The question doesn’t fill his brain long because, just as they emerge from the woods, there in the clearing, Axel sees Byrd in her flower garden. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Our bodies, from our teeth to our brains, evolved to help us hunt, cook, and eat meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It all seemed so old and adult, but I was sure this was what a migraine felt like—having so many questions crowded in your brain, and not quite being able to touch the answers. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If I Google traumatic brain injury, most websites tell me selective amnesia is a consequence. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Often I needed the sauna to relax, because I was giving my brain a real workout. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Images burned in her brain, a flush burned in her cheeks. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

These were the kinds of thoughts and worries and fears that had plagued her for years—thoughts and worries and fears about every rumor and every real thing that could fit into her brain. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The thing that struck Linton as he reviewed Strayer’s research was what was happening inside the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I could see the curve of her cheek against my brain waves, which were red and loopy. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they were racking their brains for anything to say other than “good luck.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The fever-must have affected your brain. No ma’am. Get back in bed, dearie.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like my brain doesn’t quite remember what it used to do. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

There’s a human brain in a bottle, like a giant flabby gray walnut. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Take care of business and work and stop using your brain. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Bits of brain and bone clung to its head. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The problem was that math seemed so boring; his brain never needed urging when it came to reading or writing. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her job was to open up the rat’s head and figure out what the nerve gas had done to the brain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Victor’s astonishment was so genuine, and Mrs. Pontellier’s indifference so apparent, that the disturbing notion did not lodge long in her brain. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

El Patron had refused to let the doctors destroy Matt’s brain. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess I had my own personal television in my brain. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Mind’s Eye promises to deliver entertainment directly to your brain through its patented NeuroFace technology. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It speeds up communication between the hemispheres and affects language and higher-order brain functioning. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I had seen enough television shows on brain trauma to know it was possible. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

My brain thinks about the cold and the light and nothing else, and not one person on the planet knows exactly where I am. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There’s this electric tingly feeling radiating through my whole body and my brain has gone fuzzy and I actually think I can hear my heartbeat. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

My eyes widen as these images are imprinted on my brain. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was transmitted by cannibalism, when highland babies made the fatal mistake of licking their fingers after playing with raw brains that their mothers had just cut out of dead kuru victims awaiting cooking. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even in a city of geniuses, Feynman’s brain stood out. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bone plates move and grow over time, with the skull eventually forming a thick, solid layer of protection around the brain. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Her blanket must have shocked me—the jolt traveled all the way up to my brain, flashing it white for a second. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The part of our brain that leaps to conclusions like this is called the adaptive unconscious, and the study of this kind of decision making is one of the most important new fields in psychology. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Later, when Crenshaw was safely out of my house, not to mention my brain, I could think about what all this meant. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Like how when that soldier pointed his gun at me, a part of me wanted him to blast my brain into the next county. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Take, for instance, the room in his new lab next to the control center where he’s been examining the brain of the teacher wearing the EEG cap. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They might have muscles, but they don’t have brains. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The machines hooked up to his scalp were showing flatlines in his brain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I’m suddenly hit with this strange sensation, like there’s an emergency alarm echoing in my head, and my brain is helpless to identify its source. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

HERMIONE: You make one more move and your brain will be a frog and your arms will be rubber. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

The experiments use video game technology to challenge people to distribute attention, then use imaging to measure brain activity during the task. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Because it seemed like it should be a good thing, that I didn’t have that long-word-x reading disorder, that my brain didn’t mix up letters and numbers on the page. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

My brain is like a universe whose gases get thinner and thinner at the edges. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Like whatever mechanism in their tiny brains that makes webs is broken. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Do you ever have those random nights where your brain won't shut off, even though your body feels like five hundred pounds of exhausted? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Tally shook her head, not knowing how to ask Shay if she was brain damaged. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The poison is cutting off oxygen to my brain. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

More like all the things she said are stored inside my brain and come out when I’m alone. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Except that a robot might fail due to the inherent inadequacies of his brain. The positronic brain has never equalled the complexities of the human brain.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

And after a little while of this my brain and my body and every single inch of me that was alive was flooded with the feeling that I was starving, starving, starving for Edmond. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody with a good brain who would truly want to help me. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

"Not that. The way you looked at him. Don't you have any brains at all? You never look at an officer like that, do you understand? You want to get us all killed?" Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, how did she sustain such extensive brain damage? Careful, now!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Odysseus who had endured the long war and the sea answered: “I’ll tell you now. Suppose Athena’s arm is over us, and Zeus her father’s, must I rack my brains for more?” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

OHMYGOD, my brain shouted as I tipped my head back and took in those light-brown eyes, that thick lacy fringe of eyelashes. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It took me a very long time, but I typed, “They think my brain is messed up like the rest of me.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Cady squinted her eyes shut for a short second, searching her brain. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And that isn’t as simple as peeking into someone’s brain to see what’s going on. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The auditory cortex has areas that process pitch, while other areas of the brain combine biology and culture to stimulate the limbic system to respond emotionally to music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think you have a brain tumor,” said Flora. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The technological advances defined by laws of Moore and Metcalfe got married and long since overtook what our brains can handle. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

By the time I get to Mrs. de Vries's, I've run out of new questions to ask, and the same old ones keep cycling through my brain. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I used to drink two and three pints of wine every day, and the alcohol ate my brain cells. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I draw the head so that right where the brain would be is this blob of city street map. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He gave his head a jerk, as if clearing his brains, then turned and loped back to where he’d charged me from before. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

With one part of her brain, Jessie continued to take money from customers and make change. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Is my brain falling out of my head? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The rest of the team slowly started moving, but Luke’s brain was cooked. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the iron bits in her brain clicked a strong message to her—fly straight on. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“The magic square? You had me stumped with the flamingo theater. I was like, what in the world is a—” Emily’s brain caught up with her rambling mouth. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A good idea sprouted in Benji’s brain, along with the ridiculous ideas. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

And that feels great till a left uppercut pops up outta nowhere and your jaw feels like it is in your brain and wait, who shut off All. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But I continued to go over each line, word by word, until my brain began to feel like Aquafresh toothpaste. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“The rough seas warning is being extended another forty-eight hours. You know, the warning that kept all the boaters off the water last night. At least the ones with any brains.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in his own breast, his own brain, just as in the chaotic world outside. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dunbar’s argument is that brains evolve, they get bigger, in order to handle the complexities of larger social groups. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ebola destroys the brain more thoroughly than does Marburg, and Ebola victims often go into epileptic convulsions during the final stage. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"They must walk across their native sand. We think that something registers in their brains that kicks in twenty-five years later because they return to the beach where they were born to lay their eggs." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Genes and brains and books encode information differently and persist through time at different rates. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd slid his fingers into my tongue and was clasping my throat and pinching the veins that take oxygen to my brain. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The Commandant’s orders cut through the fog of my brain, startling me from sleep. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I think we all know I don’t have the brains to come up with something like this.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Up to that point, there was a general belief that the brain was “infinite” in its power to take in and process the world. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They drag their heavy bodies, back and back and back, though their brains must be cloudy with lack of air, while the other side of existence, whatever is beyond life, is pulling them down. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

And the numbers mixed themselves up in her brain. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They are at least 600 million years old, probably older than any type of living thing you’ve ever seen with your eyes or imagined inside your brain. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I wanted time to get my brain on straight. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Because any robot with a brain like that would, one, never have left the factory, and two, be spotted immediately if it ever was. I tested Dave, you know.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

It takes my brain a few seconds to catch up to what my eyes are seeing, and when it does I jump in my seat. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I study the brain, the weird coiled blob that holds everyone’s secrets. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Speaking up about her dodging my call must’ve unlocked something reckless in my brain. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But cerebral spinal fluid is just the doctors’ fancy way of saying brain grease. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

My brain lets me see these perfect circles filled with triangles defined by the ratio pi. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Now his exhausted brain slipped into its accustomed circles: the withered paths, like those of the donkey in the treadmill, round which he had plodded many thousand times in vain. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up a stick and probed the brain. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When musicians talk about ear, they don't mean the sense organ itself so much as the brain's ability to perceive, distinguish, and understand what the ear has heard. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Which was a remarkably dumb emotion for someone as smart as you and your jelly bean brain.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He had to prepare his brain, he had to get his mind controlled and safe from their efforts, so that they could not break him. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Would he have his free filed down and replaced by a pretty mask, his brain turned into whatever mush the authorities decided would be acceptable for a former renegade raised in the wild? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A burst of fury shoots up from Scoob’s belly like a geyser to the brain. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

So it wasn't just that things interested him because he didn't know from boring—it was the connection his brain made, connections he couldn't help but seek out. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

‘I thought all human beans is full of brains, but your head is emptier than a bundongle.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t used to drinking coffee, and it felt like his brain was racing off in different directions. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

For some reason sugar and caffeine always calmed down my hyperactive brain. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

"He had a big future before him, you know. He was only a young man but he had a lot of brain power here." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Tried to say something that a normal person whose brain was not drowning in panic would say. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

This thing my brain’s been circling around for years. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Fetal brain implants— I must try that sometime, MacGregor had said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was uncomplicated and Ben had fantasized that if a surgeon performed brain surgery on Pinkie he would open his head to find it looking like the inside of a potato. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reason #2 is the brain surgery he had two years ago with a scar that runs across his head from his left ear to his right. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A great pink hunk of beryl like a crystallized brain. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Blood rushed to my brain; I felt an animating surge of adrenaline, of possibility, of a frontier being pushed outward. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I was racking my brain, while Mother and the Mrs. began an oh-so-polite argument about whether the family would stay for dinner. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her nails are short and polish-free, the magic fingers connected to the hands connected to the forearms roped with steel muscle and tendons that lead to shoulders, neck and bionic brain. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Please. My brain is perfectly well developed, especially the creative side.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

They want to then put that knowledge to work to try to increase the brain’s capacity to broaden the limits of attention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“He was a man who studied crime and planned his career. His brain might have given science valuable aid.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was not the man’s brain that was speaking; it was his larynx. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

With each syllable, the voice seems to burrow a bit deeper into his brain. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Everything I thought I felt vanishes, and all my brain leaves me is a stupid look on my face. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

This diverted the pain from deep inside his brain, where he couldn’t reach it, to a pain outside that he had control over. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“You broke it, Stef. Your brain blocks the nerve signals to spare you the pain.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took twenty milliseconds for information to get from brain to calf. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

And how did a pickled brain and all those other weird objects get into my locker? Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Anyway, there was some message that came from the mower through the air and into my brain. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

I racked my brain, trying to mentally replay the rest of the scene. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Could the milk have totally fried his brain? Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“What does this mean about your brain chemistry? Or anatomy?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Every time the memory weaseled its way back inside Toby’s brain, it stung, just as fiercely as though not a single day had passed. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

People have so many things going on in their brain simultaneously that you have to work hard to figure out what they really want. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Language and music are intertwined to the point where there is evidence of a connection in the brain between phonemic sound discrimination and musical sound discrimination. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The head-splitting pain released its grip on my brain, leaving me feeling like my tank had run empty. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It makes me wonder^how many white women’s breakfasts she has ingrained in her brain.’ The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Now and again, despite the fear that numbed my brain, I was aware of Rosalie’s eyes on me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I told him that maybe, just maybe, my brain actually was more superior than his and that my colors are an advancement in evolution. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Neither she, nor Dr. Gazzaley, believed their findings should be taken to mean that the simple act of playing a video game improves the brain, or, specifically, the attention networks. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Here I was, a girl who had spoken to cameras from around the world—but my poor injured brain couldn’t come up with the words for the one person I loved more than anyone else. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Doc has the hands of a brain surgeon, and a cool warm mind. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only then did Billy’s brain start working again. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His tiny eyes drilled into me and he was crouched as if he were thinking of trying to jump up into my brains. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

A babe swaddled in a crimson cloak, the cloth stained with his blood and brains. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“The girl. I want you to look at her till your eyes bleed, see if somethin’ gets triggered in that shuck brain of yours.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Sleeping pills make your brain waves calm down into a sleep pattern. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how I tried to talk myself out of those thoughts, I couldn’t seem to shut down my brain. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Auma also clearly had inherited the family brains: She’d been raised in Kenya and returned there often, but she’d gone to college in Germany and was still living there, studying for a PhD. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Chess couldn’t remember his own brain ever working that way, thinking he got to choose whatever he wanted. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Doctors noticed that the Marburg agent had a strange effect on the brain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bloodstains and tiny bits of gray matter from Lincoln’s brain oozed on to the cream-colored silk fabric, spreading and adding color to the frock’s bright and festive red, yellow, green, and blue floral pattern. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except that's how it must have looked from a distance, because they never knew it was Freak who rescued me—or his genius brain and my big dumb body. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

They found out the journal Nature would publish their paper that described how they could train the brain to improve and sustain attention using a video game. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

My brain was so numb any old thing became interesting. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Stop trying to eavesdrop and go to bed, Merci. You need 9.25 hours of sleep for proper brain function, you know.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

And then there was another kind of blow inside his head; blood pooled in his brain for the last time, washing even the last fragments of his self away. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His brain itself seemed to have frozen as he pushed through the dark water to the bottom and reached out, groping for the sword. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“You had satisfied yourself that with that gun you shot that bullet into her brain you had killed her, didn’t you?” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

After many takes, the direction was indelibly printed on her brain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Jesse didn’t die of a broken heart, Henry; he died of a broken brain.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I know what a brain looks like, and generally what each region of it does, but I don’t know how mine compares to others. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Right. Empty your brain. Clean it out. Think of nothing. Now go back and try a few more.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not exactly correct that you don’t have your brain. You do. You just don’t have the same material it was housed in. Now it’s in the Bio Gel.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Milton no longer had any brain waves, so it was understandable why, hovering in the Cadillac, he might have forgotten that the Zebra Room had burned down long ago. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The impact must’ve jarred something loose in my brain, because suddenly the directions came rushing back to me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“No, Jake. I was having a brainstorm. You don’t waste time writing things down when there’s a storm raging in your brain!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The distinct feeling that someone was staring at her crept up her spine and settled into her brain. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Maybe not, but you’ve got the fastest, strongest brain in that school, and you are going to try out for the quiz team next week.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

They would have blown his brain to pieces before they could reclaim it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Yep. Through dead eyes, no doubt about it. Not a spark of electricity in that brain; the camera is running on its own battery.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Instead, the adrenaline rush seemed to make my brain work much faster, and I was able to absorb in clear detail several things at once. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Tonight, however, Bud Gleason—his shifty eyes, his shot nerves, the way he belted down martinis against a heart specialist’s orders—nagged at the back of his brain. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can we give it a rest for a little while? I feel like you just tackled my brain.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Juanita’s brain always worked differently from my own, so I couldn’t begin to guess what she was about to suggest. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I can’t make my brain concentrate on what I might say, but I’m going to talk to her. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But what can you really expect from someone who asks for chemistry kits and brain models for Christmas? Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s of no matter. We are not interested in her eyes. We are interested in utilizing her brain.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It missed the spinal cord by a hair, missed the medulla oblongata, and traveled through her head just underneath the brain, missing every major vein, artery, and nerve. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But it was like my body hadn’t learned what my brain knew, that I didn’t need to worry about Callum Burley. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I felt my brain shake in my skull; I felt my stomach shake behind my ribs. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Wave after wave, Ralph followed the rise and fall until something of the remoteness of the sea numbed his brain. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why my brain was as still as it was, but I was trying not to think about it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They are attached to electrodes, which measure the electrical activity in her brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He slogged forward and with the rhythm of the paddling his brain settled into numbness again and soon he was in the same trance that had led him to sleep. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Head, then, for you, with the luscious eyes and brains, and the crispy-crunchy ears of him. And I'll have the rump, with nothing but dull meat to nibble." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

A thought bursts from my brain: Does Madge even know how to be quiet? Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The image in his brain of Aunt Nancy tossing a table is just too much. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But I remembered how she’d smiled at me when I told her about Salim getting a call on his mobile and said how she wished her officers had half my brains. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even if I somehow survived the mini- Hoover, I was supposed to suffer serious brain damage during the procedure and live the rest of my life as a vegetable. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I know Bernard isn’t doing anything wrong, but my brain can’t keep adding yet. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Well, I was a butthead, because like I said, I never had a brain until Freak moved down the street. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I can only feel the break in my skull and the pain winging through my brain. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She felt tiny iron particles in her brain lining up with the earth’s magnetic field. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“You need something today if you want your brain to be functional.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It took another seventy cards for the conscious brain to finally figure out what was going on. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Human beings, it is often said, are hardwired for narrative, and theater taps into Mariela’s brain circuitry in a way nothing else ever has. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Four hours of not beating my brains against a wall trying to figure out what to do next. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My body shudders, and I wonder if that is the poison, if the poison is already shutting down my brain. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Trotter, baby, if you had half my brains you’d know to let the boy do things for himself. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

After seeing other tycoons grow bored with their lavish art collections and swanky mansions, Fabyan had invested his own millions in a private brain trust. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Once her brain calculated my reasoning, she grinned. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Besides, the pain had lessened: either the nerve had died or my brain had adjusted to its shocks. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank God you inherited your mother’s brains.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“You are to deny Germany the use of his brain.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just that every time I try to type something, my brain shuts down completely. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The awful brightness seemed to cut into his brain. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brain was a mess, what with trying not to flinch whenever Ben brushed against me. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Artemis would not risk causing brain damage to his meal ticket, nor could he afford to reveal the Book as the source of his information. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I had already seen so many kids with bad brains and the worst part is that some of them looked just like me. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still keep a list in my brain. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I tried to drag myself across the ground, but the needles shot up to my brain and made everything black. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Perutz was working on molecular structures, and it was the closest that Watson could get to Wilkins’s image, whose haunting, prophetic shadows he could not get out of his brain. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

That’s how things always were: I could not make those connector places in my brain tell me what to do. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

For seconds, a full minute, he let the beauty of the sunset flood him, his brain blank, just pulling it in. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a computer brain packed full of parenting advice, and the lessons she was learning on her own, the robot was actually becoming an excellent mother. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“That’s where the detector is, behind all that wiring. To see the Shadows, you have to be linked up to some electrodes. Like for measuring brain waves.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was lost in thought The brain of an eleven-year-old boy can dream some fantastic dreams. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Axel can tell that Daniel is a good friend without ever peeking inside his brain. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Of course, I was worried that I’d further damaged my already damaged brain; the doctors said I was fine. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

To end up on an island with a stupid bear that didn’t have brains enough to run away. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The shock and pain made their way through to its tiny brain, ordering it to shut down. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was like a heavy shaking of talcum powder in the brain hearing all those mothers complimenting each other’s daughters and lisping back in good Castilian to the Sisters of the Merciful Mother. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brain says: Ellis, you’re a great kid, and at the moment you are perfect. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes my brain spin in a thousand rapid circles. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You must think I’m nuts. And even if those pills work, look what they’re supposed to do. From what I can tell, ‘cured’ means being a jealous, self-important, whiny little ugly- brain. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

My brain floods with words, but I don’t blurt them out. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Or maybe Finn’s problem was that he’d been asleep a moment ago, and his brain wasn’t fully awake yet. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He argued with Huxley and others about anatomy, claiming that the brains of apes and of people were vastly different. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I go back to my room and draw some brain maps. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

A picture of Leslie being sucked into the cold water flashed across his brain. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“That all teenage boys have brains?” he finally allowed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was going to climb into her brain and heart and write what was there. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I shouted while Calista ripped, because all zombies cared about was eating brains, and I needed to practice. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The survival mechanism has become the enemy, as in such illnesses as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis that can attack organs, joints, even the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I was trying to remember how to incapacitate an attacker — you know, self-defense. I was going to smash his nose into his brain.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And my eyes told my brain that everything was normal. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To make a choice, you need frontal lobes active and you need enough competitors in other parts of the brain so that you can engage systems to make a decision.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It’s like my brain has decided to purge information to make space for the events of the last two days. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“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

My brain is flooded with my own thoughts, my own questions, my own fears. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But once your brain is used to working that way, it happens almost automatically. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Probably it was just his brain getting fried from poison fumes, but he croaked out a laugh. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

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

She swipes her fingers across her eyes, and my brain just unravels. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I started for the phone, and Margaret said, “You know, Connor, kids who grow up in a university develop smart mouths before their brains can catch up.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just remember to use your brain, will you?” he said over his shoulder, and entered the room. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And at any rate, even if he had carried an extra pound here or there, the roughly three pounds devoted to his brain would have more than made up for it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The evolution of a city is like the evolution of the brain: it develops from a small center and slowly grows and changes, leaving many old parts still functioning. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d studied the words so much by then that they traveled easily from my brain to my mouth. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Every farmer with half a brain had planted beans. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The pain was an axe splitting his head apart, but when the crow wrenched out its beak all slimy with bits of bone and brain, Bran could see again. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They were engraved on our brains from constant repetition and the painful results of not following them to the letter. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He felt tired, his brain felt tired, his eyes were watering. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the young man turned himself away stormily and made as though he would knock his brains out against a twisted pine tree that stood there in the court. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Felicia imagines the mixture melting through Graciela’s frail scalp, penetrating the roots and bones of her skull until it eats her vicious brain like acid. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push my thoughts into a small corner of my brain to deal with later, and I ask about her night instead. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But his brain got distracted like four different songs were playing at once and he was expected to sing along to only one. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She lay down on the bed and tried to make her brain work. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

But as she racked her brain for something sultry and witty, she noticed that Trip had disappeared from the patio. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Also, the second label should easily call to mind the first one, so that readers don’t have to rack their brains figuring out who or what the writer is talking about. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Like now, a song flutters into his brain. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Study after study around the world has shown that singing enables infants to train their brains and memories, to recognise pitch differentiation as a preparation for the full development of spatial awareness. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The caustic chemicals of fear continued to surge in their brains and in their guts. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Something tickled the back of Seven’s brain, and she snapped her fingers, took out a notebook from her backpack, and flipped through the pages. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But I don't want to read faster or older or any way else that might make the story disappear too quickly from where it's settling inside my brain, slowly becoming a part of me. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Below the Inner Party comes the Outer Party, which, if the Inner Party is described as the brain of the State, may be justly likened to the hands. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Or an evil corporate disembodied brain thing,” Martin continued. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The visual cortex in your brain is activated when your auditory cortex is stimulated.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

As it happens, the koala’s brain is so small it doesn’t even fill up its skull. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children’s brains, but strangely impressive. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“No. I’m just messed up. My brain makes the wrong chemicals.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But now, with me around the lab always wanting to talk about genes, Francis no longer kept his thoughts about DNA in a back recess of his brain. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

This poor record of achievement has led scholars to speculate that the internal structure of the brains of these Sapiens was probably different from ours. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only how could I say that to Sahil now that my heart and my brain were warring? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And when it did my brain tingled as if it were a honeycomb full of bees. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was certainly possible that Mrs. Tickham had a brain tumor. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

“These pills won’t change the way you look. They’ll only affect your brain, undoing what Dr. Cable did to the way your mind works. Then you can decide for yourself how you want to look.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“We need to talk about that. You keep taking on charity cases, you’re gonna drive down the fair market value of my man’s brain.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

She waited for her brain to pass on an explanation. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was exciting, overwhelming, and—because my brain was still not working right—confusing. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

All movies are titled Untitled in my brain. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was like Mr. Ray’s offbeat stride turned the light on in my brain, and I could suddenly remember exactly who Candy Man was and where I had heard that name. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I racked my brain, trying to imagine who I might have called into this world. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They click, click, click into my brain, like links being snapped together. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The foxes of the Arctic, scavengers that they were, had picked up some language, but their brains were so formed that they could only understand statements in the present tense. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He read with fire in his brain through the afternoon; the next day, he rushed through Virgil so that he could read again. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I lay like a still and silent effigy on a tomb in the blackness of Hamlet’s chamber while questions coursed through my brain. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Make no mistake—weed kills vital brain cells, dulls critical-thinking skills and reaction time. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“But, Beryl, I saw—” “Don’t argue. Sherry goes straight to the brain.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wake up, your brain says, wake up and everything will be okay. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Genie’s brain kicked in again: Don’t touch nothing red in this house. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

As I tapped my pen against a notepad, my brain started to babble-storm ideas. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

In his opinion, an injury to the brain occurring as early as mine should have no lasting effects on physical mobility. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for a while, and that's the truth, the whole truth. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

He looked tired and strained when he concluded: “We cannot look inside of a human brain.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t believe she was saying it “Even if they didn’t do your brain, I mean.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

This concern has to do with the toll taken on our brains when they are overloaded with information. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The brain circuits skip, and she is on all fours, her palms stinging, her knees burning. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Time and space lose meaning as the fog seems to invade my brain, muddling my thoughts, making everything unreal. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They removed the brain, eyes, and spinal cord and dropped them into a jar of preservative. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Strayer wanted the emerging field of research to also answer another question: Why, given it was becoming clear that the brain faced limitations, were people continuing to multitask, particularly in challenging, even dangerous, situations? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

If only I weren’t so exhausted, maybe I could get my brain to focus. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It's miserable out, the kind of cold where breathing through your nose gives you brain freeze. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

But it was the sheer size of each one of them that boggled Sophie’s brain most of all. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just, you know. The brain. It’s an amazing organ, don’t you think?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The swelling in my brain went away a couple of weeks later, and then they came on fast. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I don’t have a lot of time to think, and my body seems to be ahead of my brain. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want Allah to “bum my brain” as I felt the brain of my brother Reginald had been burned for harboring evil thoughts about Mr. Elijah Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It isn’t a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That word dummy poked me in the brain, in the stomach, in the chest, every time I heard it. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like my brain keeps forgetting if I should spin left first, or right. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

My body absolutely does not care what my brain thinks. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though his brain said, Okay. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You say it’s a ‘simple matter of mathematics’ and I’ll brain you!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would have run all the way, in panic, but after he had gone perhaps fifty yards his brain took over and slowed and, finally, stopped him. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex wonders for an insane second if his brain has conjured up some kind of stress-induced sex mirage, when Henry says, voice lowered, “You looked rather tragic drinking alone.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A famous brain surgeon came up from Boston and operated on him for three hours. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mouth may agree, but her brain is thinking something totally different. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

With a brain inside every bit as good as his teeth. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“That was Audrey’s brother and his friends. Their brains run on empty most of the time.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The miles of relays and photocells had given way to the spongy globe of plantinumiridium about the size of a human brain. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

And through the Firebus ride to the game, as the mirrored softball spins, so does my brain: Maybe he was working on the cure for some disease. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

But I see how it could look like a brain, like if all roads were twisted neurons, pulling your emotions from one place to another, bringing the city to life. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

How can a single person have so much crammed in their brain and not have their head explode? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Nothing made sense to Hazel, and she was so sleepy, like there was a weight pulling down on her brain. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

But right then my tongue was stuck and my brain was frozen. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said the word Soyrizo like it was something she still couldn’t wrap her brain around. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He’d read that coma victims hear everything people say and need voices to keep their brains alive. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just that her brain has difficulty processing information. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“When I was 8, I was struck by lightning. The electricity destroyed part of this side of my brain.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I open my mouth to explain how it wasn’t me, then his words register in my brain. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How does that work? I mean, are the nightmares produced by the computer or by your brain?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I ran to see what it was, and then I did see and I stopped, frozen, my brain shouting Run away! but my legs refusing to listen. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“If you take each problem a step at a time,” he continues, “you’ll grow the answer organically. The process will take root in your brain. This is true learning.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

A surgeon will probe the exposed brain before slicing into it with a scalpel, using the path of coagulated blood to trace the path of the ball. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

My brain is stuck trying to find the area of the octagon. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

All those messages had invaded my brain and affected the way I looked at things. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Then: “You must think I’m way more generous than I am. Did you see how much those Aberzombie boys ate? And they didn’t even have brains on the menu.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But there was too much nonsense in Lily’s words, and my brain hates a mystery the way dogs hate cats, so before I can talk myself out of it I’m descending the stairs. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Mother, you are standing on my tablets. Will you please move a little? Isn’t it enough that you have destroyed my digestion without destroying the fruits of my brain also?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we throw our cups away, my brain starts worrying about what’s going to happen at school tomorrow. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Sheep kept near the smelters developed cancers of the nasal sinus; at their death arsenic was found in the brain, liver, and tumors. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Did their brains fall out of their heads? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

There was an awkward moment when Luke had to rewire the connection between his brain and his mouth. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We sent something about our genes, something about our brains, and something about our libraries to other beings who might sail the sea of interstellar space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When there’s disaster, fire, smoke, maybe your brain doesn’t work, just thinks, Get away. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Diego was staring at me so hard, it was like he was trying to force his thoughts into my brain. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The sound poured back into my brain, and I heard a few shouts. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

All the good thoughts—the normal ones, the ones that have occasionally surfaced since last fall—scramble out the front of my brain in terror of what lives in my neck and spine. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Another hornet buzzed into my ear and it felt like someone had poured hot wax right down into my brain. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Everybody said Miss Minner had sold her brains to a famous doctor for ten thousand dollars, so that after she was dead he could cut them up and see why she was so smart. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The more I think the more my head hurts, and lately my brain has been in constant overdrive. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Mom squeezes her hands at the air like she’s trying to squeeze my brain. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Like the mist has invaded my brain and made everything foggy inside my head. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But then the time came, perhaps ten thousand years ago, when we needed to know more than could conveniently be contained in brains. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think you realize how many Abby-related fantasies live in this brain. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I haven’t gone out on Halloween since my brain got rewired by lightning. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But there was a tiny voice in the back of my brain. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He was still kind of talked-out, but there was one more thing on his accountant brain. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw a sign with a picture of a head with a little devil sitting in the brain, inside the skull, with these like energy bolts coming out of his mouth. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without that power, blood pressure would blow the giraffe’s brains out whenever it leaned down to get a drink of water. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I could see that her brain was struggling to fit it all together. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picture Captain Smith, his head held down on a rock, with men ready to bash his brains out—or were they! Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

My brain kicks into high gear, trying to figure out what to ask next. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

As one man put it, Chicago “was alive to the tips of her fingers and the core of her heart and brain.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But my brain isn’t big enough to run such a huge operation. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I need an eraser that fills the entire screen of my brain. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The brain is wired for music and language, a topic that will be discussed in Chapter 7. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“These are all the minds of your users? You can see into their thoughts? Their brains?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It doesn't take long for a thought to get from your brain to your vocal cords and out of your mouth, but it does take a moment. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“Where’d you get the brains to make a run for it?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I wake in the morning alone in my bedroom at Miss Preston’s, groggy and with memories of the treacherous Rachel scratching at my brain, I’m in an even worse mood. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The bell rang and the teacher began to talk, and Hazel’s brain identified her voice as background noise and moved it to the rear of her consciousness. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, your brain ain’t got to follow it. You don’t want to give this motherless child the name of the man that killed Jesus, do you?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waving and whistling of the boys below, and their pursuit of him from tree to tree, had disturbed his never powerful brains. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brain is locked in total darkness, of course, children, says the voice. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

During each visit, Grandfather always gave us a special medicine that was supposed to enhance the brains capacity to absorb and retain knowledge. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The gun was a Browning automatic pistol and one twitch of the man’s finger would send a 9mm bullet shattering through his skull and into his brain. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It can be regarded as the connector between the conscious and the subconscious, where most of our brain activity takes place. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had remote relays attached to us to watch our blood and our brains. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For once, my brain was perfectly content to keep its hands to itself. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Use of electrodes also allowed researchers to measure the time that it takes the brain to reallocate resources when attention shifts. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

‘I’m trying to think. But my brain’s tired.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as the words formulated in his brain, something else flew out entirely. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Ton-Ton had a face that looked like it had been slammed into a wall.You could see right up his nostrils and maybe, Matt thought, get a peek at his brain. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had confused him with her son again, because the hot wind that came after the deluge and had brought occasional waves of lucidity to Úrsula's brain had passed. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Sit down, talk with people with brains I respect, all of us want same thing, do some brainstorming.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not a scratch on this car, brain boy,” he warned me as I loaded the last bag. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The little car started to go faster and faster as Milo’s brain whirled with activity, and down the road they went. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

His brain whirling in panic, Harry knew, instinctively, the only way left to get water, because Voldemort had planned it so... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He volunteered to be one of six people in the country to go under the knife for experimental brain surgery that would possibly provide him with a few more years of functionality. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genie asked, his brain bouncing back and forth between being happy to see his mother and totally freaking out. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The thirst has started to shut down his brain. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I felt a conflict between my blood and my brain. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is rather difficult to talk about human memory because we don’t know how the brain works in detail. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The steady ticking of a watch in a quiet room crashed like torture against his unshielded brain. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She was just about to gulp the spirit gratefully down when, suddenly, a warning note—like an alarm bell—sounded in her brain. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Meimei play, squeeze all her brains out for win chess. You play, worth squeeze towel.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Funny to think you were young once, isn’t it? I suppose you seem older because of your brains. People say figures just run out of your ears. But I don’t see any.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I married him for his brains,” she said. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

And that is why people think that computers don’t have minds, and why people think that their brains are special, and different from computers. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

This was so like the curtain that flapped in his brain that for a moment he thought the blinking was inside him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

For a block or two, my brain played with that: What were they selling in there? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The ache of his fever, and the weight of his own body, is telling his brain that the staircase might as well be Mt. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her eyes flew open at the voice, her heart constricting painfully, her brain telling her it was stupid to hope, so very stupid. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But before he could get a word out, Tía Mari said, I’ll tell you when you’re using your full brain power—when you’re smart enough to eat your supper before it gets cold. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

My brain got itself caught on that other word: stoop. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I tried to shake the fog in my brain enough to remember how to tie my sneakers. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

As she rode through woods and streams and heather, her brain was awhirl. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But stubbornly, taking no direction from the brain, the body of the headless soldier ran on, with energy and grace, ignoring altogether the drip and slide of brain tissue down its back. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

For a second his fury seemed to deflate, and he felt as if she were making fun of him, but a wave of blood immediately rushed to his brain. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when Rishi dipped his head down and pressed his mouth to hers, his rough stubble scratching against her chin in the most delicious way, her brain shut up entirely. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Gender was like a native tongue; it didn’t exist before birth but was imprinted in the brain during childhood, never disappearing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

First she twisted Savanna’s brain, and now she’s turning you into a pretty zombie just like she is. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Boy,” I say, “for somebody who thinks love is a four-letter word, you sure do have it oh the brain a lot.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was terrified of horses, or I was terrified of what I thought horses were—that is, thousand-pound devils whose ambition was to dash brains against rock. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And I certainly didn't feel like going to another hotel and getting my brains beat out. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“It means that the Cornwalls would be even for grandfather and I for mother...” ”... not by using force against force, but by using our brains.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where on earth did you find a Mylar brain?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Good luck, Jake. Have fun. And use that big brain of yours to help them catch the bad guys!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

There was a rage in his brain, a bloody cloudy area like mud stirred in a pool. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I racked my brain and tried to think of what else I would need to know. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m not an idiot. They took pictures of my brain and I wasn’t missing any.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The realizations continued to detonate in my brain like atomic bombs going off, one after another. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We drank beer on the beach and lay in each other's arms until the sun was only a memory burned into our brains. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

"You mean there might not be room in my head for all those brains so something has to push out?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then a really horrible thought popped into my brain. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Inside, I was racking my brain for something to do. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally thought of the lesions on Shay’s brain, the tiny cancers or wounds or whatever they were, that she didn’t even know she had. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I try to work and rework the problem in my brain—never write anything down—until Mr. Stoker collects the papers. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Claire had always seemed to see the palette of her brain, had been able to sort the colors through a prism so she could understand how Maya felt without Maya having to say a word. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Each time that tiny voice in my brain would tell me to pay attention to the squirming, faintly nauseated feeling in my stomach. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In a corner of his brain he had just enough sanity left to realize that he was poised on the edge of a bottomless pit. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, of course, every word was immediately, irrevo-cably branded into my brain. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I bet it’s nothing compared to my brain waves. They’re probably crying out, spiraling into years of addiction.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They never stop hearing them; they simply stop sending the messages to their brains. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always liked bees and honey and it made me feel better to think of bees than being some old dead mummy with a dried-up walnut brain. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I often wondered what that bird would do with Rosaleen’s brain. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should like to take your head apart, put a fact in it, and watch it go its way through the runnels of your brain until it comes out of your mouth. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Learning happens when brain cells make new connections. The strength of these connections is enhanced by a group of proteins in the brain called growth factors.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe if they could just talk for a few minutes, her brain would stop talking to imaginary Peris. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Wild took each unsuspecting animal behind a hummock of ice and quickly put a bullet in its brain. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“My brain,” I say, leaning my forehead against the cold wall. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

"I wish I hadn't kissed her. The whole boyfriend thing kind of like gnaws at my brain." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

No: they continued to test at about the same levels as before the supposed brain drain. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

A little lower, and it would have cut through his neck, spinal cord, or carotid arteries; a few inches higher, and it might have entered his brain. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Wow, I was asleep for a while. I was drawing my brain maps for people.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

When my brain manages to command my hands to stay still, my leg starts to quiver, but at least it’s hidden from view behind the podium. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“A human brain weighs about three pounds, and it has three main parts,” he whispers. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

In the first place Clean was not into brain surgery. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hand tapped out the rhythm, and the terrifying flute played in his brain. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But some of our cells, like the ones in our brains, don’t renew. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Jean Louise felt apprehensive, expectant, or on edge, especially when confronting her aunt, her brain clicked to the meter of Gilbertian tomfoolery. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The seat of memory, they argued, was the same part of the brain that dealt with spatial awareness: the hippocampus. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“My brain will never do what I want it to do.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

My brain was saying, “Scream! Scream!” but my voice was completely shut off. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I’ve always bragged about you two as being the ‘greatest pair of brains ever wedded in holy matrimony,’” an old Army friend wrote after reading the book, “and I never was wrong.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“No ‘You’re an idiot for coming here; your brain must be deficient as well as Divergent’?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Just restless. End of school does that to me. Keeps me awake. My brain won’t stop talking.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He moves on to the technology of brain scans, what he and his team have learned just from my experience and the implications for future patients facing similar problems. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Tally blinked away the afterimage of the flash, trying to force her exhausted brain to think. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The last of her village, keeled over in the rows from a knot in her brain, blood pouring from her nose and white froth covering her lips. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Dreams were his brain’s way of processing them all, and now it was struggling to reconcile the girl from the dream with the one in the mural. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We get out of the car, and, with Mackenzie’s permission, I untie the helium-filled brain, and release it, watching it rise up and up until it disappears. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But my insides seem to have taken over my brain, and in seconds, we’re walking up a short flight of concrete steps to the roof of his house. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They say when you die your brain lives for awhile longer, and maybe he could’ve heard me. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He stands on his head, to improve the circulation to his brain, or he throws spitballs at the ceiling. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And as the swallow racked its brain, it heard a voice coming down the trail. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Even if somebody ties me to a chair, sticks headphones on me, and pipes “Link Rowley!Link Rowley!”in an endless loop at top volume, I will train my brain to block it out. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I like to think that the colors and sounds and words have nothing to do with him, that they’re all me and my own brilliant, complicated, buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, godlike brain. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A blood clot could lodge in my brain and kill me ten minutes from now; a car could hit you while you’re walking your dog. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes you just have to fight off your brain. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Longstreet, who had invented a transverse trench which no one would use, filed the matter forcefully in the dark cavern of his swelling brain and rode into camp. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pain shot from my nose to my brain, and my head snapped back like I’d been hit with a shovel. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Girls can be tough, stuck-up or cheap, mousy or boy- crazy; or they can be brains and sucks and brownnosers, like boys, if they are thought to study too much. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

At the end of the day he bounded on the bus with his friends, brain and body abuzz with something like he had never felt before. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s my birthday and I’m in a good mood. But someday you’ll be old too.Your body will start to fall apart and your brain will deteriorate. See if you’re so high-minded then.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was an instinctive man, and suddenly his brain knew and his own temper boiled. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So there had to be a reason; it was just a matter of exercising your brain power and the answer would be there. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Jasper Jr. stood there gnawing on his lower lip, which I took as a sign of possible brain activity. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

They kissed until his brain spun, until her limbs fell loose and soft and open, until the moon hid its face behind a veil of clouds. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was a thick paperback, full of logic games and brain teasers that she’d solved years ago. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I see what Bellatrix meant,” said Harry, the blood thundering through his brain, “you need to really mean it.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Or the pain medication for her finger made her brain wibbly. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I got took away from my mama, and the doctor say that I got brain damage from that brick. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I saw white men who were my inferiors in ability and brains earning fifty times what I was.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t listen to people. Your ear is on your head, but it’s not connected to your brain. I said she killed herself rather than do the work I’d been doing all my life!” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the concept of how their brains work held promise for Dr. Strayer. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Many different kinds of...children. I’m going to take a picture of your brain, and it’ll help us put you with the others who are like you.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Of course we can. If we use our brains, anything’s possible!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

My brain tells my mouth to scream, “No! Help!” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’m trying hard to get this, but my cut’s thumping against my brain. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Harry said slowly — his brain seemed to be struggling to absorb yet another piece of shocking information. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I could feel his eyeballs boring into my brain. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined the weather satellite picture - a jumble of patchy cloud, looking like the jumble in my brain. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It did things to a man, Nat thought, to find out he had a brain. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And right at the moment when the realization reaches his brain and numbs his body that he’s probably seen Fizz et al without hijabs, I reach over and grab my camera. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He had a grave, boyish dignity, that clean-eyed, scrubbed- brain, naive look of the happy professor. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t need to hear every weird thought in your tiny little brain. We’re trying to work.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Dr. Gazzaley, a neurologist, would bring his understanding of neural networks, and the technology that looked at the inner-workings of the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

"With that brain of yours, you can handle another elective, I'm sure. Should I sign you up?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But now I couldn’t focus on how amazing it was, not with Marcus’s letter taking up so much space in my brain. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The heart rate falls and brain waves begin to look like a drive across the prairies. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But she done something made my brain twirl. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We don’t just want your muscles and that portion of your brain that is directly connected to them, we want your innermost self. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brain registered more details, like the red skull on the black T-shirt. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They said that it increases this one type of brain transmitter. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

My eardrums pounded as blood pulsed through my brain, calling to mind that roller-coaster ride with Harry so many years before. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Children never die: they live on in the brain forever. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The various techniques let researchers understand which brain regions control what functions, and how tissues and tasks get impacted by different activities, say, when a person tries to multitask. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He had no frame of reference for it, no way for his brain to process just how horrible it was. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

If any girl calls me a brain, I say, “Better a brain than a pin-headed moron like you.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He tapped the pencil on the paper, searching his brain for answers. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I read somewhere that as you get older, your brain speeds up. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gaps weren’t in the town, the gaps were in him, the gaps were in his eyes and in his brain and in his soul—he wasn’t built right. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

His blood stops flowing to his fingers and toes, his hands and feet, his arms and legs, to conserve blood for the heart and brain. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Yet when school let out that first day I ran joyously home with a brain burdened with racy and daring knowledge, but not a single idea from books. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried for half an hour, till I felt hoarse of brain. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It forced its way past my hands, roaring over the screams of a hundred teenage freaks, and settled at the center of my brain, where I couldn’t reach in and rip it out. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My body and brain had gone into shock overdrive, where nothing made much sense. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

And this is why people’s brains are like computers. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I told my brain to be quiet and checked my phone. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He felt as though he were sitting in an examination with a question he ought to have been able to answer in front of him, his brain slow and unresponsive. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It’s cutting off the carotid arteries, the ones that feed oxygen to your brain. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

She searched her exhausted brain for some explanation. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Grandmère just told Dad he has a brain like a cheese sandwich,” I said. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

They may bubble up from the unconscious—from behind a locked door inside of our brain—but just because something is outside of awareness doesn’t mean it’s outside of control. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In other words, as the koala’s diet shrank, so did its brain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“These days, people see space aliens. Back then they saw gods. Maybe the space aliens come from the right side of the brain.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Then another jolt of red pop must’ve pumped through my heart because my brain came up with a perfect lie. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She stepped from the carriage, flesh envivified; her brain tricked out in schemes; I have forgot my mantilla; only this do I recall; she ran. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“It cut off oxygen to his brain. That’s what a stroke does.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Their brains are more like ours than those of any other living creature. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The women in this area have no brains. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Into your flesh. Into your bloodstream, and get carried to your heart. Or your brain.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

That way, even as a pretty, unable to comprehend why she would ever want her brain fixed, Tally could at least read her own words and know what was about to happen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Comprising more than two-thirds of the brain mass, it is the realm of both intuition and critical analysis. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rani knows the way to the station, so all I have to do is follow her, which is a good thing, since my brain feels all fuzzy, as if I'm dreaming. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

An hour later, Alex was sitting up in bed, English book propped in his lap and a brand new plan taking shape in his brain. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

They kept me overnight, sent me through an MRI to make sure my brain wasn’t dented, and sent me home. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

No bird with half a brain would build a nest in a ’zalea bush. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

So the doctors in Pakistan removed a piece of my skull to allow the brain to expand. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

This in itself was scary, since the scope of Bernal’s brain was legendary and I could never hope to have his grasp of crystallographic theory. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing fusion. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Funny how my brain wants to make things complicated and his just cuts to the simplest thing. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

It attacks the brain and shuts it down, painlessly. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe that would straighten out their jumbled brains! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

How we balance the tension between the short-term demands of our reptilian senses—run!—and our longer- term desires, goals, and commitments that we try to set with the more evolved parts of our brains. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

This is very unusual for me and they were sure to notice, so in order to avoid any questions, I quickly racked my brains for a neutral topic. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Well done, squirrel. Very clever indeed. I could use someone like you in my army. Somebody smart, with brains like yours.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Dad shook the loose change in his pockets, the way he did when his brain was elsewhere. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Husbands shot wives in fits of passion then turned the gun on themselves and splattered their brains all over the walls. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I fetched a pack of ice from the chest freezer on the patio, but when the pack touched his leg he screamed—a back-arching, eye-popping scream that made my brain claw at my skull. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His eyes began to gleam and Dicey knew that he would pick information from the woman’s brain as long as she would answer his questions. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I move down through the darkness, burning with murderous lust, my brains raging at the sickness I can observe in myself as objectively as might a mind ten centuries away. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ship’s doctor, who I’ve never seen before, and never see again, looks and sounds suspiciously like Albert Einstein, whose brain, I’ve heard, is in a jar. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got a maggot in your brain, Tjaden, just you run along to the latrine quick, and get your head clear, so that you don’t talk like a two-year-old.” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think I figured out that he was my grandpa, not even in the deep parts of my brain. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

My anatomy & physiology class tells me how the human body works, but it can’t tell me how the human mind works—not the brain, but the thoughts and memories. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Ninety-nine percent of humanity had had something done to their brains, and only a few people in the world knew exactly what. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was times like this when I let my guard down for something like half a nanosecond, that Mom had a habit of strolling into my brain. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some odd reason — perhaps my brain had just reached its Female Logic Overload Point — I didn’t call out after her. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colin had to figure out what had gone wrong inside his brain, and fix it. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The phrase “outside the fence” prickles in my brain. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Celosia reminded me of enormous celery stalks with a mass of red brains on top. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If we could make contact, there is much in their brains that would be of great interest to ours. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Tally’s tired brain struggled to make sense of the objects in the case. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

His favorite is the card that says he’s glad my brain still works! Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus there was the newest question that he’d just come up with, the one tick-tick-ticking in his brain ready to explode out of his mouth—What’s a blind man doing with a gun? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe there was a glitch in my brain. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Things are hard enough the way they are. I can’t imagine how hard it would be if I started saying obnoxious things all the time. I think I’d rather have brain surgery at that point.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I have to put myself in her brain. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Working quickly, he straddles Lincoln’s chest and begins resuscitating the president, hoping to improve the flow of oxygen to his brain. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the conventional wisdom, watching television apparently does not turn a child’s brain to mush. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

And it was at that moment that the seed of Islam was planted in my mother’s brain. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The pills had taken the edge off my headache but they’d left my brain foggy and my stomach sick. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Our brains and nervous systems are the same because, according to recent theory, we are all descended from one woman in Africa a quarter-million years ago. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wet brain matter slowed the ball’s speed, absorbing enough of its energy to prevent it from exiting the other side of the skull through the president’s face. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt as though he would slide away into the blackness gathering at the edges of his brain if he let go of either of them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Actually she said, “This doctor cuts brains,” a child making up the words as she went along. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fact is that a jumbo brain is a jumbo drain on the body. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already three years old and still doesn't understand how something so tiny and new can't be returned. how to listen #1 Somewhere in my brain each laugh, tear and lullaby becomes memory. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Or, they said, my brain might have shut down as soon as I was injured. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

My body felt like its standard self, broken and insufficient in the usual ways, but my brain felt sloppy and exhausted, like the noodle legs of a runner post-marathon. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Part of my brain knows that this shouldn’t be that hard. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

"I'm thinking of parceling off portions of my brain," I once told her. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

My brain had conjured them up at the very moment I was looking at their pictures. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Before he could even get his brain to get his body moving, footsteps pounded down the hallway. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Whoa, boy, said the small part of my brain that was still sane. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

My brain is awake and racing, the way it used to be before last spring. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Shadow—?” Luke wondered why his brain seemed to be slowing down. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

While music listening is wonderful for our brains, it turns out that music performance is really where the fireworks happen. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Yes, I had an ugly face and no legs, but my brain worked quite well, thank you very much. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

At other moments Francis would endeavor to fill my brain with crystallographic facts, ordinarily available only through the painful reading of professional journals. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“Maybe that’s why I had it. My brain had to remind me that I’m broken.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The numbers flashed in Jessie's brain so fast, she didn't even need to think about what she was multiplying and dividing and adding. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The brain processes pitch information both locally and globally, where local music refers to the intervals between pitches, while global processing refers to the entire contour of the melody. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

That fluid protects the brain from damage, but makes it very difficult to X-ray, since images taken through fluid are cloudy. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

My brain is processing the word Bundt, trying to get an image of what it looks like before it dawns on me just who is at the door. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

My, oh my, you've been picking through my brain, it would say if it were allowed, with a virtual wink. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

There was a long moment in which fire burned up my arm and into my brain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Titan’s massive drop makes Scoob feel like his brain got left back at the top of the metal hill. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Back in Utah, Dr. Strayer and a colleague named Jason Watson had been using advanced technologies like the MRI to look at attention from inside the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Horace showed the sheriff three fragments of the deceased’s skull that had lodged in the tissue of his brain. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Type in enough commands, and the brain can be permanently controlled. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The best thing you can do right now is stay out of my way, or else I may be forced to ram that blue rinse straight into that morass you call a brain.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“All human beings have brains, that’s my major premise. Do you not agree?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

What pea brains, eating his ripped flesh as indifferently as they would bits of fish! Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“That bunny? His brain is the size of an acorn!” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The doctors told him that the bullet had not gone near my brain and that the injury wasn’t serious. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Just as the complexity of the mess Fve dragged everybody into begins to overload my brain, a distant chain of explosions sends a tremor through the room. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But after thinking for that second, my brain realized it couldn’t have been him back. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I grin at her, dying to know how her scientific brain is going to deal with this epic level of coincidence. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She said for a person who God gave so little to you did more than a lot of people with brains they never even used. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered her from elementary school, where she’d been all universe at anything that took brains. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

But no matter how much he willed his brain to remember the plane the way it used to be, he could only see it the way it was now—broken and incomplete. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I must’ve suffered some kind of brain trauma, because no matter how many times I blink or shake my head, they’re still there. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Others have suggested instead that a change in brain organization around that time, without a change in brain size, made modern language possible. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His near-expulsion actually seemed to shake something loose in her brain; she was maybe more surprised than anyone that Ocean had voluntarily broken someone’s nose, and, suddenly, she was asking him questions. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Why couldn’t his best friend have inherited a school-smart brain from his father, the teacher? Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Auditory stimulation through simple activities can enhance attention in children, exercise the brain, and create a flexible and responsive brain. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I search my brain for an answer to Dr. Shabani's simple and complicated question. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mis theory was that you get into a state where your brain no longer makes short-term memories. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bent over to pick up a rock big enough to brain me with if he’d been strong enough to throw it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he suddenly realized that Cedric was in fact a useless pretty boy who didn’t have enough brains to fill an eggcup. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The human ear and brain are capable of hearing and appreciating very small variations in timbre. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Anything to get me out of here. Anything to get my brain going somewhere else other than casualties.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The exam was in twelve weeks, and Neel lugged home piles of extra geometry problems that made his tired brain feel as thick and sticky as mud. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. The whole brain is tied in to the feed. The whole brain, like the memory and the part that makes you move and the part for your emotions.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big Dub blinked and shook his head, hoping to clear the static from his brain. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In a better state, he would have recognized that it wasn't his balls that hurt, but rather his brain. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Helps me get my brain off what the lieutenant thinks about me. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

After a time his breathing steadied and he watched his brain go to work slyly, quietly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had a complicated brain and there were things going on back there from time to time that he only dimly understood, so he relied on his instincts, but he was learning all the time. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s as if someone unhooked my brain from my body. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Each mango-colored puff reminds me that even though I’m not dying of a brain tumor, I still don’t know what’s wrong with me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

A computer chip in their brains removed those sensations. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I love numbers, and I love math. My brain is high-functioning when it comes to numbers. Um...actually, I’m a genius. A math genius.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Virginians puffed out their chests with pride now that the good old brain busters were leading the charge against the Reds. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And then—it was very fast, almost a click in the brain—Adam knew that, for him at least, his father’s methods had no reference to anything in the world but his father. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He pays $900 a month for a basic health insurance policy—vital to keep his wife, Vicky, who has a rare brain disease, alive. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I'm writing this because I don't know what happens after brain surgery. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My feet shuffle for a moment, confused at the direction my brain wants to take and then I lunge forward, scoop up the sheet of plastic and a loaf of bread. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

By the time Ma came to pick me up, I felt like my brain was as shriveled up as my leg. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“He is quick and has an agile brain. Should you not be thankful that he goes no further than two days’ journeying, and that it is a good house that takes him? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trub places his hand on top of my head and gives my brain an approving squeeze. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

It is claimed that you can teach your kidneys to change the rate of urine formation, raise or lower your blood pressure, change your heart rate, write different brain waves, at will. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no point letting my brain get there first. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Simon's right temple, a pulse began to beat on the brain. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

What could his heavy arms and befuddled brain accomplish that would earn him his own respect, that would in turn allow him to accept her love? The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

An idea tickled the back of my brain. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It splits his skull, and blood sprays out past his dangling brains, yet he doesn’t fall. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a minute, the sound becomes so overwhelming that my brain flips a switch and somehow all goes quiet. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Fear must have frizzled out the thinking part of my brain, because next thing I knew, I was dashing toward that wolf. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

His tiny brain was probably trying to detect sarcasm in my statement. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The captain personally supervises the return of my brain to my head. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Remember that the human brain is a very delicate organism, and it can be easily damaged.” A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mind is an energy that the brain produces.... The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Every brain cell in his head screamed for him to pull the trigger. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

We sit together late into the night with that rubber brain. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

My shopping list was burned into my brain. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even though I’m talking again, I can’t seem to fish the words for an Our Father or Hail Mary out of my brain. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I wash a dead man’s brains out of his hair. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The only real reference that the Langley brain busters could lay their hands on was Introduction to Celestial Mechanics, a 1914 textbook by Forest Ray Moulton. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I could fit Geels’ brains in the toe of my boot, and Big Bolliger was his only source inside the Dregs.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Too bad your drink won’t help you develop a brain,” I said, but I took the cordial glass he offered me anyway. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When the brains are selected, I’m not surprised to see Gale’s name on the list. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It took a moment for my brain to process that I wasn’t floating in space. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She was a longtime colleague of Farmer’s, and she had questions about treating someone with hydrocephalus—an abnormal amount of fluid in the brain’s ventricles, or cavities—caused by a parasite. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It was like pushing a trigger in the brain. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

People are beginning to scream.The brain isn’t wired to be plunged into such darkness without warning. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

When she started to cry, I felt very nervous and was racking my brain for some sort of reaction, some wise word, some supportive, comforting gesture. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She has plastic snowflakes and red- felt-wearing Santas on the brain. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“No?” the old man said and he drove the blade between the vertebrae and the brain. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Holly Short felt as though a sucker slug was drawing her brain out through her earhole. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

‘I is not a very know-all giant myself, but it seems to me that you is an absolutely know-nothing human bean. Your brain is full of rotten-wool.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see that the keenest brains of the world invent weapons and words to make it yet more refined and enduring. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There isn’t a lot they can do for my brain. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t pick pockets. You don’t sell whiskey to eat out people’s brains. You’re my sweet, innocent child.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Something came unhinged in his brain that would make him incapable of working in a conventional way. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a black man with brains gone to bed,” Malcolm X told me once, briefly lapsing into his old vernacular. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given the capacity to control autonomic functions, modulate brain waves, run cells, why shouldn’t it be possible to employ exactly the same technology to go in precisely the opposite direction? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the best evidence yet that the adults have infinite patience, but also that their brains have. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A few turns later, Thomas saw something ahead of them that didn’t register with his brain. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

My brain chooses that because Moonie is my favorite dog. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

With this simple calibration, the glasses should now be able to know my brain’s preferences and variations enough to sync up everything in Warcross to me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My stomach drops as my brain believes I’m actually thousands of feet in the air. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But I could still see Uncle Camp, same as if he was laying right there with his brains blowed out, and it made me sick. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She had a brain injury, but it could have been much, much worse. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

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

“One with slow hands, and the other with a slow brain.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now my brain shot back with that same There’s no cure gloominess. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

My brain had momentarily lost its depth perception. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once camp has ended, hopefully my brain will be supercharged enough to come up with a plan to raise more than enough money for Fig. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Look: The incomers—the real aliens, not me—in my father’s book had the ability to produce vibrational waves that targeted a specific region inside the brains of their human victims. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

As a result, people often underestimate me—which is how I like it “I sleep deeply,” I said, “but my brain works overtime, organizing everything I’ve learned during the day,” I told him. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

My brain had worked slowly through the fog of sleep deprivation. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I was nine the first time my dad took me to a hardware store, and I’d thought the place was so cool my brain just about exploded. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

George came quietly out of the brush and the rabbit scuttled back into Lennie’s brain. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our brains need a break from all the unchecked, casual misogyny.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Her voice was like an earache in the brain. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

What they found was that the reward areas of the brain light up when people share. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Does Ms. Finn think I have a brain tumor? A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Otto swerved around a frozen cat and hopped the curb at Main Street, his brain straining in the midst of exhaustion. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It drummed in his brain with the scream of the wind. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The headache was gnawing on my brain with rusty razor teeth. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t mean that,” said Harry, whose brain felt sluggish with exhaustion and from the surfeit of food and wine. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Why not advance science in its most difficult and vital aspect—the knowledge of the brain? Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Matt could see the gears churning slowly in the boy’s brain: Whatever Jorge said was good. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This type of processing may have implications for teaching, and awareness of the brain’s reaction to music can help inform teaching strategies and techniques. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“What if she hurts her head again, and her migraines get even worse? God, do you even have a brain, Johnny?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

My brain had turned to mush, and my heart wasn’t much better. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Would you hurry up and spin before my brain explodes?” pleaded Akimi. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

It is all speed and brains numb from phones and advertisings. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Harry is as sane as you or I. That scar upon his forehead has not addled his brains. I believe it hurts him when Lord Voldemort is close by, or feeling particularly murderous.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But as Naomi said Wash’s name over and over in the silence of her exhausted brain, her grip on the letter opener began to slip, and she descended into the blue depths of proper sleep. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The robot stared at them with her softly glowing eyes, and something clicked deep inside her computer brain. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

An Irukandji sting results in excruciating headache and body pain, vomiting, sweating, anxiety, dangerously fast heartbeat, brain hemorrhage, and fluid in the lungs. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My mouth seemed to be operating independent of my brain. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It’s just that I was sure now that I could handle anything I met: My fists and my brains and my feet were as good a set of charms as the charm from Hand Clap. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were David who’d thrown a stone into the brain of Goliath! The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

As he said it, something nagged at the back of his brain. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I began, trying to make sense of the jumbled thoughts in my brain, but I couldn’t continue. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

With each new fact I learned—box jellies have primitive eyes, even though they don’t have a brain—I wanted to sit with him even more. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

These are “executive function” tasks, meaning they engage the prefrontal cortex, that all-important part of the brain involved in focus. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It took time for the current to travel to the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was now a real advantage in possessing a large brain and in communicating complex thoughts. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her brain was reestablishing cycles of sleeping and waking, which meant a new level of consciousness. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him, “The only thing about you that’s turning rat is your brain.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

This had been a difficult task, for they all suffered brain drains as their leading scientists returned to prewar academic posts or accepted jobs stem ming from their newfound eminence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

There was something robotic about them, as if their brains had been scooped out and replaced with wires. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A hundred mad ideas pounded through his brain, each one wilder than the last. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe she ran a few tests while I was unconscious, and scanned my brain, or tested my blood, or something. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Except in some atavistic part of his brain, he knows exactly what they’ll do. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s due to brain damage on my part: exposure to radioactivity. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Another dose of weirdness to explode her brain. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Thus there was growing acceptance both in and outside Cambridge that Francis’ brain was a genuine asset. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I wanted something nice because there was still a chance my brain looked more like scrambled eggs than a honeycomb. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at her like Mama did sometimes, when she was trying to see into Hanako’s brain. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her scalp tingled, as if the thoughts in her brain were agitating to get out: a statue...Athena...Greek and Roman, her nightmares, and her argument with her mom. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I racked my brain, trying to remember the myth of the boar. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“You have these chemicals in your brain that carry messages from each brain cell to the next brain cell. They’re called neurotransmitters. And one of them is serotonin.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Thim bullets I was telling ye about, now: the brains didn’t be much good wid-out they were taken in single combat It was the virtue of them.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, if you have the formulas for those jelly beans, you should be able to figure out some way to stop them from doing whatever they’re doing inside my brain.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

But it remains for another device, the human brain, to figure it out. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone dies, and I don’t like wasting energy fretting about certitudes, but Aunt Aggie’s words keep echoing through my brain: whipped to death, took the skin clean off. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Some people call it manic depression. It’s a brain disorder that causes extreme shifts in mood and energy. It runs in families, but it can be treated.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I knew from my previous discussions with Ben that you needed money or brains to get into the University. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The first thing I hear is my mother exclaim, “A brain tumor?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

My brain seemed to lurch full speed back into life, flooding with milky-white images of the two of us sitting in front his desk, staring at each other as a fire devoured everything around us. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They call to her all at once, grasping here and there for parts of her, hatching blue flames in her brain. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then her body caught up with her brain. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It’s all very well for me to think these things, quick as staccato, a jittering of the brain. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try not to let the brain damage comment sting. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was like one part of my brain insisted on defying another part of my brain. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I’m not envious of her brains or her beauty. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Up until this point, her brain had only distantly understood that she could be a Pandava. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Damasio studied patients with damage to a small but critical part of the brain called the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, which lies behind the nose. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Toby didn’t know why these were separate things, but he nodded and, for maybe the first time in his life, didn’t say every word that was coming shooting into his brain. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“He’ll have to take steroids to reduce the swelling in his brain and anti­seizure medications. And I’d recommend palliative radiation. Do you know what that means?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't want to go at first, because I thought Jody would notice the change in me, and that anybody with half an eye would see I didn't have a brain in my head. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The surgeons already knew what had killed him—a single bullet through the brain. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad's not the only guy in the world with a brain. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Another one of America’s favorite pastimes, besides baseball, and beating the brains out of—” “Chill,” I ordered. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She will break open my skull just to see the inner workings of my brain; I will die here, and that will he the merciful thing. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Pieces of my father’s brain are on the asphalt. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being alone like that works its way inside you, burrows deep into your bones, your brain. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The school counselor told me this was part of the ADHD, my brain misinterpreting things. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Study to look at possible benefits of musical training on brain function in young and old. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Calista nodded after I named each one, like she was plugging them into her brain for keeps. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

When she doesn’t hear back from him, she becomes certain, with the surety of the white light illuminating her brain, that El Li'der is to blame. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

These digits repeat in my brain even when I don’t want them to. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Before they scanned my brain, before they removed my ten percent, did I hear someone at the hospital talking? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“You should use the brains God gave you,” my father is in the habit of saying, though we both know he thinks this gift was really bestowed by him. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You have the amazing luck to have such a rich aunt and you run away from her as if the devil himself was after you. Your brains must be the size of a pea.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Another mechanical piece has to do with the way our brains get stimulated by the mere act of touching the device and, in doing so, causing something to happen. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Although neurologists are still exploring how the auditory cortex functions, they now believe that music processing is actually much more complex then initially imagined, and involves many more parts of the brain than previously thought. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Mad cow is a brain disease that is always fatal. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I wish I had never allowed my accursedly single-minded male brain to linger over every detail about her. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Children,” she said, “perhaps those video games you like to play have addled your brains.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The brain is a very big place in a very small space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, if the rat continues to be awash in new experiences, and doesn’t give the brain a break, it doesn’t process the new information. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

If El Patron’s mind was slipping, it meant he was ready for another dose of fetal brain implants. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stand back. No, further back. If anyone goes within ten paces of either of the children, I will knock out his brains.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Meantime my brain raced, searching for some way to avoid being handed over to this cold and menacing stranger. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

As the android’s hands sank into his throat, Rick fired his regulation issue old-style pistol from its shoulder holster; the .38 magnum slug struck the android in the head and its brain box burst. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

This pain is different, less like a stab and more like a crackle, crackling in my brain, spotting my vision with different colors, blue, green, red. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I have a smaller brain, right? So less room for possibilities.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The brain shoots fear and the heart speeds and the blood pumps. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

They were running up against the limits of their own brains. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I heard...that you were making your brains for people,” she says. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“So you just get a brain map for yourself, okay?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“The doctor says Uriah’s not going to wake up. Something about... no brain waves.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

To make such a climb required both strength and planning, so the Prince made those marks in his brain: my enemy is strong; my enemy is not impulsive. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Sit down all of you. They raided us for fire. They're having fun. But the-" Ralph was puzzled by the shutter that flickered in his brain. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

My brain released a blissful little sigh as it went tumbling into Rob’s thoughts. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Leah did at least have the brains to make herself scarce. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, and a brain full of pistol and broken truck. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I waited for the word to pierce my dumb, thick brain and begin to mean something. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had closed his eyes and taken his brain away. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was silence, but I could hear her brain operating. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Thomas Lanman, of St. Michael’s, killed two slaves, one of whom he killed with a hatchet, by knocking his brains out. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Will you join our team for the quiz competition? We desperately need your brains.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Finally I find my words somewhere in the far corner of my rattled brain. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And the same click in the brain told Adam that his father was not a great man, that he was, indeed, a very strong-willed and concentrated little man wearing a huge busby. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Is it the brain that makes people love and hate? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Today our big brains pay off nicely, because we can produce cars and guns that enable us to move much faster than chimps, and shoot them from a safe distance instead of wrestling. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was rumoured that his head was so bashed during interrogation in a police station in Durban that his brain hemorrhaged. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As I said earlier, I trust your devious brain is working through a way out of this pickle. This town is terrifying.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And with my average brain and average grades I lead a pretty average life. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

The fall in the hospital had either shown him the light or scrambled his brains; it was impossible to say which. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

After a while, our robot’s computer brain decided it was a good time to conserve energy. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

‘I don’t like being different. I don’t like being in my brain. Sometimes it’s like a big empty space where I’m all on my own. And there’s nothing else, just me.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brain is big enough to hold only one ten-digit number, and since his was there first, I have no idea how anyone might go about phoning me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

By simple movements—a look here, a redirection there—he plays to the reptilian parts of our brain that can’t resist novelty, maybe important stimulation. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Well, God knows he don’t need any brains to buck barley bags. But don’t you try to put nothing over, Milton. I got my eye on you. Why’d you quit in Weed?” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine that the wires in your brain are crossed, not literally of course. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“He isn’t thinking very well anymore. It’s a kind of disease in the brain that makes you forget.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The ball ripped through his chestnut-colored hair, cut the skin, penetrated the skull, and because of the angle of Lincoln’s head at the moment of impact, made a diagonal tunnel through Lincoln’s brain. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

That he should never have been able to indulge so amiable a feeling before, passed suspiciously through Emma’s brain; but still, if it were a falsehood, it was a pleasant one, and pleasantly handled. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Before Red could recover, Toomer was on him again, the black hand coming around the throat with such fury that Red could feel the blood flow cut off from the brain. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were bent and wizened with age; it was a sight that stamped itself on the brain. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked the idea of being in charge of one thing rather than two, of not having my brain scrambled by the competing narratives of home and work. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Werfel was very careful to walk at a normal speed, though his heart was racing, and everything in his body and brain was complaining about disaster. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Even her father had told Jinjoo that it was a good thing she had a pretty face and smart brain, because her singing would drive any potential husbands away. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

In exasperation Connelly beat out what little brains he had left. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Colin laughed as Hassan returned to counting the pennies of victory, but Colin's brain was spinning with the implications: if the future is forever, he thought, then eventually it will swallow us all up. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“If I only have ten percent of my original brain, what is the rest?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I watch how she sways a little as she pushes to her feet; her body’s clearly exhausted, even if her brain doesn’t know it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But still I listened to the counsel of my brain. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brain knew better than to think she would change more than her name, but my stupid heart kept hoping. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

My theory is that it allows blood to pour into the side of the brain you need for whatever bit of thinking it is you have to do. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think we each had too many thoughts in our brains. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Or “oeuvres,” if you’re really pretentious, like some of the kids in my art class who wear berets, like somehow their brains are so creative, they need a covering more unique than anyone else’s. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

"You're enough to give the devil himself fits! Haven't I so muddled their brains they want to turn you loose? And you reward me with a royal squawk!" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was diagnosed with hypothermia, respiratory problems, and a brain injury that never showed on the scans. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I could jam the heel of my hand into his nose and drive his nasal bone into his brain. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Thoughts zapped through my brain like summer lightning. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Something happened in her brain when she was on the boat, Lucy.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

As Amanda watched Maniac tackle the knot, an idea slithered into her brain. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like he’s sitting there, trying to pour his thoughts directly into my brain, so he won’t have to say them out loud. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

All the while, little cytoplasmic factories work 24/7, cranking out sugars, fats, proteins, and energy to keep the whole thing running and feed the nucleus—the brains of the operation. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

My brain sees things differently and words don’t look the way they do to others. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And a huge violation of my privacy, I want to add, but I don’t because my tongue is fighting with my brain and really I’m just hearing Hiroshi’s words on a continuous loop. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Of all the things I wanted in my brain right then, the absolute last was Tobias Segal as a big brother. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The feeling snuck up on me slowly, crawling back up through the crowded, tired portions of my brain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She must have been running, because she wore a workout outfit that was much more revealing than Rowan needed at the moment—it drained far too much blood from his brain. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

These warlords were all the same—they never gave credit for brains to anyone except themselves. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But when he saw who stood there, his skull seemed to contract, squeezing his brain in shock. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, when his brain was asked to do too much, to multitask, it became overloaded. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A high ringing sound somewhere had grown loud enough so that she heard it, and she understood that it had started humming at the edge of her brain before the ghost appeared. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I really do try hard, but it seems like my brain freezes over or somethin’. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors probed Lincoln’s bullet wound with their bare, dirty fingers, sticking their pinkies inside Lincoln’s brain. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, are you worried that Ben was in the cold water so long he’ll have some kind of permanent brain damage or something?” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

But though his brain was dulled, or perhaps because of that, he had a strange affinity with dumb beasts. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t have the brains to make much of myself.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

My brain remembered just how long I’d been ignored and belittled. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“When the day comes to do the dive,” Carlyle tells me, “I gotta make sure there’s not a single brain on deck to foul things up.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

My brain rattles against the walls of my skull. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I swear, the kid could have been a brain surgeon for how sharp and accurate his pokes and prods were. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

That’s why I can tell you about the night-swimming accident, the rocks, the hypothermia, respiratory difficulty, and the unconfirmed traumatic brain injury. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

When she kissed me, I had the feeling my brain was melting right through my body. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The paper that first brought Dr. Gazzaley his notoriety, published in 2005, showed the key parts of the brain circuitry involved when a person ignores something, or tries to ignore something. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t give you any more brain damage than you already got. And besides, didn’t I give you one concussion already?” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We know the brain is rewirable, the question is to rewire it properly. “Were in the primitive age of brain training.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He never asked unless he wanted to know and he could not conceive of the brain that would ask without wanting to know. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

So right now he didn’t trust his own brain. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I have never really been satisfied with the operation of my brain, and it might be fun to try running it myself, just once. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over and over on a constant loop in his brain. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“There’s that summer school brain kicking in,” Dylan says. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The boos flooded the ring and the catcalls burned his ears and the whistles sliced into his brain.-Pop-pop, The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

There has to be a clever way to turn the tide, but to my besieged brain there’s only one way out: the front door. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The nation could hardly bury its martyred Father Abraham with a lead ball lodged in his brain. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Owner’s old rusty brain shook itself back into action. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The Mist makes humans see only what their brains can process ... The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I know what I want to express, but the pathway between my mouth and brain might as well be stuffed with cotton. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Hebb’s seminal 1949 book, The Organization of Behavior, illuminated a new pathway for studying the anatomy of the brain’s attention networks. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

What Dr. Gazzaley and his team want to do is not merely understand how the brain works when confronted with a demand to widen attention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Proofs tied his brain into knots as tight as the ones on his father’s fishing nets. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I search my brain for this word, trying to find the Creole word for it, or a French one—détenir: to hold back, to keep from moving. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He informed my parents that my brain was swelling and that he would need to remove part of my skull to give it space to expand. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The theory is that the whole multistep process required to create art expands the brain’s capabilities. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

In short, scientists say that nothing we do as humans uses more parts of our brain and is more complex than playing an instrument. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“You can’t know for sure how something like this will work. It’s only a one-percent chance, but it could screw up her brain forever.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Kat’s behaviour, from snapping eighteen pictures of the garden shed, to making me get under her dressing gown, to darting off to buy nail-polish remover, was making my brain spin. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since our car ride home from church, my brain couldn’t stop examining the idea of faith without facts. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

A free man, the Americans believed, had the right to what he had built with his own strength, brains, and will. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s fine. I accept. If you win the game, you get the chance to knock my brains out with one blow of your sledgehammer.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Her brain was feeling the pull of the earth’s magnetic field, slight as it was. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Jellyfish don’t even have hearts, of course—no heart, no brain, no bone, no blood. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, when Frank mentioned Temple of Zeus and statue, Leo’s brain had made a connection. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It might be something of a temptation to take over my brain, on paper, but I cannot imagine doing so in real life. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why, but something about that makes my brain itch. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

From the get-go, Elizebeth understood that Root was another one of those people looking for a back door to her husband, taking her on so “they’d get the use of his brains.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was a full staff meeting of the brains of U. S. Robot & Mechanical Men Corp. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Above his collar, the skin jumps, the blood rushing to feed his giant brain. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

They both started yelling, until Frank thought his brain would split in half. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A gear clicked to life in the Owner’s old rusty brain. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The heart was the center of everything, pumping blood to everywhere in the body, carrying oxygen to all vital parts, including the brain. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Also, there was no denying she had a good brain. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Worst, I sent two of ’em wobbling back into the water with their brains scrambled like eggs. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Or they might have muscles and a few brains, but they still think the world revolves around them. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Temporarily he pushed away the specs on the Nexus-6 brain unit, took a pinch of Mrs. Siddons’ No. 3 & 4 snuff and cogitated. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

His instinct was telling him one thing, his brain quite another. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“A few weeks,” I said, still trying to prod my sleepy brain. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“He knows enough not to do anything to jeopardize his being a student here. You got here because of your brains. Drew is here because I made it happen.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“Or watch. I just want to not be me. Whether it’s sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That’s what’s important.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Billy Moore, his brains were lying out of his head.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

My brain and eyes jolt in their cavities. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“You’re right, Florida. That was a stupid thing for me to say, and I’m sorry my brain popped it out of my mouth.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He’d learned to talk to his brain as if it were a person, and there were times when he couldn’t accept that it was a part of his body. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was so tired, his brain felt like someone had gone in and stapled it to his skull in a dozen places. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Or did he shake my brain pan loose and I’m over there dead on the ground... The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The sounds got louder and louder until they bored into Anya’s brain, tearing at her sanity. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I know that vigorous exercise changes brain chemistry. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

My heart doesn’t care at all what my brain thinks. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I think my brain is filled with bees,” I replied. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank tapped his head like he was afraid his brain had short-circuited. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Look, suppose a cop whacks me over the head and I suffer a brain concussion. Suppose I’m nuts after that? Can I write then? What will I have proven?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel my brain on top of my spine and I feel it shift a little bit to the left. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes, digging into the furthest reaches of her brain to figure out what would be the perfect addition to her cake. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking about my shoulder, which hurt, and also I still had the headache, but maybe only because I’d been thinking about a girl who’d died of brain cancer. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It happens in my brain once the rest of my body has moved. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I sank down on a rail and hung my head, my brain spinning. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He didn't want to die with the images of the Warden, Mr. Sir, and the lizards etched into his brain. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Only for short bursts, 'cause strobes make your brain blow up. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

If he placed his faith in Christ and used whatever brain cells he had left, the solution would come to him. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Plus, my brain doesn’t register the way the letters change when they connect to one another, and I get them wrong all the time. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

"Y'know, I can see straight through to your brain," Jasmine said, pretending to still be examining. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

After the torture was done, when the albino had finished tending his slashes or burns or breaks, when he was alone in the giant cage, he sent his brain to Buttercup, and there it dwelled. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She takes a deep breath and concentrates on extracting a phrase from the reeling in her brain. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the subjects used the video game, the researchers studied their performance with behavioral tests, and used eye scanners and captured the electrical activity in their brain with EEG. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

With each step, part of my brain shouts at me to turn around, to go back, to help Darin. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was a standard sheet, apparently, that they gave all the new recruits at the Anthem Mental Health Center, the building in downtown Brooklyn where this brain evaluation was taking place. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

My brain only had room for those two facts. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“I have things in my skull. I need help getting them out of there. Before they eat my brain and start heading for my heart.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“You look like a couple of the lightbulbs in your brain flicked back on,” Alec said, sitting down. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The megaphone was suddenly two inches from my face, and the White Noise sunk into my brain like an ax. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Without the brains of the Sicilian, he, Inigo, would never be able to command jobs of this caliber. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

No one knew it meant there was a bleed inside his brain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“II I ever lose my brains and lock you up somewhere, you bust out and then you—you bite me and kick me and tie me up and throw me over the cliff, y’hear?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

My brain gobbles up the new information around me, as if each new thing it sees will help me forget an old thing in the theater. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Rats, turtles, and snakes caught in our traps are not wasted as we cook and eat their brains, tails, hides, and blood. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brain damage left me nearsighted in one eye and farsighted in the other, so my ugly glasses were all lopsided because my eyes were so lopsided. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She took and stored in her brain and her heart what she heard the midwife say and do about babies and birthing and easing pain. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something had happened then, some development in evolution, to make the human brain an ideal channel for amplifying their effects. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Roz could feel her Survival Instincts—the part of her computer brain that made her want to avoid danger and take care of herself so she could continue functioning properly. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then they started trying to work out if I could see and hear, and if my brain was damaged. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

But as soon as I see that text, something or someone—Saint Rene, maybe?—unplugs a clog in my brain. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Transitioning seamlessly into Yiddish, she added savagely, “Do you have gefilte fish for brains?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“We can sculpt and shape the neural circuits to refine the brain. We can drastically improve people’s abilities. “This is my dream.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

My brain was whizzing as it had never whizzed before. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

My three-year-old brain doesn’t know what that even means. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I have a brain tumor,” you tell a disembodied mask with a clipboard hovering beside it. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

An image of his brain appears on a twenty-four-inch computer monitor. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“We only use ten percent of our brains.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

All signs were consistent with a catastrophic injury to the brain. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The name slips out of my mouth before my brain thinks about what I’m saying. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like my brain was figuring it out, putting the pieces together while I was in a deep sleep, and once it’s fully formed, it wakes me up. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

My brain says: Juan, you are a wonderful, awesome human being and a complete natural at cutting mushrooms, and I love you. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

My foot banged up against the skirting board, my hand shook itself out and my brain went into a whirling vortex of bad feelings. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon no one would remain, and the fair would cease to exist as a living memory in anyone’s brain. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Isobel racks her brain for the last time she felt under the weather and she can only come up with a head cold she had a decade ago, the winter before she met Marco. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My mother’s opinion of me kept ricocheting in my brain: selfish. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He searched his brain until he found a memory, a good and true one, that she might enjoy. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He recalled every single thing Bo had told him until one phrase rang in his brain as clear as the church bell chiming across the square. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rational part of my brain finally kicked in, stomping down the chaos of panic and terror that had overtaken me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I mean, MIT? Engineering? You’re the one with a mathematical brain, not me. I couldn’t even fix the laptop when it broke last year, remember?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Luke thought he was repeating everything he said two or three times, but that was okay, because Luke’s brain was functioning so slowly, he needed the extra help. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

She makes the night crazy and funny as we eat our cones, trying not to get brain freezes. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Jay Cee had brains, so her plug-ugly looks didn't seem to matter. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

In contact with the skull, an army helmet transmitted images directly into the brain. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I pushed back his stack of papers, his brain model, and the glass-encased fossils so I could work. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

All those thoughts grabbed and pulled at my brain, slowing me to a stumbling walk. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They sit on death row in solitary confinement, waiting for the spiking fevers, horrible pain in the internal organs, brain strokes, and finally the endgame, with its sudden, surprising, uncontrollable gushes of blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t even have to say anything and my brain plays the things she would say. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I crushed its head and picked out its small brain. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

One girl, Mary Lou Finney, said the most peculiar things, like out of the blue she would say, “Omnipotent!” or “Beef brain!” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Then he stood up soo and brained the boar with split oak from the woodpile. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The jagged purple words that had been scrawled across the page remained seared in her brain. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then Bobby Moch began to make use of those three pounds of brains. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But you couldn’t leave her alone or her brain would overload and I would end up crying. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Some small, rational part of her brain that wasn’t screaming internally decided that none of this could actually be happening. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Everything—my hands, my lips, my brain—everything but my breathing stopped. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

My brain is swirling nonstop with thoughts and feelings that I can’t control. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Days ago, when she faced Khione on the Argo II, Piper had started talking without thinking, following her heart no matter what her brain said. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

What was this thing that set his brains afire and grabbed at his throat with iron fingers? Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I racked my brain for something to talk about. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I lean against a telephone pole, bewildered, as if something has been cut out of my brain. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A bear with half a brain would have turned tail and run. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

One would be MRI images that would show us the structure of his brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was his mind playing tricks, the G forces sloshing his brain around, but A-Dawg was sure he saw his dog nod. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Alive one moment, dead the next, because that is how my divided brain divined the world. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all I knew, Rachel had the brains of banana bread. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Your brain slows down as your heart rocks out through your ears. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Your heart starts doing the thinking, and your brain? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

"I was the only man throughout the entire nation,” he bragged, "that had the inspiration and the nerve and the brain and the opportunity to do the work.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When called upon, I delivered an effortless list of things that I detest: blood sausage, intestinal pates, brain pudding, I’d learned these words the hard way. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

When the brain swells, it pushes against the skull, and that squeezes the blood vessels that supply the brain. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to rewire her brain to see it differently. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My brain doesn’t think we should spend any time hanging around algebra. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

A smell that stirred something in his brain. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Like she was about to dunk it against Gully’s brains. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

And then his eyes slid back in his head, his body swiveled, and his legs walked his sleeping brain from the kitchen. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Alex’s brain flashes to the panic button behind his headboard and wonders if the Secret Service will be able to find him before he bleeds out. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Anya searched her brain for something to snap back, but she was too afraid, and nothing came up. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Well, she ended up getting brain cancer—the exact kind she was doing the study on. The probability of that was like one in a million or something. How’s that for a coincidence?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

My eye and brain had welshed on me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brain scrambled and spat out the first name that came to mind. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I feared I might handicap him, stunt the speech blooming in his brain, and that Lelia would provide the best example of how to speak. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a minute I consider telling him more, but I don't think I have the words yet, for everything going through my brain. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was very anxious about him, and I was powerless to act; my feet, and my hands, and my brain were weighted, so that nothing could proceed at the usual pace. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Percy realized that what he saw of Tartarus was only a watered-down version of its true horror—only what his demigod brain could handle. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

An idea took hold in his brain and raced around like a rabid dog. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We suck their brains out through their noses with a straw!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“I do wish you could center your big brain on the crimes we ourselves as a people are responsible for.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

My ears listened to his words, but my tired brain was working on something else. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I tried to think of the perfect, most memorable thing to say to Ethan, but my brain had turned to mush. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Gitano's mouth opened for a word, and remained open while his brain sought the word. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

You have a bit of a brain in your head and you’d pass it no bother. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I dash for my trailer, tears blurring my vision while the horrible sound and image of Soheil on that fence engraves itself onto my brain and my heart. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

A single name was the only lyric to the song in my brain. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The words landed in the shells of her ears, but didn't really hit her brain. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He appears to be lost in thought and whatever has got his brain cells occupied is having a strange effect on his facial muscles. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I found that there were complications from the anesthetic used in the operation. Tiny lesions in the brain. Barely visible, even with the best machines.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Its screaming was louder, closer, and the noise filled Anya’s brain with agony. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

In my brain, in my limbs, in my dreams, it is still happening. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The problem with that theory is that if you try to match up brain size with eating patterns among primates, it doesn’t work. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Nicole was getting her brain tweaked by Schmidt, I was off to grab coffee. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

One theory is that our brains evolved because our primate ancestors began to engage in more sophisticated food gathering: instead of just eating grasses and leaves they began eating fruit, which takes more thinking power. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, I couldn’t stand the thought that Ben might end up with some kind of brain damage. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

It all exploded into a rainbow of sound that dripped its fragments onto an aching brain. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

None more complicated than the human brain, Etienne would say, what may be the most complex object in existence; one wet kilogram within which spin universes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The mocking chorus grated the inside of her brain. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It feels like there’s static inside my brain when I touch Maria’s hand. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Every time he used my lame way of explaining how my brain seemed to work, I felt embarrassed, even a little bit ashamed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

This is an exceptionally silly notion—especially since the speed of impulses through the neurons in our brains is about the same as the speed of a donkey cart. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I say, “Ms. Blinny said that about my brain. My mind.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Moss turned his head to face Javier, and not even his cynical brain could deny what he saw. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was a mystery why her computer brain knew certain things but not others. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t want me to paint the wall with her brains, you’ll put the shotgun down right now.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Your brain could not be more clearly in another solar system. Are you gonna tell me or what?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I can creep along the edge of the room and surprise whatever guard is shooting at us before he gets the chance to fire a bullet into my brain. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

My father’s a large man, very strong, but he says fighting is for people who can’t win with their brains. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

When the ringing departed from Herbie’s brain, he realized that not only had he ridden a very cantankerous horse, he’d accomplished something nobody else had ever accomplished. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You heard me. Or did inhaling that polish kill whatever helpless brain cells you had left?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Bo coming back into my world, if only in the tiniest of ways, turns my brain into a vacuum, where nothing else can exist, because I’m so consumed. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Not everyone learns to read this way—memory taking over when the rest of the brain stops working, but I do. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

We got to keep his fever down, else it might cook his brains. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Musicians tend to have greater word memory and more complex neural brain patterning, as well as greater organizational and higher-order executive functioning. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“He probably had a hemorrhage, a bleed in his brain you couldn’t see,” Gideon said. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

In .45 of a second an android equipped with such a brain structure could assume any one of fourteen basic reaction-postures. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

My stupid brain calculates Elizabeth’s life without my ever giving permission. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

My brain was still thrumming from the effects of the White Noise, but my weak heart made the choice easy for me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Lanning considered, “If you had all your equipment—the brain, the skeleton, the ovum, the proper hormones and radiations—say, two months.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“There is some evidence to suggest that, depending on the extent of his brain damage, he can on some level hear and feel us,” says Cara. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Lord, it scrambles my brain all the way up. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

His brain was crammed with information about tractors and machines and cows and milking. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Or send needles of ice tinkling blue through my brain when he looks in my eyes? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deep in my brain, the name rings a bell. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Adam’s brain raced, trying to find words for his feeling. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

If your brain is taxed, you may not even be able to make a clearheaded decision about what is the right thing to do. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I shut the door behind me, trying to think clearly through the terror that gripped my brain. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

My brain is too muddled to be sure, but what else could be the reason for the delay? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He just didn’t get it; his brain was on overload trying to compute the sheer impossibility of the situation. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Then like a blinding red flash the message of the lantern bored its way into my brain. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to a provocative insight by Paul MacLean, the higher functions of the brain evolved in three successive stages. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked feeling like there wasn’t room in his brain for any other thoughts besides that. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was like my brain had shut that part of me down completely. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I think all that dye seeped into your brain.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I mean, what am I gonna do, break my brains over scum like that? 3RD JUROR: Well, that’s the most ridiculous thing I ever . Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like it had been when Peach was being born, like her body was working separately from her brain, and she closed her eyes and tried to breathe. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And indeed a little warning buzz did sound in his brain, but it was not loud enough. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then, like the Scarecrow who suddenly got a brain, a lightbulb went on. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It’s almost like before I came in here, when I was in my mom’s bed, when my brain wanted to die but my heart wanted to live. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She stood up tall and said, “Oh, I noticed, but I just got to wonder about a man that hasn’t enough brains to get hisself off a horse like that.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know,” I hear the bartender say, “they put Einstein’s brain in a jar of formaldehyde. If it’s good enough for him, it’s good enough for you.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

This property allows hemoglobin to shuttle oxygen from the lung to the heart and the brain. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Everything rested upon the brain busters’ mastery of the laws of physics and mathematics. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It’s a system in which our brain reaches conclusions without immediately telling us that it’s reaching conclusions. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

That you could replay in the brain the scene of ecstasy, of murder, of tenderness, but it was drained of everything but the language to say it in. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there came a point where the control and the fear were gone and his brain cried out in an aching triumph. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The night before my science report, I couldn’t turn my brain off. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The kind of thing you think before your mind has time to run it past your brain. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But thinking that there was something wrong with my brain was scaring me. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think your entire brain is a Wiener area.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, I said, “I’m not joking. His brain, I can see it!” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It is spread by eating the brains of infected animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“You might have big ears,” said Toulese, “but they’re not attached right to your brain. You don’t bear honey. You smell honey. When there’s honey to smell. Which there isn’t. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“He thought he saw some one who recalled something terrible, something which led to his brain fever.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Druggett was a frightening man to me, his clothes always covered in burns and smears, his head wound in a bandage that, he claimed, fastened his brain. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In Germany, the effects of Marburg virus on the brain were particularly frightening, and resembled the effects of rabies: the virus somehow damaged the central nervous system and could destroy the brain, as does rabies. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blood flows freely from the wound, and reflexively Lincoln’s chest suddenly rises and falls as pressure is taken from his brain. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It excites the parts of their brains that relate to language, movement, and musicality. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

How to B.S. the fact I had cheated and seen the answer, rather than being in possession of brain power to actually work it through. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Mother said, “If he’s got the brains he was born with he won’t tell them that, will he, Colonel Read?” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Axel’s brain is not on the truck, though; it is on the driver, who isn’t Ms. Berrios. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Ophie blinked, her brain searching for an answer that wouldn’t provoke the woman any further. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

A mind movie flickers in my brain of an angry fish at the bottom of a tree, banging on the trunk with its fins and complaining that it can’t climb it. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The theories, all of them, the photos, the words on the T-shirt, the pods on the Wheel were like floating strands in my brain. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, Aaron,” I said, a little too loudly, trying to divert my brain’s attention from the feeling of Sahil’s muscled thigh against my own skinny one. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

According to neuroscientists, what makes a creative thinker is the high activity in the association cortices sections of the brain—responsible for making new connections and for “eureka” moments. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The doctor drilled a hole in Nikki’s skull and put in a small tube—no thicker than a strand of spaghetti—to drain excess fluid from her brain to lower the pressure. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Lyme finishes the presentation, the questions from the brains begin. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And just like that, the plan I’ve been struggling to come up with for weeks explodes in my brain like a stick of dynamite with a too-short fuse. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The spontaneous decision to argue with that same co-worker is made unconsciously—by a different part of the brain and motivated by a different part of your personality. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Being too old for active battle service he reasoned that the best way he could serve his order was by putting his fertile brain to work. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Even so early in the morning, not even light yet, he has questions in his brain. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was just about to complain about being woken up when her words made it all the way to my brain. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

There was something diabolically sweet in her tones—something of the tingling of glass when struck—which rang through the brains even of us who heard the words addressed to another. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The psychologist muttered, “I should have been told. U. S. Robots had no right to modify positronic brains this way without the approval of a psychologist.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“And if he thinks I’m going to believe that story, he has a hole in his so-called brain. He only made it up to punish me. I know he did.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, I was terrified of car accidents, death, cancer, brain tumors, nuclear war, pregnant women, loud noises, strict teachers, elevators, and scads of other things. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The brain is waking and with it the mind is returning. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The logical, scientific part of my brain agreed with Dari. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A spark lit at the center of my chest, spreading quickly up to my brain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And Lucas Cader, with all his brains and talent, doesn’t know the meaning of his, either. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

From here, you see that change is as easy as flicking a light switch in your brain. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

When my brain says “Come!” to you, you shall cross land or sea to do my bidding; and to that end this!’ Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He was a real punk, twisted in the brain, but the little boys never could see that. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“If you’re going to decipher a hidden code from a complex set of different mazes, I’m pretty sure you need a girl’s brain running the show.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t seem to be fully aware of pain any longer because the blood clots lodged in his brain are cutting off blood flow. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it’s really great to know everything about everything whenever we want, to have it just like, in our brain, just sitting there. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember who came up with it first, but Chantal is the brains, Donna is the beauty, and me, I’m the brawn. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

That way he doesn't have to wear his leg brace or carry his crutches, and besides, I like how it feels to have a really smart brain on my shoulders, helping me think. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess my brain pretty much forgot all that,” Tiller said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He has, unfortunately, steadily degraded over the last several years despite this augmentation of his brain functions. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We like to regard the olfactory bulb as a sort of archeologic find, and we speak of the ancient olfactory parts of the brain as though they were elderly, dotty relatives in need of hobbies. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

What were you supposed to do—shut down your brain when you walked into the prison or drink extra coffee and prepare to go into overdrive? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mammals weighing 130 pounds have an average brain size of 12 cubic inches. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost like watching the plan beamed straight from his brain onto the screen of a blockbuster movie. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“See that,” she snapped, and scrambled his brains with a smack to the head. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This makes no sense to me, because I have never gone this far with a guy before, so I really don’t know why my brain is telling me to want him to go further. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“In fact, you, Ally Nickerson, are far from it. Your brain just figures things out differently than other people.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Already I had enough scary thoughts to worry me about my brain being messed up so I tried to think of something good like Mom told me to do. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He talks little, sir: what he does say is ever to the point. His brain is first-rate, I should think not impressible, but vigorous.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Soon enough, it was time for bed and Ophie’s questions were still a hot coal, burning quietly in her brain. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The whole thing tangles my brain in knots. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Of course she would, this cynical part of my brain said. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He passed me the flask again, and I swallowed a couple of gulps, feeling the alcohol loosen my limbs and my brain. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

My brain felt suddenly warm and like maybe someone had filled my head with fizzy water. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He is clever and cunning and resourceful; but he be not of man-stature as to brain. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

And while my brain was still going, "I can't believe it," another part of me was starting to get nervous. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Classical music in the mid-twentieth century was mostly about the brain and the intellect: the conceptual theory behind a composition had become more important than the sensory effect of the music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

My brain coiled around the knowledge: The boy in the hoodie has been shot. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And I also try to convince myself that they don’t have enough brains to know the difference between a hot bath and a slow death. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then my brain pointed my eyes at the shoe lying upside down at my feet. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

My brain dribble of an idea almost felt worse than having to hear Ma andPa yell at each other. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

That has to be the best part of being in love—the feeling of having a home in someone else’s brain. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

This time I did not look for fear my head would burst and my brains would dribble out of my ears. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time they followed his example, he retreated with concern and racked his brain for some new stratagem that would enable him to turn upon them scornfully again. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what overrated meant at the time because, like I said, I was really little and so was my brain. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Cudgel his brains though he might, Harry could not remember Dumbledore ever mentioning a place in which he might hide something. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In other words: Some of the same pathways and results seen in the abuse of substances is happening in the brain of heavy Internet users. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“But why? Why would you want to be ugly? You were doctors, so there was nothing wrong with your brains, right?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The ice in her frozen brain rumbled and cracked. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He was trying to make his tired brain work fast. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the writer’s brain, the links between ideas are kept straight by the neural code that makes memory and reasoning possible. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Your report card came, brain boy!” he shouted after me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Its beginning has the pleasure of a great stretching yawn; it flashes in the brain and the whole world glows outside your eyes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Schultz was a neurologist—that is, an expert on brains, nerves, intelligence, and how people learn things. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Everything is too much—the noise and the battle to concentrate make my brain hurt. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Got things that knock at the front of my brain. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Eratosthenes’ only tools were sticks, eyes, feet and brains, plus a taste for experiment. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think most people in the world can quote sections of that movie—no extra brains required— because it’s one of the movies that gets played over and over again on cable channels. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Her brain simmered with bursts of lilac, cigar smoke, sweat, the cringe of a missed opportunity, pangs of hunger. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I don't think anything could change Max, not even surgery on her brain. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It’s like the time Dad shaved off his beard, and he was Dad, but he wasn’t, and my twelve-year-old brain couldn’t handle it. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Something was wrong, some signal was trying to get through to his brain. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear sounds everywhere now, cracks, rustles, mysterious whispers—but his dogged, realistic brain knew them for what they were—the creations of his own heated imagination. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“The brains were in such a bad shape,” David Shoun recalled. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They weren't partial or biased, just very persuasive in detailing how organic brain damage, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder can conspire to create severe mental impairment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then, as if his body was new to his brain, he didn’t know what to do with his arms or what to say. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s stuck inside his brain, on repeat, the same loop. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I wipe her blood and brains on my pant legs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sleep eluded me as my brain turned over these questions. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Sounds like it,” I heard myself say, but my brain was thinking, Shelter? The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mother found the carbon of the letter to Dad’s friend, and the brain went to Harvard. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smells in the shop—dry-toasted maize, melting farm cheese, squash flowers sauteing in home-pressed oil—were causing my stomach to direct urgent messages to my brain. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Less than ten million years ago, the first creatures who closely resembled human beings evolved, accompanied by a spectacular increase in brain size. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turns to walk away, but something else about his last statement paws at my brain. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.’ Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But she must look like you on the inside. She must have your brain and know Book.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I need to clear my brain! Get out of my head. Do something physical. Maybe I’ll go shoot some hoops or see if the janitor needs help sweeping the hallways.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“The creature of an over-stimulated brain; that is certain. I must be careful of you, my treasure: nerves like yours were not made for rough handling.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

His brain was full of new things, new bewilderments. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

And I don't say anything right away because sarcasm does a bad thing to Dad's brain chemistry. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Birds, humans, slugs—every animal—because instincts come from within the brain and the heart. They are hardwired, not learned but programmed into you.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I just watch the shamblers turning the entire mess in a circle, my brain trying to make sense of it all. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When this happens, it appears to create a state of competition inside the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

My brain picks out the most important ones and rearranges them, hoping for a different meaning. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Pearl’s mind, it became clear, was an extraordinary thing, and Moody could not help but admire how fast her brain worked, how effortlessly. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In order to determine if a certain human trait is part of the brain’s hardwiring, scientists submit it to a set of criteria. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

If you think about it, the public perception of funky brain chemistry has been as varied and weird as the symptoms, historically speaking. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But he thought it so loudly he was afraid she might hear it echoing in his brain. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Aarfy was a dedicated fraternity man who loved cheerleading and class reunions and did not have brains enough to be afraid. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But I had a feeling that brain fever might’ve just been another way of saying uncooperative, or outspoken, or brilliant. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I stopped pumping my ideas into Bill’s brain for fear that the fumes of alcohol might send him reeling toward some fantastic fate. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a knee to the ribs and then another blow, I don’t even know from where, struck me in the back of the head, jarring my brain. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

It’s like my brain can’t take in everything Christoffel is saying at once, so it latches on to loose phrases, here or there. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

As if not having his brain was a crime. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I add, because my scientific brain knows that room-temperature water is much better for vocal cords than cold or hot. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

If that don’t leave you scratching your head you got a better brain than me! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

That is why the brain library is some ten thousand times larger than the gene library. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cleopatra had brains and outrage and will on her side, but her success would also require a lot of luck. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

His brain was in a heated whirl; his breath scorched when he breathed, and the ground all about him was a shimmering haze. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

What happened between us has colonized every last brain cell. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The music acts as a stimulus to which the body responds, after which sensation returns to the brain to form emotions, which deepens the significance of the experience. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Either that or a synapse in my brain just got a fresh shot of BDNF.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He told them he wanted to marry technology and brain sciences to create a scientifically engineered therapy for waning attention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Even though I knew the view was incredibly beautiful, my brain started misbehaving, and the whole time I was imagining a plane coming at the building, just below us. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

At Princeton, researchers used imaging techniques in monkeys and humans to validate and further the understanding of what happens when the brain is asked to consider two different sources of information. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t trying to be passive-aggressive, Mama. It’s just been a long day. My brain isn’t running on a hundred percent.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My brain simply takes over the responsibility of making sure I'm in lockstep, and I become as mechanical as the guard. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But the man fought well, hurting my brain. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reptilian part of the brain that resides in most animals, highly evolved primates and otherwise. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You can serve Biafra better if you work somewhere else where you can use your brain and talent,” she said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

For the first time since the crash his mind started to work, his brain triggered and he began thinking. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

This seemed a good time to bring up one of the million questions bouncing through his brain. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Standing higher than its neighbors, at an altitude of about eight thousand feet, is a wide pillar of rock with a rounded, convoluted top that vaguely resembles the rounded, convoluted top of a human brain. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

His brain could not interpret what was happening at first. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I smell gasoline,” I added, surprised through the haze in my brain. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I groaned and dug my head with its swirling brain waves under the pillow. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if Moody had somehow peered into his brain and spoken all his fears out loud. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My brain feels like a carousel, spinning around and around and bobbing up and down, and the longer it spins, the harder it becomes to sleep. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They said that essentially the drug is twelve hours of schizophrenia, and if you already have a lot of this brain transmitter, you don’t get out of it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But then his brain started telling stories again, ones where the police drove their cars onto Coach’s lawn, sirens blaring. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

After the disastrous matchmaking attempt, Mrs. Brenner had gossiped to me that Raizel’s parents had cut her hair short at a physician’s advice, due to a touch of brain fever. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I was too tired to try to control my brain’s wandering fingers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“We sat down and tried to figure out what is the insult that would go to the heart of an eighteen-to-twenty-year-old’s brain,” Cohen says. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

On the way up the steps, I tell my brain people they can just shut up now. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

My brain does not process what he’s giving me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

But still, Kaylee is saying this stuff like not only has she known it all her life, but like everyone with half a brain would know it, too. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The man had been hit in the head, it seemed, and his brains were leaking out around his helmet. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Is that white stuff her brain?” a boy’s shrill voice called as I turned numbly away. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why did you give it all to me, God? Beauty, brains, poise, charm, and devastating wit.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think anyone believed we would take him home, not with his brain dribbling out of his forehead. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You can still see where those brains got hold of me in the Ministry, look,” said Ron, shaking back his sleeves. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

A thought comes to my brain: We are making something awesome right on the property of the old Buttle farm. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

"It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“My brain feels light as a feather,” she said. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“In addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, it was meant to determine if you were right brained or left brained, usually connoted by handedness. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“If I don’t take it, my brain goes all wacko.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“His brain is flooded with anticipatory dopamine. He knows on a primitive, neurochemical level that he’s about to get a squirt,” says Dr. Greenfield. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

And get a fire lit before you freeze what's left of your brains. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

About two-thirds of the mass of the human brain is in the cerebral cortex, devoted to intuition and reason. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned back against a tree and closed his eyes.“Now let me use my brain for a while.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Then he said—the first time he had ever voiced to me such an admission—“Haley, my nerves are shot, my brain’s tired.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He soon discovered that what the doctors in Swat told my father was incorrect—the bullet had, in fact, gone very close to my brain. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The endless percussive symphony makes my brain want to slide out through my ears and run away—and I realize that must be how it happens! Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Rather, she says the technology—coupled with brain imaging—began to offer hope that real therapies could be developed for attention-related issues. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tear his brain to shreds. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“But...but...who will mop the feral brains?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

‘Just wait a minute. Just let me find brain room so I can study it all out and tell it to you plain.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It is an experience that indelibly imprints certain behaviors on one’s brain that never, ever quite go away. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Someone’s shaking my shoulders so hard that I can almost feel my brain sloshing around. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s probably not a very good one but it’s all that my shimmering, flickering brain’s gonna let me have. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I read some book about brains,” she said. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

At the split second he was turning around Peanut Abbott cracked into the back of Ben’s head, his forearm shivering against the base of the brain. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had gone to bed with a headache and woken up with a glossy fever fog over my brain, and a sore throat to match. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I stepped up to the foul line and made a real effort to empty my brain. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Before my brain could stop it my stomach made my mouth yell out, “But I don’t like mustard, sir.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Something in her brain clicked and said, This is important, pay attention. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He recognized the symptoms of some type of meningitis, an inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

To tell him that the only reason that I’m doing well is that there’s something different about my brain. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

All these ideas are whirling around my brain, building up the pressure until my skull starts to crumble. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I’m sure I’ll die either of boredom or my brain being tied up in knots! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truth was, by then, the cancer in Baba’s brain had made him forgetful, negligent. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s understandable. Your newly upgraded brain is learning to flex its muscles.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Everyone knows that turkey brains are the worst.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Before or after the Tower tried to fry my brain? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Some scholars believe there is a direct link between the advent of cooking, the shortening of the human intestinal track, and the growth of the human brain. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It won’t...ruin things, will it? I think I rather like her brain. I would like to see it unharmed.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It turned out zombies didn’t just care about brains. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her lungs were beginning to burn, her brain screaming for a breath of air. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Fadi looked at her blankly for a few seconds; his brain was slow in getting used to English again, even though his mother had drilled them every day during their homeschooling. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

While Fred’s brain went straight to the field guide, I couldn’t shake my mom. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Like there was no room in my brain for what happens if there’s fog, or you can’t find the fish, or you can’t hit the fish even if you find them. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But, in the classroom of my brain, no one could. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She watched the words separate inside the skull—baby lingered and flitted from the memory centers to the imaginative structures to the places where the brain enjoys playing with pleasing-sounding words. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain,” she said. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

After she stopped teaching, Dottie had kept herself busy volunteering at the library, until Alzheimer’s clouded her brain and left her unable to take care of herself. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

SCORPIUS: Okay, whatever was holding your brain together seems to have snapped. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

No point in beating his brains out in this lousy town. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The process will be slow, but my brain, my mind, is closing down. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It sinks like a stone, and the rope—which has been gnawed upon by the feral brains—snaps, sending the bell to the irretrievable depths. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He had quickness and brains on his side, but Dana was big enough to crush him like a grape. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All systems go...in my brain,” I said as we pulled up right in front of the curb. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

People would judge her on her brain, not her lack of makeup. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The work was a distant echo of the work of Donders and Helmholtz, and the idea that brain activity could be measured. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Real slow and scary, my brain start ticking through the few facts she given me, what I know myself. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The only thing wrong with my brain was my brain. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe my heart didn’t care about that, but my brain did. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

That he’s crazy if he thinks I have anything for brains but a pail full of grasshoppers? Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Part of his brain keeps getting stuck on how strange, and strangely wonderful, it is to see Henry like this, open and bare in every way. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The doctors are more concerned with the damage my brain might have suffered from the explosions, since my concussion hadn’t fully healed to begin with. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I nod, and hurry down the hall, my brain turning over the possibilities of a shambler being in Mayor Carr’s house. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When I try to talk, the words are exploding in my brain, but all that comes out are meaningless sounds and squeaks. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

This latest discovery of a new and baffling rhyme concerning moonlight, the north and an unknown threshold nagged at his brain. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

After one exasperating day, Garfield said to his personal secretary, Joseph Stanley Brown, “These people are merciless; they demand blood, flesh, and brains.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

One new legend towered above all the rest Maddy had decided that the brain lesions couldn’t be kept a secret anymore; every ugly had the right to know what the operation really entailed. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Fish don’t learn lessons. They got no brains, R.C. They’re just fish.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was like my brain short-circuited and I forgot who I was talking to, that I was still mad at Trevor. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Instantly every neuron in my brain was awake and dashing around frantically, like ants when you disturb their nest. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

On his own console he dialed for a creative and fresh attitude toward his job, although this he hardly needed; such was his habitual, innate approach without recourse to Penfield artificial brain stimulation. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He pulled, pushed, and prodded, and Neel struggled and practiced and memorized, until slowly the mysteries of algebra and geometry managed to untangle in his brain. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

But there was only a throbbing pain in my temple as the words “There is no cure” echoed deeper in my brain. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“My fellow women are jealous, but is it my fault that their sons have empty brains and my own son won the white people’s scholarship?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe they’re both losing their brains a little bit,” Florida said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had to put the question to her at once; his curiosity even drove Ginny temporarily from his brain. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Here I dressed down the rabbit and fed Frightful some of the more savory bites from a young falcon’s point of view: the liver, the heart, the brain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything freezes: my heart, my lungs, my brain. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

A slow heart rate tells our brain that something sad is happening. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I’d ask the butcher, pointing to the calves' brains displayed in the front window. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The next day, questions about the moped skimmed through my brain like a deck of shuffling cards. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But the only thing her brain could come up with was: How you doin’? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I will have trouble keeping my brain on this. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

It’s not the first awful thing I have endured and pushed into the back of my brain. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Turner wasn’t sure he was making out every word, what with the ringing in his ears and the clanging in his brain. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Known today as electroconvulsive therapy, this involved sending electrical current through the brain and inducing seizures. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I might not be able to reliably assess my faltering brain, but here was proof on my wrist. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

You know a lot about the brain and medicines and tests and hospitals, and you could probably be a really good doctor if people with seizures are allowed to be doctors. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“But we might need your old superhuman soldier brain to hack it.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

His brain was very clear and he could think everything out, he knew what they had better do. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“It takes brains not to make money,” Colonel Cargill wrote in one of the homiletic memoranda he regularly prepared for circulation over General Peckem’s signature. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Aural transmission also enhances brain function since memorization is essential, along with mental mapping of melodies and rhythms. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And then, as if his brain were mocking him, trying to make it worse, he had a thought. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Not the positronic brain, sir. Too many factors are involved in that, and there is the tightest possible government supervision.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in their animal brains they know you’ve become a different kind of creature. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I’m sure they’d rather go on thinking they are the brains of the family and I am the dumb blonde. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason felt like his brain was turning back into wind. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But my brain doesn’t always work so well when I’m hungry. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But she’s quiet and can probably hear my brain shouting Yes we do! out from behind my bad haircut. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I've been in this tent ten days, and I make no decision to walk out; my brain just lifts me, and I leave. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We had lived in a state of alert, a kind of constant terror, our brains flooding with cortisol because we knew that any of those things might happen at any moment. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"Get your brains scrambled, waste all that—" "Wilson." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whale, like all the other animals on the Earth, has a gene library and a brain library. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

These same brain changes occur at very early ages for young children who play music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Javier would ramble about a new Gen-Gyro-Gang member, or argue with Dad for ten minutes that he knew you could reach your brain if you picked your nose hard enough. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She took a deep breath, ignoring the part of her brain that saw only the distance to the ground. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Grammy just kept talking about the lady with the kittens, but I think my brain couldn’t listen anymore. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He knew he would find her and he knew she would be upset and hysterical and possibly even brain tumbled. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And then Kino’s brain cleared from its red concentration and he knew the sound—the keening, moaning, rising hysterical cry from the little cave in the side of the stone mountain, the cry of death. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see circles and bisecting triangles that form equations in my brain. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the back of his brain, where it was fuzzy with memories, Joaquin remembered Maya saying that she talked a lot when she was nervous. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Orr hasn’t got brains enough to be unhappy.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It didn’t inform the rest of your brain about its sudden obsession. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Mom says, “You’ve been hanging around these small brains for too long.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Not even a drunken stupor or the next morning’s pounding hangover can scrub the image from his brain. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I was a young knucklehead with a skinny brain. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Last I saw, the parrot was down in the galley, hopping from shoulder to shoulder, peering in sailors’ ears to make sure they still had brains. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Positronic brains were constructed that contained the positive aspect only of the Law, which in them reads: ‘No robot may harm a human being.' I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I eat my vitamins and the crazy seeds that keep my brain from exploding: one long purple, one fat white, two poppy-red. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have a brain tumor!” my mother says, shaking me awake. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

For some reason, picturing the smooth inside of someone’s brain doesn’t feel icky, but the inside of someone’s guts... A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

My brain is being squeezed in a vise. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

So I became ill of affirmation, of saying "yes" against the nay-saying of my stomach—not to mention my brain. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He let himself be caught up in the stream and made his way to the basement steps, his brains still swirling with the sounds of cussing and sobbing. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

We also ate a lot of rice mixed with jack mackerel, which Mom said was excellent brain food. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I shouldn’t be explaining to Ebony’s friend on the phone that what I drew was a map of a human brain and having her echo “He’s so good, Marlene, he’s so good.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I must have drifted off. I have Katz on my brain.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

My brain is a fog of nerves and worries. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I held this position, warm, my brain rotating, the seconds whirring by. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

A dozen lines of thought began and continued in my brain without ending; crossing, tangling, like threads on some meaningless warp. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

But—like a fist had shoved it in his brain and let go—a thought popped into his head. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Thomas held his hands up again, wishing he could just zap his thoughts into everyone else’s brains. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

There was brain coral and organ-pipe coral that the parrot fish would nibble. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why are giant brains so rare in the animal kingdom? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘It’s this thing in my brain,’ I said. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tiny bubbles melted in my mouth and journeyed northward into my brain. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t have been more than seven, but she would’ve brained Luke if he hadn’t been so fast. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Something to turn off my brain and block my ears. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Since long intestines and large brains are both massive energy consumers, it’s hard to have both. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever may have happened in his developing brain, it proved beneficial to his metabolism: from that two and a half days he gained an iron health. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No one with half a brain would buy that.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Being called dumb as a man who slept late the mornin’ they handed out brains?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

And, she says: “What kind of things overload the brain?” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

With only hook latches for locks, Louise took to sitting by the front door on an apple box with a rolling pin in her hand, ready to brain any prowlers who might threaten her children. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

So he sits next to the dying man’s head, poking his finger into the blood clot every few minutes, making sure there’s not too much pressure on Lincoln’s brain. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It also helped to know some things that Bill for all his brains and books didn’t know. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I let my thumb trace the cover of the journal, and before my brain could tell me not to, I yanked it into my lap and flipped to a random page. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She could feel the sleeplessness starting to unravel her brain like a kitten with a blanket, pulling at important threads until it wasn’t even functional anymore. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Lexie’s got a good brain. She just doesn’t always use it in real life.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Henry is still in his full polo regalia, gloves and all, and Alex can’t decide if he is pleased or wants to brain him with a polo stick. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I want my heart but my brain is acting up. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Jean refused to discuss the matter, on the assumption that it was a man’s business and that she had no need to fill her sparrow’s brain with problems she could not understand. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s this twist in my stomach, and my brain feels hazy. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I must not think too much of this, or I may be tempted; a good cause might turn the scale with me, for may not I too be of an exceptional brain, congenitally? Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Already had a Gathering of the Keepers this morning—made a unanimous decision by the sounds of it. Looks like Ben’ll be wishing that arrow had found a home inside his shuck brain after all.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The idea of not knowing itched in my brain until I was ready to scream. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

His brain and spirit became part of the earth. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why my brain dredges up that image, but when the lights flash on, I jump. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

There was a tiny part of my brain that knew this was a bad idea. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“There was some bleeding inside her brain when she was born.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

To break through the smug veneer of those who use their brains to find amusing ways to kill us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes her hands and mouth worked faster than her brain and made her say and do things she didn’t really mean to do—like grab stuff. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“But his brain? That is probably rather soft? He means well: but you shrug your shoulders to hear him talk?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

So he let himself drift off, trying to push the images of striped spider legs and jagged rat teeth from his brain. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me, Henry, if I put one of these bullets right into your head and got your brains all over Kelton and his MoonPie, would I be a noun or a verb?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The network included parts of the brain like the anterior cingulate cortex, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and, crucially, the prefrontal cortex. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I feel like someone punched me in the brain.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Now expert opinion would put it down to brain chemistry and evolution. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Right after that thought flew through my brain cells, I watched Rose raise her lunch box above her head and then—blaap! The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

My brain was almost unable to accept that he was here. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

To help it make food decisions, our brain developed taste preferences. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

My brain feels blank to everything, like a mound of clay, smooth, uninterrupted, and shapeless—without scars or memory. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Echoing Dr. Gazzaley, she said she was thrilled at the idea of turning the tables on the technology, making it a slave in new ways rather than have it challenge the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You may have a skull full of brains, but, again, Albert...no sense,” Keisha says. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

As tired as she was, Jinny couldn’t force herself back to sleep, couldn’t turn off her busy brain. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

One by one, thought bubbles trickled from my brain and out my ears, rising into the ether. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

And it’s the kind of contradiction that makes my brain hurt. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Mark’s brain worked in weird, creative ways. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And most serious, the contusions on my brain. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The magic trick also hints at why technology plays so powerfully to our brains, and our attention systems. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

With the question still burning in his brain, Ellsberg spent the summer reading the Pentagon Papers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And then my brain showed me some pictures. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Grandma heard a faint scratching at the door, and when she opened it there was Grandpa, lying in a heap, his brains dripping out of his head. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Deep in its tiny brain a coal of evil began to glow. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Richardson filed this piece of information away in her brain. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Brian was playing the kit so well that I felt like we were telepathic; it was as if my right hand and his right foot were wired to one brain. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this case the official cause of death, he wrote, was anoxia—a deprivation of oxygen to the brain—as well as an acute disturbance to the composition of the blood. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Or was there something mixed up in their blood, maybe in their brains too, which made them capable of accomplishing prodigious feats, which seemed beyond the capability of even the best among us? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But right now, my brain is dead set on reminding me how gross I look when I’m sleeping. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“As I carried him to the helicopter,” said Kelley, “he took a slug right in the head. Blew his brains all over me.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

My stomach gurgled excited approval, but my brain reminded my taste buds that this had been made by Dad’s hands. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“You got so much to give. Mercy, what most of us wouldn’t give for half your brains.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Fuchsia glares into my locker like it’s Crystal’s gooey brain. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Like my brain is not hanging on so tight to the way it all was. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I’m pretty sure I’ve been hijacked and am no longer at the brain controls. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Right now his brain is beyond short-circuited, and I’m realizing that he’s going to need a full reboot if he’s going to make it out of this situation alive. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But then something she said lingers in my brain. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

But I made sure it slipped out of my brain like the water from our leaky faucet. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Or does the whole colony have, by virtue of the interconnections of so many small brains, the collective intellectual power of a huge contractor? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like my brain just stopped working. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I just waited for things to blow over, which I was convinced they would do on account of Charlie having a brain. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“My brain isn’t working well enough to try to translate that,” I said. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her own first things kept lasting longest in her brain. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It could have taken out my eye or gone into my brain, she said. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

That pursuit itself is nothing novel, of course, but now, a new generation of powerful technology lets researchers see the inside of the brain, watch it work, literally, and observe when it fails to work. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The words I had planned to say left my brain. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He experienced them, the others, incorporated the babble of their thoughts, heard in his own brain the noise of their many individual existences. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Of the higher brain functions, some—reading, writing, speaking—seem to be localized in particular places in the cerebral cortex. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d just blow his brains out and get it over with. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I hoped she could see my smile in the light of my brain. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At 29,028 feet up in the troposphere, so little oxygen was reaching my brain that my mental capacity was that of a slow child. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

After Pauling’s success, no one could claim that faith in helices implied anything but an uncomplicated brain. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know the Dauntless were so interested in training the brain,” Caleb says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

My head is tight like my brain is overloaded. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I wanted to scream at her until something switched on in her brain. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

One word echoed in his brain, over and over, like a songbirds call: “Kismet.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In two weeks my skin will have no memory of Olly’s hand on mine, but my brain will remember. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is her first glimpse at the facts my brain chooses to hold on to. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I wonder who and how as I pick pick pick and try to silence my brain by thinking up Embryo’s epitaph. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

That evolution should select for larger brains may seem to us like, well, a no-brainer. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turner leaped at him, screaming something out of his still-clanging brain. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

My brain struggles to puzzle out which one would be best. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It’s not a brain, clearly; it’s a map; can’t she see the rivers and highways and interchanges? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I went through the boxes in my brain. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’d take my fingers out of my ears and let her monkey words enter my brain. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One fight gave way to another, and another, and suddenly everyone’s brain seemed to shut down at once. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The particular activity that Reggie had undergone while his brain was being imaged in the tube is called a dual n-back test. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Suds, you ant brain. Angels finish last. What did you ever get out of it, huh? Did anybody ever say, ‘Oh, thank you, Suds. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brain fumbled around for a good lie, but it was too tired; everything slipped out between its fingers. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Shrapnel was embedded over his right eye, and the doctors couldn't remove it because the fragments were too close to his brain. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“The transmitter and the liquid that induces the simulation. The transmitter communicates information to the brain from the computer, and vice versa, and the liquid alters the brain to put it in a simulation state.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Marley had written that line a year before his death, while an operable melanoma was, at that moment, metastasizing to his lungs, liver, stomach and brain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A crease of fear touched her breast, for any second there was sure to be a violent explosion in her brain, a gasping for breath. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It helps me pass the time and keeps my brain working. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

A montage of the kiss plays in my brain. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It was only when they stopped moving—at a lonely stoplight close to the county line—that the adrenaline of leaving school with Lily released its grip on Toby’s brain. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Your Honor, this case is as solid as this brick, the brick that battered a poor girl’s brains out!” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Scientists were putting new technology to work to understand the capacities and limits of the human brain at the very moment that technology was putting those limits into sharp relief. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“If you have iron-poor blood you may not be getting enough oxygen to your brain.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was impossible for such a young goose to understand technical things like computer brains and batteries and machines. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

As we walk, my brain swirls with the information the Director shared with me last night. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He shook his head and forced his brain to focus. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

But just thinking it was a mistake, because I suddenly couldn’t think of anything else and found that, once again, Ryan Dean West’s brain was strained to its capacity with thinking of...well, sex. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe his medication had recalibrated his brain right away, and he was back to being a high-functioning Übermensch in no time. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He pulls his T-shirt off over his head and my body takes over my brain. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And then there was your brain hook thing.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

A tiny idea was beginning to worm its way into Grayson’s head; he could barely feel it as it brushed by all the claptrap in his brain. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Fairly so. I performed a few brain surgeries that won me some small attention." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The whatever-it-was crawled out from between the ties and into the sun, where it crouched on its haunches and leered at us with an unbalanced smile, as if imagining how our brains might taste. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“A lotta empty space and a few cops throwing signals at each other. Half the time I gotta watch you, brain, to see you don’t try to sell them a drink.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You sure? My brain’s still gonna remember all my songs, all my music, all my melodies?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

But most guys just got all tense around Joey in normal social situations, like any time when we weren’t out on the pitch and bashing each others’ brains in playing rugby. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She had felt it coursing through her body, through her blood, into her brain. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

If he wasn’t a typical brain filled with anguish and neurosis, he wasn’t a typical Permian football player either. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She clasped her hands and then explained the extent of the injuries: broken bones, punctured lung, internal bleeding, brain swelling. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He always remembered how she said, “Your brain—it’s too fast. So you stumble on other people’s dumbness—like a chair in the dark. And you want to kick something.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to strain his brain to remember overhearing Dad or Matthew reporting to Mother, “Ready to cook some steak? Johnston up near Libertyville wants some ham...” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed quiet, too, even though I had a lot bottled up inside me about Mr. Terupt’s brain surgery. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

A shout, beginning among the factionless and spreading to the Dauntless, rises up from the crowd like we are all parts of one organism, following the commands of a single brain. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And, it turns out, each of the stages is orchestrated by chemicals—neurotransmitters—in the brain. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

There’s another part of me, my brain, perhaps, that’s telling me this is too good to be true. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The words played over and over again in his brain: “Not hide. Live. Not hide. Live.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

From the highest vantage point you can make out only the brain’s two big hemispheres, so I began with studies of split-brain patients and other discoveries that locate language in the left hemisphere. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Oils from the bison’s brain were rubbed over the hide, which was then transformed into leather for robes and lodge coverings. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And I was right in the middle, everyone moving quickly around me, noises flooding my brain, not moving a muscle. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I pull my stack of my brain maps out for Neil. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Shoo! Away with you, little fieldmouse. I need Matthias with a clear brain to help me solve an important problem, so run along.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The nerves are cut, but they’re still connected to my brain. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

My heart reacts quicker than my brain—because if my brain were faster, I would know better than to tell Mom anything this personal. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He said, “A son. Soon he’s going to be taller than me. Taller and smarter. He’ll be a great doctor. A brain surgeon. Or lawyer for the Supreme Court.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was certain they’d forgotten I was there, and the intelligent decision would have been to sneak away, but I was thinking with my rumbling stomach rather than my brain. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Brief second of terror in which brain and legs were disconnected. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“The brain is very tender,” the doctor said. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

My brain knows this Aaron ain’t real but my heart don’t care and it’s beating in my chest like a race. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A week after he’d gone into the hospital they had found more tumors in his brain and Owen called David in to visit him. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rack my brain for something to say. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

You don’t know whether or not it’s the meds making you do this, or your misfiring brain. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Genie’s brain started throbbing as much as the welt over his eye. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Suddenly his brain didn't seem to have any control whatsoever over what his body did. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of the complete overhaul that your mind is crying for, you have a brain that could really grow and flower here in N.Y. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But all I lose is brain cells. All is not well with my waist. ” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kiss zipped through his brain too, darting between the legs of every other emotion. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

My brain scrambled for a hip-wiggling rhythm to force my heartbeat racing into joy. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Knock your brains out, bust your back, run your feet down to the bone. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around his candle were bits of bone and brain, islands in a lake of melted wax. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Buoyed by the adrenalin that had flooded my brain as we careened down the mountainside, I had never felt better, and my father’s snores cut through the cacophony of protestations outside my window. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The poor things brain is boiling from that hot water. Pull her down, dear!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backward,” she liked to say. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They started flying in circles, running into each other like they wanted to bash their own brains out. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

His personality is being wiped away by brain damage. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I helped her look through magazines for cool scrapbook pages while she picked my brain. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I asked, hoping there wasn't a bubble left that might lodge in his brain. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“She’s scared. They say that it’s . . . The feed isn’t working well with her brain anymore.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood still; only his brain was moving. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Your brain starts doubting, and those second thoughts can get you killed. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The boy sneaked up behind them, his face lit up, though his brain was spinning. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Put another way, technology was evolving by the day, but the human brain was more or less staying put. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The shambler goes limp and I push her to the side, climbing to my feet as I wipe blood and the shambler s brains off of my cheek. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

With a deadly effort, like wrenching a piece out of his own brain, he could even have dragged the thing into the open. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I should’ve been able to sleep in—I felt plenty lazy enough—but too many things were buzzing in my brain. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

My father’s father—my grandfather—had been an architect in Iran, responsible for designing some of the country’s most beautiful buildings, and I could see that same kind of brain in my dad. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Unless I’ve got that virus eating my brain and don’t know what I’m talking about, we’re standing right here. Probably five miles from the place this Berg parks every night.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Delve inside that brain of yours, and seek it out. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The schoolmistress had been suffering from terrible headaches that were, Xan discovered, the result of a growth in the center of her brain. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They would even be trying to act friendly toward me—we all knowing they had asked me there to try and beat out my brains. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His brain continued surging with questions—lots of questions, from a long, long day. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Rishi was fairly sure he lacked the lexicon to put into words what was happening in his brain—and his body—right then. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But that can also be used the other way—type in a command and use that to tell the brain what to do. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Professor Rumfoord said frightful things about Billy within Billy’s hearing, confident that Billy no longer had any brain at all. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But you don’t notice that you’re blind during saccades because your brain fills in the screen in your head to make it seem like you’re looking out of two little windows in your head. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I believe there is a little maggot in her brain whispers I don’t have two farthings to clink.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Even in sleep, the brain is pulsing, throbbing and flashing with the complex business of human life—dreaming, remembering, figuring things out. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My higher brain functions have mostly shut down. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She broke the rifle defdy and shoved in the shell as the second click told her that Tea Cake’s suffering brain was urging him on to kill. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He wished he could turn his brain off. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

As these new sights flooded my grandparents’ brains, they jostled with images from the day before. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I reached up to my cheek, to the wetness there, and when I pulled my hand away, my brain finally connected that I had run straight through a spray of blood. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The magnitude of this calamity was so far beyond anything I’d ever imagined that my brain simply shorted out and went dark. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Money’s never a problem, not if you've got half a brain.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

My mother was, for some inexplicable reason, convinced she could force an ability to speak Farsi directly into a person’s brain. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then Jesse gave himself over to the numbness that was buzzing to be let out from a corner of his brain. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

He would’ve been halfway up that stairway before his brain had time for second thoughts. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

My cheeks grow warmer—he is analyzing my brain like he would analyze a computer or a machine. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

One thing they rushed to discover was whether my deformities were blocking the flow of fluid that helps cushion the spine and brain. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

That was the part of her brain that tended to run in circles. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

That’s when Mom chimed in to say the main advantage of being human is the brain, so use it or lose it, young man. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

If there are conflicts with your original brain tissue...signals that might create almost an antibody effect...one trying to override the other...that’s why we have backups. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

With each passing minute, additional parts of my brain are kicking in. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, my brain was at 100 percent imagining spending a weekend with Annie at her house. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He had cognitive impairments that suggested some organic brain damage and behavioral problems that suggested schizophrenia and other serious mental illness. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The words “Do not hope; instead, observe” flitted through Flora’s brain. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

With a long, theatrical moan, Kid Sampson made a pistol of his thumb and forefinger and blew his own brains out. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Of course I talk, you booboo brain. Hey, elephant ears! What cesspool did you crawl out of? Can you beat time with those?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

That was the part of her brain that worked just fine. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“I saw it on a television show. And I just thought it was so cool. But also really, really scary. Like, the idea that something like this could happen—something could just control your brain.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“The Ma—the brain behind the iron monsters has been sending wave after wave after us. It plays for keeps.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

For some reason, though, when it came to Sahil, it was getting really hard for me to hold on to what my brain was saying. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

While he smirked, Auntie Lindo demonstrated the proper technique, poking her chopstick into the orange spongy part: “You have to dig in here, get this out. The brain is most tastiest, you try.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t realize there are earthquakes and tsunamis and volcanic eruptions destroying my brain and my heart and my soul. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

That was around the same time the human brain grew larger and our teeth and jaws grew smaller. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Just about the brain surgery. Why do you ask?” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

They know I’ve got a brain, and I know how to use it. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like my arm has its own brain. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

It is hard to keep from doing that once your brain gets going on it. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The mental effort of speaking to her was already straining—he felt a headache forming like a bulge in his brain. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The brain becomes clogged with dead blood cells, a condition known as sludging of the brain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as small and stupid as he made me feel, there was no ignoring the fact that all it would take is one touch, and I could have read him the contents of his brain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I grab the brain model and angrily peel back layer after layer on my own, the complicated names sticking on my tongue as I practice them. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The redness was up in her brain and her fear was gone and in its place was cruelty without caution. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z