Copies of it existed on hundreds of different planets, spread throughout all twenty-seven sectors. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was as though she hadn’t existed at all. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We often discuss the future, the past and the present, but as I’ve already told you, I miss the real thing, and yet I know it exists! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“You seek one who does not exist,” Theseus answered. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s still brushing the grass from her shorts when I remember the other two kids even exist—once they were gone I was able to focus completely on Sophie. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It makes me happy to imagine them drinking tea or going to the movies together, still connected to each other by the invisible chain of a family that no longer exists. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For although Mr. Trabb had my measure already, and had previously been quite contented with it, he said apologetically that it “wouldn’t do under existing circumstances, sir,—wouldn’t do at all.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Asta became an owl and perched on the prow, her feathers shedding the water in a way she’d discovered when she was trying to become an animal that didn’t yet exist. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It took him into another world where only beauty existed and where he was safe from hatred and disappointment and death. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the rumors of vast underground conspiracies were true after all—perhaps the Brotherhood really existed! 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Race doesn’t really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Atoms are so numerous and necessary that we easily overlook that they needn’t actually exist at all. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I try reaching for the boat, but it’s gone in a split second, gone so fast it might as well not even exist at all. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But according to the approach I described in Chapter 1, a scientific theory is just a mathematical model we make to describe our observations: it exists only in our minds. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in class I gave no more notice that he existed than he showed toward me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

What does exist is the paragraph break: a visual bookmark that allows the reader to pause, take a breather, assimilate what he has read, and then find his place again on the page. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Here she was on this journey to a place that didn’t exist on their maps, and all around unseen things seemed to stare out at them day and night. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Why would something like this exist in America? The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Of course, the possibility existed that he was keeping something back. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It was one thing to use the existing magnetic forces of fate. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He had always existed in his own right, and he lives at this very moment in a distant land that must seem to him like a great vessel of strangers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were supposed to be pretending I don’t exist, not irritating me to death.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She knew she sat with a scrap of paper held down by pebbles—but the pictures in her mind were so real, she thought they must somehow exist. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The final report passed by the House in effect placed any and all debate over slavery as it existed in the South out of bounds forever. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Link swore me to secrecy, so other than Mother and Grandmother, none of the other seven students knew he existed. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence must exist for there to be a beat. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

"No demons exist, you cry? Then pray tell me, what am I?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Who are they, you should say,” he told her gently, “be-cause they still exist. And I am one of them now. “They were just people. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some stopped off at college along the way, mainly women's colleges or the few co-ed public colleges that existed. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

It referred to a set of ideals and hopes, like human perfection or social equality, that philosophers mistakenly believed could be implemented in the world because it existed in their heads. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was as if he had never existed. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The company made nothing and sold nothing: It existed to hold assets and provide a reference for anyone who became skeptical of Holmes’s promissory notes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Or a pair of strong hands for those who have none. “The village of the healing has existed for a long time,” he explained. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom said that Old Man House was much bigger, when it existed here. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Written poems exist on a page, at first glance, as a mere collection of words. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw only him, because for those few passing moments, he was the only thing that seemed to exist in my world. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

What I want instead is pictures that seem to exist of their own accord. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I hate purity, I hate goodness. I don’t want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And as she read, her heart sank to a place she didn’t know existed in this, or any other world. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

To remind us that everything in Mobius exists at his pleasure. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Oh, well, I thought, I’ve got all weekend, buddy, and by the time we get back to Pine Mountain she won’t even know you exist. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

By the end of this pilgrimage he was convinced that God exists, and had learned to pierce his cheeks and chest with hatpins and to live practically without eating. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible that markets could be found for such quantities—or that so many animals existed—but so it was, incredibly. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The records no longer exist, but his appeal, which went before a five-member review board in Oklahoma, was based at least partly on his cooperation with the bureau’s investigation of the murders. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"The government doesn't know we exist. We could get deported at any time." Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Using these, I was able to log into the database and access my existing citizen profile, which had been created when I enrolled for school. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“As long as this exists,” I thought, “this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

No concrete evidence exists that the first event caused the second, but the coincidence in timing is hard to dismiss. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Birds exist to teach us things about the sky.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Count back three billion hours, and modern humans don’t exist—just wild-eyed cave people, all hairy and grunting. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, he didn’t have to wonder about a brother who was in prison, a brother his parents pretended didn’t exist. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

All of this activity occurred in the shadow of Stonetown itself, a city that existed for the sake of its port, and which had grown so large and busy because of it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had decided to forget the man she had married and act as if he had never existed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This loop was the twenty-ninth of March, 316 A.D. It existed until sometime in the year 399, though the day and month are unknown.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I’ll always be around, young lion, for as long as the land of Zimbabwe exists. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In a week, Queens would no longer exist. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He was a Greek demigod - the first person in living memory, perhaps the first ever.; to go back and forth between the Roman and Greek camps without telling either group that the other existed. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The conspiracy that he had dreamed of did exist, and he had reached the outer edges of it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Like Mamet characters, they populated an America that had never existed, a kid’s idea of sharpies and hucksters and underworld life. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I supposed Him to exist only within the walls of a church—in fact, of our church—and I also supposed that God and safety were synonymous. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The good kind, if such a thing even existed. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Everyone talked about it as though it existed, though in truth none of us knew for sure that it did. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the last few centuries such companies have become the main players in the economic arena, and we have grown so used to them that we forget they exist only in our imagination. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had nothing to do but wait for any new face, anyone who might lead to recognition from the outside world that they existed here. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I had no idea such school spirit could exist. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In short, at the international level, the fundamental conditions essential for resolving the central problem of the Adams presidency did not exist. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I mean it was horrible. He said I looked like nothing. That I basically didn’t even exist.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I mean, you couldn’t even hear cars, like as soon as we walked through the gates, we entered some new dimension—some secret land where drama didn’t exist. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Don’t we already have enough drowned cities? Enough people dying from drought? My family is a clean company. Just because a market exists doesn’t mean we have to serve it.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had said, “Tell me, why does the world exist?” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Either way, life could exist only when one brother held sway and the cosmic battle quieted and the sun was able to shine. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

To compensate for this imbalance, he said, magic existed as a third and powerful force. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, In class today we discussed how double standards exist for men and women. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thus in both Arabic and medieval culture experimentation had an uncertain status: it existed, but it was not admired or imitated. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We don’t believe any of this underwear actually exists, but thinking about it is a nasty joy. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

If they did exist, he wanted to know whether the entire Holocaust story was blown out of proportion, and the account of millions being exterminated a myth. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Because it did not exist in classical Latin discooperio never established itself as a respectable term; in any case, discovery was such a new concept that at first it required explication. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“But it had to be done. I certainly can’t go publicizing that Poe manuscript if Griswold’s still around. As it stands now, nobody knows it exists. It can be my discovery. Well...” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Some people argued that fossils existed because God, displeased with his creations, had engineered a few worldwide catastrophes that had destroyed all the existent species and then had started creation all over again. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The harbor in front of them, the lights along the empty boulevard, the stars in the dark sky above, all hung in the huge silence as if nothing else existed at all. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The theory neatly solves the grandfather paradox by positing separate universes in which each possible outcome exists, thereby avoiding a paradox. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Half of the existing hotel was shut down while we added two new floors. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

You may have seen the spangled palaces of sin and fancy dancing in the false West of the movies, and maybe some of them existed—but not in the Salinas Valley. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are few studies more fascinating, and at the same time more neglected, than those of the teeming populations that exist in the dark realms of the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, he existed outside the intimate community of his family and church and the street where he conducted his commerce. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Virchow had been dead for a hundred years, and only one full-length biography of him existed, of which Farmer read every page. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we would talk, but mostly we existed in a kind of companionable silence. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Because I can’t seem to find it anywhere, I’m guaranteed that such a word actually exists. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The air was full of harsh sounds, but whether they issued from my throat or hers, or existed only in my imagination, I do not know. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The terrible circumstances in which we were now existing brought the two of us closer together. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

It seems to her that so much of Cuba’s success will depend on what doesn’t exist, or exists only rarely. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone had always said that Elinor had some magic in her, and everyone knew that fairies — if they existed — were drawn to that. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A being from a planet that no longer existed. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you imagined it. Besides, how do we know he really exists?” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

But if they did not exist, the structure of world society, and the process by which it maintains itself, would not be essentially different. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“But the same social system that exists in the cities also exists in the compound; it’s just a little harder to see.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“He acted like you didn’t exist,” Tats says. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Every driver we have is here, even drivers I never knew existed. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“But there’s a balance. Honestly, I don’t know how you can just exist in this—bubble.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I thought maybe my age, or the presence of the Red Cross, immunized me against the terrors I knew existed in the camp. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It existed now in a permanent state of windblownness, leaning over so far that it seemed ready to topple, although, in fact, its roots held it firmly in place. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the time of Anna’s death, the informal system of citizen policing had been displaced, but vestiges of it remained, especially in places that still seemed to exist on the periphery of geography and history. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Friends all exist far outside the black cloud. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

That Pearl—a mile and a half away, watching television with her own brothers and sister—did not exist, that this life belonged to her, Izzy, and her alone. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Not one of them ever went to Church—one might scarcely have imagined that they knew that churches existed—they all, hourly, daily, in their speech, in their lives, and in their hearts, cursed God. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

His enemies made much of the deception, labeling Lincoln a coward and refusing to believe that such a plot existed in the first place. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Retrieval had jimmied a hologram lead into the existing electricity sockets and were projecting an unbattered wall over the hole. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Modern physical science simply would not exist without calculus. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“All you dreamer types think the universe exists just for you and your passion.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’m so grateful such theaters still exist that I'd gladly tip the projectionist as well. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I have done a lot of work on black holes, and it would all be wasted if it turned out that black holes do not exist. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look back up and think about how some stars don’t even really exist anymore, that seeing them is seeing the past. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And what if lots of people like R.C. existed? Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

And it was during those same weeks that those entirely untypical incidents took place at Darlington Hall which must, one supposes, have provided what flimsy basis exists for these absurd allegations. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She did not like death but she knew it existed, and when it came it did not surprise her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I still believe such things exist, and that I could find them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But then...do you mean...” said Hermione slowly, and Harry could tell that she was trying to keep any trace of skepticism out of her voice, “that you believe these objects—these Hallows—actually exist?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Since good laws cannot exist where there are no good armies, and where good armies exist there must be good laws, I shall leave aside the arguments about laws and shall discuss the armed forces. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The North symbolized to me all that I had not felt and seen; it had no relation whatever to what actually existed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

This bond is rooted within the inseparable relationship between lyrics and music that has existed for thousands of years. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

There she found herself outside a grand building, a real Oxford-looking building that didn’t exist in her world at all, though it wouldn’t have looked out of place. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were, as yet, no prizes or medals for scientific achievement; but in Galileo’s imagination such rewards already existed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I’m here walking around, breathing, existing, but it feels like my life is somewhere else—someplace better. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her intuition told her that as long as that man existed, no one could win Blanca’s love. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart beat wildly, as if it were the only thing that existed. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

That time, in her memory, existed only as a blur. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His friends were like him, sunny and wealthy people who existed on the glimmering surface of things. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The usual reasoning is instead circular: because technological differences exist, the existence of corresponding ideological differences is inferred. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Never could he have imagined that, there in the middle of the desert, there existed a tent like this one. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The raw substances available to ancient peoples were natural materials such as stone, wood, bone, skins, fiber, clay, sand, limestone, and minerals, all existing in great variety. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish that there was some kind of alternate plane we could exist on where he could be my boyfriend.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

You would think that I would have learned by now—such a place does not exist. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In 1773, a Scottish explorer named James Bruce heard wind that a surviving copy of the Book of Enoch existed in Ethiopia. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Like she belonged in the world that had existed before everything was scorched. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

We weren’t the kind of figures you naturally thought of or maybe even hoped existed. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I worry that if I look too closely I’ll discover that green Life Savers don’t exist. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first of these conferences was held in a room that didn’t exist. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Within this network, fictions such as Peugeot not only exist, but also accumulate immense power. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It provided convincing evidence that subatomic particles did indeed exist. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

If terrestrial microbes can survive the Martian environment, how much better Martian microbes, if they exist, must do on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to kill myself, but I didn’t really want to exist either. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I need to know that these people exist. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

There still existed an opportunity for salvaging the expedition, however. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As with Elgar, it is as if Wagner had never existed. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t meant to, but I guess I’d been thinking of him kind of as a teacher—like he only existed in the context of school and our egg drop. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“We would prefer to say that such people cannot exist, that there aren’t any,” writes Solzhenitsyn. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Without people in the world to call him Gogol, no matter how long he himself lives, Gogol Ganguli will, once and for all, vanish from the lips of loved ones, and so, cease to exist. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately there were other people who knew of Gawaine’s weakness for apples, and bad blood over the Pellinore murders still existed. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Group C often pretended I didn't exist at all. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Sonny’s phone buzzes, and suddenly Malik no longer exists. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Knowing as I do the difficulty of seeing what most everyone insists does not exist, I anticipate that this book will be met with skepticism or something worse. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Trade cannot exist without trust, and it is very difficult to trust strangers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who could believe that such creatures existed? commented a Utah man. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Evidently, Giordano has no word for ‘invention’ or ‘discovery’, so he relies on a paraphrase: ‘a new technique that never existed previously’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, there already existed one halfgood photograph in the published literature. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I was fairly sure that it wasn’t the money per se, but the principle of it; I was also fairly sure that whatever tension existed, Bunny was oblivious of it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“But if the physics-—the quantum physics— suggests that God exists, I’m more than willing to entertain the notion.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, though each base has two flat sides, no explanation existed for why only one side would be chosen. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The bulletin board was crammed with the announcements and activities of groups that didn’t exist anywhere near Caldwell, Idaho. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first root, and the deepest, goes into the underworld, to Niflheim, the place that existed before other places. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Negroes in this country—and Negroes do not, strictly or legally speaking, exist in any other—are taught really to despise themselves from the moment their eyes open on the world. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

How did I never have any idea that all of these things exist? Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Is a good girl, my friend, studies all night and sees the mice, the ones her father says do not exist. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where no proven Wizarding ancestry exists, therefore, the so-called Muggle-born is likely to have obtained magical power by theft or force. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

If Facebook and Instagram had existed back then, the rest of the school would have died of jealousy from the #NoFilter window into their social lives. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The campaign apparatus existed exclusively to serve the candidate, not the spouse or the family. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Faerie exists beside and below mortal towns, in the shadows of mortal cities, and at their rotten, derelict, worm-eaten centers. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At first glance, the place looks like nothing so much as the canal network that Percival Lowell imagined to adorn Mars, and that, we now know from space vehicle exploration, does not exist at all. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet Bloom and his wife had existed on tenterhooks with each other for years now. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought being quiet—speaking only when I absolutely had to—would help defuse whatever tension existed between us, but it only seemed to make things more intense. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

In fact, it is questionable whether any specialized drug enforcement activity would exist in some states without the Byrne program. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was as if that other Porscha, the easygoing, even- tempered one, never existed. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anything beautiful had ever existed here, it was long gone. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

But if my sister does exist, then what is she, and what makes that thing that she now is identical with the beautiful girl laughing at her little sister on that forgotten day? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“What if I told you stories didn’t always exist?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Five months ago I never even knew Ocean existed. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

There were certain towel rules that existed in my mother’s world that I just didn’t get. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

In Muspell, at the edge of the flame, where the mist burns into light, where the land ends, stood Surtr, who existed before the gods. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It hung over the suspended waves of the hills, an insentient pivot without which the world would not exist. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was almost as though that very afternoon did not exist, had never happened. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking this, he wondered if Mozart had had any intuition that the future did not exist, that he had already used up his little time. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

At the same time, though, we must be careful not to assume that differences exist when they do not, or to exaggerate the ones that do. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Well I don’t want to be interesting? I said. “I don’t exist to fascinate strangers. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Well, if I destroy this so-called knowledge about squirrels, no one will ever know it existed.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Madge slipped in and curled up behind a chair as if she had no idea this might be the last night the house would exist as she’d known it. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

To this day, for Indigenous peoples the land and its resources are “home” and exist for the common good of the people who share it. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

All the negative words that ever existed in the English language. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It could be that I am the only person who knows that the boyfriend exists. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their fights over territories, gangs would have breakdancing battles to determine ownership—and that’s why the term battle still exists today. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

How sad would it be to finally exist if I was just gonna die a few short months later? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The Haudenosaunee thus would have the second oldest continuously existing representative parliaments on earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They followed him quickly up a flight of steps which couldn’t be seen and through a door which didn’t exist. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

She exists in an in-between place, middle class on paper but squeezed in reality. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“They found ways to lose I didn’t even know existed.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Pipers piped for her, tumblers tumbled, and jugglers juggled, while dyers draped her in colors she had never known existed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was no way she could go on existing like this indefinitely. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew what I wanted to run to. But it didn’t exist, so I didn’t leave,” Kainene said, leaning back on her seat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Because no matter how much I pretended it didn’t exist, there was something between us. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

That’s a powerful combination for a man who has been existing in the mud of society. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because at least then I felt like I existed. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she refused to believe that widespread, organized opposition existed or could exist. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

If I could see Moira, just see her, know she still exists. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beginning in the fifties, less discrimination, a truer merit system, and leveler playing fields existed inside the gates of our military posts more than in any Southern city hall or Northern corporation. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But if that girl exists inside me, I fail to coax her out from hiding. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

But inside the quiet young scholar there existed a second, unsuspected personality, one with stunted emotions and a distorted mind through which cold thoughts flowed in cruel directions. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The primary fact now is that the element of gamble in the overall picture no longer exists,” he wrote. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

People resent being shown that they don’t approach the complexities of the problem— they don’t know what exists beyond the surface ripples. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Van Hopper and her influenza did not exist for me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

As much as I get sick of eating Mexican food every single day of my life, if heaven existed, I know it would smell like fried tortillas. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Which is Latin and it means No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘Common sense’, if we mean the practices which we think embody it, did not exist before the publication of Galileo’s Discourse on Floating Bodies in 1612. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

If water cannibals actually existed, Piper thought, this is what they looked like. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

How could anything be as bad as it was when this moment existed in the span of eternity? The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But there existed in the Western world an element that baffled and frightened the Communist party: the prevalence of self-achieved literacy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Karhiders do not read much as a rule, and prefer their news and literature heard not seen; books and televising devices are less common than radios, and newspapers don’t exist. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Not even identifiable ashes. Dust. It does not exist. It never existed.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There was a time not too long ago when a man put out to sea and ceased to exist for two or three years or forever. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The belief that nothing exists outside your own mind—surely there must be some way of demonstrating that it was false. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Past the hatred in his gaze, there existed a cold and hollow terror. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They’re the eyes of something that isn’t known but exists anyway; like the green eye of the radio; like the eyes of aliens from a distant planet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their periphescence existed simultaneously with a less passionate stage of pair bonding. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Protective paper- pink, inexplicably—covered the floors, and long after the apartments themselves ceased to exist, their first occupants would remember that first look at the pink-paper-covered floors. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

If it existed at all—and she knew how the media was—it would be downtown. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Actually the solution already existed—he just needed to hear about it. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You people don’t know me. I didn’t exist for you five hours ago,” I said seriously. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like that the first month after the massacre, like it was too exhausting to exist. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The same danger exists for wild animals belonging to the group of ruminants, such as deer, antelope, sheep, and goats. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Before, stepping back into the tunnel from the alternate world had felt so odd, almost as if he’d ceased to exist. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

There is a puzzle here, because the standard alternative to voluntarism is rationalism, and a rationalist would hold that the laws of nature, like the laws of mathematics, exist because they are necessary. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As a result human biology has evolved as an adaptive mechanism to conditions that have largely ceased to exist. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn’t bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn’t even imagine themselves not existing. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Just like Cole, he barely makes eye contact, and probably only knows I exist because I’m taking up space in front of him in the lunch line. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

None of them was a scientist, because science, as we understand the term, did not yet exist. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Maeterlinck and Marais wrote best-selling books on the presumed soul that must exist somewhere in the nests of ants and termites. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If that sort of trust between two countries can exist for a spaceflight, why cannot it develop into friendship in other areas as well? Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as she was concerned, the Ivanovs were trying to solve a problem that didn’t exist. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I gingerly test my hoverboard, then realize that a button exists on the board beneath each of my heels. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The waves, the shoreline, the trees, the bay, all existed like parts of a puzzle. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The whole thing gave Tally the creeps, waiting around in the dead city for some guy who didn’t seem to exist. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Difficulties over segregation and discrimination exist in every city, in every State of the Union, producing in many cities a rising tide of discontent that threatens the public safety. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The standard reply is: “How can you say that a racial caste system exists today? Just look at Barack Obama! Just look at Oprah Winfrey!” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Soon no one would remain, and the fair would cease to exist as a living memory in anyone’s brain. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There is a living room separate from the dining room, something Uhmma did not know could exist. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Moss loved her willingness to expose herself—she angered all the punk kids on campus just by existing. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They believed, therefore, that the human race and the world around it had existed, and would exist, forever. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why couldn’t the violinists and singers forget they ever existed and toe the line? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He began to feel like a ghost in his own life, existing in a forced blind spot of the world. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She is now walking several feet ahead, pretending I don’t exist, but that’s okay, I’m used to it, and what she doesn’t know is that it doesn’t faze me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was later to write: “Geometry existed before the Creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God ... Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation ... Geometry is God Himself.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Should we be shocked when they turn to gangs for support when no viable family support structure exists? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

You exist from meal to meal, in spite of the fact that food means nothing anymore, because you have neither a feeling of hunger nor a sense of taste. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She tasted it, then said, “Joey, if you slip anymore, school just might let you slip away like water down a drain and the class will continue on as if you never existed.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

You have the option to accept, reject, or change the stereotypes that currently exist. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As far as I’m concerned, 105 does not exist.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the idea gets me to thinking, because it’s never occurred to me before, that we might not even really exist. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Well, if Shakespeare existed, he was then the top poet around. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Variants of the model exist with more romantically plausible constraints. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But aliens, if they exist, would probably be very different from us. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In narration mode, Nixon concedes that the fund exists: “I, Senator Nixon, took $18,000 from a group of my supporters.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Better to pretend that none of this exists. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Knife will take me to a bar and feed me pork rinds. He doesn’t know decent places exist.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

This requirement would have seemed to doom the enterprise, because the Botocudo no longer exist. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the threat of violence often deterred blacks from pressing legitimate claims, making the “civil rights” of former slaves largely illusory—existing on paper but rarely to be found in real life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

So I asked: “Is it the case, then, that deferrals don’t exist? There’s nothing you can do?” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

This state of absence, of existing apart from the body, had been true of the Commander too, I knew now. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her usual style was ignoring the haters, pretending they didn’t exist. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There are entire worlds that exist just beneath our notice of them. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

That pragmatic majority, the West Computers knew, were the ones who had the power to break down the barriers that existed at Langley. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

What I do know is that for this one little moment, I’m glad an electrified fence exists between me and those sounds. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn’t exist.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But however it appears, the power of domination and exclusion is central to the belief in being white, and without it, “white people” would cease to exist for want of reasons. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Not only her eyes and all her senses but also inanimate things seemed to exist because of him, backdrops to his presence. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“David’s not an internee. He has civil rights. The rule of law exists.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Twenty-seven species, ranging in size from dragons to Bundimuns, were to be hidden from Muggles so as to create the illusion that they had never existed outside the imagination. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnida. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Commandant acts as if I don’t exist. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

District 13 doesn’t exist because the Capitol would never let it exist. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had never known that other books existed. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The same condition of hysteria exists all over this state. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She existed once in our tight-lipped lives, so I existed too. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

As for white people, except for that relative handful privy to certain police or prison files, not five hundred white people in all of America knew we existed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell she was sad when I’d ask her how she was doing, but she put on this brave face at school and pretended Noah had never existed. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

After all, there were only two logical possibilities for the nature of the void, and both implied that the infinite exists. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I expressed how much I hated being called the youngest in my family because it implied that Deborah never existed. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Rather, it’s the ability to transmit information about things that do not exist at all. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure books like that exist…,” her mother said carefully. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Few Russian women who became pilots in the Soviet Union’s state-sponsored clubs in the 1980s and early 1990s can afford to fly as private citizens now that the Soviet Union no longer exists. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The rocks are sandstone and shale, which were laid down layer upon layer in an ancient sea that existed before the mountains rose. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

For as long as she could remember, Pearl had understood the hierarchy: her mother’s real work was her art, and whatever paid the bills existed only to make that art possible. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A side effect of the surgery, he discovered early in the Everest climb, was that the low barometric pressure that exists at high altitude caused his eyesight to fail. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was grateful for her ministrations, but I knew that the “two new cups” she was so careful to mention were evidence of the color bar that she said did not exist. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without any one of those contributions, he said, the cultured cells wouldn’t exist, and neither would any money resulting from their sale. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And, from what I can tell, most of the boys act like girls don’t exist. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

However, the best fortress that exists is not to be hated by the people. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

His gaze was fixed on her with an intensity that indicated nothing else mattered or existed. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

After a little while, what little awkwardness as existed during the initial minutes of our meeting had dissipated completely, and our conversation took a more personal turn. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

At the same moment, Pakistan, a new country, now exists. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Why else would so many need to be in the one place where magic still exists? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Never felt how the earth existed long, long, long before I was born. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

If such a thing as telepathy existed, one of its glories would be the opportunity for each of us to read the books in the cerebral cortices of our loved ones. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

To them, the numbers 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, and so forth aren’t approaching anything; the destination doesn’t exist. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

There were things that existed for him that she could not penetrate. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was raining over the ocean, the wall of it so heavy that it appeared nothing existed beyond. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Not even his own brother, who found it easier to pretend Roza had never existed. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Mrs. Van Hopper’s suite on the first floor exists no more. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And yet I keep thinking about him, and thinking about his eyes unblinking in Frenchy's, waiting for someone who didn't exist. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

It really existed, not just as an old memory, or as the heading of an AP story on page 15 of the San Francisco Chronicle. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

These two doctrines existed in uneasy harmony, although I did not then see them as antagonistic. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Does such a thing as “the fatal flaw,” that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe the woman in black is real, while I’m the one that doesn’t exist. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Farmer didn’t tell her that sorcery didn’t exist—it was too deeply embedded in the culture for him to dismiss it—but he assured her that her son had died of explainable medical causes. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Like lacrosse. Trey and me never knew the sport existed until we started private school.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“And don’t ask me who or what God is. I mean I don’t even know if He exists. When I was little, I used to think—” She stopped. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Since this type of mammal had last existed thousands of years ago, the spear point and its owner must have been of equivalent antiquity. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The first farmers didn’t even have any existing crop as a model to inspire them to develop new ones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, my dear. I didn’t think such selflessness existed in mortals...especially in demigods. No offense.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Do not offer me a choice when you know none exists!” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She fell asleep while Louisiana read aloud from a book that didn’t exist, and she dreamed that Mrs. Borkowski was sitting in her lawn chair in the middle of the road. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The men existed all alone out there in the void of space, connected so tenuously to Earth, with the real possibility that something could go wrong. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

If that kind of time travel were possible, then every imaginable alternative history might in some sense really exist. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that is needed is that a state of war should exist. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

This was what it had come through for, the reason it existed. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Though terrible conditions for sugar workers still exist in places such as the Dominican In many parts of the world, sugar is now harvested by machines, its long history fading into the mists. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Thus intelligent life could not exist in the contracting phase of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So? So the Sahara is a vast desert. And it has existed for millions of years. And you changed it!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Such diamonds are already known to exist in meteorites that have survived impact, and that may originate ultimately from comets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Few records exist of this moment in history. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I knew that my memories were not memories only, that I had recorded them, that they existed in black and white. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“This is why I cannot call the police. The police cannot find someone who is not supposed to exist.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Jesse and I disappeared into a world where we two alone existed. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Nothing exists,” he said, “but atoms and the void.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nita says tersely, “Their entire lives erased, against their will, for the sake of solving a genetic damage ‘problem’ that doesn’t actually exist. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t believe anything. It isn’t in me. Besides, I don’t know what you mean by God. If you tell me what he is, Mom, I’ll tell you if I think he exists. ” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

People change because they discover that this supposed line between being a good person and being a bad person doesn’t actually exist. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Strictly speaking, Galileo knew Harriot existed, as he had read William Gilbert’s On the Magnet, in which Harriot is mentioned in passing, and described as ‘most scholarly’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Pauli’s exclusion principle says that two similar particles cannot exist in the same state; that is, they cannot have both the same position and the same velocity, within the limits given by the uncertainty principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing worse than not being able to be with her or be around her would be living in a world that she didn’t exist in at all. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

When I existed in a warm, velvet liquid that was as dark as night, and that dark place was the only place I wanted to be. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Lawrence calculated the cyclotron’s yield as the equivalent of more than one ton of radium—more radium than was known to exist on earth. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

See a town that may or may not technically exist, and hopefully 4. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Bill Riddick could exist only in real life; he was too fantastical for fiction. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I understood full well what this meant: from now on I would have to exist on bananas and have poor nutrition. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to go back to living with Mom, existing alongside my brothers without ever really speaking, never going anywhere because Emery isn’t there to go with me, and occasionally seeing my dad. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He reached the conclusion that what was wrong with all existing systems of knowledge was that they had been cobbled together by lots of different people over long periods of time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Hence, it is the presumption of common sense and science that these ESP phenomena don’t exist, and the burden of proof is on those who maintain that there are such phenomena. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too civilized, they said, and downright unnatural, too, since no town the size of Blythe had any business existing out in the Mojave Desert. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

That is a misnomer in that no such title existed, but the role he played was not so different from what the designation implies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not know if “the system” truly existed, but I had heard so many black people talk about “it” that emotionally “it” existed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t hear them, and it was hard for me to believe they really existed. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Actually, I’d just make it so that they don’t exist in the first place. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we can call and wave from opposite shores.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Does anyone else see a giant bird coming closer that kind of looks like a dragon?—though of course that’s impossible. Dragons no longer exist. Right?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The truth is, for as far back as I can remember, this sort of confusion has existed about who I am, and it always starts with my name. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But more commonly the two existed together, intimate, clinging, consanguine and inseparable. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Fly to the place that I have never seen but only dreamed exists. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Hours later, they would return, breathless and weak-kneed and trembling, not understanding where they’d been, but knowing they’d been somewhere too impossible to exist. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

A huge cloud of black dust swelled into the sky, and even the moon ceased to exist. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Because racism exists, and you have to pick a side. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Not the Arnold Schwarzenegger version of Mr. Freeze from Batman & Robin; I like to pretend that movie never existed. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“And besides, the cat is not the problem; Dad not knowing he exists is merely a symptom of what’s wrong with this family.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He offers a kind of backhanded compliment: There’s a “snob factor” at Truman’s neighboring high schools that does not exist here. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Did not the statement, “You do not exist,” contain a logical absurdity? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

If and when the economy improves, the justification for a “softer” approach would no longer exist. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Friends, there exists on this planet a delicate balance, a balance between good and evil, righteousness and wretchedness, crime and punishment. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I know there will be too many ugly gaps for any real picture to exist. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Which, as far as she knew, only existed on Happy Days. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Has there ever existed a head of hair like mine at thirteen? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds “joy luck” is not a word, it does not exist. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do you see why a magazine like Essence even exists?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

"You know that feeling you get when you're playing," I say after a while, "and you lose yourself in that...that still lake, that warmth, and you kind of...cease to exist?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Some people exist in your life to make it better. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mitch and I exist in this weird gray area, but I’m thinking it’s grayer for me than it is for him. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Especially since six months had already passed since Hahn’s discovery, and the American president, Franklin Roosevelt, still had no idea that such a thing as fission even existed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no fragments existed, for the simplest of reasons: Mesarthium could not be cut. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“You already have Anansi’s adinkra, which brings power to your stories. That is important—Alke is woven with stories, and the threads exist all around us. You can hear them sometimes. Music. Chanting. Rhythm.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

One study suggests that the standard crime news “script” is so prevalent and so thoroughly racialized that viewers imagine a black perpetrator even when none exists. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

If you journeyed into the past and prevented your parents from meeting, then you would never have been born—which is something of a contradiction, since you clearly exist. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Haliax had spoken of them as if they still existed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The disease exists anywhere there are monkey populations, as does the pesticide-resistant mosquito that can transport the disease to humans. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Halperin, who was working for Kissinger, hesitated—he couldn’t have word leaking out that the study existed. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It is so breathtaking I wish I could stop time and exist in this dreamland forever. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing like it exists in the English language. It’s Portuguese. Saudade. Do you know that one?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And he hadn’t, but once I existed he realized he couldn’t have a son living around the corner and not be a part of my life. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be a fool. You’ll find out whether Earth exists when relief gets here next week and we have to go back to face the music.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

That was it; nothing and no one else existed now for Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Even more astounding than the great temples and immense banners and colorful promenades were the botanical gardens—none existed in Europe. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This theory, too, is plausible, but no concrete evidence exists to prove it. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, even the types of particles that exist in the universe would depend on the temperature. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because, to be honest, I usually forgot that part of me existed until my grandmother visited or someone brought it up. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Oh, sure,” Mrs. Campbell said, smiling that half-smile she had now, a smile that existed because it was lacking something. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

For a moment he’d forgotten that the Smoke didn’t, in fact, exist anymore. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Where could Western music go once - as it seemed at the end of the nineteenth century - all possibilities of the existing system of twelve notes and key-families had reached saturation point? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He means from a time before the world even existed. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Such a list of legitimate apostrophe jobs certainly brings home to us the imbalance of responsibility that exists in the world of punctuation. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

With the absorption of Europe by Russia and the British Empire by the United States, two of the three existing powers, Eurasia and Oceania, were already effectively in being. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

By comparison with that existing today, all the tyrannies of the past were half-hearted and inefficient. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

If they exist, perhaps we can eat a kilogram of them with no ill effects. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just try to imagine how difficult it would have been to create states, or churches, or legal systems if we could speak only about things that really exist, such as rivers, trees and lions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it comes to evidence, the new science was not inventing new concepts but recycling existing ones. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They exist in the shadows, like the sinister men who lurk in ravines, not one of whom I have ever seen. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But in republics, greater vitality, greater hatred, and greater desire for revenge exist. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Norfolk teachers’ case was just one of many in their master plan to dismantle the system of apartheid that existed in American schools and workplaces. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And though the American Medical Association had issued rules protecting laboratory animals in 1910, no such rules existed for humans until Nuremberg. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

None of us participated in his theater program, which at the time existed on a smaller scale and attracted just two of the A’s—artists and the nonathletically inclined academic kids. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I choke down my tears, wipe the existing ones off my face before they can freeze, and pull myself back together. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

At that point, he said, the family had gone so long without talking about Henrietta, it was almost like she’d never existed, except for her children and those cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

What drugs did exist were very expensive and often scarce. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

How could a caste system exist, in view of the black middle class? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They are tools that exist as notations on the page and in my mind; like the abacus, they transform the way I operate on numbers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As new and exciting as this breakthrough was compared to what existed before, it was nothing compared to what would come later. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

When Bobby discovered that Kaltenbrunner’s son was still alive, living in Vienna, he visited him to discuss whether the concentration camps did or didn’t exist. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Does he exist in the same way as I exist?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The fact that not everyone is willing to dig deep enough to find that core is hardly evidence that it doesn’t exist. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The term hate crime was coined in response to what was described at the time as an “epidemic” of neo-Nazi and skinhead violence, although in retrospect it’s unclear whether any such epidemic existed. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Once the lawyer had performed all the right rituals and pronounced all the necessary spells and oaths, millions of upright French citizens behaved as if the Peugeot company really existed. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was black-dark and silent; the city did not exist. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Johnsons had achieved a level of independence that others in the neighborhood didn’t know existed, let alone understood how to obtain. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In prison, there was no point in making the distinction between the ANC and the party that existed on the outside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fell, screaming, into a bottomless pit that didn’t really exist. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Clay and his father continued their conversation as if Polly and the slave sitting next to her did not exist. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like she might have been waiting for me, which is ridiculous, because when we fight she always pretends I don't exist at least until the afternoon. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

What more could possibly exist beyond the dispatches, beyond the suburbs? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Living creatures exist with one another in a delicate balance, she seemed to be saying. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As many as five thousand cultivars may exist in Mesoamerica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We can only exist together here in our little mise-en-scène at the end of the path—the setting of our own documentary short. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Special tactile feedback pads covered both palms, allowing the gloves to create the illusion that I was touching objects and surfaces that didn’t actually exist. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But in her resolute pose and raised arms, there existed an undeniable hostility, as if she were preparing to march into battle. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When it was realized that ancient tapirs had existed simultaneously in South America and Southeast Asia a land bridge was drawn there, too. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“But he looks “That’s what happens when you spend your golden years in a place where oxygen and bacteria can’t exist, like the underside of our bog. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Except for his thanes’ occasional stories of seeing my footprints, he’d probably forgotten by then that I existed. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, shadowy: a myth, a phantom: something which they engendered and created whole themselves; some effluvium of Sutpen blood and character, as though as a man he did not exist at all. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ideas about big things, such as the universe, and good and evil, and why things exist in the first place.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She wanted to tell Missy the news: that Skeleton Woman really did exist! I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

I found no living family members, and as is true for much of history, there exists little written record of poor people’s lives. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

But a second mechanism of generating genetic diversity exists: genetic information can be swapped between chromosomes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He had no idea so many stars even existed. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“But it had to be done. I certainly can’t go publicizing that Poe manuscript if Griswold’s still around. As it stands now, nobody knows it exists. It can be my discovery. Well...” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Totally foolproof, except for the fact that gay people exist. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“You’ll have such proof as exists. You are the only one responsible for your own wants.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

This led to the doctrine of preformationism: the adult existed fully formed within the egg. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Rules are rules, Miss New Hampshire. They exist for a reason. For taking the Lord’s name in vain, you owe me another quarter. You also spoke without the baton. Latrine duty for you, too.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Was it, then, I thought, like they had never existed at all? This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But right now I fight to keep my mind blank, to pretend that this room is all that has ever existed and all that will ever exist. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the halt order, evidence exists that the Nazis continued the euthanasia program secretly throughout the war years. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

All in all, it was more wealth than I ever could have imagined existed on this earth. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I saw it in my father, in the way he moved around as if nothing were wrong with his body, as if the disease that would someday take his life just didn’t exist. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In the 1990s geologists laid out data indicating that the ice sheets were bigger and longer lasting than had been thought, and that even when the ice-free corridor existed it was utterly inhospitable. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Like the rest of my world doesn’t exist at all. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“We have to find the workshop before Luke does. If Daedalus is alive, we convince him to help us* not Luke. If Ariadne’s string still exists, we make sure it never falls into Luke’s hands.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was the first thing I owned that proved I exist. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They’ll pretend the other doesn’t exist for a week, even if they see each other getting the mail. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The party did not exist as a separate entity on Robben Island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Future searches will be difficult: thousands of years ago, the melting glaciers raised the seas, inundating coastal settlements, if they existed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A chain-reacting pile would be more efficient but still existed only in theory, for Fermi’s most recent prototype had produced less than one neutron per fission—a definite fizzle. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It allows you to exist in a state of suspended animation. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

No living thing is without it, nor could life exist without this magic formula. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were torn between wanting to look back and wanting to exist absolutely in the new life they’d created. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I was wrong to attempt to deceive you; but I feared a stubbornness that exists in your character. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

If you’re an entrepreneur gambling on a new product, how do you weigh the intelligence you get from rational analysis of the existing marketplace against your own instincts about the potential of your new idea? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I read somewhere that a lot of the stars we see don’t exist anymore. They’ve already died and it’s taken millions of years for their light to reach Earth,” Dill said. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Look harder for things she maybe wouldn’t have thought existed. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

In all his published work, Copernicus made no mention of astrology—but nor is there anything to suggest that he would have disputed the standard view, that astronomy existed to make astrology possible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Her soul must have crawled with horror, for how can you fly in something that does not exist? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the new scale, the more modern analytical device, had been there already; no lag had existed. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Even though nature tries to shield the singularities of black holes, scientists know that black holes exist. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

"They exist," he said with his knowing smile. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There existed in those days a true camaraderie in our profession, whatever the small differences in our approach. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Was the Party’s hold upon the past less strong, he wondered, because a piece of evidence which existed no longer had once existed? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Many white laboratory employees, particularly on the East Side, hadn’t even known that an all-black computing group existed. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

If Poet’s estate did exist, it was sure to be a shell of its former self, stripped and plundered by the German army. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Niceville, Mississippi, is the name of our town because it doesn’t exist, but we decided a real state name would draw interest. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The forest indeed exists, but humankind has long been one of its essential components. down the Amazon, Carvajal recording every moment. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!” cried Jane. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Aron the butcher says to me, "You believe this story? That she foretold a dragon? You think such things really exist?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I was informed that the People’s Front policy was now the correct vision of life and that the clubs could no longer exist. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Happily, now we knew that this was not true, and so we had lunch, telling each other that a structure this pretty just had to exist. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Might as well be the crazy man screaming at everyone around him, or might as well not exist at all. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As if such a state of being ever existed, anywhere, for anyone. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The racially segregated, poverty-stricken ghettos that exist in inner-city communities across America would not exist today but for racially biased government policies for which there has never been meaningful redress. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In a world in which one lived by the light of a father’s name and rank, that meant—since I had no father—I existed in a shadow. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

This story still gets repeated, despite the fact that the documents which are supposed to support it do not exist, and have been known not to exist since 1936. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The only proof he has now that the girl even existed, and was not a figment of his imagination, is the glove. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She appeared at church that one day and never again, and seems to have existed for the sole purpose of changing my mother’s mind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The Industrial Revolution was driven in large part by developments in chemistry, and yet as an organized science chemistry barely existed for decades. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She has continued to exist, survived her childhood illnesses, the near-drowning in a rip current on Rockaway Beach at the age of twelve, other dramas. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Although medical opinion is divided on the question, much evidence exists to support the view that similar effects may occur in human tissues. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Okay, okay. Maybe they just forget you ever existed. Anyway, I don’t think many people would switch.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The center could not hold because it did not exist. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The will to live, it would seem, existed in this mysterious clear fluid that Strange had given of without a second thought. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In fact, each interpretation was true, in the sense that adherents of the different positions—and dozens more—existed in that churning and heterogeneous group known, with deceptive simplicity, as black America. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had no idea a channel exists that features nothing but weddings and bridal gowns and honeymoon possibilities. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Many writers have imagined republics and principalities that have never been seen nor known to exist in reality. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want any more “culture” in his life, and he could go on forever pretending the Korean half of him didn’t exist. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Thus, according to the American College Dictionary, a fact is ‘something that actually exists; reality’ and also, or alternatively, ‘a truth known by actual experience or observation; something known to be true’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She was a regular—in a long remission from appendiceal cancer, which I had not previously known existed. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

If the king knew this kind of book still existed in his library, he’d have it all destroyed. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She could only twist and copy and distort things that already existed. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

It had not merely become silent; it had stopped existing, scared into its grave by his knock. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The beat starts again, but all the lines in my head suddenly don’t exist. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I know it existed because I have more photos from that time than from any other placement in foster care. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure I know what does exist between us.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not even up to God who, if He exists, is nowhere around right now. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

So that nothing around her existed but the music and the need to create a resonant and pure sound. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“In just a few years, all this will be gone, almost like it never existed.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Thor asked the other gods for advice, but each god he asked was of the opinion that such a cauldron did not exist. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Or maybe my mother has not met my father at all in another universe, and so I don’t even exist. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

If such things exist, they can have nothing to do with us. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were gone, as if the darkness had swallowed them up, as if they had never existed. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

At meals with the aunts, on the boat with Granddad, even alone with Mummy—I behaved as if those two critical people had never existed. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Instead, he said that time was a property of the universe that God created, and that time did not exist before the beginning of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when Mother died she didn’t go to heaven because heaven doesn’t exist. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The elevated sites upon which the buildings stood had not existed until his grading teams created them. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The Academy had taught us about rules the way a fundamentalist teaches the Bible in church, taking literally the injunctions about moneylenders and Armageddon and wives who existed to serve husbands. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first Carlisle was a disappointment; he was not quick to accuse, to see demons where they did not exist. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I have never heard of them, but, if it was a child who showed them to you, they exist. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

It got so I almost believed them—Mrs. Dodds had never existed. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s just a story among so many other stories. If that world ever existed, it doesn’t anymore. But the point is the same. You are not dead. But everyone else here is.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

As we have seen, soil and the living things in and upon it exist in a relation of interdependence and mutual benefit. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The trail Shaffer found was nothing like the groomed and orderly corridor that exists today. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have any idea as to why birds existed. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Or just not be aware that you do exist. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that some African Americans have experienced great success in recent years does not mean that something akin to a racial caste system no longer exists. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Forget college, which most likely no longer existed. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Some inherited letters or signs may simply be dropped, when the sounds that those letters represent in the lending language do not exist in the borrowing language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Why should you copy what another does? That already exists. I want to see what is in your own mind.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

According to the Aristotelian philosophers, epicycles ought not really to exist: all movement in the heavens ought to be circular movement around the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

So, the fact that Gabriel believed our town needed that bird to exist made absolute sense to me, whether I liked it or not. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Three billion years, and life itself barely exists. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

At last, I thought, I would reveal dramas of hope, fear, love, and hate that existed in these humble people. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think this problem—not being taken into account—exists in some degree, however minimal, for nearly all people who work in prisons. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rules existed for a reason: if you followed them, you would succeed; if you didn’t, you might burn the world to the ground. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“At first, you see, at first I didn’t think you even existed,” he was saying now. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I loved fantasy, loved to get lost in worlds that didn’t exist. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

If she pretended I didn’t exist, maybe those bad feelings would just go away. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

What else would you call a place that exists solely to teach you about the world? Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

William Levitt regarded the land he had acquired as frozen in time, belonging to a previous century, and marveled that such a backwater existed in the corridor between New York and Philadelphia. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Its expressions of equality are generally used to corroborate some existing doctrine, and little if any effort is expended to construct counter-examples. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t even know this neighborhood existed, to be honest.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“My father praised Robert without respite! So my behavior was disgracious. But such reverences, such empathies that existed between them, they are very combustible. Friendship is a calmer thing. Robert left Zedelgem in winter.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

From the beginning there existed a strange balance between my grandfather and me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately in the 1970s no tests existed for determining how long such a deposit might have taken to accumulate. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Against instinct he tries to imagine life without his father, a world in which his father does not exist. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I'm so grateful that social media didn't exist back then. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The part of me that is still a child, the part of me that I didn’t know still existed until this moment, howls in rage. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But mostly the relationships existed on the phone, I gathered. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

They rode all day to make up for lost time, in a state of shock, amazed that the world could still exist after the storm. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A number line without zero could no more exist than a number system without two. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“As I said, your memory construct will exist in the Thunderhead. Loved ones will be able to talk to it, and your construct will respond.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

As human beings, were born believing that we are the apex of creation, that we are invincible, that no problem exists that we cannot solve. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Yet there existed in us a longing to trust men of our own color. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out, then, that summer, that the moral barriers that I had supposed to exist between me and the dangers of a criminal career were so tenuous as to be nearly nonexistent. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

It is sometimes said that butlers only truly exist in England. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help imagining, as I bit into my Lazarus Burger on the way home from work, what it might be like if the bird actually did exist and happened upon one of these sandwiches. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

His parents had told him the Government could trace calls, could tell if a voice on a phone was from a person who was allowed to exist or not. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

As Meggie came closer to the grating her mother lifted her head and was now looking at her as if nothing else in the world existed. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Not even the White Plastic Kitchen exists in this dream. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

In a sense I have always felt something of a kinship with the colored race because its position is the same as mine: we both exist outside the inner realm of American society. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was curious, but when you said it to yourself you had the illusion of actually hearing bells, the bells of a lost London that still existed somewhere or other, disguised and forgotten. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They existed like eagles, to prey on weaker brethren. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If He does exist, He sure doesn’t spend any time in West Baltimore.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And then I realized he was referring to the thin strands of hair that existed between them. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I sit down at my desk and stare at my hands, ashamed of judging her, of holding on to petty competitions that no longer exist. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

No one knows why the balds are there, or how long they have existed, or why they appear on some mountains but not others. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

For when it has been re-created in whatever shape is needed at the moment, then this new version is the past, and no different past can ever have existed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Galton knew that no ordinary measuring devices existed for any of these characteristics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“That a heart could exist that’s big enough to fit a whole person inside. Isn’t that cool?” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Such a movement is impossible, though, if those most committed to abolishing racial hierarchy continue to talk and behave as if a state-sponsored racial caste system no longer exists. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He looked out the window and saw the barefoot children in the sunny garden and he had the impression that only at that instant had they begun to exist, conceived by Úrsula’s spell. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

First, in what sense can all these different universes be said to exist? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of which I didn’t know existed, even though I’ve lived in this house my whole life. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The moment I had learned that I was to leave, my feelings had recoiled so sharply and quickly from the home that the children simply did not exist for me any more. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

To keep himself informed of all activities in the area, he dispatches a telegraph operator to that location and orders him to tap into the existing line. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The sanitary condition of the expedition was good, and the quantity of provisions still existing was sufficient to assure us the termination of the voyage without scarcity of food.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

It is possible she escaped to one of the giant communities still existing in foreign mountain ranges. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The power breakfast is getting soggy, but I can handle it, when possibilities exist. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Like the Sun Belt or the Bible Belt, there exists, on this multifarious earth of ours, a Hair Belt. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Since we have a concept of an infinite perfect being in our minds, Descartes then argued that this infinite and perfect being—God—must exist. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

If there really were pre-Clovis people in the Americas, why is it still so hard to prove that they existed? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was also able to find more hours in the day than I thought existed. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the existing dagger could not be destroyed, and so it promised never to harm another through trickery, or by accident.’” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She had only to drink the whole bottle and she would dwindle and disappear and cease to exist. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But said uncle was as real as the dusty old trunk I didn’t think actually existed. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I meet people who never knew she existed. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I know things about Jason—who, I have to keep reminding myself, doesn’t exist. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

District Court ruled that de jure segregation existed in the Detroit school system. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Nothing is talked about here to-day except the strange coincidence; the officials of the Board of Trade have been most exacting in seeing that every compliance has been made with existing regulations. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

This nation shouldn’t exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There is the unseen, waiting to be seen, existing only in the spaces we admit we do not see yet. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

That a new life existed so close, just over the state line? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Not a road or village or settlement or power line or even a single person existed in this staggering immensity. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Police harassed these clubs, but many continued to exist underground. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He starts to cry, and I am choking, too, crying for an infant who never existed, the child of a woman I never knew. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bethe’s stark conclusion that “it seems useless to build cyclotrons of larger proportions than the existing ones” appeared at a delicate and potentially mortifying moment for the Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Personally, I thought it was just another journalist’s legend. But if the Whitechapel Club really does exist, it would be one of the last places Aaron visited before his disappearance.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The caveat is that such work has to exist, and in the current economy, it doesn’t. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

After the roots and leavings we had existed on, I was grateful enough for the food, but of what she bought Nathan would not touch a morsel. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poverty existed in the United States, but even most of the poorest people had access to food. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She felt emptied of everything; she only existed to hold the bow and to ready the arrow for its task. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was as if the world below us were slowly fading away like the dream it was, and only we existed now on a tiny island of reality here on this hilltop. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Disabled and without adequate legal assistance, Ms. Banks was coerced into pleading guilty to killing a child who had never existed along with her sister, Ms. Tucker. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Because they point to something that isn’t supposed to exist: a silent revolution. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Maybe not, but I’m going to try all the same. The man I’m talking about doesn’t sell books either new or secondhand. Capricorn probably doesn’t even know he exists.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Nazis seemed to have figured out everything, including how to eliminate evidence that someone had ever existed. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

It could introduce me to people and show me places I never imagined existed. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indians were surprised when strange-looking people appeared on their shores, but unlike Europeans they were not surprised that such strange people existed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It is the achievement of the Party to have produced a system of thought in which both conditions can exist simultaneously. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He did not exist, he was banished, and this was also the punishment. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I was in awe, because I didn’t even know it existed. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“There are flying squirrels, you know. They exist. In fact, there are some theories that posit that all squirrels are descended from the flying squirrel. In any case, flying squirrels themselves are a documented fact.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

But Civil War doctors didn't know that infection-causing bacteria even existed. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

We would choose some article almost certain not to exist there and then diligently try to find it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys could just deny this game even existed. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Although they lived in an America where in theory there existed equality of opportunity, they knew unerringly what to aspire to and what not to aspire to. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would need those to help him find the Elsewhere that they were both sure existed. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Such worm holes in space, a little like those in an apple, have been seriously suggested, although they have by no means been proved to exist. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had never existed; he had invented it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A computer memory is basically a device containing elements that can exist in either of two states. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If any doubt had ever existed it would have been removed by the following circumstances: 1st When Genl. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It exists in the mythology of Egypt, Greece, the Middle East, and Europe, and is the same as the vermilion bird of ancient China. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The billboards had been whited out with thin coats of paint in order to write on them and through the paint could be seen a pale palimpsest of advertisements for goods which no longer existed. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m convinced the Milagro Land and Water Protection Association doesn’t even exist,” the agent said. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The aloofness that existed when we first met in Naples had vanished. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

At the soccer match, all I could think about was the discovery of a family I never thought existed. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They exist nowhere else in the universe but within me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

For all I know, Saint Rene no longer exists and I’m just talking to nothing. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

One of the letters dated 1952 had a postal code on it that didn’t exist until twenty years later. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It seems clear then that life, at least as we know it, can exist only in regions of space-time in which one time dimension and three space dimensions are not curled up small. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If animals existed in a world of instincts and senses beyond the conscious thoughts of the mind, what happened to people in their frantic worlds of noise and hectic rushing? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

For how could you establish even the most obvious fact when there existed no record outside your own memory? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

With that, his father left the room, and Benton, anger boiling up from places he hadn’t known existed, clenched his fists tightly and, for a few moments, forgot how to breathe. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Recently, a Nazi spy in America, William Sebold, had gone to the FBI and blown the cover off Hitler's existing spy ring, destroying it. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Mi Hermanita Virginia, I do not know if you even exist anymore, but if one day you find this, call me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Europeans finally began again to visit Greenland in 1577, its Norse colony no longer existed, having evidently disappeared without any record during the 15th century. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I look at both sides of my Scantron to see wild constellations that don’t exist in the heavens, and yet are more true than the stars we can see. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

By all the laws of conventional physics, atoms shouldn’t therefore exist. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Shay had been telling the truth—places like the Smoke really existed. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It’s relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don’t really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not know how to find the social workers who might have helped her; she did not even know they existed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Why would anything exist, if he ceased to? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“But now I know that I do. Just the same as anyone else. I have a right to exist and live and love and be loved.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I seemed to exist in some other dimension, utterly alone; until after a while a nurse bent down and forced a warm fluid between my lips. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I thought that if true love did exist, that was a pretty good definition of it. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The afternoon was quiet except for the sound of the waves against the hull The fog had burned away to a blue sky, as if the island of the Sirens had never existed. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, at low energies there are thirty-seven different states in which the ball can exist. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day, he woke up wondering if the stick would somehow catch fire and burn, and he would cease to exist. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It needed to exist in its own bubble, as long as they could stay just beyond its outer edge, peering in. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But they should think logically and if they thought logically they would see that they can only ask this question because it has already happened and they exist. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t close her eyes to the racism that existed; she knew just as well as any other black person the tax levied upon them because of their color. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was as if I knew, without a doubt, that the prodigy side of me really did exist. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

One can only imagine the speeds the drivers could have reached on the original Canopic Way, which was at least twice as wide as the existing thoroughfare. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

But here, so many miles from home, I have to wonder if the place even exists. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Or maybe this was scythe humor, if such a thing even existed. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

This was because the Basement and its contents didn’t exist as a part of the OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It had always existed in the past, and would always exist. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

And in the moonlight, what I discovered was that between the palace and the next building there existed only a slight separation. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

If, on the other hand, no such difference in human neurobiology exists to account for continental differences in technological development, what does account for them? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This tradition doesn’t exist for Bengalis, naming a son after father or grandfather, a daughter after mother or grandmother. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most of all, I wanted to be alone so I could search for the part of my life that existed before integration, the Melba I was struggling to hold on to. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every muscle in her body ached, even parts she hadn’t known existed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I watch him existing and existing and existing. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Our first weekend, we had played Go Fish and tic-tac-toe in our room and waited for Cecile to announce that we were going to some adventurous place that existed only in California. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As you know,” he says, “those giant grasshoppers could never actually exist. At that size their respiratory systems would collapse.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But if she’s real—if the woman in black exists as much as I do standing right here on my own two feet—then I also know she has something to do with it. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In light of recent developments the possibility exists that. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nose has been flattened until it barely exists. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The stars had always been with them, existing beyond memory, and they were all held together there. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Probably all other peoples who have developed writing since then have borrowed, adapted, or at least been inspired by existing systems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The goal of his philosophy is to make new discoveries, not to patch and mend an existing body of knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A kinship exists between people who’ve fed from the same breast. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Or, if we say that God has always existed, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always existed? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

No man in his right senses would voluntarily choose such a life in preference to the one of normal, family, social life which exists in every civilized community. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m trying,” Mr. Goldberg said to me, as if only the two of us existed. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But how could she escape an illusion when it didn’t exist? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s proof that you exist, even if every trace of you is gone from the house. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In South Africa, faith in the Holy Trinity exists quite comfortably alongside belief in witchcraft, in casting spells and putting curses on one’s enemies. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and known the same women. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And my family will never find out, because according to Matilde’s note, they don’t even know if I exist anymore. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

No scientific bureaucracy existed in the government to assume the task, so Watson created one on the fly. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

With the A form, the argument for a helix was never straightforward, and considerable ambiguity existed as to exactly which type of helical symmetry was present. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t exist anymore, but at the time it had a fine reputation and as far as I was concerned represented everything a singer could wish for.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The idea that Alaska didn’t exist still stunned me every time I thought about it. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Any large-scale human cooperation—whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe—is rooted in common myths that exist only in people’s collective imagination. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not exist for him; I was as far from his mind as the stone buildings that swept past in the street. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen,” Alex tells her, “royal weddings are trash, the princes who have royal weddings are trash, the imperialism that allows princes to exist at all is trash. It’s trash turtles all the way down.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Use this time to jump the fence your mother says the Carters put up to keep Ms. Winston's little kids from playing in their pool that we're not sure exists. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

What if the woman in black does exist and she knows something about the reason my mother is gone? Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Maimonides argued that there were flaws in Aristotle’s proof that the universe had always existed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The North Carolina government—half of which crowded into Garrison’s dining room that night—purchased existing slaves from farmers at favorable rates, just as Great Britain had done when it abolished slavery decades ago. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Felicia was so quiet and so seldom seen, most people seemed to forget she existed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backward in time and exist in two places at once. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

If zero were nothing, the student could claim that the grades for the courses he failed did not exist, and demand a 4.0 average. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I told her how it disturbed me when she referred to me as the youngest in the family, as if Deborah had not existed. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I’m told no such bear exists in the area he was sent.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She was too busy shooting up, drifting off to another world where I didn’t exist. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you don’t have things like that here,” he went on, “but surely you know they exist outside the wall?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not incidentally, it also solved the problem of the luminiferous ether by making it clear that it didn’t exist. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

If such an enzyme existed, Kornberg reasoned, the easiest place to find it would be in an organism that was dividing rapidly—E. coli during its furious phase of growth. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ve tried all over the place. They don’t exist any longer.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

That I didn't shoot him, or bomb him, or drown him, or do whatever it was, precisely, that caused Bas to no longer exist. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There exist many actual cases of hunter-gatherers who did see food production practiced by their neighbors, and who nevertheless refused to accept its supposed blessings and instead remained hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If Fates existed, they’d put him with his dad, and that meant they were bad news. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Something I didn’t even know existed two days ago. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I was nearly six when Mandela was released, ten before democracy finally came, yet she was preparing me to live a life of freedom long before we knew freedom would exist. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

What does Maddie not understand about how awful it feels to be made fun of for just existing? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was none of the morning confusion that exists in most homes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered if they even truly believed that the Fairy Queen existed. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The one on its left is being devoured by ivy, and the one to the right...no longer exists. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

They might never have existed, except for the pictures Arm held in his long fingers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Other smaller specialist groups existed, in which boys learned how to signal in Morse code, operate antiaircraft weaponry, provide first aid and practical field medicine, perform air-raid warden duties, and handle other weapons. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands went to her throat, then clawed at the air—the air she could no longer breathe, the air that, for her, had ceased to exist. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if you barely exist in people’s minds as another living person then being pointed to, being followed around...these things draw attention to themselves. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It isn’t what you meant, but it exists. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it exists—a weight in my hand. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I get less total seam length by not trying to use the existing pop-tent canvas. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the reason we observe this thermodynamic arrow to agree with the cosmological arrow is that intelligent beings can exist only in the expanding phase. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have dim apprehensions that such propositions as ‘God does not exist’ are somewhat dubious at least in comparison with statements like ‘All carnivorous cows eat meat.’ Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did he remember existing in a world where no one thought him strange, thought him a beast? Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Particles of spin 0,1, or 2 do also exist in some circumstances as real particles, when they can be directly detected. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached a producer and told her the story: her husband’s incarceration, the call from Homeland Security, the stonewalling, the courts that didn’t even exist. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Gutenberg’s press was derived from screw presses in use for making wine and olive oil, while his ink was an oil-based improvement on existing inks. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every artifact was unique, meaning that only one copy of it existed in the entire simulation. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But we made an assumption here—that there is a 50-50 chance that God exists. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

There is a way in which I don’t exist while I’m lying here. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

This was music to Flamsteed’s ears, since it confirmed that modern observing techniques could improve on existing stellar catalogues. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It isn’t that every atom in the sample will exist for exactly 30 seconds or 60 seconds or 90 seconds or some other tidily ordained period. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She had no idea this beautiful green country existed so close to the dusty streets of Mtoroshanga. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no idea such a job even existed! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

As a physician, he knew no means existed for establishing the identities of burned, dismembered, or otherwise disfigured corpses. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In fact, he says that increasingly technology is appealing to and preying upon deep primitive instincts, parts of us that existed aeons before the phone. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

All the other subdivisions from the brochures turned out to exist— most of them on the north side of town, which had been totally developed a long time ago. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

When I am nine, I will be issued a Delayed Certificate of Birth, but at this moment, according to the state of Idaho and the federal government, I do not exist. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

On Friday, the policemen voted to return to work under the same conditions that existed before their walkout. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

New York is saying to me right now: you, Jean Louise Finch, are not reacting according to our doctrines regarding your kind, therefore you do not exist. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A figurehead can only see things in front of the ship, and nothing within it, so Calliope can just guess at the way into the forecastle, where her legs—if they exist—would be embedded. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Almost no one even knew it existed, except for the archivists who looked after it in secret. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The predator and the preyed upon exist not alone, but as part of a vast web of life, all of which needs to be taken into account. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“They saw that before you knew it even existed. So did seventy thousand other people.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Masaccio’s painting shows Christ on the cross in front of a chapel with a barrel vault—but of course the chapel does not exist; it is entirely a painted chapel. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There were luxuries in my rooms that I had not known existed on Winter—for instance, a shower. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Dark magic formed us from animal, bronze, and ghost! We exist to feed on the blood of young men. Now come, give me that kiss!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Nurse Evil and I settle into a grudging routine where I pretend she doesn’t exist and she leaves ever more obnoxious sticky notes to let me know that she does. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The man you know as Serakeen—the bloodthirsty warlord, the Scourge of the East—is a fabrication, a useful myth we’ve concocted. But I’m afraid he doesn’t exist.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The prosecutor is also free to file more charges against a defendant than can realistically be proven in court, so long as probable cause arguably exists—a practice known as overcharging. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Bo coming back into my world, if only in the tiniest of ways, turns my brain into a vacuum, where nothing else can exist, because I’m so consumed. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Fortunately the animosity lasted only a few days out of the year, and generally in Narewka, Jews and gentiles existed peacefully alongside each other. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Naomi was focused on Cap, which meant nobody else in the building existed. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She usually found it so easy to escape somewhere else, to get right inside the minds of people and animals who existed only on paper, so why not now? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Looking back after twenty years, I sometimes wonder if the events of that summer didn’t happen in some other dimension, a place where your life exists before you’ve lived it, and where it goes afterward. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The uncomfortable truth, however, is that racial differences will always exist among us. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And the few anti-hate groups that existed at the time had little leverage or even information about the Klan. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Here was a Rab Johnny had always known existed, but had never before seen. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If such tennis shoes exist I am to earn them. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nor would Alexander have been likely to demand a statue of his lover in Alexandria if no settlement worthy of the honor had yet existed. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“But I assure you they exist, Mr. Patel. My uncle—” “I believe what I see.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like I deserve to exist on this planet alongside everyone else. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But when Dad got up, he’d act as if all the wreckage didn’t exist, and no one discussed it with him. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hardly a product existed that didn’t bring a little lead into consumers’ lives. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ptolemy’s model of planetary motion can be represented by a little machine, like those that, serving a similar purpose, existed in Ptolemy’s time.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This would all be true if the bird existed, which it didn’t. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Or did the world just exist from moment to moment for them? Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Over time the Maya found themselves simultaneously maintaining existing systems and pushing out to cover past mistakes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I read through four of the twenty-five pages, mesmerized by how many laws exist to separate us. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was as though I didn’t exist for her, as though I wasn’t real. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

No doubt some of the towns on it didn’t exist yet, but at least it would have given me a better idea of what was ahead. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Huygens’s early work was chiefly in the field of mathematics, where he made improvements in existing techniques and developed his own skills, without making any major new breakthroughs. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Block after block of ceiling lights snapped on, electricity pouring through them after years of existing as nothing more than hollow, dusty veins. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she is trying to convince herself that he has already gone out of her life—that he no longer exists. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Silvertongue was staring at the photograph and suddenly it was as if nothing else in the world existed. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Others may wonder how a racial caste system could exist when most Americans—of all colors—oppose race discrimination and endorse colorblindness. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Practically the same letter exists in a file on her computer. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some afternoons, however, he would quietly slip away, and his lab group had it that a special girl friend existed. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

There was massive access to new kinds of media that hadn’t existed in the mainstream just five years earlier. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“She definitely knows you exist,” said Harry, bewildered. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It’s as if Duke Ellington, Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong simply had never existed. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no, sir,” I said, smiling as though there existed the possibility of my falling accidentally into Lake Michigan. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since, however, he could neither read nor write English, he acquired no details or even principles from the existing scripts around him. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A regular landline dial tone, reaching out from the past like a security blanket, a sign that the world beyond this fence still exists. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

While it is charming to imagine the scene, the fact is the cameras that existed during Mudgett’s boyhood made candid moments almost impossible to capture, especially when the subject was a child. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He had been hoping that somehow the circus train he was not even entirely certain existed would still be there, waiting. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And some of the stars don’t even exist anymore because their light has taken so long to get to us that they are already dead, or they have exploded and collapsed into red dwarfs. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The actual number is slightly contentious because the heavy, synthesized elements exist for only millionths of seconds and chemists sometimes argue over whether they have really been detected or not. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He had been harboring a skittish apprehension that he was not real—that he didn't exist at all. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We exist as nothing but raw personality in here. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As the andys can evade me and exist a finite stretch longer. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Doomed to exist in the dark, near a butt. Great.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Yet spraying has been permitted to cause heavy losses in existing impoundments. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There is obvious hazard in trying to assign a particular meaning to this special kind of sound, and problems like this exist throughout the field of bioacoustics. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a nightmare, of course, and a desecration of the highest mountain in the northeast, but I was delighted it existed in one place. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought I’d live my whole life and die in this town. I don’t know how I existed like that.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Far more species have become extinct in the history of the Earth than exist today; they are the terminated experiments of evolution. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You make your own decisions. You always have. I’ve just existed for your pleasure. I’m just another old sports car. Use me when you wish. I don’t care.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“I’m the awfulest, most despicable creature that ever existed. I ought to be fed to the crocodiles at the zoo.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

To claim that there existed a substance with no measurable attributes was, he maintained, to turn physics into a fantastical story, like Don Quixote. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Everyone was celebrated at least in some degree, as though it was a cause for wonder that anyone existed at all. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Adam said, “Let me tell you. The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tasted fruits I never knew existed, like mango and papaya. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

But that day in the office, he had revealed that there was another side to his nature, a side that had been obscured but that still existed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing but realism existed then; you have to take that into account.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I tried and failed to imagine her, this woman who could after so many years renounce altogether her husband, break the bond that must surely have existed despite his long absences. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evidently, there still existed an abundance of animal-based food if one knew where to find it. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you incorporated? In what ways do you exist?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a few hundred of these artifacts existed, and most of them dated back to the earliest days of the OASIS, when it was still primarily an MMO game. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Everyone is so, not only ourselves here—the things that existed before are no longer valid, and one practically knows them no more. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t shocked by the idea that gods and goddesses existed, only that a person could actually get to know them. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Racism existed as a backdrop to our relationship, and I did not want to experience the humiliation of being rejected because I was black. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Since you are a Re’lar, I will admit that it exists.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Hideo looks pleased, but I can sense the quiet, dark side of him returning the longer we stand here, as if coming home had given that side of him the fuel it needs to exist. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

These laws resulted in inferior accommodations for blacks and served only to fuel the existing fear and hatred between blacks and whites. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

How am I supposed to begin changing lives if said lives don’t even know I exist? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I thought you said the Royal and General didn’t exist.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

So we recruits ignored these in-mates, tried to treat them as if they didn’t exist. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Oakland Police Department has access to stuff I never knew existed. They claim that they get a lot of it from the federal government. Surplus from all our country’s military spending or something.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Whatever love exists between them is an utterly private, uncelebrated thing. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Prominent among them was H. J. Muller, who was impressed that several well-known theoretical physicists, especially Pascual Jordan, thought forces existed by which like attracted like. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“I was a woman who was sure I didn’t have a right to exist in this world,” she says. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Yeah, doesn’t exist so much inside an internment camp. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Like I would not exist without her patting hand. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Constrained by its punishing climate, poor soil, and lack of protein, these scientists argue, large-scale societies have never existed—can never exist—in the river basin. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It’s an arrangement so specialized and particular that it has never been tried before and will only exist this once. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Before long, the dogwood, like the American chestnut and American elm, will effectively cease to exist. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I don’t exist at all,” I said to Burke. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“No. It was his idea. I didn’t even know the tapes existed yet.” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

It was as if she no longer existed for him. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Without attentive care from Indigenous peoples, it would not exist. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

But for me, the answer was that Masonry, actually, is only thiity-three degrees of the religion of Islam, which is the lull projection, forever denied to Masons, although they know it exists. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, it is real. The Brotherhood, we call it. You will never learn much more about the Brotherhood than that it exists and that you belong to it. I will come back to that presently.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I’d begun to think she existed only in my head, but here she is, a little older. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sick of pretending it doesn’t exist, just to make other people feel more comfortable. How about they just get comfortable with my reality?” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Octavian believed they existed and were secretly plotting against Rome. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Therefore he had a sense of touch, and the thing against which he lay existed too. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“But you must go on as if I did not exist. Can you understand that?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I inhaled the dawn four times, giving a prayer to myself, to the new day, and to all that exists. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. We don’t know who first realized that those meanings were there, but did the similarity, the association, exist before they realized it, or not until then? Did they invent it or discover it?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Most such tailor-made systems modify existing alphabets, though some instead design syllabaries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the strong anthropic principle would claim that this whole vast construction exists simply for our sake. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

What existed beyond Madrid that the child had to commit to memory? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When Emmett and George bought the property, his house didn't even exist. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

If I had no knowledge that he had ever existed, no evidence that he was ever a part of our lives, it might have been bearable. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

By this point, he has thrown himself back into his own painting and has forgotten we exist. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

According to Aristotle, comets exist in the upper atmosphere. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In truth, there was no doubt that a relativistic limit to cyclotron energies existed; the question was where it was. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Velikovsky imagined the comet, after a complicated game of interplanetary billiards, to settle down into a stable, nearly circular orbit, becoming the planet Venus—which he claimed never existed before then. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“But it did exist! It does exist! It exists in memory. I remember it. You remember it.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“You know this river is the only reason Indianapolis even exists?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Hmmm...the Dark Mark we don’t know exists,” said Hermione skeptically, rolling up Ron’s dried essay before it could come to any more harm and handing it to him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Most garden paths exist only on the printed page. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Since we don’t claim their set, we don’t exist. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“What if I threw a burger into the woods and the Lazarus, if it existed, flew down and took a bite out of it?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was as if he didn’t exist, except as an obstacle in the path. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Did things like bedtimes and hot baths and setting the table for supper still exist somewhere? How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Except there is, it just exists in magnetic vibrations. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

My life exists at die center of this debate. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And knowing that my mother in there was a statistic that didn’t have to be, that existed because of a society’s failure, hypocrisy, greed, and lack of mercy and compassion. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mamou and Babou had always existed in their own cuboid universe: the two of them, and the walls of the computer room around them. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

If there is no chance that God exists, Pascal’s wager—as it came to be known—makes no sense. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Lourdes can’t understand what happened with Son of Sam, only that he exists and that he had a dog that commanded him to kill. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he said, “At least my mama can shake and bake. Your mama can’t bake a pie because your mama don’t exist. Your mama’s the invisible mom.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I mean, this kid doesn’t even know I exist. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

My mother didn’t want to throw away anything that had existed while Lynn was still alive. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Nonsense. The earth is as old as we are, no older. How could it be older? Nothing exists except through human consciousness.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

If this place has always existed, why didn't we know about it? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He thought of the twenty-four floors, the views that would soon no longer exist, his disposable camera. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hierarchies exist everywhere, but especially in locker rooms. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And then this: Sarah leaving with the car like I didn’t even exist, as if there might not be someplace I needed to go in the afternoon. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like because you had a baby before marriage, you didn’t exist anymore. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“That’s how it’s supposed to happen. How it should happen. How it would have happened if I didn’t exist — and I shouldn’t exist. ” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Rats are illegal. Rats are against the law There are no rats in my kingdom. They do not exist.” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

And even though I want nothing more than to go back to Rose Hill and the life I left, I need to have options if Rose Hill no longer exists. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But the longer I look at her, the more convinced I am that that happy woman never existed. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Often, as in the case of term life insurance prices, the information existed but in a woefully scattered way. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Despite a cultural chasm that would exist between us no matter how long we lived in America, I'd never felt more connected to her. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Members of the school board said the city was growing so fast they had no choice but to take advantage of existing structures. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Say the Cloak existed...what about the stone, Mr. Lovegood? The thing you call the Resurrection Stone?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I didn’t imagine a place like this even existing in our quiet town. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’m more of a “yes, people exist, but that doesn’t mean I need to talk to them” person. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

If that kind of organization existed, then innocent people must go to prison. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

This idea long precedes the legal claim to authorial copyright, which did not exist in British law until 1710, and was established later elsewhere. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

If life on Mars exists, we will have a unique opportunity to test the generality of our kind of life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is remarkable is that hardly anyone seems to imagine that similar political dynamics may have produced another caste system in the years following the collapse of Jim Crow—one that exists today. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Hearing these words is like hearing permission to exist. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, seven million children-—children who had existed only as phantom exemptions on the previous year’s 1040 forms—vanished, representing about one in ten of all dependent children in the United States. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Non-human entities do not exist merely to provide for the needs of man. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d heard it from people of all races, all backgrounds, all ages—a reminder of the goodness and generosity that existed in our country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Some species — those existing at the limits of their natural range — might never be able to re-establish themselves, and the others could do so only with the aid of extensive stocking operations by the state. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I lift a hand to my eyes to find them sound, untouched by ants that never existed. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She’d just about decided this was how she would die: drowning in a swimming hole on an island that didn’t exist. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Similar limitations on the resources accessible to existing human technology prevail in the regions of the world recently occupied by other bands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

You can’t go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, of course, they didn’t even know he existed. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The aloofness displayed for each other by members of the marine coelenterate species of Gorgonaceae suggests that mechanisms for preserving individuality must have existed long before the evolution of immunity. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joyce commented: “It was wonderful to see the good fellowship existing between those cattle butchers. No matter where they came from, it was only necessary to be a cattle butcher.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The naming game is inseparable from the discovery game; it could not exist before the voyages of discovery. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There isn’t another word for what I’m seeing, because something so terrible shouldn’t be allowed to exist. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The possibility of enforcing not only complete obedience to the will of the State, but complete uniformity of opinion on all subjects, now existed for the first time. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And since it was certainly true that nothing of the kind existed in writing, the animals were satisfied that they had been mistaken. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

But many people do not even know it exists. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Time no longer exists, at least not for us. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Aids had already fallen like a shadow over the population, although no one yet knew it existed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know that everything exists because tiny specks, too small to see, move through an invisible field the way a pair of boots moves through mud, getting heavier as they go. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

To be a perfect killer, you couldn’t really exist. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

So the two groups exist in separate realms—the mestizos in theirs and the middle-class indigenas in theirs—and rarely do they mix. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked westward and marveled that, somewhere over those mountains, Kabul still existed. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

This was a possible reality, a kind of life that existed all around me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

‘Well... no. We didn’t know you existed. But -’ ‘Then save your words, brother.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The paved road in front of us, lined with glittering ivory bricks on one side and edged with golden stones on the other, curved around ripe orchards stuffed with fruit trees I never knew existed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I thought he had to look for what he was looking for, and realize it no longer existed, or never existed. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Would I write for a white world that I thought might exist but had never really experienced? Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Anyway,” he goes on, returning the look, “what makes you think Ms. Wyman is going to allow the Freedom Party to exist?” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Laundry workers existed at the bottom of the war’s great pyramid, invisible and invaluable at the same time. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Because nothing like the full-blooded machinery of a modern political party system existed, Adams conveyed his tentative scheme for a bipartisan initiative informally through letters and conversations sure to be picked up by the press. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

They exist merely to make the passing time feel meaningful and profound. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But our main reason for existing, of course, was to protect her. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiny is acting like I don't exist, so I smile and say, "I'm gonna leave you two boys alone now." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I will decide how long you must work for each of the items you stole, and it will be up to me to decide when you have earned back your notebook, if it still exists. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Long before apartheid existed these tribal factions clashed and warred with one another. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

On other nights it was still, with such a stillness as one imagines as existing before the stars began to form, or after everything has perished. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even know that real magic existed until just recently. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I was sick with the way I'd upset him and sick, also, with the way I'd let myself hope for something that didn't exist. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But the force that propelled Holmes seemed to exist outside the world of Geyer’s experience. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It would seem that the Egyptians had simply adapted an existing scripture to suit their needs. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Her case was still being appealed, and they wanted the new federal lawsuit to be independent of any existing criminal case. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

A close parallel exists between the two, for most of the business leaders are connected with the schools of higher learning, either as teachers or directors. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just to exist, you know, just to be. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“In other words, he encouraged Mr. Miyamoto to believe that at the very least a possibility existed.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was no good trying to convince him that jumbi did not exist, nor was there any way to find Stew Cat if Timothy had hidden him. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I screamed just loud enough for the sound to be muffled, as if it hadn’t existed at all. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

These days I had rules that hadn’t existed before: curfews . . . visiting hours. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Smallpox and other European diseases didn’t exist in the Americas, and so every Indian was susceptible to them in this way. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

Morrie observed that most of the patients there had been rejected and ignored in their lives, made to feel that they didn’t exist. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I come from a country that no longer exists,” he says, “and you come from a country that does not yet exist.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It's finding and getting to the physical place in which these servers reside, something impossible in the scheme of things, they can exist scattered all over the country and you would never know it. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But it’s the other way round with a Horcrux. The fragment of soul inside it depends on its container, its enchanted body, for survival. It can’t exist without it.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Trails that they did not even know existed were apparent, now that the trees were bare and the undergrowth had died down. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems to me more than likely that these variations exist. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“I hope you guys know that the Palladium doesn’t exist anymore. They tore it down.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Until I returned to Cuba, I never realized how many blues exist. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was interested in the pictures of the bare landscape, wondering what the Martian weather conditions were like and if life might ever have existed there. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not supposed to exist. And even if your camp had children of Minerva—” “They wouldn’t be like you,” Reyna said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Of course it is! Monsters exist all around us. I say Abiyoyo...” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Whereas many such animals existed in Eurasia, only five animals of any sort became domesticated in the Americas: the turkey in Mexico and the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In France, where fair play obviously did not exist, these problems would not have arisen. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

We do not know that such wormholes exist. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were 573 sovereign tribal nations as of December 15, 2018, each with the recognized power to govern and exist as an independent entity. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

As Cole stared back with the same patience, all time, even the present, ceased to exist. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I say, “I need us to talk about Eleanor and not to forget that she existed.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was more natural to exist from moment to moment, accepting another ten minutes’ life even with the certainty that there was torture at the end of it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

To have a new home at all is seen as a wonder since, up until a short time ago, we hadn’t even known that District 13 still existed. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Whatever window of opportunity had existed to complete the one glaring piece of unfinished business in the revolutionary era was now closed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Perhaps only those who endured the twentieth century’s death camps—Hitler's, Stalin’s, or Pol Pot’s—can imagine the nightmare of slavery as it existed in the nineteenth-century South. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The friendliness that had existed before was gone; men and women struggled to be in the forefront, fighting their way with ferocity, thrusting forward with strident urgency. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until she saw me, though, the pain and grief only needed to exist in her mind. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Or that I battled monsters big and small, with powers I didn’t know I had, with gods I didn’t know existed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

This is difficult because there exists, all around us, an apparatus urging us to accept American innocence at face value and not to inquire too much. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you didn’t see one, one must not exist.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Such a land appears to exist, at least marginally, on the far Arctic shores of Alaska — although even there one may see the approaching shadow. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

No reason existed to keep secret a first-rate theoretical breakthrough. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

None of this is to suggest that those who break the law bear no responsibility for their conduct or exist merely as “products of their environment.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure deduces what she can from the sounds of their shoes: those are small, those weigh a ton, those hardly exist at all. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Exactly what meaning can be attached to the other histories, in which we do not exist, is not clear. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prosecutor argued that the probability was so low that such a couple existed that the police investigation must have turned up the actual culprits. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation ever to exist, a lone champion standing between the white city of democracy and the terrorists, despots, barbarians, and other enemies of civilization. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

However, rules certainly exist for the comma and we may as well examine some of them. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

The gross features of the fair envisioned in the plan concealed a billion smaller obstacles that the public and most of the exposition’s own directors had no idea existed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But that is very different from saying that there are a billion planets on which technical civilizations now exist. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Childish griefs are never lasting. In a few days, she’ll forget that awful robot ever existed.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

When I am dead, and the Marshalls are dead, and the novel is finally published, we will only exist as my inventions. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Was it conceivable that the second arrow did not even exist? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

We made safe places in the apartment where you could go and not exist. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

All of these species still exist; one could stock a specialty restaurant with them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We didn’t know that he was an animal we had yet to imagine could exist. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Erin took her phone from her pocket and checked it like we didn’t exist. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the mathematics of zero and infinity, Pascal concluded that one should assume that God exists. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

When I mentioned the name Dodds to him, he would hesitate, then claim she didn’t exist. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She spoke so much about the family that the children learned to make up imaginary visits with beings who had not only been dead for a long time, but who had existed at different times. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

To me Chicago has to keep existing because the people I have lost lived there, because the way of life I once loved continues there, though in a broken form. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Some areas that are ecologically very suitable for food production never acquired it in prehistoric times at all, even though areas of prehistoric food production existed nearby. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Polyrhythm, as it has since been dubbed, had long existed in African tribal drumming, improvised on the spot by highly intuitive, skillful players, often in various states of trance. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

My fitful work assignments from the relief officials ceased and I looked for work that did not exist. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Onstage, they work to figure out how to play both the anger and the tenderness that exists between their characters—and how physical to be. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

There already existed a sort of council of elders, called the Areopagus,* which consisted of senior ex-politicians and functioned as an aristocratic court of appeal. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

One of the duchess’s kids killed him, but then his twin brother, a commander in the Uruguayan air force who nobody knew existed, showed up and fell in love with the duchess. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I feel bad about lying, but they aren’t supposed to know the Hideout exists. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

District 12 only has three existing victors to choose from. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

When she was in a bathing suit, it was like nothing else existed in the world. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"The moment I knew you existed”—her voice is soft—"I hated you.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I know that these exist, having read about them in books, but I’ve never had any girl friends because I’ve never been in one place long enough. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You broke off the left end, but a left end still exists. Go ahead, break it off again.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

What chance, if any, existed at that propitious moment to put slavery on the road to extinction? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

At least now I’m filled with confidence that the fight function exists within me. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Down there, for us, had come to mean the south, the world below the plateau of ice, the region of earth, men, roads, cities, all of which had become hard to imagine as really existing. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rowan had never experienced such pain—he never knew such pain could even exist. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The checks that exist in nature are such that out of the millions of young produced by each pair only enough, on the average, survive to adulthood to replace the parent fish. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The battle still raged along Fifth Avenue, but for that moment nothing existed except our small circle and the fallen girl. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The electrons only appeared in certain orbits because they only existed in certain orbits. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The environment contained these hostile elements even before there was life; yet life arose, and over the millions of years it came to exist in infinite numbers and endless variety. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

When Gallup tried to divide these variations into only two groups, she was seeing patterns that didn’t exist. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In fact, the same behavior of gravity with distance in more than three space dimensions means that the sun would not be able to exist in a stable state with pressure balancing gravity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I listen for the birds and feel my fear as a distant thing, a hammering heart and a squeezed chest, but not something that exists in my mind. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Meaning he doesn’t feel like he can “just exist” with me and Malik. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Below its surface, Archaide housed thousands of classic video arcades, each one a loving re-creation of an actual arcade that had once existed somewhere in the real world. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was entirely Billy’s fault that this fighting organization no longer existed, Weary felt, and Billy was going to pay. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good. It didn’t. Never fool yourself into perceiving things that don’t exist. It’s a fine line to walk, but sympathy is not an art for the weak willed.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I desperately need to believe that somewhere else these other, foreign people exist. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A strained atmosphere existed in our house while Sourmelina stayed with us. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

No definitive data exist, but the majority of the extant evidentiary scraps indicate it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I served Baji loyally for years. I never complained. And now? She looks past me as if I don’t exist.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

If Francis had gone along, no such ambiguity would have existed. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Even the moist and uncomfortable creatures in the lunch pail ceased to exist, for the little red metal flag was up on the mail box, signifying that some postal matter was inside. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The state cited the Freedom Charter as both proof of our Communist intentions and evidence of our plot to overthrow the existing authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the Romans did in these instances what all wise princes must do: they must be on their guard not only against existing dangers but also against future disturbances, and try diligently to prevent them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, it felt as if the name had existed all along, and she’d finally been clairvoyant enough to stumble across it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The body was certainly not the Self, nor the play of senses, nor thought, nor understanding, nor acquired wisdom or art with which to draw conclusions and from already existing thoughts to spin new thoughts. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But if there isn’t a reason, then why does the universe exist at all?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Their new neighbors who didn’t yet know they existed. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She made the aircraft turn and dive violently, trying to avoid an unseen danger that didn’t exist. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It grew louder and louder, a locomotive that couldn’t possibly exist out here in her family’s little part of rural Georgia. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“It just feels so weird,” I said, “to not have people talking to you, pretending you don’t even exist.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

This base had existed for some time, privately financed by interested parties. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It hits the existing seawater with such force that, even though we’re as far as we can get from it, the surf bubbles up around our knees, setting our few possessions afloat. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was very unlikely that there existed anywhere in Oceania a copy of a book printed earlier than 1960. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It had disappeared deep within the foliage—almost as if it had never existed. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Their literature, though it exists in written form, is a live oral tradition, and they are all in this sense literate. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder every day whether she still exists. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

All existing Khoisan languages are confined to southern Africa, with two exceptions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You continue to exist? This is superb! Hallucinations with time and spatial persistence!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in that exchange there was so much of the private rapport that can only exist between two particular strangers of this tribe that we call black. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

If such work existed in Atlanta for unskilled applicants who spoke no English, Generose had yet to find it. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Instead, I became consumed with the business of existing. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They suddenly remembered they forgot to get eggs, or began chasing after a running child that didn’t actually exist. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Aside from my mom, Carla, and my tutors, the world barely knows I exist. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

This truck is delivering water that isn’t supposed to exist to some privileged place. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Relatively little organized opposition to the drug war currently exists, and any dramatic effort to scale back the war may be publicly condemned as “soft” on crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The other part runs screaming worse than a four-year-old begging her mama to chase the boogeyman out of the closet and off to a place where bad dreams don’t exist. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Living with a pet name and a good name, in a place where such distinctions do not exist—surely that was emblematic of the greatest confusion of all. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But she was jealous of the emotional remnants that existed between him and Paula, and by the thought that Paula was like him, good like him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“But this story is played out, don’t you think? The lost dog, looking for a home. A million of these movies already exist.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

How can we account for the empirical observation that band or tribal organization just does not work for societies of hundreds of thousands of people, and that all existing large societies have complex centralized organization? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

After that, Fawnda was sent to a special school for the differently abled — out of sight, out of mind, as if she had never existed. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

But how to fit the Commander into this, as he exists in his study, with his word games and his desire, for what? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

So while Sophiatown and other black ghettos were razed and rebuilt as white suburbs, Alex fought and held on and asserted its right to exist. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I've mourned the loss of the mother I imagined could exist. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But evidence does exist of a distinct pattern of intimidation and harassment of workers by company-hired gunmen, local law enforcement, and National Guard troops—with little or no redress for the victims. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Forty years later his great-nephew Nicolas, whom Marcos did not live to see, unearthed the desire to fly that had always existed in the men of his lineage. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The map dramatically shows the reduction in Indigenous lands, but its scale does not allow the “today” map to accurately depict all existing tribal offices and land holdings across the country. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

So strongly endorsed is this view of Native Americans that checklists exist to judge whether books correctly depict their environmental values. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“There are now. I was exiled. Forgotten. Blotted out as if I never existed.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Atoms, in other words, exist on a scale of minuteness of another order altogether. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

So eager are readers to seek coherence that they will often supply it when none exists. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

There aren’t very many male teachers anyway, and the few that do exist are elderly; there are no young men, because the war has eaten them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And Appa’s family—if he had one—didn’t seem to know we existed either. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

For the sake of argument, imagine for the moment that there’s a 50–50 chance that God exists. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Van Niekerk said that he would prove to the court that the accused, with help from other countries, were plotting to overthrow the existing government by violence and impose a Communist government on South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

No sufficiently powerful and lightweight engine then existed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even know this chapter existed until I began the ‘good parts’ version. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Your husband did not state an unequivocal no? He did not lead the defendant to believe that no hope existed for the reclaiming of his family’s land?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe they got out before it got bad, or maybe they just exist in a constant state of denial. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They were my friends even before I knew Simon and Nick existed. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

We know that people released from prison face a lifetime of discrimination, scorn, and exclusion, and yet we claim not to know that an undercaste exists. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Another means is the shipment of plants carrying the egg masses, the form in which the species exists over winter. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They hardly seem to care whether missionaries exist Don’t be bitter, I said. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They snail-mailed the actual diploma to my address in the stacks, which no longer existed, so I don’t know what became of it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Mostly the former; it had been a costly war despite the valiant predictions of the Pentagon and its smug scientific vassal, the Rand Corporation—which had, in fact, existed not far from this spot. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

To be honest, I didn’t know some of these pictures existed. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“How will we ever find our way to a place we are not even sure exists?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drüskelle had existed for hundreds of years, but under Brum’s leadership, their force had doubled in size and become infinitely more deadly. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But if such a story existed, he couldn’t think what it was. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Believing something existed and then finding out it didn’t was like reaching the top of the stairs and thinking there was one more step. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The past would not exist for either of us, we were starting afresh, he and I. The past had blown away like the ashes in the waste-paper basket. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He looked away from Rosalie as if she hadn’t spoken, as if she didn’t exist. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Aristotle rejected the creation of the universe out of the void because he believed that the void could never exist. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I ache with wanting some- thing that never existed, something that never can exist. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we had actually learned to show love, care, compassion, and concern across racial lines during the Civil Rights Movement—rather than go colorblind—mass incarceration would not exist today. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

All the rights my sisters and I had been filled with only existed at the People’s Center or out of the mouths of Black Panthers. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The list prices, naturally, appeared in italics; like Percheron horses, none existed on the market for sale at any figure. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

New Agers make all sorts of existence assertions: that ESP exists, that there have been instances of spoon bending, that spirits abound, that there are aliens among us, etc. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

What mattered was that the room over the junk shop should exist. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was enough, I thought, that I knew someone like him existed in this world. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The island is known for snorkeling, and a small American expat community exists there. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Or maybe like time had stopped existing altogether. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

What would Omar say when I told him I read all the words to ever exist? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Disproving a claim that something exists is often quite difficult, and this difficulty is often mistaken for evidence that the claim is true. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It struck Cole as odd that he should feel this way at the very moment when his body had reached the point at which it could no longer exist. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the life we used to have, but that life didn't exist in Cuba, either. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was strange to think about him existing beyond her view. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Still working on his man, right in the old jungle locale, in dives that you wouldn’t believe existed, the Muslim often collects audiences of a dozen junkies. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dill wondered if it existed before any humans had lived and died at its banks. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Though, according to this book, no grammar existed with the Wyrdmarks: everything was just symbols that one had to string together. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I purchase books that I never knew existed, titles such as Youth: Identity and Crisis, I and Thou, The Divided Self. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

To get papers, he said, I would need a photo I could not afford and a birth registration that did not exist. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I wonder every day whether she still exists. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He planned to make forty-nine more, but only the one in his bag existed at that moment. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She says the most awful things like she isn’t sure God exists. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But why should the thermodynamic arrow of time exist at all? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It aroused a lot of opposition initially because it upset the existing viewpoint: “How can a black hole emit anything?” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As professor Sheri Lynn Johnson once remarked, “If prosecutors exist who...cannot create a ‘racially neutral’ reason for discriminating on the basis of race, bar exams are too easy.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I saw a freaking eagle, which I wasn’t even sure actually existed. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But if the right words existed the music wouldn't need to. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I tell myself on the occasions that I pass the kid who wants to kill me, and yet doesn’t seem to know I exist. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Then the houses suddenly disappeared, engulfed by the night, as if Capricorn’s village had never existed. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Now there's this, like, dark side to her I had no clue even existed. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Illness and death still exist and cannot be hidden. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I never knew your juggler existed until this very moment ... but yes, I am sorry he is dead.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“They say you never existed,” Chronicler corrected gently. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I knew beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, he rejected all existing knowledge as being unfit for making discoveries and useless for transforming the world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I assure them he does exist and is not a crank: cranks do not get elected as Fellows of the British Academy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Did things begin to exist only when they were named? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It only exists in connection with those whose habits are to seek association with men and domestic animals, to bite them and to suck their blood. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Could you really make something stop existing just by shoving it away somewhere else? Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Here’s this gazillionaire treating me as if I’m belle of the ball, when my own dad is treating me like I don’t exist. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Something that should exist only in movies and on the news. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

For the most part I never thought of them; they simply existed somewhere in the background of the city as a whole. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they were pushed inside, the frightful problem existed of how to pack together two or more chains with irregular sequences of bases. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Or was he the dutiful and respected spy chief of a country that no longer existed? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Normally, the type specimen of a species is the first set of bones found, but since no first set of Homo sapiens bones exists, there was a vacancy, which Cope desired to fill. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Two days ago I never even knew this place existed.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“There’s an idea that before the Goddess arrived, there was life—an ancient civilization, but somehow, they disappeared. Perhaps through that Wyrdgate thing. Ruins exist—ruins too old to be of Fae making.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Nothing like that view exists now, of course. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was so inspired by my find that I invented an Indian tribe, the Coalhicans, and convinced the boys I played with—Roy Lee, O’Dell, Tony, and Sherman—that it had really existed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It is from this singularity that all the matter and energy in the universe spewed forth, creating all the galaxies, stars, and planets that have ever—and will ever—exist. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Seeing that the priest had properly and assiduously observed all the procedures, millions of devout French Catholics behaved as if God really existed in the consecrated bread and wine. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been twelve years since we moved to the States, and now the government finally knew I existed. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“If the rumour was never true,” Tommy said, “then why did you take all our art stuff away? Didn’t the Gallery exist either?” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew from personal experience how crime existed only to the degree that the law cooperated with it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if we didn’t know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Then where does the past exist, if at all?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Without me none of this would exist at all, your own less-than-delightful self included.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

If she died, he would cease to exist. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The joy Ted spoke of didn’t exist for me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

You’d almost think it was real, Isidore observed as he headed back to the Van Ness Pet Hospital—that carefully misnamed little enterprise which barely existed in the tough, competitive field of false-animal repair. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Having worked in intelligence himself, he marveled at the thought of this “wispy, gentle, self-effacing woman knocking off, one by one, some of the nastiest pieces of business then existing.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

If laws of nature are something less than mathematical truths and something more than perceived regularities, then it would seem clear that they exist only because God has chosen to make them apply. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He believed that the prevailing religions of his time were evil and that neither immortal souls nor immortal gods exist: “Nothing exists, but atoms and the void.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worrying that maybe the Government was right and that he shouldn't exist. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I could have told you that she wasn’t a witch. Witches don’t exist,” said Amanda. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the Sea of Flames never existed at all, maybe curses aren’t real, maybe her father is right: Earth is all magma and continental crust and ocean. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

So rare, I didn’t even think any still existed. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Becca held the paper up and read, "'A constellation that exists only on paper is useless.'" Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

For his new tale, Wells was inspired by astronomers who proposed that life existed on Mars. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It’s like I hadn’t existed while the door was closed, and now I’d magically come back to life. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The State has not been looking for a third person, a ringleader for this crime, because I think they recognize that this person doesn't exist.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The prosecutor is also free to file more charges against a defendant than can realistically be proven in court, so long as probable cause arguably exists. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We tried to pretend the other didn’t exist even though the existence of our nemeses kept us both occupied for hours. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s as if I don’t exist; or as if they don’t. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But in terms of the center’s computing operations, Dorothy’s pool now existed on the periphery. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He had a wife and two daughters, though neither Louie nor his friends knew that they existed. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

She drew star maps and maps of the Free Cities and maps of places that existed only in her imagination. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Agnes says it likes tomatoes, but it’s not like we can afford to waste tomatoes on a chicken my parents don’t know exists and wouldn’t necessarily want to catch anyway. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

If I forget them, it’s like my family never existed. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

All through November I tried to find out about the British commissary—whether it really existed or not, and where it actually was. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the modern music in which convergence is most active has thrived in a relatively prosperous, educated milieu, dominated by the United States and Europe, where something approaching a cultural consensus exists. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And there was little archaeological evidence that the league had existed for many centuries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“So how did you dream about something you didn’t know existed?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Though we lived side by side throughout the South, communication between the two races had simply ceased to exist. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of me feels like I can’t exist around people like him. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

So we set off through the crowd, toward the far end of the square where he’d pointed, our one last, thin hope pinned to a couple of oddly named streets we weren’t even sure existed. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

"They exist, and when the cry of protest is sounded, there are those who will hear it and act." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But if they do exist, they’re livestock, as you say. That makes it possible for them to be slaughtered like chickens or cattle.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hardly seem to care whether missionaries exist. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like nothing in the world existed besides me and those words and the silent creatures pulsing all around me. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Dingane, the half brother of Shaka, then ruled the most powerful African state that ever existed south of the Limpopo River. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would have to hire other, less violent men to replace them because the eejits couldn’t exist without orders. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never again would such a large Indian community exist north of Mexico. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But it was there, and I think we really didn’t think much of it, that’s just the way it was. “I’m not real certain we were ready for the kind of desegregation that currently exists. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light-emission of the Chabe stove is cut off, and it exists only as a sphere of heat, a heart of warmth. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

If a community exists in District 13, would it be better to go there, where I might be able to accomplish something, instead of waiting here for my death? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She felt fiercely that she had to make up for her father’s criminal disloyalty, if it had existed, whatever it might have been. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

To extirpate is to exterminate or destroy a living entity or group so completely that it ceases to exist forever. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Later, he realized that Master probably didn’t remember that the book existed so he took it to the Boys’ Quarters to study over a few nights. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Imagining a future in which I didn’t exist, in which I had unwittingly erased myself from his memories, kept my hands pinned under my legs and my mind, for once, in check. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In the mornings, while Siobhan was at school, he sat in on conference calls with his board members and employees, existing clients and new customers. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The proof would not have existed for her, and if it had she would not have regretted being his daughter, or have asked for anything better than to suffer at his side in Hell. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Tobias, he doesn’t remember anything. The man you knew doesn’t exist anymore; he’s as good as dead. That man doesn’t remember kill—” “Shut up!” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They wanted only to observe me from a comfortable distance, not for me to exist in their lives in any permanent way. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Jam kept having to reconcile those two worlds: one in which Pet was loud and present, and the other one, the one everyone else saw, where Pet didn’t even exist. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Almost forty species of cotton exist worldwide, of which four have been domesticated, two in the Americas, two in the Middle East and South Asia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They had been talking over him as though he did not exist, and now, suddenly, they both hesitated and looked at Gitano and were embarrassed. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is gone forever, if it ever existed. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

All the same, solitary bucks—if they can find no existing holes to make use of—will sometimes scratch out short tunnels for shelter, although it is not work that they tackle at all seriously. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But back in the nineties, selfies didn't exist. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I see now that when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen, in corners and dark places. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Max thus asked the physicist Denis Wilkinson, then a fellow of Jesus, whether an opening might exist in his college. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It’s as if she existed only in my dreams. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

But other physicists propose that two alternative histories, two equally valid realities, could exist side by side—the one you know and the one in which you were never born. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except that it wasn’t only optical; air was coming through it, and they could smell the traffic fumes, which didn’t exist in the world of Cittàgazze. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And once a boy has suffered rejection, he will find rejection even where it does not exist—or, worse, will draw it forth from people simply by expecting it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I say, therefore, that in completely new principalities, where there is a new prince, greater or lesser difficulty in maintaining them exists according to the greater or lesser virtue of the person who acquires them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Nina, has it ever occurred to you that maybe...you weren’t meant to exist?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

At the moment all Will’s choices existed at once. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Egg-laying animals like turtles and gators existed way before chickens. Therefore, eggs came first.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

If she was really there, he’d touch her, their reflections were so close together, but he felt only air — she and the others existed only in the mirror. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The same underworld exists now in virtual reality, except it’s called the Dark World—a dangerous virtual place where I frequently wander, searching for the criminals who like to hang out there. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When we in the United States think of the most populous New World societies existing in 1492, only those of the Aztecs and the Incas tend to come to our minds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like straight lines in nature, such things did not exist for him. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Now, Kino’s people had sung of everything that happened or existed. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was written by a man who did not exist. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Will beauty simply cease to exist for me? Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I might have wished for sixteen crayons instead of eight, but even when I was little, I never wished for a thousand crayons, because I knew a thousand different crayons did not exist. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

If I don’t speak, this moment will exist, preserved in the amber of my memory forever, exactly perfect. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Information is so powerful that the assumption of information, even if the information does not actually exist, can have a sobering effect. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The bombing, the fiery plane crashes, the faces of the wounded who no longer exist. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He moved slowly around his corner, muscles rippling on his body where I hadn’t known muscles existed. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She immediately thought of books, more books than she ever could have imagined existed, stacked one on top of another, and between their covers, millions upon millions of new words, new combinations. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Well, Rick thought, in real life no such magic bells exist that make your enemy effortlessly disappear. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

This arises from the fact that her ancient military practices were not good, and that there has existed nobody capable of inventing new ones. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, exactly. They went to the place where memories once existed before Receivers were created. Someplace out there—” He gestured vaguely with his arm. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

If cheating to lose is sport’s premier sin, and if sumo wrestling is the premier sport of a great nation, cheating to lose couldn’t possibly exist in sumo. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The Pennsylvania legislature realized that the state government had ceased to exist when its members scampered from the city in panic. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

She had always been—existing from before time—like a goddess in perpetual perfection. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The financier David Rubinstein bought a fifteen-acre waterfront property, tore down the existing house, as many wealthy buyers have done, and put up an 8,000-square-foot home. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The young mouse found it hard to believe that such an awesome and impressive bird existed. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Someday, I hope I can draw the way Julia draws, imagining worlds that don’t yet exist. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

It would not exist as a work in the form that we know today were it not for the engagement and approval of a broader public in Handel’s lifetime. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

"I wish only to point out that a scientific terminology exists," the man said, emphasizing his words with his pipe. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

With six full suffrage states and two million female voters, there already existed a readymade voting bloc with the potential to influence state and national elections. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I have a hard time believing that all of Travis’s memories—everything he loved, all that he was—don’t exist anymore somewhere. Why would God make such a universe in someone and then destroy it?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Kalinda takes in a big breath, like she also plans on taking all of the air that exists in this world into her lungs, then stops and let’s it all out again. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

West Computing no longer existed as a physical space, but its alumni pushed their minds and hands in the service of the space program— though in Dorothy Vaughans case, it was an indirect effort. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I’ve heard of such folks, deviants who believe that some kind of enlightenment exists in watching the moment a man becomes a monster. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

More broadly, scientific research does exist that supports the value of teaching the arts and humanities—and the perils of de-emphasizing them. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

In Mesopotamia, North China, Mexico, and Madagascar, small-scale irrigation systems already existed before the rise of states. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hate seeing her this way because it makes me feel so guilty—guilty for existing, guilty that she has to work like that for us. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I know this sounds odd, Dear Diary, so don’t tell anyone, but I’d love to see a ghost—just to know for sure they exist. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

True turning points exist, but they are nearly always the visible tip of a vast and highly complex social process. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t exist for him the way he existed for me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“No: In Scotland there exists at least one field, containing at least one sheep, at least one side of which is black.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The hazard exists not only for the man who may spray this week with one insecticide and next week with another; it exists also for the consumer of sprayed products. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In our short film, Old Man House still exists. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It is a delight for me to read her notebooks from those years, which describe a magic world that no longer exists. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I write today for a reader who exists in my mind only phantasmagorically. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When nothing happened, the newspapers, for the first time, began accusing him of being obsessed with an enemy that did not exist. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I go to Kmart and buy a brand-new set of lights, exactly the same as the existing ones. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

According to multiverse theory, every version of our past and future histories exists, just in an alternate universe. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

And without galaxies, there are no stars, no planets, and so in those universes there’s no chance for our form of life to exist. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Sending the sketch to Theo, he describes “a blond, soft effect, and in the woods a more sombre, serious mood. I’m glad that both of these exist in life.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Instead, I used the dark and chilly days to learn more theoretical chemistry or to leaf through journals, hoping that possibly there existed a forgotten clue to DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

This town does not actually exist, but it might easily have a thousand counterparts in America or elsewhere in the world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The light by which they saw was a dull self-luminescence that seemed to exist everywhere equally, so that there were no true shadows and no true light, and everything was the same dingy color. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

This briefing was held in room 226, which did exist but was locked. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

But then she saw—the Besa she had known no longer existed. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has gone on to a new and different life, and in thinking longingly of the past, he has been giving thought and interest to something that no longer really exists. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When no other plans exist, this is a good one; but it is very bad to have disregarded all other remedies for this one. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“That Tom’s friends from the army don’t really exist? That he made them up? That he’s actually off with some other woman?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to hear the outside world, either, but I hadn’t been able to improve upon the apartment’s existing soundproofing. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It disturbs me that he can remember some of these things about himself, but not others; that the things he’s lost or misplaced exist now only for me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I could not hear, and that was because I did not exist. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

To settle my nerves, I close my eyes and transport myself to a place where anxiety doesn’t exist. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We know they exist, however, because they do have a measurable effect: they give rise to forces between matter particles. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His feet, his hands, his knees throbbed with more pain than he had known existed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And he also said the streets were paved with gold. I think Cato’s story is just an old slave’s tale about a place that doesn’t even exist!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He coined the term agnostic to mean one who believes you cannot know whether God exists because you cannot prove God’s existence. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as this exists, and that should be forever, I know that there will be solace for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Along these same lines, I think we should take the lead of European countries in trying to blur the sharp line that exists in our prisons between guards and other employees. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The summary should be self-contained, almost as if the material being summarized had never existed. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“So where do you put a travelogue that refers to a place that doesn’t exist any more?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Probably because of the time I flushed Charlie’s entire line of black pawns down the toilet and told her Santa didn’t exist. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I've never seen a deeper scowl than the scowl that exists on his face right now. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The existing clubs are still the preserves of the old wealth, but new clubs are springing up to welcome newcomers, as well as some longtime residents who grew impatient with waiting lists. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was they who suffered most from the cold, standing watch around the clock in far-flung reaches of the park where no shelter existed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

If only a network of canals existed, the lack would be remedied, the habitability of Mars would become plausible. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They believed in the prevailing concept of God: God as benevolent Father who created every single species as it existed now, unchanged. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe she’s on our side, maybe not; but she exists to stir up resentment.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Victor and Delilah call them “Switches” and they both hate that people like them exist. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There were things you and the people around you pretended not to know, because just to acknowledge that they existed meant they could get into your homes, into your beds, under your skin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It opened up a world I had not known existed— “mad” or “crazy” or “a screw loose,” those were the familiar words. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

What possible rationale could exist for a large American land force, since the conflict with France was occurring on the high seas? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Some people didn’t even believe the mosasaurs existed, certainly not anywhere near New York City. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The North Korean government could hardly set the record straight, since it denies that Camp 14 exists. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The only space that exists is the space it creates as it goes. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I looked at all the tourists, who'd no notion it existed, who thought they were seeing all of Cleveland, and restrained myself from pointing and shouting out, "The Gibb Street garden is there!" Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They already know about the hundreds of existing crops and set out to develop yet another one. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The captain acts as if Calliope never existed. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I had forgotten that this existed, this smell which instead of the first robin, or the first bud or leaf, means to me that spring has come. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever vibe existed on their block, they hadn’t overtly disrupted it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

How bad could it be to exist in a box forever? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

A “theorem” of heredity existed; it was merely waiting to be known. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Certain girls in the cool club acted like I didn’t exist. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Ann had ceased being human to C.P. years before; she existed only as a symbol of everything he hated about her race. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Nobody knows it exists other than you three.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Now are you willing to concede that there is some faint connection, not necessarily between two eccentrics, but with a—um—general turn of mind that exists in some quarters across the water?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

So my hair has succumbed to the lack of maintenance that exists when the world doesn’t judge you by it. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

When a hybrid was created, both traits existed intact—although only one asserted its existence. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

There existed only one object, the Spirit Bear. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

To Estha—steeped in the smell of old roses, blooded on memories of a broken man—the fact that something so fragile, so unbearably tender had survived, had been allowed to exist, was a miracle. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He planned to make forty-nine more, but only the one in his bag existed at that moment. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It’s as if he had simply ceased to exist. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It would do nothing but add to the already existing bitterness. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

When those behind bars are taken into account, America’s institutions continue to create nearly as much racial inequality as existed during Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was more like I just didn’t exist. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Injustice which lasts for three long centuries and which exists among millions of people over thousands of square miles of territory, is injustice no longer; it is an accomplished fact of life. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to see Sesame Street,” Sonia had said, believing that it was an actual landmark in the city, and she had cried when Gogol had laughed at her, saying it didn’t exist. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They went about their business as if the elements did not exist. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere there is the same pyramidal structure, the same worship of a semidivine leader, the same economy existing by and for continuous warfare. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was a small bungalow in a run-down part of the city that Rowan hadn’t even known existed. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

That beacon of light seemed to reveal things and facts, which, though they must have always existed in me, I hadn’t been aware of up until now. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before long I had forgotten where I was, and that the tree didn’t exist and Bonnie was not my sister. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

What, then, motivated Adams to extend his hand across the gap that existed between Quincy and Monticello, then write more than two letters for every one of Jefferson’s? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The important parts exist in the silences between the words. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t say so, but I secretly think that maybe we’re in a borough that doesn’t exist on any map. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

We know it exists but we create further trauma by being forced to look at it. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

At that moment I felt as if I had entered a place were violence and hate did not exist. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, what I don’t get is why do we exist? I don’t mean how, but why.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

How was it possible for love of a place and hatred of it to exist so comfortably side by side? The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

When I first arrived in Mqhekezweni I was regarded by some of my peers as a yokel who was hopelessly unequipped to exist in the rarefied atmosphere of the Great Place. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bucks do not usually dig much in any case, although they will scratch shallow shelters or make use of existing holes where these are available. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some chemicals no practical field method of analysis exists before a chemical is registered for use. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She respected the gods—if they existed, and when it suited her to ask for their assistance—but religious ceremonies were...brutal. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Although 98 percent of all the matter that exists was created with the Big Bang, that matter consisted exclusively of light gases: the helium, hydrogen, and lithium that we mentioned earlier. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Here again we are reminded that in nature nothing exists alone. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Just reaching the center of our own galaxy would take far longer than we have existed as beings. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But for people who were unaware of that view, the reports about the mysterious planet kept alive the possibility that Martians existed. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

If I work hard enough, maybe I can forget Tariq Johnson ever existed. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She heard her little brother as though he still existed in the world. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

We can hardly credit that such things still exist. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, he’ll hate us more if we keep pretending he doesn’t exist,” the Colonel answered. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Radar, which has so many uses in modern navigation, didn’t exist in a practical form in the 1930s. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Bobcats, bears, red and gray foxes, beaver, skunks, raccoons, flying squirrels, and our friends the salamanders exist in admirable numbers, though you don’t often see them, as most are nocturnal or wary of people. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“There never was a Thomas and Betty Caldwell in Peshawar. Accord­ing to the people at the consulate, they never existed. Not here in Peshawar, anyhow.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She could normally count on one finger the number of seconds it took Poppy to write back, but now it was like Seven didn’t even exist. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

"But Grandmamma," I said, "if nobody has ever seen The Grand High Witch, how can you be so sure she exists?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I think it’s unlikely he ever acknowledged that old Cray existed, but now that I’m such a nationwide problem, is he carefully instructing Thread what to do? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And with that, she walked away and down the steps, stopping to chat with Reverend David Okonjo, who had managed Blessed Way for as long as Moss knew the place existed. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Shoemaker knew nothing about underground steam explosions–he couldn’t: they don’t exist–but he did know all about blast zones. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I said, “My mother don’t bake no pies. My mother writes poems about the revolution. My mama exists. Your mama’s invisible.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Thus according to the common-sense view the science of extraterrestrial beings, if they exist and if they are intelligent, must, where it overlaps with our science, agree with it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There’d been a time when magic had existed in this city, when people had been able to use it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Hublin says, “We are always acquiring, yes? All across the world, industrialization endangers mineral deposits. We collect as many types of minerals as exist. To a curator, none is superior to any other.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We don’t believe any of this underwear actually exists, but thinking about it is a nasty joy. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I tell you, the thing does not exist,” said Professor Binns, shuffling his notes. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Rungs existed at regular intervals, but some of them had broken, and one even broke under his foot, sending him slamming against the wall. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nor do many species of animals live in this rigorous land, but those creatures that do dwell here exist in bountiful numbers. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The topic of the discussion is how we struggle to reconcile the indubitable fact of death with our incomprehension of the possibility that a person can no longer exist. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

And it would be simple, except that “being here” is not the same as “existing.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The prerequisite conditions did not exist,” he shrugged and muttered. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we’re young, it sometimes seems as if the world doesn’t exist outside our city, our block, our house, our room. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“And if such an enchantment exists, then the ownership of the house is most likely to pass to the eldest of Sirius’s living relatives, which would mean his cousin, Bellatrix Lestrange.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It is not possible for one person to see how far another is on the way; the Buddha exists in the robber and dice player; the robber exists in the Brahmin. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe their planes would be taken away to beef up an existing men’s regiment, and they’d be back to square one looking for a way to volunteer. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Nobody knows it exists other than you three.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I could feel all of it in the brief moment I had with him—the dignity and spirit that had coaxed equality from a place where none had existed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As an entity—as a mind—the Thunderhead does not exist for us. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I understand, Junie. It is easier to run away and pretend that racism doesn’t exist. But some people can never do that,” he says. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean they don’t exist?” said Burke. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In early April, Killian reported to Eisenhower and Dulles the conclusion of his experts that test ban violations could be detected with existing technology. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

These factories exist in plant and animal cells today but may once themselves have been free-living cells. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day Dad was just gone, and we stopped talking about him like he’d never existed in the first place. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The banners were orange and blue, and maybe they were just for some holiday that existed in the alternate world but not in the world Chess knew. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She was prepared to concede that Americans existed, though she’d never seen one. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no point in doing nothing in Copenhagen, where spring does not exist. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The people financing these elections are largely unconcerned with whatever modest differences exist between candidates on crime, but punishment gets the votes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He did not exist; he had never existed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“We’re more of an uprising. Our reach stretches across the country—there’s a group for every metropolitan area that exists, and regional overseers for the Midwest, South, and East.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

At this post—one of the several spots in Sing Sing where sheer boredom and the potential for sudden mayhem existed side by side—your feet got tired and your authority was questioned constantly. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as I know, none exist in our family tree. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Among the many crimes that exist in the Khmer Rouge society, bartering for food is viewed as an act of treason. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither the camel nor the gerbil existed in the Americas, so the disease never had a chance to exist there. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Lots of scarce Treasury money had to be committed to set up his biophysics show, and suspicions existed that this was money down the drain. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Therefore, it seems to me that everything that exists is good—death as well as life, sin as well as holiness, wisdom as well as folly. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Life not only formed the soil, but other living things of incredible abundance and diversity now exist within it; if this were not so the soil would be a dead and sterile thing. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She had always believed that coincidences didn’t exist, that everything that happened, happened for a reason. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Many were his age, but he somehow felt as if there existed a vast distance between them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In the end, works of art exist in order to be liked rather than to be debated. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Historians necessarily rely on the evidence which has survived from the past: in that sense their vantage point is a collection of material remains which exist in the present. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is almost impossible to imagine doing without facts, and yet there was a time when facts did not exist. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But unlike the Smoke, her city still existed, right in front of her eyes—but emptied of everything it had once meant. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The other gods had probably been debating the best way to punish me for existing, and now Mr. D was ready to deliver their verdict. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mia touched a knuckle to her brow, as if she’d forgotten the scar existed, and a drop of warm sudsy water ran down her temple. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You have no sense of reality. You’ve never taken stock of how the world really is. You put your faith in utopian values that don’t even exist.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I’m not pretending you don’t exist,” he continued. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There had existed in Old Russia millions of poor, ignorant people who were exploited by a few, educated, arrogant noblemen, and it became natural for the Russian Communists to associate betrayal with intellectualism. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s say there are monsters. Let’s say they exist. We say this because it’s true. Is it true?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?” said Black, with a terribly fury in his face. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He’d checked out; he was on some floating island made of graphite and paper where this reality didn’t exist. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I was hoping there would be some kind of smoking gun. But it didn’t exist.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

All around them the world seemed to be caving in; the way of life that had existed in Odessa for sixty years was badly shaken. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, an error message pops up, telling me that the file no longer exists. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The two of them just existed, and the days were slow and tasted of coconut. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was as if nothing else existed outside our reality. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

One trouble with this view is that it attributes to biology and medicine a much greater store of usable information, with coherence and connectedness, than actually exists. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only sign that the monster had ever existed were two green sword points sticking through the cracks. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

But we’ve never trained against something that isn’t supposed to exist. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Thomas didn’t know which was more unsettling— that people thought he was some kind of hero, or that some wished he didn’t exist. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It’s just random noise, not words, because how can two people communicate if they’re actually existing in completely different worlds? We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I cannot understand....The connection...exists only...between your two wands....” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Each year some outward movement beyond the existing boundaries of its distribution usually takes place. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

If texting had existed at that time, then Winston Churchill would have sent President Eisenhower a bunch of crying-face emojis. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“What peace are we looking for? Gowon himself has said that a basis for unity does not exist, so what peace are we looking for?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As far as Browne was concerned, the word he needed did not exist. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Everyone concealed that little hell in himself, while publicly pretending it did not exist—and when he was caught up in it he was completely helpless. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“David’s not an internee. He has civil rights. The rule of law exists.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Another clue that mass incarceration, as we know it, would not exist but for the race of the imagined enemy can be found in the history of drug-law enforcement in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

If the base sequences were always the same, all DNA molecules would be identical and there would not exist the variability that must distinguish one gene from another. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Separate languages can exist side by side for centuries without touching each other, maintaining their integrity with the vigor of incompatible tissues. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worse, they saw the college president as trading on his skin color to prove a solidarity with the black residents of Edgemont, a solidarity that did not, in fact, exist. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I see several women I recognize, exchange with them the infinitesimal nods with which we show each other we are known, at least to someone, we still exist. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw problems that didn't exist, and it grated on Pattie's nerves. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Lagoons existed now where once there had been barren land. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Is extraterrestrial life, if it exists, based on the same organic molecules as life on Earth? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Does the capacity to repent, to atone, exist in a majority, in one-half, in even one-third of American white society? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason, I don’t like the way this sounds, as if a universe could exist in which I wouldn’t know Finch. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Because regulation of a legal market is bound to fail when a healthy black market exists for the same product. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It had taken them three months to learn the girl even existed, and another two to figure out she was still in Oxscini, but they were close now. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Now a three-dimensional creature can exist, in Flatland, only partially; only a cross section can be seen, only the points of contact with the plane surface of Flatland. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, the potential Buddha already exists in the sinner; his future is already there. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

If such a place existed, she was not worthy of it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

And of course every species now on the planet once did not exist. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not see it, and he had the truly alarming thought that perhaps he, Despereaux Tilling, did not even exist. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

First, there could be an infinite amount of void—thus infinity exists. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

For some years the suspicion had existed among the more inspired geneticists that viruses were a form of naked genes. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Maria soon learned that this colony in Surinam existed for a single purpose only: to grow and harvest sugar. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Nothing exists but Ben’s hands on my back and his lips on my lips and my fingertips and his cheekbones and my thundering heartbeat. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Toby Alvillar and Ken Kamata were two of the biggest wheels in class, and if you were really hopeless they simply didn’t notice you—it was as if you didn’t exist. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pray this person takes the right step and comes forward should such a situation described in the question exist. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

After more than thirty years there was little hope that the records still existed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He explained that many of the countries, like Siam and Italian Somaliland, no longer existed in the same way; the names had changed by now. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

A thing exists without words, but a fact is a statement, a term in a discourse. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But even before the little brown speck, there must have been the conditions, the setting that would allow it to exist in the first place. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, each person acted as though no one existed but himself. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Therefore, at one time there might have been a different kind of life than could exist today, and even now there might be primitive life somewhere below the surface. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the bright city of her drawings really did exist, it would be out there somewhere. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, if direct copying existed, his calculations might reveal attraction between identical bases. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Love as rarely exists in reality, as if a master alchemist has taken it and distilled out all the impurities, every petty disenchantment, every unworthy thought, into a perfect elixir, sweet and deep and all-consuming. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Without it, we might well ask whether art exists in the first place. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

So thorough was the erasure that within a few generations neither conqueror nor conquered knew that this world had existed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The government still existed and the government owed the owner of that lottery ticket ten thousand dollars. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Some inventor finally comes up with a solution superior to the existing, unsatisfactory technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody was willing to say that there was zero chance that God exists. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

"I wish only to point out that a scientific terminology exists," the man said, emphasizing his words with his pipe. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think that letter is why documentaries need to exist—to show us the almost unbearable truth about ourselves. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The Higgs boson may or may not actually exist; it was invented simply as a way of endowing particles with mass. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was an extension of the Aristotelian philosophy: vacuums don’t exist. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Yes, that was what the Klan had provided him: a place to stand and feel he had a right to be there, a right to exist. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There aren’t very many male teachers anyway, and the few that do exist are elderly; there are no young men, because the war has eaten them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“This is why alchemy exists,” the boy said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mockingjay is a creature the Capitol never intended to exist. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And may God—if He exists, that is—strike me blind if the kite didn’t just drop into his outstretched arms. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she started, “every so often the Smoke has to move, to stay secret. Right now, it doesn’t really exist. Everyone’s scattered, so we’re not recruiting.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In it he observed that wilderness as it was commonly understood simply did not exist in the eastern United States, and had not existed for thousands of years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You do not exist,” I said to the cat in the mirror. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Yes, my high school world and my other world have collided a couple of times recently, but Bre exists on a different plane from everyone else. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

At first, Morgan was not even interested in whether units of heredity existed or how or where they were stored. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

There's my mom, the queen of the starfish, existing in a tornado of glitter that poisons anything else it touches. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you look at me? Are you pretending I don’t exist?” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t stop the questions that come from my mouth—the questions that I’ve been wanting to ask for so long, questions that might as well have existed since the beginning of time. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was stuck in that jar because of me; I couldn’t pretend it didn’t exist. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

How could she deny something she did not even know existed? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

This is an example of the application of what is known as the anthropic principle, which can be paraphrased as “We see the universe the way it is because we exist.” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In theory, a detective in Cincinnati could telegraph a few distinctive numbers to investigators in New York with the expectation that if a match existed, New York would find it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

If the photographer saw anything in Mudgett’s eyes, it was a pale blue emptiness that he knew, to his sorrow, no existing film could ever record. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She’s not looking at me, but she doesn’t try to push past me as if I don’t exist, the way she acted the day before yesterday—the way I thought she would this morning too. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The second provided proof that atoms do indeed exist–a fact that had, surprisingly, been in some dispute. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

We go into neighborhoods I didn’t even know existed, looping and zigzagging with no real destination. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But over the past few months, I’d come to see my rig for what it was: an elaborate contraption for deceiving my senses, to allow me to live in a world that didn’t exist. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Instead, it’s kind of been like finding out that the Tooth Fairy doesn’t exist, or catching Santa smoking cigarettes in the Macy’s parking lot. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mass incarceration as we know it would not exist today but for the racialization of crime in the media and political discourse. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“If people didn’t see him, he didn’t exist.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She saw his book as an entity that already existed and could therefore be finished. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There had been a moment—she was sure now—when she had ceased to exist as a living human being. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And by that I mean that I liked his face and I was glad he existed—even if he couldn’t get me the crackers and the pen and the candy bar. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Now that he’s proved Mercer doesn’t exist it’s very important to watch him. I drive a truck for the Van Ness Pet Hospital, which is owned by Mr. Hannibal S-S-Sloat.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Things seemed to hurt on him and inside him that he’d never known existed before. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

As long as blame still existed, so would his anger. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He uses the same shade of red to circle the boundaries of where, in the Southeast, Biafra existed for three years. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, if giving somebody a job is exploiting them, then I guess I’m an exploiter. Those jobs didn’t exist before I started the business.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Time might as well not exist in this place, except I feel it pressing against me as seven o’clock inevitably draws closer, pushing me into the floor tiles. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They had sunk once again into their lovers’ world where little children did not exist. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

And sometimes you break a barrier that no one knew existed, and then everything you knew before crossing the line is gone. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The few trails that exist there are almost impossible to see in the dark, and the pair are soon lost and frustrated. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was a scarcity of social invitations and phone calls, as my parents’ friends grew afraid to call a house that existed in a limbo between exhilaration and grief. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We’ve had running water longer than the United States has existed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

More precisely, ulcers existed, people had them, but they weren’t called “ulcers.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We’re so good at discovering patterns that we see them where they don’t exist. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I knew that George Myers existed and that he lived somewhere other than in New York. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Go ahead. I wish I had a road atlas for you. The roads in it wouldn’t exist in those days but it might show you the easiest way through the country.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Neither did I, in truth, but if He didn’t exist, I didn’t much want to either.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Until then he hadn’t even known the bracelets existed. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Did writing systems spread by being copied, or did existing systems merely inspire neighboring peoples to invent their own systems? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot show you what direction that is, but I can imagine it to exist. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the billions and billions of species of living thing that have existed since the dawn of time, most–99.99 percent–are no longer around. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Could they exist side by side, two such opposites, like the love and hate he’d borne for three long years? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Solitude, Celia realizes now, exists for us not to remember but to forget. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new doctrines arose partly because of the accumulation of historical knowledge, and the growth of the historical sense, which had hardly existed before the nineteenth century. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The ranger looked at Bran as if the rest of them did not exist. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Bobcats—admittedly much smaller creatures than mountain lions—are known to exist in considerable numbers and yet are so shy and furtive that you would never guess their existence. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

If his productions are merely almost transcendent, when the possibility of true transcendence exists somewhere nearby, waiting to be attained, then there is something else that must be done. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s not normalizing anything if everyone just pretends they don't see it or that the tampons don't exist.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: “sociopath.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

That I hoped they might still exist somewhere in the world today. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He’s had some experimental sex in his lifetime, but it never occurred to him to consider if such a thing existed, much less if Henry was jetting around with it alongside his dental floss. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was as though she didn’t actually exist. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was plain that no tolerable relationship could exist between Estraven and myself. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The book is Lolita word for word, and I'm allowed to write it because, under the conditions of the fantasy, Vladimir Nabokov never existed. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was like a color had ceased to exist and now the world seemed dull. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I’ve never seen one before—I thought they no longer existed—and for a moment, as I lean against the trunk of the tree, clutching the stitch in my side, I examine it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sonogram didn’t exist at the time; the spoon was the next best thing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was impossible, because magic was gone, but the texts said Wyrdmarks existed outside of magic. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to meet her here today but probably find a different place to live. Heather doesn’t know Faerie exists, so don’t mention it, okay?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her family’s reality had expanded when Pet was added to it, but everyone else still lived in that other world, the one where creatures from other realms didn’t exist. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

And it’s like Old Charley Bums—the former Director, the racing fan, the real character—no longer exists. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, with instantly one-pointed concentration, as if only he and the notebook existed—no sunshine, no fellow passengers, no ship—he began to turn the pages. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I quickly made my way to the plants, slipping through the crowd like a ghost, like I didn’t exist at all. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Though the Casimir force—a mysterious, phantom force exerted by nothing at all—seems like science fiction, it exists. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Art was a way to quiet his brain and lose himself in a place where he didn’t even really exist. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When I logged out of the database a few minutes later, Bryce Lynch no longer existed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He was on the alert constantly for every signal, shrewdly sensitive to relationships and situations that did not exist. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There always existed King’s College, opulently nonconformist and clearly capable of absorbing him without any loss of his or its character. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“To try to understand. To touch solid evidence that those people existed. To reassure yourself that you’re sane.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“How,” he asks me, “do you know it exists?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even my information that a pretty X-ray photograph of DNA existed elicited no real response. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He knew that none of this had existed before the storm. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Since the antipodes are known to exist, this traditional model must be wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It existed in many forms and was embraced both by those who hated Indians and those who admired them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

What he needed was a way to compare lead levels in the atmosphere now with the levels that existed before 1923, when tetraethyl lead was introduced. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

An explosion, an expansion of stars and galaxies and planets and suns, our little planet with all our little lives, and then everything turning to dust, until nothing in this universe exists anymore at all. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

But I had never heard anyone announce to their twenty-four-year-old daughter, as my mother had the week before, that the father she’d previously been told had abandoned her hadn’t even known that she existed. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

But that did not discourage him from running after us as though an invisible string existed between him and us. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I look at the empty room, dirt and dust I would have sworn didn’t exist littering the bare floor, then walk through every inch of the echoing apartment. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He’s trying to tourniquet the other above the existing knee. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Not to forget me at the museum, like I didn’t exist, and go home without me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The reality, however, is that the existing hierarchy disciplines newcomers, requiring them to exercise power in the same old ways and play by the same old rules in order to survive. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The store doesn't exist anymore, but back in the nineties, you could go there to develop photos and rent movies—two activities that are obsolete today, hence its disappearance. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

About fifty settlements existed in this strip of the Mississippi when De Soto showed up, according to Anne Ramenofsky, an archaeologist at the University of New Mexico. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After all, no eyewitness accounts exist of the devastation—none of the peoples in the Southeast had any form of writing known today. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“First of all,” Mrs. Asher began, glancing at a flitting motion on the side of the road before continuing, “I didn’t steal it. No one but me even knows the thing really exists.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Too often, adults try to suggest that differences in appearance don’t matter by pretending they simply don’t exist. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Like him, they viewed Amazonians as existing outside history, but they now regarded this as a bad thing. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Houses as cramped and dilapidated as his didn’t seem to exist even in the parts of Nashville with cramped and dilapidated houses, at least along the path they took. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Even the sagebrush struggled to exist, and the oaks were dwarfed from lack of moisture. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In his motel room, Cabot could hear the sound of clanks, bangs, and heavy motors outside as a crew tore down the motel’s existing sign to replace it with the new one. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Because of this there arose the frequent rebellions in Spain, France, and Greece against the Romans, all because of the numerous principalities that existed in those regions. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

He did not exist in the futon dimension. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She turned to Frank and grabbed his hand, as if Leo had ceased to exist. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They would just think that this was an empty thing, that that’s what’s supposed to be, that there’s something perfectly normal about a thing that exists entirely because it is lacking something. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

There existed no accurate representations of the groups of atoms unique to DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Beneath the glass cases, Radar finds a box filled with maps and old tourist brochures advertising Gator World and Crystal Gardens and fun houses that no longer exist. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Being black and from the South Side, I suddenly saw, helped me recognize problems that a man like Art Sussman didn’t even realize existed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Have you come to prove that I don’t exist?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Rapists exist, and those who molest children and strangle girls. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Others believed that even if the egg really did exist, no one was ever going to find it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Thank God, because she made me feel like I needed to be a better person just through her existing. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

"There was a tree with my brother's face. The wild- lings . . . there were thousands, more than I ever knew existed. And giants riding mammoths." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was another option, which was to use an existing phrase that avoided the term ‘philosophy’—‘natural science’—and this usage was common in the seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He always treated them with tenderness, as if a bond existed between them. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So the Elder Wand,” said Harry quickly, before Hermione could retort, “you think that exists too?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In my world, things existed to be stolen. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Did Paul really believe that he could possibly be entitled to money that didn’t exist, from a math contest he’d only just found out about? Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Laia, in return, stares at him as if no one else exists. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of a head teacher telling you you have to leave, it’s more that everybody in the rest of society acts like you don’t exist. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They do for me. Now, anyway, that they exist for me at all,” I sighed. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

We have been spoiled by artists’ renderings into imagining a clarity of resolution that doesn’t exist in actual astronomy. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Before me was a space of such immense size, height, depth, and breadth, that I never would have thought it could exist on mortal earth. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

‘Well, first of all,’ said the BFG, ‘human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be everything here, every creature Meggie could imagine, and even more that she could never have dreamed existed at all. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The halal food laws exist so Muslims avoid eating najis things. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“That way you could look for old exits that might still exist behind new walls.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Everything that comes of morning undoes itself before nightfall: rooster walks back into forest, fires die down, birds coo-coo-coo, sun sinks away, sky bleeds, passes out, goes dark, nothing exists. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pump bucket and pump handle, for example, were straightforward applications of existing technologies, and the boiler was basically a large brewer’s copper. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Fang, on the other hand, sat motionless beside me, trying his best not to exist. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s like Mom and Dad packed her up and put her away. Like they wanted to pretend she never existed.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I just need to cut canvas pieces to the right shapes, seal them together, then seal them to the existing canvas and flooring. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the famous Michelson-Morley experiment demonstrated that such an aether does not exist. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both telescope and microscope produced new knowledge, but in the seventeenth century only the telescope directly endangered the existing order. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It just felt like we’d chosen to spend a couple of easy days together, days when my list and his didn’t even exist. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Yet no such object could exist: Brahe knew his way around the heavens, and it was a fundamental principle of Aristotelian philosophy that there could be no change in them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the residents are sure that such a boy exists!’ My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z