“Thanks, but no thanks. I know how to read people just fine.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She used to just close her eyes and sleep hard all night long, but that hasn’t happened in a while. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Well, Mama made her take it outside, even though Leah pitched a fit because it was still yet just a baby. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just tonight. I’m not supposed to be here at all. He smuggled me in.” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She just started learning numbers, and so everything she sees, she counts up. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I figured she’d just laugh and tell me I was stupid for trusting her no-good boyfriend, but I was wrong. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Guidance made me take this class. Singing just ain’t my thing.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I knocked another’s head off but it just kept fighting. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“We just need to get to Juárez,” she says, suddenly energized. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Woolf said if Richardson had just stopped shouting for one single instant to concentrate on riding, he might have gotten his horse’s nose in front. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Figuring he’d just stepped out for a minute—the crowds weren’t exactly kicking down his door—I wandered into the sanctuary to kill time checking out museum displays. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

When Britain joins this swaying motion, I get pulled into it, too, just because they’re both so much bigger than me. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Was all his brightness really just a charade, a pose he had affected before the spotlight fell upon him and revealed how much of a nothing he really was? Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

And "a white man's world" was just what the Brotherhood was against. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well it ain’t here yet so just get your fresh butt on out of here!” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Much to my surprise there were hundreds of people cheering on our new congressman, when I thought it would be just a handful of people. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t just that Mrs. Dudley has surpassed herself, then; I was wondering,” Luke said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason I just didn't feel like I had the right to step that far into family business, because family business is family business. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

And whatever decision he’s just made about me can’t be undone. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing Old Spice, and even just from that little brush, his skin feels so soft. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“That’s just ten thousand dollars shot to hell, if you ask me.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They just left...knowing they might never return. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t gotten this far just to be killed by whale halitosis. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s not just that he’s a new kid, Mom,” I answered. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I know that I should know better by now, but if this was an act, if I was just being played . Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

But I’m pretty sure every single time he stops himself from crying, his nightmare factory just goes and creates another doozy for when he falls asleep. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I bury my face in his shoulder and close my eyes, just breathing in the clean smell of him, the smell of wind. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I try to catch the waiter to bring another round, but he disappears into the back just as I signal to him. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mars has a tilt of just over 25 degrees, so it's pointed at Deneb. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could sell it all to white folks, who apparently would eat just about anything. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were used to Dinka houses—all enclosed with just a little crack or door to let air in. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just told you I was trying to cop. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had just thought of something that made him feel as though the happy balloon inside him had got a puncture. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

At four a.m., just before the DNA samples were collected, a large white tent was erected around the gravesite to ensure even further privacy. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The library door swings open just as you and Coby arrive. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I knew a lady once, Miss Leeds in Springfield, Illinois. She could tell all manner of things about people just by the way they tapped out their messages on a telegraph machine.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Cruel? Celaena, Perrington is just over there. I’m sure he’s not happy about you being here, so I wouldn’t risk drawing his attention any more than necessary.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As she thought of stuff she'd need, she just tossed it in the suitcase to be arranged later. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how to respond, so I just nodded. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I crawl out and try to wipe the slime off my eyelids and lips, but my hands and shirt are just as slimy. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I slip one foot onto the back of the truck, just to see what it would feel like. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Most days I think I should’ve just let him get eaten. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The second stroke, just a week before the last one, took away his ability to move or speak. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arthur turned just as Victor’s head drove into his midsection. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No...I mean...I mean, yes. Yes, I’m sure. Nothing happened. I just can’t make it.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“She wasn’t doing anything. She was just standing here, waiting for you.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t think about it. I just painted what came to me, what was in my head. I guess maybe that’s who lives in my head? Maybe it’s someone I remember. A face from...before?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was all true; I just didn’t know if I could actually say those words to her. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

It must have looked like just another city building when we passed it on the train. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

"Let's just move on to the next question," the other one said. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And then I just put my head down and cried. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I can just remember that I was very proud. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing happened. I just wanted to say kedu, to find out how you are.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Dodger just said he got took away in a coach.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The man had been right—and he hated the scythe for it, just as the others hated Rowan. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Herbert's execution was now set for August 18, just three weeks away. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Listen here. Don’t you be fretting for us. You stop this crying, you just riling that African boy up, honey. You don’t wanna make things no worser for him, do you?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Ben and Mouse slipped in just behind her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I pour in just enough half-and-half to coat the bottom of the mug. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I’m not just a tree, by the way. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Women are expected to wear just the one style of garment and no other. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess my ears couldn’t take it so they just stopped listening. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I heard more sounds just like the first. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I was still just the second guy off the bench, just the dude who provided instant offense. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I'm caught up in the music—just totally lost to it. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

And maybe—just maybe—I’m supposed to find him by following the boy who brought him to the post office in the first place. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It hurt me to know that children had frolicked on this island just days ago. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He had these parents from hell who'd put him under massive pressure to get a whole raft of A grades and when the exam came, this kid just cracked and couldn't even understand the questions. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I just stared at him drinking his beer and waited to see how long it would take for him to feel guilty. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t say that, so I just asked, “You didn’t tell him we were still friends, did you?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Now, just like before, but this time guide each other. Trust each other." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

"And you think I'm crazy? She's adorable. I just totally made your life!" Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

By the time I returned to my yellow room I was fuming and just wanted to kick something. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He was just concerned about me being made into a spectacle. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The massive hologram on the ceiling looks just like a cloudless blue sky. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He began to fall just as they were above it, clutched it with his furry feet at the last moment, swayed backward and forward twice, and found that he had landed successfully. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Kaiserman had only a fleeting moment, if not just a split second, to observe the situation, and he was involved in a major collision himself,” Bunderson wrote in his motion. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She’d never painted a mural before, just filled notebook after notebook with wild creatures and winged, battle-ready versions of her friends and neighbors. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to do just fine. Don’t worry your pretty little head about us, hear?” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

They didn’t really do much with her—just a little more color. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“But I just wrote it!” the chaplain cried in exasperation. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to talk to you, Piper. I just don’t.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t just walk past the gate guards so late at night. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Do you think that’s true? I think mostly you can plan. Mostly things don’t just come out of nowhere and bowl you over.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Progress in employment practices was just as slow in coming. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

This was a bad thing somebody had done just for the sake of it, like why Dr Death killed his patients. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she just sat there like she was dead—which she was. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And for a minute, we just look at each other, and I swear the air gets thicker. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Was it truly just so he could win the competition? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The sun was just starting to come up, so when it went off, it wasn’t really that cool, but it did make a great bang. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Sergio regains control and zips up the incline that starts just inside the gate. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Ayyyy, she said yes!” he just has to announce, and a couple of people actually clap. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

With a reluctant backward glance the well-disciplined child held to her nurse's hand and was pulled out the door, just as Tom came back, preceding four gin rickeys that clicked full of ice. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

And sometimes you just get stuck in the blocks. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Then—well, he’s always been a little unbalanced—and just totally wild,” Kissinger continued. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I started to step forward, but my friend tugged at my dress, and I stopped in my tracks just as Auntie Fatmata called out the family name: “Suma.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We take pieces of them, and they take pieces of us. It’s not bad. It’s not good. It just is.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Laurie saw and understood the affectionate anxiety which she hesitated to express, and looking straight into her eyes, said, just as he used to say it to her mother, “It’s all right, ma’am.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They said Mom didn’t need some white guy she just met to help raise me. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I came out just like I went in, feet first and belly down. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Thomas,” she said, “he does. He knows just how to make us smile and laugh.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hear you. Anyway, just because you're alone doesn't mean the rest of us have to be.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t let Teresa in, which ticked him off just as much as it did her. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It just waren’t sitting right seeing him standing there with his arms raised up on both sides of him and his head ducked down like he was studying something in the dirt. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

They went over the mountains, just to be safe, and homesteaded along the Gunnison River. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She just pulled out an old Polaroid camera, which I wasn’t expecting. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

So I dropped my hands to her waist and tried to take a breath, to calm down and just look at her. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I saw the woman cradling the baby in her arms, just as I used to. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t ask, but it seemed like, by the time I went to bed, Calista was maybe feeling just the tiniest bit better. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Kate made a slave of him just as he had always made slaves of women. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mom tells him that I wanted to come here to find my dad but that really she just wants some time away with her kids. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Seven had a thought just then, something that had been bothering her. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I just hope he hasn’t already taken off for Maine.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “Yes, ma’am, she goes on and on talking ’bout how she would die happy if she could get just one more look at my sister. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I circled Alex and drew a line to Jessica, bypassing names that didn’t connect—that just floated there—incidents all by themselves. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Here, just take everything out and you can make your books fit,” Conner said in a voice like I was a skittish stray. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

No one was saying much, just Watching as Mr. Tripp circled the raft, tightening a rope, checking the barrel tops, and trying to make it about as shipshape as Aeneas would have made a warship. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Or maybe she just wants a ride on the rocker, me doing the work. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

On the warm stone walls, climbing roses were just coming into bloom and great twisted branches of honeysuckle and clematis wrestled each other as they tumbled up and over the top of the wall. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There's this kid, Ross Wilcox, in the village. He was one of those kids on the ice, last year, when you found me, just outside your house...” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She says something about how she just wants a jacket. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Their faces lit up with laughter at something one of them had just said. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I’d just gained fifty thousand experience points, enough to raise my avatar all the way up to tenth level. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“My wife has no use for me and Drummer, my milk wagon horse, is got it in for me. Do you know what he did to me just the other day?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Derek stopped just in the entryway and the other two did the same. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

We stayed for hours, just talking, as one wave tipped into the next, as the sun dropped toward the horizon and the other beachgoers packed up to go home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m not yelling. It’s just . . . how could you keep that from me?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

And though his sister talked tough, she was just a kid, really. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t mean just tomorrow; I mean—I’m going to watch for him every morning—until he comes.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She just wasn’t terrified anymore, and that was rather wonderful. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"I don't, but just because I don't want to take your arm doesn't mean I'm following protocol. Maybe I'm worried you're carrying sickness. Or maybe you don't smell very nice." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Mrs. McCullough, she was sure, must have an array of bath products at her disposal: all those lotions and soaps and creams made just for babies, rich with shea butter and almond oil and lavender. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I...we just wanted to talk to you.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Which was just as well: goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like an unbroken series of them. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He just slapped her around a bit to show he was boss. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Some just lost straight off from the beginning. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not for me, of course, but most people just stopped caring after a while. He was just another story, another unfortunate bit of history.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I'd just started seventh grade and Newcharlie was repeating ninth, but he didn't seem to care one way or the other. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

This stink was just the smell of a thousand people jammed into cellars and tunnels that had been dug to shelter no more than a hundred. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I said I was sorry. Now why don’t you just leave me alone?” Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, like I’m getting sick. Sickish. Anyway, I think maybe I’ll just hang out in the library today, instead of going outside.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I'd just finished signing my autograph in steamy yellow when a rusty gate opened up with a tiny shriek and there stood a sour aunt from black-and-white times. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m not here to be thanked, Father. I was just bringing you a lousy Christmas card.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Trying to figure out, trying to understand, what had just happened between me and Hannah. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

People just cry and moan with the grief and they think they’re excused from the tip. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Since my mama passed on last year, her house has just been sittin’ there empty. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I suppose,” he said in his pinched, polite voice, “in just one reading, one might. . . .” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He shrugged his shoulders, just like Dad used to. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I just want to spend more time with him. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The hem is a little shorter than could be considered modest, hitting me just above the tops of my knees, right where I like it to be. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“I just knew your key would fit when I saw it.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I remembered Maxim’s voice raised in anger, using the words that Mrs. Danvers had just repeated. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And, somehow, he gave the feeling there were a lot of other roles he could play just as well. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, it did not occur to him others might be just as shy as himself. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just want my dad to see me saw a lady in half.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t need to be dropped off, cause I could just ride the bus home with him. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They leave them there with food, just as the parents do at the nest. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought our neighborhood was bad, but if I had to live in the suburbs, I think I’d just lie down and die. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Still, there were some transgressions I just couldn’t abide. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Basketball will be her boyfriend for the winter, just like it’ll be my girlfriend. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he just pushes his food around his plate. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I’m glad you came. I was just about to put more coal into the fire.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sounds seemed brighter than usual, too, or maybe it was just because things had been so quiet this past week. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Cora held Royal’s head in her lap, just as she had the afternoon of the picnic. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Mostly it’s just a little bit from each person,” Celia went on. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“But I was just carrying a little more . . . freight than this old crate could handle.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t it be messed up if I just left the Lighthouse and Jaden and the sentence they gave me and went to another country to start over, like Mong said? We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me, but just because something is unique, that doesn’t mean it’s good. After all, E. coli, a dangerous bacteria, is unlike all others.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I think if there were no chance, he'd just tell you. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But just as Longridge was gathering strength for a last bellow into the mouthpiece the line went dead. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

How it took red toenail polish for a black woman to be considered a real person, how she wasn’t real just from the fact that she was once a human, a daughter, a mother. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

And when they did, Natalie just sat in the fancy classroom tearing bits of paper into tiny pieces. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A photo in a magazine might remind her of Carolines high school graduation, the way she’d mugged for the camera like she just knew this was the beginning of a fabulous adventure. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“This neighborhood? Nice. Must’ve been a quick ride. If you came by ambulance. And I’m not assuming and I’m not judging. I’m just being curious.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

We just pointed, and the clerk, as soon as he had time, would pick it up for us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

No matter what we do, each town is just the same as the last. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“We just have a week left for free classes,” I said under my breath. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was just as ambitious as Lac was and probably hoping for a promotion as well. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The picture that began to congeal in his mind was the essence of injustice: battle-worn veterans of the war for independence being cheated out of their just rewards by mere moneymen. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He could not believe she had just asked him to lie for her while she ran off to see a man she had never mentioned to him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He climbs back into the cab and, purposely, I’m sure, revs the engine, just once. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

On the way I passed just above the crab-apple tree where I had once picked a bouquet; looking down on it, I could see the young green apples hanging thickly on the branches. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

—No, I just want to be able to see stuff while I’m failin’ asleep. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that in these waters, north is constantly chasing its own tail.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Doc just went over to Lee’s for some beer.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Polly had just made sure that Mrs. Derby’s hair was brushed and that she had on a fresh dressing gown when Mr. Derby returned. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could we just stop the hunt for a second? she asked. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He knew it was coming, but Alex still winced as Nunu sang out her favorite line, just like she did every single solitary stupid night. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

It seemed an excellent deal—just a few hours of work per day for the equivalent of their rent—but Pearl was displeased. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It smelled of rich soil and new blossoms, with just a hint of the sea. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Give gold to a foe and he will just come back for more, my father always said.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So just at the right moment, at the top of my swing, I let go with my tail and went soaring clear across the kitchen and made a perfect landing on the middle shelf! The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The children tried desperately to read it, but there were no letters, no words, no sentences, just random, disconnected markings. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Your jump shot was just sad to watch. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can I not think about it when we’re here, just four doors away? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he was going to kill me, I wished he would just get it over with. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

My heart built a barrier that sealed off my hope, my happiness, and my very soul, just like the wall the church had built to seal off the restroom where the four girls perished. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was even darker out there, the emergency lights just a pale glowing fine running along the upper edges of the walls. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“And prisons have power-thirsty, corrupt guards, just like schools have teachers.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Without a verb, even if it’s only suggested, there’s nothing going on, just a lot of nouns standing around with their hands in their pockets. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as I rubbed my scalp I thought Chas was probably just waiting for Farrow to leave so he could reassign me to the floor. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Out there amidst all the growing things, it seemed like maybe she’d just gone to the shed room to get a hoe instead being off in Heaven. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Maria used to call it her "market look," just understated enough to make her resemble a homemaker...but with panache. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It’s just that neither extreme had prepared me for the Four Winds Resort. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“You just watch me and listen how I talk. You’ll catch on. Say,” he said excitedly, “you got to do some-thing about those hands.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gaur then left the room, and Mr. Sidelsky just shook his head ruefully. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t been taking my meds, because as I said they just make me feel a little whack sometimes. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Throw your head back, close off your wind pipe, and just let the beer flow down your throat. Don’t gulp, and goddammit, don’t try to breathe.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just stands there, letting me get all these protests out of my system, letting me feel how heavy the air around us has grown. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The undead just shuffled among the monsters, causing momentary confusion, but that wouldn’t last. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

—No. I just looked at her, and I said, like real soft and easy—“Thanks.” Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not aware of what she did, she whispered: “Johnny, wherever you are, pull yourself together just one more time. One more time....” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cereal actually didn't taste too bad, but it had smelled just like his cot. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Another message appears after the first, this one just for me. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They just rolled over on their sides and continued sleeping. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A quick glance at Will’s warm cheeks showed that he knew that just as well as she did. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They look like they’re so happy, just inside this moment, watching the kids and the lights on their old fibro house. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I just have to get to my locker for my coat and slip out the backdoor. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The lantern hanging from the low-slung ceiling of our cabin swings wildly, casting wavering shadows that rise and flow just as uneasily as the waves. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“This is just his first girlfriend,” I point out. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It’s the first time he’s started a conversation just for us since that night he kissed my forehead. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It made the village feel funny talking to him— just like he was anybody else. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Miles stood where Charlie had just been, glaring at my mother. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I just want to let my tongue speak the way it pleases, let it be untamed and not bound by rules. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I know You already know all of this, but I just wanted to ask if You’d look out for my partner, and help him find peace. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He not only talked, he sang, and if he felt like hitching up his trousers, he just took his hands off the wheel and hitched. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she could just try the cow blood and see if that worked. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma said I would not help fetch water just yet, until she was sure I was strong enough. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had coasted along the lower wall of the orchard—turned its angle: there was a gate just there, opening into the meadow, between two stone pillars crowned by stone balls. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I guess the same goes for me. I just can’t convince myself to feel good, like my body won’t allow it or something. Instead, it gives me the finger.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Most of them just look at me for a little too long, but some point, and some even say my name, like it belongs to them. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It had probably just been a drunken brawl. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t anything he said nor was his expression unpleasant, but he was sulking just the same. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waves just kept on coming, larger and harsher and saltier than ever before. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was just a performer, like a singer or an actress, doing a show for money. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Miss, but I don’t believe he’s seeable just yet.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because life was working just fine for her. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then I do something really bad, and I’m just going to fully disclose it here because I can edit it out later. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

But the men who’d been beating them just moments earlier were all kneeling as if in prayer. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“No. I don’t. She seemed totally surprised. My parents would tell me if they had any idea what was going on. She said it’s probably just a coincidence.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I knew it wasn’t just his health he was worried about. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt believed Rondon deserved worldwide recognition, just like the famous polar explorers Roald Amundsen and Robert Peary. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

With so many people to process, I guess arresting us just wasn’t worth the hassle. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t get why she’d be so afraid of getting expelled. I’d hate to get expelled, but you have to take your lumps. I don’t get it.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

You’re going to ask how the “invincible” thing worked: if I magically dodged every weapon, or if the weapons hit me and just didn’t harm me. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

As she stood there, breath-stopped and sick, she tried to tell herself she’d forgotten which door was the right one, but she knew it wasn’t so, and just at that moment hideous confirmation came. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He straightened as if I’d just given him an electric shock. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The space just felt soft, and still, and quiet. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

So she was up and dressed when Tea Cake awoke from the fitful sleep that had come to him just before day. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“He just worries for me, maybe a little too much. But he’s a good brother...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

His hands freeze in mid-clap when he sees the young lady who has just caught the white kitten and is now lifting it to her shoulder where it sits along with the black kitten. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I just want to get to the library.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Noah said, "I don't think you can say just plain and apply it to Leonardo." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are other words just as ambiguous as sixteenth-century ‘experience’/‘experiment’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Jack just stared at her, like he did not see the contradiction, like he could not even fathom what it was. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Turner looked at his father, who was coming to just about the same conclusion. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The Maleckis just had a baby, so we never see them much. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s just, the family-mandated ballroom dancing lessons didn’t exactly cover this?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He just unfolds himself from the car and gives a little wave. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The bomb was an exact copy of the American implosion bomb tested at Trinity, and the rising, twisting, pulsing ball of fire looked just the same. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we're enemies again, which is just the way I like it. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

My voice, my sister says, is just left of the key. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Well, you know, art’s not just about coloring in the lines,” said Armpit. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Even after your depression had started to lift, I just couldn’t stop bringing you more Legos. Back then, seeing you happier—and your ma worry less about you—gave me joy.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“We’ve always kept an eye on the fringe, which is the nearest genetically damaged area outside the compound. Mostly just research, studying how the genetically damaged behave,” Amar says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

"We just need to stay hidden in crowds. We stick out too much on these streets." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“You’re certainly blooming, Billy. Before my very eyes. I just don’t know into what.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Dad was just sitting there, so far as I could see, in the fruity dark. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The fog is lifting, just as it did for me in the hospital's emergency room after my concussion. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Don’t believe all those nasty things people are writing about you kids on the Web. They’re just jealous.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

She just wanted to get out of there and take Maybeth with her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fine knife came out again and was whetted again just as carefully as it had been the first time. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just trying to help,” I said, my voice shaking. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Using the wire cutters, she snipped the pointy end of the hook, then stuck it into the hole she had just made in the bottle cap. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He gripped the plant just enough to slow him down as he slid to the ground, ignoring the horrible burn. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He was just wide awake on coffee and cigarettes and Mini Thins, which are these small pills you can buy at Quick Marts or Truck Stops. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“But he was just through yesterday,” Hannah said in a nervous whisper. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“American women? Don’t mess with them! They have little guns in their bags—small guns you can’t see. And if you bother them, they just shoot you.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were . . . just saying that the lesions look good.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond here though, we’re no longer best friends, just...I don’t know. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The sky had lightened just enough now that he could cut the boat's headlights, but they still had the Jade glow of the orb motor to worry about. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I have no idea what happened, just that Rufus is struggling to open his eyes and others are screaming. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Looked up at Teresa and her enormous blue eyes, heavy with sadness—-just as much for him as for Chuck, he was sure of it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

He just says, "This is even worse than what happened to me and Tommy." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m the golden goose. She’d still be singing in her church choir if it weren’t for me. I made her who she is, and I can find someone else just as easily.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

‘I said to myself: “dreaming again, Sam Gamgee,’’ I said; and I said no more just then. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And then she felt her cheeks heat because she’d thought of just what they were doing in that tangled heap. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was just his mind playing tricks, fantasizing that the liquid all around was actually water. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She could walk there blindfolded if she could just get out of the Tower for long enough. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I get up from the table, just as Simon’s sitting down. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He still didn’t smile, but he gave a sigh that said I was just a child. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I follow his eyes to the unpacked boxes lining the wall just to his right. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Deprivation and hardship were just part of the job of exploring and surviving in the Brazilian wilderness. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Oh, God, Nathan, I’m sorry. I just—I didn’t ask for this.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Actually, she seems to be hanging pretty tough about the Sammick situation. We just got the call. Emma died this morning.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Fischer analyzed the position through the night and appeared at the hall looking tired and worried, just two minutes before Schmid opened the sealed-move envelope. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He waited for the elf to admire the family tradition, but Brangwain Spurge just stared with repulsion at Werfel’s deflated past faces. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Killed in a car accident in Egypt, just before a race in the Suez Canal. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Then I came around back and saw my opportunity: a doorless doorway, bearded with vines, gaping and black; an open mouth just waiting to swallow me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And then, just like that, we were in the middle of a downpour. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He was just about to call out a friendly “Good morning!” when he noticed that a little ways off through the trees, Spurge was sitting on the pine needles and crying. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“It was just a glimpse. Just for a moment. But I could see it in you. And when you came close, that smell. I knew that smell. It was salt water.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a shop, really, just a shed in the back of the blacksmith’s house, with a dirt floor and blackened walls hung with hooks and tongs and hundreds of locks and keys. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Freddy, his comrade, had just been found hanging in his prison cell, a supposed suicide. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said she was just typing up invoices to send out for her business, the kind of mindless work she could do while keeping one eye on animated Legos. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I probably just would have said a prayer or something. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Leave me alone. This cold, wet pavement is sooo cozy. I am just going to lie here for a while longer." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It just leads past some back gardens to the footy field. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Whenever he saw something bad or wrong, he’d do just about anything to make it right, no matter how reckless or foolish. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

But then who was the Jack that loved and buried Sophie; was he just another version in the schema, or the true soul, or could he have been both? Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not as though we could just ask her. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She just jams her thumb into the right button. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

"We just been in the forest--" "-to get wood for the fire-" "-we got lost last night." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The evening that Shanti and Didu get ready to go to Yankee Stadium, I put on a new salwar I just finished. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He gets to his feet and puts his hands up and I just stand there. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She had been thinking about the mystery all night, but she just couldn’t put it together. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I had made her feel just as bad as Drew or Erin did. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I was just about to finish Form Two, the equivalent of eighth grade in America. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

To be a successful inventor you need three things: intelligence, perseverance, and just a little bit of luck. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It starts near the River Outlets, then passes by retail shops and commercial properties before moving through newer residential developments, older houses, farmland, and then just fields. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

They helped transform the way in which philosophers thought about machinery, just as Descartes’ obsession with automata resulted in a new mechanical philosophy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The points of the star extended just beyond the outer edge of the circle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And after that, for the next million years or so, the universe would have just continued expanding, without anything much happening. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a plea too, and not like Byrd’s “just get in the car”; more like “let’s go!” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Turf writers and dockers swear by Tom Smith,” moaned a reporter, “and very often they just swear.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, he’d given me not just my love of gymnastics, but also the courage to fly high above the arena floor. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I selected a book I had just read, The Old Man and the Sea. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

His perspective was attuned not just to Algerians, but to include the Afro-Americans and all others anywhere who were oppressed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Riding her bike along the opposite side of the street, chin lifted just a little toward the sun, hair flowing in a wind of her own creation. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I guess it’s not just one thing. He felt real bad after that last game, bearin’ up on Tangerine High like that. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried, but it was just about impossible to pay attention in class. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled her forcefully close, and then, just as quickly, he let go and moved his face away. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And just before he left, he jumped into the pool with all his clothes on. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

It’s not just the anticipation of solitude, though, it’s the excitement, the adrenaline. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, but just like telegraphing is different from one person to another, handwriting is too. See here?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She did not wonder at finding him again, just opened her wings and flew out over the field. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

At home he sometimes cooked the new dish he had eaten in the jail, and on the streets there was never any knowing just what he would do. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was not just on His way, coming, coming to right the wrongs done to them, He was here. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trying to unplait the bread would just result in a huge mess. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It’s not hostile at all, but it just makes you know you stick out, kind of like they like you but you’re still King Kong.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“The trees are just the same, Leader. There’s a storm coming, though. You can hear the wind. And look. The sky is turning dark. Maybe that’s what you saw.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I fired my avatar’s jet boots just before I hit the ground, then quickly adjusted my immersion rig’s control setup, because I was now controlling my avatar instead of a giant robot. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And not just that, the subjects who performed better at the game had greater increases in dopamine. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There were a handful of kids who were openly gay and I just assumed nobody felt any which way about it—or most people anyway. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Weighing the merits of the game, just as we always have. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t forget: They just found out about me. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

And I just made an early New Year’s resolution, no, it’s a New Year’s revolution, and this is it: to return to Guillermo Garcia’s studio tonight and ask him to mentor me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

"Well, won't you just be a regent queen? Will you get to change laws?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Natalie mostly just seemed excited to have finally solved the mystery. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I grabbed at colors—the crimson flower just out of reach, the ebony bird streaking past. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The mask grows hands—or maybe it had hands all along that were just invisible until now. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I knew I was doing well, otherwise Rav Gershenson would have stopped me, but I kept wishing he would say something and not just stand or sit in complete silence. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then, on the drive home, as Gramps and I were approaching the California-Oregon border, I just had this sudden flash—a vision of me lugging a cello through New York City. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of this may seem very arbitrary, but it's important to remember that medieval mode theory, just like our modern music theory, was not trying to invent a logical system of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

After school, just to be on the safe side with those men, Emily left through a different door from the main one they had walked out of yesterday. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Sonny had just been honorably discharged from the Air Force, and Lawrence had a good job working for the railroad. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

We gossiped as we cooked small eggs and sweet potatoes on top of the houlu just to enjoy their smell. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I’m just glad I do.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It’s kinda nice, to just spend some time together. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know,” said Rufus thoughtfully, “you still look mighty young. You pulled me out of that river thirteen or fourteen years ago, but you look like you would have been just a kid back then.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It just gets easier to distract yourself from what you’ve done. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

At first we had just stood around, bashful about touching his things. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Dear God, no. There were just these five. Still, we have to burn and bury them, just to be sure. I already cut the wood we’ll need: ash and rowan.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Harness and weapons must be out of sight in the inner room. And if the suitors miss them, be mild; just say ‘I had a mind to move them out of the smoke. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They paid her wages full and just, but there was no certificate of honorable discharge from the Concord Corporation, and with no certificate, she would never be hired by any other corporation in Lowell. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

His face had that look old men get when they’d shaved the day before and the beard was just starting to grow back, white specks of dust all over his cheeks. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Part of me just wants to be with Erin, and yet, another part of me’s intrigued, kind of flattered, and a little nervous, all at once. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We never actually saw him die when we escaped the Amity compound, but I just assumed he had—I’m not sure how I feel. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was five feet eight inches tall and weighed just under four hundred pounds. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was just a woman—a woman smoking a pipe. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I mean, I did just tell myself that the next time I saw her I was going to make a move. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s so beautiful it makes you ache just to look at it,” said Mary. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I just about spit out my peanut butter and jelly sandwich when I realized it was JT. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Save your energy. My hair doesn't move,” I say, just to break up that heated moment. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“The best friend a person has,” he would say at that time, “is one who has just died.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The character said something about seeing his future stretched out in front of him and how it—the future—was just a looming empty space. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe they just believed what the doctor told them. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I want to be just like you when I grow up. Except I don’t want to fence. I’m going to the Olympics to run track.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

When we arrived at the park, everyone crashed, rolling onto the track like cars whose tires had just blown out. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I practice all the time in a small room with big windows and hot afternoon light just like this one. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I told her that I wasn’t getting at anything, and that I just wanted to know how she felt. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Angel, on the top of the incubator, just above Jake’s shriveled head, someone had fastened a miniature golden angel, maybe from a necklace or something. The angel was gazing down into the incubator.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

She put some more coals on the iron stove, hoping it would stop her trembling, but the cold was in her bones, not just her flesh. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Earl T. Askew stepped up and said into his ear, “O.B., let’s just let sleeping dogs lay. I pot tny hands full with Mrs. Askew as it is.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The new wave of reformers saw the KGB as not just a symptom of the USSR's problem but the root of the problem itself. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When she comes back out with my water, I stop thinking about how to say it and just start talking. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“That’s not the point, Amina. I think I can be the best player on the team. I just need to work harder than everyone else.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Rather than get mad or ashamed, I just try to own it. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Now he was just staring at Grayson, a small smile coming over his face. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other words: people who are misfits because they’re just who they are instead of “fits,” who are like everybody else. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

But standing there, he’s just the same Luke Messenger from yesterday, the one who sat beside her on the Ferris wheel at Navy Pier and wouldn’t open his eyes the entire time. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He had just overheard some teachers and a couple of secretaries counting up the votes. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I went home. I can’t tell when I’m going to do that. It just happens.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Rashid Uncle and I won’t spend time together where I could learn real stories about you, not just make up my own imaginary ones. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As she walked to the parking lot, five or six kids who had just finished writing their sentences for Mrs. Granger came out another door. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he has to be a pigeon while he’s in school, it’s better he just does what the pigeons do—put his head down and push through the terrible sound. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I’m white?” he says, like he’s just hearing that for the first time. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And of course a tray of knives was ready, just out of sight. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, he’s pushing people, just shoving ’em out the way, bellowing at the top of his lungs, “Stop! Stop those children!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m just trying to be supportive, dear,” the colonel said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything in his uncle’s room was just as he’d left it earlier, except his apron was hanging on a hook by the fireplace. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I heard you have a beautiful sister. I am still just your friend, right?” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I have guts, just not when it counts. Will you—um,” and she sat up straight and then moved toward me, and I raised my arm as she collapsed into my skinny chest and cried. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“No. But there’s something I want to look into. I’d drive you back to school, but I don’t think it’s a good idea for us to be seen together just now.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Of course nothing will happen to me. I just want you to marry me. We really should marry. It no longer makes sense. It never made sense.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Thomas knelt down in front of it and took out the Map from the day before and held it up side by side with the one he’d just drawn. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Florida, which was just an ingrown nub at America’s foot, barely there. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They may have been wild rock ’n’ rollers at one time in their lives, but to Kaira they just seemed like a bunch of old men. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I got down to breakfast just as Dad was leaving. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were plenty of other times I could remember when Dad said mean things, or things that were just mean enough. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I told her it was okay that the lady didn't have arms because it was just a statue. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

They had all just arrived in Florida the night before, and that morning, at ten a.m., fifty beaming girls in outfits adorned with something emblematic of their states had boarded the plane. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t look like that much damage to me. They were just kidding around. 1 don’t want to press any charges.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It occurs to me that Atlantis could be the exact opposite of Unity Valley, just like Kristina said it was. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I was brought up to be quiet, no talking, just listen. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I feel as if a heavy weight has just gotten a little bit lighter. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The librarian looked at me, and I thought she was going to cry—just like Reverend Ballou again. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

He’d wait until we were all in our seats, and then he’d raise his white eyebrows, and smile just a little bit, and say the first part of the joke. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Miraculously, a gust of wind blew him to one side—-just enough to miss the highway and crash into a clump of bushes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“And stay on it, and just walk and walk past something called Houston Street, just like Houston, Texas.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“We just need to wipe their memories,” said Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t pick them up, just holds tightly to his communication book. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will be right. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss had once asked his mom if they could move to another street, anywhere that wasn’t just a few hundred feet from where Morris had collapsed. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

So despite the third levy tax looming large in everyone’s minds, people were looking in their purses and wishing they’d bought a little something, just in case the snow came early. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Plus, there were extra food rations, cigarettes, and other luxuries that weren't available to just anyone. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Her knees ached, and she would have given much for a featherbed and a pillow just then. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I whack the ball so hard it flies up over the boundary, and I score six runs with just that one shot. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“So, should I buy a new dress just in case I get to be on the team?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, just as the scythe had said, they went to the shipping company where the woman worked, and they watched—just as Rowan had watched Kohl’s gleaning. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

For just that one moment, it looked like Mom might start crying the way really little kids did, with a trembling lip and huge puddles of tears in each eye. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He’s just a friend, or as Mother puts it, a beau. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Bertha knelt in front of me and took both my hands in hers and said, “Your mama loves you very much, Charlie. But sometimes, she just loses her way.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a throwaway comment just to be nice. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was only just beginning to appreciate what had happened. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He wore his cuffed, baggy work khakis and a short-sleeved white shirt, and labored at the center of a rising red cloud of dust like a crew-cut genie who’d just appeared there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn't get a hold of myself—I was just so shocked at Needles doing all those moves. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I was too busy just trying to survive, Mom.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I tossed my hair and laughed extra hard just so Maddie could see how happy I was, even though half my heart was over there, beside her. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t know how to help you, especially when I can’t actually be there. When will I see you again? Do you have any idea? You can’t be grounded forever, right?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He slid a suspicious eye in my direction, and for half a heartbeat I was afraid he knew exactly what had just happened. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

As the salesman recalled it, Hale had independently pushed for the policy, saying, “Hells bells, that’s just like spearing fish in a keg.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“He’s just like Homer,” I remember toothless Poppy lisping to Mom while I squirmed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The thing was tremendous, a gangly sprawl of clawed arms and legs, and just the sudden intensity of its presence threw Sierra backward. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

We were just going to go somewhere else after that. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

When the three had left the stage, the hot-tempered boy remained, just as Scythe Faraday had said earlier in the day. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Well, it continued just like that...and the stink keeps getting worse and worse. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I just come here to help people. This is a place full of pain, so people need plenty of help around here.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Thing was, I just didn’t know ant more. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It feels like she's holding back but I don't think it's just the professional thing like she said before. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Dicey might just as well not have been there. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the person picked up on the other end, the man just said, “It is a go-ahead,” and hung up. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“You’re just picking on the black man, aren’t you? Well, have a good time at your Klan meeting tonight,” he spat out. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A connection that defies the fact that we’ve only just met. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Oh...Madam...I had just remembered a joke and—” She interrupts. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

She wanted that so badly—not just to see Mom, but to see Mom seeing her. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

His eyes were just above the level of the counter. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

He leans into Henry’s neck, dragging his lips over the sensitive skin just behind his ear. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t, like, ignoring you. I just—I don’t really look at people most of the time.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It's just a dream, she answered, though of course it was so much more. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The only sound, just before dawn, was a night watchman, far away down a lonely street, walking along in the darkness, humming a very strange song.... The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems odd to me now how we went on standing there another minute, me waiting for August to say something, but she didn’t speak, just stood, soaking up that last moment. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They just can’t stop walking, which kind of makes you wonder. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach squeezed up and my face burned just thinking about that. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Down below, just outside the front door, stood Mary Poppins, dressed in her coat and hat, with her carpet bag in one hand and her umbrella in the other. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Police business, sir. Now, if you could just excuse me.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The woman look at me like I just slap her ’crosst the face. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But I find just what I think I will find. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I’d just started lathering up my hair when I got nailed by the other side of yesterday’s death flash, the one that had dropped me to my knees outside Ted’s church. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Her hair had been shaved off, and it was just a fuzz, now. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys and the other soldiers who were the audience clapped as if I had just fulfilled one of life’s greatest achievements. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Within just a block or two, you stop seeing modest apartment complexes and start seeing houses and luxury apartment buildings, restaurants with outdoor patios, and shops of all kinds. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Now she just leaned back and shouted out the answers, her bronzed arms folded across her chest like some great grammar genie. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He keeps the remote out of reach, just in case his sister or I want to turn the TV back on. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s all just whispers and myths. Supposedly they haunt some ol’ broken-down church uptown by the river. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Trek had just unlocked the supply room when her cell phone began to ring. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Clover sits a few rolling hills off Route 360 in southern Virginia, just past Difficult Creek on the banks of the River of Death. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I'm just trying to get you to see things for the way they are.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

So you just look at them, standing with your hands in your hoodie pockets. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the blue-white light of the flashlight app, his hands shook just the slightest bit as he picked up his pencil. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

"The thing I don't understand", I said, "is how Bruno and I are still able to talk and think just as we did before." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Not just because it was a place where the living gathered, but because for a few minutes at a time they could see all the world, not just their little corner of North America. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She told me she ordered it when you first cast her; it just came in.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I translate the words I just heard: There’s no pain that can last a hundred years. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

But again, just as he neared him, Pax broke away, galloping into the trees. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s no blood. No organs. It’s just grey inside.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This perplexed me for a moment until I realized that no one could possibly want any of my possessions, so I just pulled it shut and went off to find Katz and go to dinner. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It is not just a legacy, a future, you don't get as the youngest. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Rogers had just come in with a glass of brandy. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Claire was just climbing out of her car when Maya rounded the corner and into the parking lot. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I feel lighter, I think, freer—but sadder, too, and all of a sudden I just want to get home to Scott. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the shock was heavy just the same. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t know what got into you,” she told her daughter. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Taylor saluted formally and rode off, the grin breaking across his face just as he turned. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just saying not everything is necessarily how it seems. Okay?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

We’re closing the distance between us and the fence quickly—but just before we do, Henry suddenly hits the brakes, bailing, the way I bail from halfpipes. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The plan had been to feed the beasts and chain them in their torpor, just as the queen had done. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

His mouth twisted like he’d just slammed a car door on his thumb. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

It delivered two liters of oxygen to me each minute through a cannula, a transparent tube that split just beneath my neck, wrapped behind my ears, and then reunited in my nostrils. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I used to think all that spooky stuff about Friday the Thirteenth was just a pile of baloney. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes scan the woods just in time to see the first creature leap onto the plain. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Within a few weeks, she and William would become the most important code-breaking team in the country—just as the United States went to war. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

At a far corner of Min’s yard he had dug a hollow just big enough to hold the bowl, and had found a large flat rock nearby to use as a cover. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He thought it was a sin for anybody under twenty to drink beer—but maybe he just suddenly wanted to be a sport. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You sat in your stroller just staring out at the lawn. You’d sit in the tub and pour water back and forth from one cup to another for an hour if I’d let you.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I am trying to be brave, but every time I think of that pretty baby dead in a box like it doesn’t have a soul at all, I just start to cry. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he smirked constantly, like someone had just told him a funny joke that was too impolite to laugh openly about. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s just because winter is over and gray March has marched on, but things feel a little lighter. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I know very well that the President didn’t send those soldiers just to protect me but to show support for an idea—the idea that a governor can’t ignore federal laws. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were just dumb rich kids who knew nothing about anything. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

"I can't do anything—not now. My poor nerves! No: we must just lie still a bit and then go back." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Then they were silent, just looking at me. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We just stood there, facing each other, but nine floors apart. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes school was just this humongous diss you had to wear around your neck so everybody could check it out. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

We just got back from Target, and I actually fell asleep in the car on the way home. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s not that I don't like him. He's just not my type.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He was going to do something to Gus; just what, he did not know. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But Mrs. Granger didn’t just enjoy the dictionary. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Woolf had just told them exactly what they were about to tell him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that Mom and I could talk more about things, about Amanda anyway, I thought of asking her just how the garden helped her. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

My father always claimed that a league wasn’t really a unit of measurement at all, just a way for farmers to attach numbers to their rough guesses. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They didn’t even act like they were afraid of me, they just kept swimming around my legs, even bumping their faces into me, like they were trying to kiss me. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If your mom put it in the bank, then just ask your dad to pick it up tomorrow morning. He’s got the keys to the place." The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She would tell me this story over and over, that my mother was just a baby herself when she had me. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Jam had told him to just meet her in the studio, and he probably thought she was going to show him some of Bitter’s work—which was funny, because, in a way, she was. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The room gets darker and darker until I’m there again, lying in the water, her body pressing against mine, a candle flickering just behind my head. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Back to your mom’s house. She made me the best breakfast this morning after the time we had together last night. Her maple syrup tasted just as good as she did.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“How do you make so much with just those little beakers?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was just this profound realization, and it had to be shared. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Father, on the other hand, was probably all deeply gratified, just gratified up one side and down the other. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had waited so long for his breakthrough, despaired so many times, and he just wanted to be alone for a little while with a pencil and some paper and a calculator and no talking. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Taylor said in awe just before the explosives took out a section of trees and sent Adina flying back on her butt. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

‘Cletus had been Quentyn’s dearest friend for half his life, a brother in all but blood. “Give your bride a kiss for me,” Cletus had whispered to him, just before he died. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Okay, I just want to say first that Hudson and I are really, really over. We’re not even friends anymore. You know that, right?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Joana, could you assist me, please? The girls have just arrived from the sanatorium. We need to determine where to put them. Perhaps you could help them get settled?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

If you would just come to my office and sit with me for one day, you’d see how many mothers bring their kids over. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just wanted to give you a heads-up on what to expect with the drill.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I thought she just looked chubby; she was too soft and even all around. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

You could assume that everybody wasn’t just the way they seemed. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most times when he and Aaron got to talking, I just stayed quiet. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

However, within just a few hours, as the region continued to collapse, the difference in the gravitational forces on his head and his feet would become so strong that again it would tear him apart. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was deeply suspicious, and just what he had feared since first seeing the course at Griinau. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Cummings was just trying to release some stress by confiding in someone; she assumed it would go no further. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t interested in her money; I just wanted to know—needed to know—the answer to my question: How much was that freaking land worth? The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Uh, I was just wondering ... if you would go to the spring dance with me?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ll ask you to imagine another scenario—you tell me if it sounds plausible. If this sort of thing could have happened, sir, or if it’s just another sea yarn.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They’d just crested the hill when the source of the horrific smell came clearly into view. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

One of us always stayed with him, not just to keep him company but also to make sure he didn’t try anything cute, like prying off the ankle bracelet. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Could I just live up here, keeping my distance, and continue to do my chores? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He needed a gang, and not just any gang, but one that needed him. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And then the other employees—they were just trying to be nice—they started asking him if he needed some soap or anything. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I work at banging the license plate flat again, scribble down Another of those terrible times, and add it to the wall of my room, which is already covered in notes just like this. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her T-shirt was covered with grass and dirt stains, like she’d just run through a swirling Gaea. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I just want to make sure you’re in your right seats.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Sarah, the bosslady, came through the door just as Mary rounded the table, her hands balled up into fists. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my whole family, we just love our mom so much, so my brothers sacrificed their pride and brought water and wood and did other chores. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did people who committed acts of violence think their victims and their victims’ relatives would just forget? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“They don’t always just stay outside,” I said. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Nelson is just proud of being the one that taught her to shoot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The house just keeps going up,” he said. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I could’ve just loaded some bullets into my gun and shot him dead and been done with it. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The blade and the handle still held together, but only just; any strain, the slightest push against the water, would break it off entirely. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I just envied those dumb Bobbseys for having a superior adventure to ours, in that cool, snowy place, where no one had to endure an enforced fiesta. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I told him, “That’s life and you just need to get settled hack into things.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why, she would just love to have them! The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not just a cold; he doesn’t get better. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t smell like grapes out there, just like dust. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She has this knack for knowing what you’d like to read, just by looking at you. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that you’ve been on this whole time, and it’s already getting old. One of you, maybe. But two of you is too much.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I just love your pictures,” she tells me. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

They just wander now and nobody believes that they want to be good, because they look like hairy demons. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He pointed up to their left, where the towers of Kiev’s walls were just visible past the trees. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She thought of what the grandmother had just said. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The shop owner had just finished setting up a tidy pyramid of fresh-baked sweets: golden egg-flour cakes, the insides probably stuffed with sweet beans or pineapple jelly. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Zeus had destroyed an entire hotel to eliminate two demigod children—just to save his own skin, because he was scared of a prophecy. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

You’re the last one I have to say goodbye to, and I just want this part to be over. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After about a half an hour of this, Katz came over, knelt beside me, and said in a whisper, “One of these guys just called me ‘Sport.’ A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I want to tell her I’d spend the night at school hanging upside down in the closet if I could just read. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I hid it because I didn’t want to be taken to the hospital and it was just a small cut. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it just adds to the general confusion, I suppose.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I love you just the way you are.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Clearly I’m just emotional right now,” she said. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, just as Jeffrey looked up — there’s nothing he enjoys more than watching me get a good lecture — I whipped off the cap. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept my voice cold and flat, just the way I thought she’d want it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It's just down inside me, and like Dad said, I'm not transparent. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s purple plaid, and it’s ripped right open on the bodice so one of her nipples shows, but she just runs around a-wearing it anyway like she never noticed and neither did anybody. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grew so tired, she barely even recognized the house when they arrived, just trailed after Jiichan. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He pinched his eyes shut again, opened them slowly, just a crack, let the light in more slowly. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other building, just across a narrow open corridor, had a kitchen, plus a separate bedroom for me and my sisters. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“That is just what we hoped and thought! And you will marry him, Jane, won’t you? And then he will stay in England.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“All right, just say it again and I’ll let you go.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

No one says anything, they just cry harder. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“No! He was just the first blond boy I could think of. We’ve been spending way too much time with him lately.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I just finished Perseus. That there is Algol—the demon star. This here is pretend outer space—or fantasy outer space—so we’re not really interested in arranging the constellations the way they usually appear.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had just been an argument and surely he would come back once he calmed down, once he got hold of himself. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it just got weird, you know, three guys in a bag. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We just sat there on his front steps. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

They burned a hole in the side of my face, and I didn’t want to deal with that problem just yet. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

If you could just hear some of the things we talk about—ooh, we have some heavy discussions! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That happens in movies—people can feel it when other people stare at them and they just have to turn around and say something. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The tattered oilcompany roadmap had once been taped together but now it was just sorted into leaves and numbered with crayon in the corners for their assembly. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t stand the idea that my dad wasn’t really there. I just didn’t want to believe he was gone,” she says of those months of denial. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I just got to get a chance to write this music in me and be a musician. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Some of the guests were scythes—and not just Goddard’s obvious disciples, other scythes as well. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I just got off the phone with Mason Crew Collections, which is a furniture store,” Mr. Shephard says. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

But the minute my mother turned round to me again, Mrs. Tomolillo matched the tips of her fingers together the way my mother had just done and cast a black, mocking look at me. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Cause if you are, I’ll just let you get on with it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Under the recorded names were other names, just as “Macon Dead,” recorded for all time in some dusty file, hid from view the real names of people, places, and things. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just saw a man in red pajamas jumping out of your window and go running up the road! Didn’t you see him?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She touches his forearm just past his wrist, and the memory of handcuffs overwhelms him even all these months later. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her eyes caught mine for just a moment. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

A score of ioo is average; you probably need to be just above that mark to be able to handle college. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I thought they were just called second dates. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“I like blackberries very much. I just have some allergies, I think.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was just a small group of them, maybe thirty people. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It just floated there for the seeing, if she wanted to, and O my God for the touching if she wanted to. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yeah, I was just going to think of that,” Kate said with a laugh. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Right now, we’re just holding on to the hope that they exist.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I just tell him I’m going to send my knife, my vest, and my tape measure back. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had not been unfaithful to her, of course, but fidelity could not just be about sex. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I just wanted to wait out here for you.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Black? White? Don’t tell me you’re one of those racial Negroes? Who said anything about black people? This is just a geography lesson.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Felix just stared at the papers as he chewed on his thumbnail. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

After Hemme dismissed the class I ran down the stairs and caught him just as he was leaving through a lower door. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They just had trouble getting to the loudspeaker through the throng of people on the bridge. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“We were teenagers and crazy from drinking,” says my viejito, “and just crazy from being young.” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, Belby had just taken a large mouthful of pheasant; in his haste to answer Slughorn he swallowed too fast, turned purple, and began to choke. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay,” she said to Lexie, and though she said nothing else, just this—it’s okay, it’s okay—Lexie found herself breathing easier. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Yosho-to’s Japanese-Malayan dinner still en masse and riding my sternum like an elevator, one or the other of the Yoshotos began to moan in his or her sleep, just the other side of my wall. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Then she saw that on one branch, close to the ground, the thorns had been scraped off, and about a half-inch of it—just big enough for a handhold—was worn smooth. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

If you asked the butcher himself, he’d say, “Don’t worry about that,” because he was the kind of person who hated gossip and just wanted to work. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She smiled knowingly, and I believe she understood just what we were thinking—perhaps she was amused at how we puzzled over her simple appearance. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I want her to know that even though I feel like I might throw up right here on her rug, I also feel just a little better. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

In my view, this wasn’t just a reconstruction campaign; it was part of the bigger vision for reconciliation in our city. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

More and more people crowd around us, but Boy21 just keeps moving forward with this very eerie smile on his face. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dead body of the man they had just killed was a proof. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It seems clear to me that there should be oversight for the granting of immunity, just as the selection committee provides oversight for gleaning.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But instead I just kept falling, as if tumbling through a high mountain canyon. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The story of my dad—who for one day became the king of White Water Rapids—was just another myth in the making. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But just to check that she was really gone, I ran out to the henhouse. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“People are much less likely to notice my hand in their pockets when dinner’s just exploded in their faces.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Mom. I can’t. I have a biology quiz next period. And I’m meeting—I’m meeting somebody after school. I’ll just see you at home, okay?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My entire body started to itch, as though I had just been removed from a plaster cast and was unused to the new freedom of movement. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told Colin that my mother was sick upstairs, and that I was just rushing home from the store. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The shirt I was putting on had just been wrapped around the gun. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

A bird perched just a few feet from me alerts me that a new day is dawning. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

If he didn’t put his weight on the rope until the bottom, it might just hold. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I just stand there, my eyes darting between them, until thankfully the secretary shoos them away. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Lapham was a great manager, but she cared nothing for genteel manners and was the first to laugh at Dorcas’s ‘If it please you, Mother—-just a touch more maple syrup for me.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the woman saw the stabbing through the last two cars, we can assume that the body fell to the floor just as the train passed by. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just wanted you to be lovely in death. C’mon,” Ben said looking at his watch, “we’ve got a rendezvous in Paris.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Cobb, if I could just have a glass of—” “You’re young. You don’t need it. Get on with Mr. Milton.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Luckily, that wasn’t the reason; he just thought it was bad manners to seem so eager. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But we never got the chance, because just like there are certain ways people expect you to get married, or go to church, or raise kids, there are certain ways people expect you to grieve. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Anyhow, these forty-four pages cover just about the first month of party giving. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Lonely, a bit desperate. She just wants to be involved in something.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. It’s, like, the damnedest thing. The cameraman and others who were there say he just vanished.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Saturday is the day that I catch up with things or maybe now that spring is coming, I’ll just go fishing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe one of them has located us and is just waiting for the right moment to attack. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He lowered it into his lap, listened, raised it and said something else, then he just sat there for a couple minutes. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Sure, sure, whatever you call it, just do a good job with your reasoning.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

There’s just no way my dorky big brother is some celebrity. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“So things will go on just the same,” thought Francie, a little surprised, as she took the Bible from the mantelpiece. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was big, just like I wanted to be. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I just don’t know what it is yet. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Normally when Dad goes off on a rant, Mom just lets him talk. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“We just need to know something. Please,” he begged. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And just like that, King Louis has lost his war. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Bill had given me a new book to read, but I just couldn’t concentrate on it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t just smoking or skirting around Mother. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

One would just have to never miss the games on their paydays. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scenes like these are repeated almost daily, unless they’ve just had a terrible fight. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Like my family and me were just trash. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I said, “I was just doing chatting with Mrs. Alexander. I wasn’t doing investigating.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“She just got carried away with the excitement of seein’ you. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three months, I knew most people, but I regularly talked to very few—just the Colonel and Alaska and Takumi, really. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

But just cause they don’t have something in English doesn’t mean they don’t have it in England, know what I mean? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“You just used me and waited for her to die. I’m not going with you, Finn. These folks are my family now.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you could just date Aunt Heidi, then? And cut out the middleman?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“As long as I don’t have to clean it up,” said Ruza, just as casually. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Yet, a strange feeling, as irrational as Basta's good-luck charms, had driven him out: a feeling that he could protect the book just by his presence. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“No, she hasn’t told me that. I only just know that it’s about Dust and they’re like a kind of sacrifice.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He'd just made the shot of a lifetime in front of thousands of people, and for the first time in a week, he actually hadn't been thinking about money. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, what if people just stopped talking about racism. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I just never really thought someone with uneven legs would be as into sports as Amanda is. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Mr. Gideon seems to realize that the boy in question was more to me than just someone on the same train I’d taken here. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They circled back, and Scythe Curie let Citra off on a side street just a block from where the gleaning had occurred. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Neither, child. This here is just the world, it’s how it is. You get born into it and...things are as they are...” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The worst kind, because you don’t just kill, you turn others into killers like yourself.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m a sugar addict, just like your father is an alcoholic.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was just after sunset and darkness bled in from the outer reaches of the sky. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s just a part of our lives. It’s just something that you’re involved in. It’s just like going to church or something like that. It’s just what you do.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

June: Not really—just to take life one day at a time. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, if you lived in India....Otherwise you’d just be a hamburger.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was just the dripping and the sound of Rashid kicking bits of debris as he made his way down the hall. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Several blocks from the National Hotel, just a few hours after the assassination, a group of detectives showed up at Mary Surratt’s boardinghouse. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not quite. Remember those two people who came to my party? The ones who got me during the lightning storm? Let’s just say Grandpa has a new girlfriend.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She just couldn't quite get a hold of the pain that comes from having that happen nearly every day for years. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And instead of a net, they just have a metal hoop for balls to pass through. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Can’t you just see it, me at the dinner table in between swallows of chicken and broccoli casually mentioning the day’s events. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Miig and the twins joined two of the main campers nearer the road, just before the serrated edge of asphalt began. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He listened quietly, then let out a long sigh and said, “Have you ever thought maybe you should just let them go?” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

If I know where they slept the night before, I get up very early, in the dark, and arrive at their nests just as it gets light. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Although usually we hung out just the four of us, because I had band right after lunch, and we wouldn’t be together the rest of the afternoon. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t. I got econ homework, a speech to write—man, I thought you were supposed to do all the work. I just put up the money.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He was of average height as well, and had wished ever since he had stopped growing that he were just one inch taller. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

"I haven't the least idea. It's just crazy. The last thing one would expect. There seems no point in it." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Both girls have to try it, and Shiloh does just like I said, trying his best to get those girls up on their feet. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom is a bomb, just waiting to go off. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“They don’t let just anyone write to Capone, you know. You have to be a relative and then it’s censored.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just in case...just in case...Don’t think it, I tell myself. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“And I just—wasn’t that. You know? I just wasn’t that.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid you’ll get bored just sitting around with me all day. I want you to make friends your own age. I’m sure there are some nice girls your age somewhere around.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Stagecoaches and mail coaches changed horses at the market square, just down the street. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Her complaints, all in Chinese, sounded just like her complaints about customers who wanted extra duck sauce or a free egg roll. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The best time for frogs is at night,” he said, “so I guess we’ll just lay around ’til it gets dark.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could always get hired back later, but it was nice to just be back on the farm. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We took it off the tour this year. It was just... too much.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

At some point, I just starting asking Dad for money to buy new pairs. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They worked just as hard and with equal skill as male craftsmen, and their contributions were essential to their family’s financial success. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You know, it’s just as easy to take a bite after you say something as right before it.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“You think I’m going to give in to someone just because they’re rich?” said Mr. Brook. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I just didn’t want to see the man. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Giving him just long enough to get settled good, I let fly a rock and it hit that tin roof like a gunshot. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It had stopped raining, and the clear sky was just at that darkening point as the sun dipped in the west. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

And, for two, he just doesn’t feel right to me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“What would happen,” Zeitoun asked the captain, “if you and I went below the deck, and just went to our bedrooms and went to sleep?” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Jeremie just rubbing my feet the way she does, without even thinking, now. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theresa puts her skates on, but then just sits. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiny dominating at dodgeball despite his width, and always letting me finish second just by virtue of putting me in his shadow and not spiking me until the end. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

He seemed just a little bit uncomfortable, but I was sure he would say the right thing. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Except it was more like the here of pain, like if you were standing in the most beautiful place in the world, but someone you loved had just died. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A few more pointless days like this and I was just going to lie to her. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before, he’d wished she would just say something, and now he wished she would stop talking. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. But it’s just like I’m all dressed up with nothing to do.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

First of all it went just south of the fisherman's cottage to the little river which there ran into the sea, and took care to leave in the mud some very plain hoof-marks pointing south. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“They just moved down two years ago from somewhere in Alaska.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And then felt like a total jerk because his face fell, just the tiniest fraction of a bit. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“It just makes him look good to all the little guys who work for him,” said my father. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

At that moment, three mounted figures appeared on the hill just above Port Conway. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's just that she don't know what to do with hair like Maddy's—like ours. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I think I’m just too wobbly for her nerves, because even Dr. Rashid admits that walking is good for me as long as I don’t overdo it or get stranded. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I just want to live my life now,” I say. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was how Naomi’s brain, still keyed to Spanish, stored the words her mother sent her with when the second disaster came just after Naomi’s seventh birthday. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“So for gym class everybody just gets to run around the city and do whatever they want?” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I was just leaving the stile; yet, as the path was narrow, I sat still to let it go by. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Now, get over there and gather up the balls, and let’s see if you can do something like what I just did.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I just kept them in so no one would bother me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“You can just get up and walk out that door.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I just stood there wondering who told him what I said about Miss Love taking over the company room. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But the barbed wire was loose—because Max had made it loose—giving just enough space to crawl beneath. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t even known we would be in this particular country until just before we got on the plane. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I sit in her matching chair, which is less frayed but just as worn. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that Moms been looking for activities for me to do this summer. You said Milo does swimming too? At the Y?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dawn is just reaching out to it across the valley below. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“But, Ruti, just look at the mess we made. Look at me.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I figured that the people were just jealous because they didn’t have two good hounds. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was, he thought, just what the doctor ordered. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home, Mama asked me how school had been, and I told her it had been just fine. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that...I can’t see you inside. Usually I can. Some glimmer of you in the eyes. But not tonight.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I thought it would be just perfect for the blog. Such a beautiful house and in this kind of magnificent ruin. Plus peacocks on the roof.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There’s just something about having everyone agree on something—something about you—that opens a cage of butterflies in your stomach. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“We just got a call Devine’s sign, you know, that big wooden one south of town, is on fire.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or would they just eat them all at once in a panic? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was Abram and Henry’s turn to feed the fire during the night but they, just like everyone else, don’t think much of chores these days. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She taught us that you could wash yourself up pretty clean with just a cup of water. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The raids would show the Communists just how irrational and volatile he was. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“And you want to throw her out in the snow? I’m just getting through to her. She’s like a symbol of everything you haven’t done.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, Ryan Dean. I’m just saying. You think every girl you ever see is ‘hot,’ right? Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Strange was just Strange, and he’d offered up his spirit with no strings attached. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She kept saying things like “Don’t worry” and “Everything will be all right” and “Things like this just happen.” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

My knuckles turned white and ached, just like my jaw. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I wish the breeze could sweep away what Ivy just told me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“I mean, you couldn’t have just left it in his car? Or at least at the doorstep?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Minerva, who is much quicker on her feet, just hooked her arm in his and whisked him away saying, “Tio Mon, a nice stroll will do you good.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve also spent a lot of time discussing what being Jewish means to him—not just the religion part, but the fight for social justice. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I said it at him again and again, and Rondell just sat there, looking back at me, stunned. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was just Izio and me while the rest of the world slept. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He isn’t 100 percent sure that he won’t, so he says nothing, just concentrates on holding the bin. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“We just got off the phone with Rabbi Gold,” Mom supplies, pushing my bar mitzvah folder into my arms. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Kill me then. I don’t care. I just don’t care.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just want to go on flying and flying in the moonlight. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Before she fell asleep, she tucked the alethiometer under the pillow, just incase. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He was doing his best to scowl, but his eyes gleamed as if maybe, just maybe, he was happy to see them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to find the aqueducts,” Alyssa interjects, “or just snipe at each other until they put us on a death bus to nowhere?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I just feel weird that my grandparents are acting so bummed out to be seeing me. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“But it’s a bit invented as well. Without people to see it, it would just be...it might as well not be there at all.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

There, lying on the ground as if scattered by God just for Alyce, were apples, red and yellow, large and small, sweet and tart, firm and juicy. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

How could someone just turn their back on their family and leave? Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I never saw anyone on the team cry before, but just then I thought Joey might have been. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I was just pretending to be scared. For fun.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But just then Minli’s thoughts were interrupted by the rabbit, which had stopped suddenly. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Three birth- days had slipped by unnoticed and I was just past fifteen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Root tried to answer, but his soldier’s vocabulary just didn’t have the superlatives. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Sorry if your name is Doris—just, you know. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Game one zips by G4 like a pronghorn antelope, fast and furious, and just when we wind the corner to a record thirteen-goal shutout our goalie goes down with a, get this, broken pinkie toe. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I hate everything you just said. Play it cool.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Like, you have no idea how happy this makes me. No idea. I just wanted you guys to be friends, even, but this.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I'm not going to forget her just because she's a slave. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Won’t we be in just as much danger here as we would be if we were with you?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In the first one, Mrs. Smeath is wrapped up in white tissue paper like a can of Spam or a mummy, with just her head sticking out, her face wearing its closed half-smile. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Joaquin asked, just as Grace said, “Does that affect the adoption at all?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She met me at the apartment just about as Shorty went off to work. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was just letting time pass as she collected her thoughts. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She don’t have no teeth showing, just a lip smile, kind you got to watch. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Odd,” the doctor went on, “and just the kind of thing we’re looking for. Make a note of it, my dear, and try to describe it exactly.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I should just let you die instead of spending this money on shots and vitamins. Don’t eat. See if I care.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Patrick figured they were probably just driving around, trying to let Sam “cool off a bit.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And, oh yeah, just before noon my buddy Dwight showed up looking like he’d used the concert as an excuse to spark up a little earlier than usual. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

But now I knew I had to do something to get partial credit on number two, just to make sure. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Percy looked all right, just sore and bruised. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, thank you.—This is just what I wanted to be assured of.—Oh! if you knew how much I love every thing that is decided and open!—Good-bye, good-bye.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“You shouldn’t keep a relationship going just because everyone expects you to.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The mystery of the closet poked at Ophie just until she was distracted once more by Mrs. Caruthers’s endless demands, which was not long at all. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Luckily, just then, there’s a knock on the door and it’s Chicho. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“So I suppose you think that’s a reward for breaking rules?” came an angry voice from just behind them. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t forget the way he had looked at me just before he died. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just wish I had seen them with the old Brandy. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Getting hooked up with volunteering here. My mom came with me that first day, just to check it out, and now she’s here every afternoon. She comes to laugh.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“You would have been just fine, I think.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And Max just thinks, fingering his plank of wood. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even know if the slugger was still there; I just kept walking. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But just before she reaches the wall, she sees a tilted dome of red perched beyond it. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My father would say ‘yes,’ Mr. Knightley ‘no;’ and Miss Bates and I that he is just the happy medium. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“I told you, he doesn’t hate you. He’s just scared of breaking the rules and being punished.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe most people just didn’t want to know. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

My neighbor didn’t eat anything—just drank water. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See, this is just what I’m talking about!” he said to Luxa. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We stare at each other in bewildered silence, like neither of us can quite grasp what just happened. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I ask even though she ain’t in real school, just the pretend kind. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m just at a friend’s house,” I said. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“You just surprised me,” Fela said, as she brushed her dark hair back over her shoulders. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Thing is, you just got to want it enough.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Magdalys didn’t ask what it would come in handy for in Amaya’s imagination, but she had a feeling it wasn’t just getting from place to place. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I just want to find one more piece of information for the night. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sun had gone down just behind the brownstones, making it seem like all of Bed-Stuy was glowing. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Tony knew Wes had just finished elementary school and asked him what he was doing to get ready for the start of middle school at Chinquapin, pronounced “Chicken Pen” by all of its students. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“I just want him to be gone,” Evelyn says, her voice tight and small, like a child’s. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I said, “Yeah, we’re OK, we just need some D batteries.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

As darkness fell, just before the end of the silflay, Captain Campion came up the field with a patrol of three and Chervil ran out to meet him on the sentry line. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before we even get started, Lee Lee says, “I’m just here for moral support. Jade, you know I can’t draw.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She was just eighteen, two years older than me, and by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m just a kid\\ I couldn’t kill my own parents. What am I supposed to do without them? Get a job? I’m four- foot-eight. I’m in the fifth grade.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Oh, just come out with it,” Caleb says, lifting his eyes to mine. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The shopkeepers and other folks looked at my face and saw only the angry red scar, just starting to fade at the edges. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figure it will be there for a long time, and then, someday, it’ll just blow away. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Because no matter how deadly his failure, he was always back in the next scene, as if there were a revival center just beyond the edge of the animation cell. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I glanced at my screen just to be certain it really was Dad texting me. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

My aunt works hard just to keep a roof over our heads, so I chip in as much as I can to help out with everything else. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He had begun to walk just the week before. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I feel a little sick just thinking about it. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

We both stay exactly where we are, like in those nature documentaries where two animals are about to get into a fight, but first they just stare each other down. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

When the police came, everyone was screaming, and 1 was just too scared, so I cut through some back yards and walked home. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Jerome Paisley played in the major leagues for just eighteen days in September, when teams are allowed to expand their rosters. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, the big Death Eater had just fired off a hex that caused half the ceiling to fall in, and also broke the curse blocking the stairs,” said Lupin. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He had the look of a man who has just heard a very loud noise and has not yet regained his hearing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had just as much right to be here as she did. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Even Don Hume, sitting just eighteen inches in front of him, couldn’t make out what Moch was shouting. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

How he ended up with one foot near the top and his head just below. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Perhaps what happened earlier was just a brain belch? Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

You got it, I’ll just tell them I’m at Dylan’s sickbed. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

My escape was blocked by Maurice, who, searching for me, had just then stuck his head through. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Everybody put one foot forward, just barely touching the line. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

So once Ruth had said what she’d said, I wasn’t able, in my usual way, to let the emotional flurry just pass. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held the bottle up to my mouth and drew a long messy swallow, as if I were some decadent wild woman who had just dismissed an unsatisfactory lover. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

And he kind of just called me an artist. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I rip open the bag of marshmallows, and just as I plop them in, Lily and Mother come in through the back door. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

When I got suspicious and looked up, he just quirked his eyebrow and kept staring. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

As I listened to the phone ring for about the thirtieth time, suddenly it occurred to me: why not just run up to North Hampden and get it? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“That guy’s not too high on you two shanks. But right now we just gotta slim ourselves and get to the wake-up.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The guy genuinely acted like I’d just done something special when really it was him the whole time. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Just a sign, he said, just show me your hand, he said, and I’ll know don’t you know I have to know? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like just listening, just loafing on the grass. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The buildings are just like they are in China. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d bet a thousand dollars that there were roaches on the floor of this shed, just waiting to crawl in someone’s ear. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She was just so awesome, and in the literal sense. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Vernie smacks at the child's backside, like a reflex, but her hand just glances off. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The crack in the side of the newsstand was just wide enough for Harry to get through. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A storm was approaching, and it wasn’t just any storm. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Rafe held up his hands and looked around like Grace had just threatened him with a gun and told him to empty the register. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s not just the money,” I said quickly, trying to ignore the vision of my own little hoard of bills and change. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wife was traveling on a train in New Jersey; his son lived in Trenton; his daughter lived just outside New York City. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was just peeping over the rim of the boat now, although she had no memory of a dawn. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I didn't know whether to hug her or just ask her to dismiss me. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I put the window down just a little to check if I can hear it. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

My heart beat rapidly—from the performance, from running up the hill, from whatever it was I might have just seen. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They hunt only one day out of three, and gathering takes up just three to six hours daily. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Either the good Lord is unimpressed with my offerings, or he thinks I deserve this, just as the preacher told me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. No. Not really. I just want to take some time to see what I want.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“If I’d of had the foggiest idea,” she said very steadily, holding her pale, weeping eyes on me, “just the foggiest idea. We brought all the wrong things.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just that she was so nice. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Mine has a haunted house, and all these really horrible demons killing people, and only one girl surviving, just like a movie. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, they just—thanks, Aunt Heidi”—I uncap the Vitamin Water and inhale it—“asked me to wait in the hall while the team talks things over.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Beginning about the twenty-first, the top of the world began to glow like an eclipse as the sun circled just below the horizon. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There just might be some of Cluny’s rats lying in ambush for any creature that ventured into the shadowy fringes of Mossflower. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I know he could be useful. I saw that from the start. I’m just angry with myself for putting him at risk.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I could mock Tyler with more credibility if I had not remembered, as I did just now, that to this day I have never been immunized. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

This time my father said it louder and got real close to the guy—the dude was just a teenager, but when you’re seven, teens seem way older and much bigger. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The touch of those small fingers on his face—tracing the furrows and ridges of the scars—made Antairis heart constrict, just a little. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Daddy said, just as cheery, “Good idea! Isabella, would you check to see if we have pancake mix?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Unnerved, I stand up, rip the jerky in half and toss a piece to both dogs—but they just sniff at it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

These used to be both of her parents' records, not just his. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Saying it out loud almost made him feel ashamed, as if he’d just admitted he was a thief. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Mom, I did not walk through that other house just to go meet those boys!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Now it was all just money and numbers and bad feelings. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I am satisfied just to be in the moment. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Some of them would even pat me on my head, as if I were a little pet monkey that had just done well at obeying a command. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how I just did that,” I say, staring at my hand. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She was just another speck of gray in the endless ash sea. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at myself right now in this mirror, I don’t feel pretty at all—just clean. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Myself, I’m just happy to be living among fruit trees and cooking with wood again. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One Saturday in late November, when I was working with Samira, I didn’t notice who had just entered the dojo. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a long silence as they just stared at each other. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Darren and I luck out—he eases into a spot across from the Key Bank, just a couple of doors away. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Marigold often wondered if it would be possible to smooth out her brother’s prickly personality just by chopping off that hair. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“He’s taken quite a fancy to you. It’s just as well. I’m simply not up to keeping crows any more, not up to it at all.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Very soon it would nail him down, know just exactly where he was. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“There were?” says Garrett, wide-eyed, like someone just proved to him that the boogeyman was real. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You just called it a maze—you said, ‘same thing happens out in the maze! The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It’s just him and me back here, and that makes him bold. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Must have been four, five feet long, just lookin’ for somebody’s leg to wrap itself around.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could just make out Mo, waiting a dozen feet below. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He walked in the door and I just went for him. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that both of them identified as nonbinary wasn’t the reason they were together, it was just another thing they had in common. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Josh used to be just loud but now he’s loud and evil. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

For everything else, he was just Fyrian, and that was enough. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I know,” she said, as she got up to leave the room, “but there must be something—there just has to be.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was like a cowboy; this was just part of me.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

But the enormous storm cloud was still in my sights, just a few yards ahead. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mo had only just sat up, wearily, and Elinor was rubbing her aching back and muttering crossly when they heard the footsteps. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And if he couldn’t escape on a boat, he’d just have to walk. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It was just to call attention away from my age, and to distract you in general.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Wait, how do you know it’s not just some random guy named Hudson?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t tell if it felt any pain, but its ruby eyes seemed to glare at me like I’d just made things personal. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Scipio frowned and opened the lid just enough to peer inside. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lily stood there in disbelief—that he could leave her that way, that there was a possibility he could just leave her forever. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Basically, when I’m single, Jupe and I have fun together just being us. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The cop pulled Moss’s shirt down and then knelt next to him, running hands down each of his legs, starting at the top, just inches from his crotch, and squeezing every so often. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Very good. Now, do you know the ballet studio just around the corner from your home?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

See, obnoxiously rich people do this obnoxiously rich thing where they buy real estate just so they can park their money somewhere. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t just ask him to call me back. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t even let him see you looking his way. It will just make things more difficult for both of you.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Shepherds and farmers throughout history showed affection for their animals and have taken great care of them, just as many slaveholders felt affection and concern for their slaves. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not even just the clothing or the coloring. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Alex thinks about telling him no, just for the thrill of denying a prince something, but he’s kind of intrigued. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You just sit yourself down and entertain that young man.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This morning I decided to just peek out the window for a second and there she was. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“We answered him when we could. And when we couldn’t, we would just give him a book.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“He’s just a country boy in school up there. He dont mean any harm. I think the marshal’ll find it’s a mistake. His father’s a congregational minister.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Crazy, isn’t it? But just think—you’re stimulating the economy by giving all these people jobs.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, that’s just a special dinner where they officially give your dad the award.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Well, that’s just about the ugliest cow pulling that wagon that I ever saw, too,” Ben replied. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that was what he did, just in case. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Werfel nodded, but he just seemed sad and quiet. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Now we just call it “Millenium,” and it is a stretch of bare land and several rusted metal sculptures—one an abstract, plated mammoth, another shaped like a lima bean that dwarfs me in size. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Did that man just say ‘sweat drop down my balls’?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Me: “‘I do not know which to prefer, / The beauty of inflections / Or the beauty of innuendos, / The blackbird whistling / Or just after.’” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He’d just look at me and say, “What did you do?” as I headed off to Death Row. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Jamie sends another text: I know you don't want to talk to me, but I just want to know if your brother is okay. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And this isn’t Nazi Germany just because somebody painted a Nazi symbol. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Two Princeton University geology professors received word that a meteor had fallen just a few miles away from campus. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Tell me something. When you saw me in the station, with the crate, why did you back off and hide? Why didn’t you just walk up to me? It could have been settled there.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, we know now. I’m just thankful I was around when the ructions started. Atticus couldn’t talk to you the way I’m talking—” “Why not, sir?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I just want to know how far away he might be.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

They will have to send a Hudson to collect us all, as there just isn’t the room in a Lysander. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Maddie stood facing her new friend by the table they had just abandoned, people around her whirling into action. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In that case, we just had to move on and I was used to it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Janssen can tell, from my slumping shoulders or my rumpled clothes, or maybe just from the way I'm walking. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Brady. Business school. But Patrick said he’d just talked to Brady, you know?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

These details were just to me what they were to them—so many pure and sweet sources of pleasure. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I came down and did the same, hitching to Big Creek, just making it in time for the first class. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

For women to realize, We are just two people. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She just looked at his head bobbing in the water. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

And just like that, the crowd entered into an unspoken agreement that guns were fair fighting. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The drive through the tribal lands of the Khyber Pass, winding between cliffs of shale and limestone, was just as I remembered it—Baba and I had driven through the broken terrain back in 1974. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I rushed to the phone, stopping just long enough to hit my ankle into a dumbbell. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Motion pictures were to be the artwork of the future, a technological breakthrough that stuttered into life just after his death, the first ever moving picture, Louis Le Prince’s Roundhay Garden Scene, dating from 1888. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t need to tell me the news, it’s in her voice—the voice that has gone from froggy to hoarse to barely audible just in the course of the hour we’ve been up. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I just got hit,” I yelled to Dalio, spitting out blood and pieces of tooth into my hand. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I forget that he is another person; instead it feels like he is another part of me, just as essential as a heart or an eye or an arm. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I showed her the photo taken just before, by Salim. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thinks an argument can be made that the brain might be trained in its ability not just to attend but even to multitask. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I had expected a withered corpse, but Mr. Crumbley looked perfectly intact and surprisingly young, perhaps only forty or fifty years old, his black hair graying just around the temples. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Sweetheart, you can’t just run off like that, okay? Come on, let’s go, it’s getting late.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the seventh witness finished, I was just about asleep. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Or maybe, he thought now, he just didn't recognize all those other girls. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

So I decided to just not say anything at all about it, then shoot from the hip when she started asking questions. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

From this vantage she could just see the top of one of the Tidemaker towers, where lights always burned. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But it was extremely useful, for I had taken the measure of Mr. de Klerk just as I did with new prison commanders when I was on Robben Island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he just stared numbly at the stream, his face invisible under his hat. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mark whipped his log around, forgetting all control and just handing himself over to instinct and adrenaline. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

What was her—green eyes, half a smirk, the soft curves of her legs—would soon be nothing, just the bones I never saw. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The image we all remember is the little spray of blood from the holes, like two little waterfalls, just before he clutched them and fell over. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Does that mean I’m too late? I only just got my nomination.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I just brought it back from New Orleans this week,” Mr. Lew said, blowing on the black hairs of his chest that he could see through the V of his terry-cloth robe. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I knew the Rebels weren’t just playing; they’d kill Father if they wanted to. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Scooter’s just coming for a day or two, right?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

And I didn’t know why because to me he is just a guy who writes songs that a lot of people like, and I thought that was enough for everyone involved. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And a performer, just like my mother used to be, touring the country, the world, to tell everyone about the New China that Chairman Mao had built and how it was becoming stronger and stronger. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know, but first those girls at school know that you have something that they want, then they bring you into their group just so you can teach them dance steps or whatever.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Or at your husband? Did I hear you say he aimed dirty looks at your husband? Or is it just something your mother-in- law reported as having occurred?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The thrust threw me clear just as the Mechagodzilla’s huge clawed foot slammed down, forming a crater in the spot where I’d stood a second before. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I said, “If it’s about my legs, I don’t shave them. That’s just how they are.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

We just all looked around at each other. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Abuela Celia and I write to each other sometimes, but mostly I hear her speaking to me at night just before I fall asleep. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they said I had avoidant personality disorder, she told them I just hadn’t learned to be comfortable in my own skin. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I don’t even want to play anymore. Let’s just go upstairs.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He just stared straight ahead at the fireplace, like he was waiting for it to flame on. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My arm and leg wounds had healed—just being in the ocean can do that for me, given enough time—but I still felt like I’d been trampled by a Laistrygonian soccer team in cleats. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

So we were all just drifting about among the easels, chatting and looking at each other’s work. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Giving them just enough of what they want but not too much.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

All the warm salt water of the bathing pool and the shouting and splashing and laughing were only just sufficient to bring them together again. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Spencer is gone. She left yesterday afternoon and never came back. It’s just me and Thomas.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But then all that changed last spring when some of the girls just stopped standing up when we picked teams. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

In a perfect world, an economist could run a controlled experiment just as a physicist or a biologist does: setting up two samples, randomly manipulating one of them, and measuring the effect. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He bowed deeply to all of them one at a time, even to Akira, who had just appeared in his own underwear. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m just so proud of my baby girl.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

It was like I never had a family til I remembird about them and saw them and now I know I had a family and I was a person just like evryone. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maya just looked at Grace, then turned to her dad. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And when he got home, he called Ahmad, who was just about leaping through the phone. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe he called out after me, maybe he didn’t, maybe it was just some kid asking if this meant he could keep his library books. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

For some reason just thinking about the Lighthouse made butterflies go into my stomach. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He looked like I had just woke him up. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“So they were always separate. Did you ever think of that? Our mom is not just a copy!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“People were just wondering which of us would be first.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Not just dropping them like an animal in the woods.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Let’s turn on the TV now, since nobody’s coming. That just means more food for us.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A transport just arrived from Antwerp. I shall go to see them tomorrow. Surely they will have news . . .” He left. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now just a minute, Captain!” the First Officer said. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

"It's crazy—I had such a big family. There's got to be someone left. I just have to keep looking. You should, too. You never know!" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But she never liked the feeling of just a few cards in her hand. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He considered waking up Boots, his two-year-old sister, just for a little distraction, but he let her sleep. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Hang on. Did you just say...the draft?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I thought about it for a minute, then asked, “Momma, how come we don’t just drive until Dad gets tired, then stop?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know. But I want it so much. We have to win this, you know? Not just this talent show, but Insomnia Con. We have to.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

One ot them all but closed his jaws on Snowball’s tail, but Snowball whisked it free just in time. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t wait to hear if he’s free, just walks backward out of the room and disappears into the corridor. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Ironically, had she been attacked on a lonely street with just one witness, she might have lived. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s just no way that’s going to happen, because even if my dad and Miss Joe are fine with letting go of people they love, I’m not. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You just steer clear, you hear me? I don’t want no more foolishness at that school.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I read the next line: I’ve been carrying luggage and pouring tea just to make money so my family can eat. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

You’re certainly not being told off— I just need you to look at your paperwork every now and again, that’s all. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow night. I’ll... come up with a better way. Let’s just try again and...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Afterward he had climbed down, gone over to my tent, and taken the bananas that had just been put there for my supper. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was still a little off balance from the pitch, but I managed to bring my glove hand up in front of my face just as he hit the ball. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then, just past a major intersection, I see scores of cars and tents amassed around a Target. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Among Navajos, some men may allow a little hair to grow on their upper lip—just as my uncle and my father did. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If truth be told, we expected you to do just as you did." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe I should not have sur-prised you by just sticking it up on the wall like that for everyone else to read. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t roll over, so it was just an irritated me, the shag rug, and the smell of spilled sour soy milk in my face until I got rescued. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Just before he pulled himself through, though, I told him: “I just wish I could stop thinking about it, man. That’s all.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He is just under six feet tall, no gym rat, but he runs and is in shape. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I was just telling your wife, I do a little ministering. I study and classify the fauna. I observe a great deal, and probably offer very little salvation in the long run.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We got to the cookhouse just as Nigel did, but he was in a bigger hurry. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s just sit down for a second and talk about this. We, I have no idea what’s going on here, except that you’re upset. You need to calm down.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I first turned up at Ruth’s recovery centre in Dover—the modern one with the white tiled walls—just a few weeks after that talk with Laura. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were just discussing what kind of defense West Charleston might throw up against us.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that my Leandro wouldn’t have preferred for me to be just his wife and his little girl’s mother. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smashing mills, destroying warehouses, setting fields on fire, the freedom fighters demolished some one thousand plantations—and that was just in the first two months of their revolution. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Ultimate Saturday is when Gracie and her dad do something special, just the two of them, like gourmet cooking classes or trapeze school. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“I ordered them from a supplier just like everybody else.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It’s not hard to imagine that winter’s just around the corner. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I just didn’t think any of it was that serious, but I get your point.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I just needed to find the right opening, so I lingered on the beach and observed. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He looked around uncertainly, as though he were just as surprised to find himself outside his study as Ophie was. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I just wanted to take a moment to remind everyone that all proceeds from today’s concession sales are going to benefit the American Schizophrenia Association.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Incredibly, Lincoln’s bodyguard is sipping a large tankard of ale just a few feet away. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

An officer walked in and handed him a message that had just come in from Secretary of War Stimson, along with a map of Japan. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe I will, but just because I was left behind doesn’t mean I shouldn’t have a Last Friend. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Nope, nope, nothing like that. They just send them home with an insult. Better luck next time—that sort of thing, only ruder.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There is no translation for this word and perhaps it is just a noise such as a man might make, involuntarily, feeling the nail go through his hands and into the wood. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sip, he thought, still worrying about the lake water—I’ll just take a sip. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell myself it’s just the old dregs of waiting for Mister Johnny. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“They couldn’t just barge in here and chase everyone out.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure that I ever believed that life was fair, but I had always thought that you could work your way out of just about any problem. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I turned and said: 'I will come and find you, sir, just as soon as I have what is required.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Moss liked Mrs. Torrance, who was born and raised in Oakland, just like he had been. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I guess I’ll just go on calling you Caroline,” April said. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

In just seven years, the woolly adelgid has fatally damaged more than 90 percent of the park’s hemlocks. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

‘My!’ said Mrs. Lapham, ‘that’s worse than anything I had imagined. Now isn’t that a shame! Bright boy like Johnny just ruined. No more good than a horse with sprung knees.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“However, I think we have now pretty conclusive evidence on the point. . . We have observed neutrons from targets other than beryllium in just the amount we expected.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

For a moment, we just look at each other. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He wrote, “There is virtually no case law whatsoever in the entire United States that has addressed it. The technology is just too new.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

"It's all just fields and farms and holdfasts." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A whole bunch of police cars come onto the freeway, blue and red lights flashing, and they use that lane that’s just for emergencies to zoom by all the stopped cars. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s like Grampa said. The sheriff just wants me to stick around in case I have to answer questions or something. I’ll be all right.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The autopilot had just landed the ship in the field to the west of the white house. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“My bad. Listen, I’m just gonna go now, cool? No harm, no foul...” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Joaquin noticed that he wasn’t clicking through websites, though, just scrolling up and down on the same page. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When The Lone Ranger came to television, she would watch it just to see Jay Silverheels, the actor who played Tonto. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He motions toward the entrance ramp we just walked in on. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But most just include a short line in an admission form saying that any tissues removed may be used for education or research. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You have a broken hip. It has to be pinned. After that you’ll need extensive physical therapy. It’s a long process, and you can’t ignore it just because it doesn’t fit in with your plans.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I got hit with something and went down just when the choppers landed. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her home dad hadn’t left them at all...he’d just been locked away. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Maddie gasped at the river’s inadvertent loveliness, and all at once she found herself spilling childish tears, not just for her own besieged island, but for all of Europe. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

‘But I wouldn’t be working then. I’d be in school. I just want to work during vacation and then go back to school.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Finally, I said, “People have just gone so quick back to like before.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby had always been short for his age, and still only stood five-four, but he was just beginning to stretch out of his clothes and sprout up. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Franny looked down at her plate as if it had just been placed before her. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter that she really was scared, but she just didn’t want to be seen as that, someone who was maybe a coward. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I could hear the wheels sliding and it slewed around and backed and whirled and just as I was thinking what the hell they were up to, I saw that red tie. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hit him: The roaches weren’t just honoring Boots—they were worshiping her! Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The next day just before noon, he stirs from his dirty mattress. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t want to be him already?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Her voice might just as well have been coming from outer space. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

But with everything else going on just at that time, I didn’t, as I say, think in these terms at all. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were a victim, just like Daddy. You deserve to have your story told too.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They just lie there and groove, but after a while they start hearing—you won’t believe this—they hear chamber music. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It used to erupt regularly and spectacularly to heights of three hundred feet, but in 1888 it just stopped. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He knew that she was fighting out in her feelings the question of just how much he meant to her. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just not . . . sophisticated. I’m sure what you write for your other clients is wonderful. But we’re a big firm. We need somebody who understands that . . . our style.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If you don't believe me, just look at old Mary Lou here. She's never been sick a day in her life." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The wind dropped and the sun narrowed to a single beam, bright enough to light just one small front porch in one small town. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe beat me so much I would limp, just like Aunty Cloud did when the guards punished her for no reason. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

As Atzerodt walked along Booth’s escape route just two blocks from Ford’s Theatre, he tossed his knife under a wood carriage step, into the gutter. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t matter. You must have something special about you, if you’ve been over to the other side. Maybe just having you in the house’ll help.” Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

More than that, though, all of them—not just the sophomores—were going to start out by racing one another in set crews rather than in constantly changing mixtures of men. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a question of deserving. I just think a mother has a right to raise her own child.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So they figured that if they threw him out of the window, they could just go right back to stealing stuff again. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After such a merry, sinful summer,” he mused, “by the just judgement of God, a most mournful autumn followed.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Izzie settles down and whispers in my ear, “It’s dumb to drive for an hour just to see a baby sleeping in a crib.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

All of it just out of reach once they returned to D. Franklin Middle School tomorrow morning. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Clearly something about this particular man has motivated her to open her purse, just as it had motivated me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But he kept telling her he didn’t feel good, that he just wanted to be alone and sleep in his spot behind the forest, maybe spend some time thinking. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Inside there was one length of braided cord—red and gold, just like the one Father Cham had given to the baby girl at the school. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

We got into the big, empty tractor-trailer truck and sat down and watched as the dry desert land just rolled away behind us. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hall just about exploded with agitated chatter. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It’s a wonder we don’t all just float away—pfft!—like smoke. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Here is a picture of the eggs in the nest box, just for you. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

But a television is just a talking box. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You need to be clean, not just of real dirt, but of all the bad things you might have done with your hands, your ears, your eyes, your mouth. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

And I knew Mama wanted something better for all of us, something better than...well, just about everything that had happened since Daddy left. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

My newest spot, hovering just above the left corner of my lip. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I put the computer back on the table before he gets into the room, but he knows something’s up and he just stares at me and says, “What’s going on?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

While others were seeing the emotion, the expression, in Vincent’s painting just as he had hoped, his friend was seeing only the flaws. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking this may all work out, that he can just sit out the war in Tigris’s cellar, when he announces he’s going out on his own. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He didn’t say anything else for a minute, just looked down the road, as if he were hoping this dog of his would suddenly appear. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“So if the infection gets into your blood, you’ll wish you were just dying of thirst…But I have antibiotics at home. Take us there, and you can have all you need.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

One car had just left, and people were already waiting for the next one. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled at Thorn and turned back to the court just as the teams made their way out of the locker rooms. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh. I just thought I heard something ... I don’t know. Maybe it was in my head. Did . . . she say anything?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But the teacher wasn’t laughing meanly, and suddenly it seemed like nobody was trying to be mean, just having a giggle. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“One of you gonna unlock these, or are you just going to stand there wasting daylight?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“I was just looking for a place to sleep,” he said quickly, his hand unconsciously clutching at the circle of iron that hung around his neck. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s just a Number Three,” I said, shaking my head. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

They lived on Leavenworth, just a few blocks west of my mother’s apartment. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is as yet no predictive theory of biology, just as there is not yet a predictive theory of history. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed genuinely pleased that he hadn’t cheated, despite having encouraged him to do just that. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But nine times out of ten it was just some grown-up who wanted to talk to Mom or Dad. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We got to Phoebe’s house just as her father pulled in the driveway. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The air sang to her just like the walls and floors in her house. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Yishan, however, pretended not to notice, and was just about to suggest changing direction when an outpouring of people began to cluster into view. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I raise one of my crutches and wave to him; he knows I have crutches, just not that I’m a girl. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t finish, just stares off at the giants. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Then he returned to the Honeycomb and settled down near Holly, who had just begun to speak. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I yelped as the sharp metal jabbed into my shoulder, and he just waltzed out the door. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She has just a moment on this old, wise earth, this earth that will always be wiser than its inhabitants. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“I know I shall forget. If you see me doing anything wrong, just remind me by a wink, will you?” returned Jo, giving her collar a twitch and her head a hasty brush. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t reply around the ball gag, so I just shrugged and gave him the finger. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The anxious flying fish got away, just missing my net, but the dorado hit the gunnel like a can­nonball. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d just landed a jumbo jet at Kennedy Airport after a long flight from Dubai. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“A course,” I say, and I see, in her eyes, she ain’t just being nice. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Amil just rocked back and forth, unfolding and folding his paper. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When Emma had been holding her breath for so long that she swayed with dizziness and her eyelids sagged down over her eyes, she finally thought, We just need to buy more time. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It started to rain again, just a light rain. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the first helicopter landed in the Daribi area, they briefly looked at it and just went back to what they had been doing; the Chimbus would have been bargaining to charter it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As long as Frederick remained on the throne, Tycho was able to enjoy an unprecedented amount of freedom to run his observatory just as he liked. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her desk was positioned just so she could almost see out the door. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the band was only partway through the set, had just charged into “Can’t Stop,” when I was slammed from my sweet spot. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

That he was no good or at best just a weak man who was easily susceptible to whoever he was with? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It’s just that the postal system is so unreliable these days, and I'm trying to track down an old friend through a mutual acquaintance. I want to make sure it actually gets there." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He doesn't speak Spanish, just an Indian language. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just like that, I wasn’t allowed in their bedroom anymore. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And as their lips touched, her blade slid through the meat of his neck, just below the ear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Eras felt—but that was just what Charles and Emma wanted. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just sorry I won’t be making a real salary sooner. Then you could buy a place right away.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, then, I think I’ll just set a spell and pass the time of day. Don’t get to see much of you any more.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just thought of a great theory that explains everything. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually, Hila,” she said in a voice slightly too high, “Ekon and I are just going to step over here for a moment. Please enjoy your food. We’ll be right back.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m tired. Let’s just sit and eat this porridge before it gets cold.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I moved my eyeballs just the tiniest bit more and saw exactly what it was that was making that music humming sound. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I look down at the paper and try to imagine myself saying these words out loud, not just to Addie, but to all the kids and all the teachers at Paintbrush Falls Middle School. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You know. What if I just came over and said screw it and stayed outside until you came out and grabbed you and kissed you?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She didn’t seem to blame him for Roza the way so many others did, and that just made it worse. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It could be just the thing that allowed the Snow Queen’s flying monkeys to find her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Often the pronouns I, me, and you are not just harmless but downright helpful. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe she knows that I’ve killed people, or maybe she just doesn’t want to get into trouble, but she’s losing her nerve; I can tell by the uncertain set of her mouth. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Soon they were engaged in air battles just as fierce as those they’d fought the previous summer. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Always, always; just never wrong for one little insignificant tiny moment, is it? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother’s voice would come sweeping down the hallway with just enough spice in it to let the old man know that once again, he’d pushed too hard. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

At times he already feels like an artist and has even begun to sign some of his works—just his first name, “Vincent,” often in bright red letters. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And just like with those days, I had no idea why it was happening. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Aside from the annoying fact that my parents could always sense when I disobeyed them, Mama actually worked in the office of my school, just two narrow desks away from the daily attendance rolls. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

In the dark of twilight, his face was just a pair of eyeglasses reflecting the fading light. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I guess, most of the time, I just hate myself. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I think he just wanted to believe she would actually get well. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I nodded, realizing suddenly that I just wanted to get out of there—away from a place where people would think I’d steal. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He went through a plant phase, which didn’t last too long because he said his thumb just wasn’t green enough. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the words come out of my mouth, I realize just how true they are—for Nora, and for me too. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He stared at me, a little disappointed, and I realized that I’d just sounded like my mother. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

For just as Mablung stepped towards the fallen body, there was a new noise. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Trying not to think about it, to just act, he grabbed his backpack. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I just remember he let me pick and that the roads led in completely opposite directions. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It isn’t the Net that drives kids into isolation or creates lonely children; the Net attracts lonely and ignored lads, and puts them in touch with others just like them. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never talks about him now—just how awful men are in general. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I don't know if I still love her in the way that I used to, but I still find her just as beautiful. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Back then seems like a million months ago, even if it was just three. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He broke up into gales of laughter just as the network cut his satellite feed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Grandpop began to march in place, just a few steps, as if to stretch his legs. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But if she was just going to set his clothes on fire why did she need Vaseline? The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just a few grams, but it was enough to start some important experiments. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the Halloween just before my thirteenth birthday, Tess came over. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Except for the part that came just seconds later. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’ll have better eyesight than everyone, I thought, and then just left it at that. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Weren't we saying just the other day that they were prime for a bust?" How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"In many places,” James said, as if he were talking to somebody a little stupid, "like Annapolis—there they can’t just walk outside and cut down a tree.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would have said more, but just then he broke into a fit of coughing. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spins & Needles wasn’t just a record store; it was my second home. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Keeping his bleeding hand elevated, Harry scraped the fragments of cup together with the other hand and threw them into the already crammed bin just visible inside his bedroom door. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In return for a favor to some white mobster, my new boss and his wife had just been given a six- months numbers banking privilege for the Bronx railroad area called Motthaven Yards. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bohr has just come in,” one scientist announced. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were, of course, just same as Granny’s death was still in the Toy Bible. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I was just about to greet him but stopped dead in my tracks. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She just let it be what it was. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

That it would get better if he just gave it time. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Back in Minneapolis, Cole had thought that being alone on an island would give him plenty of time to just sit around. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Also, Anna is honest about all of it in a way no one else really is: Throughout the book, she refers to herself as the side effect, which is just totally correct. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Your Pa is gone now, and I just cannot take care of you kids. I don’t want you here! You are too much work for me! I want you to leave!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they finished their noodles, the young man said his family’s apartment was just around the corner, but that he was embarrassed to greet his parents wearing threadbare clothes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Jairo leaned back on his heels and allowed his eyes to close for just the briefest of moments. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But just as quickly as Clara had gone purple she was back to her usual self, no outline at all, looking more like a real person than a spirit. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Dicey waited for the conversation to continue, but it didn’t, and James just stood there looking at Stewart as if Stewart were a mountain or something terribly large. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Hester sensed her coming and flattened herself in time, and the owl’s claws just missed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The pink one would hide you just as well as the camouflage,” Kendra said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But he held back and just grinned again. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Pong could just make out the tidy rows of buildings through his pinprick window in the basket. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I joined the older children in the back of the church just as the service began. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I know he doesn’t mean it; if he meant it, he would have said something else entirely and just gobbled me up. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“They would say it’s selfish to let someone die just because they wronged you. Forgive, forgive, forgive.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The Empire doesn't send those silver-faced monsters on just any raid. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Mr. Deputy. But you got to know this was all my fault. Ben just came along for the ride.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that could just be me and the dark, slow-churning vortex that’s always there, in me and around me, to some degree. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“We couldn’t...we couldn’t just try a Summoning Charm?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about? What just happened?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I look up just as he flicks the cigarette. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you just mail it from Atlanta?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t answer because I didn’t know what had just happened. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Both of them were staring up at the quivering arrows hovering just a couple of feet over their heads. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Not just Cape Cod tan, but tropical island tan. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Or maybe she was just mad enough at me not to make them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

McKinley just cut me off and said there was no time for discussion.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you don’t know what it’s like being yelled at every time you open your mouth. He’s nice to you—you’re just a baby! Wait’ll you have to stick your neck out!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I just watched and smiled, happy to hear laughter, and happy Lovey didn’t say no. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He didn't sleep a moment and just scratched on the leather for hours at a time. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

A badger, an owl, and a baboon were all just as intent to pin Pantalaimon down, and Lyra was crying to them: “Why? Why are you doing this? Help us! You shouldn’t be helping them!” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

We always had to wear our school uniforms and ties whenever we showed up for a rugby match; that was just the way things were done. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

‘To stop you getting impatient, that’s why. You don’t really want to stand around at the cocktail party being all sweet and petty. She’s just making a pet out of you.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no, Reynie, you don’t grow out of it. It’s just that once you acquire a family, you no longer need to wish for one.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Journeys of discovery require more than just a working maritime knowledge,” the captain lectures. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Good. Face against the hood. Now spread your legs just a bit.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s just...Oh, it’s just hateful. They...I can’t tell you.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They said it was just luck I wasn't dead, that's all. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“She just needs an extra set of hands.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I told Baba about it later that night, but he just nodded, muttered, “Good.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He supposedly was just “blowing off some steam online.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The strands were easy enough to break at first, but there were so many of them, and the spiders just kept coming. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark, I practice whispering “Dee-troit” and trying to get my mouth to wrap around the word just right. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was hardly more than a footpath, just a few feet wide, so the soldiers who’d been riding alongside us had to park their jeep and walk, one in front and two behind. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I just made pizza, super-healthy, whole wheat crust, no cheese, just vegetables.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

For a fee, these companies-Salesforce.com, for example—give you access to a library of Web-based business applications, which you can just tap into online to run your business. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

But there was always something there now, and it wasn’t just between me and them. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dad, what if you just said you’re sorry and offered to pay for what you did?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Boy oh boy. You just like your daddy. Ready to fight, and I ain’t hardly said anything to you.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Soon his floor was like the healthy banks of a pond in spring when the tadpoles, having just turned, sprang in the wet grass. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And by the time they reached Frobozz, just a few minutes later, they’d already figured out what they needed to do to obtain the Jade Key. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

One greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been experienced here, with results both strange and unique. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

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

“You’re right. It’s just review. Do you want to do our homework now? Or do you have to be somewhere?” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Even if I just did what I did with a complete stranger named Kim. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I just don’t want you to think that I picked your name out of the phone book. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

When the house had disappeared behind us, Emma held out an upturned palm, flicked her wrist, and a petite ball of fire flared to life just above her fingers. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

"Now, don't worry, Bobby. You get a good night's rest. I just know that everything's going to be fine." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When two people talk, they don’t just fall into physical and aural harmony. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Take them shoes off before I call the cops, but we just run. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t get emotional about them; the letters were just a reminder that my father was still in prison. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“We were foolish enough to reach manhood just when the long fizzling turned into an explosion.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He listened—it was “The Song of the River,” just ending. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And at the top of the steps, just in front of the group of students, sat the two metal detectors. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They were driven by greed and willing to do just about anything to acquire what they wanted. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if he really believes that or if he’s just trying to make me feel better. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So...what? You wait for someone to hit the ball, then you go get it? That’s just reacting. Don’t you want to hit, too?” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t wanted to hear her; I’d just wanted to save her. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I just watch them until I know that they are safe. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

No one would think I was just a girl going on twelve. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They push her against the car, ripping and tearing not just her clothes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Sometimes you can glimpse a person's soul in just a flicker of expression, and Sarai glimpsed Ruby's then: the longing that was the core of her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They just laughed and ran in a game that was partly tag, partly piggy-in-the-middle, and partly just a magnificent romp. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

"Sorry. I didn't mean it's not nice here. It's just—I'm still scared to sleep out in the open." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

One can account for just so much of life, and then no more. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m grateful the boat starts to rock, so Mother hasn’t the composure to scold me, not just yet. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Finally, after the enemy aircraft had flown away, Katya landed the damaged Pe-2 in a small field just inside Soviet territory over the front line. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Two reasons. One, if you’re on my side, your flagrant plagiarism remains our dirty little secret. Two, I know what to do with that silhouette card you just found in the Hoosier Hospitality book.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

But she felt from them neither hostility nor much interest, just a sense of expectation as they waited for her decision. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I reckon it’ll be worth it, just to see Bigwig telling bedtime stories to a mole.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember when we were children,” said Francie, who had just finished being thirteen, “how we used to smell if Christmas was coming?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll go and get it — my father’s just sent it to me —” Wondering what Malfoy was going to show them, Harry and Ron sat down, doing their best to look at home. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t it be much kinder for them to just pay Mama more money and let Ophie stay in school? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She carried a small black purse, the kind that was just big enough to hold a passport. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Papa was an ardent Democrat but mama just didn’t care. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s looking at her like she’s just cured cancer or something. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Please, we just want our children back,” a woman’s voice cried out. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Chung smiled delightedly, and April noted that her dimples were just like Elizabeth’s. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Something probably came up. Let’s just watch the show,” he says. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And then the full force of what had just happened—what she had barely avoided— swept through her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone just ran to save his or her life. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I was caught off guard just like everyone else, which was stupid of me, because I’m usually more on the ball. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

As we walked back to school, we tried to joke a little about the party on Friday, but we both knew we were just putting on a show and really thinking about Paul and Rashad. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was awkward—I didn’t know how Sohrab could just do stuff like that without thinking about it—but after a second it felt okay. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He found a comfortable spot just beyond the noise of the camp, beside a swift-running stream with waters clear and cold as ice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It certainly seemed like it...No one else had seemed to notice at all, and now, she realized, they were all staring at something just above her. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

"And the food's just out in the open?" The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He just wanted to get her in bed.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

"Easy, just me. Let's have a look at you," Haymitch says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

As I came to the trees where I had seen him I had another thought: suppose he was not just watching. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I zipped up my backpack, just as the rain started pelting us. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m not in a competition with Elena Callas. I just want to make it all the way.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Even after a few more yelling phone calls were made to Alabama, Daddy Cool just kept being cool. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or why people should just wear glasses and stop touching their eyeballs.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I just had to refine our method of communication. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while, Spurge argued, but Werfel kept trekking across dry pastures, and Spurge kept following him, pleading, until the city of Tenebrion was just a distant dot behind them on the horizon. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

They didn’t stop until a cab driver, who had been listening to the radio broadcast, told them it was just a play. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s almost finished. We just have two more interviews to complete and I was wondering if I should send it directly to your attention or to your secretary.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“They just selling wolf tickets to themselves,” Johnson said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had just stepped off the porch when Florida said, “Hey, wait. What about our money?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It was my job. I just did what they told me,” he mumbled. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the men — over 80 percent — belonged to just one group. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I come, I go, and Oh well, it’s just Finch. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She might never again travel quite so far, but she could still turn her profound and unwavering focus to the gardens just outside her window. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was early dusk, the deepening sky just beginning to fill with twinkling stars. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Training facility” was not an official designation, the superintendent would later explain; it was just the way things had worked out. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How can they not? I can see they’re women, just by standing all the way over here. How can they not know they’re women?” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Pops, did you spit on me? Did you just spit on me?” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“No, no. Hey, forget it. That just didn’t come out right. Don’t be mad. You want to dance?” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Mapper didn’t want to disrupt the scheme, he just wanted to be in on the scheme. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Then no matter how hard the late kid banged on the side of the bus the driver would just take off, laughing out of the window. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t understand why these freshmen were putting themselves through this torture just to be “popular.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But Mondays and Fridays were just twenty-four-hour stretches of time with different names. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And just like that, the other girls stand, too. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I know he was probably looking for the balloon as the answer, but that just seemed too easy. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“No, I just don’t think it’s going to rain, that’s all.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

His voice isn’t just really loud, it’s also really deep. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“I can’t just leave,” he says, though it is not, he thinks, exactly what he means. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s like Trip said. This is just to celebrate Lexie. We’re going to get dressed up and have a little girls’ morning out.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This meant that with Lupin’s anti-dementor classes, which in themselves were more draining than six Quidditch practices, Harry had just one night a week to do all his homework. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She had one of those faces that just seemed timeless. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

My shoulders were like bouncing all over the place as I hiccuped and snorted—just ugly. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

But she knew—just as one knows when piling on one final block that the tower will fall—she knew they couldn’t make it. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Melanie did just mention that maybe that was because nobody knew about Egypt; but April just grinned and said, “Yeah, I know. Lucky, isn’t it.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minho had just turned a corner up ahead and was coming straight for them. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was just a house, a building for unfortunate children. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hesitated just long enough for the Ancient to add quickly, “A fig or whatever else you care to barter.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“You were going to hang with just me and Samantha last night before Arthur was going to come around.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But she just looks up into the sky, blue and spare, with clouds that look like bones. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Washington knew that just the opposite would happen, because the farmer was a Tory who would quickly report the conversation to British officers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was in Eton’s ancient boathouse, just across the river from the looming eminence of Windsor Castle, that George had grown up. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They decided I could try keeping Henrietta, as long as we have chicken food, but that we just don’t have enough money for extra pets right now. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t we just let him sleep for a little while longer, then we can wake him up and let him know you’re here. Okay?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It's just that everyone'd give him a hard time if his marks were too good. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I told them,” he remembered, “that this was just a little track and we couldn’t put up a lot of money.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was out of pride, or some deep- rooted disdain for authority—or, I thought with a cringe, maybe the Gypsies just wanted the satisfaction of killing us themselves. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But most of the time if anybody called her she just ran away like she hadn’t heard. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

My hair had become a blight, just like at Hillpark; people saw me coming and jumped from my path. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I would just wander off and fall asleep somewhere. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Although Seven realized, deflating just a bit, that Valley still sounded like a kid. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was just doing whatever he felt like doing. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Funny that you need a key to unlock a chest that just gives you a bigger, better key. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I fly up the ladder—the chickens are outside—and dart into the storage space and through the hidden-door, moving the planks back into place just in case someone comes up after me. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was a very exciting time, as Flo has just had a baby, little Flint. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

And just as I made it to the aisle, I heard Callum’s voice behind me. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, one time when she went to the ladies' room way the hell down in the other wing D.B. asked me what I thought about all this stuff I just finished telling you about. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Now I just had to get assigned to a space flight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think that’s the worst bit. I know Bathilda thought it was all just talk, but ‘For the Greater Good’ became Grindelwald’s slogan, his justification for all the atrocities he committed later. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In the meantime they’ll just have to move a little farther north from Mango Street, a little farther away every time people like us keep moving in. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t say this stuff like he was mad, he just sounded real, real sad. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can do more! A lot more. If you want a military record you can be proud of, you’ll do a heck of a lot more than just what you have to. Believe me.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made sure the chain was in place and then opened the door—but just a crack. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a few months earlier, Charles had spent some time with another cousin, Emma, who was just nine months older than he was. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just wanted to go downstairs and demonstrate to my exacting great-aunt what a gifted girl I was, how it would take no effort at all for me to become her star student. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then I would just have to stay in my room the whole time. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Not just somebody,” he said, lifting the tooth to the sun like it was some kind of diamond. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Tree humor,” I explained, just in case Bongo had missed it, although of course she hadn’t. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My grandma didn’t say anything, just cried even harder and touched Rondell on the arm. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Coalwood had its routine for the beginning of winter, just as it did for every season. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“If high school is that important to you, just go,” she’d say after I’d explained yet again how much I dreamed about just being a “normal” teenager. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“An uncle of mine gave them to me when I was just a boy,” said Tyrion. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Could be they just want to increase security before releasing the viruses,” Matthew says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Every single day he looked like he had just walked out of Sunday school: Every thin yellow hair on his pinhead was perfectly cut and licked to a gloss. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually the boys tired of watching gentle Bob just stand there. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But just before the puke moved from anticipation to sensation, she shifted her weight and stood on one foot scratching the back of her calf with her toe. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should have just played it cool but instead I gave him a look which told him that I didn’t respect his game. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Its just—” Prudence said “—it’s just that you haven’t been here long enough to know about certain things. Amelia doesn’t—well, none of us—want you to find yourself in an awkward situation.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

They were standing on the roof; Big Henry had just sung eleven. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just happened to be there when she came in. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stuart just went ahead and climbed the rope ladder to the family washbasin every morning to wash his face and hands and brush his teeth. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

I asked him what was wrong, and he just shook his head. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The elbows with butter and salt are extra buttery tonight, just the way Axel likes them. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

"When Ty'ree gets home, you tell him we just left too, you hear me?" Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“You just tell me who else you need me to call.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not now. What did you mean when you said that it was just once since you came here?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sadly, just a few weeks later, their three-year-old daughter, Trot, developed diphtheria and died. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

For a half second, Toby thought, What if I just blew it all up? We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He had plenty to think of, of course, but sitting alone, just thinking, is pretty slow. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Something buzzed past my head, and blood pooled from a man’s arm just in front of me, a man I didn’t even know. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t know it’s an all-woman show; just some artists, is what she told him. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t just any old drum teacher, either. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would just shrug, tell me to be careful, and say, “I sure hope you know what you’re doing, Z.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A wagon drawn by two thick-necked horses stopped just beyond the end of the dock. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was “Desperate and Deserving” just a way that poor people thought? The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Yeah, maybe it was just a stupid and immature school yard fight. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe not. There might be a whole lot of others, for all we know, wandering around just like us.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always wants to do something like throw a football or play Frisbee or go bowling and sometimes I just don’t want to do that stuff because I’m sad. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she was just curious about why I rushed back and forth to the pump. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

You know, it’s just another notch on the road of knowing where you are. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just. . . don’t like to be injected with strange substances.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I he on the couch and just listen to the greatest of the greats jam on vinyl. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just saying,” I say, shrugging casually, even though my words are serious. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s just an old saying: Laughter is the best medicine.''’ The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Blue Spot looks just as grimy as the last time I walked by it. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I’m not delaying anything, I just don’t see the point in going over. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

And even then it’s got to be to call your mother to say that the school nurse has just diagnosed leprosy or something. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Half of those stories are just tall tales, and they get taller with every year that passes,” said Enoch. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“And it isn’t just Messengers getting the stuff,” Reynie reminded her. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It just happened, like the time she gained 118 pounds in the days her father was dying. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most times she’d just get mad and keep after me nonstop and complain about everything I did. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that seemed unlikely; Harlem was one of our strongest districts, and just a month ago when I was shifted Ras would have been laughed off the street had he tried to attack us. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mahmoud and the rest of the crew dove into the sea just before the planes began strafing. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“It was all just in fun, right everybody?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stopping time wasn’t just a matter of pressing the on button, there was a series of delicate procedures that had to be performed with utmost precision. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The phone number she wrote has an area code from Quito, the capital, just a few hours away. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey thought fast, then acted just as fast. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there were these times when Needles would sort of spaz out, but not like Noodles, who would just trip over any little thing. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Say, can I ask you something? Are you really at home? I read that JetBlue agents just work at home.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I shove through the panel door into my bedroom, just as I hear the click of the lock. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The old woman just stared at her with dull eyes and shook her head. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment I think that maybe I could just keep walking, out toward the mystery of the wall, past that to the open prairie, continue moving until I’ve left this whole mess behind. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe—just as she had chosen me on the longest night, she had chosen me again. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I thought I was pretty good just the way I was. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like I have a big shovel in my hand and am just digging myself into a deeper and deeper hole. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“He’s just a good kid. He’s a mascot. There isn’t anything.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just watches and waits, like he’s been waiting to hear this secret his whole life. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“Millard was just showing us some of his favorite parts,” said Olive. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He said, finally, as though it had just happened to come into his mind, “Malcolm, if a man knew every imaginable thing that there is to know, who would he be?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I never thought of just saying no. Like you did.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You have shown your usual cunning in getting up just in time for a meal.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You can’t just want things. Sometimes you have to do something. Like if you want that boy to notice you, you can’t just sit there waiting for it to happen.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He had nothing and was just trying to scare me. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m just here for the white cedars. Mim’s here for the sex.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Can’t that little girl do something on her own? You two just want an excuse to go hiking.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now, just to establish himself, he would double past the second baseman, who was playing too neighborly to a second base that was way too close to third. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just like that, as he stared at them, the idea came, an idea as zany as they were. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to ask what few things, but just then Chiron clip-clopped into the arena. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Lots of times. Nothing to worry about. You just duck under a desk or stand in a doorway until the shaking stops.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Burkhart said that other than keeping him up late, the men from the bureau had treated him just fine. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Couples and crowds flowed in and out—their cheeks flushed, pleasantly drunk—stumbling and stoned or just laughing at some joke I’d never hear. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She used to fill a room by just breathing and now there seems to be... less of her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I just mean it looks like it’s going to be nice. Nice art,” she finished, handing the pad back to me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

For starters, there was the time a buxom blond cheerleader with flawless skin and adorable freckles very loudly declared in science class that students with acne should "just wash their faces." Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I just want to see what you’re doing,” his sister said quietly, making him feel like a total jerk. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Usually they just visit the mission—not way down here. Or maybe Father Rico sent someone to check up on us.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

With just an edge of her disgust showing, Momma slung him back in his dentist’s chair. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m hurrying along, too—mostly because I just want to go home and curl up in a ball on my bed. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“You know why I like it here? It’s not just the view. What does this place remind you of?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After a hurried dinner and a swift face-washing there was just enough time to change into the only nice dress I have before the carriage came. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

‘How do you know? He just looks like someone in a crowd. And anyway, what’s he got to do with it?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a keyless ignition—just push the button.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The street of the bakers was just a short walk north of the Isle of the City. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe I should have thanked him, but I just waited until he drove off, and then I called Brian to help me get Dad up the hill and into the house. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He is not questioning his father’s sexual identity, whether he really is gay—just commenting on his lonely life in the years since his marriage ended. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

The crowd parted just enough to let him through. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Rafik said, “I think the same person just kissed me for the tenth time.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When she finished, she ran her tongue over her teeth and then made a series of short smacking sounds with her tongue against her palate as though she’d just eaten something sour. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it came to her—the name of the song and all its lyrics just as she had heard it many times before. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t it comforting to think so? But when I look at you, you’re just the Son Who Is Going to Inherit Hoodhood and Associates.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Dr. Schmidt: "No, a diary, just for you." Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

George had a sudden frightening thought and grabbed Kelly’s arm just above the elbow. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The discussion of each theme coheres not just because it is localized in a string of consecutive paragraphs but because it refers to the theme using a set of transparently related terms. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Certain stars rise just before or set just after the Sun—and at times and positions that vary with the seasons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone started talking at once—not about what had just happened, but about anything else. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could always keep refusing, just as she had for the past month; but when he was this drunk... Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Why didn’t that priest just shut up and pray? Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

By prearranged agreement, the Burr party arrived first, just before 7:00 a.m., and began clearing away the incidental brush and rocks on the ledge. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

There’s a cave marked on it, just about where I am sitting. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day of the coup the sun was shining, a rare event in the timid spring that was just dawning. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at Fiona for help, but she just shrugs and says, “I totally get why you wouldn’t want to, but it would explain more than any sign, that’s for sure.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Twenty-two-inch rims. Hardly any room for the tires. When we were in middle school, he just had some hubcaps.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It seems that an old-fashioned apple just isn’t enough anymore. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The wind was perfect for kite fly­ing, blowing just hard enough to give some lift, make the sweeps easier. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was just putting on her robe. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes waking up in the middle of the night, I would think right away about death, as if the idea were just waiting in the dark to pop out of me. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mala left us to greet a girl who had just come into the room. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

And just like that, Adam Douglas, an assistant football coach at Wallace High, became the Perkins High School athletic director. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

If it could just be a hell beyond that: the clean flame the two of us more than dead. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his own way, Gordy the bookworm was just as tough as Rowdy. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever it was, they picked us up just as we were coming out the back door to go down to the dock. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Palmer had the sense that he was seeing more than a game, that Henry was not just a member of the group, but also its prey. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I learned this not just once as First Lady but many times over. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Random locker searches. At any time of the day. They can just pull you out of class whenever they want.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Francie noticed how he put his feet down at an angle so that the whole foot was on the step instead of just the heel part. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world is sometimes just, and I spent the next eighteen months sick in bed with a mysterious illness. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s my father. But I don’t like talking about him at school. I don’t want people trying to be my friend just because my dad is famous.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the entry there is nothing but a grainy photograph, just one, black-and-white, hanging like a holy thing. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t let our dog frighten you. We just got home from church services ourselves. Please come and sit a spell.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Could they really just go to Florida for the weekend? Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I just never thought about how, exactly, the Jewish prisoners would get to them. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And finally, I would end with one parting thought: just because a girl has a perm, it does not mean that she's easy. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The ding of metal falling on a brick floor, a splosh of liquid—and just before my vision goes completely dark, I feel myself caught under the arms. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

On the last day of the year, just three days before Winter Conclave, Scythe Goddard led one more gleaning expedition. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Some dogs you’re better off to just let lie in the sun. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, we’re going to swing by tomorrow, keep an eye on things. No lead on the person who carved that word. But with the eggs, and people just generally riled, and the cut-down...” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Through the door I explained what had just happened. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The caste system will reemerge in a new form, just as convict leasing replaced slavery, or it will be reborn, just as mass incarceration replaced Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I’m not trying to guilt-trip her, I’m just trying to figure out how we’re ever going to stop being such strangers to each other. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I guess I wouldn’t mind if a deputy kind of hung around here for a while, just in case.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

So I held it as long as I could, but that just made my Band-Aided wound hurt more. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, maybe Ash just wanted to pick someone who matched his team’s pedigree. Isn’t that right, Ahmadi?” he says to Roshan. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I just wanted to learn more about what the bullet had done. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I just thought it would be nice to take some time to sit and chat. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But just as suddenly the pole whipped straight again and the line went slack. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s just being awful, just trying to get me in trouble with a parting shot. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He’d just woken up, the first traces of dawn leaking through the cracks of the stacked logs that made up the wall of his small hut. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Ambrose and several of his friends. It’s enough to make me believe in a just universe.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The street w is just lined with clubs. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank and Jim had a very nice flight, and stayed up the entire two weeks, just as planned. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so afraid that we would just keep colliding over and over again if we stayed together, and that eventually the impact would break me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The next note, G, is just one semiquaver. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He was just another man on a horse on this night in Washington. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I called. She just never called back. And then I didn’t call again. I don’t know...I was mad at her, I guess.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I had no idea where Sachsenhausen was, or how far we would have to go, but just the thought of walking all day made me feel exhausted. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

When all along she was just trying to make friends with me, with all the girls. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They just freeze until the noise subsides—what else are you going to do when your audience acts boorish?—then pick back up with the dialogue. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You’re just tired from the ride. Put some blood into your cheeks,” Brave Orchid said, and pinched her sister’s withered face. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just didn’t seem to pay any attention to how he handled the boy—as though he didn’t care. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you have any idea how many people would kill for the tickets you just lost? Front-row seats?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

They had said that they needed to do some shopping nearby, but Maya was 99 percent sure that they just wanted to scope her and Grace out for themselves. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The fifteen-hour flight would be just the beginning of a much larger journey. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“You just have to be stern with that horse,” she says. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was just pointing out the fact that he’s a Wookiee. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t prove this, of course, but she just knew it was true. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But she just kept walking, a dozen or so steps ahead, then went in through a door—into “The Portway Studios.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had just turned down one of many ravaged cleaning supply aisles when she gave my arm a tug. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

If she was willing to run to escape the Nazis, why wouldn't she run with me, the person who had just told her I was there to help her? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We’re just about at the fourth floor when I see Ms. Fulton coming out of her apartment with her shopping cart, and my chest gets tight. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s just exercise. Four rounds for five dollars. You scared?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, when you’re hard up, you do a lot of things just to try and make ends meet. I wonder if you can imagine what that’s like.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He could just stop his teeth from chattering, but his knees were beyond his control. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m just going to live in the moment. That’s the only way to see where we end up.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It felt perverse, how the world just carried on. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The storm was loud now, just like her crying, and Ivy thought she heard her name all mixed up with the wind, like it really was making them one. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I feel I’m just definitely the most suspicious character on the train. You’ve only got to find a will in which the old man left me all his money, and that’ll just about fix things.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is not a sound I would want to hear all day if I were dying, but then that’s just me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She was just trying to help him feel better. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A whistle-stop was just a little platform by the track where people would stand and wave the train down. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made my exit as discreetly as possible just as his lordship, still on his feet, was embarking on a further point. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

But as with the mountain lion, he just had to stand his ground. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It didn’t belong to her, just to the three of us. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't want to just be beautiful. I want to be the most beautiful." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The article I read on my phone said the animals were coming down into Washington Heights and Harlem from Westchester, just north of New York City. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I'm not sure I'd answer that question with just one word, like my sister. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She thought it over for a minute or two as she walked and had just decided to ask him, when to her surprise she saw ahead of her a faint glow. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She only sends Christmas cards, which generally get here just in the nick of time for Easter. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My palms were sweaty and I felt as though I had just gone through the same experience again. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Joseph waited for his uncle to tell him to stop lighting candles, but Albert just stuffed his pipe with tobacco and said, “Bring me a match.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I just wanted to pay my respects. Your grandmother was a wonderful woman. You did her proud.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was a small boy of six who lived just around the corner from her, and for days he had been going on about this great talking parrot his father had given him. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then the boy threw his arms around Tock’s neck and, for just a moment, held on very tightly. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Are we better off leaving the ship just to escape the Collective? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Perhaps they were just decent people helping out," Hamilton said. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I swear to God, I just ate a sandwich.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“But fighting all the time and being really drunk and nasty got boring. So now I just take care of animals.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z