than Dari even, in a way that looked like his bones might rip right through his skin with one wrong move. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

One pilot does something wrong, and the other pilot doesn’t catch the error. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The reality, though, is that all of us have done wrong. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Please God let Dr. Bauer not find anything wrong with me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“If we keep it right in front of us, we can’t go wrong.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I have no idea. I’m sure your father hasn’t done anything wrong,” Grandma said. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“What the hell is wrong with you? You think that’s funny?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

There was nothing wrong with his voice, anyway. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

So...is she wrong about who I am now? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was changing clothes and he sat down on the rubbing table and asked me what was wrong. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I wanted Mexican-style hair. I don’t see nothing wrong with it.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I did something wrong, which was often, he would yell and scream at me over the interphone, and I would get very nervous. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is there something wrong with how I sound, human girl?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Don’t get me wrong—I want him to be happy, he’s my absolute best friend. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Everyone has the wrong impression of Cupid...until they meet him.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At other times the most vocal experts suddenly agree en masse that the old wisdom was wrong and that the new wisdom is, for a little while at least, irrefutably right. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Ideology,” then, had provided Jefferson with a politically attractive pro-French platform, which had turned out to have enormous rhetorical advantages no matter how wrong it proved in reality. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Baby, look. You’re grieving, okay? That can amplify your emotions and make you feel things you haven’t felt in a long time. Even if you do have feelings for Khalil, there’s nothing wrong with that.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Of course, it should have occurred to me immediately what was wrong, but it did not, and a few minutes later he called from the bedroom. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Well, when my father got through with that sentence where the wedding was sandwiched between the ministers’ meeting and the treasury whatever, I said, ‘You read that wrong.’ The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“No, you’re wrong. I am going to be somebody great,” I mutter to her. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the first thing that Principal Peattie said was “I’m sorry. I was wrong. I was wrong about a great many things, and I’m sorry.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“But how do people live out there, Shay? Like the Rusties? Burning trees for heat and burying their junk everywhere? It’s wrong to live in nature, unless you want to live like an animal.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Even the roof was wrong, its raw new timbers light and bright, where the old rafters had been stained almost black by centuries of smoke. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Yes...nothing could go wrong with that plan. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Billy guessed that it was the drain in the bottom of the Iron Maiden, but that was wrong. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got there a few seconds late. I decided there was still time. I was wrong.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that true? You took the wrong twins at dismissal?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, if he’s the wrong un, why the hell don’t you find the right un? I got a houseful of women won’t go to the bathroom alone.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are too many things wrong with this description for me to actually process it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“That’s the story we didn’t get into yesterday when we told you we wanted to start our own club. He basically wants me to act the stereotype, which is just...it’s just wrong,” she says. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m not apologizing when I didn’t do anything wrong. If anything, she should apologize for accusing me of being racist last week.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He’d come back with something like ‘Oh, so I guess you just don’t care about right and wrong.’ Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Something really was wrong with McCoy, and if we were the only ones who knew about it, we had to do something. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I had done something wrong, something which I could not hide or deny. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen, I’m not perfect or anything. What do you think? Besides, there’s nothing wrong with changing your perspective occasionally. It’s nice.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It turns out he was wrong, but he could easily have been right. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Why are we assuming that there was anything done wrong here? Wasn’t this just an accident?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Had I put my history homework in the wrong pile? A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The belief that this is wrong is a widespread misconception concocted by nineteenth- century newspaper editors. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A dozen births,” Nicasia says, which is wrong enough to make me wince. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The ladies on the block got him to fix their electric lights or sewing-machines when something went wrong. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I always thought he wasn’t as sensitive as I am to our outsider status, but I might be wrong about that. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

My love letter had only two sentences and later I figured out I had spelled her name wrong. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Otto wanted nothing more than to tell her she was wrong. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I never meant to cheat off Abigail. I was trying to cheat off Noah. How was I supposed to know he puts down the wrong answers on purpose? I thought he was this big genius.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

“What could’ve been wrong with it? Did you see an injury or anything?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Don’t get me wrong—I’m very grateful—but I’d really like you back now. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

He went over her papers and marked them up—too much for her liking, sometimes—and read her papers aloud so she could hear what was wrong with them. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

My choice was not half wrong; it was all wrong. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was just the old feeling, the feeling that he had had all his life: he was black and had done wrong; white men were looking at something with which they would soon accuse him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes you do things for the right reasons and sometimes for the wrong ones and sometimes it’s impossible to tell the difference. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Something about the food, the heat, the light was wrong, and the man didn’t know what it was.Very quickly over half of them died. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “There is nothing wrong with the currents of his positronic brain.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He told me not to write a single thing on the new form, the implication being that I’d get it wrong. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally they went in the wrong direction, but they were quickly able to right themselves. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wouldn’t I just love to twist this little witch's nose until it's pointing the wrong way around!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

HARRY: Well, I was wrong too — to think Scorpius was Voldemort’s son. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

What’s more, he insisted, making the Pentagon Papers public was just plain wrong. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Is something wrong with your ears? Mix it with some water and fry it, osiso! They say children love the taste of this thing.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He’s got his hand on my arm, he’s asking if I w ant to go for a drink, but suddenly something is wrong. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it puts a fly in my head thinking that I could do something wrong. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I started to say something about being glad to see him, too, but I felt something wrong in the air. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, not exactly. The main reason is that I don’t like to be dependent, particularly on electricity, rails, steam, oil, coal, machines, and all those things that can go wrong.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to prove him wrong—I have to. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

If his decision to keep us here in the Congo wasn’t right, then what else might he be wrong about? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay. I just took it wrong is all.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s wrong to fight the people who are trying to help you.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Those Orientals will never be our Orientals because they have the wrong slant on things.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear the undertones now that shimmer under the surface of the words right and wrong. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it was brave to have identified a thoroughly bad person, then it was wrong of him to turn up with the twins like that, and she felt cheated. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The host was unhappy to see the extra passenger, but so many things had gone wrong from the very start. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

With infinite pains and surpassing skill she produced a wondrous tapestry on which the whole account of her wrongs was unfolded. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was wrong and I’m sorry. I’m sorry,” he repeated a few more times. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Could he have simply opened a window in front of the wrong one? The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shouted, “What’s wrong with you? When are you going to start acting like you normally do? What would Buphead say if he saw you acting like this?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you are going to be surprised. I can handle myself just fine. I already did handle myself. Wait, that came out wrong.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

And we’ll die and time will be stuck in the wrong position. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t get it as a kid. I mean, nothing got resolved, necessarily, so I thought it was silly to just sit and rehash everything that was wrong with the world,” Maxine says. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We had been wrong about the marrow, but not about the theft. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Fellow inmates, concerned, and guards, apprehensive, asked what was wrong with me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a few days later Muriel, reading over the Seven Commandments to herself, noticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

With every passing moment he became convinced something was wrong, this was not an ordinary delay. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“The wrong story? The wrong period, you mean. Yes, I’ve often thought so myself.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I mean I wondered if just maybe I was wrong about thinking be was making a flitty pass at ne. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

There are many things wrong with the relationship between Bo and me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Bowditch, sir—the monsoon—it’s blowing the wrong way now?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I step into it, I know it's wrong, though. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

For her, there’s something wrong with someone who doesn’t have cows. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eat the wrong things, you get sick—everything from a stomachache to cancer to heart disease. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

My people had been wronged, and now somebody in an important position was finally coming alongside to offer us some support. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, can you see anything wrong with the plan?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We needed to flee the scene of the crime, but it felt wrong to start running without acknowledging the obvious. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I could be remembering it wrong, so don’t get too excited, but I think it’s a Virginia area code.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Something is seriously wrong with my head. It feels like bugs are up there, eating away at my brain.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He was always right about his facts and always wrong about the motives that produced the facts. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Girl, I don’t know what you mean by that way, like it’s a wrong turn or something. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gale the weasel squeaked in alarm, but Hazel imagined a new tunnel leading off to the left—a tunnel even more dangerous, going the wrong direction. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You were in Hollywood working in pictures and now you’re painting houses? You sure must have done something wrong!” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man shouted in Swahili, “You are driving the wrong way!” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had picked the wrong person to bully. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“I mean...broken. Why would my mother just leave me? And why would your mom send you away? There must be something wrong with us.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He always understood immediately what was wrong, and generally he could put it right It was nice for the dogs to have their god with them, in visible form. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just hoped that although it was obvious something was wrong, nobody would yet know what it was. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was the wrong thing for Grandma to do, but I might get a plane ride out of it. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t get me wrong, nobody wants to write a paper if he doesn’t have to, but this time, it felt like we were getting cheated out of something. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“What do you think is wrong with me?” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was the obvious lethality of it, the certainty that a wrong move would cost a limb. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“He needs you to concentrate on playing the kind of pattern ball that he thinks is going to help the team win. What’s wrong with that?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing seriously wrong with him,” said Lupin, bending over Snape and checking his pulse. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

If they got the answer wrong...Even with antidotes on hand, it would be unpleasant. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She was the only one I let myself cry in front of, because she was the only one who never asked what was wrong, or if I needed anything, or if she could help. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

They want to know if there’s something wrong with me, the bad eyes or the consumption maybe. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

There was something wrong with X-Ray’s mouth, and he spoke with a little bit of a lisp. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Seeing her makes me think again about the wrong I need to right. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Nothing wrong with that, but it should not be used as an excuse to destroy the stability of language. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some people think that all chocolate is the same, but they’re wrong. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The gull kept flying backward and forward along the direct line to the bank, only alighting now and then to guide Bigwig toward some straggling doe whom he had spotted going the wrong way. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know I did the wrong thing tonight, but right now I can’t find it in me to be remorseful. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“All that time you spent insisting that you were too selfish for them, and now, when your life is on the line, you’ve got to be a hero? What’s wrong with you?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

If she thought I was going to ask what she believed, she was wrong. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In early June, Henrietta told her doctors several times that she thought the cancer was spreading, that she could feel it moving through her, but they found nothing wrong with her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I must be careful not to read until Dr. Snydman gave me his permission, he said, but there was nothing wrong if I attended classes and listened. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Everyone around me tenses, and I know I’ve said the wrong thing. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

‘But what’s wrong with a little burp now and again? It’s sort of fun.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open my mouth to tell her how wrong she is, how unfair she’s being. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And now you must admit that you were wrong about Bernard. Don’t you think he’s really rather sweet?” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

So too you must wash away your former loyalties, put aside your grudges, forget old wrongs and old loves alike. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A thing where the right far outweighs the wrong. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But it was important that it looked like a letter of introduction in case it fell into the wrong hands. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would learn later just how wrong I was about that! Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I was wrong about everything, Hope Springs included. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh—don’t get me wrong. They’re good boys, or I wouldn’t have ’em working for me. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Bow-tie man, who was holding the “LIBRARY?” placard, was standing in the wrong spot. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“But Milo wasn’t the only one in the wrong here. Brandon told me what he said about Milo’s mother.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tuesday night, most of what I thought I understood a y about myself had turned out to be wrong. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Folks sometimes do ugly things, Hiram, but that don’t necessarily make them evil. A lot of good folks just make stupid decisions or get themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

And I sinned all right, just praying perfect little John Worth would turn on the crate wrong and go tumbling to the floor. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The gloves were stitched on the wrong side and it was her job to turn them right side out. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There must be something wrong with him up-stairs,Dad remarked, and tapped himself on his noggin as if to say that Mr. Spizz was nuts. “How can you tell if he’s cracked?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Something is wrong the minute I wake up the next morning. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It would however be simply wrong to think that we and Aristotle share the same views about what constitutes a justified true belief, and about how to acquire such beliefs. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I don't know why, but this rubs me the wrong way. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I knew I had done something terribly wrong and that I should wait for her to arrive and punish me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Because you’re too short to be a namer. Your eyes are too green. You have the wrong number of fingers. Come back when you’re taller and you’ve found a decent pair of eyes.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was slimy, and cold, and felt all wrong. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I thought, Maybe Khosrou will die here and no one will ever have to say his name wrong. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

One wrong word could cost him another toe, even a finger. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If someone’s lingo is wrong—if he comes up to you saying, “Do you guys know where I can buy some rocks?”—there’s a good chance he’s a cop. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t feel good to say it; it feels like a betrayal, and wrong, and defeatist. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Are you kidding? I was wrong about the a.m. vibes. Kent is pure p.m. He wants you to take him into that bathroom and catch his Pikachu.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn’t pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Brother Ugo’s face was wrong—it had withered as though a whole decade had passed since they’d last seen each other. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

After all, it was “painful” to imagine that one might be “not just right”— particularly if whatever was wrong was not your own fault but “maybe a thing you were born with.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We won't change her at the same time. We just need to see her natural template and find out what's wrong." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Some of our colleagues seem to have gone seriously wrong,” lamented Thomas F. Lynch of Texas A&M in the Review of Archaeology in 2001. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But why is it so wrong for me to want to know more? Like how you became an assassin—and what things were like for you before that.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It looked as majestic as ever, but something seemed wrong. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

"Sorry, Max. That is, I'm sorry we got off on the wrong foot. It's just, you know..." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

She has bad-image flashes that come from years of Gina spouting stuff that might go wrong, and flashes that come from real stuff that did. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Of course they were wrong, Inej considered as she crossed the bridge over the black waters of the Beurskanal to the deserted main square that fronted the Exchange. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There were supposed to be also instances when the spirits returned to the wrong bodies and the person suffered from amnesia. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had the gun pointing back at hisself so no one wouldn’t get the wrong idea. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But now she was there in front of me, most of what I’d prepared seemed either unnecessary or completely wrong. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they were wrong, as they were wrong about many things. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“You call setting a man’s barn on fire the wrong foot? Leading a mob against Mr. Ebgard the wrong foot?” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Given Nan’s tendency to move us at the first sign of trouble, I didn’t want to tell her anything was wrong, but that conversation with Abby kept replaying in my head. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, I was wrong,” Mr. Remora said impatiently. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“What I did was wrong. I made a terrible mistake.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

JoJo jumped and went to the wrong cabinet and rocked the boat hard in the process. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the Saturn V veered off in the wrong direction, I could tell it by watching the dot separate from the line. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Am I wrong, do you think, to go to any lengths, then, to protect her?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But if you could turn the lights back on, you would see there are lots of other things still wrong in the room. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I was so frightened something would go wrong.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I tried to remember what went where, knowing that with Fred and Mom gone, nobody was going to notice if the books were in the wrong places. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“If you type in the wrong code three times, I get an alert.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“What’s wrong is that it’s ten fifteen and you were supposed to be on the hall thirty minutes ago and no one knew where you were.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It's wrong that a man can't get to see around his own country. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

But Kit could see nothing wrong in a reward at the end of the day’s work. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

That was wrong, but that was where I was. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Something was wrong with the engines, he said. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He'd meant to sound encouraging, but it was the wrong thing to say. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But at half past one, Mr. Kreuk comes to my desk and shows me the draft of the notice: I’d written the wrong address for the church. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“They’ll figure out where I’m going. And anything I say will come out wrong. Everything I say comes out wrong.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“What’s wrong?” he asked, not looking up from dipping his meat in the bubbling lava. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was trying to be a friend, and she took it the wrong way. Apparently subtlety is not my thing.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“There’s something wrong with Old Pru’s leg. I think you better come out and look at it.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As my heart races, I think that maybe I read the Darcys wrong. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I was ’shamed ’cause, wrong as it might seem, the first thing that came flooding into my heart was reliefness ’cause that meant I waren’t gonna have to keep my word and kill him. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He wanted you to think that the only reason he was lousy at writing compositions was because he stuck all the commas in the wrong place. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Then, in 1953, a geneticist in Texas accidentally mixed the wrong liquid with HeLa and a few other cells, and it turned out to be a fortunate mistake. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He’d never gone to college, which gave him the wrong idea about himself, but the only reason he hadn’t was because he’d been forced into getting a job after his parents died. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She went to Poseidon and laid her wrongs before him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Baba proved them all wrong by not only running his own business but becoming one of the richest merchants in Kabul. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I think he meant to sound casual about it, but his words came out wrong. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“But enough; it is wrong for me to speak ill of her.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The only thing wrong with the whole business was that the baby was born dead. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

What in God’s eyes did I do wrong to not have a mom like that? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

If I had been wrong, he certainly had not convinced me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounds wrong, nothing ever sounds the way you think it will, and I hear the voice, Down, is it a real voice or a voice inside my head or my own voice, out loud? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I said something wrong, didn’t I?” he asked. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Why are you pointing that at me? I’m not doing anything wrong.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Finally, from the back of the room, a student said, “It’s the wrong size?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Every time I shot back, What’s wrong with living in a dream world? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It feels clinical and wrong, checking little boxes about his relationship, especially when half are asking things he hasn’t even discussed with Henry yet. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

David ignores me mostly, except when I almost ruined the $300 microscope by twisting the knob the wrong way. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though she were telling them they had done wrong to approach this human animal, and should now stay away from her. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I suppose it seems wrong to be so afraid of that. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Careful, Macon. You always take the wrong turn here.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing will go wrong! It’s a good plan, Lina. We’ll be there ahead of everyone else—we can welcome them when they come, we can show them around!” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had something wrong with him, wrong deep down in the bone. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The dog was wronged by being chosen as his animal. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weatherman called Michael Fish, who is famous for getting it wrong, actually got it right. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that was how I learned that even when you’re very, very wrong, if you apologize, you can still hold yourself with dignity. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She and her sisters have led such turbulent lives—so many husbands, homes, jobs, wrong turns among them. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Cordelia says it will be better for me to think back over everything I’ve said today and try to pick out the wrong thing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, her own ache subsided, and she tried to ignore the uneasy awareness that something had gone very wrong. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to guess which one is yours,” Tab said, running in the wrong direction. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I saw I was fishing on a wrong angle. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew that I was always high, but she knew me well enough to see that something else was wrong, and asked in her customary profane language what was the matter with me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be wrong to read it back into the Scientific Revolution; before the precision instrumentation of the Industrial Revolution impartiality and judgement were virtues, not ways of re-describing professional competence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Ready to jump off the balcony and bust down her door if anything seemed wrong. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But also, I think we both sensed we’d done enough serious talking for one day, and that if we tried any more of it, things would start going wrong. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I darted up the stairs, still unsure about what I’d done so terribly wrong. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He said that reform school had the wrong reputation; he talked about what the word “reform” meant—to change and become better. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something wrong with the way he was walking. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“How do I figure out who’s wrong when everyone seems right?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Grandma Matilda suspected that someone must have done something terribly wrong to me, and so she took me away. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But there, as it happens, he was wrong... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The worst part was, they were not wrong, not wholly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to be killed for being on the wrong side of the walkway, so we might as well make it worth it.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I was trying not to engage with him anymore, because I didn’t want to give him the wrong idea. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was wrong to look back in church, so it seemed that it would be worse to look down. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“She hit some wrong button on the elevator and it took her all the way down in the basement where it was dark,” Deborah told me. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Imagine, though, if you could just change the right inputs; you could fix things before they went wrong.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even the water was the wrong color—a Shimmering turquoise close to shore, and farther out a blue so deep that it was almost black. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If you even think you can picture how awful it was, you are wrong. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it was empty, something felt exhilarating and wrong about running across a road that big. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I see the picture of our president with eyes that follow me around the room, and I am thinking he is trying to catch me doing something wrong. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may be that this approach is completely wrong. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she had exaggerated; people very often were wrong about their relatives. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Uhmma and Apa do not like it that my best friend is an American, a girl who might influence me in the wrong ways. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“But you admit something too. You wanted me, before you got this thing for Jeremy. Which is so wrong. A non-Muslim guy. Admit it.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Having them not care made your whole life wrong. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was so little time to ponder right and wrong, when I hardly even knew where I was. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Alas, you are focusing on the wrong story. If you had made it to Rome, the story of the flood would have served you better.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He thought he understood, she thought, but this time he was all wrong. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You messed with the wrong man today,” the pilot said in a low, vicious voice. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I think I am not wrong in saying that this pure gentleman has given both of us a fall or two?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I'm sorry if I gave you the wrong impression.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pacifism is the belief that any violence, including war, is wrong under any circumstances. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the televised debates between party leaders ahead of the 2010 elections in the UK, incumbent Prime Minister Gordon Brown made the mistake of choosing the wrong tense, and was punished for it. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

And it didn’t even matter that maybe I was wrong: when the hurricane blew in, it would throw the Brown Pelican as far as it wanted to. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I have no idea what’s wrong,” Miles said, his voice hollow. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Gotham maintained to me that if there was any trouble, pulling the radio’s emergency pin would be the wrong response, because “we take care of matters by ourselves here.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think your mother was wrong. Sometimes sharing a problem doesn’t make it easier to carry.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t say, Come on or What the hell is wrong with you? Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She did not consider herself proved wrong simply because Robbie had come away from Cambridge with a first. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Part of me wonders if something is wrong with me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to apologize. You didn’t do anything wrong. Go back and play with your friends. Next time just don’t ask me to be your cheering section, okay?” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Hubble quickly demonstrated how wrong that belief was. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

We could admit we were wrong and get back to being friends again. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Customs, culture, ideas about right and wrong all fall away under the pressure to increase production and get a higher return on investment. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The fact that the enemy had exploited our surrender didn’t mean we were wrong to surrender. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Something is really, really wrong,” said Mo. Then she said, in a higher-pitched panicky voice, “We have to get out of here.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

They were obviously quite nervous about saying or doing the wrong thing. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

If I’m not wrong, this is the beginning of the story you wanted me to tell. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

On the day they left for Nigeria, she collapsed onto her bed, crying uncontrollably, and thinking: What is wrong with me? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The rest of my body is sort of like a coat with the buttons done up in the wrong holes. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Larson asked whether I didn’t think it was wrong when companies had something to gain by seeing people sentenced to prison—in other words, when they had a stake in their failure. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anything went wrong, if Blackie escaped or hurt a soul, White’s career would be over. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

At the first glimpse of Collins’ face, Nat knew something was wrong. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

To ensure that the power they held would not fall into the wrong hands. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But it's not as if I did something wrong. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“What’s wrong?” a student in the seat in front of me asked. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing’s wrong with that, Ms. Laverne said, being a teacher/mind reader. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I ask, though I can tell what’s wrong: the gaggle of rich kids from Mr. Reilly’s hovering apartment building are heading our way. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I can only say what I think. I may be wrong.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It would be hard to prove him wrong, as I didn’t know of too many other pie cherry trees in these parts, least of all any that grew from anybody’s roof. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Winter is an inimical world; its punishment for doing things wrong is sure and prompt: death from cold or death from hunger. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Something’s wrong, and he knows it, but he’s too afraid to push back or ask. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Every syllable is awkward, and every reaction feels wrong. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I still worried he was wrong, but fresh bread made me forget all my troubles. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes, Mr. Mac, you need new ideas, to do things differently. Nothing wrong with a little change, is there?” he asks. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It seemed wrong to leave nothing in case they ever came back. And there’s a canister of macaroni we never used because it had things in it.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Now that I was closer, I noticed that Stanchion’s hair was a deep, bashful red that hid if the light struck him the wrong way. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I guess it would be wrong of me to nudge her to find out. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“First that Instagram video, now this? What the hell is wrong with you?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

There must be something wrong with a work of art if it takes an expert to appreciate it.” History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later I would realize that I had prayed for the wrong things. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe Pet had come to the wrong time line, gotten the wrong house. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

At breakfast one morning something seemed wrong when I read This Day In History. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s not that his conscience bothers him. Or that he feels any compelling kind of moral outrage. He thinks he’s been somehow wronged by the whole business.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“He’s normal. There’s nothing wrong with him. Just lazy. I’ll beat it into him until he learns.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed to believe she was no longer worthy of their attention or maybe that it was wrong to look at her now, that there was something perverse about it, and they averted their gaze. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Einstein also failed to live long enough to see that he had backed the wrong horse. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Man had gone on, through age after age, avenging wrong with wrong, slaughter with slaughter. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The power light being off meant there was probably something wrong with the line. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had misjudged him, of course, there was nothing wrong after all, for as soon as I spoke this second time he came clear of his dream and began to apologise. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“To be sure—our discordancies must always arise from my being in the wrong.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“They were wrong,” she announces, throwing her gloves. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Something is wrong, but it’s not what Ollie thinks it is. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nobody knows the right name for the Olmec, but “Olmec” is the wrong one. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They were even rude, and you know how I have always said that to be rude and not attend to the feelings of others is wrong. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Q, why do we need a new propellant? What’s wrong with rocket candy?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like knowing that Principal Peattie is wrong about what he said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing wrong with a little charity. Now get back on my floor.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

That would make her think that he thought that something was wrong, and he did not want to give that impression now. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was sure Dad wouldn’t wear a costume to help us trick-or-treat, but it turned out I was wrong about that too. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell them that they were making a mistake, that they had the time wrong, because my mother would never miss a chance to see us. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Unexpectedly Killconey received his reward for flattery at the wrong time—a thwack over his head from the standard. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was obviously the wrong thing for me to have said, because he tried again to get up. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

"I beg your pardon," said Mr. Wolfshiem, "I had a wrong man." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The doctors and nurses drop their voices super low and whisper to each other when Scoob’s within earshot, so he doesn’t have a clue what’s actually wrong with her. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

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

We have been programmed that it’s something that’s wrong with us. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I got number 2 wrong on my test. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But there are all sorts of ways your bail hearing can go wrong: You get some court-appointed lawyer who hasn’t read your case and doesn’t know what’s going on. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Even the workmen who removed it said it was the wrong kind of metal. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“What’s wrong?” he asks, and here’s another truth I know he doesn’t want to know. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

They had learned that every sin causes fresh sin; every wrong brings another in its train. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys widened their eyes and stared at Alhaji as if he had just asked them the wrong question. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m still sorry. I’m sorry that my family has hurt a whole bunch of people in this town for no reason at all. It’s wrong.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“I want to know what I did wrong.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I still don’t believe a word about the bomb,” said Heisenberg, “but I might be wrong.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew it was a good deed to read to sick people, but there was still nothing wrong with wanting a real gift just for me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Dorothea always called her Caroline instead of Mother, so what was wrong with Caroline instead of Grandmother? The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, I dislike her, but it seems wrong to leave her out. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being a dreamer.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Using the wrong voice can make the reader crane back and forth like a spectator at a tennis match: See that lady with the shopping bag? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

If she tried for home and got it wrong, she’d only end up farther away, heading for open sea. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Sal and I laugh and dare each other to clap at the wrong time. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Caroni allowed himself a small smile, unsure of himself, not wanting to do the wrong thing. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would the world never tire of calling him by the wrong name? The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

He said, “Do you know that it is wrong to lie to a policeman and that you can get into a very great deal of trouble if you do?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like a crook, like I had done something wrong. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It’s worth looking at this false step before discussing Descartes’s influence in areas where he was more right than wrong. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It had always struck me as wrong, for a reason I couldn’t articulate. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then, when he had had a choice, he had made the wrong one: the choice to leave. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t nod. And whatever you do, don’t go the wrong way and step forward instead of back. I’ll count you off. On three.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The worst aspect of the Velikovsky affair is not that his hypotheses were wrong or in contradiction to firmly established facts, but that some who called themselves scientists attempted to suppress Velikovsky’s work. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She preferred not to think of what tomorrow night might look like if the plan went wrong. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure how she knows this, because she doesn’t even know what’s wrong yet. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Several years later, Dr. Reyburn wrote that the surgeons were wrong about the bullet's path, but “no different course of treatment could have saved his life.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It would have gone slick as butter. There was only one thing wrong. We wasted our time and risked our necks for nothing!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

One wrong touch and I had pulled back so hard and so fast from her mind that I ripped away every single trace of me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Thinking of venison, his mind had gone about cataloguing the sitting room and his mind nudged him, saying, “Hey, there’s something wrong here—something strange.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody celebrated the turn of the millennium on the wrong date. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps you have been looking in the wrong places,” suggested Dumbledore. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“So the priest wanted to take her away,” she said, “and the nun showed him the wrong child? D’you think she just didn’t know herself which was the right one?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Dear David, I thought you were more my friend than my supervisor, but I guess I was wrong. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But certainly not then, not there, not in a wrong war. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first indication that something was wrong was that Granny became terribly still, then she pushed me violendy from her. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think there’s any farm without something wrong with it. Out in the Middle West it’s locusts, someplace else it’s tornadoes. What’s a few stones?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And Christ, Miles, what the hell is wrong with you? Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Look, if I show you a secret, will you tell me what’s wrong?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the moments that followed Ben forgot about the game and concentrated instead on his uncanny instinct, his intuitive genius for asking the wrong question. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My judgment about Washington being perfect was wrong. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Much as I hate to admit it, you’re not usually wrong.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Hamilton had read my mind—I'm not doing anything wrong. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, big help. I didn’t hear you telling her she was wrong. I didn’t hear you say you don't like her.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

So instead of asking her what was wrong, he said, “I have some good news.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Count Rugen was a bit surprised that his point had been deflected, but there was nothing wrong with piercing a helpless man’s shoulder. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Any words you used would come out wrong. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Far down the boulevard, four blocks away, the beetle had slowed, spun about on two wheels, and was now racing back, slanting over on the wrong side of the street, picking up speed. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, the atmosphere has to be set so that a disquieting sense of being wrong is the normal attitude of the investigators. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That Train Ear was holding the blues harp with the wrong side up. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

My father, Uncle Moshe, the Jewish elders, they were all wrong. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just wrong,” I say, looking around for more examples. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

If she fed them the wrong kind of leaves, they died. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Start worrying, though, and it all goes wrong. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Not at all, dear. I have such noble company tonight. What could be wrong?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I know what I’m about to do is wrong. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He went on, “You just don’t know w hen that moment will come so just always be doing the right thing. Don't do no wrong and you will make your father proud.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just know that it concerns an item of immense destructive power. An item that would put many, many innocent lives at risk were it placed in the wrong hands.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I have no idea what is wrong with the patient, but his eyes are closed and a thin line of blood seeps through a bandage on his neck. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe Wash and Naomi were wrong, and their borrowed time had nothing to do with God. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I think that within the usual definitions Mr. Hickock did know right from wrong.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He who wanted only to do right was so placed that he must choose between two hideous wrongs. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also considered Harvard the wrong choice for Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Am I wrong, then, in describing such an event as a miracle? The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll find,” he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Tom,” said the girl’s voice again, now so close they were clearly right beside the house, “I might be wrong — but has somebody nailed a snake to that door?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Women were at greater risk because of pregnancy and childbirth, but Charles’s health continued to worsen, and they didn’t know what was wrong with him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a game anyone could play, and at first, there seemed to be no right or wrong way to play it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Parker told me that she had heard all about me, and that if I did one thing wrong, she would make me sorry. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The wounds Snow made, snow conceals, but that was wrong. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Although perhaps predictable for a little girl who needs her mommy. If you thought coming back here would dissuade me, you were wrong.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She’s an extreme example of surgical enhancement gone wrong, for surely not even in the Capitol could they find this face attractive. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Katz and I looked at each other—something wrong here surely. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

If I thought my sudden allegiance to honesty would make me feel confident, I was wrong. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She said, “There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself,” she saw through the shell of me into the center of me, “Do you like music?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Petra and Calder looked at each other, silently running through all the things that were going wrong. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Only one dern spigot out here and it’s on the wrong side of the house,” she groused, twisting the knob that turned the water on. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When she couldn’t even finish her sentence, I realized something was really wrong. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two guys were running on the uptown side of the street but the Mustang came over, facing the wrong way in traffic, and a dude leaned out the back window. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waves had almost stopped passing over Francie when she discovered to her fright that something was wrong with her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she was wrong, his case was different. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I don’t say much, I am awkward and uncertain, because whatever I do say might be the wrong thing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And when I got to the part where Reb Saunders had asked me about the wrong gematriya, his face took on a look of astonishment, and he put the glass down on the table. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Kat and I were looking at things the wrong way up, or the wrong way round. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

But tonight there is something terribly wrong in that hysteria. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

His weight was always in the wrong place, every step such a jolt that after a while he found himself feeling his way forward, not picking his feet up at all. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thirteen-and-a-half inches. Yew. Powerful wand, very powerful, and in the wrong hands ... well, if I’d known what that wand was going out into the world to do....” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

But apparently the procedure was struggling against a gluttonous appetite, because she was bulging in all the wrong places. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Freeman, a pro at staring out the window himself, thinks he knows what’s wrong. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

But there’s something wrong with this voice, something diseased at its core. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Throughout Europe astronomers took a keen interest in what Copernicus had to say, but, with only a very few exceptions, they took it for granted that his account of a moving Earth was simply wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t take ... It didn’t happen like that, that’s wrong. I didn’t... I didn’t take her.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe they had to live this way precisely because none of them in all their lives had ever done anything, right or wrong, that mattered much. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, when I arrived at work in another jeans and sneakers ensemble, she seemed startled, as if some strange vagrant had made a wrong turn into the office. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I followed his gaze to find Mary Ellen striding briskly down the trail towards us from the wrong direction. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

So many wrong things that could never be made right. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I swear to God it wasn’t me. Have mercy, you’ve got the wrong man. I didn't touch her.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared up at him, afraid that I had crossed the wrong line. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He would be speaking to him in just over twelve hours, for tonight was the night they were meeting at the common room fire — assuming nothing went wrong, as everything else had done lately. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But the hood taught me that everyone has different notions of right and wrong, different definitions of what constitutes crime, and what level of crime they’re willing to participate in. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My thoughts were so good that I nearly ended up walking into the pond on the wrong side of the common and got to school only just on time. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says it was not really right to read it, but sometimes you have to do something wrong for a higher good. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems to me much better and less confusing if you admit in print that you were wrong. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you stupid, if there’s a right way and a wrong way, trust you to find the dumb way; fool, fool, back to the beginning was the rule.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I thought she had something more to say to me, but I guess I was wrong. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“How much mercury would it take to reduce two gills of white sulfur?” he asked pompously, as if I’d already given the wrong answer. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Nothing’s wrong. We just need to make sure it’s okay to go in there. We need to be cautious, that’s all.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

They’d held a pencil before and learned to shape their letters just so, but mine looked all wobbly and wrong. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

A door in the hallway opened, and a sleepy female voice said, “Is something wrong?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Like an umpire saying he made the wrong call,” Caroni said, joining in the teacher’s little joke. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually I hit the target—my mouth, which was when I realized I was wrong. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Everything is just right here as it is wrong at home. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

After the first one, which they had interrupted every third sentence with questions, they were an attentive audience, and silent except for their frequent loud sighs and Esther’s nervous laughter at all the wrong moments. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They took it to the priest. He did all the right things for all the wrong reasons.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was proud of myself for not giving up and proving everyone wrong. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

All the books and magazines, everything that told it wrong. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys decided that the dog Arfy might take an interest in a mouse for the wrong reason. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever heard of a plan where so many things could go wrong?” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It felt wrong, to be holding Ben back, and wrong not to tell him the things she knew. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Should I say ‘have fun,’ or is that the wrong sentiment?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Stop that! What the hell’s wrong with you!” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

"I had thought you were the one made for motley, Tyrion, but it would appear that I was wrong." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Almost everyone has it in the wrong measure—either too little or too much. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Plus, what the hell was wrong with me, anyway? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Wes ran by her and, without even looking back, told her nothing was wrong and to go to bed. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Joe never got off the streetcar in the wrong place, or if he did, he never told. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

You know what I mean, one of those rare days when everything is right and nothing is wrong. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For an awful moment I was afraid we’d come to the wrong island or, worse yet, that the home was just another thing my grandfather had invented. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I hope the universe proves me wrong and actually comes through—for both of us. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he looked wrong at a white woman. No way to know.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was I trying to help the wrong girl escape? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It implied that if anything went wrong and people died, the Army could be held responsible and could be sued. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, Hanneli, I hope that if you live to the end of the war and return to us, I’ll be able to take you in and make up for the wrong I’ve done you. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I think you feel bad now. I think you’re just embarrassed to admit you were wrong.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Like she’d be admitting she was wrong about everything if she changed her mind about this. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“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

“Well, she did tell us something at least. She didn’t say our query was wrong, just incomplete.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, Dad and Mom agreed they should explain to my brothers and sisters exactly what was wrong with me and give everyone a chance to have their say. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

One more wrong guess, and she'd show Yoyo, pointing with her pencil to the different highlights of this incredible new wonder. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The boys looked contrite as well, although they had done nothing wrong. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She begins worrying that something’s wrong, that my immune system is compromised somehow. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I am tempted to ask her quietly if there is anything wrong. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if she’d gone to the ball for the wrong reasons, she had had some fun dancing with Dorian. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing inherently wrong with liking wine, Bull.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her parents’ house, things had been good or bad, right or wrong, useful or wasteful. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I give her Kelsea’s home phone number, figuring there will be no obvious record of it, and that it can always be discounted as a wrong number. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

When he'd kissed that girl last year, with his mouth dry and his eyes mostly open, Park had wondered if maybe there was something wrong with him. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Biddy had her face all twisted up like she was puzzling something out, but when I said that, she seem like she understood what was wrong now. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I seemed to have a talent for picking the wrong ones. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I’m afraid it’s all wrong,” Flossie suddenly dared to whisper as they came off the mountains and over juniper and then sagebrush terrain again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll tell you what happened. They probably thought she was sick from the dart and left without her.”The words sounded wrong, though. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

What was wrong with me that I hadn’t even considered that? The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I think of words like dumb and baby and think how wrong Albert really is. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The reporters had been wrong, and they knew it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

King felt that it would be wrong to disappoint them, but still he hesitated. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could only hope I was wrong about this, even with as looney as Pita was acting—she kept conversing with the beast as we made our way down the road. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

"We just have to make sure that none of the wrong people call her. You'll take care of that, right?" Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He was talking in this little voice he used when something was wrong. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

With Big Tony, he always worried he’d do the wrong thing. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But you know how when you watch the Brady Bunch, you think, “Oh, come on! Nobody is this happy. What’s wrong with you people? And who picks out your CLOTHES?” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have betrayed Elnora’s friendship. I have wronged you and Mechtild. I must leave here before you are discovered and come to harm because of me.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

That was wrong, because my stepdad sometimes sang in the shower, and the acoustics didn’t stop him from sounding like a dying coyote. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

At first I think I may have heard it wrong. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The profoundness of our lips touching and our tongues pressing and my hand cupping her perfect white cheek barred any thoughts of right or wrong or any memory of why “Yes.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

King Pellinore had not only lost his temper but he seemed to have been a bit astonished by the impact He got up facing the wrong way, and could not find Sir Grummore. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the air was frigid, it seemed to me like the sun was too bright for snow, but maybe I was wrong. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Are you ready to undo the wrong that you have done to my sweet country of Narnia on the very day of its birth?” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Of course I knew I was wrong to disobey my mother but that hadn’t stopped me. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just exactly where it went wrong we weren’t sure, but I’m fairly certain that nobody had ever shot an arrow from Old Jim’s back before. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I told you I don’t change my mind. I was wrong. It’s changed.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As she begins, I realize that it’s a story I’ve heard before and my grandmother is getting a lot of the details wrong. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

My solution is this: If I see wrongs I can’t right I call the cops and roll on. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they reached far-distant Illyria the gods changed them into serpents, not as a punishment, for they had done no wrong. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which is probably the wrong note to hit on a date. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It was wrong of this Christian God to let His avatar die. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the constant fear of saying the wrong thing or looking the wrong way at a white person, the inevitable consequences of such a trespass. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He was smiling remotely to himself, and when he had poured the coffee and gone out Adam asked again, “Is there anything wrong, Horace?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They came from just about every tribe in South Africa, all of them on the run from the law because something was wrong with their passbooks or permits. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Miss K,” said Gloria, “I think that reporter was unfair. What she said about us was all wrong.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted him to get mad—to argue, to insist I was wrong—but instead he sat poker faced, drumming the arm of his chair with his pen. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Miles walked in, looking a little put off by the half-empty room and everyone in the wrong seats. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Even the sound of the waves lapping at the hull was wrong—like the clacking of teeth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

In the United Kingdom, everyone drives on the left, and there is nothing inherently wrong with that convention; it is in no way sinister, gauche, or socialist. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“What’s a wine god doing in Kansas? Gods are weird. Anyway, we should reach Atlanta by noon tomorrow, unless something else goes wrong.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As Gosling recalled, “Rosalind let rip in her best pedagogical style: ‘you’re wrong for the following reasons’...which she proceeded to enumerate as she demolished their proposal.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

When I heard the news of what happened, I got on my knees and turned my eyes to God and asked Him if I had raised you wrong. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But Doha could hear something was wrong in his father’s voice. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

We did not know how wrong we were. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only he was wrong, because she meant every word. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He was only thirty-four, and Papa said he did not have the least idea of what the difference was between right and wrong. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Nawsuh. You got me wrong. I ain’t never fooled around with them folks. Miss Dalton and Mr. Jan was the first ones I ever met, so help me God!” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now go ahead and tell me I’m wrong. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But don’t get me wrong about these guys,” he added. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a short while I felt sorry for myself, and then figured my drinking was a sign that I was living in the wrong place, with the wrong sort of people. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Me and Peaches have been best friends for as long as I can remember but wrong is wrong and everybody knows what God don’t like. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not to mention that I knew cheating was just plain wrong. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I laughed, and Dad looked at me half amused and half worried, like, Is there something wrong with my daughter? The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But what if he’s wrong; what if Angel laughs and teases me even more? Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

He’s always thought she was wrong about that. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, of course you heard that—who would dare accuse him openly? Mark my words, one day he’s going to hurt the wrong person,” Fozia said. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Georgetown University If all those Ph.D. ’s were wrong, the country would be in very serious trouble. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It meant that Emma shouldn’t get mad at other kids who didn’t like math, and she shouldn’t let anyone act like there was something wrong with her because she did. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“And maybe he is wrong, and you and Tidbit will be forever free!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s not true! There was something wrong with him. He looked . . . nervous. He told his monsters to spare me. He wanted to tell me something.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She was listening for something, listening for exactly where I’d started to go wrong. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Even before he was fully awake, Salva could feel that something was wrong. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know going into another country is wrong. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We’d thought we were safe at the rock crusher because it was so isolated, but clearly we were wrong. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was wrong with the clothes I planned on wearing, my cotton pants and plaid shirts and penny-loafer shoes? October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But what did he do wrong? What am I doing wrong?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Forgetting that it is wrong to speak to strangers, I said, ‘The pods are made of steel and glass, not perspex.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started telling him how he was wrong, but he cut me off. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something was wrong with me, and I know she heard it in my voice. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

In the car, it appears I am wrong. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

When this happened, she was sure that all those things she’d been taught about feeling shame were wrong. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“But you’re wrong. I work only for myself” “Luke mentioned you,” I said. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sudden tears threatened—what was wrong with him lately?—and he knuckled his eyes. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He got a lift or two, here and there, sometimes going the wrong way. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You came to the wrong place not to own a gun,” Nick said. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was trying to dodge her. She was trying to hit me. I had done nothing wrong . . .” Her lips moved silendy as she sought to formulate words to place me in a position of guilt. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for the choice you now face between which and that: if you hate making decisions, you generally won’t go wrong if you use that. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

That there is nothing wrong with being a farmer. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“No, I’m not joking. And don’t take this the wrong way or anything, but he also said you aren’t nearly as dumb as you pretend to be.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Everything I have ever taken for right and wrong these people have taught me—these same, these very people. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“No! Fidencio knows very well what is wrong. If you must do something, pray.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Hard as it was for him to accept, he had come to believe that they had been fighting the wrong people for years. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Stealing might be wrong, but if it helped our family stay together...I wasn’t so hungry that he needed to know about it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re nice to say that, Hank, but you’re just saying it. I’m all fat in the wrong places, and—” Henry hooted. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“We’re going the wrong way! The police have officers all over 8th Street! Go back the other way!” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Something must have gone wrong with the morphine: he may have taken too much. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“There’s only one thing wrong with her, Papa,” I said. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there'd be no one to tell me what to do—or how to think about things when I was going along thinking the wrong way. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

For a second, I'm panicked that I'm at the wrong location. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“There’s this girl at a burn unit way out at Foothill Hospital...and the weird thing is...she gave your name as her emergency contact. I think they might have the wrong Alyssa Morrow.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You guessed wrong,” said the man in black. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Johnson was in the wrong place at the wrong time, wearing the wrong clothes. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“To try to equate them is simply wrong and everyone knows it.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

His dad wasn’t wrong about how ugly things would get with Richards leading the ticket. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I did not want to be violent with her, and yet I did not want to be beaten for a wrong I had not committed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something was wrong with the whole deal, for Clifton was too responsible and had too much to gain simply to have disappeared. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay on his back, his head turned at an angle that Tally instantly knew was utterly wrong. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He then checked Galileo’s measurements and decided they were wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

All I could think about was how I’d been so wrong. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Before, Mia had taken photographs by feel, relying on instinct to tell her what was right and what was wrong. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So I waved back and her daughter said, “What’s wrong with his head?” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet I couldn’t help thinking how wrong he was. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Told you I wouldn’t like to get on the wrong side of Frank, didn’t I, Dot?” said an excited woman in the corner. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I tried eating other things, but they felt wrong in my mouth. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I’ve always considered a pardon something one receives after doing wrong. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I sniff, and pause because even though I’m angry, that feels wrong. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

They’re laughing and talking as if nothing is wrong at all. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It takes a moment before I realize that there are many, many things wrong. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Brad was pleased that someone else was in the wrong. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. O’Flanagan said, and affectionately ruffled the feathers on his back the wrong way. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

If you looked at someone the wrong way they might beat you up. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

All her other pants had something wrong with them—a broken zipper or a tear in the crotch—some flaw she had to hide by constantly pulling down her shirt. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The very next day, she called me by the wrong name. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there's a voice, the wrong voice, not my mother's, and I'm scared. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

What if this is the ’wrong •window, the wrong house? Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could explain it to him, how I didn’t mean to do wrong. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

That would be much simpler and more just than this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We never wrote their names in notes, in case the notes fell into the wrong hands. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I want to slug him in the kidney, for being wrong and for being right. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

It’s wrong to spray them with DDT and other insecticides, he says. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Frank,” she said, “you know who I am. I’m Pluto’s daughter. Everything I touch goes wrong. Why would you trust me?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Give him a calculator and he can change the world, but whenever the car breaks down, and the mechanic asks him what’s wrong, his response is usually, “It broke.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“My son says he’s planted enough seeds for thousands of grandchildren. Where are they? It must be you are doing something wrong.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The word is usually used to describe someone who rubs you the wrong way, a jerk, or a douche. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It seemed wrong that he might be locked up for life. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The Austin Police Department had better things to do than investigate who had sold counterfeit tickets to an African American teenager who lived on the wrong side of I-35. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I started to stop loving him that day at the circus. He’s cruel, and the things he does, and allows, are terrible and wrong. I can’t love him now, even if he is my father.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Or Dr. Van Dorn could have just gotten the whole thing wrong. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This I know: that if ever there was a woman who was all perfection, that one is my poor wronged darling. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He wronged me, and I have to stand up to that. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Up there was where the officers were, the only people on the ship who spoke English, the masters of our destiny here, the ones who would right this wrong. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And it’s the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

But something felt wrong about the night—the sickness of Thalia’s tree, spreading across the valley. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, what’s wrong with that? I walk around knowing I look good. Don’t you?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Some of it is. Some of that book was wrong. I had to correct it.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Correct me if I’m wrong, but that was a man. A very lovely man.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“The entrance interviews for the Esther P. Marinoff are only four weeks away. We’re so close. I don’t want anything to go wrong.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d ask me what was wrong, and I wouldn’t be able to lie, not convincingly. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I think I’m in the wrong bar anyway.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did I really think she was going to give me a pass when the whole point of the debate is to prove everyone else wrong? The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Then maybe,” I said quietly, “everyone is wrong.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We know something is seriously wrong, yet none of us are ready for the shock of the news. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked him—don’t get me wrong—beautiful eyes behind the dreadful specs, and very lithe and powerful beneath the scholarly tweed. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

At the house, he fell upon his knees before his in-laws and confessed the wrong he and their daughter had done. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“A book of fairy tales broke your nose,” she said, helpless not to smile at how wrong her first impression had been. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“What’s wrong with you? People died. They walked right off the edge of a building! And I can stop it from happening again!” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Helen. I want you to come home. Whatever’s wrong we’ll fix. Just forget all of it and come on home.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something was wrong and I couldn’t lose it. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She covered her mouth for a moment, as if she’d said something wrong. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see what was wrong with him. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

We both jumped back, and for some insane reason, I felt guilty, as if I had been caught doing something wrong, and I knew Norma felt the same way. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He touched his temple, asking what was wrong. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Grace had the distinct feeling she had done something wrong, something that violated friend code, but she didn’t know what it was. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“On second thoughts, Hazel remembers that we have a good storyteller among us. Dandelion will tell you a story of El-ahrairah. That can’t go wrong, anyway,” he whispered. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she kept getting noticed for all the wrong reasons. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“And when he does do something of his own, he gets it wrong.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They explained the situation, describing what I looked like and what was wrong with my legs. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t find anything wrong with Eagle, but it sure looked strange, unlike any kind of flying machine I had ever seen. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. Why would you think something is wrong?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I wonder if the transport angels ever make mistakes and take the wrong peoples, ones who are not actually dying. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Instead he spent the night thinking of all the things that could go wrong just trying to get the dead bird out of the house. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Its wings were wrong, flimsy like cheap cloth. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You picked the wrong day to sleep late.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Virgil straightened his posture so Lola wouldn’t suspect anything was wrong. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Christ, what's wrong with everyone. I heard you snoring a minute ago.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

At first I don’t understand, and I ask her what’s wrong. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Amari couldn’t understand how the woman could see no wrong in owning slaves as long as they were well treated. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Am I wrong? Or have you lost a lot of weight?” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

My own position is simple: in some matters of punctuation there are simple rights and wrongs; in others, one must apply a good ear to good sense. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

He had the jitters and the heebie-jeebies, a feeling deep in his stomach that something was entirely wrong. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I wondered if something was wrong with him. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I’d been wondering whether something was wrong with me since the beginning of the semester, when I’d attended my first lecture on world affairs. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“My mom says people like you are wrong.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Papa-Nnukwu shrugged as if to say there was a lot that was wrong but he had no choice. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“If you didn’t do anything wrong, why would you resist arrest?” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Nothing would go wrong in flight, we hoped, but if it did, the simulator should have prepared them well to do the right thing in any emergency. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, that’s right. OK. There are no wrong answers. How about safety?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

She looks me up and down as though I am in the wrong. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

In case she is caught and hauled into the principal’s office, she could point to the wrong answers as proof that she didn’t cheat. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

"Something wrong?" he asks a little too innocently. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Hopefully, she'd know that he was pleading because it would make his mom happy, not because he thought there was anything wrong with her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

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

Sometimes, they were normal, a pair of feet walking in a single direction; other times, one foot turned the wrong way, or seemed to walk over the same piece of earth more than once. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Like the Abolitionists, she believed slavery to be morally wrong—for masters and slaves alike. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stop and stare at the paper, like I might be reading it wrong. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

And in examining the lives of the remarkable among us—the skilled, the talented, and the driven—I will argue that there is something profoundly wrong with the way we make sense of success. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“No, I mean this is totally wrong,” I said. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to peer toward the front of the train as it approached the West Oakland station, but the angle was wrong. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Whenever he saw something bad or wrong, he’d do just about anything to make it right, no matter how reckless or foolish. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the letter was in the wrong envelope and it had been written before Mother had died. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it was him,” she said, “and the story got it wrong.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But what if I say the wrong thing? Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere inside me, I know this is wrong. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

If things go wrong in the game today because of Zero, at least I’ll have a recording to study. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“What’s wrong with it? Is it an injury or has it always been like that?” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“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

“Unless you get the date wrong,” I pointed out. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It felt wrong somehow, being pleased by a gift from a virtual stranger. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I twisted meat off the bone and stuffed it in my mouth like nothing was wrong. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well...we got that wrong, didn’t we?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Professor Nemur was passing by in the hall, and when I rushed past him without saying hello he knew something was wrong. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

His mother was wrong about the guys never playing with him. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

‘Ma sent me. Johnny, it’s Mr. Hancock himself. He’s in the shop ordering something. Stand by and listen or Grandpa will get it wrong.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing? I didn’t do anything wrong! I told you, we didn’t do anything!” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I never had anything wrong with my heel except the time the sting ray stung it when I stepped on him when swim-ming and paralyzed the lower leg and made the unbearable pain. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined the letter from the Department of Motor Vehicles, that one most important letter, flipped so that it whizzed close to the right bin, but landed, finally, in the wrong bin. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Samuel’s mind repeated, “Something—something—can’t find what it is. Something wrong,” and the silence hung on the table. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"You may be wrong there, Blore. Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet unassuming people. Delightful fellows." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

If you think that swastikas are fine and the Holocaust never happened—you couldn't be more wrong. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Mary had been there only three days before, and nothing had seemed wrong. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Misreading the reactions of whites around me made me say and do the wrong things. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Finally, something useful! here. If anything goes wrong out there, we’ll know right away!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“So ye mean to prove me wrong, then?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Which you never answered, by the way, even though something was obviously wrong. You were frowning all through class, and not even at Mikayla. Does my owner wear glasses?” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The first two people said we must have the wrong number. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The banners and posters with which the square was decorated were all wrong! 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But Juliet was family, and there was obviously something seriously wrong with his baby sister. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

That was the problem with our people, Papa told us, our priorities were wrong; we cared too much about huge church buildings and mighty statues. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

So I wasn’t that wrong about the girdle, after all. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like why bother if things are going to go wrong? The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

"You've got the wrong guy—all of you. I'm going home, and I never want to see any of you ever again." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Sadly, this correspondent has been caught in the embarrassing position of barking up two wrong trees at the same time; but only because tastes have changed in the matter. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

The word “writer” was enough to make a black Chicago Communist feel that the man to whom the word applied had gone wrong. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought the book Henry from Across the Street might fit the bill, but I couldn’t have been more wrong; if Mrs. van Daan doesn’t jump down my throat, Mr. Dussel does. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t want them to come out wrong. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go find out where she went wrong.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He is a country boy not used to the city temptations, and I do not want him getting mixed up with the wrong people. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in staying away from Levy Pants, he was bothered even more by the company because something was always going wrong there. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I felt so scared, so guilty, even though I'd done nothing wrong." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We think that helps. It’s just harder to say, ‘Captain, you’re doing something wrong,’ than to use a name.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Be just like her. No appointment. No nothing. Come in here all late and wrong and want something fancy.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was then that Mr Harry Smith, the little man with the furrowed brow, leaned forward again and said: That Mr Lindsay, he had it all wrong, see? The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It kills Mom that she has to hand me over to some stranger for help, that there’s something wrong with me that she can’t fix. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Seeing the expression on my face, she says, “Did I get that wrong? Or do you have a nickname?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Now, first, & most important—Dad is not responsible for your wrong doings or your good deeds. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The worst thing was, she couldn't even say he was wrong. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Nana’s forgetfulness was cute at first—she’d call us by the wrong names, mix up our birthdays, send us Christmas cards in the middle of summer—but it isn’t cute anymore. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“For example, the animals in the arena that are set to fight the gladiators, and each other. They’re usually killed in the end, and they’ve done no wrong. Why do they have to be hurt?” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She stood on the doorstep, afraid for a moment to knock, because something was up, something was wrong, because they wouldn’t let her talk to him, because she’d let Jack be led off. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

You start to wonder whether it’s right or wrong and what kind of person that makes you for taking their life, whatever kind of existence it may be. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Obviously something's wrong; he's standing in the middle of the road, waving like a lunatic. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I knew she'd be able to handle it if anything went wrong. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Some of the time I wondered if something really was wrong with me. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

So della Porta simply tucked the thread back into place and pretended there was nothing wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It depends on things not going wrong, on mistakes not being made, on the reptilian passions not being seriously aroused. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the very beginning, it felt wrong, and it only got worse. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He really believed he had done nothing wrong. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Did I say something wrong, Your Grace? Why will he not speak to me?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Most sickness and disease today is the result of faulty diet and wrong eating. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I visited a doctor who told me that there was nothing wrong with me except malnutrition, that I must eat and sleep long hours. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her bones are the stones. These we may cast behind us without doing wrong.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is critical, since most of the self-confidence issues regarding the arts is centered around the idea that children can “get it wrong” or the idea that what they create is less than perfect. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Hixon: A lot of things we’re discussing now were things that these guys did that were criminally wrong that never went on paper, because we were trying to give them the benefit of the doubt. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Likewise, there certainly was nothing wrong with Richardson trying to win the race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he simply ran blindly up the hill, stared wildly around him at the broken landscape, and, not seeing the tiger immediately, ran off in the wrong direction. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

They were still going downhill, which should have made traveling easier; but the ground sloped at just the wrong angle—too steep to jog, too treacherous to let her guard down even for a moment. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I’m going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what’s wrong. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“The problem is he’s just a fool, and sooner or later he’s going to say the wrong thing to the wrong person,” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry about getting it wrong,” he encouraged. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

All the way home I tried to figure out what I had done wrong. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the authors’ critics, the lack of confirmation had an obvious cause: the whole three- migrations theory was wrong. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Tell your aunt, little Emma, that she ought to set you a better example than to be renewing old grievances, and that if she were not wrong before, she is now.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Not long after I started classes at Harvard I began to worry I’d made the wrong choice. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, maybe you’re the one person in the world who never did anything wrong in his life. Maybe you were born perfect. Maybe you were never a dumb kid once.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She prayed to the gods that she was wrong. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Yet when she heard her own words Catelyn knew she had gotten it wrong. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“There’s something wrong,” said he, without stopping, “up at your place, Pip. Run all!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I had never seen her disappear like that, and I didn’t understand what was wrong. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

No matter what I did, things went wrong. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Things can never go wrong on Dr. Trey’s watch. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mama will be in so much trouble if anything goes wrong. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Whatever is wrong?” she gasped, running to my side. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Swann’s frequent moves from institution to institution hinted at an aspect of his personality that offset his blazing intellect: he had a tendency to rub his peers the wrong way. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“But I think you’re both wrong. People are nouns, actions are verbs. Apples and oranges.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

My grandfather was like a dignified, unpainted mime, and I was almost five before I realized that anything was wrong with him. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Everything had gone wrong inside this man, absolutely everything, any one of which could have been fatal: the clotting, the massive hemorrhages, the liver turned into pudding, the intestines full of blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were just there, weren’t you? You didn’t do anything wrong.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She thought there was something wrong with him—so greedy, so loud! The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He was lying, and Tad was going to prove that he wasn’t wrong for feeling threatened. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And if I am wrong and the realm does not rise for us, we can always retreat back across the narrow sea, as Bittersteel once did, and others after him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Someone got up on the wrong side of the bed.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They looked in her direction when she entered, and one said to her, “The servants’ entrance is to the left of the courtyard; you’ve come in the wrong way.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was where things started to go wrong. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I know watching was wrong but I couldn't not. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“What is wrong with you?” she screams back. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

His father paused, and looked around as if he was unwilling to let this priceless shard of information fall into the wrong hands. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In word and act impeccable, disinterested toward all the realm—though it is king’s justice to hold one man abhorred and love another; no man alive could say Odysseus wronged him. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start to wonder if they’re right, to wonder if there’s something wrong with me. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Madar is happy for us. You know how she feels about you, Amir, you can do no wrong in her eyes. Padar... well, as always, he’s a little harder to read. He’s not saying much.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not minimizing the wrong that’s being done here. I just...” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Also, after seeing the room, I figured I’d give Lucas a chance to prove me wrong. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Momma, do you think there’s something wrong with me?” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Everything, honestly I started wondering if something was wrong with me.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When something big is wrong—like when the twins were born so small and couldn’t breathe on their own—she lights our Caridad del Cobre candle and says her prayers in her own words. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Henry, let the boy be. Ain’t nothing wrong with him spending time with his mama.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Just as I was about to give the signal for her to drop the boulder, though, the hollow leapt from one hold to the next, and now she was standing in the wrong place. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I came in five minutes after, and I didn’t hug you, and I didn’t comfort you, because I thought it would be wrong to comfort you. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“If she sells those things for money to live, there’s nothing wrong in it. They are gifts freely given, and hers to do with as she pleases.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He said for Mama to remember that if the least little thing went wrong, she was to get in touch with him right away. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At being with you and being a normal human being with, like, minimally functional conversational skills. I don’t know what’s wrong with me.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

When Perry said, “I think there must be something wrong with us,” he was making an admission he “hated to make.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I walked east, it seemed to me that I was going in the wrong direction. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And if she swam in the wrong direction, where would she end up? Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Squire Gingivere says, sir, that if you were to admit yourself in the wrong and apologize to him, then you could both be friends and live in the barn again.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how long we’d be gone or what was wrong with me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It is delicious to watch him realize a moment later that he is in the wrong when Mundín says, "You mean Tía Laura. But see, I live next door." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Anastasia had been trying to tell me that trying to get married on the same day as your mother was the wrong thing to do, but I wouldn’t listen.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

When we leave the restaurant, Dad and I start walking home in the wrong direction, and we don’t even realize it until we’re in front of Sixth Sense Driving School on the corner. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Don’t get me wrong, I had friends, and I’d get loud and crazy with them sometimes. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Seemingly, there was no end to the things that could go wrong with human beings. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

V had been wrong before, thinking she saw Caroline in places she knew she wasn’t. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It read: “What is wrong with this statement?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The police are here and they might arrest him and he didn’t even do anything wrong! If my mom can get here I think she can help.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Love is a noble cause. How can anything done in the service of a noble cause be wrong?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He didn’t get me up either, and from a bad dream I woke with a start, knowing things were wrong, knowing I had missed something vitally important. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Briony said, “It’s boring of me, but I’ve done nothing wrong today.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Because as unexpected as Mabel's kiss had been, and as nervous and unsettled as I'd felt ever since, I knew that what we did wasn't wrong. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He had never done wrong and his heart was quiet in the night-time. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Aunt Jimmy looked so private, and it seemed wrong somehow to disturb that privacy. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figured she’d just laugh and tell me I was stupid for trusting her no-good boyfriend, but I was wrong. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Trotter, it’s all wrong. Nothing turned out the way it’s supposed to.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

As long as Woolf intended to win, there would have been nothing wrong with minimizing his winning margin. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly ready to open up his mouth to the clean air on the other side of the smoke, Byrd does another wrong thing. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Katz, it was quickly evident, was starting from square one—actually, several score pancake breakfasts to the wrong side of square one. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Things have gone wrong ever since that arrogant swine arrived. He’s the one who led the attack, and the rest followed. He’s the leader. The rest are his filth-eating lackeys.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew the box in the forest was all wrong for a peregrine, and so he would wonder what would happen when it came time for her to pick her own nesting site. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Nothing about the room was instantly wrong, but it held a distinct emptiness. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

When I finished, he announced that I was all wrong and that I should sit down. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How could you tell? I didn’t smell anything wrong.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our Map Room was set on fire and you ran off to talk to your shuck girlfriend? What’s wrong with you?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But he knew he was wrong to think this way, and it was unproductive in any case. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It was wrong—disgusting—but if it worked it would break Charlies strangle hold on my emotions. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

That fear and sadness stayed with her as she limped la-boriously upstairs and Thomas urged her to explain what was wrong. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like anything she said would be wrong, so she said nothing. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It read: And destroy all the spirits of the reprobate and the children of the Watchers, because they have wronged mankind. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Is it wrong to make a deal with God? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

But he was wrong to think the newspapers or government was suppressing his letter: His friend, terrified of being connected to the assassin, never delivered the letter to the newspaper. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But do you think I made the wrong choice?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His body was stiff and straight, his head high in the air, his large muscles quivered and jerked under his glossy coat, but something went wrong. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I am a widow. So we do no wrong.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

We’d almost made it out of the meadow when something went wrong. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Why should he get to act all high and mighty when he was wrong? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

As the daughter of a chief, this would have been wrong, and so she quickly sought a place where she could weep in safety. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

And even if she got to the coast on her own, she might stow away on the wrong ship. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I never did stop in on the college counselor to tell her she’d been wrong—that I was Princeton material after all. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I wonder if I’ll be all right. Do you think I could have been wrong all the time?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He better not call the cops though, or I’ll be spending my End Day behind bars, or maybe find myself on the wrong end of some officer’s club. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Part of him had known it was wrong. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Joaquin nodded, suddenly aware that he had maybe picked the wrong anecdote to tell Maya. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Some of it is very delicate, and even something as small as a human hair might get stuck in the wrong place and cause a computer to give a wrong answer. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At my question it spurted out his nose the wrong way. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But from the way Mrs. Baker was laughing, you couldn’t tell that anything was wrong. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He wanted me to say I was wrong. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

They had tried to bring her up properly, with a true sense of right and wrong. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Uh, don’t take this the wrong way, but you didn’t kill me. Are you crazy?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will be right. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

On top of that I hadn’t done anything wrong. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

"I don't want people to think we've done something wrong," I explain. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I tried to think of something to say, but I’d stepped so far into the wrong, I didn’t know how to fix it. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Not everything can be proven, Emma reasoned, but that does not mean something that cannot be proven is wrong. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the type of girl you might think was nothing more than a private-school blonde, but you’d be very wrong if you went no deeper than that. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure you don’t want to talk about what’s wrong?” she asks. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“People who believed things that were considered wrong by society,” Webb says. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

She races to the phone, but in her desperation, she dials several wrong numbers before she gets the one she wants. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Beatrice asked him what was wrong, but he wouldn’t answer. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He tells me I have a lot to learn about right and wrong. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“It was wrong of me to assume you didn’t need taking care of, Keiko. I’m here for you, and I’m here for the family. So is Dad. You go have fun and be a kid.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

But there was nothing wrong with his throwing arm. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“God, that came out wrong. I’m the worst at this.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“That must be the wrong windmill,” Dad would say. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is nothing wrong with beginning a sentence with a coordinator. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The women funnel a shipment of rayon to the wrong destination. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The train was coal-operated, so according to Papa, they wouldn’t be able to open the windows because the smoke got in if the wind was wrong. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Sir, we ought to teach the people that they are doing wrong in worshipping the images and pictures in the temple.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

"That is where you are wrong, dear sister." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Guenever said: “I don’t see what is wrong with the Round Table, just because the Orkney faction chooses to get murderous.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought it would be wrong to throw it out, so I never did.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

If she had been looking at him then, she would have known something was wrong. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It would not serve to have the wrong Brazen Beast hear of this. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m new at this,” I mumbled, realizing that I had said the wrong thing, though I had been striving to say the right. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Is it Ma? Is something wrong with Ma?" Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

But ’cause I feel wrong, letting Robert be out there, watching you and Biddy, without you knowing that he could hurt you.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But let me not hate and despise myself too much for these feelings; I know them to be wrong—that is a great step gained; I shall strive to overcome them. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

There has to be something wrong with them to throw a child out the window. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Talking to her about right and wrong was like talking to the deweys. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

If things went wrong, if the gods didn’t believe me ... The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

About a week after telling her cousins she thought something was wrong, at the age of twenty-nine, Henrietta turned up pregnant with Joe, her fifth child. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I had practiced “Moon River” every day for the last month, but I still managed to hit a wrong note here and there. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But the more she thought about it, the more wrong it felt. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Grandma rushed in and asked me what was wrong. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the train on the wav home, as I dissect all the wavs that today went wrong, I’m surprised by the fact that I don’t feel as awful as I might. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I said maybe you don’t understand any of it because there’s something wrong with your brain.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“I thought surviving was all that mattered, but I was wrong. We can’t leave these kids here.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They were talking in those preoccupied voices that grownups use when something has gone wrong. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Frankie, there—” I choked on my words “—there is something terribly wrong with me.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

How I wish he were here, so I could tell him I was wrong. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because I didn’t know what he had done or what was wrong with him or whether he had lost his mind. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truth is, in the real world there’s no such thing as a Persian flaw, because that assumes you could have a thing that has only one thing wrong with it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I’d never have had to do anything to try to fix all those things that had gone wrong. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In a similar manner, centuries of respectable writers have gradually shifted the collective consensus of what is right and wrong while shrugging off now-forgotten edicts by self-appointed guardians of the language. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I meant to make a meal at the lake, but once I saw Twill and Bonnie’s condition, it seemed wrong to take a single mouthful from them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But even without raising the hood of the car, I knew what was wrong. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

If the first phrase is hitched to the wrong wagon—or to no wagon at all—it’s a dangler. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’ll be our job to remember the parts we got wrong and make it better for our children and grandchildren. Embrace our differences, and still find a way to make peace.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But then everyone thought I was insane to get involved with a married man, let alone a married man whose wife was highly unstable, and I’ve proved them wrong on that one. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the sluggers were looking for someone to save the world, they chose the wrong guy. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Almost everything that’s ever gone wrong in my life I can trace back to a secondhand car. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The streets fill with rainwater at the corners of every block, and even though it doesn’t look too deep, if you step off the sidewalk in the wrong spot, it’ll swallow up your whole sneaker. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I guess he was right, children are supposed to keep quiet and not say anything, even when they know the grownups are wrong, but sometimes it’s hard. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sohrab’s uncle had the kind of face that looked wrong without a smile. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

"With all due respect, sir, you are wrong." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Any number of subtle transgressions, from not saying hello when someone greeted you to saying hello to the wrong person, meant a beating. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I thought there must be something wrong with me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then, as she comes nearer, I think that there must be something wrong with her. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few wrong turns, Dad finds the right building and the nearest visitor parking. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It’s too much work and being a prison guard is the exact wrong job for him. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

From what he said, too, I cannot be sure how wrong it was. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing wrong with me, you old coot!” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew there was something wrong with him when he cried off and on all during the night. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

You don’t have anything really wrong with you. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He never hesitated, and he never got one wrong. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing wrong with taking your time, Miss Celia. Believe me, I got five kids.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I flipped the bolts—one, two, three— but something went wrong and the door stuck. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

TOMBSTONE: It’s wrong to start a sentence with and or but. r.i.p. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of not having her any longer made me ache like there was something wrong with my bones. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

And for anyone in any kind of a leadership position, such as I was, the worst thing in the world that he could have was the wrong woman. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And besides, would the doctor in this case be totally wrong? The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

When, in fact, most of the time there were simply ways, none of them quite wrong or quite right, and nothing to tell you for sure which side of the line you stood on. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But both our daughters are going to college out of state, so I think she's got that all wrong.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

This was either wrong, or it was a moment—something Toby would look back on for the rest of his life. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I need to see your slides. The ones from last week. Please don't ask me what's wrong again,” I beg, anticipating what she's going to say by the round, puckered O of her mouth. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And she must have told Mr Coldfield that there was nothing wrong and evidently she believed that herself since she continued to sew on the garments for Judith’s wedding. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

They deny that anything could go wrong with them, and ordinarily nothing does go wrong with them, physically, in the Slammer, and they come out healthy. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A very limited sense of right and wrong prevailed in Homer’s heaven, and for a long time after. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like any good military mind, I decided that a direct assault was the wrong move. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which feels all the way wrong considering how much Scoob wants to stop. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

She was never one to stand mute and still and be wronged. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

After a brief moment our uncle could see that something was wrong, and feeling unable to cope, he called Momma from the kitchen. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s no worry, young man. No worry at all. Is something wrong with your car?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I’m on shaky ground here, because, considering the volatile nature of our society, if I get it wrong, I’m likely to offend. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I never meant any of it. I mean, I don’t know, I was mad. Your body is great. I mean, fine. There’s nothing wrong with you,” Conner babbled, his voice going squeaky. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Not bothering with a U-turn, X-Ray parked facing the wrong way. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I certainly didn’t want to offend my seatmate by using the wrong fork. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

How, Ulysses wondered, had things gone so wrong? Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I know the road and vaguely know the address, so I grab four Cokes from the cooler and get into my car before anyone notices I’ve taken the wrong run. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She knew that something was wrong even before she unlocked the door and saw his somber face. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She thought back to Bithynios, trying to remember how many children had been born with something wrong with them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to tell me I’m wrong. You really, really don’t.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is, I think someone is coming, though I am not sure, and I pray that I am wrong. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Don’t tell her I said so, but your mother is wrong.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

And there’s nothing wrong with him desiring that again, is there? A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She talks and talks as if there’s nothing wrong, and I say little; but then I’ve never said a lot anyway. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The girl in Mrs. Janssen's pantry may or may not have had a birthmark; Mrs. Janssen doesn't remember seeing one, but admits she could have been wrong. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Unluckily for them, they were the wrong kind of people. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

As much as he disliked Furball, it seemed wrong to feed him the same stuff that turned Felicia into a zombie. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt highly confident, but here my plan went slightly wrong. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What wrong? When? How can a war fix it?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Part of the problem is that we live in the wrong part of town. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Mom truly believes that her version of events is correct, down to details that I know, for a fact, are wrong. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we shall see, many omissible words earn their keep by preventing the reader from making a wrong turn as she navigates her way through the sentence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

An outing of fun would send the wrong message. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“Do you think I did wrong?” he asked. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He saw me on the couch and asked what was wrong. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And when I tried to explain, I always, it seemed, said the wrong things. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I must have got off on the wrong stop, I thought this was St. Louis!” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, he said, “Any answer you gave was wrong.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In certain parts, I think. I think a lot. Maybe I’m wrong.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was definitely something wrong with that girl. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“There is nothing wrong with having dreams. I may be a stupid dreamer, but at least I have them.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he answered, “there are certainly wrong ways,” and said nothing more about it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Later, octave came to mean a choice of twelve notes, not eight, and we got saddled with the wrong descriptor for ever, but I’ll explain that development when it arrives. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

On one of the Ridgewood hills, he set his foot down wrong in a ditch hidden in the grass. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I say that it was morally wrong if any of the contributors got special favors for the contributions that they made. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Are you never wrong?” said Queen Bella, and she smiled into the weakening eyes of her ruler. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Every one of the faces of the men turned to look at him, and Milkman knew he had said something else wrong, although he didn’t know what. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t try to force me to speak or tell her everything that’s wrong, like most adults would. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The nurse or doctor or fake-beard-wearing person said, “So, your brother asks the right questions and you ask the wrong ones.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Is something wrong?” thundered Father from the head of the table. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Still. There must be something wrong with her.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He sends back Theo’s letter with the various points numbered, and next to them why Theo is wrong about each one. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“What is wrong with being a good host? Giving out goody bags? Back home we always welcomed our guests with a treat, no matter how old they were, fifteen or fifty!” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Hugo said, “Nothing wrong with Japanese hi-fi technology, either.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I waited for my parents to return, to ask what’s wrong, to yell at me for breaking something, but no one came. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t do anything wrong,” I said slowly, unsure of what her next move would be. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s a school event, totally chaperoned. What’s wrong with a bunch of kids hanging out in the cafeteria? You have to let her go.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Perry is no Angel he has done wrong many times same as so many other kids. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What did I do, man? I didn’t do anything wrong,” Wes pleaded with the cop who was reaching over to cuff him while the rest kept their weapons on him. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly all those feelings I had about going to a new and beautiful place seemed wrong. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I dump a puzzle on the living room floor, glad for the simple right and wrong of a single, perfect fit. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black residents told Sheriff Tate that he had arrested the wrong man. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was so easy to get things wrong; and without her dæmon to guide her, maybe she was wrong about this, too. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

You figure out what's wrong with the answer you gave me. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look in the next room! You’re talking to the wrong one!” he shouted, and then he and his cackles were swallowed by the mist. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But I’ve brought nothing to give you, I told them, and my heart took me down like a lead weight, for no matter whether these words were true or false, they were terrible and wrong. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picks up the wrong fork too and starts eating. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Nothing has gone wrong, Husband. Look at these pudgy arms.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I had to have done something wrong, even if it only happened in my mind. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The words sounded odd, somehow wrong, but Koffi didn’t have time to dwell on them as Mama tore off across the Night Zoo’s lawns, pulling her in tow. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

His voice was becoming filled with wrong notes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

That was wrong, but Asha had no time to ponder it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The others stared after him, wondering what was wrong. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“But...it’s the wrong kind of bell,” I say, feeling small and impotent. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I was just mad as a hornet because I knew what was wrong with the car and they wouldn’t let me do anything about it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I first noticed something was wrong during the rush hour two days ago. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It seems things are all going wrong, what with Red in the hospital and the Biscuit hurt,” he said. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d always thought of being quiet as a negative, something that was wrong with me. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Begging your pardon,” Violet said suddenly, “but I think you may be wrong.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He lived on a California ranch so huge that a man could take a wrong turn on it and be lost forever, but it wasn’t his circumstances either. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned to stare at me again, this time as though I’d said something wrong. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It may be, though, that the pushing was tried in the wrong direction. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked how she didn’t just talk about some things being right and some being wrong. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Olanna could see, through the louvers, the many cots and many crying infants, and she imagined that the nurse would be confused and would bring the wrong baby. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Poppet looks wrong, somehow, standing there on the opposite side of the wall. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Even when Abuelito had sensed that something was wrong, it hadn’t mattered. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every day I try to guess how Yolanda will be wearing her hair, and I’m usually wrong. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Summer’s the best time for cooking outside. The smells make everyone come and talk to me. I make people happiest in summer. There’s nothing wrong with wanting that feeling to last.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I came into this club, and from the bartender’s face when he spoke, “Hello, Red,” I knew that something was wrong. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next second, everything goes wrong and you find yourself at the bottom. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Johnny sat at the kitchen window until far into the night trying to figure out why everything had been so wrong. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Exactly. I saw that you did nothing wrong. But this fellow did." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, no one heard them because Ida Nee was still pointing at things and yelling about how she had been wronged. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I wondered if there was something wrong with me, because it was real easy for me to lie, even to a pack of religious people on Sunday morning. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was wrong, to name her too soon. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Basta lowered his head like a boy caught doing wrong by his mother. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“That’s the wrong one, you dozy idiot! Capricorn wants to see the girl, and I'll tell him why he's had to wait so long.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He never played devil’s advocate or told me what I was feeling was wrong, the way Stephen Kellner did. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

If you used a word even barely wrong he would be there to catch it, correct you, and then explain to you why you had made the mistake, even though you probably weren’t listening. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“You looked at me the wrong way,” the kapo told me. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I want to call him back and tell him that I was wrong. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

When Barnwell began to go wrong, I declare that I felt positively apologetic, Pumblechook’s indignant stare so taxed me with it. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The main thing we have in common is that right is right and wrong is wrong,” she says. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The word is strong in my head, and yet I wonder if it could be the wrong one. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

As soon as Carl drew his gun, he realized it was 130 percent the wrong thing to have done. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And although it’s not our water to give, sometimes doing the right thing means doing the wrong thing first. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Plenty is wrong with me, and she knows it. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But after ten years, then twenty, they had to face the fact that there was something terribly wrong. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I grew up eating garbage out of dumpsters on the wrong side of town,” said Dozer, sounding sad. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And yet, tonight, in her great confusion, she wondered if she had not been wrong; if there had not been something that she had overlooked, for which the Lord had made her suffer. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“So then he asks me out? That seems wrong.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“If this is his revenge, he wrongs me. It was Euron who in- j sisted he be taken, to keep him from making mischief with his birds.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Plus, I didn’t want Momma getting the wrong idea. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the room knew that Mrs. Larkin had said the wrong thing. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Don’t get me wrong—I still wanted to find someone who could help me rescue Eddie’s journal and get out of this place. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

As Kuhn states it, this argument, which sets the experimentalists against the mathematicians, seems wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think it was your high school graduation party.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He just rubs me the wrong way. What if he’s some nutcase? What if he’s the one who killed those sheep?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

More than once it has happened that some fellow has jumped joyfully into a trench, only then to discover that it was the wrong one. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are bound to defend all who are wronged,” she said. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to get a few wrong on every test. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Does that mean the sign is wrong, or does that mean you don't know Jesus quite as well as you think? The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Norma had to dress well; the house had to have fine furniture; Charlie had to be kept inside so that other people wouldn’t know anything was wrong. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Don't get me wrong—rwe both hated Tantalus and we were worried sick about camp—but we didn’t know what to do about it. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure how she could be so right and so wrong at the same time—because of course I wasn’t getting sick of her. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

This was in keeping with the wisdom of the day, but it was also about as wrong as a geological conclusion can get. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He wasn't certain the boat was completely ready, and he didn't want to be humiliated if anything went wrong. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The story in America: Its People and Values isn’t wrong, so far as it goes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Only ... if Mother or Robb did anything treasonous, called the banners or refused to swear fealty or anything, it would all go wrong. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I have thought that my family, having settled among immigrants who had also been their neighbors in the ancestral land, needed to clean their name, and a wrong word would incite the kinspeople even here. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “Anyway, there you are. So we work with new-model robots. It’s our job, granted. But answer me one question. Why...why does something invariably go wrong with them?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen girls in ridiculously flashy, slinky costumes today that seem inappropriate, but there doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with what I have on. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Walt and Billie had both known poverty when they were young and after struggling to rise above it saw nothing wrong with enjoying the fruits of their labor. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And if I was you, sir, I wouldn’t give no wrong numbers.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Although my conclusions may be wrong, I seem to be sensitive to the spoor of the human. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But maybe the witness got it wrong. Maybe this was all a misunderstanding.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It’s funny how now that I’m ten years old and just about a man I can see how Momma was so wrong. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

While Mom went running to see what was wrong, I slipped out the kitchen door. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Dionysius was clearly wrong; today most scholars believe that the birth of Christ was in 4 BC. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But one of the nurses took my hand”—Momma grabs my hand again—“looked me in the eye, and said, ‘Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Just when I’m starting to think Kenn has gotten it all wrong about me, an encrypted message appears. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It also shows that Mr. Jeavons was wrong and numbers are sometimes very complicated and not very straightforward at all. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The snarky chastising rubbed every single one of my nerves the wrong way. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She turned back to the sink and hung the towel to dry, and Pearl realized she’d gone about this all wrong. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The idea of fixed class positions, on the other hand, rubs many the wrong way. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

And I knew Miles had been at least a little right when he’d called me a hypocrite for saying it was wrong just because it was Tucker. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Besides, my mom had made me promise not to use deadly weapons in the apartment after I’d swung a javelin the wrong way and taken out her china cabinet. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, they probably got the wrong number or something. Thanks a lot, you hear. I appreciate it. Tell Alicia maybe some other time.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if everything was fine, why did they feel so wrong? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Unless, of course, something goes wrong and they turn on him. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He was not sure what he had done wrong, but he doubted Maddox would be very proud. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Driving, I could easily kill myself, and the car could kill other people if Rufus called me from it at the wrong time. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Windy’s the only 1 who thinks 4 is the wrong answer. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But at other times, I think that’s wrong—that it was just to do with me and Ruth, and the sort of loyalty she inspired in me in those days. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have the wrong floor,” says the guard abruptly. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

"I don't want you to get a wrong idea of me from all these stories you hear." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Also it was different not having a father and mother, and Kay had taught him that being different was wrong. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that Myron was trying to do the right thing here, but man, he was the wrong guy to try. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

If you did the wrong thing at the mort or the undoing, for instance, you were bent over the body of the dead beast and smacked with the flat side of a sword. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So me standing here moving is proof that Zeno was wrong and silly and just wasting our time. Motion is possible, and everyone in this room knows it.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

All the amusement drained out of them, and this time Nok knew she had said the wrong thing. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

But she also felt as if the whole world had spun the wrong way and she was still finding her balance. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He could no more hug Silas than he could hold a moonbeam, not because his guardian was insubstantial, but because it would be wrong. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

If something went wrong, there would be no teacher to stop the drill, no referee to step in and call a time-out. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I had it again, the dream where I’ve done something wrong, where everyone is against me, sides with Tom. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The only thing I considered wrong was what I got caught doing wrong. I had a jungle mind, I was living in a jungle, and everything I did was done by instinct to survive.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

God only knew what else might be wrong with it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But now, I began to think that maybe the sign had been wrong. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

If he were doing wrong, they could not kill him, at least; all they could do was to tell him that he could not get the job. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I stepped inside the house after school, I knew something was wrong. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's a reminder that things have been going wrong every step of the way. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I think to ask her what’s wrong again, hoping that all this talk of sticking together will make her want to confide in me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the end the only way Conway was able to get him to move at all was to turn him the wrong way around the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She can offer me a job now, but first a little “survey,” on which there are no right or wrong answers, she assures me, just whatever I think. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, and wait for something to go wrong with only two days to go.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The dudes in here can still be pretty rough, don’t get me wrong, but it’s nothing like that place. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“But it was the wrong thing to do, wasn’t it? Dad getting out of his rig on the highway that way,” Will went on. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

As if it wasn't already bad enough on the floor of a garage on the wrong side of the tracks in Bakersfield. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

At one point, just before he moseyed to the den to watch Sunday news shows, he looked at me and said, “Why so quiet, Sweet Pea? Something wrong?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She had satisfied them for now, but ghosts always returned until their wrongs had been righted. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“But if you’re thinking through all that lunacy every time you walk into a new situation, then there is something seriously wrong with you, Jule.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Ms. Parker, too, understands when sounds are sweet or wrong. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“And there’s something wrong with the water. Listen.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She sensed, and hoped she was wrong, that he did not want to give her his number. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“What’s wrong with you, Valerian? If she dies, your little prank is over before it begins.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She did not always feel so absolutely satisfied with herself, so entirely convinced that her opinions were right and her adversary’s wrong, as Mr. Knightley. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

I could feel Arturo looking at me—I knew he could tell something was wrong—but unlike last time, he didn't ask what it was. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

In that, as we have seen, he was wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I was very proud of the way you behaved, Joetta. What was wrong?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What is wrong with you!” the mechanic shouts. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I think we’ve been reading that line the wrong way. The world...the Earth. In Greek, the word for that would be...” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When I found out that Kennedy came from a wealthy family, I knew for sure that Papá was wrong about rich people, but I never said anything to him. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He had to work this out, see what he was doing wrong. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, there are those who blow you kisses or try to take hold of your arm, but they’re definitely knocking on the wrong door. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

If I dropped a sign or added two numbers wrong, I might never wake up. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked at me wrong, I threw a fist. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Want to hear something even worse? My first spelling quiz the teacher marked that I spelled favorite wrong because I included the u.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

If I tell the wrong person what we found... Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He was terrified of doing something wrong and breaking it. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We’re the richer for his backing this horse, even if it was the wrong one. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He saw large brown eyes, leathery gray ears that looked familiar but wrong, a trunk, and sharp ivory tusks longer than his arms. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then she start back to her seat, but she turnt wrong and start loping right off the field. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At eleven thirty-five, she considered that something could be gravely wrong. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Now he was experiencing jolts of anxiety, nagging doubts: He could not shake off the fear that it was all going to go wrong. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I could feel everybody watching us, wondering what was wrong with us, and whether it would kill us, and how heroic my mom must be, and everything else. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He refused any anger toward her; he rejected it because he could not be angry at the wrong person. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And even if they didn’t, they always worry about doing something wrong. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Look, there’s nothing wrong with me taking Erik to practice this morning.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The first one is the head of a school, like Ms. Garcia. The second one is a belief that helps you know what’s right or wrong.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“I’m twelve. Is there something wrong with me?” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Only the parrot is there, sitting on a perch between the captain’s cluttered desk and a globe that has all the landmasses wrong. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He ran his hands over the edge of the concrete steps out of habit, but it immediately felt wrong. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He said, Wasn’t it because you knew something was wrong with that ladder? The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“If what these writers say is true, the Black Muslims have the wrong Islam,” he said. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I get to track practice, I’m in one of those moods where everything just feels wrong. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Something is wrong with me,” I said, trying to hold back my tears. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I’m sorry I got so much so wrong. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

That way he doesn’t always have to tell Oliver that he’s doing something wrong in front of everyone. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Have you ever stopped to think that something might be wrong with this? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Just one enzyme misfiring, just one wrong protein activation, and you could have cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When we went over the Calculus review problems Mrs. Kurtz had assigned from day one, Megan got every one of them wrong. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It would give physicists the first direct evidence that the big bang was correct and that steady state was wrong. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“If it’s a litde slow or fast, it’s not far wrong.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m going to say what I should have said last night: that he’s looking in the wrong direction. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was looking for our description. I was wrong to use the road in the first place.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

As we watch the Barang float on his back in the water, Keav chides Chou for giving me the wrong information. means he’s French. but they can be from many other countries, including America. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And perhaps Uncle wanted to make up to us for all the time we had been living out here like this, trying to prove he was wrong about our never being able to fly. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know you’d tell me if something was wrong,” she says, “because best friends tell each other everything, right?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

How could nature be so wrong about something so important? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Something went wrong today; something about retiring them. It wouldn’t have been possible for me to go on without getting an animal.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“You’re worse than the dog. At least the dog didn’t know what it did was wrong when it broke into my home. Go upstairs. Pack your things.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I know, sweetie,” he said, his voice gravelly from whatever new thing was wrong in his neck. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But she was very sleepy now, and something was definitely wrong, and the man was shooting her such a look, such a curious look, and she couldn’t seem to finish what she was saying. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I hear they sent you the wrong dress?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, if you ask at the wrong moment, they say no. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people thought you melted the butter in the pan first to make grilled cheese, then put the sandwich down, but that was wrong because then the butter wouldn’t spread even on the bread. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I took a lot of wrong turns to find out who I really was. You will, too.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He said nothing was wrong with him, but Aurelia knew that wasn't true. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He squirmed out of the boy’s arms to inspect his human more carefully, alarmed that he could have failed to notice an injury, although his sense of smell was never wrong. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

If he ever in his entire life admitted to being wrong, I wasn’t there to witness it. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is always a wrong and a right way to get on a boat,” said Johnny, who had never been on any boat except an excursion boat once. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing wrong with it!” said Harry, his voice shaking slightly. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He instantly knew he’d said the wrong thing when some of the light vanished from her eyes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Smith took Pollard aside and assured him that his critics were wrong. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I cannot hear you! And anyway what you say is wrong because you are a rodent and therefore a liar.” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

How could I explain to Ivette that she was completely wrong about . . . well, about everything? The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“But your father, at the table. He said he thought Ross Barnett was wrong.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Of course, you know the rest—my brother is called Tick because he goes tocktocktocktock-tocktocktock and I am called Tock because I go ticktick-tickticktickticktick and both of us are forever burdened with the wrong names. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bridge watched, mesmerized, as Celeste moved from one section of her hair to another, brushing it all the wrong way. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

In some way he was unable to fathom, he was convinced he had done him some unforgivable wrong. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And that, in turn, can help you understand the menu of choices you face and the things that are most likely to go wrong. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They saw nothing wrong with him and they had been fooled so many times that they went on with their work. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hera who never forgot a wrong sent the madness upon him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep them safe, steer them from wrong, and help them recognize snakes from friends. Give them the wisdom they need to be their own people. “ The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

When Ruth and I discussed it while I was caring for her down in Dover, she claimed it had been just a matter of two or three weeks—but that was almost certainly wrong. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this feels really wrong; Rufus and I have bigger things to worry about than getting somewhere late. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My parents had always taught me to be polite and to apologize when I did something wrong. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“No,” she approached them slowly, “nothing is wrong with him—only with us.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I never thought about whether prisons had the wrong people before. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I can’t tell her to do right if I’m doing wrong.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I propose a Triwizard Trivia Tournament. If you get a question right, you choose your own bean. If you get it wrong, someone chooses for you.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I was wrong,” said Meryl Lee, and dropped the desk top. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Up to now, we have looked at the right and wrong uses of the apostrophe, and I have felt on pretty safe ground. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

In my heart, I was convinced they were wrong. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Jane noticed that they were going in the wrong direction. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The slave girl had not been far wrong, she thought. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

People waiting there never look like they have much wrong with them. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

They think we pick their pockets — and they’re not far wrong. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

It was a moral wrong for girls to wear lipstick or sun-backed dresses. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In other words, the world is full of cases where both proposition A and proposition B are correct; or where both are wrong. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

One wrong move, and the baton would fall or go flying, which would mean precious seconds off their time. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

After several minutes of opening the wrong doors and bumping into people who hit me or called me names, I was in tears, ready to give up, paralyzed by my fear. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was definitely a move in the wrong direction. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean, you don’t like it? What’s wrong? You said you wanted to come with me.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The stakes are higher of course, play the wrong song in a tavern and people might hiss you, but misjudge an entire town and things can get uglier than that. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He would really appreciate it if Henry would stop proving him wrong. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The wrong word — or even the right word—and I would’ve disappeared. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want Cecile to think I was afraid of doing wrong, but I was. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing will go wrong. Just remember to run for the lights.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He inherited other traits from her as well: Anna was gregarious and opinionated, and had a strong sense of right and wrong. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“You’re all wrong. The best play of the game was clearly the fumble on that third down in the first quarter and that’s because...” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have to hear her words to know something was wrong. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

But even the small ones could be disastrous if they went wrong, and it was satisfying to have it behind her. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I knew that the vague thought I had had earlier, that goodness and intelligence could somehow lift a person above the idea of race, was wrong. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She asked me what was wrong, and I had no answer for her. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I whispered back, “What was wrong with the treasure we had when I left? She’d only been with us a week then.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her family thought it had more to do with a “romance gone wrong,” but the truth has been lost to time. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It always goes wrong when we come to the dessert,” sighed Mr. Wonka. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sensing an opportunity, Miss Peregrine said, “You see, children? The future isn’t so grand after all. Nothing wrong with the good old here and now!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

As it happened, he left by the wrong door and never found the pool he had spied from his window, but it made no matter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I just want the world to make sense now and then, is that so wrong? The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

When Elizebeth saw William wearing “a certain grim look that came around his mouth,” she would know that something had gone wrong. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Is it right, what he told me? Did I get it wrong?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Dad set out to prove them wrong by the sheer volume of his work and application of every particle of his energy and intelligence. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

However, it would be quite wrong to think of the new science as primarily an amateur—that is, unpaid—activity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Even if the angler fish had been trying to eat him moments earlier, it was wrong to let something die so slowly and painfully. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help having the feeling that something was wrong. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I return a little bit of his warmth so he won't ask if anything is wrong. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Curly expected to be fired if anything else went wrong. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But more than anything I remember the feeling that I had done something wrong, that this was my fault. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“These are entirely wrong for his coloring. He needs a grey. A nice deep grey.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

So he challenged Mary’s numbers, insisting that her calculations were wrong. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The teachers must have realized something was wrong, because they didn’t try to wake him up. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It comes to the point where, one day passing by her lunch table, I hear Anise ask, “What is wrong with you, Marie Antoinette?” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the cabin, I was suddenly the man there, the one to protect the family, if tilings went wrong. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was in a meeting, but she came out and asked what was wrong. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think he was probably on the wrong bus. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was wrong to be bitter, Papa always said so, but what could you do to get such feelings out of your heart? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was crazy, but we felt like we were doing something wrong. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I remember always feeling really nervous, like I was doing something wrong. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Calm down, honey. Nothing’s going to go wrong,” my father says. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the daughter said, “Now you must come back, to the other side. Then you can see why you were wrong.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been wrong to say that Gary Edwards abused the rules, because by his own account and those of others there were no rules for football players. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess I’m more irritated about how today has started than I realize, because Chelsea lets go of me and says, “What’s wrong?” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“Is something wrong?” she asked sweetly, leaning against the wall. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

By the time I reached my door, Brownie’s little voice was belting out the words, some right, some wrong, and Mr. Ray’s deep, raspy voice began singing right along with him. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was the archetypal theoretical physicist: it was said of him that even his presence in the same town would make experiments go wrong! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went on this way for hours on end, until his mother began to worry and think there was something wrong with him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Any question on number 2? Most of you got this problem wrong.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Until the doctor tells me I’m wrong, it is a boy.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Officer Crams had steered the car in the wrong direction. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

But these precious relationships seem tender, vulnerable, at the risk of disappearing with one wrong word from my mouth. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to act like nothing’s wrong, like there wasn’t a weird moment that reminded me of death and Khalid. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He realized that he was not always right, was, indeed, often not right, and at the same time he found that others were not always wrong. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Stone was going about it all wrong, I realized. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think you took a wrong turn, son. Where’s the Cedar River from here?” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until later that she realized she’d gotten the pronouns wrong. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Setting the wrong example for your grands. Showing them they don’t have to live up to their word. Being disrespectful to your own mother. Raising my pressure.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

When Raymond asked him what was wrong, he didn’t answer right away. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I’ll change that the next time we have a meeting. It was wrong. Psychologically wrong. You were right to leave all that in the plane—absolutely right.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. McGowan, I did not do anything wrong. I was helping that little girl. What was I supposed to do? Just let her cry?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“But it’s a wrong to gain a bigger good.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come back,” said the Wart “You have changed the wrong one.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You feel all right? Anything wrong, or what?” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, Oomen was made like a scarecrow—not scrawny, but as if beneath his clothes, his body had been put together at wrong angles. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Each one tried to put a shoe on the wrong foot. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"As if there's something wrong with being in love." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

That was what happened to Grisha who got found in the wrong place at the wrong time—a life sentence of slavery or worse. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I can’t lie—I felt a little deflated when she said that, like cake cooked at the wrong temperature. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

So that’s how I discovered that Old Chong’s eyes were too slow to keep up with the wrong notes I was playing. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A reasonable conclusion despite the fact that it was dead wrong. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“People would think that something was wrong if someone like you quit here on the South Side.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When an equation has an infinity in it, physicists usually assume that there is something wrong; the infinity has no physical meaning. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It's all too personal and it's not about me and what I'm doing is wrong. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

If something went wrong, what could we do about it? Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And speaking of getting it wrong, Reynie’s eyes now fell on Constance, sound asleep with her face on her desk. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

They treated us like we were their own children, which meant we had chores to do, but we were also given freedom to make our own decisions . . . even if they were the wrong ones. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Are we born knowing right from wrong, or do we have to learn it? Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was afraid my anger would bring me to say the wrong words. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

At twenty years of age the mold of my life was set, was hardening into a pattern, a pattern that was neither good nor evil, neither right nor wrong. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the armorer was taking that away too, making it sound as if he were doing something wrong. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And then, if one has done something wrong . Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holding her made me forget about everything else that had gone wrong that Mississippi summer. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

This was my chance to prove the other teachers wrong. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

If he overloaded the boiler next to the Keepers’ compound, it would explode and— Was it wrong to blow twenty men to smithereens? The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Have you ever seen children at parties pinning the tail on the wrong part of the donkey? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what’s wrong with me, but I’m starting to get scared. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, she was practically my cousin, and these feelings were totally wrong. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I was wrong. It’s not going to happen.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“About two weeks I’d say. She had her hair done, her nails done, her eyes done, and her clothes done. The only thing wrong is she couldn’t have her children done.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And I know this wrong, man, but the way you hit them fools the other night, they probably got a couple syndromes too now!" When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

When he’d seen those evil centaurs and Cyclopes, it had seemed so wrong, so backward, that he thought his head would explode. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The moment I woke, I knew something was wrong. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“What Diaz did was wrong, and someday he’ll pay for it, if not in this life, in the next one,” he said. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I am invited to join Grace and Cordelia as they walk ahead on the way home from school, with Carol trailing behind, and to think of things Carol has done wrong. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the wind remains blowing in the wrong direction. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It's quite common for probes to land on the wrong planet. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was crying for joy with them, because I had been wrong. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course I do. Don’t get me wrong, there’ll always be a few lame people who make your father’s sins your sins. But for the most part? Clean slate.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The family was worried about Dessie, but what could you do when she would not admit there was anything wrong with her? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Something else had gone wrong, something besides Frog’s disappearance: Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

For a while they tried a Chinese kitchen-god figurine from Schmitt’s Variety Store, but he was all wrong—much too nice and pleasant looking. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drop the attitude with him, now that I can see good and clear that I’m in the wrong. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

"How could there be a side show without you as the star attraction, who'd draw the two bits admission, Brother Twobits? What was wrong with the funeral?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And maybe Moony wouldn't have to write in diaries—not that there's anything wrong with you. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Atticus said, “There’s nothing wrong with my—” “Nothing except you just can’t see.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I asked him what was wrong, and he just shook his head. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sheets are twisted and turned around the wrong way. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I can do a lot of the technical stuff. The hardest part is making people look at the wrong hand.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Something wrong?” asks Uriah through a mouthful of toast. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“We all get a little scared sometimes. There’s nothing wrong with it. Nothing at all.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“It was in a story. About how the Witch ate a tiger’s heart. They all whisper it. It’s wrong, of course. You don’t have a tiger’s heart. You have no heart at all.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Leo was afraid he had said something wrong, but Aphros pulled some seaweed yarn from his pouch and started knitting. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I glared at her, hoping she would notice something was wrong. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did my best to remember who came from which nation and which spouse went with whom, careful not to say too much for fear of getting anything wrong. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

So if I spell anything wrong kindly have the kindness to overlook it. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

But it all went wrong when the other two scorpions appeared from the woods. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I looked up and tried to tell him who I was, but something went wrong. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a time in American history,” I wrote one day, “when people say nothing. People are murdered, and no one says, ‘This is wrong’ or does anything about it.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They were blue, and in the wrong places. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You must forget everything about Hill House. I was so wrong to bring you here,” he said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I was afraid to, because I’ve been told it’s wrong, but you're right—I don’t want to think that way, just because someone said it’s so. I know the truth. I love you.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Your normal sexual outlets have been blocked for so long that now the sexual overflow is seeping out into the wrong channels. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time the father took a wrong guess, the youngest daughter laughed loudly. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Technically, I’m not doing anything wrong, not yet, but if the police stop me—well, let’s just say they have an uncanny ability to make technicalities disappear. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Children get abused and we sometimes think that everything is normal because they act as if there is nothing wrong. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Hanneke, I hope you don't take this the wrong way,” he begins. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I guess we must have taken a wrong turn somewhere? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It feels all wrong, like gravity has reversed, or I’m in a dream. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Did you get the wrong question? But I understand that; why is a question I understand the wrong one? Aren’t I supposed to understand?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I had no doubt that what Falconer and my master, Simon Bass, were asking me to do was wrong. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Eavesdropping's wrong, I know, but it was hardly my fault if Mum and Aunt Alice chose to natter right outside the ventilator flaps, was it? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

TOMBSTONE: It’s wrong to end a sentence with a preposition. r.i.p. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was a person who knew right from wrong. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Someone everyone expected to do the right thing and no one would ever suspect of doing something wrong. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

One way to summarize the views of people like Erickson and Balee would be to say that they regard this picture of Indian life as wrong in almost every aspect. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We always look for the signs we missed when something goes wrong. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I try to sketch her in my notebook, but I am not an artist, and all that comes out are the wrong shapes, the wrong lines. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Was he capable of telling right from wrong? Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had to have realized by this point, surely, that he had gone wrong. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I ... I know now I was wrong, and I know I can’t go back to the island after what I did. That’s okay.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The shooter was in a gang of American kids; Tito and his fellow Liberians, who identified themselves as members of a gang called the Africans, were walking on the wrong turf. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Just four days later, Chicago proved that judgment terribly wrong. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Just ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong color skin. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I had often been painfully beaten, but almost always I had felt that the beatings were somehow right and sensible, that I was in the wrong. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And she kept yelling the same thing: ‘You’re saying it wrong. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was very neatly written, and except that “friend” was written “freind” and one of the “S’s” was the wrong way round, the spelling was correct all the way through. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

There was always something wrong with people other than just sucking: they had socialization disorders, or borderline personality syndrome, or whatever. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Lucy Raleigh always managed to rub Big Ma the wrong way. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Nothing wrong with city life. But I always felt lost.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He used to ask me sneeringly sometimes why I hadn’t been an officer, as though I’d done something wrong. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad could be wrong, and the great historians Carlyle and Macaulay and Trevelyan could be wrong, but from the ashes of their dispute I could construct a world to live in. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“See? Boo thinks so, too. And he’d never lie! He’s, like, our sworn guardian and all that. He wouldn’t try to steer you wrong.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mark looked at her sadly—he’d assumed the monsters were the infected people down the street, but now he realized he was wrong. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She knew instantly from the sound of the voice that there was something wrong. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sorry, Julius! It was very wrong of us. It was a trick, to—to punish you for falling asleep. We took him....” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

They would be sorry when they had to walk barefoot through snow and rocks because they didn’t take what shoes they could, even if the wrong size. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a task that was growing in complexity as I handled more cases and saw the myriad ways that things could go wrong. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"Only if the wind blows the wrong way." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Not that I have anything to confess to—other than borrowing 1 wrong answer. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But I’m still stuck. I’ve been trying to crack the code all night, and I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong. It’s just a bunch of numbers.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Oliver shrugged and tried not to think too hard about what he had said wrong. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I wonder if they're in love and the tattlers and scandal sheets are wrong about his countless mistresses and affairs. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Does the cloth remind you of what you have done wrong?” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

That was wrong by any human standard of conduct. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When used as a verb, this word impacts me the wrong way. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s a Mask and I’m a slave, and thinking of him in this way is so wrong that I wonder for a second if the beating Marcus gave me has muddled my brain. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I don’t realize I’m scowling until Emery nudges me again and mouths, What's wrong? Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

If you were willing to erase your students’ wrong answers and fill in correct ones, you probably wouldn’t want to change too many wrong answers. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

From the hitch in her voice, I sensed something was wrong. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I may be wrong but I thought I saw a flicker of movement from the cage. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t get me wrong, I was grateful for the clothes that I had on my back, but I just wanted to have designer clothes as well. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“But it doesn’t mean you made the wrong choice. It’s just something that you have to carry.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If I pore over the events too long, Hoagland always reminded me, I might get the proportions wrong, lend an act or word a note of too much significance and weight. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to give the wrong idea about that period at the Kingsfield. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His dad is home from work and something’s wrong because he’s angry and getting angrier by the second. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She told him the toothpaste in the sink was wrong. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Shoot, he might've turned around and took me back to the school if I said the wrong thing. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

There was something wrong with his jaw, the pain was intense, but he didn’t care if he could hit Janza again, renew that earlier beautiful punch. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you don’t see what’s wrong, reflect on it for a moment. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Was your father a gambler down in Georgia that wound up on the wrong end of a gun? Were you born in the backseat of a Greyhound bus?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was not unreasonable for him to anticipate his own death— he had been ill for so long, and the doctors could not figure out what was wrong with him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each week we could forget past wrongs done to us. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many hypotheses proposed by scientists as well as by nonscientists turn out to be wrong. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded, but I hoped they were wrong. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was looking at her as if she were not much to look at...and that was wrong. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Sure he knows what I’m talking about. He’s not stupid. There ain’t nothing wrong with him.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But I had felt sorry for Old Qian even though he was wrong. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just when I was starting to feel like we were invisible in this teeming city, I realize how wrong l am. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Here in the tropics the days were now growing shorter, and Frightful pointed her beak the wrong way. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The wrong color kid in the wrong color area, and the government could come in, strip your parents of custody, haul you off to an orphanage. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It would be as if, when everything started going wrong, when it started getting stressful, we could have just gone backward. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I sat up and asked her what was wrong with Mr. Savo. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

So he came back and made a Confucius joke, that if the words were wrong, then his intentions must also be wrong. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very carefully and kindly, and with the best intentions, she wound the creance up quite wrong. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We made only four miles today, still in the wrong direction. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Part of me thought I should just go in and another part said something was wrong and I should just leave. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more I thought about our first Relocation Rule, the more it rubbed me wrong, and the more “just the two of us” felt like one away from alone. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

"You're looking at me like I did something wrong," I say. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

At first, I just stand there, ashamed, submitting to his search as if I’ve done something wrong. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Although newspapers had embellished incidents and inflated the numbers of panicked people, their stories weren’t totally wrong. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

But I don't leave because he has eyes like gems that make me want to stay, even when he says the wrong thing. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her mother had been wrong about one thing: Missing school orientation was not a minor thing. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

‘Not resting? Is anything wrong? What is the time?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Darkness engulfed them, along with the sensation of compressing bands, but something was wrong....Hermione’s hand seemed to be sliding out of his grip.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But that doesn’t mean that the Replacement Theory is completely wrong. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That would be wrong. Then he might become dangerous. He may be rude now, but no foreigners have been harmed by their servants.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And maybe this is why Hideo had not stopped the final game when he saw that things were going wrong. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“A bad time. Very bad. It was wrong. But I was young and stupid and full of ideas. Just like you.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Domishmen left the Great Pyramid an hour shy of sunset in case they took a wrong turn or had difficulty finding the purple lotus. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I never said you were dumb. I just said you were smart, didn’t I? Why do you have to take things the wrong way?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Look, ain’t nothing wrong with a ghostwriter, all right? My thing is, ghostwriters need to write authentically for the person. Ain’t no way you out here strapped like backpacks.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Americans all have different ideas about religion, so there are no right and wrong answers. Say to them, I’m going for God’s sake, and they will respect you.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t know that Trevor and I had done something wrong. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I stayed on my feet for a moment holding on to a bookcase and wondering what was wrong, then finally, I collapsed to my knees. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Quite wrong, my dear aunt; there is no likeness at all.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“These people tell you there’s something wrong with your genes, and you just believe it?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But once it’s all the way open, I see how wrong I am. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“So trying to come to America from the wrong country is a crime?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Of course she could be wrong, in which case she and Jason were about to be turtle food. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“What the hell is wrong with you?” said a sharp voice. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I asked, thinking I was making casual conversation, but boy, was I wrong. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worse, they had begun to attract the wrong sort of people—parvenus from Boston and New York. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, but you can see how some people took that the wrong way, right?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I just figured that was something wrong with me and I didn’t have whatever I needed to fix it.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tackle the problem head-on and so there I was, with a delicious steak and a book that said it was wrong to eat that steak. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It took him quite a fumbling time to get her luggage checks, to lose them in his pockets, to find them and pick up the wrong pieces. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What for? We tried to stop something bad, and it didn’t work. Doesn’t mean we were wrong to try—Noah, are you listening to me?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I want her to be right but I also want to say she’s wrong and so I don’t say nothing at all. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He did not think it was wrong for strength to have its way, but only that it was intensely wrong for anything to succeed against his own dan. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s been hurting and bleeding for a while now. I fear something bad is wrong with her.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The history books—correct me if I’m wrong, Scorpius—show nothing about when and how he arrived in Godric’s Hollow? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“There’s no need to cry, miss! It’s no big deal—you just hit the wrong button. I won’t take off any points for that!” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He enjoyed the strangeness of sitting in the wrong seat, and then feeling his son’s presence as the cushion molded around him and held him close. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I hope to be your friend, but after today I’m afraid you have the wrong idea about me. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

But they were mostly quirks, discrepancies, most of them so minor that it will perhaps show you how little reason I had to imagine that anything was wrong. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He always put it back in the wrong place, too, when he was finished. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Don’t get the wrong idea— Kleenex is about the only thing I put near my nose these days. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Why had Black, having got the wrong bed, not silenced Ron and proceeded to Harry? Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

When people heard my mom’s warning, they said, “No, you must be wrong. You’re overreacting.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He stepped aside and I shot the car across the line to avoid the men and stayed there on the wrong side as I headed for the Golden Day. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad say material stuff like that doesn’t matter, but sometimes I think they’re wrong. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Nhamo was too disturbed to pay much attention, but gradually she began to sense that something was very wrong. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A little, when you look moody and discontented, as you sometimes do, for you’ve got such a strong will, if you once get started wrong, I’m afraid it would be hard to stop you.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was on the wrong side of it, and I didn’t know how long I’d have to go to find its end. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

After she hung up I called her back and told her I was sorry, even though I really didn’t think I did anything wrong. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The mouse feeder tells us that if you put a strange mouse into one of their cages, one with the wrong, alien scent, they will bite it to death. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe if you weren't so quiet, Ari...Maybe if you could just be more disciplined...Yeah, everyone had suggestions as to what was wrong with me and what I should become. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

You could get mugged or beaten up if you strayed down an alley, or knocked on the wrong door. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn down the wrong street, away from the corner where Brother Khoi would be. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Indeed, we now know that Liszt and his contemporaries were quite wrong about the provenance of what they called ‘gypsy’ music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I tend to think that even though you’re ten or eleven, you know right from wrong. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she said he should pick her up, would that give him the wrong idea? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Let’s not get off on the wrong foot here, Holling. Forms are how we organize this school, and forms are never wrong, are they?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

It is completely wrong, but durable just the same. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I told my sister and she said, “So? He probably got them wrong.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

There has always been a sliver of panic in him, deeply buried, when it comes to his daughter: a fear that he is no good as a father, that he is doing everything wrong. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z