Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Listening to his father’s snores, he thought of how his father was actually sleeping his life away, sleeping even when he was awake, not really alive. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Angry, starving, sinister apparitions of people who’d never been happy when alive, much less dead. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“What? Do you mean Martin, alive and walking about?” said Matthias. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

All I have to do is tap the space bar for the video to come alive. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Questions about Grandpa Sweetwine—he left when Grandma was pregnant with Dad and never came back—go unanswered like they did when she was alive. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Because you are supposed to be alive, Max, I think, holding his hand with both of mine. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Day after day I press my nose against the glass of the French doors, trying to see if Mrs. Smeath is still alive. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She would have to send her kisses on the wind, hoping that the wind would touch the boy’s face, and would tell him that she was alive. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dream that the dead raven is alive, only it looks the same, it still looks dead. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Grandpa, you think I’m alive tonight cause it was God’s will?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Conversely, most animals do not kill before they eat, and the prey is often eaten slowly, miserably, and alive—in great torture and pain. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I’d thought that maybe since population growth had been so fast, there were more people alive than all the dead combined. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Now that he knew she was alive, what did he plan to do about it? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He had to admit that I was alive, that I was someone. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Holmes insisted that when he had last seen the Pitezel children, they were alive and traveling with a woman named Minnie Williams, en route to the place where their father was hiding out. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But I’m so thankful to be alive right now, he could take credit for the faked lunar landings and I wouldn’t care. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She could arrive in Wichita by afternoon, and he might still be alive. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘After two jumps in a row, even with a little help . .. you’re lucky to be alive. We’ll need you to be ready again by nightfall.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Not the wafer and the wine, but the flesh and the blood, vibrant and alive, and vibrant even when stooped, ancient and withered. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s been alive a long time, Uncle Jack has. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

"You mean after I got over my fear of being burned alive?" The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He slashed his arms and was found in the blanket beside her, half alive. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Once the letter is returned from Zeeland, the form can be removed and a handwritten message confirming that Father is alive can be inserted in the envelope. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Calling Mamá and telling her we were alive and well and visiting with our abuelita would solve her problem. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He had succeeded in reuniting five of us and keeping us alive, at least for now. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Your dad is worried that you might not understand that Devon . . . isn’t alive. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you said that you hated me more than anyone alive.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“See, it’s alive,” he said, and right that minute, at a window next door to us, a woman yelled to her son down on the street. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Now the store leaped alive with flashing lights and flickering shadows. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t enough grass to keep a cow alive for five minutes. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Was he aware that he was seeing James and Lily alive for the last time? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A whole decade plus a year of being alive on Planet Earth! Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He left, going the same way that Dustfinger had gone the night before, disappearing as if the ghosts who lurked in the darkness had eaten him alive. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Deborah realized these movies were fiction, but for her the line between sci-fi and reality had blurred years earlier, when her father got that first call saying Henrietta’s cells were still alive. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“At least he’s alive,” says Plutarch, as if he’s losing patience with the lot of us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In the saddle, emancipated from their bodies, Pollard, Woolf, and all other reinsmen sailed eight feet over the world, emphatically free, emphatically alive. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was in his mind, which meant he was alive—and her moth that was perched on his lips could feel the faint stir of breath—but where was he? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It happened as he was clamping and lugging Mars Bar down the gauntlet of Cobras, trying to keep him alive — and what was Mars Bar doing? Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

You never know when The Beast will come alive again, I have learned, so you should not go into the cities. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

That box gave me a chance to look useful, to stay alive. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“You might be able to find her. She would be”—Molly calculates in her head—“in her late sixties, right? She could very well be alive.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I wonder if he actually sees me or if he just sees a body—someone alive, someone listening. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, people are being friendly to me and noticing I’m alive. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Both of them felt brisk and hopeful and alive. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He then holds up the eel, which makes the letter J, telling him it’s still alive. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Their crime was conducting unthinkable research on Jews without consent—sewing siblings together to create Siamese twins, dissecting people alive to study organ function. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The next time the sky opened, the two-legged animals found a scene of carnage, with only two dogs left alive. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Matter of fact, I probably got the longest list of excuses for missing homework of anyone alive. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back when his parents were alive, Klaus used to take a flashlight to bed with him and hide under the covers, reading until he couldn’t keep his eyes open. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Her entire facade changed, until the ghostly La Llorona became as radiant and alive as a young woman bronzed by the sun. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was a world alive, always changing and moving; and if you knew where to look, you could see it, sometimes almost imperceptible, like the motion of the stars across the sky. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“This is our staging post. From here, we three will set out for uncharted lands, and what comes after no one alive can say....” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

My heart was thumping, but it made me feel alive, and feeling alive made me want to stay alive. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I want to look at those photos and feel alive! Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

‘And yet they are more important than all the rest of us. And I came to help them; but now they must be hundreds of miles away, if they are still alive.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And so began her heady days full of cliche: she felt fully alive, her heart beat faster when he arrived at her door, and she viewed each morning like the unwrapping of a gift. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I came here...I came here to see if you were alive, like I thought you were. Well, my curiosity’s kinda satisfied on that point.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not smiling, but alive at least and very bold. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our sources say he is very much alive and that he is awaiting trial.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise—the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream—be set down alive? Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

This steaming ice somehow made the rocket seem alive. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen them all born alive, and not one lost to smallpox or tuberculosis. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Were you seeing that man when Dad was still alive?” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She tried not to think about whether they’d all still be alive by Ruby’s birthday, or what kind of life it would be if they were. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In the quiet I could hear my heart pounding and I knew that my hand still had its hold on the rock and that I was alive. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last time I saw T alive, I was showing him the ropes. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The rear vertical rudders twisted to the left and the wings curled slightly, as if they were alive. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also needed to know if Annabeth was still alive, and how to rescue her. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

In his fingers he carefully stretched out something that looked like a wasp, still alive. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was suddenly very glad that I had left Weylin alive. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then I lie in the bottom of the skiff and laugh like a maniac because it feels so good to be alive. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no way of knowing exactly how many of Henrietta’s cells are alive today. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A child is not alive, claims Nelson, until it is named. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or I would say, My parents depend on me to keep us all alive. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They both were fully alive to their own eminence, each backed by powerful and influential patrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Amazingly, it was his sister, Teresa, and miraculously she was alive! 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The first and only inmate to be subjected to this method endured fifty seconds of torture before the power was turned off and he was found to be very much alive. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lawrence called the main switchboard at Hopkins, saying, “I’m calling about my mother, Henrietta Lacks—you got some of her alive in there.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Some biologists classify viruses as “life forms.” because they are not strictly known to be alive. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

You might remember it looking alive as a hive late in summer. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I run my fingers over the words, the ones he wrote just weeks ago when he was here and alive. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

So on that forty-ninth day I did not wish that Lynn could be alive again, because I knew she was gone. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Make a bad shot and wound one so that he went to squealing, and you had the whole bunch after you, ready to eat you alive. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even after all my classmates’ fish had gone to the great fishbowl in the sky, Goldie was still alive. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

And when Mom talked about the orchids, she came alive, more alive than I’d ever seen her before. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The ancient Incas obtained vicuna wool by driving wild vicunas into corrals, shearing them, and then releasing them alive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They had been trying to keep him alive! Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was alive and wished that he was dead, but not being dead, he was scared that he might die. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Admit me for less and I will be here every day, while every night I will do what it takes to stay alive while I study here. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I pray you bring my boy back alive.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe that the woman responsible for keeping Anne Frank alive in the attic came to speak to us in person! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was nothing to argue about, his life in Chamisa County had ended; he was lucky they offered an opportunity to walk out alive. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There hasn’t been a murder in our city as long as I’ve been alive. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I was more determined than ever to keep Deborah’s memory alive. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe even find their friend if he’s still alive. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was plucked from the freezing water alive. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

And the last thing Conor remembered was the monster’s mouth roaring open to eat him alive. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

It makes you want to poke him to see if he is alive. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

What if Zero was still alive, desperately crawling across the dirt searching for water? Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Dead or alive, the Butcher King still took the Wise Masters unawares. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Because at least he wasn’t stuck somewhere in Georgia, walking around playing at being alive. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“She’d be a hundred and ten if she were still alive.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The blacksmith’s shop, the mill, the church, the stores, so busy and alive in daylight, were hunched, deserted now, dark piles and shapes without a purpose or a meaning. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turning pages, feeling the paper, I wonder if any of the trees from Thoreau’s forest are still alive and wonder what Thoreau would think today if he could visit my small pond and eucalyptus grove. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

It was black beyond the doors, a sullen stygian darkness that seemed alive and threatening, hungry. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Nobody now alive remembers Ariana ever demonstrating even the slightest sign of magical ability. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But Michael was definitely alive when Genie had left that morning after he fed him that...“No.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Gradually her eyes closed, and she sat, stock still; only by the gentle heaving of her bosom could one know that she was alive. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was afraid, but fear meant he was still alive. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

To stay alive, I need a vast network of roots. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Sparrow, you don’t speak nearly enough to be a drama queen. And the only thing that ever made you feel alive was gone, so it makes sense that you didn’t feel very alive.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was remarkable that they were still alive. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

To the utter amazement of all, when Russell finally croaked, “Time,” Maniac Magee was still there, alive, smiling, apparently unharmed. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We assembled in a field just beyond the train cars, those of us who survived, looking more dead than alive. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No. I’ve thought it all out. What you do, I’m going to do. And don’t be too downhearted. I’m rather good at staying alive.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“If we make it out of here alive, I’m going to kiss you unconscious.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I remember explaining, ‘Ben Franklin wore bifocals—Ty Cobb was batting champion of the American League when these guys were around—my mother was alive when these guys were alive and she wore bifocals.’ The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing could be further from the omnipotent, benevolent creative force of Handel’s oratorios or Bach’s cantatas and Passions - yet Handel was still alive, just, and Bach had only died five years earlier. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

While still alive they did divide Their favorites from the throng, Yet how to pick the worthy ones When they were dead and gone? Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The child had been alive only minutes but was already considered a criminal by the Soviets. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

"The problem is we're both still alive. Which only reinforces the idea in your mind that you did the right thing," says Peeta. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

They were brought out on litters, “seated on their thrones and surrounded by pages and women with flywhisks in their hands, who ministered to them with as much respect as if they had been alive.’ 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He just had to keep them alive for eleven more days, and then things would be all right. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Hidden in a stack of props is the jar of Lady ’Stache Off and the flare gun, their twin hopes for making it out alive. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The coroner removed the bodies hours ago for autopsy, but Eduardo’s family still remains, unable to leave, as if waiting for his ghost to return to the place he was last alive. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have been alive as long as this land and you will pay the respect owed to me— A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The two party boys were lucky to get out alive. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Just twelve hours ago, he had still been alive. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Many of the patients were losing blood fast from their wounds and had to have intravenous blood or plasma to stay alive. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She decided she would rather be shot dead trying to escape than be burned alive. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Absolute filth! Why, the thing was positively alive with germs! Who knows what type of people had worn it?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t take it all off. He needs to look alive.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Scientists had been trying to keep human cells alive in culture for decades, but they all eventually died. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I thought about where my family was and whether they were alive. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I am not averse to some flattery, indeed I am not, young prince. I have lived beneath these trees for longer than you have been alive, certainly.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was careful to keep them alive, because otter will not eat anything that is dead, and left them in the pool. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rationally I knew that the dead boy could not bother me, but he had become alive for me in a way that I could not dismiss. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now her rouged cheeks and her reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

This cliche stays alive because, regrettably, there are always enough wars to go around. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you are alive now, this minute, it is enough.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she wants to pretend that she’s still alive, that one day she’ll come home from work and everything will be normal again. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Alive and well — maybe not well but alive and here. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

That was longer than me and Jay had been alive—but she looked the same age as we did. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“You’re alive! We didn’t know. People said you were, but we didn’t know!” she says excitedly. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Maybe if I hadn’t been so scared, they’d still be alive. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

After another roll call to see which of us were still alive, the Nazis marched us toward one of the big brick buildings with chimneys. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Buttercup managed to whisper, “More than any man alive, I sometimes think.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was like she was keeping them all alive behind his back. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I think it must have arrived while the real Bathilda was alive, but perhaps she wasn’t in any fit state to read it?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

If they take us alive, they will deliver us to Ramsay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She had worried that the sight of them might make her mourn what she couldn’t have with Taisin, but instead, it awakened something warm and alive inside herself. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Louis Napoleon had led them up a flight of stairs, down a corridor past a room alive with the thunk, hum, and tremble of a printing press, then up another flight and then another. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Under the new rule, both tributes from the same district will be declared winners if they are the last two alive. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Jay goes to her room to call elderly relatives who are surprisingly still alive, and Trey and I load up this Michael Jackson video game on the Wii Dad bought when we were younger. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

All the creatures laughed aloud with delight and relief at seeing their old friend alive and well once again. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Though of iron, the cauldron seemed alive, grim and brooding with ancient evil. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Poor James, on the other hand, was still very much alive, and all at once he found himself alone and frightened in a vast unfriendly world. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The stresses and fractures, the quick collapse, the two of them buried alive under all that weight. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's like the system has buried me alive and I’m dead to the outside world. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She hoped that Percy was right and Nico was still alive. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I cry and scream from the very bottom of everything that makes me alive. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“When I woke up I saw that ugly cat sitting in my window, so I knew I was still alive.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

That whoever the invisible you is, the you that only talks to you, it's still alive and can add, in Mr. Rufus's words, love, peace, and soullllllll to the world. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“If we prove ourselves useful to the German war effort, they will take fewer of us away. They will keep us here, and keep us alive!” the director said. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, get up. The ogres have surrounded the house. We have much to discuss if you and your friends are to escape here alive.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Three men and a woman, all alive, came up the path and into the Egyptian Walk. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

‘You have no business here, in the pit. You are alive; and have suffered much already.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, Scheherazade would never let the morning come at the end of a story—or else the king would have no reason to keep her alive. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They were alive, and that was all that mattered. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Now, that wasn't what I'd expected to hear from history's most legendary warrior, but I was still hungry from my time of being...not alive, so I followed him. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Okay. Yes. Let’s say your grandfather was alive, and he was evil.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She told me she was going to die, but that she would always be alive In my heart and that I would always have my dad and my dreams. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

More than one rat remained alive it seemed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Her magic will open, and yours will pour away, and you, my dear, darling five-hundred-year-old Xan, will no longer have magic in you to keep you alive. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“He isn’t dead yet, Mother. He’s still alive.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a feeling she was still alive. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Father were alive, he would do something to stop it.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach felt like something alive was crawling in it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of my interview doesn’t make the cut, just enough to show I am alive and still defiant. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

This did worry me, because I was depending on fish to keep me alive until I got to my great-grandfather’s mountain, where I was going to make traps and catch game. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They said they got my wife and she part alive,” he told me years later. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The turtle is alive; or it’s dead, but its heart is alive. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The one person who’s made me feel like I deserve to be alive. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sierra almost burst into tears knowing that her best friend was still alive. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I had a dream that you were alive. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was true—the mural looked as though it had been around much longer than either Sierra or Robbie had been alive. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

What better word for people who made it out of this place alive? Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

We were real people too, just the same as anybody else who was alive. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“They have to swarm over a village and eat other people alive?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no matter what he was, I needed him alive—for Kevin’s sake and for my own. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I guess he likes to check that book out with me because I been alive for every year of this century, and even a few years from the century before that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama tells us about the food at her program, and Miz Rita laughs and says it’s a miracle she made it out alive. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Then she patted black Mary’s shoulder and let out a long sigh that made the airless room feel alive again. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I blurt, “Miss Garcia, if history is alive, how come everybody in the towers is dead?” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Matthias thanked his lucky stars that he had once more come out alive. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I was unfettered, alive to an earth I hardly knew but was eager to explore. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had me wondering if he might pray to join his family or to stay alive awhile longer. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow they were both still alive, at least for one more second, one more heartbeat. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The game not only engaged Bobby’s mind, it tempered his loneliness, and while playing, he felt more alive. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ama was whispering urgently: she was afraid of the golden monkey dæmon; he liked to tear the wings off bats while they were still alive. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m telling you, I couldn’t have made the painting come alive! You don’t remember the last time? It takes blood, Aloe, the work does always take blood before something like that could happen.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It’s entirely possible we won’t even be alive to discuss it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Because if I was to get killed upon my return, I knew that a memory of my existence was alive somewhere in the world. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Annabeth and I tumbled to the ground, banged up but alive. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Where she’d parked her mule I didn’t know, if it was still alive. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She tortured herself with the idea that they might capture him alive, and invoked the spirit of her grandmother to ask her to prevent that from happening. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clever thing was to break the rules and stay alive all the same. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“It will still be a baby compared to its mother when we arrive. They’re using the time-released nutrients to control its growth and keep it and other plants alive.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He’s probably eating himself up alive over Freud, I thought, hoping his father wouldn’t lose his temper. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“No. They wouldn’t be alive at all if it wasn’t for me.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And then she calls out, “Ray, is it alive?” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anything, she possessed him in death in a way that she never had while he was alive. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though we weren't permitted to see him, just knowing he was alive gave us a renewed sense of purpose. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Professor Binns was looking at her in such amazement, Harry was sure no student had ever interrupted him before, alive or dead. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

And my pops...car accident, but he alive. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In two days’ time now their families would learn from the International Red Cross that they were alive. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

That she was alive somewhere, inside, which she acknowledged to be true only because a thing she knew intimately was out there, outside herself. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

With $4 million in the Sixteenth Street Foundation Inc. treasury, I told Jerome, “Now there will always be resources to maintain Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, to keep it alive, to keep telling the story.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“He’ll need us if he’s going to make it through alive.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The markets came alive when a caravan had come in. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But I think that if they were alive, they’d feel at home in modern America. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

You move through everything, and your heartbeat becomes a pulse of all things alive, all at once, and the silence between each beat is the stillness of things that exist, but do not live. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“She was depressed and she didn’t love you anymore and she didn’t love me enough to stay alive, either. Stop acting like there’s anything else that could have happened.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You both shoot like hell so you’re both alive and God is smiling. But I’m not. I’m unhappy because I think Claudio shot too close and maybe hit him.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When Ifediora was alive, there were times, nwunye m, when the university did not pay salaries for months. Ifediora and I had nothing, eh, yet he never raised a hand to me.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning I was stiff and sore and starving—but I was alive, and more determined than ever to finish what I’d started. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Still too much in shock about Uncle Jack being alive to respond. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Some of them were alive when Benjamin Franklin was born. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of pine liquor is alive in the air. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He had never questioned his own assumption that Dumbledore wanted him alive. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“There’s no way to rescue the four of you, the Gustano kids, and your mom—and get all of us out of here alive. This has gone too far.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

And Kalinda and I, maybe we’ve been alive too long too, and the only animals on this Earth who really understand life are the insects who are born and mate and die within seconds. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’ve only cried once since showing up, but that was after almost getting eaten alive. I’m probably just a shallow shuck-face.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Even when an Osage ward was mentioned as being alive in the log, it did not mean that he or she had not been targeted. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And why was my brain suddenly alive and reaching out for whoever was closest, whoever was stupid enough to let me in? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Papa would say, “You don’t need to be asking those questions. Keep focused on following the rules so we can stay alive.” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

If she wanted to ensure their safety, she needed to meet Octavian’s requirements, and Octavian required her to stay alive. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Fire across the ridge, down the mountainside, spreading inland, tree by tree, burning like massive candles, pop-pop-popping and falling, striking more trees, burning ground cover, eating the landscape alive. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

No one had heard from him in years; my dad didn't even know if his own brother was still alive. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“So is your oldest living bird still alive?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I asked, less to know his answer than to hear him speak, to know he was alive. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, recalling all of this, I don’t know, to tell the truth, how I am alive to tell it today. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

On all sides the cliffs were alive with this evil collection of crawling, looming, creeping, lurching shapes. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, that’s good. Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They simply know they are alive one day and dead the next—for no apparent reason. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“This is a great day to be alive,” exclaimed Sister Mary Leoline from Kansas City. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Waves of heat caught him, and his legs and lungs were vapor without sensation; only his memory of running and breathing kept him moving and alive. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Especially when talking with other men, his voice would spark, flicker, flare alive with sounds. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry had survived with nothing but a lightning-shaped cut on his forehead, and Voldemort had been reduced to something barely alive. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m alive,” he said to the boy, as they ate a bunch of dates one night, with no fires and no moon. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama took good care of me, mostly, and so did my tata, when he was alive. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

With every step, I felt my heart falling apart, like that torture I heard about on the radio where a man was slowly cut up alive. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“How are you still alive, you ugly thing?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Aspirant Veturius," he says, “as Aquilla has forfeited, and you, of all Aspirants, have the most men left alive, we, the Augurs, name you victor in the Trial of Strength. Congratulations." An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“If Michelangelo were alive today, he wouldn’t be so proud.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is the only one of the three who is still alive, although he retired long ago. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worship was a septon with a censer, the smell of incense, a seven-sided crystal alive with light, voices raised in song. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I rest my hand on her shoulder knowing I should be grateful I’m still alive, but somehow I’m not. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

But as a matter of legal reality, so various editors have told me over the years, my forensic memoir could never be published while my fellow criminals were alive. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I climbed into my bunk, above my father, who was still alive. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the flicker of hope that lifted their spirits, they were still worried that not everyone was going to make it out alive, especially Roosevelt. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

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

I was curious to learn whom, and what, I’d find at the far end of the food chain that keeps me alive. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He was about to say, “But I heard it crying—alive—” and then he looked at the woman’s face. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The mountain was darker than the plain, but it was alive and it was real. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I believe, if Emerson were alive now, Ms. Jacobs would want to marry him, the way she talks about him all the time. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I’m doubtful I’ll ever make it through public school alive, so it’s kind of nice to get this ritual over with now. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Anyway I figured Leah and I could tell each other our troubles, since misery loves company, even though she has a husband that is still alive at least, which is more than I can say. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I need to get out of here and live—but first I have to make it out of this apartment alive. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I'd give anything just to let them know I'm still alive. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He recalled what Hades had said about this public square, where the Inquisition had burned hundreds of people alive. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I read his message several more times before I’m sure that he’s alive and well, and then I flop my head back against my pillow and sigh, weak with relief. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was alive with moonlight, translucent, a shard of crystal so thin that it seemed almost to vanish when seen edge-on. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was a strange thought, and stranger still to remember that Bran might still be alive. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe Dad's family could’ve helped with that, if they were still alive. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He tapped his thumbs against his revolvers and said, “When the bullets start flying, you may find I’m nice to have around. Those pretty pictures aren’t going to keep you alive.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

If you were alive, you would be thirty-five. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Then they just leave them there. That marine colonel said when they found them they were still alive and begging for somebody to kill them.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was alive, even though his dry skin made him look like he was dead. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He counted to twenty, but he was still alive. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Through the trees, Miranda saw an unlikely foursome being happy and alive and not at all careful. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was not too fond of crab, ever since I saw my birthday crab boiled alive, but 1 knew 1 could not refuse. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its skin was clinging to its bones like that of its mistress, but it was just as alive and resolute as she. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

‘No enemy has yet taken the Hornburg. Depart, or not one of you will be spared. Not one will be left alive to take back tidings to the North. You do not know your peril.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A part of Tariq still alive inside her, sprouting tiny arms, growing translucent hands. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

For those who dared to enter the jungle, many did not make it out alive. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I send up two buckets of clean water, make a tasteless pot of porridge that will at least keep someone alive, and then Helena and I clean. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Letters advising these chiefs and headmen of a meeting were dispatched from the regent, and soon the Great Place became alive with important visitors and travelers from all over Thembuland. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He awoke on a bench in the Long Island Railroad Station, a cop rapping on his boots with a nightstick, his escape money gone, the MacNamara sisters ready to eat him alive in Brooklyn. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They’d barely made it out alive, and already they were headed right back into the thick of it all: the docks. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think about why we get to be alive when so many others died for no reason walking the same walk, crossing the same border. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

So the God of the Vine was born of fire and nursed by rain, the hard burning heat that ripens the grapes and the water that keeps the plant alive. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sea don’t seem so empty with the sunlight making it look almost alive. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

If Jesse had asked me to read to him from my journals when he was alive, I would have. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He said, “I’m going to pull you apart, elf. I’m going to pull off each one of those thin, spindly, pale arms. But you’ll still be alive.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

His mouth is on me, his hands, I can’t wait and he’s moving, already, love, it’s been so long, I’m alive in my skin, again, arms around him, falling and water softly everywhere, never-ending. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t tell me Helen was buried alive,” the doctor said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“As long as either of us is alive, I will be your mother,” she said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

There always had to be a male heir to the throne, and as long as his father was alive, there was no problem. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Now, in response to another noise he made, sawing at his lips with his square-tipped fingers, all the twelve hives came alive. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of coming back, he acted like he’d just decided to stroll out there for the sake of thrashing the trees with his belt, and man alive, he did. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m the mockingjay and it’s too hard keeping me alive as it is. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

If my mom was still alive, she would be at the release site ... Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Unfortunately, it seems the fear of young black guys created by this research is alive and well.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There isn’t a principal alive who won’t find the time to talk to someone from the local newspaper. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do? Nothing, except feel glad and happy to be alive.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

With this cleaning potion, she could make things come alive with color and shine. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He led me to the wagon where Alice lay bloody, filthy, and barely alive. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

One way or the other, dead or alive, I have the feeling I'll escape it today. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She was too busy trying to stay alive. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But he was alive...at least for the moment. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mother Jaguar sat next to them, licking their small bodies as if they were still alive. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I guess he doesn't know that there ain’t no black man in America that was alive then would ever forget Jackie Robinson. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Everything alive needs food of some sort. Even trees and plants.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could have killed it easily, but to take it alive was another matter and he hunted it a whole year before he succeeded. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She seems so smart and spry, and then, the next moment, she seems to forget — she talks as though her husband were still alive.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“She wouldn’t even stay alive for her son?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The doctors said I was lucky to be alive. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her own were grim enough, and she wasn’t faced with the notion of burning people alive. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I wondered if she had been dead when she fell, or if she had been still alive. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

As I listened to these rumors, he came alive in my mind as more legend than flesh. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Romulus, do you maintain, as you have every time you’ve appeared on our program, that Harry Potter is still alive?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

If they were alive, then the city was, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My next birthday, one hundred and two, I will have been alive in three different centuries. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drones are everywhere, but I’ve never seen one like that, like it’s almost alive. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Whether or not, the fact is she was in that bed sucking his fingers, and if she do that when he was dead, what’d she do when he was alive? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘My soul! Is that old mule still alive? He must be fully eighteen years old.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But the smell was alive, alive and full and in the shelter. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sniff the salty snow-filled air to make sure that I stay alive and human. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I waited by the back door as the sun got hotter, staring at the hard-packed dirt of the backyard, wondering how even the few patches of crabgrass were still alive. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It would be a long fight for everyone to make it out of the jungle alive. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

‘Don’t play any tricks with them! If they are not alive when we get back, someone else will die too.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He knew immediately that he was alive, because of the searing pain permeating every cubic centimeter of his body. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“This is a great way to keep this tradition alive and to share it with the community.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Big beautiful creature so alive, it seemed like it could never die. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

How lucky she was that he was even still alive. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Kino held the great pearl in his hand, and it was warm and alive in his hand. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the sure knowledge that she is alive makes all of that possible again—even if I never see proof of it. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

When I got back to the barn Mother was saying, “Sam, we don’t even know if he’s alive. You have to come home now. We need you.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so good to be there and know that Mama was alive and close by. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Antaeus’s father might have been -Poseidon, but Gaia was keeping him alive. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

But luckily I had spritzed myself before I left the cabin, and I wasn’t eaten alive like some of the other kids were. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

As soon as the baby was exhumed but before she had an opportunity to formally examine the body, Enstice told an investigator that she believed that the baby had been born alive. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It's dawn and the birds have come alive, chasing each other from maple to pine and back to maple again. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Ulyushka, the woman I despised, kept us alive on the train. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The citadel in the sky had seemed alive, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Waking from her first kiss, still flush with the magic of the extraordinary night, Sarai had been buoyant, and alive with new hope. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And the stars overhead were alive with the promise of Hrothgar’s vast power, his universal peace. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a wonder the tree’s alive, but it is.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Geyer still nurtured a small hope that the children really were alive, as Holmes insisted. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“What am I doing still alive? They should come and kill me now! I said they should come and kill me!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

First snow day always lifted her out of her skin, made her feel sharp and alive. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

But right now she had to stay alive; that was the most important thing. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Side question: What did they say when they found out I was alive? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There's no subtle way to put this: Mark Watney's still alive." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are mindless particles, after all, and not even themselves alive. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

My mother kept her little brother alive last year when he caught the measles. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

At least he could call his parents and tell them he was still alive. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

And he said, “Christ alive,” and he laughed. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Same reason he didn’t give it to you while he was alive? Same reason he left you an old Snitch and Hermione a book of kids’ stories?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She does know, all at once and with great certainty, that she is quite alive, and quite alone. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

And James Wippleson, he standing there and he see all the living things—the birds and the trees and all the plants—and he’s joyful he alive. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“I think it would be dramatic for you to go by yourself. He opens the door. And there you are—alive and standing on the porch with all your luggage. ‘Remember me?’ you say. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up this morning all alive with a new idea and filled with hope, and I ran to wake Mom. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But Paris is alive with hope and beauty, joy and optimism. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The tiny creature didn’t move, and I couldn’t tell if it was alive or dead. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

All the mist had come alive with these fleeting forms, dodging, flickering, fading on every side. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The General had said Annabeth would only be kept alive until the winter solstice. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I watched as the limbs flew off the pile until they reached the guy who was still alive. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stops beside an arbor alive with the sound of bees. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I’m useless in the temple’s library, memorizing passage upon passage of boring scripture, but out here on these lawns, I come alive. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The streets were alive, moving and swaying with hordes of people pushing toward the pier. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She would much rather remember them alive than on grotesque display in their Sunday best. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

As long as they’re looking for him, he’s still alive, she concluded. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Parker hadn’t even known her mother was still alive a month ago. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“What should I do about Beck? He’s still alive, but I don’t think he can survive much longer. He’s in really bad shape!” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Kerry nurse tells me I should get down on my two knees and thank God I’m alive at all at all and not be complaining. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

My luck, if that’s what had been keeping me alive thus far, had to be running out. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was horrible here, like being buried alive, and it took all his strength to force himself on. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But his father was alive and attempting a reconciliation with Shin. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

If my poor husband was alive and I told him what you did he’d say you struck a blow, Frank McCourt, struck a blow. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“That of the ten transfer initiates we started with, only six are still alive.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I could feel the electricity coursing through the air like I was coming alive for the first time in months, and I loved it. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But there’s still a guard at the gate of the ghetto, so someone must be alive. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was unusually aware of the surface of himself, of the lines of his body and the planes of his face, as though his skin were alive with some subtle vibrations. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“If it is Peeta and me in the Games, this time we try to keep him alive.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The boatman had been alive with lice, which had disgusted the other villagers but seemed not to worry Crocodile Guts at all. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look coolly into the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who would keep me alive at his own expense. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Scarcely a man now alive had yet been bom when Malleon had compiled his dusty lists of weddings, births, and deaths. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I was scared to be alive then, and I’m scared I’m going to die now. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

It was terrible to be alone without my parents, not knowing where Tsalig and Hershel were, or even if they were still alive. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“You do that. But remember this, none of your race has permission to enter here while I’m alive.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It would be a float plane and it would land on the water and come across the lake and the pilot would be amazed that he was alive after all these days. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bone clearly didn’t belong to any species of creature still alive, certainly not in New Jersey. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“How lucky we are to be alive right now, right?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The cafe is the same one that we visited when Metias was alive. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the surreptitious prayers of the women and children, as he himself admitted, he was alive and well and in full possession of his faculties, including his sense of humor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each child looked haggard, haunted by the image of Michelangelo, surrounded by books, burning alive. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

If Kevin had been alive, even if his life were just a flicker, he would have laughed at scaring Alex so effectively. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

"Stannis may take the city and he may take the throne, but I will not suffer him to judge me. I dp not mean for him to have us alive." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

After all, she wasn’t supposed to be alive. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She wanted reassurance that somebody else was alive on this boat. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

With him alive, there would always be someone who knew the secret, while killing him would be no trouble at all. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Only one thing was sure, whatever happened: From this moment on, the five of them would be like ghosts pretending they were still alive. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But Vandara was older, heavier, and unflawed except for the scar, the reminder that she had fought a beast and escaped alive. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘All that country is alive with our hunters now.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

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

Everything that had once felt so alive now suddenly felt so dead. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The story came alive in a whole new way. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

There were no parachutes, so how could I hope to reach earth alive? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also he knew that somewhere or other she was still alive and needed his help. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They stood there in excruciating silence, and Seven wished a dragon would come and eat her alive. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was as if Malthus and the struggle for survival had come alive in the real world. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, obviously, we need only one set of demigods alive,” Pasiphaë said. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was as if she and her aunt shared a particular bond at those times, as if the magic was still, somehow, alive. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Adam, you’re a fool. If you had kept your mouth shut nobody would ever have known I was alive.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Snakes don’t eat dog food. They need something alive,” Javi explains. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

There was awe, too, in Shadrach’s realization that once more a freak of chance had allowed him to come through alive, but there was no optimism in his hope for future battles. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes when a person looks forward to something for such a long time, it keeps them alive. Then when they accomplish it—boom.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I have no idea how to make it come alive. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

But we’re still alive, and much of the time it still tastes good too! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

My mother is alive and probably thinks I am dead. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Until he pictured Theresa alive; then a sense of unutterable good fortune settled over him. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being a branch on the same family tree as Leo made sense to him, and this strange new history made Joseph suddenly feel more alive, more real, and not quite so lost. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I wished Yakov could have seen this, that we could have gone here together when he was still alive. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He had to hope she and Leo were alive on the other side. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You are only alive now because you said ‘to the pain.’ The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But the Fjerdans had kept his son alive for a reason. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Only for a tiny millisecond did I imagine that he wanted me burned alive along with the multitude of helpless animals. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I had no idea. I mean I didn’t think...they were alive, but...I don’t know...” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Me and her can’t figure out what it is, but we think it used to be alive. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you hit bottom. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“They’d need your brother alive to learn what he knows. And if Quinton has refused to say anything, then there’s a good chance he and Maria are still out there somewhere.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

If the swords came out his chances of getting back to the castle alive were small to none. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was only when I looked up that I finally saw her, sitting on the road just beside Betty, her back slumped forward, her head bowed, but alive—alive and safe. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She understood that he was being eaten up alive because for him freedom was even more important than love, and that there were no magic pills that would make him change his mind. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Night is when the angriest ones come around, ready to get their revenge on anyone who is still alive. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was as if he was thirsty and exhausted from fulfilling himself and making me feel like the dirtiest being alive. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I wonder how he's holding up, with the drinking, the attention, and the stress of trying to keep us alive. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Few people are alive who remember hearing the original Mercury Theatre program on Sunday night, October 30,1938. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Bran could not tell whether she was alive or dead. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“New York, the people may be dead, but at least the city’s alive. In the country, everything’s dead.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

After all these years of acting like the saddest man alive, Milligan now acted as if he were the happiest man alive—and perhaps he was. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Her name was Anna. Lord, how sweet she was, that child! It’s queer to think she’d be close to eighty now, if she’s even still alive. And my son—he’d be eighty-two.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Living with my family’s disappointment is better than not being alive at all.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He thought of himself running free over the grass, grieving for Merry, and Sam, and Pippin, but free and alive himself. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And Madame Manec: Don’t you want to be alive before you die? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Here I’ve been working like a slave, much harder than I’ve ever worked in the onion fields, but I feel as though nothing mattered except just to be alive right at this moment. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t need new lungs to feel alive. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

That went on for a week or better, I guess, before a thing happened that brought me alive again. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I never carry idlers on my ship! Between ports, a clerk isn’t worth the hardtack to keep him alive.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing how I’m not very inventive, I had to pilfer the idea from John Asscraft, who’d recently handed out some practical advice for staying alive in an orange America. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“We could have used that boy after all! But who says we were going to kill you? Capricorn wants you alive. Dead men can’t read aloud.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Neither did I,” said Adam, and he continued to stare at her as though she were not alive. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is nobody alive, Gawaine, who has called me a traitor. I have explained about the Queen.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Showing the first signs of being alive since we come in, the Keegan man give a crooked smile and axed, “Civilized?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Might be he was the last to see Benny alive. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

They were playing that it was still alive. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Each on a farm should care for something alive and useful.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t an animal at all. It’s not alive.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He told Peeta they could keep me alive so that he wouldn’t be suspicious. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And though I didn’t like the feeling of leaving them behind, I’d be able to live with the guilt of abandoning the other bonobos if it meant keeping Otto, Songololo, and myself alive. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She formed the name on her lips, asleep in the tower room with Kaede beside her, and she felt the woman in the fortress come alive. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Here is what happened: Our teacher, Mr. Nossik, believed in making history “come alive.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

But John's the only one who knows I'm alive, and he's promised not to tell Mom or Eden. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He was alive only because I had helped him. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had many questions, from the everyday: “Owls, transport mice alive?” to the pointed: “How easily does Wolf & Dog cross?” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Great God, he is alive!” someone cried as the witnesses rose from their seats. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We celebrate the lives of people who are gone. We keep their spirits alive by remembering them.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

We were the first heroes to return alive to Half-Blood Hill since Luke, so of course everybody treated us as if wed won some reality-TV contest. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe they could make it out of here alive. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It glowed as brightly as a holly berry in the dimness, and several of them had brushed through it, longing for the contact with something so vibrantly alive. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The chair, the bed, the mirror, picking up glints of moonlight, seem to move, shuddering, trembling with spirits making them jerk, come alive. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

When Grandma had been alive, she had, by nagging, shouting and threats, kept my father’s junkyard contained. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me,” he said, crowding into their personal space, “but could you please explain how it is that you’re alive?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Two weeks ago, he puzzled, the cat had been alive, and, according to Longridge’s map, must have traveled over a hundred miles. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for our girls, we’d fight to keep that possibility alive. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

On one side are the books and everything I have to do to make myself legit, and on the other side are the streets and everything I have to do to stay alive out here. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But I feel good—necessary and tired and alive. julijonas Urbonas, the man who thought up the Euthanasia Coaster, claims it’s engineered to “humanely—with elegance and euphoria—take the life of a human being.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

By then, Annabeth had reason to hope Percy was alive, since Hera’s plan seemed to involve sending him to the Roman side, but she couldn’t be sure where he was. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the ritual: the circle of women coming together to celebrate being alive—and being a woman, which is a magic all its own. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Not only was Chicago alive, not only was it going to rebuild, but many people predicted it would be bigger and better than before. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s impossible...and sometimes I think it’s my fault. Like, what if I would have done something differently that day? Would she still be alive?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was a very prominent object in the night sky, clearly visible from the streets of London and Paris, the brightest comet that anyone alive at the time had ever seen. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Already Volkheimer’s eyes have come alive, a lion who has caught the scent. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

One minute Van Andel was alive, the next, he was dead. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

One year before, a hopper like Enrique’s overturned with a load of sand, burying three migrants alive. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Mom, picking out bits of grain from roll: You’re alive because of Dr. Parker. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Her skirt seemed to gather in a distorted picture of the dragon in the window—or not really distorted, but an image that was alive. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems very cruel to keep us alive. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It left a hole in the ground that kept the image of the jeep alive in our minds every time we passed it. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

It remained alive outside the school, but I never again saw an anti-Zionist leaflet inside the school building. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Even though I am living with his scar, I sit back every day and remember that it is only a scar, and count my bless-ings that my dad is still alive. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“But, ah, mighty all-powerful Lord Mars, if we can’t die, isn’t that a good thing? If we can stay alive indefinitely—” “Don’t be foolish, boy!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It is big and quivers like it’s alive. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Friends would be there, as well as many of the activists still alive. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“What choice? How ’bout you chooses staying alive? The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Even as an infant, when Jonas had brought him here after a long and torturous journey, Gabe had held out, had been strong, had stayed alive, when he, Jonas, had almost given up. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A horde of Cyclopes was hammering away at the campers of the Fifth Cohort, who were trying to keep their shields locked just to stay alive. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Ben just walked and with all his powers of concentration rising to the surface of consciousness, of being alive, and of being son, Ben tried not to cry. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Jacob Carlyle...if he is still alive, and I could prove he set JonJon up, I doubt anybody would throw a dude that old in jail. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

In one moment alive, and in the next left behind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It smelled dusty and alive, a strange combination of sweat and wood and candles and electricity, as if the air still contained the essence of everyone who’d ever walked through the building. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Too weak to move, she lay huddled in a ball, bemoaning the fact that she was still alive. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the balcony of his palace, he said Argentina will fight until the very last man, dead or alive. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even know if she was alive or not. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

His foot is alive, warm, and he moves his toes. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of the wrongness thunders and falls and threatens to bury her alive. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“If I cannot have these alive, I shall have them dead!” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She knew there was no point in being here, in being alive, but she had no energy to think concretely of how she could kill herself. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And so on, until everyone real and alive had been shot. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

And at a primal level it suggested the unconscious fear of being swallowed up by a larger creature, the terror of being completely consumed, eaten alive. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

When you’re really hungry, your body just wants any kind of food to stay alive. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being in motion, outdoors, with wind in his face made him feel alive—it brushed away the anxiety that since his mother’s death had seemed to be nibbling continuously at the corners of his mind. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“People keep saying that. Look, Doc, I’m alive.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He pulled one of my molars, and if he were alive today he would be my dentist. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The very air felt alive with possibility, charged with souls and magic. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Even Doña Rosa, when she was alive, used to drag her walker across the street for cake. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Leaf shadows pattern her face, and she wears black, though I never saw her in black when she was alive. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The men on the side of Death are still alive. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even his face was different around animals, with the expression of polite distance he always wore for humans replaced by something concentrated and alive. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most likely they wouldn’t be doing no more flying but they should still be alive and kicking. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Frank’s arm was bleeding and bandaged, but he was alive. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I have to lie down on the swampy ground, propped against a stump to avoid getting too wet, until it’s time for me to be alive again. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gerald, relieved that they were alive and Jordan was not, smiled and nodded. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So maybe President Snow will prefer keeping him alive, crushed and heartbroken, as a living warning to others. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Back when she was alive and him lusting in his heart after another woman, it’s a wonder God hadn’t strung Grandpa up by his heels and split him down the middle. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

By this time, Old Yeller was there, baying the bull, keeping out of his reach, but ready to eat him alive if he ever came to his feet again. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was more alive than he could ever remember having been; his mind and attention were pointed, focused toward a goal. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Un-Dead! Not alive! What do you mean? Is this all a nightmare, or what is it?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

A circlet of gold wreathed his head, and even in death his eyes were alive with malice. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

"If there was one soul in King's Landing who was truly desperate to keep Robert Baratheon alive, it was me." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The president was alive but had symptoms of shock. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Despite how much I hated him, I couldn’t stand to see it I wanted to believe he was still alive, but that was impossible. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

When Borgenicht came home at night to his children, he may have been tired and poor and overwhelmed, but he was alive. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It looks like it might come alive at night. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the beginning I was almost like an automaton, thought- lessly performing the actions that would keep me alive. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

"You guys have done end runs around the crew every time something goes wrong. You didn't tell them Watney was still alive; now you're not telling them there's a way to save him." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d never make it back to her chambers alive, but if she was fast enough, perhaps she could make it to the tomb. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“They said they shot you in Kaduna, then they said they buried you alive in the bush, then they said you escaped, then they said you were in prison in Lagos.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“This place doesn’t come alive until the sun goes down. Besides, you get to go around with Ampai.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

If I could just stay alive for a week, I’d know the unwritten secrets of Anna’s mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I was alive, which was good Second realization: I wasn’t wet. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She was surprised that her hands had not forgotten, that somewhere in her mind, after a year of darkness and slavery, music was still alive and breathing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But it’s worse than that—I’m alive in hell. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think I could make it out alive this time. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The relief when she is solid and warm and alive to his touch is overwhelming. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I can’t think of him dead. He seems maybe more alive to me than before.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

For Ferula, who had spent her life taking care of an old lady who was slowly, irremediably rotting alive, looking after Clara was like being in heaven. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin was bloody and her clothes were torn and sopping, but she was alive. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

In my mind I invented snmyhymns, as I call them, my own perverse hymns that can be sung equally well forward or backward: Evil, all its sin is still alive! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

To begin with, the Netscape browser not only brought the Internet alive but also made the Internet accessible to everyone from five-year-olds to ninety- five-year-olds. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“How can I regret what I did, when it kept me alive?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The restaurant came alive with the American lady's clowning. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Billy was alive again, whispering in the next room, and the ghostly bird sang once more. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It’s still alive but not strong enough to fight, or to keep me from looping the rope around the stern cleats. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Madison, who knew him better than any man alive, fully realized that there was an invisible line somewhere in Jefferson’s mind above which lay his most cherished personal and political ideals. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I used to be a very naughty girl when Annie was alive, do you think God will forgive me?” she asked her mother another evening. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he was alive—and he had to be, there was no alternative for me—the League would bring him in. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She screamed, gripping the handle harder even as she stumbled, vaguely aware that keeping the weapon was her only hope for staying alive. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He killed them all, however; he left not one alive to trouble future travelers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The seller’s face came alive at the sight of one of the American dollars, and as Jiichan bargained, Hanako and Akira eagerly picked out five cakes apiece, just as they had in the train station. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

If I get it, then maybe I can keep Max and the others alive until something happens. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

To stay alive, you have to be able to hold out against equilibrium, maintain imbalance, bank against entropy, and you can only transact this business with membranes in our kind of world. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

More likely, language is simply alive, like an organism. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I shouldn’t. I know I should feel lucky to be alive, but as much as I want to, I don’t. Not entirely.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I thanked God that I was still alive. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Looking as if they have been waiting for a long time, some fie so motionless I wonder if they are alive. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shark swung over and the old man saw his eye was not alive and then he swung over once again, wrapping himself in two loops of the rope. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was still decorated just the way it had been when Papa was still alive. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The night is alive with stars, and when I lie down and look up, I get lost up there. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

All fish analyzed, whether taken alive or dead, had stored DDT in their tissues. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Only two of the camels were left alive. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

When the wind picks up they come alive, their wooden boards creaking against one another, and under the sound of the sea there are murmurs of movement: someone or something, coming closer. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Really? I don’t know if I can. And now—knowing that Maisie was alive all these years ...” “Oh, Vivian,” Molly says. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

So standing there in that bleak and empty garden listening to Ob make May alive again, that seemed to fix something in me that had needed fixing ever since the funeral. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I get out of bed every morning, at least I’m still alive and not dead like Ruth May. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did his part to keep the five of them alive, and she did hers. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“If you are alive, it would be best for you to run away to your happy homes, because I’m supposed to kill you.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The maester had told him the stories, and Old Nan had made them come alive. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He tells me you say, Devon says this or Devon does that, as if he’s still alive. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are guards lying on the floor, some alive and some not. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The 150 rands that had been used to pay for my hotel accommodations for a week could have easily kept the family alive for four months. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since survival in the snowy forests of northern Europe required different traits than those needed to stay alive in Indonesia’s steaming jungles, human populations evolved in different directions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Telling someone I wish Khalid was still alive isn’t going to bring him back. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He had just aimed a bolt of fire twenty feet long, meaning to burn Alex alive. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

There’s one thought in my head, the thought that’s been there for days: If it weren’t for him, she’d be alive. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It was his mother—younger than he remembered her, but very much alive. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He waited there, listening to the night, alive with sounds. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The only sound was the power hum of electric lines and dynamos, still alive, all by themselves. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

In our country’s tradition, we don’t honor people in this way while they are alive, only after they have died. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, you took quite the hit when we crashed.You’re lucky to be alive. Lucky to have a guardian angel like me to save your hide.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I have only a few years left. The war will not end while I am alive.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

If he was even alive, that is—the Shorawi, may they rot in hell for what they did to our watan, killed so many of our young men. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She wished that Odinchezo and Ekene would shout at her too, and question her for being alive, instead of dead like their sister and parents and brother-in-law. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She thought, If I get out of this alive, I’m going to force her to get me a phone. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It was a genuinely clarifying public notice because it gave Southside residents a way to keep their memories alive and please the city legislators as well. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So many. One second alive, next second dead. I see this myself. I see a man alive, walking, then he dead. I think he die standing up.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was alive but not alive; he was indifferent to everything. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Write Sun- spear. Doran Martell must know that his sister’s son is still alive and has come home to claim his father’s throne.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

To which Skipper replied, “Yes, but the truth about the betrayal is very much alive!” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But might there not be a chance that Father and Mother and Ravi were still alive? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Looking out over the world from above, he could never remember feeling so alive as he did at that moment. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And I’m no less alive now than I was before the attack.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I can still recite the litany of efforts it took to push a husband and children alive and fed through each day in the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe there will be enough fondness to keep her alive. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Let's walk there,” he said, his face bright, his eyes alive. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Luna knew that everything alive must die someday—she had seen it with her own eyes when she assisted her grandmother. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Of her old friends and associates, only Sanborn and Higginson were still alive. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I said, “I’m not sure I can protect our family. Leastways not the way Gran did when she was alive.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, I want to know where my father is, please. Is he alive or dead?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night Pa banked it with ashes to keep the coals alive till morning. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though everyone could see that the former president was noticeably thinner—he had lost fifty-five pounds on the expedition—they had no idea how momentous it was that Roosevelt was even alive. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I am only alive because I have not yet died. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was still alive, though just barely, just in the eyes. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there wasn’t anything alive about me then. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It’s a smile that reminds me I am alive. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Accordingly, the two greatest of the chieftains left alive by then, Odysseus and Diomedes, determined to try to steal it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might as well wish that Dad was still alive. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The sound swelled in the dark till the entire room was pulsating, till the air itself became alive and matted with bees. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

By now, it should have been less shocking—the beast had menaced Lkossa longer than Ekon had been alive—but in truth, it was impossible to get used to the carnage left in its wake. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Through the rest of the night and most of the following day, Beck lay out on the ice, exposed to the merciless wind, cataleptic and barely alive. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell them I’m dying and we desperately need milk and corned beef to keep me alive,” she said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Annabeth may be alive,” Chiron said, but I could tell he was having trouble sounding upbeat. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I tried to get John to come alive, but he was motionless in the back seat next to me. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, they don’t really care if she’s alive or dead. If I sell her for spare parts to the Harvesters, it’s all the same to them.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wait, frozen, for the woods to come alive with assailants. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Not as dark and mysterious, perhaps, but more alive. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But a few rows of untended pear and apple trees were still growing there when the camp opened, where a shallow water table had kept them alive. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would be the last of my mother’s children still alive other than me. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well... those gods are still alive. They kind of follow Western Civilization around, living in the strongest countries, so like now they’re in the U.S. And sometimes they have kids with mortals. Kids called half-bloods.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“For almost ninety years I’ve walked among my kind, and yours ... all the time thinking I was complete in myself, not realizing what I was seeking. And not finding anything, because you weren’t alive yet.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Also, Mr. Loomis may have been concerned about more than just staying alive. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

My thoughts went to my supplies, that little bit of food and water, so important to keeping me alive, that I’d just given away. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

That was for my brother, who returned alive from Vietnam. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The children and young people, you are the unlucky ones. This war has murdered many futures. Are your parents still alive?” he asked. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In a way I felt real bad just being alive to write it. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I doubt Coin knows what to do with me now that I’m still alive.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The caption said the family had found out just a few months earlier that Henrietta’s cells were still alive, yet at that point she’d been dead for twenty-five years. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Just as well his father's not alive to read this.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

This really was Harlem, and now all the stories which I had heard of the city-within-a-city leaped alive in my mind. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They don’t care if I’m dead or alive.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

By 1996 some sixty men and women had reached the summit without it—five of whom didn’t make it back down alive. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She said that, of all the villagers young Chaya had come to the camp with that spring, only two were alive at the end of the war. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flowers looked alive, like they would move if a breeze stirred through the kitchen. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The cat was already dead—or alive, as the case may be." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Shadows coming alive are a trick of the eye. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was what I would be from this day forward—my commitment, my character as long as I lived—and nothing alive or dead could change my mind! Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees grew thicker and denser the farther back in the corner they went, more alive and full of leaves. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Or this: discovering that your dead friend is actually alive and driving the truck you’re riding in. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

If no one sponsors me, my odds of staying alive decrease to almost zero. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Him as killed your family. Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us. Come home, Bod.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Mourning the dead wasn’t part of the business of killing and trying to stay alive. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Your Hazel is alive, Waters, and you mustn’t impose your will upon another’s decision, particularly a decision arrived at thoughtfully. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Thus, the new people must work extremely hard to prove they are worth more alive than dead. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaede caught the end of her look, and all of her came alive with awareness. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He saw no more soldiers—alive or dead. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to be alive again,” she said. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

After everybody came out of that summit attempt alive, Hall may well have thought there was little he couldn’t handle. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Had he still been alive to respond, though, Descartes would surely have replied to Newton that the problem was nobody could run fast enough to make the trick work. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I try to find something inside her that is alive, but there is only emptiness. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

"Do that. Any idea how to keep him alive for four years?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He is known to have been alive at about twenty minutes to one, when he spoke to the conductor,” said M. Bouc. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

By her calculations, she had a little over one week to track down Pong—if he was still alive. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Rashad, the guy walking along with his family, the son they were probably all just grateful was alive. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

If something is not alive, then it’s dead, and vice versa. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But those patients had one thing going for them that Henrietta didn’t: They were alive. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Seven is for—for each and every day of the week I stay alive. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we get out of here alive, I’ll have to thank Natalie for being at the end, and making sure Finn doesn’t get pulled away and swallowed up by the crowd, Chess thought. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“You were very lucky to get out of there alive.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I found Lauren and a few other friends hanging in front of our lockers before homeroom and blurted, “Guess what? Martin is alive!” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

To live as long as Wash was alive. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

If it was alive, it would have sprung to its feet. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not like the look of the ground—too many pitfalls and boiling pots and steamy depths that might cook her alive. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

There were billions of conscientious body cells oxidating away day and night like dumb animals at their complicated job of keeping him alive and healthy, and every one was a potential traitor and foe. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I offered prayers to Christ, who is alive. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Avocet squinted and furrowed her brow, and her eyes seemed to fix on the opposite wall, alive with flickering shadows. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Her best friend, I thought, but not best enough for her to want to go to the emergency room and stay alive. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, the rats didn’t matter, not really, because I was in a place where Margo had been alive. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The doctors reported that his heart was still beating, and that he was still alive. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Do you know how to reach him? If he’s still alive? Anything?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The whump and whoosh of the furnace coming alive each morning. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

No longer were they dead logs on a beach: now they were alive. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was like a vibrant painting that had come alive. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I would hope so. He lived, what, three thousand years ago? And even if he were alive, don’t the old stories say he fled from the Labyrinth?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It is within the ability of even the most drained fairy to put a complete mind kibosh on any human alive. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Well, look at this. I guess everyone wants the girl alive.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“As far as I know I’m alive,” she responded, and took a raspy breath to prove it to herself. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The Hindu men who were still alive jumped back on. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Edwin and I are probably the two biggest fools alive.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Four thousand. Have we been alive so long?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

On reflection he did not fancy a second meeting with the giant Poisonteeth, whether it was alive, dead, or just pretending, as Poisonteeth often did. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“If it was still alive,” Milt said, “we could take it to a real animal vet. I wonder what it’s worth. Anybody got a copy of Sidney’s?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead," he suggested. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Alive the way you were alive, alive right there, right then, not worried about what might happen in a few hours or days, not remembering what had happened before. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“She was alive and breathing when the ambulance took her, so I’m going to believe that’s still the case. Toddlers are very resilient, you know.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I walked through the street again, through the dark-ness that was alive with lights and humanity. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all our journeying through space and time, it is, so far, the only world on which we know with certainty that the matter of the Cosmos has become alive and aware. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only when it fairly shimmered, when it seemed in its sleekness to be alive with the potential for speed, did Pocock pronounce the boat ready for use. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Because I’m pretty sure keeping me alive is the only thing keeping my parents going. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Who cares what happens to you when you don’t care if you’re alive or dead, you know? We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s normal. There’s not a kid alive who doesn’t like Band-Aids.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks. I just hope he’s alive. I’ve invested two whole span trying to win him over.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see who is still alive in twelve...actually, eleven minutes, now.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Often Katrina had told Kira the story of her birth — the birth of a fatherless girl with a twisted leg—and how her mother had fought to keep her alive. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear felt that the very air in the workspace under the eaves was alive with whispers and hisses of anxiety: the emissary would be returning very soon. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Where were you? How are you guys alive?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She went on believing that he was alive. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keeping not only one but two tributes alive. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was as if they had been skinned alive. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She was even burned alive by the citizens of Weep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Grandma always was threatening to skin someone alive, or draw and quarter him, or scalp him like a red Indian, or spank him till his bottom blistered. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The baby is alive and it’s a girl!” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He wanted never to have gone to prison, for Laura to still be alive, for none of this ever to have happened. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“When you act, it’s like you have so many more ways of seeing, and more parts of you are alive than in real life. Everything you are comes out.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

"Well, there is this one girl. I've had a crush on her ever since I can remember. But I'm pretty sure she didn't know I was alive until the reaping." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“She’s alive. So is your mother. I got them out in time,” he says. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The little grave we’ve got in the cemetery...I don’t think I could stand it if—oh, Hoyt, our boy is alive!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Ever since then it’s like I’ve been living a dream, every day focused on keeping myself alive to keep them both afloat. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

And by now he knew that Kathy and his kids knew he was alive. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She seemed to have wakened from a protracted stupor and discovered the joy of being alive. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We do not even know if he’s alive. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She prayed to God for the letters to stop, and wished her husband was still alive to deal with Cofield. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

‘Why, they said you was dead! Lost in the Old Forest by all accounts. I’m pleased to see you alive after all!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And it is His will that we survive, that we keep alive the flame of Western civilization in this dark continent ruled by religions of the anti-Christ. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only really wanna spend the energy it takes to be alive if I'm original. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

That is how I learn that even Danielle, who is so sophisticated, and Mrs. Levy-Cohen, who had the courage to ask for a divorce, even they are sometimes afraid to be alive. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She does not know where they are, or even if they are alive. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up to now, Frog had no notion that their commander knew he was alive. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Fiona apologizes for crying, then hugs me and tells me how glad she is I’m alive. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Oh, how my father, said how they cooked her alive with radiation treatments. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He realized they were alive only because the gryphons weren’t trying to kill them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

This will be the last time she sees him alive. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Frontier lawmen, in particular, were primarily gunfighters and trackers; they were expected to deter crimes and to apprehend a known gunman alive if possible, dead if necessary. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

If I make it home alive, I shall go as this woman for Halloween. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Some alive, most unmoving—probably dead, Mark realizes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

And apparently the Arizona kids’ dad was still alive, since she’d seen the word “parents” at the bottom of the computer screen. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It had been a feast day, his first feast day, and a celebration of being alive and the new way he had of getting food. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked Dr. Jones if her mother was still alive. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Sound buried alive in little holes in the ceiling. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I gave up too fast and now this living thing isn’t alive anymore. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It’s the plain truth: without Richard Parker, I wouldn’t be alive today to tell you my story. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the dust cleared and the mountain stopped rocking, we found her still alive, but her legs were pinned under the statue. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Her hair was caught in a thick mat, but she was alive. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He was alive and still sending me flowers. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’d better get Strawberry to tell us what he knows about the great burrow; but it may not be much. I’m sure he wasn’t alive when it was dug.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Find beauty wherever you can, child. It will keep you alive.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its atmosphere was alive, its spirit adventurous, its people resourceful. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she descended the city’s hill, something Håkon had pointed out bounced around in her head: the tsar had wanted the dragons alive, just like how he wanted the Nightingale alive. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

For twenty minutes, the night sky was alive with wagon wheels, party-colored dahlias, and whistling glitter palms. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Now all the things that happened when he was alive are over and done with: the war, the planes with only one wing, the mud outside our house, a lot of things. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Plus, we’re all still alive. That seems to indicate that it was something else.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“This makes it real? If it was real, whoever ate it would still be alive to tell you so.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Nobody knew what it was like living with parents who wished he wasn’t alive. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

While my dad was alive, Bill supported Nikki financially and took the time to see her. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And though the sweat floods off me and my muscles burn, desperate for rest, I feel alive, obscenely alive. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I had thought I was dead, but I was alive. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

In some the goddess was alive, in others dead. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As evening settled in, the camp came alive around us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A longsword had been thrust through her heart, and its leather grip was alive with flame. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Lyra didn’t want to look, but Will went to see if the man was still alive and needed help. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

After my troupe was murdered, there were times when I would dream of my parents, alive and singing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was alive and sizzling and could usually be found in the library, where I was still spending most of my lunch hours. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

But there was nothing alive in the tunnel now, not a mouse or a spider or even a toadstool. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was impossible for my child to still be alive,” the madwoman said, “and yet she is. And she was here. Recently. The impossible is possible.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Yeah? Well, at least I’m going to come out of this war alive, which is a lot more than you’re going to do.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Indeed, Ragwort, the most unimaginative rabbit alive, had actually heard it underground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we didn’t have rules,” his wife would say, “these children would eat us alive.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

They are supposed to keep unarmed people alive Toño has told me. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the court, the court he loved, the court he ruled at times, Ben felt disembodied, running to the point of exhaustion, but more alive and more human than he would ever be again. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Chacho could hear him, he wouldn’t feel completely alone and he might try to stay alive. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have much optimism that Anastasia and the rest were still alive, but I hoped to find a clue as to what might have happened to -them. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It had taken the smartest man alive to defeat it, and she was surrounded by the not-smartest people alive. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He is reminded of being a student, of a time when his father was still alive. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If you should learn your father is alive and coming home, you could hold out a year. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

What he saw lying on the cot under a shiny green dress he believed was alive. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea that had tickled and tugged in her mind since Mark’s mom first called was alive and in her room with her. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m not alive, but my spirit doesn’t haunt this place.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Looming over the chasm, she was a churning figure of ash and smoke, as big as the Athena Parthenos statue, but very much alive. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And I said, “I thought she was dead, but she was still alive. And Father lied to me. And also he said he killed Wellington.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I heard him gasp, and I heard the servants screaming, "Dragon! It has come alive! Dragon!" Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

First, she and Percy had had to drink fire to stay alive. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, I think it’s scarier to be alive, especially when you feel that you’ll never be as happy and carefree as when you were a little kid. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I think it was a shock to him that he was still alive. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The lights go up, and what seemed glitzy and alive moments ago now seems like a shell of itself. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was solid granite, but his eyes were alive and cunning. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry looked back at the snake, willing himself to believe it was alive. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“And yet, it is not our question. For this here baby is unquestionably alive, and as such is nothing to do with us, and is no part of our world.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I’m only saying it because you’re upset that I think Devon is still alive so I’m showing you I Get It that Devon is dead. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dead were not yet present, the absent were presumed alive. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“But perhaps it is the whole point of being alive? That life is a state of death denial?” he asked. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The moment I entered the gates of Płaszów, I was convinced I would never leave alive. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

A small fire crackled, casting long shadows across the towering form of Miss Miss. The sculpture seemed alive. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“We hire a band. A famous one, like Queen or the Beatles, but still alive.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

All that mattered was somehow to stay alive until the spasm was over. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Who else will care for us in our old age? Who will run the farm and keep your grandfather’s dream alive?” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The afternoon was alive with the racket of a thousand different songbirds calling to us from the grove, surrounding us with their chants, their hymns, their lullabies. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sweet fluid was keeping his pain alive, allowing all the bouncing and the noise to continue. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

All I know how to do is stay alive. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been so long, it seemed folly to cling to the hope that Ben Stark was still alive, but Jon Snow was nothing if not stubborn. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Maybe if I hadn’t come to Blenheim Road that night, Megan would still be alive.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

God, no wonder Stella was so obsessive about staying alive. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The tank seemed to have come alive, as if it was boiling with fury, ready to destroy. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

And yet Vincent looks healthy: he’s robust, sturdy, and vehemently alive. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My father was the only son left, but even if their other sons were still alive, my father might still be their light because he is also a land, honest, simple, and good man. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

When I saw Africa again, Africa came back whole, alive, shining with remembered enigma. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, she hadn’t known he was still alive and trapped here—she’d immediately assumed the worst—but that didn’t change the truth. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes you risk everything for a life worth living, even if you’re not the one that’ll be alive to live it.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The sight of Seward, alive if not well, relieved Lincoln. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I broke my knuckles banging on the walls, and rode a horse to death galloping off the fury that was eating me alive. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Americans are famous for talking about money, and I do everything possible to keep our reputation alive. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Ana Diaz. I’ve been here for a week. They also got my companero, Andres, but he’s still alive. I see him once a day, when they take them to the bathroom.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My terrifying struggle to stay alive became somehow routine. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The camp was now alive and swarming, throngs of men starting to swell together like boils of a plague. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

His wink or pleasant expression sometimes came just at the moment I needed to know I was alive and valuable. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Plutarch’s sending in a rescue team. He has people on the inside. He thinks we can get Peeta back alive,” he says. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He wished his mother were still alive, because he wanted to tell her. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

If she was alive, how could I ask her to take care of her freak granddaughter—protect me and hide me—when there was a chance she couldn’t take care of herself? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But if she was evil, why was I still alive? The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I had texted Summer and Ximena the day I saw Gordy Johnson getting on an uptown bus, and we were all thrilled to know he was alive and well. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

‘That means,’ said Sophie, ‘that somewhere in the world, every single night, nine wretched people get carried away and eaten alive.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at all this, we know we’re not so hot; we’re kids in rompers, shouting with our play rockets and atoms, loud and alive. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My uncle once told me the house was alive,” said Joseph. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She was afraid to know what she would find in his dreams now that he knew she was alive. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The woman fingered the dents and stroked the scratched panels as though the rickshaw were alive. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

It felt terrible, like you were the only person alive in the world. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

No, the bow is alive in my hands. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Pigs lounged in a muddy pit, an occasionally flickering tail the only sign they were alive. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Pale green shoots of something alive have been struggling under the leaves. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Despite serious neglect on my part, Ethan had been alive for two years. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He is already fighting hard to stay alive. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Dead and alive they would rest upon their own land. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It was as if my four friends were still alive and well and getting ready for school in their own homes. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Crusty old alpinists who’ve survived a lifetime of close scrapes like to counsel young proteges that staying alive hinges on listening carefully to one’s “inner voice.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Where I come from,” the snake girl said, “the punishment for treason is being covered in honey, bound to an open boat, and floated out into a stagnant pond. The flies eat you alive.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The last morning I saw Mama alive, Grandma sent me off to school. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“He left me too, but he’s still alive to tell me why. I think he’s still alive.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was a magical place, alive with music that spilled onto the busy streets from tenement windows and full of colors and smells that filled my senses and made my heart beat faster. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I never saw Delphine alive again after the day she left our house to go see the doctor. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He hugged Gabriel and rubbed him briskly, warming him, to keep him alive. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were beautiful murals, done in bright colors, and the great men in them looked alive. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I at least need to be awake if I’m going to be alive. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Is...is...it alive?” she asked, afraid to believe. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go on in, then. We’ll see if you come out alive.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

So I could move to America and become the most famous Persian actress alive. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“We were lucky to get out of there alive,” Dallas told Florida. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I felt alive, getting pulled along in the rush she left trailing behind her. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’m forty-three years old, and a writer now, still dreaming Linda alive in exactly the same way. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when Drake and I were little, and PopPop was alive, we weren’t really allowed in his room. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

All her senses came alive, and a thrill rippled through her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The mouth is full and soft beneath his moustache; the nose is slightly arched, the skin brownish; it is now not so pale as it was before, when he was still alive. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine him alive, in a field somewhere. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I think we must be closer to being alive than adults. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was starting to think Piper was right about the storm or fire line in the prophecy—one of them, Jason or Leo, would not come back from this voyage alive. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The last time anyone saw her alive was when with one shot she killed a thief who was trying to force the door of her house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

If Anna was still alive, one of them would have been forced to marry her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that Big Joe was alive but I didn’t know what I would do if he suddenly sat up. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking of how I will need my strength to keep Peeta alive. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Man alive, I am all steamed up with no place to go. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Therem said, “You lie, for you would never have come back alive from Estre. These men have disobeyed my command and lied to hide their disobedience: I ask their banishment.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess they want to catch us alive,” Grumman replied, stripping a branch of its leaves so he could use it as a walking stick, “and they’re waiting to see where we leave the forest.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hugged Dismay first—he was so alive and full of good feelings—and I skedaddled for the house. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If I were alive, my whole body would be trembling. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“After Spiral Castle,” Taran stammered, “I never thought to see you alive.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I was going to be alive when the Allies liberated us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now it’s going to take all he’s got to keep Peeta alive in an arena full of his old friends, and he’ll probably fail. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Great skill would have to be exercised, Lavender told herself, and great secrecy observed if she was to come out of this exploit alive. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mist hung in the air—hazy shreds of white that coiled and undulated as if they were alive. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I can see it, that there won’t ever be any babies born alive. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She was right there, but they didn’t even notice she was alive She was scared about what they said and I heard her talking to my mama about it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’d never have worry about being gleaned either.... A scythe’s family is immune from gleaning for as long as that scythe’s alive.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I think I might get off this planet alive. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no saying they had to go up the river to stay alive. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘I’m glad to be alive. And, yeah, I love you too. You did awesome.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There’s such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, and the greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else is life. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her arms stretched all along it, alive, like lichen. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

And mutants in the very first steps of embryogenesis were nearly impossible to capture alive since the embryos, with scrambled heads and tails, died instantly. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Cringes of fear seized her soles as something alive, rumbling, climbed the foot of the bed. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish sud-denly that I can be one or the other: truly alive or else truly dead. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But we're going to do everything we can to bring him home alive." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those words became the vehicle that drove my spirit forward and made it stay alive. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Still alive, he was captured by the Russians. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She didn’t say it, but I imagine she was grateful I was still alive—that all three of her children who were at church were alive. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Inigo didn’t much want to answer that, since it might have sounded strange admitting they’d only met once alive, and then to duel to the death. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Then don’t bury me alive,” he had answered. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Smith said he wanted me alive and well when he returned to James Town. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was twilight, and the air was alive with drifting fireflies. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And to try to keep us from eating our babies alive or dropping them into dumpsters. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After eight years of solitary confinement in the dark, and after prolonged torture, he was burnt alive in one of the main squares of Rome, the Campo de’ Fiori, on 17 February 1600. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The old man’s medical skills and his caring words kept the boy alive. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“If Joseph is alive, it is in spite of the bleeding, not because of it.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t see anyone but Sarai, bright in his mind, laughing, beautiful, and alive—as though picturing her that way proved that she was. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When the Sixers found out I was still alive, they would come back here looking for me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The field was alive with the whine of insects, and briefly, that’s all we could hear. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh Father Abbot! Is he alive? He doesn’t seem to be moving.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Dylan did his about lightning, which was dull, because lightning isn’t alive, and besides, all he did was explain what different kinds of lightning looked like. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“If your mother were alive, she’d say that those who always win are going to win again,” Senator Trueba replied disdainfully. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s an attempt to set a backfire to his own empathy—whatever it takes to prevent his conscience from burning him alive. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I wouldn't care if it was just for an hour, as long as I was properly alive and awake. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I think when we looked at each other in the candlelight, it was the first time I was glad to be alive. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

But this girl was alive, though her eyes stayed closed and her fingers clenched as if she still felt the splintery mast in them. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Before she began her work, there were many stories coming from the plant about cows that were still alive when they were being skinned and butchered. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

That was pretty powerful for someone who couldn't even keep a houseplant alive. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I had no guarantees, nothing to give to keep my mother alive. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“There’s no time to debate this. I’m sorry. If the girls are to get out of there alive, they need to move now.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The air smelled fresh and icy and like a particular type of vegetation I’d never learned the name of, but the scent of which seemed to come alive only in the late evenings. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

McCormick nevertheless volunteered to go there to try to collect some human blood and bring the strain back alive to Atlanta. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When your whole world is a cheesy, prepackaged rehearsal for being alive, like middle school, a kid your own age who can pilot a twenty-ton bus is impressive. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It is morning, and I write by a fire which all the night I have kept alive—Madam Mina aiding me. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

You manage to stay alive okay without me? The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The ship of death was surprisingly very much alive. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had barely stood up, however, when a door opened and Hagrid squeezed through it, his face covered in mud and blood, limping a little but miraculously alive. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The sounds in our apartment come alive at night. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“You’ll have to fight your way through, find our friends—assuming they’re okay—find this map, and get everybody back alive. All on your own?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I guess I must have been distracted by keeping your little friends alive. While you were...what, again? Getting Mags killed off?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I want to be alive when I’m fifteen and I want the shilling tip. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Metias would kill you for this, Thomas, if he were alive. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

‘Where are you going? Glad to see you again, and still alive!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The thing was just barely alive, its heart slowed almost to nothing, beating maybe once per minute. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

His eyes were bright and alive with excitement. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Did you check other towns? Did you see anything alive?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d make me mow it down a second time and then I’d be grounded for another year—if I was still alive. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The building came alive with rushing men, shouting and asking questions, running for their horses or their wagons. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

When this version comes out, I expect every Florinese scholar alive to slaughter me. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The house, which was normally alive and full of creaking, clattering sounds, was still, like a grave. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the wildlings are still alive, it may be we can bring them in. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think it’s so important. I’m just glad as hell to be getting out of there alive.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only know that I must get back to Peeta and keep him alive. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two thousand years of training kept her alive. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Still, she held back, and the worry was alive in her face. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath all that, she was flesh and bone and smiling and alive. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She was bleeding from a gash in her chest, but she was alive. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was green and amber and alive, quivering in splotches on the padded ground, fanning into sturdy stripes between the tree trunks. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “I stayed in the car alone about twenty-five or thirty minutes, until they returned. Anna Brown was not with them, and I never saw her alive again.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"Come on, Papi," his daughters coaxed him, as if it were a modesty of his, to perish, and they had to talk him into staying alive. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Fifty feet of fall into shallow water, and he was alive. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It made me feel alive to lace up my rugby boots. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Bodies once alive, then lifeless, seemed to live again as the bullets tore into the dead flesh and made it dance in the afternoon sun. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Asher suffered some cuts and bruises from broken glass, as did Roshan, but miraculously, all of us came out of it alive. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But then, just as quickly, it leapt alive again, beating with hope. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I’m being reassured with every breath that I’m more than just alive. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Were they always there? When your mother was alive?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And I will not let my brother be burned alive. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But when I turned back around, the pavement was alive, blanketed green by bouncing frogs. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It had nothing to do with me, but I couldn't help wondering what it would be like, being burned alive all along your nerves. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“My father will skin me alive. All right, what do we do now?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘We must have a look and see what the hammer and the anvil have done to you. I still marvel that you are alive at all.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Shalimar left his, but it was the children who sang about it and kept the story of his leaving alive. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s still alive, but he was wounded badly, and when I last left him in the medical tent, he was still unconscious. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

One of them must have been alive only a few minutes ago. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When Jem explained their mission, Dill said, “If he’s been lost for that long, how do they know he’s alive?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

All I was doing was trying to keep Peeta and myself alive. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps not at all, perhaps he had just been alive one second, and dead the next, without any pain in between. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Some deep instinct made me reach out and grab his arm, hold it tightly as if I could keep him right where he was, alive and sound. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Being alive is no comfort when your family is dead. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“He’s a hot shot down here among the grits. A good Yankee guard would eat him alive.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milo was a sweetly hopeless town—commercially forlorn, far from anywhere and barely alive, but curiously likeable. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Con asked: “If we do not kill her—if Elowen remains alive—what will happen?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was alive when women wore those ridiculous clothes with the big shoulder pads and the nipped-in waists, with peplums over their bums like backward aprons. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Next they said he was alive but gravely wounded. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“He’s still alive, Bast. He brought it back. There was only one.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Yet somehow, after five cruel winters of war, I was still alive. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Grandmother was still in the village, and Masvita was still alive. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Miss Celia, just say something so I know you still alive in there.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

That meant her other friends were probably still alive below deck. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

All around her she felt the Wood breathing, her senses alive. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then no one noticed that she was still screaming when they buried her alive. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But when she asked what kind of cancer her mother had, what treatments the doctors gave her, and what part of her was still alive, the family had no answers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Chicago is finally beginning to thaw—most of the snow has melted, except for a few dirty patches—and everyone looks brighter, more alive. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I doubt that any other man alive can make this claim.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The children wanted to take Paige upstairs, isolate her, and have her speak to them with the directness and the concealed softness about the chances of their father being alive. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

No promised peace could ever have persuaded her captain to permit Brown Ben Plumm to stroll back into Meereen and leave alive. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For a second, she wasn’t sure if he was even alive. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

But I was alive and now I knew my father was alive. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Milkman softened his description of Circe, saying simply that she was alive, and taking care of the dogs. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of a helicopter glided something that was not machine, not animal, not dead, not alive, glowing with a pale green luminosity. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he didn’t get food and water, could he stay alive? The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“For the same reason the rest of us agreed to die to keep you alive,” says Finnick. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember their song because their song was my comfort, my lullaby. They kept me alive.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure your friend isn’t still angry with you, either, whatever happened when she was alive. You’re a top-notch, excellent person. I can tell.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I can scarcely believe you’re really here, alive, standing before me. I thought you were dead.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It’s like my very first memory, which I guess is the first time I was aware that I was alive. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

When I was younger than you, me and June and May—and April, too, because she was still alive then—all of us would visit our grandmother for the whole summer. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always remembered it was the truth told by those reporters who came to Little Rock that kept me alive. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To find them, if they were alive; and if they were dead, to settle the anguish once and for all. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was still robot like, but his eyes had become more alive. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your dad’s still alive,” Ali said, like I didn’t know that. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“It was very . . . hard — you can’t imagine how hard — for me to simply take you away, and leave them . . . alive.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Goi told our mother, “I found a man who talked about a Nyarweng named John today. He said John is alive.” Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Them dogs would eat you alive if they could. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

What would I have done to keep them alive if I could? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I cry because I am the only one of us still alive. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s alive, you know,” says the master-at-arms—a seasoned crewman in charge of the cannon, with unpleasant tattoos up and down his arms. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

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

Then they’d douse him with petrol and set him on fire and burn him alive. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“So does that mean Grandpa is alive for sure?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He stayed quiet until he had a fully formulated response, one that would keep her interest alive without quite satiating it. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

And William Hale, who campaigned for stamping out the criminal element from Osage County, promised his own reward to anyone who caught the killers, dead or alive. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The applause had been thunderous, the auditorium coming alive with yells of praise and whistles and joyful hoots. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it is because it does not feel as though Tara Burgess is entirely gone, when her sister sits alive and well. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

So that neither she nor the alive love of her will fade or scab over the way it had with Violet. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My senses are alive with the taste of her, the smell of her, the feel of her, the sound of her breathing, the sight of her as she pulls her body away from mine. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Only one percent of a fully grown tree is actually alive at any one time. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I imagine watching Gale volunteering to save Rory in the reaping, having him torn from my life, becoming some strange girl’s lover to stay alive, and then coming home with her. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

History lives, it dies, and it comes alive again as the soaking-wet, mangled, and bloodied corpse of a Mexican ranch hand. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He thought that what she meant was in some way comparable to being a foundling at Zemonan Abbey: alive, but not living a life. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I was too much alive: car, college, dating, etc. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But anyhow' it was alive; it crept about within his closed hand, not biting him: as with most small spiders, its mandibles could not puncture human skin. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Harry could smell burnt wood and dog hair; he put out a hand and felt Fang’s reassuringly warm and alive body quivering beside him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

And not only was he alive, but his breath was much less shallow. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined all the frogs Stan and I had paid for, beneath the ice, motionless bumps on a muddy bottom, more dead than alive, hanging in a cold, dark limbo until next spring. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Those who die on the battlefield are not dead, but are alive!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But still, I felt painfully alive, like every cell in my body had a little flame inside it, burning so brightly it hurt. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But suppose, let’s just suppose that some small spark in your brain remained alive, and knew what was going on. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned to the other two and said, ‘Stay here, and look alive, too. I’m going round the sentries.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every so often they stopped to drink firewater, which kept them alive, but Annabeth wasn’t happy about it. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When she was around, he felt alive and believed things would be all right. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As she remains there, I come back a few times to check she’s still alive, but I can always hear her breathing. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He looked for Garnett ahead; he might be afoot, might still be alive. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was alive, though just barely, his eyes glassy, his face sunken and white. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I make small stirring noises, so he knows I’m awake, alive. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“When Frank Sinatra was alive he’d be dining with a bunch of mafiosos every night, but you guys never brought him in for questioning.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Even if that boy Link got me later for stealing his car, I was alive and on my way for now. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, all the clocks were alive, and they were dancing to classical music. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“But if Voldemort used the Killing Curse,” Harry started again, “and nobody died for me this time—how can I be alive?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Flying in silver moonlight in a plane that can’t be landed, stuck in the climb—alive, alive, ALIVE. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Sick and weak, he had walked almost three hundred miles to come to this clinic, and was barely alive by the time he finally arrived. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

All he needed was a messenger, someone to tell his wife that he was alive. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Climb!” he screamed into the intercom at McWatt when he saw he was still alive. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

With every flex of her foot or contraction of her muscles, she came wondrously alive, blood pumping, emotions playing across her face. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Engulfed and burning alive, they ran out into the woods, sure to set the whole forest on fire. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Proof: I remained alive day after day, week after week. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

"You heard the lady. She said we have five days to show them that our son is alive and well." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked ten times more alive than most of the people one meets in London. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

At first she thought it was the bear, clanging the oatmeal pot against the furniture, but then the tiny attic came alive with girls. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

But as the dust settled and their house came into view—or what was left of it—any hope of finding them alive seemed to fade. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But giving to other people is what makes me feel alive. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Won’t even be a worm left alive on that beach by the time we get there.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hurried off the plaza and across the rock garden, where several students gaped at him, surprised to see him still alive. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

When she was once more pronounced legally alive, she awoke to the unfamiliar but professionally friendly face of a revival nurse checking her vitals. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“And you’ll need all your wits if you want to get out of Serra alive.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Grandma comes and tells Mam she has to get up.There are children dead, she says, but there are children alive and they need their mother. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can start slow by following each other on Instagram again and keeping the group chat thread alive. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I always answer “Hey,” even if he was mean to me when he was alive. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“He’s alive! And your cousin has probably sent him word that you’re alive, too!” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

"The wolfswood," Benjen Stark called it, and indeed their nights came alive with the howls of distant packs, and some not so distant. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I just wanted to make it home alive in something that still resembled a Saturn. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It’s the sight of me, alive, that is the inspiration. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

SCORPIUS: The “Mudblood” death camps, the torture, the burning alive of those that oppose him. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

He was arrested and tortured on the order of Pope Alexander VI and finally burnt alive in May 1498, on the very same site in Florence where he had lit his infamous Bonfire. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The mate grimaced, sensing only half of the captain’s body, unattached to a torso but still moving, still alive. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And as the old house had been when his mother was alive, the new house was always filled with music. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There was no rational explanation for how I was alive at this moment. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The llano had come alive with spring, and it was comforting to walk in the hills and see the new birth take root and come-alive-green. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room is so much more alive with Olly in it. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to stay alive, right here in my comfortable manure pile with all my friends. I want to breathe the beautiful air and lie in the beautiful sun.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

From this, the doctors can tell not only whether you are dead or alive but whether you are resting or working hard, or whether there is something wrong with your heart. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is used up to make bones or feathers or fur, or just to keep the steer or chicken alive. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe we’d be upstairs right now, in my closet, me wrapped in a blanket and drinking cocoa, Dismay sitting across from me with his big dog mouth panting, so glad to be alive. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“All clear. We’re getting closer, so buck up and look alive.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Then, being endowed with many virtues that made him venerable, while he was alive he always held both the one order and the other within their limits, and he was never either hated or despised. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Thirteen years after Golden Gray stiffened himself to look at that girl, the harm she could do was still alive. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their smoky glow flickered redly over the scraps and tatters of building material, as if they were the last remaining flames of a great conflagration, staying alive out of pure malice. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the KKK circulated flyers offering ten thousand dollars dead and five thousand dollars alive for each of us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

How did she know he was still alive? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Nothing like a good puke to make you feel alive again,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Adrastus, the only one alive of the seven who had started the war, came to Theseus, King of Athens, to beseech him to induce the Thebans to allow the bodies to be buried. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dug them up, being careful to leave their plants alive. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And since the face in the casket did not look like Samuel’s face, Adam walked away to be by himself and to preserve the man alive. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And Boo would remain caged forever—if he was even alive. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Anything alive in the mucus would be preserved temporarily. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Last night I dreamed my brother was alive again. We were jousting before some great lord, riding Crunch and Pretty Pig, and men were throwing roses at us. We were so happy...” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I think not. A wight never would’ve let you take him alive.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“I was just trying to stay alive,” said Horan, “do what I had to do.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Even when the sun had been trying to boil him alive a year past, he seemed to be ready with a joke. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Harry looked into the shadowed eyes of Sirius Black, the only part of the sunken face that seemed alive. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The sky is alive with lightning, feeding on the earth’s heat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of you l'm alive, Mom/ and I'm so, so grateful for that. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He did what was required to make sure they escaped alive. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The raft seemed to come alive, turn into a wild, crazy animal. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. Owens had never been much for reading when they were alive, and there were no alphabet books in the graveyard. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Both of them came alive instantly at the strange scent. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The third one felt like carnivorous dinosaur skin and I would be eaten alive. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The embarrassing truth: I was the only one who stayed in that cabin because I wasn’t supposed to be .alive. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

All he could focus on was how fast he was falling, and that these were going to be his last seconds alive. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Although the community greenbelts are still alive, people’s lawns look like the lawns in our neighborhood. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He didn’t question any more but ate greedily, glad to be alive and eating so well. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It must have been the longest tail of any rat alive. He held it in his claw as if it were a whip.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I had crossed a line, and whatever little hope I had of getting out alive had vanished with those words. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘It’s medicinal. Should keep you alive and alert for a few more hours.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

To be here now, alive in the twenty-first century and smart enough to know it, you also had to be the beneficiary of an extraordinary string of biological good fortune. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I saw Prince Jones, one last time, alive and whole. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes. You better ask them. Maybe he not dead, maybe he is. Maybe neither dead nor alive.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandmother infuriated him sometimes; but still, she was his only living family, the only person alive who loved him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was shaved, and even though his skin was still dry, he seemed to be way more alive than he had been on the train. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You make me feel alive, Alter. You always have.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We used to raise them on our farm when Papa was alive. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could it be he’d find his mother alive and well in just a matter of moments? The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

There must have been some seed he left, to cause a child’s vacant fairy-tale to come alive in that garden. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He doesn’t look alive; he looks ridiculous. Men don’t wear makeup, Juanita.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“He’s out of surgery now. I’m just glad he’s alive.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He would not have permitted another male in his territory had he been alive. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The professor was gone, the city was gone, and here she was under the beautiful stars—alone, alive. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They bolted ahead, sleek and sure, and their energy made the sleigh feel alive. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“No, Hermione, I know it was an accident. You were trying to get us out of there alive, and you were incredible. I’d be dead if you hadn’t been there to help me.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Then at twelve thirty-seven, to put it formally, M. Ratchett was alive. That is one fact, at least.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the sea winds caught the glider and lifted it upward toward the sun, veering and soaring like a thing alive, pulling stubbornly at the string. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those years she felt it was one of the pulses that kept Malcolm alive on campuses, in community centers, and on cultural occasions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dr. Martin said I am the reason the baby is alive. That’s just as important as saving the house that you and Frank built.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We had been told that people had been scattered when the fighting started in Southern Sudan, so we kept hoping that our parents were still alive, that one day they would make it to Pinyudu. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d take her double position at shortstop and second base and yell out to the rest of us, “Look alive, you bunch of stiffs.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I discovered that Uncle Lee had been in jail longer than I had been alive. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I don’t even know if you’re alive and whom you love now. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d stayed up all night, trying every trick he knew to keep her alive. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The impulse to reach for him was so strong, but she couldn’t, and her mouth was alive with questions that she had no way to ask. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I wonder if I’d called the police back when I was ten or thirteen or fifteen, would Charlie be alive now. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Thank God you’re alive! The whole thing’s horrible. Horrible, horrible, horrible!” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

They pull back a series of curtains, revealing a glass wall and a magnificent garden alive with roses of every color, flowers of every shape, and plants of every kind. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They could not sleep because it was their last night alive. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

As a way of disposing of them easily and agreeably she declared that she would marry whoever could beat her in a foot race, knowing well that there was no such man alive. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want your tsar’s reward, and I leave no dragon alive.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

That night, when the dream starts, my father is still alive. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“So what’s in the cage? No, don’t tell me. The only other nonmagical creature in the Lower Elements. And the first troll we’ve managed to take alive in over a century.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Some kids I knew from Hillpark walked by, looking shocked to see me alive. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

If its mother is still alive, it goes back to her. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ebola kills a great deal of tissue while the host is still alive. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The yard was alive to the clack of wood on wood, punctuated all too often by thwacks and yowls of pain when a blow struck leather or flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was last known to be alive at 12:37 last night, when he spoke to the Wagon Lit conductor through the door. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kanue, Natnael, and especially Mandela had put their hopes and energy into this new version of their team, and Luma wondered if she was setting them up for failure by keeping the season alive. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

So big and strong, as alive as a tree. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“My poncho that I had spread on the ground beneath my hammock was literally alive with them,” Cherrie wrote in his diary. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

When Finn reminded him that, duh, of course the corn was alive, all plants were alive, Miguel replied that the corn sounded alive alive. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The world around us is alive with color, albeit even those of us who are not colorblind see only a relatively narrow band of the actual light spectrum. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You cut the mother’s ears off while he still alive and kicking — then you doing something.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Queen knew that every pure Mack cat had a certain bone in it, which, if it were held in the mouth after boiling the cat alive, was able to make you invisible. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How do we even know that the person who killed my family is still alive? That he’s out there?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the replacement teacher was ordered to keep the boy alive. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They didn’t tear out his hair or burn him alive. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laughed, and thought how, with her, he was as he had never been with another woman: amused, alert, alive. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A grisly pale thing with black fingers, it was, that twitched and stirred in its jar as if it were still alive. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The trip back home had been a happy one, and the other children were wide-eyed with joy to see Timothy alive. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“All I could think of was being burned alive,” he admitted later. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Being alive and God and if me and Flaca were maybe even meant to be and would get married someday and I’d introduce her to my moms. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But as he grew, it stayed where it was, red and visible and alive. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But I thought better of bringing them to the plantation house; they had a much better chance of staying alive in the abandoned village, away from people. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

And as silly and ridiculous as Virgil was, she wanted to know he was alive and breathing. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

In those days there were many who could do such things, but Selitos was the most powerful namer of anyone alive in that age. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The bird looked much smaller dead than it had alive. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bird, the clear spring and voice within him was still alive—that was why he rejoiced, that was why he laughed, that was why his face was radiant under his gray hair. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I thought that she was still alive until the doctor said the police would be out to talk to me. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they have orders to bring me in alive so they can torture me into incriminating every person I ever knew. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He is alive,” she said, with a smile that seemed somewhere south of sane, “in you.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“We need an army of warriors to come and unfasten the locks, kill our captors, return us to our homes, and bring our families and friends back to us, alive and smiling.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And because of that, her family had no idea her cells were alive. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“But he was alive,” I tried to argue. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Burnham and Millet were among the few builders of the fair still alive. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“They believe more in staying alive—” her mother began. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Two of the oldest men alive were brawling in the street, tangled up in each other and Uncle Grady’s sword, their small fists throwing pi incites. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

And he thought, too, how warm he was and how happy he felt and how lucky he was to be alive. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Only the visible effort to take air into her lungs showed that she was alive. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the color had returned to her face; once more she looked—at least briefly—alive. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then, as our drinks were placed before us, Brother Jack came alive, his mood changing as though in the instant he had settled whatever had been bothering him and felt suddenly free. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been years since I’d even allowed myself the fantasy of imaging he was still alive, and yet here we were, together. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It carried with it the whiff of a father that he remembered from before, when he was small and his mother was still alive. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

At the last minute I change my wish: All I want is to be alive next year. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Each barrette looked purposeful, alive, as if it were busy receiving messages from very far away. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Gran had done everything in her power while she was alive to protect our family and keep me and Jay from knowing how much danger we were in every day. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

His eyes were open, but he was so still that I did not know if he was dead or alive. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean? Has there been any mistake; has she been buried alive?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He seems indifferent to most of what I have to say, alive only to the possibilities of my body, though he watches me while I’m speaking. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again, Magdalys was struck with the heart-wrenching feeling that she shouldn’t be there, shouldn’t be alive, shouldn’t be the one to get away. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It seemed like everything that was alive stopped whatever it was doing and was wondering the same thing: What was that noise? The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could just hear his voice, the only indication that he was alive. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

This stampede is impossible to get through and I can’t reach Rufus and I’m not going to be able to touch him again while he’s still alive. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But somehow the sun rises, the Nazis go to work, and we are all alive. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Going to a hospital will alert the Scythedom that I’m still alive.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I perceived no walls, no ceiling, no floor, yet that I was alive proved that some kind of barriers protected me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

His one mistake was leaving Captain Short alive. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

If their mothers had only waited until the next morning to drive back over that deserted mountain road, they might still be alive to scold their own daughters about the dangers of driving at night. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t make sense because it hadn’t been that long since I’d seen you, and you were as alive as anyone then. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In spite of her wish to spare the world, did she wish he were alive again? Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harmony made from chords came alive in his four-part vocal music, even if some of his note combinations sound accidental rather than intentional. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He pushed himself to his knees, and they hugged, both hysterical with happiness that they were alive. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“They took your mom to Doha’s father’s medical clinic. Go find her there. She was badly injured, but she’s alive.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Penelope and I were so happy to be alive, and so happy to be alive TOGETHER, even if we were only a semi-hot item, and we danced every single dance. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The air felt like it did before a severe thunderstorm: alive with unimaginable power. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She ran down the hillside in her bare feet, feeling the earth alive beneath her toes, her nightgown flying behind her in white linen wings. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt they made his paintings look more alive. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

So much had changed in seven months...she wondered how the gods could stand being alive for thousands of years. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But the unzipped backpack, leaning against the leg of a desk chair—and the sheets, balled in the middle of the mattress—made me feel like he was alive. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“The mosquitos will eat you two alive if you stay out here much longer.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I was used to hunger and I did not need much food to keep me alive. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His children got impatient with him for remaining alive.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I found him sitting in the garden putting little green beetles in holes he dug, burying them alive. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Of course. All of Tartarus flows down to one place: his heart. The Doors of Death are there. But you cannot make it there alive with only Iapetus.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The kite seemed to glow and vibrate as if it were alive and breathing in my fathers hands. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He often thought that it might have been better for all his dead soldiers to be alive—even if they had lived under tyranny and madness—rather than be quite dead. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a solitary, somewhat premature version of the future she and her husband had planned when he was alive. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

What was surprising was the speed with which her relief that Robbie was alive was supplanted by her dread of confronting him. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I had no idea if it was money being passed or favors and the right to stay alive. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“What would Uncle Reed say to you, if he were alive?” was my scarcely voluntary demand. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Every morning, Ifemelu woke up and checked to make sure that Obama was still alive. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“The answer to your first question is yes, technically speaking, I am R. M. Wildsmith. Or as close as anyone alive could be. The answer to the second is more complicated.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Emotions swirled in his head—relief that Harrison was alive, disappointment that his manuscript was buried in Nsukka, anxiety about the fate of Port Harcourt. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We certainly don’t talk about when they were alive. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Am I alive only because Ruth May is dead? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

How many men are still alive who were there at Blackhaven? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For her, they were a kind of poetry that connected her to larger worlds, worlds alive and infinite. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t get around the unfathomable reality that Giti wasn’t alive anymore. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

But Luba Luft had seemed genuinely alive; it had not worn the aspect of a simulation. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“She knew the Drevlians would kill him, so she acted first. She sent troops to the Drevlian capital and burned it to the ground, leaving no one alive.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Now I am on the other side of that night and can tell the story, so perhaps I am still alive, though I feel no sign of it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would have looked at me in scorn, smiling that freezing, superior smile of hers, and I can imagine her saying: “There were never any complaints when Mrs. de Winter was alive.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

If I had the power to conjure them at my birthday celebration...Robbie and Cecilia, still alive, still in love, sitting side by side in the library, smiling at The Trials of Arabella? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She had known it would happen fast, but could not quite believe that eleven days ago Pauline had been alive. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then the whole world comes alive with the sound. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Didn’t matter, though—it was still an awful feeling not to be able to get by on our own, as we had when Papa was alive. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly a hundred of the two hundred thousand children who rode the trains are still alive. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The father who named them is no longer alive. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Unlike everyone else, Len just stands there, looking relieved to be alive. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The child is alive, I heard the cry, I heard it,” somebody said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Things could be a lot worse. I did get away from them. I'm still alive. So is Bruno." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I know Ma misses him and believes he is alive somewhere. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was still alive—green and shivering, barely breathing, but alive. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

On Sunday, as soon as I woke up, I could tell it was going to be one of those days where the temperature is so high that you wonder how anything can still be alive. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They could keep telling us he was alive, but it wouldn’t feel true until he was right in front of us, joking like usual. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Will moved down warily in case there was someone still alive and hiding. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was still alive when I got back, though he had not moved from the place where I had left him. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until now, he had never imagined Hen Wen might not be alive. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

As long as she was alive, however, she needed to pay back her father. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It’s the kind of cold that reminds you that you’re alive, that you have a whole day stretching out ahead of you and you just never know what it will hold. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I can't tell which shocks her more . . . that I'm alive or that John seems to know all about it. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

As a small sign of Their displeasure, They ate his daughter alive. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was at the railroad plant and yards, he asked the foreman, "How are these poor people keeping alive? They appear to me to be starved." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He wanted to keep it just in case—but he was still hopeful of escaping alive. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But it was frightening; or, more exactly, it was like a foretaste of death, like being a little less alive. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

My father added a section on edible plants that was my guidebook to keeping us alive after his death. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the storm finally broke, only Diemberger and one other person made it down alive. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know if your daughter was alive when you spoke to her?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

If they had not become the cooks, he was not sure either of them would still be alive. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

His handsome face was devoid of mockery or malice, and was instead intent, alive, and fascinated. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I think of the pastness of the past: how the moment I am alive in, prisoned in, moves like a slowly tumbling form through darkness, the underground river. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been thinking about him ever since the first explosion, and then we found someone and they weren’t alive, and it made me think...” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The avenues are alive with people, late afternoon. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

At his touch, my skin comes alive as if warmed by the sun. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

You could at least show you know I’m alive. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

And how has he stayed alive all these days since? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Now my feet have saved me too often, and I can’t separate running and fighting from what they are: a way to escape danger, a way to stay alive. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“At least they know they are dead. You don’t even know you’re alive.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As he added branches to keep the faltering flames alive, he watched the rain pelt the icy slate- gray waters of the bay. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“But why? I saved her life. I’m not a bad person. And I’m just like her. I’m alive too.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“If I had forgiven him,” I say, “do you think he would be alive now?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And in the firelight her lips and her eyes were alive with her fear. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place was alive with vermin and the smell of cooking hung in the air day and night. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so I begin to question if I even really deserve to be loved at all—and if I don’t deserve to be loved, then perhaps I don’t deserve to be alive. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He would take him prisoner and bring him back alive to Cluny. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was only by bartering gasoline for groceries that he managed to keep his family alive. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is itself an act of defiance. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

His mother wasn't even alive, and I knew that. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Le Fevre argued that the picture was fine art, and that his intention was to make Greek mythology come alive. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Were any of them alive to see the towers fall down? Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was afraid we’d end up eating dandelions, digging wild turnips and grubs out of the ground to stay alive. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no need to pretend these stone snakes were real; their eyes looked strangely alive. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“You have kept him alive so that he can die at the right moment?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Eisenhower, now fully alive to the limitations of the scientific advice Strauss had been feeding him, disingenuously asked him to explain the discord in the scientific community about the efficacy of monitoring. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I suppose the mice went right on tunneling to the grasses and the mosses and had no trouble staying alive, but I did wonder how The Baron Weasel was doing. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I feel like I’m only halfway alive. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When he returned safely to his people they crowded about him, surprised to see him alive. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

With no coat, no money, no contacts, and no idea of where he should go, it was a formidable task simply to stay alive. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I know that I can’t go off to New Orleans, like Khalid was never alive—like he never existed at all. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Beside him was Sirius, carelessly handsome, his slightly arrogant face so much younger and happier than Harry had ever seen it alive. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

All John was doing was opening his arms and in his own way saying: “Look at me, world! Look at my life and energy and how glad I am to be alive!” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“They kept me alive,” said Omakayas, to herself, not quite understanding her own words. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

His short stubby fingers were touching the instrument with what looked to Coram like the tenderness of a lover, as if he thought it was alive. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Could deliver you alive and wriggling, then. Or pop your head into a jar and pickle it.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Standing on the roadside, I watch Emmett alive again, living in his old world. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

But since this fish still alive, me and Lally discussing whether to take him home or throw him back. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, in moments of great anxiety and disappointment, I wondered if God was alive anymore, or if He ever had been. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ignatia knew that the wearer could put the boots on and off as wanted, but there would be no removing the boots by force as long as the wearer was alive. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Perhaps bigger than this, with two, three, or half a dozen people still alive. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“My mother’s alive, but—yes, I consider myself an orphan.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

And then he lands, and it’s horrible, awful, because the hit and the landing instantly turn the animal—beautifully alive and running across the road just a moment ago—into a gruesome, bent corpse. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Why was he insisting that she was alive, taking me on this search and breaking my heart all over again? How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was a crushing day for Nguyen: they were alive, but torn from the other half of her family, and from their homeland. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I do not want your pity,” she said savagely, “nor does my husband. He is alive and well—he is living with another.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since that day, I have been forbidden from causing any more phone calls home unless I am burning alive with a fever or projectile vomiting. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“One dead person to another, girlie? I wouldn’t be talking. You started this whole thing! If it weren’t for you, Alcyoneus wouldn’t be alive!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then I asked him about that guy I read about who was supposed to be the fastest man alive. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He leaves and I lean against the door and feel every electron in my body vibrating, alive. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she keep on, You got to fight You got to fight But I don’t know how to fight All I know how to do is stay alive. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cupped my hands around my eyes and felt the glass hum with hammering as if it were alive. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

For one more day at least, she was alive. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“At least we know they’re alive and where they are. And now we know what we have to do.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They’d stop their laughing if they knew her true name, if they knew that this “jewel thief” could skin them alive without a knife. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Mr. Prentiss Jr., alive and well and untied and back on his horse. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

One, every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

With anguish and a stark glimmer of...something—redemption?—he whispered, “She's alive.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I should have seen her for what she was. Now let’s just worry about keeping Percy alive until next fall—” The mythology book dropped out of my hand and hit the floor with a thud. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Blowed if I can see anything funny about a couple of heroes wanting to be fed so that they can stay alive. Takes all kinds to make a world, young feller, other ranks included.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I didn’t expect to have this chance again—to be able to turn pages and learn new things and keep my mind alive. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Sarah’s not stupid but even if I was alive, we wouldn’t live in the same world. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“I was surprised to discover you were still alive,” he says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment I'm glad that my mother isn't alive to see me like this. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s elementary grammar. The human specifically stated that entry was forbidden as long as he was alive. That’s tantamount to an invitation when he’s dead.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They were like the eyes of the animals at the natural history museum, who were hollowed out and stuffed and posed and placed in some habitat and made to look like they were still alive. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

By the time the sun grows bright again, no one is left alive on Earth to feel its warmth. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

"At least I am still alive. I was lucky to have fallen in Faerie. And I think I was probably lucky to have met you." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

His remaining eye moves back and forth beneath his eyelid—he’s alive, for now. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“She's alive! She eats and is whole, with no parts broken. Go and tell. And stay off now till she's rested good! She don't need the likes of you laughing and shouting about!” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It would take as long as she was alive, I thought. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The crash is over and I am alive, he thought. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slips down down, to be eaten alive by The Beast. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“All alive,” he said in a loud voice. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She'd had to keep them alive—four babies in her care, inside a crime scene of corpses and ghosts, and herself just a traumatized child. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Do you think they would take you back alive to say they had stolen it?” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most obvious is that a negative statement such as The king is not dead is harder on the reader than an affirmative one like The king is alive. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But there are no trilobites alive today; there have been none for 200 million years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man stood just a few paces away, so still, so unbelievably, completely still, that he barely seemed to be alive. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Still, he was alive and so were his brother and sisters. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Tayo realized then that as long as Josiah and Rocky had been alive, he had never known Robert except as a quiet man in the house that belonged to old Grandma and Auntie. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No, that won’t do. There’s not a scratch on him. Well, leave him, anyway. We’ve got to get on, and a rabbit this size isn’t going to make any difference, dead or alive.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to be irritated, but found that he was so relieved to be alive he could only smile. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought we’d start in the freezer room so I can show you how we store your mother’s cells, then we can go look at them alive under a microscope.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“It was back in the eighties. Siobhan was still alive. Came to the dedication and everything.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He crawled into the tent, his body aching but his mind alive, playing back the events of the day. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

For the greater part of the day, Howie stayed in his hotel room with a team of security guards outside his door, all armed; fame gave him this life, but it won’t keep him alive. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He said, “I heard that a whole home ec class got buried alive in Portable 18. They’re just not telling us.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I say it again, because I told myself lies for so long, and now my body is still and my breath is steady and I feel alive with the truth. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Now that I knew Vonetta was alive and would be home any minute, I could enjoy the fact that there would soon be one more of us. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

They would have learned that Henrietta’s cells were still alive, that they’d been taken, bought, sold, and used in research without her knowledge or theirs. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen Max look this alive. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The world is a dead thing for them the trees and rivers are not alive the mountains and stones are not alive. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Doing your part to keep the great American gossip industry alive?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The homestead is still there, but I am the only one still alive that has memories of living there. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decide to keep the shirt to remind me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The hogs, some still alive, were dipped next in a vat of boiling water, then scraped clean of bristle—the bristle saved in bins below the scraping tables. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He pushed her down to the water, and once again he felt as if this inanimate thing was joyously coming alive as she met her own element. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I wanted to let them know I was alive. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The type who would beat someone up until he’s more dead than alive?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

But we had all learned something about dying, and about trying to keep each other alive. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The difference was that if they were alive, they could not go out, and he could. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Mary Willis, how I wish your ma was alive to see this miracle! You and Will come outside and look!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“He saw that the animal did not look at him accusingly. He saw that the animal had been treated with respect while it was alive and that it could have a respectful death.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

‘We might succeed in roasting Pippin alive inside.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Another voice, hesitant and so faint Coraline wondered if she were imagining it, said, “Art thou—art thou alive?” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

As he heaved his huge body onto the figure, the wood groaned as if the beast were coming alive. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking about the Circle Justice meetings brought Cole’s anger alive once more. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Thanks. I’d love to know—I didn’t think the first owner would still be alive.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“The boy’s alive. Now let me help him.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

‘They succeeded in their mission. As of this moment they are alive. Whether or not they are okay - ‘There is still work to be done,’ Queen Hera interrupted. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They hoped I might keep the family tradition alive. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My thought was that if you know how to keep tissue alive there must be some way of equalizing the reserve supply to the area of the throat and face.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But because of someone under Conger’s command, it was obvious Booth was not going back to Washington alive. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two bright braziers sparked alive, slanting into eyes. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There’s not much left now—an ounce, maybe two—not enough to quench anyone’s thirst, but maybe enough to keep my brother alive. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When Grandpa was alive he had a list of like fifty pen pals he met on-line and e-mailed regularly. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“A man named Latimer said that to a man named Nicholas Ridley, as they were being burnt alive at Oxford, for heresy, on October 16, 1555.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dead or alive, he meant to have his way. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

After nearly a week of being cooked alive and shaken out of my skin I'm irritable and in no mood to deal with a bunch of toothless bullies. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Thlayli! Shall we mate with whom we choose and dig our own burrows and bear our litters alive?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it were not so, there would not be one man alive from Flanders to the Vosges. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do feel alive, like I’m shaking off old skin. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

"The girl from District Two. She's still alive, right?" he says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I want him to keep me alive the same way he did my mother. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh God yes, the place is alive with them.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were still alive, and yet they circled. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my cases against the Mosses and the state were still alive, and we received notice that Mr. and Mrs. Moss were going to give their depositions. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I’m in the middle of a page and I see your face on it—not blurred like those in my past, but clear and alive. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You told me that my father was alive. Now you’re giving me some New Age mumbo jumbo about him living in me.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He was grateful to be alive and to have his future back. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t have the decency to keep their memories alive, yet I’m supposed to be their best friend. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I paint a carousel of mirrors and dragons, and inside one of the mirrors is the happiest girl alive, desperate to break free. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Most of the time they were in the desert, with only a shovel to dig the sand and a wad of coca in their mouths to keep them alive. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along-side the procession, slaves ran lightly through the grass with torches in their hands, and the flickering flames made the great monuments seem almost alive. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

London was soon far behind them, replaced by neat green fields that gave way in turn to wide, purplish moors, a great city alive with cars like multicolored ants, villages with tiny toy churches. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

But mountains did as much for a soul as the ocean, and they were more mystical and more alive, and more accessible, too. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few of the people he claimed to have murdered turned out to be alive. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It seemed unfair that his one chance at being alive should end so stupidly. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I was stiff, sore and exhausted, barely grateful to be still alive. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of subsisting on greenery alone — of prolonging that full-yet-empty stabbing sensation in my stomach — was totally unappealing, but the leaves would keep me alive. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you aren’t alive. And you go around and do things.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Suddenly it was as though the whole air had come alive and were pulsing, pulsing with the indefatigable movement of blood. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I thought of him suffering, I even began to feel a little guilty for hoping that he was still alive. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

It makes him shift and breathe suddenly more deeply, as if remembering to be alive. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the guys were looking around, their weapons moving, shaking almost as if they were alive, looking for an enemy to fire upon. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hit pause as the camera closes in on Stella’s face, all her features coming alive in the glow of the spotlight. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

We had read them so often they almost started to feel the way I’d heard folks talk about scripture, like the words were alive and speaking straight to us. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I know she was already really freaked out that you weren’t going to make it back to Pittsburgh alive, and seeing you show up here? I have a feeling it’s thrown her for a loop.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She was bloody and battered, but she was alive. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But healers don’t waste their time saving the Reds, or even working on the front lines keeping soldiers alive. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

“As a matter of fact, I don’t think they’re alive at all. But I must admit I can’t altogether make it out.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You shouldn't say things like 'bring him home alive.' It reminds people he might die." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It ain’t him. It’s her. He never did such a thing when Ma was alive, and you know it.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn’t know then I can’t put into words.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

A cold, clammy sweat breaks out on my skin and I can't rid myself of the feeling that the boards above my head are about to collapse, to bury me alive under the rubble. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When my grandfather was alive, he kept making additions whenever they had more children, but he was never able to keep up. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It made such an impression on him that from then on he detested military practices and war, not because of the executions but because of the horrifying custom of burying the victims alive. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When he was informed that Garfield was still alive, Guiteau said, “I wish I had given him the third bullet, and put him out of his misery.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In Cleopatra’s absence, Arsinoe had tried to pass off an imposter as Ptolemy XIII, alive and well and claiming his place on the throne. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Miss Texas spoke again: “Okay, Miss Teen Dreamers, I know we’re all real flustered and everything. But we’re alive. And I think before anything else we need to pray to the one we love.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I know that faeries are not gods—maybe I know that better than any mortal alive—but neither have I ever seen one hunched over a bedpan. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“And that was the last time M. Ratchett was seen alive?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to think of everything alive, the garden colorful and bursting with vegetables, better than it was when we were there. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He needed to think about his children who were still alive, because he was honor-bound to think of the living before the dead. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“And you managed to stay alive, and raise chickens, eggs, and cows?” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He saw light sparkle from the old glass in the window, and the rug came alive with blues and warm golden tones. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The thought made my atoms feel very alive and aroused, not nearly like the fourteen-billion-year-old sourpusses I was used to. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The milk bird stayed alive until the boy and his sister grew up and left that place. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“No sense why my boy’s dead and those white men are walking around alive. Free.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Anything that reminds us how good it is to be alive. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The roof of the main building was alive with the alighting and departure of helicopters. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Parts of her will always believe he is alive somewhere. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still alive in second grade and third and fourth. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“Even cancer isn’t a bad guy really: Cancer just wants to be alive.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Carlos might be alive, but there was no way of knowing. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

This last joined the enterprise most unwillingly because he was a prophet and he knew that none of the seven would come back alive except Adrastus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three dead trees on the moor below, burned up alive by lightning, are ominous portents. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally she rest her needle, say, Why do people eat, Miss Celie, tell me that To stay alive, I say. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who are your top five rappers, dead or alive?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I was alive, and I meant to stay that way. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not only was this tomb not finished, not even begun, but its owner, Pharaoh’s Master of Storehouses, was still very much alive. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Still another where my father and brother are still alive and my mother is not broken. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I say, “I wish I could see my father. Dead or alive, don’t matter.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I guess the good news is that everybody has to put up with being special because everybody is alive. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family song was alive now and driving him down on the dark enemy. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This,” she said, “is Crow. The reason Mr. Sloan is alive. Crow, these are Officers Kelly”—she gestured at the tall one—“and Reardon.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the mornings Dad handed us the comics out of the paper and flipped over to the obituaries just to make sure everyone we knew was still alive and kicking. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I have nightmares about the other land, the silence of when Papa was alive. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. He was still alive when Crazy Horse found him. He held his friend in his arms until he died. Everyone who saw that said Crazy Horse cried like a baby.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The city was alive with shopping and sightseeing, smells of steaming hot dogs and salty pretzels on every block. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

But I’m alive now, and those are not the same thing. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You are in a hospital in Peshawar. You’ve been here two days. You have suffered some very significant injuries, Amir, I should tell you. I would say you’re very lucky to be alive, my friend.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And there was that bit about my father being alive . Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Rachael said, “Or we could live in sin, except that I’m not alive.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

It’s tough and energetic and makes my senses come alive. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle said he’d leave him alive if he untied him, so he did, and then my uncle killed him anyway just to teach him a lesson.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She slapped a fly away from her face and thought how healthy all the flies looked, how alive, how vibrant. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Gey and his colleagues had been complaining that they wasted too much time just making medium and trying to keep cells alive. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But few regret spending every possible minute with them while they were still alive. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

At his feet the soldier, still alive, was moaning in pain. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know whether to knock or just go on in, like I used to when Granny was alive. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The destruction of Dresden was represented by a vertical band of orange cross-hatching, and all the lines that were still alive passed through it, came out the other side. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a perfect spring day, and the air was alive with birdsong and bee hum. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“I play the man’s game. I play the Devil’s game. I play God’s game. And so I stay alive. Alive I can help you. Dead I am no help to you at all.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am alive and the babies are dead. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world was beautiful, and he was alive! Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

If it was Byron, he’d talk kind of cool and low out of the comer of his mouth and say, “Shooot, man, you better come get this old chick, I ate her alive.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was doing what was necessary to keep us moving up the mountain, doing what was necessary to keep us fed, safe, and alive. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while, he jerked his head or moved his fingers to show that he was still alive, but we all knew he would not make it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't know how to make you feel the emotion and importance of those photos, but to be real, I want to show the world I'm alive! Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The rope seemed almost alive, the greatest of all water serpents heading at last for home. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mom comforted me and tried to explain how much of a privilege it is to be alive and loved, and for a while, it all made sense. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Let’s each have three, and whoever is still alive at breakfast can take a vote on the rest,” says Johanna. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I've looted that poor Hab for everything it could give me, and in return it's kept me alive for a year and a half. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it did the only thing it could to keep me alive. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s good to be alive, isn’t it, Comfort?” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was almost dead, but instead I am alive. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The last mouse born to his parents and the only one of his litter to be born alive. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“As long as we don’t know for certain that your pa is dead, I will always have hope that he is alive somewhere,” Ma declares to us the next morning. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Inigo raised his right hand high—“I swear on the soul of Domingo Montoya you will reach the top alive!” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Miep wanted us to keep Anne’s message alive, it was up to us to remember it. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A world that looked at him with fear simply because he was alive. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then the fish came alive, with his death in him, and rose high out of the water showing all his great length and width and all his power and his beauty. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ask him to keep them alive until they reach el Norte. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Even so, over the next nine weeks his weight fell from 168 to 115 pounds, and the warden was warned that forced-feeding alone could not keep the patient alive indefinitely. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came through fine, and he is alive today, with no ill effects from his exposure. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And,” I said, hoping they would understand, hoping Dismay would understand, too: “I am glad to be alive. ’ Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We are fortunate: we are alive; we are powerful; the welfare of our civilization and our species is in our hands. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several technicians served as a quality-control assembly line, staring through microscopes at hundreds of thousands of HeLa cultures each week, making sure the samples were alive and healthy. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Whatever you are,” the woman says, “you’ll have to get off this train if you want to stay alive.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

If the worst came to the worst, they were going to drop a bag of Dungbombs, but they hoped they wouldn’t have to resort to that — Filch would skin them alive. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The interviews with people still alive then were in color. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It says this, and I quote: ‘The presence of foam in the airway and around the lips and nose indicates beyond doubt that the victim was alive at the time of submersion.’ Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“That’s true. But remember, until they changed the rules, I could only hope to get one of you out of there alive,” he says. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“God made us so we want to stay alive. He put healin’ power in our bodies. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I feel like I can’t get enough of looking at him, of knowing that he’s alive and still out there, up to no good. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

All of the animals I had drawn before were alive. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I meant why was she alive and not just a fable, but Gum Baby misunderstood. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

No one knew if Sloth was alive or dead. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Do you still believe that she will be found alive? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, parts of their body convulse involuntarily and you know they are alive. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ma’am, do you think Uncle Camp might still be alive if Loma and Grandpa hadn’t blessed him out so much? You think Grandpa is tryin’ to make it up to him now?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Night was ending and they were still alive. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She leaned toward him, and her face was alive with interest. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps thirty men alive were his equal when he used his left. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Give me some credit. I’ve been in the Arcanum longer than any of you have been alive.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He also vowed that he would never be taken alive. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Chess had wondered if that moment was something he could have talked about with his dad, if his dad had still been alive. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They are trying to keep me alive because, if I slide quietly, privately into death, it will be a victory. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No, this I’m telling of isn’t a spirit-world. A real one. The people that live on it are real people, alive, just like here. But very-long-ago they learned how to fly.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The instrument is alive in my hands; it trembles like a child who is too frightened to name her terror as she proceeds deeper into forest darkness, carrying a lantern of warm oil. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

East, west, north, south, everywhere he looked, the clouds rose up like black mountains, their tumbled slopes and collossal cliffs alive with blue and purple lightning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We finally know the name of the girl who we watched the Capitol abduct from the woods of 12, the fate of the Peacekeeper friend who tried to keep Gale alive. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

When Clara was alive and Alba was still a child, the big house on the comer was a cloistered world in which she grew up protected even from her own nightmares. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For reasons completely unfathomable to me, some of the other victors are trying to keep him alive, even if it means sacrificing themselves. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

"A peperomia. I got it at a plant sale on campus and I've kept it alive for three months. Impressive, right?" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Ygritte had been pretty in her own way, with her red hair kissed by fire, but it was her smile that made her face come alive. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But Bobbette just kept shaking her head and saying, “How come nobody told her family part of her was still alive?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I decreed the Nightingale be brought alive,” the tsar spat. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“It is alive! I think it is a rat!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

It was over, and I was alive and well and moving out of the auditorium. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It lay tilted crazily among the rocks, and inside it—“Oh, Will, he’s still alive! But—the poor thing...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It occurs to me that he may not be alive. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was too nervous to say what I was secretly hoping ... that Tyson might still be alive. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wes put his hand under his father’s nose, testing to see if he was even alive. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

When my mom was alive, I’d gone to church more often. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was hard work, but it was exhilarating—the kind of feeling that comes from being alive and taking part in some great common enterprise. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some would surely make it out alive, but others would perish in their own homes and businesses as the flames spread. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He collapsed across me, somehow still alive, still holding my arm. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I realized again that I was alive, this time with gratitude and elation. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He walked back to the sofa and thought about making a list, putting in a neat format the arguments for and against his mother still being alive. . ijtj . The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Alone in my lifeboat at sunset I would know that he was burning alive. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

"But somebody must be up there. Somebody alive, that is." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

That plus the splectacular hairdos on the women, which, man alive, don’t even get me started. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They may keep him alive, in case they want to squeeze more information out of me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Not that I’m complaining about a ruined birthday party — I was lucky to be fed and alive. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But at the moment, all I care about is keeping Gale alive. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But the ruins prove it! They prove that I am the Future, I am alive, you are dead!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the contact of tongues, alive and slippery muscle, moist flesh on flesh, and the strange sound it drew from her, changed that. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I have seen a Heart lying on a Plate, jolted with Electricity. It had as much to say dead as alive.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“If you keep the fire alive, it will keep you alive,” explained Roz as she dropped another log onto the flames. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And as he often did, he imagined that his dad was still alive, that it had all been some horrible mistake, a mix-up in the hospital, mistaken identity. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

A tall man entered, and Merry choked back a cry; for a moment it seemed to him that Boromir was alive again and had returned. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They took to leaving food outside her room, and she took bits and shreds, enough to stay alive. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It is true! The Scottish wars are over, and my father is alive!” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

David ran up and put his foot on my stomach and pounded his chest and said, “For I am the greatest hunter alive!” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A woman who could have been an Oklahoma mom opened the door, joyful and alive like she’d just walked out of the ball pit at McDonald’s. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Dylan is alive. A little too alive. Which is a thing.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I know this is a terrible thought, but if we never had to leave, we wouldn’t have come here and had a chance to see Rashid Uncle’s eyes, your eyes, alive. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It might be that a dolphin could swim faster than Lizzie through the water and a fish hawk dive faster through the air, but nothing alive could run across Malaga Island faster than Lizzie Griffin. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Juliet was the only person alive who laughed at him with embarrassing regularity. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but if Dumbledore was alive, why wouldn’t he show himself? Why wouldn’t he just hand us the sword?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I woke up again and again in the night, never sure of where I was, or when it was, or who was alive and who was dead. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

That way I would know I’m still alive. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She’d already been alive for a whole twelve and a half weeks, and she wanted to tell Brightbill about every exciting thing, and every boring thing, that had ever happened to her. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Good old Spot was still alive in those days. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She handed me a bowl into which the pig’s guts spilled like syrup, quivering pink, blue, and yellow, warm and musky, alive, hard to imagine as solid, piquant, brown sausages. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

You see, then, he is alive and well, and headed homeward now, no more to be abroad far from his island, his dear wife and son. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a second, the face came alive around the eyes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her children are alive, at least, and that is thanks to me. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Dead or alive?” asked Mr. Ketch, with a smug smile. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Some said the man was still alive, deep in the bowels of easterly Rock. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“But you are alive!” the harpy said, her harsh voice mocking them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The first big breakthrough to bring the Internet alive as a tool of connectivity and collaboration—a tool that anyone, not just computer geeks, could use—was Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

But as you can see, Kitty, I’m still alive, and that’s the main thing, Father says. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Ha! Good one, child of Mars. I suppose you’re right. No point talking about it. Even if the demigods found that map in Charleston, they’d never make it to Rome alive!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Their scything weapons left our dead in piles, but some they took alive, into forced labor. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was a hot-tempered genius. Did you know he was famous even when he was alive?” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if the agent touched living cells, Nancy’s cells, it would come alive and begin to amplify itself. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The mandragora brought a sleep so deep, even I doubted you were alive,” she said. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She extended her strength to Blackjack, trying to keep him alive. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But this was the first time they were faced with leaving someone who still seemed so alive. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

We are alive against the stupendous odds of genetics, infinitely outnumbered by all the alternates who might, except for luck, be in our places. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone much more interesting, more vivid and alive. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s move out. Your mission is to locate and recover the bullion. Watch for booby traps. I didn’t trust Fowl when he was alive, and I definitely don’t trust him now that he’s dead.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“There are probably more peculiar animals buried here than are currently alive in all of Europe,” Addison said, moving through the graves to reach one in particular, which he leaned on with his forepaws. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And standing in the place of my anger is my initiation instructor and friend, alive again. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Their relationship echoed, in many ways, the bonds of trust and mutual protection that kept prisoners alive and sane in Nazi concentration camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The movement of the hands around the dial reassured me that I was, indeed, alive and helped me measure off the minutes until my family arrived. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The third labor was to bring back alive a stag with horns of gold, sacred to Artemis, which lived in the forests of Cerynitia. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands upon thousands of times she’d seen him in their dreams, and it was hard even for her not to believe he had been alive. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Hazel seemed warm and very alive, not like the ghosts or the other reborn mortals Leo had tangled with. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Colonel Aureliano Buendía was alive, but apparently he had stopped harassing the government of his country and had joined with the victorious federalism of other republics of the Caribbean. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

If they were still alive, they would have returned to show the way to some of the rest of the slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guard seemed too tired to argue, or perhaps he saw in Jacqueline’s face traces of some long-dead female relative whom he had not done enough to please while she was still alive. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

You reach into my head to tell me I’m important, alive or dead, and then kick me to the curb? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Charging toward us, he grunted that he was going to eat us alive, just the way we ate his pastries. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

In a final, desperate act, she gave Dad an enema, pushing the tube in as far as she dared, trying to flush enough liquid through his rectum to keep him alive. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had never seen a woman with such a perfect incline to her cheekbones that made her entire face seem so alive, so architectural, lifting when she smiled. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The only time my sassur seemed to come alive was when he had a book in his hand. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew anything he was connected with would be alive,” she said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And now he knows I’m still alive. Did he say what he intends to do?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It came alive, more terrible than any nightmare. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“By the end of the quest, only eight will remain alive. Four will be dead. But no one knows what four.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Your needle makes the pictures come alive,” she said. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z