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If my story is true, I trust it will resonate with significance for other lives. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Colonial societies could not become too oppressive, because their members—surrounded by examples of free life—always had the option to vote with their feet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
They moved there after his father died, and I'd never known life without him. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
Many of these homes had begun life as single-family dwellings and about half remained such, the others having been divided into doubles or triples. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
The fact that this “career” path leads almost inevitably to jail is often understood as an unfortunate fact of life, part of what it means to be poor and black in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Even now, converting this much money physically hurts—what I wouldn’t have given just a few months ago to hang on to this much for the rest of my life. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
For the rest of his life, William would go through cycles when his mind would race, insomnia would take hold, and he would fall into a deep depression. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
“Of course she did, and had a capital time. I expected to see her brought home in fragments, but she managed him perfectly, and was the life of the party.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z
The deal they’d struck felt like something from another life, from a Before. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
In disposition, she was Pollard’s antithesis, governing her life with rigid reserve as he scattered his passions. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
But it was real life, and real life doesn’t always sound like it should. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
It’s strange to see my Dauntless friends in Abnegation colors, as if they’ve been with me my entire life. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
She read many grades above her level, was steeped in enrichment classes, and watched adults with a hooded gaze, as though privy to the darkness that lurked in their lives. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
If he is a writer of fiction he lives in a world of fear. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z
I am torn between sympathy and a desire for his life to have been as miserable as possible. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
Our last child, conceived in happiness at a time when the river of our lives ran gently, had been taken from us; I knew too well what he felt. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z
My life won’t be lived that way, and neither, I hope, will my children’s. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
Their lives didn’t naturally intersect quite the same way, and Leila’s introversion didn’t invite much else. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
“Well, you can’t stay here all your life. Can you? One day you’ll grow up and then you will have to go and live in the world outside.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z
I know how it is to live your life like a dream. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
And every night I would cook a special tonic soup called tounau, which was not only very delicious but has eight ingredients that guarantee long life for mothers. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
I learned lessons on that day that I will remember for the rest of my life. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
And Joaquin had the horrible, terrible feeling that he would never be able to give this kind of life to her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
It was an old horse now, fat and half-blind, and it had spent most of its life in that little corral, just eating and moving its bowels. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
In America, she said, there was fear of death; here life was separate from Being. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
Exactly the way he’d heard it would be, his life flashed before him, but it consisted of only one image: Hagar bending over him in perfect love, in the most intimate sexual gesture imaginable. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
He was in his sixties and had been a drug addict earlier in his life, making access to his veins difficult. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
Her older sister, Margaret, was matronly and dignified, probably from having assumed matronly and housewifely responsibilities too early in life, their mother having died when they were quite young. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z
He was running for his life through his mother’s old workshop, where she’d died in a fire when Leo was eight. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
He called his wife, and told her he’d had a conversation that had changed his life, and that he needed time to figure things out. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z
The process of life had ceased to be intolerable, he had no longer any impulse to make faces at the telescreen or shout curses at the top of his voice. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
“Mom, do you really need pictures of me going to prom stag? I mean, hasn’t my life been humiliating enough?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z
The village gradually vanishes under the shells and we lead a charmed life. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
Most ultimately return to prison, sometimes for the rest of their lives. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
All of us, for example, are descended at some point from hunter- gatherers, and many hunter-gatherers, by all accounts, had a pretty leisurely life. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
I missed my family and my stomach felt bad, knowing I had finally arrived where my life said I belonged. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
I have never seen him wear that expression in real life. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
It’s even sad when it’s a slimy gray worm that gave its life for science. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
Hundreds of people had made a life in the Smoke. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
Rachel went into a frenzy, and for once in my life I couldn’t blame her. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
Whenever he took a man's life, afterward he would seek the quiet of the godswood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
We can’t afford to go out and buy a formal dress that Mary Anne will only wear once in her life.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
On the one hand, I know college could be one of the greatest times of my life, but on the other, starting my professional baseball career early could help me reach my goals sooner. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
In a long and unprotected life I have seen and heard the vomitings of demoniac humans before. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
Do that, and the whispers will follow Margaery the rest of her life. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
“When a mestizo is drowning,” he says, “you throw a life preserver at him. When a longo is drowning, you throw stones at him.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
Their songs were filled with pleasure and warmth and life. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z
A hard worker himself, he believed that “a life of mental toil—plus having to get up in the morning every day to face new and exciting problems—keeps one young.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
She was moved as he read it aloud, seeing that Farmer was just as sensitive as she was to the fragility of Haitian life. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
In the midst of Kepler’s mathematical raptures, and despite his sequestered life, the imperfections of the outside world must also have molded his character. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I never heard a sassier black imp than you in all my life,” he spluttered. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
For some reason I thought: My life will be different now. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z
“He led us here because this world is empty. Empty of conscious life, that is. We are not colonialists, Mrs. Coulter. We haven’t come to conquer, but to build.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z
“We had better just accept the new unit as a fact of life,” he said. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z
Sister Marie Patrice lifted up the long skirt of her habit and for the first time in my life I saw her ankles. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z
She must have been a handsome woman at one time, but life had used her harshly. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z
She was standing at the periphery of her own life, sharing a fridge and a toilet, a shallow intimacy, with people she did not know at all. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
“Is there anything about us you don’t know, Kittyhawk? We’ll keep your secrets and you keep ours. ‘Careless talk costs lives.’” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z
It never seemed fair to me that she stuck me with such a horrible name and went through life with such a pretty one herself. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Don’t make a mistake with your life, Henry Park.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
“In a way they do, but they’ve also got to live with it the rest of their lives. Can you imagine always worrying about getting caught? About someone finding out?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z
Maybe my life isn’t all that interesting but at least I’m busy. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z
It may be I must spend my life running from sea to sea and land to land on an endless vain venture, a shadow-quest.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z
Which is good, because those kids don’t have any reliable adults in their lives. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
“You lost this life,” the first judge said simply. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z
The community where his entire life had been lived lay behind him now, sleeping. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
When he crawled into the boat, he gave the starter rope a sharp pull and the engine roared to life. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z
In short, I lived the life of the shunned, forever cast aside, yet looking on, curious as to how others lived. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z
For the first time in life Reba tried to win things. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the case of the French curés, the crucial story was that of Christ’s life and death as told by the Catholic Church. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
And we are—I am anyway—happy with the small things of our life. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z
He risked his life to be with us. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
I don’t know about me, but after a second brandy alexander Marlena certainly comes to life. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z
They will be companions in the search for meaning in life and meaning in art. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
He looks like a man who has spent most of his life frowning. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
I have my life's savings in a metal box under my bed. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z
"Days. It's days. I swear it on my life." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z
Sprinkled among every walk of life, in other words, are a handful of people with a truly extraordinary knack of making friends and acquaintances. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
When I pulled the helmet from my head, I felt, for the first time in my life, nearly as cool as Charlie. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z
I watched, glad you were staying so strong, although our lives kept going up and down, like the broken concrete bit you were tossing and catching. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
I’m humming again—more emphatically this time—because never in my life have I been so hungry. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z
We'd been so close to tragedy, and yet here we were, reclaiming our lives. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z
Bubbles representing the effervescence of American life, of our postwar optimism, of our fizzy, imperial, carbonated drinks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
Terrified and screaming, civilians and German soldiers tumbled and leaped into the icy water, grabbing for chairs, oars, life vests. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
It’s so unfair to have to live in a country where you have to do stuff you feel bad about in order to save your life. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
They made me question the first eight years of my life, and now this little boy is making me question the last five. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z
You need this 142 minutes and 13 seconds in your life. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z
At first, she had sounded curious, expectant about her new life. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
I like the way he looks at me now, as if I’m one of the best things in his life. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z
While the Viking biology experiments are a pioneering first effort, they hardly represent a definitive search for life on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Mark Antony would have taken his life if his friends had not intervened. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z
For the first time in my life I had a flat stomach, and muscles. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z
It says something about our century, our attitude toward life, our obsession with disease and death, our human chauvinism. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
In Spanish, Dulce said, “My son lives here with his wife. They brought me here.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
I remembered too well that education had changed my family’s life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Upon release from prison, people are typically saddled with large debts—financial shackles that hobble them as they struggle to build a new life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
“Your happiness. Your future. Your life. I want you to be happy,” I said, “and I’m only making your life worse.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z
I’m going to stay in bed for the rest of my life. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z
Then be said: “It is a pity you never had the opportunity of seeing the Orkneys at home. They didn’t have a happy family life like yours.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
I guess I assumed because he and Will hung out, they were both set up for life. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z
“So,” said Citra, “you pulled us out of our lives for some random art lesson? Isn’t that a waste of your valuable time?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
“His son lost everything because he was trying to do his job and protect himself. His life matters too, you know?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z
By Anatole I was shattered and assembled, by way of Anatole I am delivered not out of my life but through it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
There was an air of leisure about the planter’s life here. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
"Where will you hide for the rest of your life? In the sewers? I'd have them searched, end to end." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z
First, colonial descriptions of Native Americans are among the few glimpses we have of Indians whose lives were not shaped by the presence of Europe. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
Father shot Mong in face, intending to end his life also, then placed gun in own mouth and committed suicide. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z
There’s no one you can protect, your life has value to no one. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
Mother’s mouth was stern, the opposite of its look in life. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z
“Hmm,” Hera whirled away in a huff, but I figured our lives would be safe, at least for a litde while. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z
I'd heard it all my life but suddenly the strangeness of it came through to me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
Most of us lived in a state of constant calibration, tweaking one area of life in hopes of bringing more steadiness to another. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
It’s a healthy life out in the country air. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
He sits in the classroom and offers those sitting beside him no calming reassurance about their own lives. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
That night as we sat up and talked, she told me of her new life. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z
But he enjoyed the life of the inn. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
Bottom, be strength and warning and speed forever and save the life of your master. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
Whatever poor Billy saw through the pipe, he had no choice but to say to himself, “That’s life.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
You say I am making Pa and Ma’s life miserable. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
He will give Theo the benefit of his experience and his life wisdom. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
Hana and Zeke have been hovering over Uriah’s body since we got here, their fingers finding his, their eyes searching for life. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
I mean like how you can tell the difference between a dream and real life. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z
That is of course the miracle of life. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
But something about Natasha makes me think my life could be extraordinary. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z
For years Francis had been trying to tell him what was important, but the more dispassionately he considered his life, the more he knew he had been wise to follow up his own hunches. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z
Ordinary working-class Europeans would not have known who Mozart was either during his life or for a long time after it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z
She was frozen, and speechless, for probably the first time in her life. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z
And the match was held to a candle and the candle sputtered to life and Despereaux saw that there was a rope tied around the man’s ankle. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z
Perhaps because of threats on his life, Davis changed his address frequently and refused to be photographed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
I have never in my life been friends with a “nice girl.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z
Perhaps it is our inner and most secret life that shivers and falls on guard. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
Because Sophie had been watching TV her whole life, and not just a few weeks like me, it was easier for her to watch Rishon throw his whole future away. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z
“Is it that or is it your fear of the stain of my sad life getting on you? So you have to polish me up and make me worthy.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z
The only semi-regular male figure in my life was my grandfather, my mother’s father, who was a force to be reckoned with. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
Jenny, I have all my life been in another sin, the worst of all. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
She was very young, he thought, she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
Ho for the life of a sailor! he thought. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
Mom says my hair lives in its own zip code. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z
For the first time in my life, I’m actually wondering who gone win this fight. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
All of my life it’s been synonymous with Jay but for years it hasn’t been easy to say. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
“I knew she didn’t want me to lie about her life. She wanted me to tell the truth, but I couldn’t. I couldn’t tell the truth about anything.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z
“It’s just that every time I think about not having you in my life, it doesn’t feel right, you know? It’s like there’s a piece missing.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
“For months. A huge chunk of our lives was taken away. If I lost you again—” Lunch arrived. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
She smiled with both sides when he said, “Here’s a college essay idea: Describe the shorts that changed your life in the form of a poem.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z
Katie had made up her mind to marry him—if he asked her—simply because life was incomplete without a man to love her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
Nobody could accept that she did not want to hear about gaseous balls and layers of atmosphere and refracted light and tiny building blocks of life. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z
Then Estraven laughed, for he was still weak, and said, “Did you warm me back to life in order to kill me, Stokven?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z
Rubbing, warming, bringing life back to his white limbs. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z
With each step, the stairs illuminate one by one, a purple-blue light sputtering to life. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
“It starts fires and lives in the woods. If it didn’t have something in its head that made it want to put out fires, it wouldn’t survive very long.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
But for many people life proceeded without too much disruption, except in the regions where the pitched battles were fought. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z
For the first time in my life, I felt truly secure living in America. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z
His view of life has darkened since Mr. Banerji returned to India. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
I just put my life in her hands. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
I wanted to smother that feeling, to clear it from our lives like cobwebs from a dusty corner. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
Dear American Non-Black, if an American Black person is telling you about an experience about being black, please do not eagerly bring up examples from your own life. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
So that his life wouldn’t end right as Lydia’s began. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z
Chase relished his role as teacher and, for the next hour, showed me this trick and that of homestead life. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z
But the essence of life is not so much the atoms and simple molecules that make us up as the way in which they are put together. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
The artificial life force animating them seemed to fail if pressed too far...at least in some of them. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z
It's the traditional Philippine house, built on stilts, with one room where the whole family lives. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z
Evan bent over the casserole pan and scrubbed as if his life depended on it. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z
They went about their lives in the summer sun. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
She hadn’t known anything, really, of day labor, the life of apprentices. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
I’d seen San Francisco in pictures before, but never in real life. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z
Like you’ve done some terrible thing that has just put a dent in the perfect silver goblet that is his life. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z
Dagmer was no true uncle, only a sworn man with perhaps a pinch of Greyjoy blood four or five lives back, and that from the wrong side of the blanket. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
For the first time in my life as a maid I have a purpose more compelling than trying to meet the aesthetic standards of the New England bourgeoisie. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
We live in a dangerous world, and I am not so attached to life that I will do anything to survive. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
He had some papers to grade, and he started off reluctantly one morning, looking very unhappy about the way of life he had chosen. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
He must have similar questions about me, how I’m able to pick out so many details of his life. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z
He lives here, and I live here, now, but I don't know anyone or anything, except Mrs Boland and the woman at the post office. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z
A man doesn’t ask too many questions when his mother is suddenly brought back to life; he’s much too happy. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z
It all seemed very silly to him until one of the doctors said, “Well, do you think we should save his life? They might be sore at us if we do.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
For the first time I had a sense of how wasted I really was: I was more exhausted than I’d ever been in my life. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z
She imagined with longing the warm air and earthy smell of the greenhouse, where she could have worked with Clary, the greenhouse manager, someone she’d known all her life. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
But in the evening of 11 November 1572 his life was changed again by one of the most dramatic events that the Universe can provide. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z
It’s the changes that affect people’s lives for either good or bad. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
Kara wasn’t Muslim or a woman of color, yet she still felt an appreciation for my personal experiences, though our lives were seemingly worlds apart. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
But I’m not so desperate that I’ll put her life at risk. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
I may not be able to restart anyone’s life with this money, but every bit helps. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
It had obviously been decorated by someone with very little joy in their life. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
It is an accident of birth that can influence the outcome of a life. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
But there was one who ran, staggering hither and yon and content with his life and it was the son of the eldest son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z
I couldn’t think of a happier way of having it spoiled—not if this meant that maybe one day soon we’d be back living an ordinary life. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
Better to think life was random than to think the world was out to get you. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
“My son was very lucky to have had you in his life.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
He gave me a life, my own, but at the expense of taking one. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
Perhaps her entire life — all her memories, thoughts, emotions — would melt away from her, leaving only the flesh-and-bone shell behind. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
The woman behind me gasps as if it were the most scandalous thing she’s ever heard in her whole entire life. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
And he left the bathroom without another word, leaving Harry to stare into the cracked mirror, feeling sicker, he was sure, than Ron had ever felt in his life. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z
Joey was near her; so were Cara and Kerri and a bunch of kids from my old classes, from my old life. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
If this girl has so fully misunderstood or been so wholly baffled by the strange little scene that has unfolded before her, how might it affect the lives of the two adults? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
The road was empty, like so many roads we had driven on in my life. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z
Your life belongs to me, her voice thundered. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
“If they wanted to claim their son, why didn’t they respect the life he chose to live? How come they never came to visit? Or supported his music?” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
She assumed she would go to college, get a degree in something pleasant, then settle into a comfortable job, meet a comfortable guy, and have a nice, unremarkable life. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
He had never in all his life slept in a bed alone—much less a whole room. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
He’s wearing a robe, and I wonder why he lives here and not at the church. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z
I have never been able to do anything right in my life as far as she’s concerned. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
I lit the match and it sizzled to life, the burnt sulfur smell singeing my nostrils. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
Africans were at the heart of this great change in the economy, indeed in the lives of people throughout the world. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z
It was blurry and oversaturated, but I could make out the shape of a young man on a gurney pleading for his life with a bright red biohazard sign imprinted on his hospital gown. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z
You fight with anything you've got because it's a matter of life and death. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z
I found it and now I’ll wear heavy boots for the rest of my life? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
A few of the later plates even showed, for the first time, the life cycles of tropical frogs and toads, as well as lizards and snakes. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
At the end of the week Chandra returned to her husband’s home and our life went on, but without Sassur nothing was the same. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z
"Don't tell me that I am risking my life in vain. Don't tell me that if I die, I will have died for nothing." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z
Because in there, I admitted that I was at a point in my life where I really could have used any encouragement anyone might have left me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z
His life was very limited—he understood that now more than ever. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z
Even the smaller challenges—breaking a bad habit or sticking to a diet—often prove too difficult, even for those of us who are relatively privileged and comfortable in our daily lives. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
It is my belief that Cathy Ames was born with the tendencies, or lack of them, which drove and forced her all of her life. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
More than anything in life, he hated crowds, and his dream was to live by himself near the red-rocked canyons of the wild Devil’s River. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
He was there when my mother brought me into this life and when she left us, and he should be here for me now. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
“He knew that one day the earth would be empty of life except what was sustained beneath the ground.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
You can see my little handprints grow bigger, like a time capsule of my life. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z
Freedom, Abuela tells me, is nothing more than the right to a decent life. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
Guitar had placed himself willingly and eagerly in a life cause that would always provide him with a proximity to knife-cold terror. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
I gunned my deafening engine to life, ignoring the heads that turned in my direction, and backed carefully into a place in the line of cars that were waiting to exit the parking lot. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z
I could introduce you to my colleagues, treat you to the best curry outside India, and show you just how boring the life of an astrophysicist can be. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
‘But he was alive and strong when we parted. And he lives still for all that I know. Though surely there are many perils in the world.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z
And I scream louder than I ever have in my life. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
She and Leo ran for their lives, following the curve as it brought them closer to what she hoped was the center of the room. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
She had never been so afraid before in her life, but she had learned fear now. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
“Is there anything going on in his life that would force him to make up symptoms?” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
Hurry, find the name before the one who took my life takes another. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z
Her brother’s death was a turning point in Elizabeth’s life. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
This is how it’s been my whole life. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
My life as a human was a glamorous one, although my parents, traditional sorts, would not have approved. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z
She’d used up the last of her life telling her story, and with Harye gone, she was ready to join her crew. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z
I could hear more voices, more people coming in to say “Nno nu” and complain about how hard life was, how they could not buy new clothes for their children this Christmas. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z
Important, crucial, final things, and here was their own mother, who didn't have a second to help them puzzle any of this out, inventing gadgets to make life easier for the American Moms. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
Not that my life is a picnic today. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z
Dear Diary, Murder, taking a life, stealing a soul, the one thing you can never repay or apologize for. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
They grew up made to talk about their feelings a lot, and then his mother became president, and life became less about feelings and more about international relations. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
The nice part was that we could step away for a romantic evening the way we used to, years earlier, before his political life took over. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
Then another passage where David, when his son died, spoke also of no life after death. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
The wind rearranged her thoughts, and the countryside made her see all the life still left out there waiting to be lived. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Suddenly the string came to life, and rode back and forth and around in a circle. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
“If you care about him,” he said, “then walk away. Don’t destroy his life.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z
Ms. Gruwell wants us to pick an entry about an event that changed our lives. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
Someone you’ve never met walks into your dealership, perhaps about to make what may be one of the most expensive purchases of his or her life. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z
Something in me died then that has never come back to life. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
All my life, I’ve seen the things no one else can see. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
But juxtaposed against the norms of family life, it could be a little much. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
Barack and I did what we could to protect our kids from too much exposure, declining all media requests for them and working to keep their everyday lives largely out of sight. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
The walls were plastered with posters and newspaper clippings and photographs, bombarding me with scenes from the life of the Panthers. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z
“Not that I know of. Are you wondering about her cancer? Because I don’t think anyone could have seen that coming. That’s just the way life is sometimes, you know?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z
There are times that one treasures for all one’s life, and such times are burned clearly and sharply on the material of total recall. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
Now, Andrew led such a luxurious life that you might have thought he was the Shah of Persia in disguise. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z
Despite how much I hate him, I don’t really want to kill him, at least not with a knife, up close where I can see the life leave him. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
But that was before I knew what life was like outside the city, and it doesn’t seem as horrific as what Edith described in her message to us. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
And Mother shouted, “So you decided to just wipe me out of his life altogether?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
But later, after my mother lost her faith in God, that leatherette Bible wound up wedged under a too-short table leg, a way for her to correct the imbalances of life. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
He was furious, more furious at the atrocities of the day than he had ever felt before in his whole life. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
If a guy was offering to teach me how to swim, then for sure he didn’t have a life. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z
I should say: what is on the other side looks like normal life. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
I think of Flaubert, who spent most of his adult life in the same French village, or Emily Dickinson, whose poems echoed the cadence of the local church bells. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
After a minute, Trip said, “When Mom and Dad find Iz, they are going to lock her up in a psych ward for the rest of her life.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
“It’s not my business to save lives,” Doc Daneeka retorted sullenly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
She offered, as her part of the project, her willingness to lead, with our three children, the unsatisfactory family life of a household deprived of husband and father. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
In my only life, she was my mom, and I was her son. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
I kept expecting something to stop me, a hand on my shoulder a whisper that would reverse if not my entire life, than this incomplete moment. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z
We can be comforted in the fact that life will always be a struggle. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z
“I guess I got to go,” I say, even though I’d rather spend the rest of my life right here in Aibileen’s cozy little kitchen, having her explain the world to me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
“They do? Toscanini has made one walk in all his life—from shop to here.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z
Using one signal or another, each form of life announces its proximity to the others around it, setting limits on encroachment or spreading welcome to potential symbionts. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I can’t! I give up! I don’t care! I want to go back to bed and be an invalid for the rest of my life!!” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z
Of course, Sergeant Caputo didn’t see us as bereaved children going through the worst day of our tender young lives. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z
I’m used to life changing in the flicker of an instant, but the Tap-Out has left every single moment a threat. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
New York was no longer a ghost town, but there were few signs of life. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z
Then I counted the redbrick squares on the floor and thought about my life with Mama Lessie and all the wonderful things I’d done with her and learned from her. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
And that has saved countless lives from the ravages of deadly infections. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
Even their sister Wil, who does not lead a Bohemian life at all, looks like a “madwoman” in a recent photograph. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
The cell was a beaker of chemicals, biochemists argued, a pouch of compounds bound by a membrane that were reacting to produce a phenomenon called “life.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
His finger dragged across the touchpad, bringing to life a video that took over his whole screen. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
This terrible, incomprehensible thing that had descended upon our lives wasn’t new at all. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
Those angry bruises told Paul everything he needed to know about life with Storch. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z
“A guy never knows when he’ll need a mouse in this life.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z
She wanted to put that stupid peacock back together again, to put the life she’d had before back together again and create a second chance. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
“It’s really mean of you to say that the only lives that matter are the ones that are lived for something or die for something. That’s a really mean thing to say to me.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z
Barking, snorting and squealing, the zebra came to life to defend itself. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
They saw where I came from, what kind of life I’d lived as a child, the kind of huts we lived in. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
There must have been hints of the past in there, woven in with Gramps's dreams of her life in Colorado. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
It came in the dark in the evil hours when the hands wake with a life of their own. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
It shocked him to see North Koreans going about their daily lives without having to take orders from guards. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
I don’t have Kat or Will or my old life. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z
But this is the first day of my new life. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
"Do you really need more drama in your life, Mother?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z
“I tried to do what you wanted, but I couldn’t, and I don’t want you to hate me for it. It’s my life.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
Joke is, once you get it into your brain about that hidden step and think, Hey, life isn't such a shithouse after all again, then BUMP! Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z
It was from Granny’s conversations, year after year, that the meager details of Grandpa’s life came to me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
Wasn’t it all the months of worry that had made Caroline’s life so dear to them all? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Ten seconds that would have saved my brother’s life. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
By touching me Charles had awakened it, and it throbbed with life. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
He had a drug-abusive mother—who probably wasn’t raised right by her mother either—and the drugs were taking over her life. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
On the job, let a girl be disobedient to the rules, and Mr. Edwards personally stripped her, gagged her, and horsewhipped her within an inch of her life. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
Then and there, she decided that those privileges were worth slaving for all her life. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
Alas, this value can scarcely be corroborated in any other way; there is certainly little enough in the white man’s public or private life that one should desire to imitate. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z
‘Talking to enemy statues now? Futile. You have roughly two minutes of life.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
The door slams shut behind him, and finally Janae and I have a quiet moment to laugh at all the ridiculousness that is our home, our family, our lives. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z
I kiss the guy who brought me to life on the day we’re going to die. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
As I worked I listened to their talk and perceived its puzzled, wandering, superficial fumbling with the problems and facts of life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
He didn't want to spend the rest of his life watching the corn grow. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z
His role in my life, according to Doris, was to be some sort of positive male figure. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z
How do I tell them I risked their lives to kiss my boyfriend? Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z
He was the youngest of my uncles, and I always remembered him full of life and bravado. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
The way life was in the South, how could you not be afraid? Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z
Even now he looked at the stone trolls with suspicion, wondering if some magic might not suddenly bring them to life again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z
Still no sign of a red kayak or a yellow life jacket. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z
“We celebrate the lives of people who are gone. We keep their spirits alive by remembering them.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z
Yet he had no choice: this was now his life. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
He thought that he was going to be friends with Pond throughout his entire life. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z
Scarcely twenty-four hours had passed since my parents had abandoned me here, and already my life was spiraling out of control. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
Their lives were about to change in ways that still didn’t seem real. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
“It would increase some risks,” she acknowledged, but then turned to me and said, “But it’s your life.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z
The ignition clicked, the engine growled to life. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
It was a place with sound and people, a place where life just kept going on. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
After the man left, we got the scolding of our lives, not just for throwing rocks in the man’s pool, but also for lying about it. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z
He wanted to tell her that the plane was the most important thing about him, maybe his entire life. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
As one, the forces of Kronos dropped their weapons and ran for their lives. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z
Would I find any answers about his mysterious life? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z
All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
For the first time in her life—in her two lives— she felt absolutely unstoppable. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z
I was only three years old, but I knew right then that our calm, predictable life in Spring was about to change. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
But more importantly, I needed my computer, so that I could scour the Internet to try to catch up on my own life. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
He told Mother Earth to bring everything to life.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
The words were like a life vest, holding my head above the flood. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z
Thirty-five years in this Night Zoo was more than a prison sentence; it was an entire life gone—her life. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
It was the ninth year of summer, and the seventh of Bran's life. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
My father had always been determined to provide a good life for us. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z
They settled down to a life of relative comfort. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
He simply feels like he’s experiencing a pressure so many people feel in their everyday lives—to keep up, push on, achieve. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
He lives alone, no wife or children, most of his waking hours drunk. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
It is a list of practical, achievable goals that can help a newcomer build a stable, productive life; it usually includes English fluency, job training, counseling, and lessons in money management. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
He has gone on to a new and different life, and in thinking longingly of the past, he has been giving thought and interest to something that no longer really exists. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Twenty-one years ago, you told me to go to her. Thank you. You saved my life.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
That life has changed fundamentally over the aeons is entirely clear from the alterations we have made in the beasts and vegetables during the short tenure of humans on Earth, and from the fossil evidence. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
For the first time in my life I was faced with the notion that I would have to deal with the idea of race as a central part of my life. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
Yet for twenty of us those injections were to change our whole lives. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z
People here want to be left alone to lead their quiet little lives. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z
He had suddenly arrived—and from the moment he arrived until the moment of his death he had filled her life. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z
“It’s the tree of life,” Yossarian answered, waggling his toes, “and of knowledge of good and evil, too.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
When the flame danced into life, its reflection wavered on their dusty glass and silver. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
Like every other room in the residence, it had windows on multiple sides, and like everything else in Scythe Curie’s life, was kept in perfect order. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
About that time Earl started yelling at Job, so I put them away and went over to try to put some life into him. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
But whether they feared it or not, each and every day of their lives they lived with it; even when words did not sound its name, they acknowledged its reality. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
After the relief had settled in, after people remembered how to go about their lives without the pressing fear of crime, there arose a natural question: just where did all those criminals go? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
I figured if I saved Mr. Bernoffski, if he just didn't die, then maybe my life wouldn't completely derail. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z
How was she going to escape this life? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
In the 1930s, the pressure on you to belong as a young Soviet was probably the most overwhelming pressure of your life. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
I stayed indoors, memorizing algebraic equations, trying to live as I had before—to imagine my life at the university as disconnected from my life on Buck’s Peak. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
“But you will, for the sake of others, if not for your own. Come, Laurie, promise, and give me one more reason to call this the happiest day of my life.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was too stark, not redeemed, not made real with the reality that was the warm blood of life. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
The Indian way of saying, Get your life together, Dimple. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z
When you have to capture a life in just eight hundred words, you have to choose those words carefully. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
For the first time in my life, I wasn’t a minority. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
Ratwatte is Sri Lankan, a lively man in his forties who has been flying commercial jets his entire adult life. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
Bram had already experienced disaster in his life: his son had died of cystic fibrosis in adolescence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
“For coming into our lives. For being you.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z
He is poorer than many, and war lives inside him. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z
I started to think of myself and my life and my whole lifetime worth of memories as all the dark, dusty rooms of Buckingham Palace. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
Modern life provided enough challenges without throwing in making the bed. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z
And not a funny one, but one of the ones about life insurance. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
And I felt, vaguely, wordlessly, that for a child to be marked off for such a life, to be forced to live in fear was a great injustice. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
“Wait a minute. So I didn’t ruin your life?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z
But at the same time, we would be leaving behind our life in Africa, everything we had ever known. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
Why was he looking forward to life inside a compound with a bottle of laudanum for company? The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Maybe all of life was about rearranging a few simple ideas. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
I wanted everyone I met to know that there was a beautiful little girl whose life was stolen and that she is my little sister—she would always be my little sister. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
But for it I might have lived for years—why, for the rest of my life—on that island. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
By half time Ben had scored twenty-one points and was in the middle of the best game of his life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
Would I understand the depth of grief and fear that could’ve led her to take my entire life away from me? Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
His voice was filled with a child’s enthusiasm, a desire for life that Jesse’s suicide had stolen from me and Audrey both. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
This new life was one of constant fear. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z
“There’s a witch who lives wherever it’s winter.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z
I had Darin, who loomed so large in my life that I thought him immortal as the stars. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
“Maybe you think your own life’s cheap, but you’re risking everyone else here, too.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
Who knew better than he that life wasn’t fair? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
But Riddick could never see himself in that role—it was too pedestrian, too predictable, too empty of the juice of life. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
I know this might sound weird to people with, like, regular parents, but I'd only seen my dad four or five times in my life, and never for more than a few minutes. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z
I was meeting men and women whom I would know for decades to come, who were to form the first sustained relationships in my life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
Percy wasn’t sure what the old seer had meant about Frank’s family history—his great-grandfather destroying camp, his Argonaut ancestor, and the bit about a burned stick controlling Frank’s life. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z
“He has a family and a home and a life,” Juanita said as she took the wallet back from the twins and passed it to me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z
Malachy writes from Dublin to say he’s fed up and doesn’t want to spend the rest of his life blowing a trumpet in the army band. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z
"You know the boy from my district? Peeta? I think he saved my life. But he was with the Careers." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
Those who measured life by counting the crosses would not count her sacrifices for Rocky the way they counted her sacrifices for her dead sister’s half-breed child. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z
And for the life of me I can’t tell if he really means it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
I was nervous about living away from home for the first time, about leaving the only life I’d ever known. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
With a wetted mouth and throat, it went down easier, as well, though he had the worst sore throat of his life. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
They carry on their existence in the borderlands between life and nonlife. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
On the other hand, has anything gone according to plan in my life lately? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z
Surrounded by grandparents and dozens of aunts and uncles and cousins, in a community where neighbors counted as family, pitching in when relatives couldn’t, Dorothy’s children’s lives would change very little. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
He would never again take a roach’s life. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
“They will have good life, no need to worry now!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
Does your so-called life involve that little hot mama from dance class? Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z
Everyone wanted to talk about the mysterious James Parker, his secret life as Reggie Bradley, and his money. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
Not to mention, judging from the size of those stitches, it would take Needles the rest of his life just to make a sweater. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z
Too soon, it’s over, and I want to go again, because this is what life should feel like all the time, not just for ten seconds. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
She said the life jackets were cracked and the boat needed a paint job. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
In fact, they’re kind of all I want to eat for the rest of my life. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
She jumped out of bed and started after him, for her very life was in that pack—food, needles, knives, even her boots. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
Which explains why for a period of time previously considered humanly impossible, I maintain my life force without benefit of breathing. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z
Maybe if I ripped it open, I would also be ripping open my life. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z
“It’s as if I had turned into a different person. The new life around me was so complete; it pulled me away. You became people in a book I had read a long time ago.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Yeah, it’s important. Later on in life I’m sure you’re going to run around talking Latin all over the place.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z
And she had wept, in her great joy that the hand of God had changed her life, had lifted her up and set her on the solid rock, alone. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z
I picked up the life vest near the feet of the mangled girl. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
I wanted to get my life back on track, and he wanted to do the same. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
Suddenly, this feels bigger than me and my small life. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
She was too worried about losing Jason to his old life. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
“Just promise never to try and save my life again.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z
Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from the larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of homicide. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z
Dad thought that living a primitive life in the summer was healthful. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Father,” I said, “in all my life, I’ve never even been in there.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z
“The few instances of it that I’ve had the misfortune to witness are among the worst memories of my life. And let me assure you, I’ve lived long enough to see some truly dreadful things.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z
“You were supposed to be making a tape of your life.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z
She wasn’t entirely sure where the words were coming from; she had never climbed before in her life. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z
The predictable pattern of life made the rare moments of surprise especially memorable. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z
The bus engine thrummed to life and lurched into gear. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
She wondered what had happened to all the tom cats who had made life interesting and the nights hideous. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
For the first time in my life, I had brought a smile to her Ups. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z
Jinny had never been so eager for anything in all her life. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z
I don’t know to this day how I got away with my life.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
‘Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done!’ Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z
You two are trodding roughshod on the most important night of my life, her heavily made-up face said. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z
He regrets his failed life, his crimes against the children of Tartarus! The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
None of these women could ever have imagined a life like the one I now had, but they’d trusted that their perseverance would yield something better, eventually, for someone like me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
“You are no longer slaves, doomed to die at a master’s whim. I freed you. Why should you wish to end your lives upon the scarlet sands?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
I seemed to be on the periphery of life, not really a part of it. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
He had lived outside of the lives of men. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
My father had been dreaming his life away for years. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z
Battles happened, innocent lives were lost in the cross fire. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
The people either accepted his own evaluation of his life, or were indifferent to it. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z
Though a number of Labadists still lived at La Providence, the plantation was eerily quiet, a bleak reminder of the dangers of colonial life. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
“But he won’t have to give his life,” James told them. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z
I’m going to be twenty-three next month and I just want to do something with my life before it’s over. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
Her sentence of death was once more commuted to transportation, this time for life. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z
“Let those sociologists stuff this in their collective pipe. Puts the kibosh on the deprivation-breeds-antisocial-behavior chestnut. This Fowl character has never gone hungry in his life.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z
None of this is in the playwright’s script; Courtney is writing a backstory based on what she imagines and what she knows of real life. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
Whereas Robert Stewart Howard was wealthy, his son evidently refused to base his life on its advantages, embarking on his westward journey with virtually no money to his name. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
“In each firm was a man with a fixed irrevocable purpose in life, for the sake of which he would bend or sacrifice all else,” Sullivan wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
Soon it would be nourishing a dozen different kinds of life. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z
Luke still looked conflicted, as if Toby was asking him to choose between life and death. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
Eventually, primitive life develops, and then shopping malls. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
The bad credit from her previous life still haunts her. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
Women battling serious mental illness or severe emotional problems are thrown in with other women, making dorm life chaotic and stressful for everyone. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
The Lord is the stronghold of my life. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
I never thought she really wanted me to write about my family life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
We talk about how his life is more hectic than ever—he now receives two hundred emails a day—yet he insists he can juggle the ever-expanding load and that he isn’t burned out. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
Soldiers took her father away too, so now she lives with her mom and older brother. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was not because this was where your life began. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
For the first time in my whole life I skipped supper. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
Life that crawled, life that slunk and crept and never closed its eyes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
I will use my fire as fuel to live the life I want to lead. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
He’d seen her kneeling and working on her daughter’s shoes, and it had come to him what her life was. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
Woodhull married a wealthy English banker and lived comfortably the rest of her life; Tennessee Claflin married Francis Cook, a member of the British nobility, and became Lady Cook. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
He’d disappeared from my life a month or so back, but before that, surfer boy had been making a real effort to be there for me, after school, once, even twice a week. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z
For the first time, life was regularized, with division of labor and communal efforts, such as defense and public works projects. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z
But would he have thrown his life away for one of them, or was it just because Kaira was rich and famous? Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z
They are a relief from my real life. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z
Money was part of their lives because they had nothing else, like a real home. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You ask me one question—any one question—about your life. If I answer correctly, you tell me what I need to know.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z
Bernabe knew the valley, he understood the people, and in the end he liked his life here, maybe he even had an embarrassing love for it all. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
He was the man whom I had been told had spent years of his life in suffering and sacrifice to lead us, the black people, because he loved us so much. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
"An impressive effort tonight. You are truly as agile as Agent Iparis claimed. I hate seeing such talents wasted on worthless criminals, but life isn't very fair, is it?" Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z
Up till now I thought my life was too boring to think about, let alone write about, but that's changing. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z
“Meanwhile, it is not your job to worry about this. It will all work itself out, okay? Your sole focus should be getting back into life.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z
Whatever the exact cause, Galileo suffered from repeated bouts of an arthritic ailment for the rest of his life, which sometimes confined him to bed for several weeks at a time. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z
He let go of every former vestige in his life, except football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
The Reverend the sole survivor in a company of dead men who have marched along beside him all his life since then. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
The first primitive forms of life consumed various materials, including hydrogen sulfide, and released oxygen. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
There was yet another level of reality in Bigger’s life: the impliedly political. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
But from that time on there was a difference in their way of life. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
Everything looks beautiful and still, as if it were a photograph and not real life. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter, clinging to life. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
For the life of me, I couldn’t figure where she had come from, but scary as she was, I was relieved it was her. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z
I have often wondered what I might have become in life had society’s doors been more open to me—a child and youth of color—in the 1950s and 1960s. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Eleanor had only known one Asian person in her life—Paul, who was in her math class at her old school. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z
Then I met, or rather got to know, the lady who threw me my first life line. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
She clutched the pendant squeezing the unyielding metal until her muscles ached, as if forcing into her own mind the almost unthinkable fact that she might really remain an ugly for life. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
I would say that the whole life of any thinking African in this country drives him continuously to a conflict between his conscience on the one hand and the law on the other. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
At the time I had no idea how much I would have to live by these rules just to survive the ordeals of my life. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
In taking the veterinarian’s oath, she had pledged herself to a code of honor that bound her to the care of animals but also bound her to the saving of human lives through medicine. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Since I have failed to keep him safe in life, I must find him, kill him now before the Capitol gets to choose the agonizing means of his death. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
Under apartheid, a black man lived a shadowy life between legality and illegality, between openness and concealment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I can offer you safety, money. I can give you your life back, Jacob. All you have to do is work with us.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z
Because in those days, you see, that’s how a life like mine was known. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
Sometimes she stuck out into the future, imagining her life different from what it was. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z
So it was with confidence, strengthened by pity and pride, that we decided to change the course of events and alter a human life. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
“And Admiral Howe continues to delay the invasion. It’s maddening. The Crown must smash this rebellion into dust so we can return to our former lives with a sense of order.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z
If he could die saving lives, it was a better way to go than one last lay. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
He was famous, and that wasn’t too bad, but when they started following him with cameras and wanting to make movies of him and his life it got a little crazy. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z
And now that I feel so close to him, I need Thaya Jaan to remain in my life for a very long time. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z
Will I have to spend my life looking over my shoulder for my permanent record? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z
There had been one other time in his life like this, when he’d been flat on his back for months. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
It’s like we’re working a part-time job—because life isn’t full-time. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
Is this really the way my life is going to be? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
All of that happened because a, b and c happened, and that led to d, e and f and so on, until basically your life is the whole alphabet. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z
It seemed that I simply could not fit into a materialistic life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
Well, I’m a minor, but one quarter of your life is spent as a minor; you might as well make the best of it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z
Faraday had brought Rowan and Citra to his home to begin their new lives. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
Then he looked at us and said, “Listen to your driver’s instructions and do exactly what he says. Your lives depend on it.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
You left out Susannah, who lives in California and talked you into doing the play. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z
“Swanks run on funny little tracks against other swanks. They don’t run for their life. They don’t know how.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
But I got the feeling that what they all wanted to say was just You have the most beautiful eyes I’ve ever seen in my life. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Young lives forever scarred by a foolish act.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z
But Theo is not living a wild life; it’s Vincent and Gauguin in Arles who are living a Bohemian lifestyle, with Gauguin taking the lead. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
And it wouldn’t matter that they’d never spoken to each other before in their lives. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z
I stumbled to the infirmary, stepping over bundles of life jackets and coats that passengers had peeled off. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
Sure, the Donnelly house and C Average weren’t much like the life Rain and I had built at Garland. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z
They had been the quiet study of his life. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
No island lives were lost in the storm of ’42. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Slave women were always called to the bedrooms of their masters—it was simply a fact of life. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z
For years, the Mustang’s eight cylinders roared to life every morning, rousing me from sleep. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
She felt that the library was where her life truly began. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
I promise to be good for the rest of my life if you listen to my prayer and make me well again. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z
This was the first time in my life she had ever been called in for my behavior, and my stomach hurt about it all day. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
It was as if life itself were a jest. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z
Over the eons of unhurried time that is nature’s, life reached an adjustment with destructive forces as selection weeded out the less adaptable and only the most resistant survived. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
As anthropologist Patrick Wolfe writes, “Land is life—or at least, land is necessary for life.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
Gilly had thrown away her whole life for a stinking lie. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z
We’ve watched Macbeth change from a noble, trusted, dedicated soldier, willing to sacrifice his life for king and country, to a wretched, depraved, corrupt murderer who no longer has feelings of guilt or morality. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The lines were the old grandfather’s deathbed advice, talking about his life after slavery, his life still struggling: ‘“Learn it to the young’uns’” his final, “fiercely” whispered words. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
“Rest assured of that, my son. In our free democracy, even fighting for its life, the truth will out.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
She expected me to vindicate her life for her, and the choices she’d made. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
They could giggle their stupid lives away, and she’d never let it bother her. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z
She now lives in Texas and has five children. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
Yet all these billions of gently burning little fires spark the energy of life. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
That was why his whole life became so quickly and naturally organized, pointed, charged with a new meaning when this thing occurred. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
Everything I was experiencing in my social life in America was new to Mom and Dad. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
The Thirty Years’ War, which had pummeled and bankrupted much of Europe, was finally winding down, and intellectual life flourished. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
Nobody knew he had really run away like he was escaping to save his life. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
But as it happened, a central tenet of life in the Klan—and of terrorism in general—is that most of the threatened violence never goes beyond the threat stage. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
Back then, it had made his life better and easier. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z
It is the first time I’ve ever written to the person whose life I’ve occupied, and it feels both strange and comfortable, knowing that Rhiannon will be the reader of these words. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z
There was no way Gideon would publicly call me his girlfriend if I didn't pluck the ten to fifteen hairs that were ruining my life. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
I didn't want to trouble Caitlin with my life worries or scare her off. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
Might they be compatible with some unimaginably different form of life? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Teresita’s husband had drawn many hills and even a creek along the crooked path, but no other signs of human life were depicted on the map. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z
“I think I can still live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don’t read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z
“That's all you like? Do you have any sort of inner life? Do you even know what that is?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
I clench the Artifact like my life depends on it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
Something happened when I was holding Rue's hand, watching the life drain out of her. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
I told him that was the cheesiest idea I'd ever heard in my life and asked him to stop calling me with his empty little propositions. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
He lives in Shady Creek, and he goes to our school. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z
As they sat their horses waiting, Renly's shadow knights pointed their lances upward, so she rode through a forest of tall naked trees, bereft of leaves and life. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
I never in my life thought I would like exercise, but Dr. Cooke insisted that it would help me feel better—something about endorphins and releasing stress. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
Or take the challenge that preoccupied Galileo through a large part of his working life: that of establishing longitude at sea. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
In everyday life, you would not mistake him for a private school lad. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
But this story, though false, took on a curious life in my imagination. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
I looked forward to moving ahead with my life and my studies in the city. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
For most of her life, she’d been pulled between following her heart and her mind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
None of us knows which bits of our lives will slot nicely together while we are living them. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z
“He gave up his life fighting for you, and you won’t do anything to repay that?” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z
He said the school was really a place where boys like me could have time to see their mistakes and start a new life and become somebody everyone would be proud of. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Go quickly now. Be smart, and be careful, and do what you can to keep your life. Do you promise me that?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
All these sounds made him feel comfortable and happy, for he loved life and loved to be a part of the world on a summer evening. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z
"I had no idea you were taking pictures. We’re trying to save actual lives, and you’re flitting around with your camera? I told everyone you were too young." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z
Perhaps his life had been wicked, but he had been very good to her. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z
At least she was living her life, busting out of its seams, letting the horses gallop, before she had to leave. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z
It feels like this is the rest of my life. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z
If, after whatever matter it has lost to space, a star retains two or three times the mass of the Sun, it ends its life cycle in a startlingly different mode than the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
It looked a little like a movie theater coming to life. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
If she’d made it north she would have disappeared into a life outside their terms. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
I may live a very sheltered life, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t experienced a few unspeakable things. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z
Is this how your new life will always be? says a voice inside me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
The whole history of our lives in those hugs. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
It had been a condition of life ever since she had married Gary Gaines. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
Sticks in my craw like a rusty hook, knowing how little it means to a rich creep like Tyler Croft, that he can ruin my life anytime he feels like it. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z
“I have known quite a few Alters and Altes, and many of them have gone on to lead long and exceptional lives. Unusual lives.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
By doing so, Cabot Searcy felt that he would be able to keep himself from getting too distracted by Benton’s death and move on with his life. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z
“Do you wish to pursue the cloistered life and take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
The truth is, I never felt bad for Rachel, even before I found out about her drinking and how difficult she was, how she was making his life a miscry. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
"Is he—?" "The khal lives," Irri answered quietly ... yet Dany saw a darkness in her eyes when she said the words, and no sooner had she spoken than she rushed away to fetch water. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
A few days after I entered prison, I realized that I wouldn’t like talking about this part of my life. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z
I proceeded with exceptional alertness and de­liberation, not only to preserve my life but also to give him the right signal. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
It gave me trust issues later in life. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z
Could I even manage to take everyone I love with me, start a new life deep in the wild? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
Dad always practiced what he preached, and it was just about impossible to tell where his scientific management company ended and his family life began. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z
He wore khaki jodhpurs though he had never ridden a horse in his life. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
There was an irony to it; all his life, he’d been taught the ways of being a warrior and thought those were also the ways to be a man. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
But, as an indulgence, let us imagine that intelligent life once evolved on such a planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
She answered all Howard’s nosy questions without a single eye roll and acted like she hung out with up-down boys every day of her life. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z
My life seemed too sad for me to talk to anyone. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z
Whenever he was out with others, he was properly buttoned up, his clothes clean and ironed within an inch of their lives—but not with me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z
She hoped she would get to know some in her life, besides her parents. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z
He shook his head and said, “Billy, it’s no use. The life has gone out of her. She has no will to live.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
My life is now a desperate struggle for survival. . . with occasional titration. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
Certainly, the white power structure in the South had resisted before what they had perceived as federal intrusion into regional life. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
“Those kinds of—of pale imitations aren’t the same as truly bringing someone back to life.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
Let white flowers grow upon this place that you rest, Yours was a life well lived, and now you dine in the halls of the Elders at their eternal feast. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z
While the freight trains continued to rumble through town a dozen times a day, little in Clarkston looked familiar to the people who’d spent their lives there. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
He would have lived a life hungry for feelings, for color, for love. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
She flew away from the dead-end corridor where her life had trapped and taunted her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
“It’s our job to know. Your gleaning won’t change any of that. You lived a good life. Scythe Faraday is here to complete it for you.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
It therefore poisons all life with which it comes in contact: the cat beloved of some family, the farmer’s cattle, the rabbit in the field, and the horned lark out of the sky. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
“Bianca, I know it’s hard to believe. But the gods are still around. Trust me. They’re immortal. And whenever they have kids with regular humans, kids like us, well. . . Our lives are dangerous. “ The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z
My father had been a vaquero all his life, a calling as ancient as the coming of the Spaniard to Nuevo Méjico. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
Hundreds, thousands, millions of them, and every one a life; and dogs to eat them, and cats too. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z
Does he even remember his past life—does he know that Hideo is his brother? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
Then I tell him, “Yep. Go for it. She deserves a little happy in her life.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z
“The company’s given you a good job, a house, and a decent life, Dubonnet,” he was saying, “and all you want to do is tear it down.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
Squinting down at our hideous, expectant faces, she probably saw no real reason to return to earth and reclaim her life among scumbags like us. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
“Do you want my life to be meaningless?” he shouted. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z
Bigger was not at that moment really bothered about whether Max’s speech had saved his life or not. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
I need to feel physical pain, to attach myself to daily life. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
Suck in a deep breath and continue on: In the studio, I don’t have to worry about anything else that’s happening in my life, or in the world around me. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
He wanted life to be normal again— football, even his homework, without that daily burden weighing him down. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
In 1852, unable to bear any more pain or persecution, Mantell took his own life. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
To cope, I pretended I was destined for a different life, just like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, the Little Princess and, of course, Alice. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z
“They just want me to live an honest life, you know? And I can’t do that here. I just know that I can’t.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
The tree leaves, which had been green for the robot’s entire life, turned yellow and orange and red. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z
Annabelle wants to help him out, to get this thing done, so they can all get back to normal life, whatever that is. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z
I stood mesmerized by the heat and the luscious scent until the rain interfered, running its icy fingers down my back, forcing me back to life. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
Although it was totally new to me, this life was routine for the bonobos. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z
It is about the right we all have to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
The moment he stepped out of that door he would have his life in his hands. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
I never didn’t catch a ball that was thrown to me in my life. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z
“That man who caused the trouble in the store a while ago lives out west of Rose Hill— that’s on your road home, isn’t it?” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z
And it was hard to remember a worse day in his life than the one when he turned to his wife and simply said, “This thing’s got to go.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
“We were just watching a smart documentary, so it’s not really your life,” Travis said. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z
There is no reason to doubt the stove-heated room or the dreams, but all the evidence suggests that Descartes’ new philosophical life had begun exactly a year earlier, on 10 November 1618. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Was it one of these people, each and every one of whom she could swear loved Redemption more than their own life? Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
They traded a life of being hunted in the wild for a life of being raised, bred, and eaten by humans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
“Prince, I would sacrifice my life for you, and you treat me so rudely.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z
Now he saw that his life span had always been determined by how long it took to eliminate all the Horcruxes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
I want my father to be just my father, the way he has always been, not a separate person with an earlier, mythological life of his own. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
The date was July 27, 1919, day that would forever change the life of John Turner Harris and cause the whole city of Chicago to rethink where it had been and where it was headed. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
He’s found a second wind in life, selling, of all things, ÁguaViva. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
“Hold on,” he said, “do you still want to steal the wing? Don't you get it? Scipio has never done a break-in in his life!” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z
He had never felt so cold in his life. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z
I think of the rainbow serpent god and the rabbit who saved his life. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
Still, as miserable as my life has been, I was not able to bring myself to set the plan in motion, or even to make the first move for a long time. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z
She considered her address to have been persuasive and powerful—“a great event” in her life. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
Instead of letting them start separate new lives like the Japanese, who could become samurais and geishas, the Chinese family, faces averted but eyes glowering sideways, hung on to the offenders and fed them leftovers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
For a long time I thought I could live and work in Haiti, carving out a life with you, but now I understand that I can’t. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
In real life, Brennar will know right away when he’s no longer able to control his avatar. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
Her father’s second marriage had only made her life miserable, and she had never respected Ana’s single-minded quest for a husband. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
You don’t get to change your life, period. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z
How could he remember to stay strong and proud, seeing everything in life differently from a distance? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z
I would of thought that would make life easier, but it only made me restless. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
He is a clean slate, something new in my life. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
I break lives to prove I can mend them back again. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
Not a boat was in sight except a single canoe traveling parallel to a tree-wreathed shoreline, children in life jackets at the flashing paddles a quarter mile off. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
Because he spent all of his free time there, he couldn’t quite manage to broaden his life. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
And I thought, he either lives about twelve feet away from here or he started his walk during the Reagan Administration. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
Had I known at the first what now I know—nay, had I even guess at him—one so precious life had been spared to many of us who did love her. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z
He believed his life was as good as over. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z
I'm not a creep, and I won't let her think that about me for the rest of her life. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
"What I thought was,” she said, "we’d go downtown and find out where she lives. Then just go out there.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z
My feet never suffered—and that is a factor of major importance, in a winter-journey where an hour’s exposure can, after all, cripple one for a week or for life. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z
I hated not being able to tell her what was going on in my life. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z
“I’m not saying jail is for everybody, but it probably could save his life because look where his people went,” Cherie said. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
But I’d been waiting my entire life for a chance to go to the Olympics, and just like that, the experience was already behind me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
There are two great identical snakes on a Levantine libation vase of around 2000 B.C., coiled around each other in a double helix, representing the original generation of life. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
We came from the bottom of that river where the blood never stops flowing, where my mother’s dive toward life—her swim among all those bodies slaughtered in flight—gave her those wings of flames. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z
Life in here is nothing like my life before, but I still get to read books, exercise, and watch TV. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z
“Yes, I’m finished! My gosh, what a family. You take your life in your hands if you just blow your nose.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z
It upset her that they had served their country for most of their working lives, and yet now they had to fear for their future. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
For the first time in their lives the Greeks of Asia Minor were out from under Turkish rule. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
I lost myself in the minutiae of life. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
Looking back at those days, I was both appalled and impressed by how bold I had been, how risky, intoxicated by life on the edge. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
“I haven’t seen my dad in years. He’s not part of my life.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z
Since stepping reluctantly into public life, I’ve been held up as the most powerful woman in the world and taken down as an “angry black woman.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
Like, you live there and you got roaches and you got crack and you got streets that don’t get cleaned up and you got people giving up on life and that’s what it’s all about. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z
If we had our entire lives ahead of us I bet you’d get tired of me telling you how much I love you because I’m positive that’s the path we were heading on. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
Like my daughters, I was cultivating a private life to go along with my official one. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
Jaden said some more about the book, and I stared at the cover thinking how far away I was from my life back at the Lighthouse. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z
It made her feel like being here in this bombed-out, impoverished nation was the best experience she would ever have in her life and like her hungry stomach was just an adventure. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
He’s spent too much of his life talking, talking, talking not to know the signs when someone doesn’t want to hear him anymore. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
“I think you deserve your very own life,” she is saying, waving my protest away. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
I didn’t mention to her that I had known at least six John Kims in my life. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
The Captain lives there with his wife and children. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
A billion tiny mud creatures lived and ate and died in the top layer of sand, and the little casts and breathing holes and invisible movements showed that the whole landscape was aquiver with life. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z
Life had arisen almost immediately after the origin of the Earth, which suggests that life may be an inevitable chemical process on an Earth-like planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
“No, Michael,” Uncle Brian said, “you're mistaken, for once in your life. The accountancy game's more or less immune to economic doldrums.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z
She was just as tall as I was, and I could hardly think of life without her. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
Emenike’s obliviousness had upset him, because it suggested a disregard, and, even worse, an indifference to him, and to his present life. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
The abundance of these molecules suggests that the stuff of life is everywhere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
I lived with her my whole life, and now I feel like I didn’t know her at all. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
The last time I’d had something like a normal life had been ... well, never. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z
I wouldn’t just be peering into Elizabeth’s life, but Hilly’s too. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
Who goes eleven years of their life without yelling once? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z
The breath of life was slowly leaving him. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
But Dad drank hard liquor only when we had money, which wasn’t often, so life was mostly good in those days. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
Van Riper lives just outside Williamsburg, in Virginia, in the kind of immaculate, orderly house that one would expect of a career military man. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z
I’d been breathing all day, all week, all my life, and I had forgotten to notice until now. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
It was mad weird seeing across the border for the first time in my entire life, taking in the country where my grandparents were born. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z
On this evening Frightful answered his call with “car-reet,” and he smiled and remembered how she had saved his life by catching food for him in the wilderness. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z
Moms are technically human beings, and human beings are allowed to have romantic lives. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z
They stepped forward to save lives and relieve suffering, and did so without thought of receiving individual acclaim. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
"Little. Don't ever let someone call your life, your dreams, little. Hear me?" Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z
He had in his hand his and Regina’s life savings — $12 — and with that money, he bought enough cloth to make ten dozen aprons. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
Still, I would have given anything to be back in the village, safe behind the walls of a house, even if it meant spending the rest of my life being scolded by Sass. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z
The voices and the laughter and the music breathe life into the sullen walls. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
She also told me that when she was young, during the sixties, there were many men and women that made significant changes that affected her life, as well as the world around her. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
In the month that followed, I lived the life of a lunatic. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
Everyone trapped in their roles: orphans, cadets, Frederick, Volkheimer, the old Jewess who lives upstairs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
The Dark Lord wants Potter’s life, not his soul. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
Mullah Faizullah’s words whispered in her head: Blessed is He in Whose hand is the kingdom, and He Who has power over all things, Who created death and life that He may try you. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z
Someday, if not today, you will see that this life is nothing without people to love. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
The proud, ambitious man who had brought his family to Kraków for a better life was powerless to stop the Nazi brutes who dared break into his home. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z
Izzi does as he says, and reluctantly, I follow, my whole body rebelling at the thought of putting my life in the hands of a Mask. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
Even the Jesuits had allowed him considerable indulgence, such as permission to get up late in the morning, which became not so much a habit as a way of life for Descartes. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z
He looks at me, steps away, stops, comes back, kisses me on the forehead for the first time in my life and I’m so happy I feel like floating out of the bed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z
How could anyone ever be happy in a life like this? he thought. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
For the old people in my family—Mummy, the aunties, Granddad—the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z
I began reading their biographies to find out what, if anything, in their lives had influenced their music. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
At the end of the war, life returned to normal, and Shackleton began a world tour, speaking to audiences in big cities and outback villages about Endurance’s doomed voyage. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z
"You, Mohammed Aziz, rookie botanist, actually found the flower of eternal life and didn't know it. You coulda been rich and famous at a young age, if you hadn't..." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z
He devoted the rest of his life to searching for a way to tie up these loose ends by finding a grand unified theory, and always failed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
I asked if it might change his life. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
I couldn’t tell him that the reason I couldn’t return to Cambridge was that being here threw into great relief every violent and degrading moment of my life. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
For three days all the normal rituals of our life were suspended, while half-forgotten rituals, like praying, were renewed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
He calls her his fairy godmother, because she showed up just at the moment in his life when he needed somebody to let him know it was okay to be himself. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z
It had been, he said, the most intense and the most important few weeks of his life. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
Rufus, when he saw the huge animal he had aroused, instead of running for his life simply stood motionless and stared with his mouth hanging open. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z
He called it his mission in life, to make his girls smile. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
“I give in. I was wrong. Spare my life.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z
“Oh my child, don’t you know that was just to get sympathy up in the East? That’s the oldest trick known to mankind. You know Kaiser Bill prayed to God every night of his life.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
My parents, meanwhile, had locked in early and for life. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
He’s always known part of her resents their mom for the position they occupy in the world, for not having a normal life, for taking herself away from them. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
But it turned out the sci-fi Hela was inspired by the ancient Norse goddess of death, who lives trapped in a land between hell and the living. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
The PA speaker came back to life with a loud static pop that made everyone jump. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z
"It's my own life at risk, and I say it's okay." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
Maybe it was enough that our lives had merged and diverged and left us both transformed. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z
They were ready to start their new life. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
But finally, after much pestering from me, she did tell me how she knew what was going on in people’s lives. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z
And he bought the first shoe she had had in his life not made by a woman, and they were black velvet shoes such as the Old Lord had worn flapping at his heels. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z
Although demographic shifts were a normal part of life in America at the time, the population swell experienced by the North End made it one of the busiest and liveliest places in the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
Instead of thanking God he thanks Gogol, the Russian writer who had saved his life, when Patty enters the waiting room. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
They see no life When they look they see only objects. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z
He stood watching life proceed at an exaggerated rate outside the shimmering corona. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z
Just as a child with no books in his home isn’t likely to test well in school, a boy named DeShawn isn’t likely to do as well in life. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
When Mrs. Davis knew she wasn’t going to live much longer, she stocked up on presents and wrote long letters about her life. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z
For Wilbur, nothing in life was so important as this small round object—nothing else mattered. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z
Frightful, who for most of her life had been raised by Sam—not by peregrine falcons—had much to learn. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z
It’s like I’ve always had a painted musical sound track playing background to my life. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z
But put them in a ring with another rooster, and they sprang to life, explosions of feathers and dagger claws. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
She’d won the 1938 Bendix Air Race flying a fighter plane from Los Angeles to Cleveland, and later in life she would become the first woman to break the sound barrier. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
For a long time that radio show was my whole life. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z
He stayed at the barn and worked over her to save her life. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Then you don’t care if his life is spoiled and his poor body rooted up and—oh, my God almighty!” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
And what she would tell them about him, his habits, his life, would help them to track him down. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
“I am trying to save lives!” the director roared. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z
Her strange spark of life had gone out. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z
In her second life, she was a freedom fighter from Bangladesh. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z
But Pertinax was made emperor against the will of the soldiers, who, accustomed to living licentiously under Commodus, could not tolerate the honest way of life to which Pertinax wished to return them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z
They had to fill in on the lives of all the people they made contact with. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
In addition to setting me up with the shoe-shine gig, Shorty schools me on everything to do with the street life. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
If life were a movie, this was the part where you’d start the music montage. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z
As had been the case many other times in her life, Katherine Goble was the right person in the right place at the right moment. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
That tide of food, water and rest that flowed through my weakened system, bringing me a new lease on life, also brought me the strength to see how desperate my situation was. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
All my life I’ve tried to set my shoes squarely into his footprints, believing if only I stayed close enough to him those same clean, simple laws would rule my life as well. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You know when a man lives alone as much as I do, his mind can go olf on an irrational tangent just because his social world is out of kilter.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
I hope he doesn’t understand what I’m doing—keeping him here so he stays safe, even though he would gladly give his life for this. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
Their lives were similar enough to contemporary hunter-gatherers that perhaps they should now be simply called Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
So many years have passed since we last saw our father, his absence like a bubble in my older brother's life, that pops again and again into a whole lot of tiny bubbles of memory. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z
I remember one time you said your life made you feel so ashamed you couldn’t even talk about it to God, you had to write it, bad as you thought your writing was. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Light of my life. He Who Is Stuck in School.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z
The essays are supposed to be about a significant event that occurred in our lives. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
He just started walking away, pushing past everyone, many of whom must have put two and two together and figured out that he was the kid onstage, the one whose life had just fallen apart. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
No offense, Amari, Holly said, but you better not be getting all up in my next life. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z
But she was good because wherever she was, there was life, good, tender, overwhelming, fun-loving and strong-scented life. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
Even though it’s been fifteen years, his death haunts her every day of her life, she says. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
“Sounds like you think whoever it is, he lives right here on the island. Is that what—” “Look,” said Art Moran, halting. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
“Are you criticizing how I saved your life?” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
Five minutes old, and already the themes of my life— chance and sex—announced themselves. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
I’d observed this quality in him before, but now that we were living together and I was considering making the first real swerve of my life, I came to value it even more. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
I already know that becoming a mother will be the greatest jay of my life. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
My church served as the center of my life. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
I guess when you’ve known someone their entire life, you can still see them that way. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
Johnny, who had never even seen a sash cord in all his life, got a hammer and screwdriver and took the whole window frame out of its case. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
I looked older than I thought I did in real life. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Really, my life has been up and down. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
He was, according to Nature’s obituary, "embroiled in controversy for most of his life" and "put his name to much rubbish." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
Started on a shoestring in 1898 by a former slave, the life insurance company grew vigorously, spinning off a black-owned bank and a fire insurance company. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
“It knows because it has life in it,” said Clary. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
"I've never been allowed to carry anything! Not in my entire life." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z
He loved Maer, too: “My life has been very happy and very fortunate, and many of my pleasantest remembrances are mingled up with scenes at Maer, and now it is crowned.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
They wondered how many other eyes were in Count Olaf’s house, and whether, for the rest of their lives, they would always feel as though Count Olaf were watching them even when he wasn’t nearby. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z
One day in the Butt Room he read aloud a rumor in a newspaper about an attempt on Hitler’s life. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
One has only a life of one’s own. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Jorge came over the border and shot them. He got into a lot of trouble for it, too. He, uh, he saved my life, and I owe him everything.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
At the heart of life is a fuse box. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
A man should have more to say when staring at the end of his life, he thought, but the words came hard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
If you look back at the brief quiz in the first chapter, you will find that you know things about music just having experienced and listened in your everyday life. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
They lived useful, long lives, so let us not panic like a bunch of Chicken Littles and feel the sky falling, but instead put our energy into keeping Norvelt alive. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
I imagine watching Gale volunteering to save Rory in the reaping, having him torn from my life, becoming some strange girl’s lover to stay alive, and then coming home with her. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
“It was a very appealing dream of what you want your life to be like.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
But taking Sir Fig Newton to the vet was a matter of life and death. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z
Jeanne says to him, "Have you lived here your whole life?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z
He had no rights, no home, no control over his own life. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z
So my life was more or less uncomplicated. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z
"Inside the Embassy, life was dominated by a terrible paranoia about bugging: often the staff appeared able to think of nothing else," Gordievsky commented. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Woundwort had won almost every fight of his life by using his weight. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
The sound of children screaming, wood splintering, and life departing roared from behind. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
Black life in South Africa had never been so cheap. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
I'm also pretty embarrassed to be taking food from a man who lives in a cardboard box, but I haven't eaten anything since the sandwich Max and I shared. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
It is far from that easy in real life. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z
Settler life is hard and it’s short and lotsa New World people have lost the battle. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z
It was no secret that Hitler considered them “parasites” and wanted to remove them from public life in Germany. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
Mark fell to the ground, sucking the life back into his lungs. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
And finally, the Road opened, allowing citizens of the Protectorate, for the first time in their lives, to venture forth. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z
Though I am sad and many days wish I am dead, my heart continues to beat with life. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
The finale was supposed to be a couple of hundred-foot-tall Spartan warriors who would crackle to life above the ocean, fight a batde, then explode into a million colors. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z
“Everybody wants the life of a black man.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
She works security for the Transportation Security Administration at a Maryland airport and lives in Aberdeen, close to Wes’s mother. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
And I was filled with compassion for his suffering, even now, as he confessed his craving to take my life. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z
It had been seven years, almost half my life, since I’d been there, but nothing had changed. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z
“It will be over, and life will go back to how it was.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
At home in the evenings I wondered what I would do with my life if I couldn’t go to school. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
All of his life he had squandered his choices, wallowing in revenge and self-pity, keeping himself down. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z
But I can’t walk away, or the guilt, the weight of Will’s life, and my parents’ lives, and now Marlene’s life, will break my bones, will make it impossible to breathe. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
The Ladybug, who had been haunted all her life by the fear that her house was on fire and her children all gone, married the Head of the Fire Department and lived happily ever after. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z
I think of all the people Mama Ya-Ya has taken care of in her life—probably hundreds, thousands, with herbs and potions for arthritis, fevers. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z
Still, it seems impossible to unravel myself from their lives. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
She had never loved him so much in all her life. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z
I told myself that I wanted a more passionate life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
For many years to come, the smell of revolt, of roadblocks and massacres, would be an abiding odor in Haiti and in Ophelia’s life and Paul’s. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
This was a war for the possession of his body and that would be the war of his whole life. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
Suddenly the two women remembered that in China families married young boys to older girls, who baby-sat their husbands their whole lives. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
They were trapped in the citadel to scrape up a life for themselves however they could and for as long as they could, and there were gifts that might make that easier. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
I never thought that a life sentence truly meant life and that I would die behind bars. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
If I’d tried in childhood to imagine my present life in the jungle, I’d have been struck numb with the adventure of it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
Every time it rained for the rest of his life, his knee hurt. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
Shaking her head at the view—of the hilly, green campus, the lake in the distance—she says, “Youse girls better enjoy it now. Best time of life is when you’re young.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
He seemed happier than ever, and I wasn’t sure if it was because of his job at the college, our new lives in Arizona, or just being away from Mississippi. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z
Then maybe my life as a ghost in this house would finally be over. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
The stone can be the kingdom or it can be a man’s life. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z
Tell me about a girl who lives in a house with her grandfather, about a house that's full of easy love, about a house that isn't haunted. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
I wonder if that’s what she’s doing now and realize that I have no idea what my cousins regular life is like. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z
She has known him since he was just a country lawyer and has shared almost half her life with him. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
She slinks right back to him, rubbing herself against his legs, oblivious to the years of rotten luck she’s filling our lives with. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z
For one thing, it would not have been granted and I did not want to do anything that might suggest that I was not prepared for the consequences of the underground life I had chosen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Over the course of his life, Wesley traveled ceaselessly among these groups, covering as much as four thousand miles a year by horseback, reinforcing the tenets of Methodist belief. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
I’d lived inside it the way a goldfish lives in its bowl, as if that was the only world there was. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
That fall Ruth had to fly back to Florida to sell her condo, pack her belongings, and wrap things up in general to prepare for this new phase in her life. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z
“Sort of like helped me to see there’s a lot more things to do in life,” he said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
And there I was, full of promise and hope and desire for real love and real events to shape and change my life. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z
I deserve to live out the rest of my days underground, like the naked mole rat that’s absolutely revolting to look at and lives forever in darkness and isolation. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
After all Tabitha and I had been through, all I wanted was to make a better life for us. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
Although the portraits here are not taken from life, they hint at how the Inka viewed and remembered their leaders. empire to the north. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
I swear, this whole town lives in the past. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z
But your life’s about to get a lot more exciting. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
You dismiss it as someone else’s hell and get back to your life. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z
“For a guy like me, with no college, it’s become pretty bleak out there,” said Martinelli, who is fifty years old and deals with life’s curves with a resigned shrug. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
I do not know what he looks like, but if Pol Pot is the leader of the Angkar then he is the one responsible for all the miseries in our lives. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Along the way, though, he managed, as we shall see, to pack even more into his life than Hooke and Newton combined. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z
“They wanted to be safe and protected and have a pleasant life,” Volpe said. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
Hence the greatly increased life expectancy brought by modern medicine may have contributed to the recently accelerating pace of invention. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Now, of course, Mama doesn’t look like she’s ever joked in her life. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z
“Are you kidding? Living with one bathroom is the worst situation of my life, ahhhh.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z
This was supposed to be the part where I talk about my fourth and final life: Coop-and-Everyone-Else. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z
“I did. I do. That’s why I hate this—his whole life gone—all gone. And his grave—they might even dig him up and throw him out.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
“To accelerate, simply flap your arms faster. However, be advised: The faster you fly, the more energy your pterodactyl will consume. Your winged avatar will have a ‘life battery’ icon glowing on its back. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z
I stared at her, becoming more aware each minute of the terrible simplicity of her life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
In everyday life they are way too tiny to see; they are too small to detect even with the most powerful equipment that we could possibly manufacture in the near future. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
She’s my best friend, and she shares every detail of her life with me. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
In my writing, there is a stepfather now who lives in California but meets us wherever we go. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z
I watch him walk away, wondering if his life changed just about the same time mine did. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z
I always looked at that time in the hospital as being my actual birth, because I remember nothing of my life from before those days. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z
For Matter hath no life nor perception, is not conscious of its own existence, nor capable of happiness, nor gives the Sacrifice of Praise and Worship to the Author of its Being. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
“But only a few people have access to those codes, and I’d trust any of ’em with my life.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z
“You don’t need options in life. You need Jesus. Options are fine if you’ve got them, but we don’t. We don’t have the money.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z
But even in a fairly strong gravity field, light would travel in a straight line, as it does, of course, in everyday life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Suddenly, I realize that I’m mouthing off to one of the world’s most powerful people—to my idol, someone I’ve watched and read about and obsessed over for years, someone who had changed my life. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
We are two men, two minute sparks of life; outside is the night and the circle of death. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
One was brutal, the other mean, but both had spent most of their lives in service at the Dreadfort. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
Mike had never lived a life like that. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
With all these windows into the lives of students and the close attention he paid, he has become an authority on high school sociology. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
She gave up on me, and I felt as though life had as well. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
Schindler was forced to agree, but ironically, that change was what saved our lives near the end of the war when Schindler argued that his "expert" workers had to be moved to Brünnlitz. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z
It was the first time in her life that Aurelia had ever left the palace unaccompanied. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z
The last ten minutes had been the best ten minutes of my life. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
Fadi flipped open the book on undersea life and examined the bold colors of the tropical fish. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z
For hours at a time I would admire my looks myself, turning this way and that before the mirror, or assuming a relaxed pose to see what I looked like in real life. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
That’s all that was left of the life I’d had here: a puzzle whose rules I would never understand, because they were not rules at all but a kind of cage meant to enclose me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
“Cabot, it’s done. I’ve got things to do. I’ve got to get ready to go somewhere. I have a life here. I think you should go back to yours in Georgia.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z
The common force in their lives was physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
The next morning they went about their lives as usual, feeding Kehaar and themselves, playing and digging. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
Cheese on a sandwich, cheese in your fridge, that meant you were living the good life. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
Fred Johnson would stake him to a new start in life; he’d have to, if he wanted ever to be rid of him. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
“It’s all right for you, you live here all year round. You got your social life here and all. You don’t care.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z
Life that burrowed and scurried, and life so still it was indistinguishable from the ivy stems on which it lay. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
How very fine if he and a few others he knew on Earth could be here, live out their lives here, without a sound or a worry. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z
Yet he hoped that she was right, that peppers would indeed abort the pregnancy and his life would return to what it was before: Olanna and Master securely together. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
“He cannot enjoy his life when there are people suffering in the camps. He sees happiness as selfishness.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
One girl says, “ Vampire Diaries is life,” and a couple of the other girls giggle. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
They'd stood on stages in front of big crowds and were learning to absorb the anxiety and controversy that came with having a father, maybe especially a black father, in public life. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
Perhaps the order of beads on the string carried the secret code of life. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
“You’ve spent all your life here in Shaker, is that right?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
But, ‘the importance of the praise given the unsolitary, richly passionate and spontaneous life is that it simultaneously reflects the value of a reflective life.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Now he wanted to live his life a different way. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I have expressive eyebrows. They have a life of their own.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z
My secret is our lives in Phnom Penh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
But it was strange how life connected up; because I had carried Mr. Norton to the old rundown building with rotting paint, I was here. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
Standing up and speaking before an audience was a thing that throughout my previous life never would have crossed my mind. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
But Bigger wanted to save his own life. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
"Why wouldn't I know him? Didn't he grow up in my village? Didn't he save my life, a week ago? I know him." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z
Men, smooth-limbed, muscular, tanned, and beautiful in their youth, offer their lives at the altar of love. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z
I couldn’t ever imagine a life without my uncle, his laughing, his stories, the way he looks at the world. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z
And sometimes books imitate lives that imitate books. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z
Which makes you wonder, are they really speaking real words, or do little kids just start out naturally understanding each other before the prime of life sets in? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
She loved these girls so much, she only wanted them to have what they were entitled to—a better life, a fine house, educated ways. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
Commitment to this life means leaving behind your old life as fully as possible. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
But their music lives on, thanks in great part to Iranians everywhere. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
I knew at any moment it could be too much, and my life could end — so quickly that I might not even notice. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z
Toomer did not even look back, but continued into the store where he heard the laughter of these white men whom he had known all of his life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
The Saturday morning of the most important tennis match of my life was bright and sunny. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
He took a course in calligraphy, where he also learned about typefaces, and he talked about its impact on him and his company for the rest of his life. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
But for the people of Kilanga fufu was the one thing in life, other than time, that appeared to be taken for granted. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
Within hours of his birth, he had known how to run, and speed had been the measure of his life ever since. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
In every cinder of the universe Mercer probably perceives inconspicuous life. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z
“The whole of human civilization as we know it,” Chacko told the twins, “began only two hours ago in the Earth Woman’s life. As long as it takes us to drive from Ayemenem to Cochin.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
She hugged me, talking excitedly, making plans for the new life we were going to have together. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z
Speaking of life support, the rover switched over to the local tanks when the valves shut. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
But her life was a struggle, and she was looking for some order and answers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
“And with the increased potency, not only will no animal life within kilometers survive, it will be over almost instantly.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
In many communities in Natal and on the Reef around Johannesburg, a poisonous mixture of crime, political rivalries, police brutality, and shadowy death squads made life brutish and untenable. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
For the rest of her life she imagined her cousins worked for kind and generous masters up north, engaged in more forgiving trades than her own, weaving or spinning, nothing in the fields. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
In that instant, I saw that life might hold more for me than being a champion stick- fighter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
To save their jobs, and probably their lives, Soviet spies needed a second source to corroborate Hall’s report. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
This, dear friend, was the paradox of my life. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z
There was the scratching sound of a match being lit right before it flared to life, revealing the man who held it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
With that, the Mahdi walks past my grandmother, through the lobby and double doors, and out of our lives. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
And so it was that the weekend that was to have been a watershed in Dedd’s life turned into a trip down memory lane in a rented boat. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
But things were never quite the same; there was now a definite change in our life. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
Soon there were more and more people looking for space as Jews returned to the city to search for their families and try to reclaim their homes and their prewar lives. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z
For the first time in her life she locked it. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
He began to feel like a ghost in his own life, existing in a forced blind spot of the world. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
After all, life is not a Hindi movie. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
I didn't know everything then, about how the Kings would become his whole life. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
All I knew was I had never held anything that expensive in my life. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z
I loved the idea of bees having a secret life, just like the one I was living. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Why is it that some people are born into fantastic situations and others wait their whole lives for a break? Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
Then she followed a nurse down a long hallway into the ward for colored women, where Howard Jones and several other white physicians ran more tests than she’d had in her entire life. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
“She said he wasn’t afraid to gamble everything, and that’s the kind of man she wanted to spend her life with.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z
“I’m going because I like life,” was her strange reason. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
From an extraterrestrial perspective, our global civilization is clearly on the edge of failure in the most important task it faces: to preserve the lives and well-being of the citizens of the planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Both of us, it seemed, craved glimpses of regular life. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
“My mom died, all right? And I was sent to live with my grandmother, who lives in this neighborhood, and I had no choice. Not that it’s any of your business.” Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
His tail jumped to life when I was at the bow but his head did not lift. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
It’s not like it’s their fault, but I can see how, when people feel a threat to their lives, they’ll exercise any option they have. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
His career and, in fact, his life, have followed no grand plan. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
The Klan viewpoint could always find a hearing in the highest reaches of Durham’s civic life. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
But for now, consider that life a part of your past. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
Some of the elements of this environment created hazards to which life had to adjust or perish. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
“Number twenty-nine. Share with your partner an embarrassing moment in your life.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z
In the distance a bulldozer coughed into life, then roared down on a battered Ford Taurus, its metal claw smashing through the window to scoop up the vehicle and carry it away. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z
I don’t think I’ve ever seen something so beautiful in my whole entire life. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
I expected Ms. Rowling would just shake my hand, but she was down-to-earth and whispered some encouraging words about my life and future, and then she hugged me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z
Always the talk turned to life on the llano. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
I turned the corner, finally stumbling upon life. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z
“And my mother is like so heavy her whole life is going whack,” Kicky said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z
Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
Our lives will never be the same again after Keav’s death. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Kunthi’s child was born a few months before mine, a fine boy who nearly took his mother’s life in exchange for his own. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z
That long road, her life, which she had followed for sixty groaning years, had led her at last to her mother’s starting-place, the altar of the Lord. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z
Fox nut, pounded into a pale powder, for life energy. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
A medic performs mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in a desperate attempt to save the life of a seriously wounded fellow medic, 1969. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
But the vivid descriptions in the popular books by Lowell and his fervor in public lectures convinced millions of people for years to come that Mars was home to intelligent life. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z
For the first time in his life, he managed to link those didactic anecdotes with a reality he could see. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
“In the same room whar I put her maw to bed ev’y night of her life since she was big enough to sleep by herself.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Mr. Stanton’s present business cannot be regarded as a business for life,” Judge Cady said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
He believes witches can summon up storms that sink ships at sea—James had almost lost his life in such a storm. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
The flight of Apollo 11 ended a remarkable part of my life. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
Bigger felt that he was sitting and holding his life helplessly in his hands, waiting for Max to tell him what to do with it; and it made him hate himself. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
As do all of us who have voyaged through death, to life upon these shores. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
“Don’t mention those names on the air. I’d be afraid their lives would be endangered, and they were my friends.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
What would my life be like on a daily basis? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
It was the worst sound I had ever heard in my life. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z
A curly-haired third-year Hufflepuff girl to whom Harry had never spoken in his life asked him to go to the ball with her the very next day. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
I had never in my life seen a grown man cry that way. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z
I was riding so fast to try to get away because I was scared of being shot life ... Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
I don’t know if Jay’ll stay clean for the rest of her life. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
“To keep them quiet. Anyway, I didn’t need help. I’ve worked with rope all my life.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
Again we find that only by looking at some of the smallest units of life, the cell and its chromosomes, can we find that wider vision needed to penetrate such mysteries. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
I hadn’t seen much of my brother since the big baby announcement, which meant my life had been quieter and more bruise-free than usual. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
After that she bammed out “Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis,” as if her purpose in life was to play loud enough for old man Tate to hear through the shut windows. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z
There were moments when, due to the constant tension of prison life and the general lack of catharsis, violence and the potential for violence became a thrill. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
As always happens, your life decides for you anyway. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Her Living Curl had long since been pronounced dead, and on the whole she appeared to be adapted to within an inch of her life. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
One is long life expectancy, which in principle should give prospective inventors the years necessary to accumulate technical knowledge, as well as the patience and security to embark on long development programs yielding delayed rewards. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
“I’m always very fit,” said Maxim shortly, “never had anything wrong with me in my life. You imagine everyone ill who doesn’t look as fat as Giles.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
All night long, I dreamed of trees coming to life and witches flying over them. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z
We’ve been through the best and the very worst times of our lives together. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
So there is a direct connection between the dream and my life. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z
The life of a zoo, like the life of its inhabitants in the wild, is precarious. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
The congregation gasps, asif an unseen bellows were blowing the very breath of life into them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
Death is not a blind alley that leads the human race into a state of nothingness, but an open door which leads man into life eternal. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
We were going so fast that the steering wheel shook in my hands, jerking around like it had a life of its own. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z
The last simulation bled into my life, waking and sleeping. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
When it comes down to it, there’s nothing “normal” about our new environment, and I wonder if life will ever be the same. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
I had accepted the accepted attitudes and it had made life seem simple . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
If he could be with her, so extraordinarily beautiful and yet so ordinary, predictable and domestic and dedicated, then perhaps his life would start to seem believably his. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
If I’d been alone, I would have given myself the biggest bruise of my life. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
He didn’t know the double life I was leading. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The poor things were so frightened and so pretty, and he only had to stop being obstinate to save their lives.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
The one sign of life was a candle in an upstairs window. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z
“You know, Luke, Stan was the boy he was because he had Christ in his life. And do you know who guided Stan to Christ?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z
They hovered—happily, I’d say—between the hardscrabble Philadelphia neighborhoods they came from and a more cosmopolitan life they aspired to. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
For you never know when a sparrow with wide dreams and little bright eyes will come hopping hopping into your life again. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z
Rumors and gossip were a part of life in our village. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
“When you come to America, it’s a chance to forget some of the bad Chinese habits. A person could get up one day from the gambling table and find her life over.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
After he was lowered into the ground, our lives went on. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
The clays of the primitive Earth may have been the forge of life, and the chemistry of contemporary Mars may provide essential clues to the origin and early history of life on our planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Whenever he stumbled, he imagined a day in his life when he had stumbled. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z
I left her for dead, and if there had been a limekiln as nigh her as there is now nigh you, she shouldn’t have come to life again. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z
“That’s enough to save a few lives around here, but no, it’s not all. I know a little about some diseases. Only a little.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z
BREN: So, Arturo, perchance does that hook of Cuban rapper poems belong to a special someone who popped into your life the other day after so many years apart? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
“Listen, and accept. He lives, so far. I don’t know how your father will punish him for his crime.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z
I always assumed the shopkeepers live a soft life. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
So far in his new life there had been one, and only one, slight disappointment. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
The music rattles The window and Scares the cat out Of one of its lives As it drops From the fence. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Matter fact, I only told one my whole life, and that was because Ma made me.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
She had opened up to me, had let me into her beautiful, shiny life, into Stef’s tortured one, and now it was my turn. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Miss Ohio, what would you say was the toughest part about life on the island?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z
One person, Edward, had already lost his life because of the suit, and I knew that Mr. Loomis would not hesitate to kill me for it if necessary. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z
Brandon continued, "You really get to see where they got the name Glass Manor from, because dude, everybody who lives around there is freakin' shattered." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z
Only by life’s best things are your children protected—this much I surely believe. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
“He donated a bunch of money to create the memorial room at Perkins. He spent most of his life in Colorado, but we thought maybe he grew up in Lambert.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
Later in life, Elizebeth said that she left her job because she wanted to write. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
For several moments he had had the feeling of being back in a nightmare which had recurred from time to time throughout his life. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
He would use chloroform, and she would feel nothing and awaken to the prospect of a new life as Mrs. H. H. Holmes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
It may well be that the Magdalenians practiced their fertility magic in the bowels of the earth because they thought of the earth itself as a living thing from whose womb all other life springs. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
The worst moments in life are heralded by small observations. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
For the first time in her life, Aru had nothing to say. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
Yesterday's lemonade stand had been the hardest work of her life. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z
They know who stands behind Mobutu, and that in some place as far away as heaven, where the largest rules are made, white and black lives are different kinds of currencies. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
His life’s greatest setback was not having had the moth that he had discovered named after him. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
She let her mind wander back over her stay at Grand Isle, and she tried to discover wherein this summer had been different from any and every other summer of her life. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z
I still can’t figure out if it’s bravery or cowardice to take your own life. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z
“He’s supposed to explore his environment. That’s where he lives and everywhere.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z
“And the simulation made her incapable of reasoning with him, so when he threatened her life, she reacted as she had been trained by the Dauntless to react: Shoot to kill.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
Blanca led the idle life that was her true vocation, while her husband gave himself to those small pleasures that only money can buy and that he had denied himself for such a long time. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
“So how have you been? How is life?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
Red oaks lead long lives, longer than our daintier friends black willows, persimmons, apples, and redbuds. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
It was the longest trek Milkman had ever made in his life. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
More than anything, she wished she had known Joaquin back then, wished she had known him her whole life so that he would have been a little less lost. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
That’s what he said to Kitty, but to everybody else he was planning his whole life. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
Life becomes sufficient unto life; the rewards of living are found in living. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
Pumpkin had wanted so little out of life. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I’m a-going,” said he, bringing his fist down upon the table with a heavy blow, and rising as the blow fell to give it greater force,—“I’m a-going to have your life!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z
There were occasions when Big Brother devoted his Order for the Day to commemorating some humble, rank-and-file Party member whose life and death he held up as an example worthy to be followed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
Self-hate is also part of the reason people in her neighborhood do not speak to each other about the impact of incarceration on their families and their lives. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
“But aren’t you shortening her life by giving her so much?” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Yeah, she said it was the worst days of her life, but that was before Olga died.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
“All I know is I want to be Julie, because she’s so mean. But in real life I’m not mean—at all. Get it?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z
I puffed it carefully back to life and soon it was blazing merrily again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
The only clothes they had or would ever have—like the only life they had or would ever have—was what the citadel provided, and the citadel provided the garments of dead goddesses. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
Her life was solitary, carried around on her back with all that she had of the people she loved. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z
Because, for the first time in his life, he realized that, in Latin, alma mater meant “generous or nourishing mother.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z
"That must make life so much easier," I said. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
Mateo sits on the swing, holds on for dear life—I know—takes a few steps, and propels forward, his legs looking like they’re about to kick over a building. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
The Ruler of India sent the BFG a magnificent elephant, the very thing he had been wishing for all his life. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I didn’t say that. You know, you were only twelve when we met. And a real pain besides. I did have a life outside of hunting with you,” he says, loading up with firewood. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z
She wondered if the bird remembered anything of her life before, if she wanted to tell her brother things, if she dreamed of having two legs and running. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z
Our life here in Kinshasa contains more mercies than most can hope for. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
Opposite each brown triangle was a splash of color, something that reminded me of our little magpie, all bright and full of life. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z
He was owed this life that had so casually been given him, and if he had to die, he would struggle until the very last minute. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
It says: I love you, Kalinda, and I wish that we could one day be married and live together for the rest of our lives. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
Every fight of my entire life leaves me lying on the mat. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
I felt uncomfortable telling him about my home situation because Papá had taught us to keep our family life private, but I thought he needed to know. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z
“Our ancestors risked their lives to cross the ocean, to escape those socialist countries. And what do you do? You turn around and go back?” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
Margaret said, “I think I’ve heard everyone from the Massachusetts Nanny to the Long Island Lolita say that. What exactly does ‘getting on with your life’ mean?” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Holmes and the detectives parted as cheerily as if they had known each other all their lives. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
She had a normal life that did not include being cloistered in a bubble for fourteen hours a day with her sick teenage daughter. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
She fell in and out of the same dream she always had: ashes falling over the land, settling into the crevices between tree roots, dusting over every unfurled bud, smothering each hint of life. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
We were supposed to be the center of their lives, but instead, they had constructed a new family consisting of Melina and the founding members of her fan club. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
That discussion, however, did not go into the life span of journeys. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
Her parents were so proud of this life they’d created, but she didn’t get their enthusiasm for new beginnings. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
Whom she was apparently going to tell her whole life story to. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z
“But you don’t know how complicated something like this would be. You don’t know how different your life would be with me,” I said. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z
A good part of her life was taken up with bearing and raising. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared with the life of a businessman. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z
Milkman had never in his life seen a woman on the street without a purse slung over her shoulder, pressed under her arm, or dangling from her clenched fingers. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
There are people who tell me today that they are not religious because they consider religion to be an evasion of life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Through him speaks a shrewd and magnanimous people, a people who have woven together into one wisdom a profound, old, terrible, and unimaginably various experience of life.' The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z
Through the bars at the rear of the van, we see people going about the business of their lives in downtown New York. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
Leopold Page, who was quite a bit older than I, was devoted to Schindler and made it his life's goal to educate the world about who Schindler was and what he had done. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z
Knowing my place and all, I had never been in the front of any line before in my life. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
She breathed the way anyone would, but her breath smelled so heavy and foul, like curdled milk, that they could not associate it with life. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You are our chosen child, our only daughter. We missed so much of your life, and we cannot erase some of the tragedies.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z
“I barely escaped with my life. Most who enter aren’t that lucky.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z
It was the shock of my life to see Maria Teresa, so handy with her needlepoint, using tweezers and little scissors to twist the fine wires together. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I don’t know. He went out again this morning with the man who lives next door.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
My father used to beat me sore — I’ve learned that life is grim. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z
He did not speak of Annie more than once or twice for the rest of his life. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
He also felt as if suddenly his life wasn’t worth a plug nickel. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
It took a while to put my life back together. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
It would have saved me the most boring date of my life. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z
I tried to see time and seasons, my life passing in slow motion. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
He had a rotten life in the mess and he was fine about it but I thought how he would be in his own country. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z
“Every young person could use a caring adult in her life.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
“Georgia’s confused. Honestly, we all are. She knows she should be grateful for what you’ve given her, and she is. But other things would make their lives easier, that they would’ve appreciated even more.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z
The pain was as bad as anything I’d ever felt in my life. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z
Thus began the new life that, in time, would make him forget Rosa. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
“And what would life be like for me there? With you?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
As if, inside Werner’s head, an infinitesimal orchestra has stirred to life. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
As he looked at Dudley in his new knickerbockers, Uncle Vernon said gruffly that it was the proudest moment of his life. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z
Their lives and futures informed every decision she made. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
“You can’t make anything easy, can you? Not even now, the most important moment of your life?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z
The guy who moves through life effortlessly, who makes everyone laugh. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
Every time one of my men shows mercy to the enemy, one of their comrades falls, their life wrung out of them by Augur devilry. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
"Remember, Kabir—we chuck hot drinks or hard stones at life when it's trying to beat us down." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
"That's so sad, don't you think? I mean, giving up that way? But I know how she feels. And it is her life." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Computers spent their lives studying photographic plates of stars and making computations–hence the name. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
“But he has to go back to his old life, while it’s still there waiting for him.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z
Wives, children, a timid life are not for them. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
I shall personally never regret the life Comrade Nomzamo and I tried to share together. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
It’s not like I’m some simpleton who doesn’t know anything about life. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
It looked deserted, containing no sense of light of life. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z
“I’d love to step into a hole and vanish with a handsome revolutionary and live a life of exotic adventure.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
And just when he finished his sentence, here came Winn-Dixie again, running to save his life. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z
“A casualty of war? How can you say that? A life is a life.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z
Down the Hill, everyone lives for the now and everything is raw. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Only trouble with that is all you end up doing is building that same old life back again. You jus’ a actor moving on to another performance. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z
She’d tell us we don’t have to give up if this life doesn’t give us everything we want. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z
It was as if they had been waiting all along for something enormous to enter their lives and make them part of the news. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
He thinks of himself at fourteen, his life nothing like it is now, still called Gogol and nothing else. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
Imagine, my darling, your Alfred is saving two thousand lives. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
You can’t call your life your own: and in return you have safety—if it’s worth having at the price you pay. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
The only one of our people who I felt was in charge of his life was the singer Nat "King" Cole. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
We go through life planning for a future, but sometimes that future never comes. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z
But this had not stopped her from taking pleasure in life, it now occurred to Ishmael. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
“It don’t do no good to say I’m sorry. I been sorry all my life. This ain’t no new thing. It’s always like this.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
Henry Ford declared that the perfect assembly line factory worker would be a blind man because he could learn one exact task and repeat it endlessly for the rest of his life. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
Just after World War II, beginning in the Baltic port city of Danzig and spreading through central Europe, there was an epidemic of PCP that claimed the lives of thousands of small children. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Prosper is right. A burglary is a dangerous thing. I'm not sure whether I will take part myself yet. But what makes you think the detective lives on the Grand Canal?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z
Mrs. Hicks, finding the girl slow to move, jumped from her bed, seized an oak stick of wood by the fireplace, and with it broke the girl’s nose and breastbone, and thus ended her life. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z
“When they say a cat has nine lives, I thought that God gave me ten,” he said. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
It is a really good way to be distracted in your new life. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z
Grandpa was having the time of his life. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z
“So now the penance you’ve given yourself is to be a scythe, forever doomed to take lives as punishment for that one childhood act.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
“No,” Mami said, “it’s worse. If you get polio, you die, or you spend the rest of your life in a wheelchair or inside an iron lung.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z
The heat sapped the life out of everybody and everything. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
Somebody had to speak for this kid and who better than me, the guy who’d been nosing around his life for the past six months? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
She knows how hard she will hold on to the things she has, the brother and sister who fill a new place in her life. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
It was a stable instability that would endure for the rest of Howards life, which was destined to be many decades shorter than Dorothy’s. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
I was really worried about your brother last night, but it looks like this is just... going... to be what life is like for a while. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
He had an angular face, black hair, a black mustache, and dark eyes, the kind of looks soon to be coveted by an industry that Thomas Edison was just then bringing to life. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
I sigh happily and say, “Sure, I’m loving life.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z
What was supposed to be the end of the game ended up being the last game of Tigo’s life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
Mom and Connor come join us at our table, where I am now nibbling along the edge of my Danish, while Jack shovels scrambled eggs into his mouth like his life depends on it. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
“I don’t know how to find life in the desert,” the boy said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Basketball was clearly a huge part of Ocean’s life; it was obvious it had been for some time. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z
“I wouldn’t spy for her if it meant my life.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
“No one’s ever called you for a date in your whole life.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You of all people should have had enough carnage in your life.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
When all were completed and full expiation made for the death of his wife and children, he would seem to have earned ease and tranquillity for the rest of his life. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z
Laughing, he said, “Totally okay. This gives me a chance to convert another unsuspecting human to becoming a Bela Lugosi nerd, which is my mission in life anyway. I’ll bring you the DVD tomorrow.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
Her life had been cut short, and no one even knew she’d been killed. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives that we have imagined. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
“He is celebrated today as one of Russia’s most brilliant writers. But during his life he was understood by no one, least of all himself. One might say he typified the phrase ‘eccentric genius.’ The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
If I’d once been someone who threw herself completely into every task, I was now more cautious, protective of my time, knowing I had to maintain enough energy for life at home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
There are no a priori grounds for thinking that this is a good way to conduct intellectual life. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Sometimes just thinking about Jenny Flick draws her into my life, you know? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z
Still, this is the only life for me. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
Though he was born in Russia in 1845, Cantor spent most of his life in Germany. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
His tough and authoritarian leadership style was necessary in the wild where disease, Indian attacks, and the inhospitable environment relentlessly threatened everyone’s lives. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z
He doesn’t care that people think about his body and write about his sex life, real or imagined. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
The only disturbing factor in all our lives was the reappearance of the white vegetables each morning in the kitchen. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z
Her child had been shot dead as she ran for her life. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z
If Zeitoun was transferred to a secret prison, their lives would be reversed completely: they would go from the well-off children of a successful man to the disgraced children of a presumptive sleeper-cell mastermind. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
Weird—this is the best my life has been in a long while. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z
I wondered this, at that particular moment, because something beyond anything I have ever understood drove Mable Jones to an exceptional life. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
“Miss Markey, I’m going ... to do you the biggest. . . favor of your life. I’m going to say . . . no.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
First it fell to its knees, and then it collapsed, utterly, as the life fled. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
We’ll have to walk to Mrs. Song’s, an ahjimma we met at church who lives a few miles away, for a ride. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z
They told her about their life, from the time my mother last saw them on the road leaving Kweilin to when they were finally found. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
Of course, my story truly began years before that day, but I will start here for now, for many good stories begin with the day when a life changes. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z
And he lives fifty kilometers away, far enough from a city that buying furs might be difficult. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
For Gabriel there would have been no life at all. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
“But what about after the summer? What about college? What about the rest of your life?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z
Now, finally, with the exercise of will, his adult life had begun. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
"If we knew that, then she could be rooted out and destroyed. Witchophiles all over the world have spent their lives trying to discover the secret Headquarters of The Grand High Witch." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z
Over the decades, without much acclaim beyond his community and the world of high school theater, Volpe has transformed lives, thousands of them. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
I had never in my life been too hot. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
The lives of sugar workers were ruled by the cane, and by the relentless pace of work. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z
In her life ever after she would have nightmares of her time in that hold, and she would wake up screaming with the taste and stench of the place in her throat. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z
She had long retired from her previous way of life, had presented her garden to Gotama’s monks, taking refuge in his teachings, and belonged to the women and benefactresses attached to the pilgrims. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
About how sometimes life needs to go underground, bury itself deep to survive, and how maybe that’s not a bad thing. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
Instead, when he’d met my gaze for a jolting moment, I’d seen life bursting through, chaotic and alluring beneath the shadow of the mask. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
Away from books I was, at times, almost desperate to fill up the spaces of my life. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
The Army had given him a tentative diagnosis, probably the best diagnosis he would ever get, and he had been left with the unpleasant task of trying to salvage the lives of the remaining animals. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Aru knew, deep in her bones, that this was where the Kingdom of Death ended: on the brink of new life. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
Her family had the luxury of time on their side, because, well, their lives weren't in danger. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
This is because, in order to save his life, he is forced to look beneath appearances, to take nothing for granted, to hear the meaning behind the words. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z
Things like this would not happen; life could be peaceful. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
For the rest of the week, I experienced Rome as they did: as a place of history, but also as a place of life, of food and traffic and conflict and thunder. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
Where I played with Poe and Abby, the three of us having no idea we had such little life ahead of us. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z
“And you saved my life. Juan’s life, back on the boardwalk.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z
Now he can sit down, smoke a cigar and prepare himself for the return of the man who lives there. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
With the obsessive attention to detail that characterized his brand of dogged genius, Rosellini purged his life of all but the most primitive tools, which he fashioned from native materials with his own hands. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
SWAN: Consul Washburn has been airlifted by helicopter to protect his life. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
The illusion was painful, but it was so much better than anything in Matt’s current life. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Not exactly. Though a lot of songs can be tied back to philosophy, especially value theory and the essential meaning of life.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z
“That was the single best drink I’ve ever had in my life. That one right there.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
He imagined a pigeon would have a good life at the seashore. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z
They are sustained by the ancient institutions of religion, which are so powerful and of such a quality that they keep their princes in power no matter how they act and live their lives. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z
She explained about the turtles, their life cycle, and our walks along the beach up until the morning after the storm. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z
He knew that to have risked the princess’s life was deserving of death. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z
Unions gave workers the power to bargain with employers and improve their lives. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z
By the time his body came bobbing past Riverrun, the fires and his life had both been extinguished. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
Fencing felt like the one thing in my life that I could actually control. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
He had startling blue eyes like Jason’s, but his skin was coppery, as if he’d spent his entire life on a tanning bed. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
“Too bad I can’t remember my whole life. Maybe I love killing animals.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
“Oh, no reason. We used to be friends, that’s all. I thought she might be interested in our lives.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
The characters in the stories she read always seemed to go off without a thought or care, but in real life—well, the world was a dangerous place. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
About four o’clock, the flats in the tenements across from Francie’s yard came to life. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was time for Spizz to fall off his tricycle and onto his sword and leave her alone to live the new life she wanted in Florida with her sister. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
For about half an hour I played the best tennis of my life, played like a man possessed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I want you to have a life. I want you to have a fine life. But we’ll have it together, won’t we?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z
It was the war, she persistently told herself, it was the prison of camp life, the pressures of the times, their exile from home, that explained his distance. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
I can’t make out what he’s saying for the life of me. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
Malcolm’s attitude was that of a man who had reached a crossroads in his life and was making a choice under an inner compulsion. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
She seemed the emblem of my past life; and he, I was now to array myself to meet, the dread, but adored, type of my unknown future day. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
"You asked for life. You paid for life." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
My new life was simply about making choices, none of which I actually wished to make. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
“Like in the open ocean, saving someone’s life or something?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z
I just thought she left school and drove home to her perfect life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
Ghosts congregated thickly along Pennsy’s corridors, pulled along by the bright shining lives of the living. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
And then Zola turns to me and says, “Where is Vinny’s mother? And father? How come he lives with his grandmother?” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z
They pretend that there is no difference between public and private life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Henry asked me questions about myself, and I asked him about his life. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
It linked her with the lower forms of life. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
I have been lied to by my government for my entire life. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
He felt as if layers of his life were being seared away - his months at Camp Half-Blood, his years at Camp Jupiter, his training with Lupa the wolf goddess. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
There was nothing more; the two were my life. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
Near the end of his life he lived on contributions he received from Jewish organizations. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z
He said, ‘Didn’t I take good care of you? Didn’t I save your life?’ Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You are the best thing that has ever come into my life.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
He lives there with his new wife whom he calls Margy. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z
Powell sighed, “Everything automatic. Everything just so. Never felt so helpless in my life. Where’s your plumbing?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z
“Not too much. He lives by himself, so he’s not used to talking much.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z
He had to stop letting other people direct his life. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
But even with the advantage of her skills, significant finds were rare and she passed most of her life in poverty. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
She liked the outdoors, and a particular friend of hers had been assigned Farm some months before; she hoped to spend the next part of her working life in the company of someone she enjoyed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
My mother bought our food and other life necessities there. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
Was that really all there was in life, indoors or out? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
Then he said four words that scarred me for life. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z
Your father and I love each other, and we always will, but sometimes life and work and love don’t all mesh. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z
He said nothing of his life there, no word about himself, but he told me how the sun set there, on a spring afternoon, leaving a glow upon the headland. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
The police claimed that their lives were endangered, but many demonstrators were shot in the back and had no weapons. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
How could music cause so many lives to veer off course? The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z
All winter the Opel roves occupied territories, cities that Jutta recorded in their radio log coming to life—Prague, Minsk, Ljubljana. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
When most Lackses talked about Henrietta and Day and their early life in Clover, it sounded as idyllic as a fairy tale. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
All her life, she’d relied on others to make a way for her, to help her figure out her next steps. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
“I loved these people and am still in shock that they’ve been ripped from, our lives forever.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z
As we drive, Rose chatters with my parents and Mrs. V like she’s known them all her life. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z
So Mr. Nossik started in with his lecture about the accomplishments and difficult life of Charles Lindbergh. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z
My grandmother still lives in the same home in the Bronx, presiding as ever as the family matriarch. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
It was right there in prison that I made up my mind to devote the rest of my life to telling the white man about himself—or die. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
The words float by, flecks of ash, seeds on the breeze, remnants of another life that hasn’t quite vanished. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
I name them each a year in my life. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z
All he wanted to do was keep up, be ready to shoot whatever the game was when it appeared, and look out for an attempt any of them might make on his life. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
To his amazement, the screen flickered into life, a tiny, almost opaque window through the metal door. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z
They were middle-class people, had lived all their married lives in a butter-colored middle-class ranch house in a stolid, middle-class town. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
He was with Miss Mattie Lou—coughing and mumbling disconnected sentences picked out of the air from this or that time in their life. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z
For as far as we could see, there was not a sign of life.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
I reached and retrieved the remaining life jackets—six in all—and the last oar. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
By taking full responsibility, Helmuth saved the lives of his two friends. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
I’ve done the calculations and have figured out that from the ages of thirteen to fifteen, I’ve spent about forty-five percent of my life grounded. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
Guys like Dr. Strayer were hired to figure out how to configure networks and displays so that the information was useful and life- preserving—not overwhelming and deadly. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
Over the next week Palmer got better acquainted with the pigeon and adjusted his own life to take his new friend into account. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z
But somewhere in all of his talking, the pastor said the word road, as in “making our own journey on the road of life,” and something clicked! Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z
But he did help me, may be even kept me away from enough danger that he might have saved my life. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Mary MacLeod Bethune, A. Philip Randolph, Charles Hamilton Houston, and so many more had built their life’s work on Du Bois’ foundation. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
We lived well, our days were mostly sunny, and I know that my parents were stoically undeceived by the objectively equivocal, contingent nature of the advantaged life they gave me and my siblings. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
The problem whose attempted solution has brought such a train of disaster in its wake is an accompaniment of our modern way of life. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
“At least I know what I’m a part of, Caleb. You are choosing to ignore what we’ve known all our lives— these people are arrogant and greedy and they will lead you nowhere.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
Maybe the life I think I’m living is a paranoid delusion. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I guess we all decide our children’s fates just by making our own life decisions,” I say vaguely. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
“Their lives are at risk,” the redhead said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
Since Henrietta Lacks died decades before I began writing this book, I relied on interviews, legal documents, and her medical records to re-create scenes from her life. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
We have almost no direct information about Newcomen prior to 1712 but, from what he told his associates in later life, two things seem evident. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
“Nollywood may be melodramatic, but life in Nigeria is very melodramatic.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
It’s weird to think that my mom’s and Lucy’s rooms are the same rooms they grew up in their whole lives. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
“I do not understand, but I put myself at your service. I pledge my life to preserve you from harm,” he said with the fervor of a new-made knight being sent upon a quest. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
Since she refused to partake of the local social life, Jean de Satigny was forced to go alone to the numerous events to which they were invited. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
I’m so sorry that I wasted your time because you really do mean a lot to me and I hope you have a very nice life because I really think you deserve it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z
At the same time, though, they abhor gangs and the violence associated with inner-city life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
It’s like she ain’t got no life except for her life at work. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z
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
It was not, however, enough time to prevent the course of events, only to alter them; which the passengers and crew did bravely, even though it cost them all their lives. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z
For hundreds of years the people of Europe were taught by the church that God was the most important force in their lives. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z
But he didn’t want to add to the horror, and nor did he want to give life to the image while it remained at a distance, held there by wine and companionship. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
The song makes me think of Greenville and Brooklyn the two worlds my heart lives in now. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z
This would be the most important and lasting professional relationship in either man’s life. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
There was no longer any need to panic, as I’d been surgically removed from his life. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z
In April 1998, I received the Most Inspiring Student Award, given to those who have overcome great obstacles and succeeded in life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
“I’m not saying we should give him our life savings, just a few bucks.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
I was lying on the grass near a picnic table, gazing up at the stars blinking to life. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
“There is nothing in my life to compare with this burden,” Shin told me on the day in California when he explained how and why he had misrepresented his past. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
Never in my life have I underestimated someone so severely. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z
To Lexie, the world seemed nearly perfect, and her fantasies were her real life with all the colors dialed up. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
I realize now they probably saved my life. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z
I was never in my life so happy to see a chicken. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z
Even with his machines humming and advertisements for his products insinuating themselves into all aspects of American life, Duke wasn’t satisfied with his market share. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
If nothing else, it will give you something to do with the last seven seconds of your life. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
Everything he painted came to life, and all around him rejoiced. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z
"He is my wife's twin, a Sworn Brother of the Kings- guard, his life and fortune and honor all bound to mine." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
It was one of the pleasant parts of life. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z
“That information could save lives,” I tell her. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
Or did they simply wish to leave this life so badly that they chose one of the few direct paths to annihilation? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
Aziz was alone again, this time for the rest of her life. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z
I never heard such a racket in all my life. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
I knew from my own life experience that when someone shows genuine interest in your learning and development, even if only for ten minutes in a busy day, it matters. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
The woman fell silent and the silence of the courts was heavy as silence can be after life has gone. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z
If you worked harder, you would have a better life. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
For the young priest in training, life at the monastery soon settled into a predictable routine. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
The decision about who went where was made by Shin’s teacher, the man who two years earlier had saved Shin’s life by providing him with extra food and halting abuse from his classmates. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
You will be trapped here alone for the rest of your life. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z
“And so you joined the army, and it saved your life,” I’d finish the story for him, trying to water down my voice, take some of the sting out of it. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
“They go on to lead unextraordinary lives in a closet somewhere.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
Coach Warner replied slowly, “Ma’am, I can’t ask these players and their parents to give up their sleep, to disrupt their lives, to come out to practice football at six-thirty.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
Even then I swear I’ll know it for what it was: the most terrible day of our lives. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
I look up into his face, surprised at how near he is to me, at the fire in his gaze, the life, and my pulse quickens. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
The woman was bestowed many honors and accolades throughout her life, but her daughter brought her greater joy than any of them. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z
She had said it with no concern at all even though she knew her life could become much harder if Rufus married. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z
All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
You can take my life, but please don’t kill my schoolchildren. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
Not only might she undo it all tomorrow, she would also define me by my betrayal for as long as I remained in her life, which wouldn’t be long. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z
From the chickens and the foxes he had gone on to sing of life, friendship, love, and also revolution. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Only later in life would this become a real challenge for me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
As I slowly walk down the aisle, I look at the people, and I wonder what they lied about in their lives. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z
Only Ultima equaled them in respect for the life in the plant. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Once we sealed the gates, he devoted the rest of his life to recording them.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
Because I think I’ll be crying about you for the rest of my life. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
“To feed us I’ve put both ours lives in jeopardy,” he said. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z
If I-as-Albert in the bottom bunk were listening to Albert-snoring-as- Henry, would I know the huge wrong that had passed upon our lives? Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
Just for once, I wanted him to be content with life as it was. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
It was as if the three fates were approaching, their scissors poised to snip the knot that was keeping Dedd’s life from falling apart. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The week before she died, she called me, full of pride, full of life: “Auntie Lin cooked red bean soup for Joy Luck. I’m going to cook black sesame-seed soup.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
No need to cower behind a gate-post, indeed!—to peep up at chamber lattices, fearing life was astir behind them! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
“If Arletta’s not up to something, you can have free fabric for life,” Holly said. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z
He’d been stupid to think he could understand the generator just by looking at it, when other people had been working on it their entire lives. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
William Bright said that he had never been to school a day in his life, but he “venerated” his well-informed wife and willingly “submitted to her judgment and influence.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
"My sixteen-year-old grandson was murdered fifteen years ago,” she said, "and I loved that boy more than life itself.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
He lives in Hampden town, and has published a book of photographs of the college through the years, which has made him much sought-after as an after-dinner speaker at the various clubs in town. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
Poetry was the processing of my thoughts until the slag of justification fell away and I was left with the cold steel truths of life. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
I wasn’t able to pack, had left my entire life chewed to pieces. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
His voice shaky, he said, “That was the most wonderful thing I have ever seen, ever in my whole life.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
Creating a sound carpet entails taking a story and adding sound effects, leitmotifs, instruments, vocal sounds, body percussion, and actors and/or a narrator, in order to bring literature to life. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
The three talked long and late of the race, the most formidable of Seabiscuit’s life. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was why part of her, at least, didn’t mind the life they’d always lived, their thrift-store clothes, their salvaged beds and chairs, the shifting precariousness of it all. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
Lizards and little monkeys live their whole lives up above without coming down to the ground. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
Beyond him, beyond him, life was beyond him, the world was beyond him, you name it, it was beyond him. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z
It was such a pathetic life, she thought; they had so little. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
I only wanted to shoot hoops alone for the rest of my life. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
The shopkeeper lives in a two-story house outside town, with weavings and wall hangings that remind me of home. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z
“Why would you risk your life for a total stranger?” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
Probably no person is immune to contact with this spreading contamination unless he lives in the most isolated situation imaginable. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Dad knows him and says he’s not like this in real life. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z
“The attempt to hold you in any degree responsible or censurable for the loss of life is an outrage,” wrote Dion Geraldine, his construction superintendent at the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
“And I’m the one who needs to get a life.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z
But it was the bottle which said “Drink me” that had changed her life. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
He expected to lead a very prosperous and satisfying life, at least until the time came to move on to the next city. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
My aunts, uncles, cousins, and I are all a product of the life she lived and the life she bravely chose not to live. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
It was as if she knew he had lost a social life, and she insistently invited him to the arts theater, to public lectures, to play squash. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
“I’ve been friends with Colton Griggs my whole life, and I have never heard him talk that much. But we mostly go fishing, and I don’t like a lot of chitchat.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z
She had seen her dad cry before, of course, but that had been during movies or really sad TV commercials, not during real life. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
Six years ago she didn’t know any different, but now it was such a huge part of her life. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
He said life would have been much easier if he’d been a Christian or could become one after the war. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
“There have been some challenges, true. But there have been many, many good things. I know I will lead a happy life.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z
"The man took me under the stars and gave life to the child inside me. I will not leave him." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
At six years old, I know I am bad and deserve whatever low life-form I will be reincarnated as in the next life. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
It seemed Civil Rights workers’ lives were worthless— black or white—when they stood up for black people. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Our commerce, our politics, our cultural and social lives are all rhetorical to an extraordinary extent. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z
The nephew was crouching beside his uncle now, trying to protect him from further onslaughts—without risking his life by hitting the Lombard back. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z
But he made sure he never finished any of his paintings so they would not come to life. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z
“Well, sure. There are any number of scenarios that could lead to the extinction of all life on Earth.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
Then he could get the rest of his money out of his vault and...begin his life as an outcast. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z
Didn’t she presume she would live with her father in Paris for the rest of her life? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
Wouldn’t he be more scared for his life or something? Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z
Such a little thing and it changed his whole life. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
And I move on, letting myself become swept along in the momen- turn of my new life. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
Maybe I was fascinated by the fact that it seemed like white families, at least in comics, lived simple, easy lives. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
My worries tormented me like bad dreams, making life on land more perilous than on the sea. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
She tried this: “Don’t worry, Papa. We’re going to have the best life in history!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
“If you are enjoying the connection, time goes quickly. If you aren’t, it’s the longest six minutes of your life,” she said as she watched the couples nervously chatter. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z
But my allegiance is still uncertain, and right now, saving my own life is more important than ending someone else’s. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z
And she had loved them all—of course she had—and they had had happy lives...but oh! The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z
There were Vietnamese, mostly women and old men, running for their lives. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Leave it to our town to be named after a wild berry sour enough to change your outlook on life, with a pit the size of a cannonball. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z
Dr. Tandlemann glanced up; his hand had a life of its own and kept writing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
Not the loneliness of previous years, of a reluctant life by the sea, but a loneliness borne of the inability to share her joy. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You two sure make life complicated for yourselves up there in the woods.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
“My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
Then again, I had to keep reminding myself, I wasn’t normal; and as long as hollows were hunting me, any life lived outside the loop would almost certainly be cut short. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z
How would your mother—whom I know you love so much—feel if you just suddenly vanished from her life? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z
The Larsens were the grandparents who had been part of her life. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
I wrote, “For the rest of my life.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
Moves can be difficult for everyone, but especially for these refugee children, who were just getting used to life in Atlanta. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
Then the buzzing stops as I remember something else Marcus said: Most of the leaders of this city- risked their lives for it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
I once praised my lord Hamlet, turning his name on my tongue like the bread of life itself. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
So he appealed to them, one after another, going from left to right, with open palm, as though his life time had been spent in beggary. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
Even those who are technically eligible to vote following release from prison frequently remain disenfranchised for life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
We hugged her to us, she was with us in secret, a giggle; she was lava beneath the crust of daily life. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
He was a short, handsome man with a thick mustache, and I was with him for the last year of his life, living in an apartment just below his. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
She had, in short, done everything right and she had built a good life, the kind of life she wanted, the kind of life everyone wanted. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
You can’t talk it out, you got to live into their lives, bad and good. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z
She had never been sure what path her life would take. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
I wished Mr. Black had written about him, and risked his life to tell the world about him, and had reminders of him around his apartment. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
I knew it wasn’t right to feel that way, but it was the first time in my life that I ever felt sony for myself. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Him and everyone like him, the lucky sons of guns who slide through life like they’re greased. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
Energy and alertness may save the life of your son, your husband, or your brother. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z
Like contemporary astrologers, the Olmec, Maya, and Zapotec believed that celestial phenomena like the phases of the moon and Venus affect daily life. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
It happened at the same time that we were representing children sentenced to life without parole all over the country. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
“How exactly will you make life easier for us?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z
He saved my life all those times so he could interrogate me now? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
She was also looking at a life insurance commercial. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
The certainty that your life has purpose and meaning. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z
The last few months of her life, according to her parents’ most recent letter, have been painful, for her grandmother, for those who know her. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
Never mind that I couldn’t dance to save my life. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
Being with Jude didn’t used to feel like real life either. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z
Sometimes expressly focusing on black and brown children, theorists suggested that America would soon be overcome by "elementary school youngsters who pack guns instead of lunches" and who "have absolutely no respect for human life." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
It was as if my life was trapped between two words: run or stay. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
She was only a few years older than my mom, but she was living a life my mother admired. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
They demanded excellence, but they created a life for us where we could focus 100 percent on our studies and sports. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
He had thrown off the shackles of cubicle life and made himself happy. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
“Heed his counsel. He has devoted half his life to the study of the Nine Free Cities.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
Then O-lan crept out and she took a great iron knife she had in the kitchen and she cut a great gash in the beast’s neck, and thus she severed its life. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z
She didn’t fear for her husband’s safety, really, but she did have the feeling that life in the city would be very trying during and after the storm. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
He was bleeding slowly to death in the midst of abundance, for his life’s blood was poverty. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
Jackie thought it best to try to live life, persevere, not look back. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
Abra got up and put her arms around him and kissed him on the cheek, and it was the only time such a thing had ever happened in his whole life. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
They say my father’s family got their land from the king of India, in gratitude for saving his daughter’s life. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z
A silver lining in the very cloudy sky that is my life right now. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z
It was a flash of insight which revealed to me the true nature of my relations with my family, an insight which altered the entire course of my life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
Her lackluster, brittle hair rippled with life and shine. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z
And I began to feel in the boys a curious, wary, bewildered despair, as though they were now settling in for the long, hard winter of life. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z
“Her mother still lives at the same house. I...uh, saw her.” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
Guess this is life’s way of telling me I should have gone to the team party after all. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
I couldn’t imagine being in this house, in this life, without him. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
The day my name was posted, my life changed forever. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
“It’s barely been twenty-four hours, and it’s kinda taken on a life of its own.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
Then she said how about my dad’s cousin in Idaho who has a ranch, or her mom in Sarasota, who has a condo, or his old buddy Cal, who lives in Maine in a trailer. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
I thought there was no way my life could get worse. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
Watching the bird made Cole curse every second of his miserable and haphazard life. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z
He saw again the jagged white flash of lightning and heard again the crash of the huge tree that almost ended his life. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z
There are cheeses with a longer shelf life. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
The initial four-year appointment eventually extended to a stay of eighteen years in Padua, which Galileo later recalled as being the happiest years of his life. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z
I wanted to think I would have liked her, in another time and place, another life. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
Because I couldn’t believe he was hogging her in death, just like he had in life. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z
I asked, stupidly, not even sure what I meant, because I could think of nothing else to say, because I could no longer imagine life without Aunty Ifeoma’s family, without Nsukka. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z
And for the second time in their lives, but not the last, each of them saw their own expression on the other’s face. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z
She wanted me to write about my gratitude for at least one big thing that was happening and describe how it affected my life. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
This is the same floor that Nora lives on, so I’m tempted to ring her doorbell. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
Aurelia was the decoration on his life, his sweet reward after the essential sons, both troublesome and hard to love. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z
All of us could see there was something new, something good in the Mexican girl’s life. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
“Lucky silver dollar,” the old man countered, as if luck had meant anything in his life. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
But to tell Elmer Ren, with a sick wife and too many children and his life tied up in 320 acres of Montana prairie, that he must leave all behind...that was a different story. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z
It was metal, of course, but like the relief on the walls of Sarai’s rooms—the songbirds and lilies so real they mocked the master carvers of Weep—it was utterly true to life. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
In a last-ditch effort, they hatched a plan to appeal directly to Penkovsky's bosses in the GRU—their sworn enemies—to plead for his life. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
And apparently every single person who steps in and out of my life. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
“You must hold on this tightly to life,” I whisper to her. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z
Evidently, since it could not think of any better plan for itself, it was ready to try a rabbit hole to save its life. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was the first time in her life her brow had ever had to furrow, and Adela gasped when she realized what she had done, horrified that she had somehow damaged it, perhaps permanently. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z
The guide told Jamie that some people saved all their lives so that they could become mummies; it was indeed expensive. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z
“There’s been other women in my life,” he admitted, “but nobody I wanted to marry but you.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z
It had only been a few days, a blink in my collective sixteen years of life, but I didn’t need to see his face to know soft concern would be there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z
“Yet when a guest plainly wishes to end his own life, why, his host must oblige him, no?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
That first day, Cora acquainted herself with the life of the park, the patch of green she’d seen across the street from the house. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
Contemplating mortality, thinkers in many cultures have drawn solace from the prospect of life after death. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
“It’s not a requirement that we be experts in Chinese culture. The only requirement is that we love Mirabelle. And we do. We want to give her a better life.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
Had to cling to him for dear life for five miles. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z
I sit on the bed and grip the water bottle in my hands like it’s a life preserver and I’m drowning. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z
“You have saved our city and all our lives, Lazlo Strange. We are greatly in your debt.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
Had I lived a different life, getting thrown out of a speeding minibus might have fazed me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
The upshot of all this is that physics ended up with two bodies of laws–one for the world of the very small, one for the universe at large–leading quite separate lives. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
He doubted he could make it to Big Thumb, and with no water in his canteen, he didn't want to risk his life on the hope that he'd find refuge there. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z
I like the idea of a bird that died so tragically ahead of its time resting amid life here in the garden. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
The monkeys were crab-eating monkeys, a species that lives along rivers and in mangrove swamps in Southeast Asia. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Thalia gave her life to save you,” I said, gritting my teeth. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z
"If you go West, you risk your life." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
Although the terrorist struggle in Peru started as a good cause, it turned many people’s lives into a nightmare. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
I was unable to take my eyes off her, the Mistress of Bees, the portal into my mother’s life. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
And then Charles turned his attentions away from his study, back into his home life. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Fine, fine. But without homework, life would be wonderful,” he says. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z
Yup, my life began during a hostage crisis, a revolution, and a war, which is why I didn't get to enter the world on my own time. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
Was there a single true faith, or a life after death? Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
One topic that constantly came up for debate was “Country life is better than town life.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
It is important because many aquatic snails serve as hosts of dangerous parasitic worms that spend part of their life cycle in a mollusk, part in a human being. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
I have no choice but to remind them of the one incident in my life I’d hoped everyone had forgotten. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z
Everything here is horrible and sad and life is not worth living. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
It was the holy hymn taken from the bone and sinew of the family’s life together, the anthem of both their discontent and strange belabored love for their way of life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
That’s simply the way life was, and I figured it was the same way for everybody. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
I had now taken the essential step in the life of every Xhosa man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
A quest for a new life, different from the nightmare I had been living for eighteen years. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
So Margie brought another friendship ring to school the next week, and they decided to be bosom friends for the rest of their lives. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z
But the composition of the household workforce is hardly fixed and has changed with the life chances of the different ethnic groups. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
She was reinventing her life, rewriting her story. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
My life of crime started off small, selling pirated CDs on the corner. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
“Story of life out here,” he said, tipping back in his chair. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z
“Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no sense of humor.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z
Got all these Alkeans in a fuss ’cause of some tales you can bring to life.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
No organic molecules could be found—no building blocks of proteins and nucleic acids, no simple hydrocarbons, nothing of the stuff of life on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
But the poison had not really left the lake; it had merely gone into the fabric of the life the lake supports. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
My eyes rise up to the ceiling and stay there, glued to the dried-up wet-tissue bombs hanging on for dear life. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
It was bad enough he was here pretending to care, pretending to be interested in Sergio’s life. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z
It was the Helmholtz of daily life who forgot and forgave, not the Helmholtz of a half-gramme holiday. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
I always thought the high life, the cigarettes, would see her off. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
They talked about work and imported the hierarchies and nuances of their work lives into their neighborhoods. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
It’s a horrible way to ask someone to risk their life for you. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
As much as I hated the system at that time, looking back I realized that they saved me from myself, and saved my life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
I was glad enough for the bandicoot’s company, but I did not think I wanted to spend my life sweeping goose droppings from the courtyard and talking to a rat. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z
But I also know that, no matter what, I’d never trade my grammy and our life together for whatever is behind door number two. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z
“These are our tickets to a new life.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z
The theater was thick with servicemen, taking breaks from the endless drilling that was the life of the peacetime soldier. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z
It was like all those terrifying stories she’d heard about Hopkins her whole life were suddenly true, and happening to her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
It was like his thoughts as he moved about the tabernacle in which his life had been spent; the tabernacle that he hated, yet loved and feared. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z
When I got Buffy, I got her from a boy who lives near here called Chris who says he knew you. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z
The materialism of domestic life and the excessive ministrations of his mother and his sister, who insisted on feeding and dressing him, irritated him, as did Alba’s fascinated pursuit. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Howard remained on its board of directors for the rest of his life. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
Indeed for the rest of her life Riefenstahl would continue to insist that the film was merely an artistic sports documentary. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
They were so young and unknowing; the same storms of life that had battered my life, warped my character and had stunted my growth they still had to face. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
And this is literally the best day of my life. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
“Lazy. Lots of pretending I was doing something important with my life.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
A good example of this was Einstein, who called the cosmological constant, which he introduced when he was trying to make a static model of the universe, the biggest mistake of his life. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
According to movies, right about now was when she should be seeing her life flash before her eyes while a bunch of people tearfully screamed, Stay with us! Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
They were hers, the Latvian who had lost her life to winter and war on the side of a road. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
These databases are then used by police and prosecutors, as well as by employers and housing officials—an electronic record that will haunt many for life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
"They lead such a quiet life. They never say anything and they're always hanging about so." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z
Seemed as if she had known him all her life. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z
So it was with excitement and not a hint of misgiving that I waved good-bye to my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, ready to begin a new life. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z
“We didn’t do nothing. Without soccer, life was boring.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
And somehow we have to get the children who live in this war zone to feel that life is worthwhile. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
Maybe Sapiens had other aspirations, and were consciously willing to make their lives harder in order to achieve them. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
I stared at my screen for the longest ten minutes of my life, willing it to change from “delivered” to “read.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z
And yet, it came to him that he must move; for there was a light somewhere, and life, and joy, and singing—somewhere, somewhere above him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z
Not because he shows up in my life and talks to me when I want him to, but because of who he was and what he stood for. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z
I knew, as I sat there, that there were many people who thought they knew life who had been skeptical of the Moscow trials. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
And I tell myself that in real life, things get messed up, and sometimes they stay that way. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Is it, though? Is it attached to a root system? Is it ingesting nutrients? Water? Those are all signs of life.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z
And felt himself nourished by the plasma of letters and syllables that had come to denote a commitment to gallantry among the men with whom he had chosen to spend his life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
“This is the most important exam of his life, musadi,” said one of the men. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
It took months for authorities to apprehend Blackie, and, as Hoover noted, “a number of officers had to take their lives in their hands to correct this mistake.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
My life jacket drags us to the surface. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z
From these he produced the first calculations of life expectancy for different age groups, and so the first reliable figures which could provide a basis for pricing life insurance. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
The final step was to smooth, sand, and polish the body of the car to within an inch of its home-built life. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
A few weeks later I made two critically important decisions in my life. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
Sissy convinced him that not all the brave men were in trenches—that many a hero was risking his life daily for his country in a munitions factory. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Fallen on the battlefield of life” was something that Louisiana had said when they were reading aloud from the book. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z
I turned and saw my friend Grover running for his life. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z
“There’s a saying, ‘Death hath a thousand doors to let out life; I shall find one.’ Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
There were also many Numina connected with the life of the household, such as Terminus, Guardian of Boundaries; Priapus, Cause of Fertility; Pales, Strengthener of Cattle; Sylvanus, Helper of Plowmen and Woodcutters. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z
This could easily ruin what I was convinced would be the best weekend of my life. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
I knew good and well that my life back in District 12 would be unlivable if I let that boy die. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
He had tried to reason with the men; he had tried to save Lupito’s life. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
Before Arthur had started his life’s work, a man accusing the Queen of anything would have been executed out of hand. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
Why's it so much harder than usual to imagine life without T? How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
The life force of the nymphs, Piper thought. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
I wanted to scream, No! and leap to his rescue, but I knew it would be suicide, and I knew that I would be endangering all our lives. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z
When I was eight, she played Nas’s Illmatic for me and said, “This dude will change your life with a few lines.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
Even though the Olympics had been the pinnacle of my athletic career, it had only created a jumping-off point for the rest of my life. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
Somewhere out there, another you is living your life. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
“I keep my photos in black and white because my life lost color after they died.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
He said to the class, “Stories are stories. Life is life. They kiss and they marry, but they die alone.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z
"Well, maybe if he did, you’d have a real life instead of being stuck up here in the ghetto." The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z
I never wanted them to live the life that I had. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
The farm and the family was a self-contained world, in the way I imagine all American farm life once was. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
This was, in fact, the basis of his acquaintance with most of the famous people in his life. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
I’ve traveled this far—how can I go back to living the humble life of a farming family? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
This was the earliest ancestor of deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA, the master molecule of life on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
At dawn, the orderly, disciplined life he had always known would continue again, without him. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
The boys, though, were having the times of their lives. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
He was relating the entire history of his life to an audience who knew it already. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
Since I got B. cepacia, I feel like they’re the only ones in my life who don’t treat me like a lab rat. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z
But the Osage Nation was in the way of the economic drive of the European world...and life as they once knew it would never be the same.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
Why am I always looking at life through a window? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z
Because it is one hundred percent the opposite of real life. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
I listened as he told me how I should be living my life, what I should have been doing with my opportunities, and how ashamed I should have been for giving everyone so much trouble. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
So that was what it was called, the way he had felt his entire life. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
Rani picks a tree by a small lake, not too far from the building where the family lives, to be our new home. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
But it amounted to the same thing if Jinny didn’t have to spend the rest of her life going over C is for cup. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z
Some Australian women have to fall silent when they’re grieving— it’s required—and they speak for the rest of their lives only with their hands. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
She has maybe had the best time she’s ever had in her life. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z
After the Republican nominating convention in June, Guiteau left Boston, where he had been unsuccessfully selling life insurance, and traveled to New York City. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
The water was green with plant life, and the trees hung over its glassy surface. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z
I want you to live your life, to kiss a girl and wed a woman and father a son. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
“El Li'der never slowed down in these mountains! For him it was a matter of life and death, not a Sunday outing! Keep moving!” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
I haven't been inside, but my mom and I watched a movie once that showed all the exhibits of the museum coming to life at night. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
That kind of intensive scheduling was almost entirely absent from the lives of the poor children. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
All at once, the radio burst to life. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z
Wayne’s home life, like that of so many of the Truman kids I meet, has not been serene. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
My life felt pointless now that you were gone. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
We joined in and sang as if we were having one of life’s most glorious moments. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z
None of this was his fault, but it wasn’t equal, either, and for any woman who lives by the mantra that equality is important, this can be a little confusing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
The Bronx streets had become a fixture in my life. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
But I have no memories of Suma’s life to help her, just these images. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
“You will rot in a federal prison for the remainder of your life.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
I would have spent that life among the living. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
Basketball was the only consistent thing I had in my life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
Practices and games were downright life-giving because they were my one reminder of my former life. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z
After a moment the intrepid siskin opened its eyes and shivered, coming back to life. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
—Yeah, well you have a real nice day, or night, or life, or whatever! Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Didn’t she know how sick to my stomach it made me feel to know it’s possible to end your life with only a baboon to talk to? The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z
“Changed my life. I’m able to take care of my whole family now.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
State legislatures were eager to jump on the “get tough” bandwagon, passing harsh drug laws, as well as “three strikes” laws mandating a life sentence for those convicted of any third offense. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
That was about the only time in my life I didn’t put two and two together. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z
There were Muslim men who modeled their lives on the life of the Prophet, and those who strayed and fell short. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
Seventeen years its been Charlie and I want you to know that the bakery bisness is not so good but like I always said you got a job here for the rest of your life. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z
While I was a student at Syracuse University, I set up a foundation to help improve the lives of Sudanese refugees still in Africa, as well as Lost Boys who had moved to America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
And he might have to be a fugitive for the rest of his life, an outlaw, like Mr. Boatwright. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
Meanwhile Goebbels’s work of eliminating any Jewish or otherwise “objectionable” influence from the cultural life of Germany continued inexorably. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
There were only a dangerous forest and a single road and a thin grip on a life that the Elders had enjoyed for generations. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z
On the other hand, Adams possessed a congenital affinity for deconstructed interpretations of history, of his own life, indeed of practically everything. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
“Their first child was sent away into a lonely life. I suppose it makes sense that they decided to send their second child to something better, maybe.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z
And for the first time in his life Michael entirely bathed himself. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z
“He’s nice. I just...I need some time, Mamma. To be by myself. To find out what I want from life.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z
I never considered death or the possibility of a life hereafter. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
I am not the only one who tried to follow a path away from the still life, the dining room tables, the half-peeled oranges, and the rucked-up tablecloths. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z
Hanako could not imagine spending her life bent over, always looking down unless you made an effort to raise your eyes. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
It was very exciting to Janie who had never touched dice in her life. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z
But we now know that the sun is a star, that other stars have planets, and there is every reason to think that there is life elsewhere in the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
It did not matter, however; time in the Arctic was the rhythm of life. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
I imagine that the lives lived here were peaceful ones, quiet ones. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
That is why so many birds live near Sir Christopher Wren’s Cathedral, which also belongs to St. Paul, and that is why the Bird Woman lives there, too. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z
It was a way of surviving, and it was a preview of what her life would be if their plan failed. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
On the roads outside town, we'd drive past the gateways to what were once slave plantations, though they were enough of a fact of life that nobody ever bothered to remark on them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
Anyway, the kind of wisdom younger people sought from old age was not to be acquired in this life no matter how many years they lived. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
Already I was heavy-hearted in my soul for the flush commodes and machine-washed clothes and other simple things in life I have took for granite. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
"Blue lips speak only lies, isn't that what Xaro told you? Why do you care what the warlocks whispered? All they wanted was to suck the life from you, you know that now." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
The red cloth was almost black with dirt, but it was the only surviving link to her life in the village. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
For the first time in his life, he was not the only sleeper in his room. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z
And the film said that the baby’s translucent fingers could move, that we should imagine them clinging for life, grasping for a chance, this miracle of life. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
Free from the BDM and compulsory labor service, her new life had begun at last. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
Maybe I’ll never get over my grappling for balance, never stop believing life is going to be fair, the minute we can clear up all these mistakes of the temporarily misguided. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Listen, I ... I used to think about giving my life for things, but I didn’t understand what ‘giving your life’ really was until it was right there, about to be taken from me.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
“Save your own life,” someone whispered behind him. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z
Like other men, they passed out of Buck’s life for good. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z
Leaving the airport felt like leaving his old life forever—Sudan, his village, his family.... A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
So the lady below would give, had given, her life for those she loved. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z
“They say he lives on top of Never-Ending Mountain,” Ba said. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z
Granny used her life savings for the bribes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was the third time in his life that he had seen it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z
But for once in my life, I wasn’t. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
For the first fifteen years of our lives, Danny and I lived within five blocks of each other and neither of us knew of the other’s existence. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z
Jonas had risked his own life, sacrificed his future, to bring him here. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
After years in which life seemed to stand still behind the Iron Curtain, communist East Germany unraveled with breathtaking speed. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
They sheltered no life upon that plain, for all their power, without a fortress wall. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
Grief took hold of Achilles, so black that those around him feared for his life. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Your grandfather and I are prepared to give our lives if necessary.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
Whereas I was grieving for my grandpa who had died, Papa was mourning for the man who had given him his chance in life. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z
“I’ve never seen you before in my life. I have no idea who you are, and I couldn’t care less,” he spat. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
Ernest spun a grandiose vision of how science being done right there on the Berkeley campus would change human lives, not just through advances in physics but in the fields of health and medicine. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
It’s my way of telling her that even though I haven’t experienced so many things, I have managed to have a life. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z
He expected his story to dovetail into milkwarm commiseration, but before Nel could excrete it, Sula said she didn’t know about that—it looked like a pretty good life to her. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z
“You’re nothing. The human species pretends it is so resilient. Mortal lives are one long game of make-believe. If you couldn’t lie to yourselves, you’d cut your own throats to end your misery.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
Did he know what he wanted to do in life? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
In every great change in the lives of African Americans we see the hand of events that were beyond our individual control, events that were not unalloyed goods. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
Not that they needed understanding—young people were the same in every generation—but this cockiness, this refusal to take seriously the gravest questions of their lives, nettled and irritated her. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
Never in his life had Edward been cradled like a baby. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z
Meaning Manuel, meaning her fury at us, meaning her fear of her own life. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
He had seen many that weighed more than a thousand pounds and he had caught two of that size in his life, but never alone. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
He leads me to the apartment where he lives with his grandma. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
In spite of the war between France and The Netherlands, Huygens’s life was mostly without incident outside his scientific work. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z
Seems like people been teasing me all my life. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z
The beach was cleaner than he’d ever seen in his life. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
The battle for life was taking place there too. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
“Then I shall have to go alone. But what I’m asking you to do is to come and save Hazel’s life.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
For the first time in my life I had seen scaffolding all over Spanish Harlem. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z
He had never been so terrified in all his life. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z
When they got into town, Hazel followed the same route she’d used seventy years ago—the last night of her life, when she’d come home from the hills and found her mother missing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z
I’ve never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I’ve entered my story, I need them more than ever. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
In Mr. Reed’s classroom there’s a photo of Molly Molasses taken near the end of her life. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z
Or we could choose to be a nation that shames and blames its most vulnerable, affixes badges of dishonor upon them at young ages, and then relegates them to a permanent second-class status for life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Finally, my history deserves public notice as no more than this: a parable for the life of its reader. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
But a woman determined to achieve a better life for her son. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z
I have gotten so used to what I am, and how my life works. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z
I feel more detached from life and somehow gentler. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
No day to wreck a life already splintered like a cheap windowpane, but Violet, well you had to know Violet. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
Blanca did not deny it, and once the news was confirmed, Clara wrote it down in her notebooks that bore witness to life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
After a second, I said, “So it’s like you gave her this second life where she got to be a teenager.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z
Habitually putting himself in other people’s shoes, he was in his private life charming and engaging, generous and genuinely empathetic. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
That was the most racist thing I’d ever heard in my life. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z
It's a pretty miserable excuse for a life, but technically it still qualifies. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
“How could I,” he returned, forced to the admission, “when I never see her in my life? Never clapped eyes upon her!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z
She feared for his health and his life, so she told him not to hurry. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
Now Miss Rosa’s life consisted of keeping it in herself and her father. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z
This life that she had once hated no longer seemed so bleak. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
Some biologists classify viruses as “life forms.” because they are not strictly known to be alive. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
All around them, crooked monoliths of earth and ice burst upward, as if the ground were coming to life. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
Soon, however, it will become just another facet of life. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
To disavow their faith, the Mexica say, would tear apart their lives. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
“Of course. Isn’t that what life is? We all die at the end.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z
"Saved his life, and look what I get. Criticism! What do you think of that, Jay?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
“You look powerful, like a woman who knows what she wants out of life.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z
For Geyer, finding the girls was “one of the most satisfactory events of my life,” but his satisfaction was tempered by the fact that Howard remained missing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
I considered scrawling a makeshift will on the back of a napkin, but as I took mental inventory of my life's possessions, I realized no one would want them anyway. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
In my laboratory at Cornell University we work on, among other things, prebiological organic chemistry, making some notes of the music of life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
I’d failed to appreciate the grip climbing had on my soul, however, or the purpose it lent to my otherwise rudderless life. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z
Once she knew this, she was ready; and once ready, she knew she had been ready for a long time—perhaps all of her life. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
Everyone told him he was crazy, that the rocky, wild hill could sustain no life, and my mother was more than upset. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
The man occupied us all in life and is still holding on to his claim. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
He was a bold guy because from that moment on he was risking his life. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
Perhaps she hadn’t always felt that strongly, but Frank had trusted her with his life. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z
He had acquired his nickname from a tragedy that had cast its shadow over his life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I’ll make sure you’re nice and comfy before—” Mark sprang to life, screaming and kicking out as he twisted himself to jerk free from the pilot’s grip. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
The important thing was that Barack had managed to process his life story, snapping together the disparate pieces of his Afro-Kansan-Indonesian-Hawaiian-Chicagoan identity, writing himself into a sort of wholeness this way. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
Though I follow the rules and routines of convent life, Angelina will not allow me to abstain from meat, as the sisters do. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
But even if I weren’t a stranger, even if we’d spent our entire lives together, I wouldn’t be able to stay in there with my father forever. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z
Didn’t matter; it wasn’t going to ruin my life. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
For reasons still unclear, America, the land that had given birth to Ashe and nurtured him, loomed bright as the place to go to realise my fullest potential in tennis, in life. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
He takes me into his bedroom, and I stand for a moment, looking around at the room where he spent most of his life. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
I walked through the lobby, clutching Abby’s hand for dear life and trying so hard to be brave. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z
These men wanted wives who could manage, who were not so well accustomed to middle-class life that they had no ambition, no hunger, no hustle in them. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
I didn’t see how they could find Sam guilty—he’d fought for three years, he’d risked his life, how could they decide to punish him for something he hadn’t done? My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
For we had hardly passed through the gate, when I saw more people—men, women, and children—in that one moment than I had seen in all my life together. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z
We left our homeland, a place we had known all our lives. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
She could certainly raise Zachary herself; the two of them had become a very good and streamlined team, and there seemed no reason to upset the balance of her life. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
How could there not be a huge sad hole in your life? Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z
For the second time today, Arya reflected that life was not fair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
They have found them in every walk of life and in every socioeconomic group. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
She was beginning to see subtle differences in how each spirit moved—the clenching of shadowy fists on an upward flush into the sky, the curve of a spine from a life of hard labor. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z
Nothing so blatant as gasps or screams—people were used to scythes passing through their daily lives. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
This gradually changed the atmosphere to the composition that it has today, and allowed the development of higher forms of life such as fish, reptiles, mammals, and ultimately the human race. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Because we aren’t even through this giant electronic gate yet and I feel like my real life is already a million miles away. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z
He thought they were nice, but no one ran around like that in real life. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
All the same, Farid listened in vain that night, the longest night of his life. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
She would use it against me for the rest of my life if I let it slip out. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
And they made the most wonderful pancakes she ever tasted in all her life. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z
It is important to keep in mind, though, that many rappers and hip-hop artists do not aim to glorify or romanticize gangsta life or culture. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
By repeating this move, I was able to pick off his extra lives, one by one. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z
She had never in her life felt so pleased with herself. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
“Young man,” he said, “we owe you our lives.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z
I pressed my ear against his chest, closed my eyes, and prayed, really prayed, for the first time in my life, to whatever god was listening. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z
But they no longer had it in them to quietly take the blame and apologize for inconveniencing my life. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
In my writing life I normally work seven days a week, but writing is ego food, totally self-supervised and intermittently productive of praise. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
However, there is a characteristic impediment to life on such a planet: the atmosphere is turbulent, and down deep it is very hot. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
To him and his companions, sensing and acting was second nature; but these rabbits had never had to act to save their lives or even to find a meal. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
It is not known definitively whether Mozart and Beethoven ever met, despite their lives overlapping by twenty-one years, but two more different artists, creatively or temperamentally, it is hard to imagine. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z
The human life is all one thing, like a blade tracing loops on ice: a little kid, a twenty-three-year- old infantry sergeant, a middle-aged writer knowing guilt and sorrow. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
On such a night back in her other life, in the windowless cott with her mother, she might have risen to enjoy the moonlight. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
You may alter any part of yourselves into anything which you think would be useful to you in later life. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
The exciting synergy of institutional life in an all-purpose national metropolis was deemed less important than the dangerous corruptions likely to afflict a nexus of politicians and financiers. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
The sweat from my hands makes them slippery, but I hold on like my life depends on it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z
Taking me in must have completely upended their lives. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
“I suppose we are. But that’s not the point. Grandma never knew her parents, but she wasn’t orphaned at birth. Her parents gave their baby to the nuns to save her life.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z
Newspapers reported the doings in a life I did not share. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
She was afraid to leave and yet she could not bear the life she led, inside all day, sweeping and dusting, making beds, washing clothes. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
I thank God for sending him into my life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
Reading it makes me wonder if I’ll ever escape Bellmont, and, if so, what sort of life I might have somewhere else. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Your life doesn’t have to be here,” I said. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
He died soon after making this bequest of his life’s work to the stunned younger man, who only weeks before had been a penniless refugee. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z
Nhamo’s eyes grew wide as she watched the new life slide into the world. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
He had a thousand ideas to make my life miserable and he never stopped thinking up more. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z
They weren’t doing theoretical work; they were trying to save lives by helping pilots and radar operators stay alert and capable in the face of an onslaught of information. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
As I wake up out of my months-long sleep, I find the course of my life has narrowed right down, and I feel myself rushing along it like a flood of rich, red mud. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
“These are marvelous, undoubtedly the most delicious cookies I have ever tasted in the entire history of my life,” Quentin told her after a nibble. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
And contact—involvement—was what I had spent years eliminating entirely from my life. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z
Whenever he stopped, thinking up formulas for what to say next, the people would all shout and thump each other and drink to the Shaper’s long life. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z
On that first day of housekeeping and last day—although I don’t yet know it’s the last—of my life as a low-wage worker in Key West, Carlie is in a foul mood. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
I leaned against August’s chest, pushing aside my secret wanting, too afraid she’d say, No, I never saw this woman in my life. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Only, in the long years which bring women to the middle of life, a sense of balance develops. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
He was institutionalized for the remainder of his life. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
They looked, they walked, and they talked as if they had spent most of their lives out of doors. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
He had never been spanked in his life. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z
Eating with awareness is one of the basic joys of life, and one that everyone can experience even without hunting and gathering your food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
“But I do not know if my life is of any value to you here.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z
I had seen her my whole life, and not once had I asked myself what it would be like to be her. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z
In 1989, smoking was more prevalent than it is now, more embedded in everyday life. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
The sun sets and we convene for what I’m anticipating to be the most awkward dinner of my life. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
There in the flinty hills of the Ozarks, I fought for the lives of my dogs. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
She thought about Gwen, who wanted so desperately to dream of Colin; she thought about Ana, who wanted a life of luxury. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
I had hoped to become part of a special way of life. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
Throughout his life, but especially when he was a child, Gus Levy had said, “Levy Pants,” and had always received a standard reply, “He does?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
I don’t think I had seen him cry but once in my life: at Papa’s funeral. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
‘I has never dared to go hide and sneaking around London in my life.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
On the other side of the fire is Noah, ten feet from the edge, the crowd favorite to end his life. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z
In all her short life the child had seldom seen, and certainly never held in her hands, anything so lovely as the exquisite little silver hornbook. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z
He hadn’t the faintest clue what her life was like, how she became an assassin, how she learned to play the pianoforte...It was all a mystery. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
She had lived through Nana for two years, had imagined her life with other dolls, a life of giggles and talking and holding hands. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
They leave home, have separate lives, make separate memories. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
“The water of life? Do I detect a Scottish burr? Any other languages besides German?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z
At the moment when life as he had known it changed forever, Alex Morales was behind the counter at Joey’s Pizza, slicing a spinach pesto pie into eight roughly equal pieces. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z
“Now there is a bit more life in me.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z
There was my whole life for you, socks stretching all the way to the infinite horizon, a yawning valley of knitting tedium. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
Snowdrifts covered the stretches of grass that I had walked every day of my life, the mounds of garden earth that I had turned with my bare hands. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
They were bringing Bessie’s body in now to make the white men and women feel that nothing short of a quick blotting out of his life would make the city safe again. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
No one could say now that Hazel had thrown away his life in a foolhardy prank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
It’s insane to him that there are legions of people who follow the intensely dull dating lives of the royal siblings. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
To him the occasional misfortunes of life were simply part of things. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
It looked as if she had fallen on the battlefield of life. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z
But that only led to a lonely life accompanied only by the last words of the already-dead, so I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z
She warned me that my decision to have the baby would change my life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
What they don’t know is the man they call a traitor leads a double life: He spies for George Washington. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Do you realize, Gus, that this is the tragedy of this poor woman’s life. She’s always been alone. She needs someone. She needs love.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Death is prophesied in Deirdre’s name, that of a heroine in Irish mythology who took her own life. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
“I don’t mean to spend my life here watching my children grow up as slaves and maybe get sold.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z
It seemed as if I had never talked so much in my life. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z
For the first time in his life he’s given himself and his friendship to another person. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
And even farther away from my life in Stockton. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z
Love and lives are complicated, so I will tell you only two things that happened over the next few years, though you can imagine a thousand little slights between the physician and Hassan. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z
On the next page, he described life in his country. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
My mother never sat me down and told me the whole story of her life in Transkei. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
Word spread in the Communist party that I was taking notes on the life of Ross and strange things began to happen. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
I said nothing; I made no gesture of any kind, but it was the first time in my life I ever wanted to kiss a man. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z
Southern-born, he had migrated north and his life reflected the crude hopes and frustrations of the peasant in the city. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Everyone who almost-made-it-but-didn’t lives in Queens,” and she laughs to cover how pitiful she knows that sounded. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z
Now Tamika was a permanent element in my life and we were no longer brutal competitors. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z
Besides, the car fire had inaugurated one of the most important discussions of both their lives, a talk that went on for hours, interspersed between ferocious Quake II battles on their linked computers. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Knew what Pilate’s version of punishment was when somebody took another person’s life. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
This cat, with the small flames dancing in its oblique eyes, was perhaps seeing the pageant of its past eight lives, reviewing them with an animal's stoicism, beyond hope or fear. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
After a long silence, and after their talk had turned to trifles then on to the narrowness of life, Violet said to Alice Manfred, “Wouldn’t you? You wouldn’t fight for your man?” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
She had always wanted to live a life of substance and to make a difference. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
“I probably won’t be able to get these back from you until after opening night because rehearsals are taking over my life this week and next.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z
Soon tens of thousands of people between here and Cardiff owed me their lives. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z
Now my home life was completely taken over by the same tense fretting and worrying as my school life had been. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Ideas and hope started sparking together inside me, reminding me of the way my mother used to be—excited by science and life and questions. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
Ifemelu was about to sign a lease—if saving money meant living with mice, then so be it—when Ginika’s friend told them of a room for rent, a great deal, as college life went. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
Was it so that I would learn that life isn’t fair sometimes? Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z
“You’re lucky he didn’t kill you. He would have if Alice and I hadn’t talked him out of it. Now what are you going to do to repay us for saving your life?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z
But Powell gave me another way to think about the American dilemma and, more than that, another way to think about my own life. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
“Charming fellah,” said the Knight “Never met him in me life.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
He hated any interaction with the police, but now he was inviting them into his life in a way that seemed absurd. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
Imagining life, sometimes ridiculously, lived long-term in one place. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
In real life, I can usually tell if I say the wrong thing. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
Do you know my life is forever changed now? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
“We’re monitoring him, but Will needs to help us. He needs to keep the variables in his life to a minimum.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z
Mom: “Hazel, you’re a teenager. You’re not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z
“But I knew it was coming. Why would he want to be with me? I’m too much to handle, story of my stupid life.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
She’d read stacks of self-help books, and they had made her realize that she’d been living her life for other people. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
No suggestion that he had wasted yet another night risking his life for an ungrateful foreigner who would never be able to repay him—the Aerodrome Drop-Off Principle taken to extremes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z
Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less—filling volumes and libraries with the subde linguistic analysis of the grunt. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z
He was by nature a decisive man, and although this was one of the great decisions of his life and he knew it, he made it quickly and did not agonize over it. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
They constituted the sort of criminals, petty and otherwise, who sucked the life out of urban areas. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
One person—a Raoul Wallenberg, an Albert Schweitzer, a Martin Luther King Jr.—one person of integrity can make a difference, a difference of life and death. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
Before the end of life he had seen beauty. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z
“That was such a tiny pie,” commented Teacher gently, “to save two lives.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
Other than helping Frank, Emma spent the years of her life after Charles’s death much as she had the years before she married him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
What I couldn’t get over was that, like me, each one of those beggars had only one life to live. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I’ve gotten no choices. For my whole life, no choices. Let me choose this. Let me have this one thing before all my choices get taken away again.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
I am telling my life story in these pages, and so I want to tell my full, authentic life story. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
Social life, whether it was the crowning of a May queen, the eulogy to a dead president, or an all-night dance, could be held nowhere else. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
“Blessed be Thou ... for giving us life, for sustaining us, and for enabling us to reach this day.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
How many times had he told his mother to stop meddling in his life? Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
Now he saw her as a frail woman content to do tiny things; to grow and cultivate small life that would not hurt her if it died: rhododendron, goldfish, dahlias, geraniums, imperial tulips. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
By nine o’clock in the morning, we were finally deep enough into Harrisonburg to find its pulse of life. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z
“Of course. But you took about five years off Mr. Ortega’s life.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
I suppose there is a certain crucial interval in everyone’s life when character is fixed forever; for me, it was that first fall term I spent at Hampden. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
There’s Jenny Leech’s wall of text about how Jesse touched her life in ways he didn’t even know, despite the extent of their relationship being the one class they shared in tenth grade. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
At the castle, for the first time in her young life, Mig had enough to eat. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z
“Your captain lives to serve his cruel queen.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
But he had never tried, because he knew that the questions he asked of life were entirely different from hers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
She plunged into her heart the sword that was still wet with his life’s blood. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z
You might expect a creature under attack to run for her life, or to defend herself, or at the very least to scream. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z
Everyone looked at her in surprise—she’d probably never spoken to a sixth-grade boy before in her life, but now she looked as if she meant to. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z
And yet, and yet—work in so many ways becomes our lives. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
He knows the cost of a human life lost in an airplane crash, a car accident, a mining disaster. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z
All my life, Granny told me that my mama left me behind because I was worthless. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
When Kaisa’s skin was no longer touching the moonstone ring, it flared into life again, burning as though it were angry with her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
The paneling of this office once breathed the humid air of a Congolese forest, gave shelter to life, felt the scales of snake belly on its branches. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
Her dreams of living life as an artist had been ripped from her that night of her debut when the doubt stared her in the face: Was she truly meant to paint? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z
The exchange rate is a farce, the price of carrots indefensible, duplicity lives everywhere. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
By the time Mike was born, though, family life had begun to fray in the Rantz household. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
I wanted my drawing to look like it could swim to life with its torpedo body launching the shark at the speed of a car. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z
Outrunning Louie for the only time in her life, Sylvia cut down the alley and dove into her father’s work shed. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z
Will the Master of the Universe obey the will of a man whose life is dust? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z
We meet in the spacious parlor room of the wealthiest lady in the group, who lives in a grand Victorian on the outskirts of town. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z
"No, sir. I never saw you before in my life." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
Largely uneducated, he learned to read and write late in his life. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
In all his life, he’d never seen his brother look so proud. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
Here, Courtney, is your contribution to the anthology of my life. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z
The bus shuddered, and the engine roared back to life. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z
His hands were thick and leathery—the hands of a man who’d been hard at work all his life—and they grasped the Bible firmly. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
"But how did you relate the French Revolution to your own life, Sonia?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
Like the universe was telling me that in order for me to make something of this life, I’d have to leave home, my neighborhood, my friends. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
I try to get my mind on real life again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
“The white man won’t give you anything, and the black man doesn’t have anything to give you. If you want anything out of life, you have to get it for yourself.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
The annual reunion of my people was held in nearby Syracuse, New York, and my brother Alex and I started a project that would change the course of my life. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
“I am completely absorbed in combat life. I can’t seem to think of anything but the fighting,” Lilya told her mother. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
Sometimes he roused himself a little and he looked at Pear Blossom and he was troubled and said, “It is too quiet a life for you, my child.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z
Esteban could recall the exact moment when he had realized that his sister was an ominous shadow in his life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Because he’s strapped to me, everything he throws up is down the front of our life jacket. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z
“Well, actually a garbage can saved his life, but it could have been tragic. Don’t you people watch your children? Letting him play in the street like that! You ought to be ashamed of yourself!” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
“And we’ve been employed to test you—to see if you can avoid this life.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z
On the Ryan Dean West Stimulus-Satisfaction scale of things, it was without a doubt one of the best physical sensations of my entire, pathetic life. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
“Demetrius didn’t come. Probably because fun is against his moral code. And Dex is drunk. Loosening up for once in his life, thank the skies.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
I thought about his deep faith in God and how he had taken every opportunity to teach me life’s lessons. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
“No. He lives in Maine and besides, I guess he’s really old.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z
To save his own life, he had rolled out of bed during the attack and crashed to the floor, hoping to escape Powell’s reach in the dark room. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
He’s the most precious thing in my life. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
“He’s not my leader. I don’t care if he lives or dies,” I say. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
Jogging through the dark and sleeping alleyways, skirting pools of streetlight, he imagined he was a toy lead soldier come to life, following Sergeant Beans and Private Mutto on a mission behind enemy lines. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z
If Ebola lives in African game animals—in leopards or lions or in Cape buffalo—it might have traveled to the Philippines that way. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Then it is over and life resumes as before. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Since he was twelve, Jack Mandelbaum assumed his life 1 II would always be a carefree adventure. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z
It was as if all of the pages of all of her magazines had come to life in Kelly’s bedroom. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z
Blanca went along with his decision, for she accepted that a good conjunction of planets in her daughter’s astral chart would not provide Alba with everything she needed to get ahead in life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
In his middle life, at about the time such things were known about, it was discovered that, he had pernicious anemia. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
He’s already sent out one last tweet: Thank you for this life. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
Somebody had taken a lawnmower and mowed the words choke artist lives here into the grass. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z
"What we did...the consequences are final. I have never failed so spectacularly in my life." Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z
Gritting my teeth, I aimed the hood into the tight passage and held on for dear life. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z
They have some ideas how to make a decent poor man’s life. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
He was doing nothing whatever but live a stonecutter’s routine life. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z
I had a room now, and I had a life, too, and there was no place in either one for Mom and Dad. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
Then he resumed a life of constant motion, riding his thumb north and west through Red Bluff, Weaverville, and Willow Creek. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
She didn’t necessarily love working at the Night Zoo, but it was the only home she’d ever known, the only life she’d ever known. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
My father has visited the institution in Calcutta twice—once without warning, hoping to see a transformed Moni, living a secretly normal life behind the barred gates. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
She knew exactly what she wanted and he didn’t, but his want would ache in him all his life. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
Man, this may be the best week of my entire life. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z
After his reading, Volpe says to Krause that he hopes the kid gets his life turned around, but there is no way he is giving him a role. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
But some days—some days I hate my life, and I feel like fighting. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
Such is the life of a fifteen-year-old senior in a university meant for sixteen and up. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z
A clock ticked somewhere in the house, counting down life’s moments. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
“Those are simply the things that I do. My life is here.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
A flashlight, a fishing knife, a pair of leather gloves, and a hunting vest fully packed with shells contributed further atmosphere to this curious still life. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
There was no reason for him to; he knew nothing of Charlie Bombay s personal life, had never even seen his wife. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
“My father. He made a choice. His life for mine. I had to make good on that. I had to make his choice into the right one. ” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z
“No parents, man. She lives alone. Folks passed away.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
It seemed every scythe had surrendered something of themselves—not because they had to but because they chose to—as a way to pay for the lives they took. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
Ash paused in the doorway, her back to her stepsister, and she wanted to tell her that she was not true; half her life was spent in secret. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
We could have been entering our prewar lives. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z
What kind of life was possible under that hate? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
I mean, my life is already pretty sweet right now for the first time in forever. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
“That accident has changed my life forever,” he said, now really fighting to hold it together. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
It seemed as if everything in my life was going well. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
For the very first time in her life Meggie wasn’t sure that she wanted to enter the world waiting for her between the covers of a book. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin’s-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys forty-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
He was beginning to enjoy life in New York. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
Now married life prompted him to place a higher value on his free time from fund-raising and managing the lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Mam says I should take it, too, become a postman, save up, go to America and be a postman over there and wouldn’t that be a lovely life. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z
The elation of his escape had faded rapidly, leaving him with pain and thoughts of his new life in the Glade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
I, however, have come to realize that I want to live my life with my heart and mind open to other people, other cultures, other tribes. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
“More money than I ever had before in all my life! More than I ever had before all put together!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
“It’s different for you. I’m not saying it wouldn’t be hard. But there are other people who’d make your life worth living.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
She wasn't rich in life, her clothing belying her poverty, and even her death has been insulting. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
I ran for my life, all the way back down the road to our house. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
The couple had made few friends during their time in the state, making it easier to abstain from the life of town. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
The media didn’t cover others whose lives were irrevocably altered that day. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Certainly no miracle came to save his farm, or for that matter, anything else he had lost in his life. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
By combining journalism with anthropology, I’ve tried in previous writings not simply to observe but to participate in the lives of railroad tramps, illegal Mexican immigrants, Kenyan truckers, and even the elite of Aspen, Colorado. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
But when I wake, Helena is there, sleeping beside me, and I remember that life has started over again. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
All that mattered was the label the media had put on our school, the little girl who had lost her life and that all of us were there together. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
Even if I could travel at the speed of light and go back to that day at the Kennedy Space Center, when life was all good, it wouldn’t matter. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z
Something—the absence of disaster, threat, in any constant evil—permitted him to forget Jefferson as any place which he had ever seen before, where his life must resume itself. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
Of course, the Mutual could not help everyone in all Situations, but its leaders recognized the company’s unique role in black life. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
Free-range farming, as it is called, will make life much better for millions of animals. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z
Starting on our first day in town I’d been letting go of our way of life bit by bit, and here I was asking Nan to let go all at once. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z
Dedicated her life so fully, in fact, that when my dad’s work in Congo ended and he had to go back to the States, she’d stayed on and they’d divorced. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z
“Enjoy life while you can. Nothing’s gonna happen for maybe five, ten, fifteen, twenty years. But lemme give you a piece of advice: Whenever the doorbell rings, have somebody else answer the door.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
She lives in constant fear of what may happen to them. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
It was the best food I have ever eaten in my life. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
He asks, “Are you talking about in real life, or comic books?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
He had dreamed enough for one small life. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
One night, while talking to his wife about his life, he used the word “trapped.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
“Do you think I’m going to put Kaitlin’s life in the hands of two people who are stupid enough to spend their time jumping other guys?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
I’m not the only kid who lives here. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
Over the next few weeks, as one day grinds into the next, life is quiet and tense. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z
No one had to tell me to believe in God or to love everything that lives. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Camp Hardy happens to be where Lumumba was held, and beaten to within an inch of his life, before his death flight to Katanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
Okay, it’s all ridiculous and corny, because unfortunately and fortunately, some of life’s biggest moments get wrapped up in corny, Annabelle is beginning to understand. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z
I threw it to a nest of rats and ran for my life. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
Mr. D seemed truly perplexed, which probably saved my life. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z
The stamp also serves as a reminder of the stock from which we were bom and confirms significantly that how one lives his or her life today stands as a testament to one’s forever after. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
This type of molecule is thought to be the oldest and most “primitive” coding mechanism for life. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
At any rate, in San Francisco in 1974, life was working hard to give me one. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
But when it was over, America’s wartime planning, and the lives of all three men, had been set on a new course. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Fina lives practically across the street from the main Hampstead College gates, in a little lavender house with a neat square of grass in front. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z
He stayed in the South and worked for a few years to save some money, then packed up, headed to Illinois, and proposed to Mary Richardson, the love of his life. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
Climbing with oxygen for the first time in my life, I took a while to get used to it. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z
But Luma was more interested in life in the United States than she was in what an education there might do for her in Jordan. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
The greatest time I ever spent in my life was when she was home. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
Cool Hand Luke, Brubaker, The Shawshank Redemption, and many others paint melodramatic pictures of prison life that have some common denominators. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
I wanted to figure it out, the secret to having the easy life that everyone else seemed to have, where they fit in and were good at everything they tried. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
It was always so beautiful to stare up at that white ceiling and imagine only clean beautiful places, where the reward for living a pure life was a great loaf of warm bread. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
Her escape had been a preposterous idea, but even a sliver of it amounted to the best adventure of her life. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
Nothing was hidden from view, as he had died in a sleeveless white T-shirt, one of the same he had worn nearly every day of his life. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z
Family is the most important thing ever, so when you think of Black people as a big family, it’s easier to get why we say Black lives matter. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z
Then it started to rain, so she went inside and made some coffee and did what she had never done in her life: tried the newspaper crossword. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
But if Ellsberg’s personal life was finally looking up, the situation in Vietnam was getting worse. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
It’s me and my partner in crime, Lloyd Newman, catching you up on some things that have happened since we told you about our lives in 1993. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
The following winter months brought the first intimation that other life was affected: the western grebes on the lake began to die, and soon more than a hundred of them were reported dead. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
That was what she had done for me and Jay our whole lives. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
I journey backwards and watch myself living the early days of my life. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z
He moved through the halls like he had been there his entire life. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z
In every letter of yours I seem to find some reference to the sleaziness of your personal life. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Years of my life, convinced I knew exactly what I wanted to do. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
I think Rowdy might be the most important person in my life. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z
My parents had known all along that I was involved with gangs and had said nothing, but when the harassment increased, I decided to tell them that I had quit gang life. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
Or maybe it was the most important moment of my life. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z
All lives! all red blood, with years of life in it; and not merely buzzing flies!’ Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z
“Who lives in those houses on the other side of Summerland?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
I believed I could repair the damage—that now I was back, this would be my life, and it wouldn’t matter that Nick understood nothing of Buck’s Peak. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
She had cut off contact with Obinze, after all, and so much time had passed, and she was newly in a relationship with Blaine, and happily easing herself into a shared life. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
But David’s desperation to save his life’s work doesn’t excuse killing off a faction, my faction. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
But he thinks that is the stuff of fairy tales, not real life. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
He had become such a fixture in my life that it wasn’t even necessary to say his name. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z
They had known all the angles, but beneath that surface they were poor, ignorant, untrained black men; life had eased up on them and hyped them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
I made a mistake, and although I realize that nothing can replace the lives of these great men and the pain these families have felt, I’m willing to do anything to gain their forgiveness.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
It'll never sit well that years later she had to end her happy, hard-earned marriage just to give her children a better life. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
I have to believe they have these moments too, when a picture of what life is supposed to be comes floating into their heads out of nowhere. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
I have great respect for Anne Frank for writing about her life in the attic, but to me, my neighborhood is somewhat like her attic. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
There was no room for bad luck or chance in their lives. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
She lets out a sigh that means life is hardly worth living under such conditions. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
Charles had never before had a letter delivered at the farm in his life. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
“We found a picture of it in the Brooklyn Museum. We tried to take care of it, but it was nearing the end of its life, so...” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z
“I’m going to give them birds the biggest surprise they ever had in their lives. “I’m going to send Seabiscuit right out on the lead.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
“It would be funny if only it were a movie and not real life.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z
For several hours, he barely clung to life. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
I tried to write so that, in the same instant of time, the objective and subjective aspects of Bigger’s life would be caught in a focus of prose. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
Even the collarbones were hers—the little tickle at his memory, from when he’d glanced down in the dream and blushed to see more of female anatomy than he ever had in real life. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
"I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z
Then the shackler cuffed its hind foot and the animal was machine-lifted to the sticker, who ended the animal’s life with a cut to the throat. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
Your dad got upset and left the farm life behind forever. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z
“I’ve been taking this train my whole life. The train is the same. The stops are the same. But the people are different.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z
“If I have any strength left from the heat,” he wrote to Pete, “Fll beat Bright and give Lash the scare of his life.” Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z
He’d been weak, and he would carry that shame for the rest of his life. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
The two of them had carved out a life here, built hopes and dreams together side by side. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
I want to see for myself what your life is like, not as viewed from the outside looking in, but from the inside looking out. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
“It’s so obvious you're in love with him! Why don't you just fly to Zim-wherever he lives to marry him and get it over with?” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
The black dude’s face changing colors, turning bright red and purple, eyes bugging out of his head, looking back at Rondell, scared for his life. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z
And I did the same thing as in life, except for spilling the Sprite on Freckles. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z
Two of them are white, both in their early sixties, serving life sentences. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
The next hours are the worst in my life, which if you think about it, is saying something. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
For every life saved by vaccination or food relief, one is lost to starvation or war. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
They loved their comfortable lives and lashed out at anything that threatened this idyllic existence. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
Some of the most fascinating of the new methods are those that seek to turn the strength of a species against itself — to use the drive of an insect’s life forces to destroy it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
How much better my life has been for knowing him. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
Upper-class pastoral can admit envy for the intimate pleasures of rustic life as an arrogant way of reminding its listeners of their difference—their own public power and civic position. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
“All right, I get it. The finer things in life are lost on you.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
Men followed the path laid out for them by their fathers; women led the same lives as their mothers had before them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
That even a person like Jimmy deserved a final moment of respect, whether they gave it in their life or not. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
He could feel something back there, something of her life which he could not explain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z
“It’s a story our mother used to tell us when we got tired of our chores or out of sorts with our lives.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
I stare hard at the bunk mattress above me like it’s about to reveal life’s secrets. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z
We found life vests, two short-arm paddles, a plastic milk crate filled with rope, binoculars, a bent screwdriver, a wrench kit and a rusty hammer, and a long-dead muskrat. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Nothing to you? When a lady, young and full of life and health, charming with beauty and endowed with the gifts of rank and fortune, sits and smiles in the eyes of a gentleman you—” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
To Schrödinger’s “What is life?” a biochemist might answer, “If not chemicals.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
“You could make better decisions, make a better life.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
Nothing I had learned in Kakuma had prepared me for the fast pace and richness of life in America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
And now their life together was whole as only the past can be whole. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
“I know you don’t want me to be a part of your life.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
“It’s so peaceful here. This is what life is all about. No cell phones, no iPods, no cars driving by polluting our lungs.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z
They knew the toad was the animal opposed to me in life, and that its touch or even its sight made me sick. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
Roger lives right near the school, and on Tuesday the four of us walk to his house together. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z
“Three days later and you and I were running for our lives through a tunnel that was hotter than the sun.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
The girls went about the business of survival, collecting rainwater, identifying and gathering edible plant life, catching small fish with their straightening irons. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z
“I do, too, but I’d be a bad mother if I let her stay. Do you understand? She put your life in danger.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
At first they seemed to take, there were several, many sparks that found life and took briefly, but they all died. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
The only tremor of emotion I can find in his life is when he was nine and his dog April died. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z
“Percy, for so much of my life, I felt like everything was changing, all the time. I didn’t have anyone I could rely on.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z
You wouldn’t think there is anything life threatening about speech impediments, but let me tell you, there is nothing more dangerous than being a lad with a stutter and a lisp. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z
At the same time, I tried not to be jealous that Minnijean would be escaping the hell that was my daily life. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
What is the point in worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took? The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z
It was a mission that would motivate and frustrate her all her life. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
Wiping his streaming eyes on his jacket sleeve, Hagrid swung himself onto the motorcycle and kicked the engine into life; with a roar it rose into the air and off into the night. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z
“Just go home, fool! Enjoy life’s little pleasures, like breathing and eating solid food.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
In so many ways, his family’s life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
I don't know why, though, because it's the best moment of my life. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
His whole life might pass here in the time it took his friends on the Argo II to have breakfast. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
Then the girl could own one thing in her life. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
“I have never seen so many turkeys in my life,” Annabelle says. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z
A Knockout King in a kingdom of people who keep taunting him with their purposes in life, straight begging to get their jaws dislocated. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
For the first time in his life, he thought he just might be lost. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z
“I suppose. But what appears to be dead can still hold life.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z
Soon he seemed to be striking a wet wad of cotton, of some damp substance whose only life was the jarring of the brick’s impact. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
But he had decided what he wanted to do with the rest of his life: he would be a human rights activist and raise international awareness about the existence of the labor camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
Alex grew up with a mother who was a sometimes baffling combination of intensely organized and committed to lines of emotional communication, like an overly invested life coach. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
I watched as Grandma considered this for the longest ten seconds of my life. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z
He thought of his life— going to school and coming home. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
Bob and Damasen had sacrificed their lives so that Percy and Annabeth could sit here now, enjoying the sunlight and laughing with their friends. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
He has spent his life traveling, making and then losing friends, and never calling one place home. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z
Instead, I feel stuck, waiting for my own life to happen. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
If she lives in the hills, she doesn’t need money. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z
I will end there the grief and the anguish of life. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z
“He don’t want to live, but he’s gonna live anyway. When he gets out of this, by God, he’s gonna owe his life to the Three Musketeers.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
“It make me love him more now because...because I know life has been hard for him. I cannot stand to think of it.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
There she will have a room, the first in her life intended for her exclusive use. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
“But she’s gone. She chose to be reborn into a new life. I’m too late.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z
A cigarette in bed was the tombstone marking each day’s end and the reed through which she breathed herself back to life each morning. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
The cat took his advantage of that second and was off like a streak, running for his life up a narrow deer trail. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
“This is my clone. He’s the most important person in my life. If you thought it was any of you sorry, misbegotten swine, think again.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
"I don't believe in the beast of course. As Piggy says, life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean-" Someone shouted. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z
The other boys did not worry, for they had other things to think about—but for the ugly one it was the whole of an obscure and mystic life. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
That I shouldn’t wake up every day and think about how my life is basically over. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
During practice sessions my sisters and I would eat potato chips, scowling at our hated instruments and speculating on the lives of our music teachers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
Catelyn held her brother,- she dare not kill him or the Imp's life would be forfeit as well. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
When she pulls the car up to the falling-apart building downtown where Fuchsia lives, she leans over. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z
The truck’s doors slammed shut and the engine roared to life. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
Not when I feel like I have so little control over my life as it is. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
We quickened our pace as these sounds assured us that life was ahead. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z
I would live my life in a tower of books. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
It was beyond what she would have imagined even before she was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
Wish I could hear his voice in real life instead of just on spinning vinyl. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
He spoke to most of them and was at pains to show that he had some knowledge of their personal lives. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
The next day they sought me out on the playground and brought others to hear about my life in foster care. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z
What it all added up to was an intense need to recharge his emotional and spiritual life. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
At school, Broughton-Smith had found out, he had said, 'Kingshaw lives in a private hotel!’ and they had all stared at him, it had been an abnormality unknown to any of them. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z
Evidently my function in life is to strike fear into the hearts of those who love me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
“I don’t know how to thank you. You’ve saved our lives twice.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
“I have never been so insulted in my life.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
Somehow, it had never occurred to me that my sister might have lived my life before I did. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
I can't help looking up in the tree where Rue secretly perched, waiting to save my life. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
All my life dignified foreigners had petted and pampered me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
All his life, Edward had known what he was: a rabbit made of china, a rabbit with bendable arms and legs and ears. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z
But the Magic Kingdom is at the forefront of the effort to restore life as we knew it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
But unlike my parents, I have come to think that there is a place for the deeply personal in public life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was as if his whole life was being summed up in those two words. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
She came and stood by the window, and never in her whole life had Marly ever loved her quite as much as at that moment. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z
It took me a month to get over the shock of having life possibilities. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
At a factory egg farm, the laying hen spends her brief life jammed into a wire cage with six other hens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
But it seemed their mothers had known Shady their whole lives and they said it was fine as long as we could stomach his burnt biscuits in the morning. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z
“Begin to do something now by not plaguing his life out,” said Meg sharply. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z
He felt pleased with life, and he was rich, just as he had once set out to be. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Her bedroom was dark and she whispered quietly, as if she might wake up her sleeping stuffed animals, each one from another time in her life, when things were less confusing. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z
Most therapists treated him like he was his own bomb, about to explode, which, to be fair, was how he had felt for most of his life. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
We constructed our lives around a misunderstanding, and if ever I tried to pull it out and fix it now I would fall down flat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
It's risky business -Peeta may end up losing his leg -but when I weigh this against him losing his life, what alternative do I have? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
Up to that point, much of Bobby’s life had been nomadic because he spent so much time traveling from one competition to another. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
I resumed something like a conventional social life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
The thing crowds in around my life, leaving barely enough room for air. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
“Now life itself was filled with fears and anxiety as to the possibilities of the future.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
As they squeezed through, Chess’s face pressed painfully against the stone head of a creature that might have been a demon or just a man caught in the worst agony of his life. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
“Come with us,” said the scythe in blue, “and I promise you from this moment on, your life will be everything you’ve ever dreamed it could be.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
All the years and places of his brief broken life came within mind's reach and made a whole again. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z
I tried to picture him, working at his laptop in our sunny kitchen, but the image was spoilt by encroachments from his new life. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
Ben came over then, and said, “Are you trying to be subtle? Because I know you’re talking about the honeybunnyless prom tragedy that is my life.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z
Like any explosion of modernity, outsourcing is challenging traditional norms and ways of life. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z
No one knew the details of his life. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z
The PA in my science classroom crackled to life. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z
“It’s the ngozi who has to be satisfied. Life must be given for life.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Gold is sweet, but life is sweeter,” said Beans. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
It was true; life had to go on. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z
Sometimes she wondered who she might have been in another life. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
And that’s all he’s done his whole life, disappear and reappear. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
Our life would be what we made of it—nothing more, nothing less. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z
“My father says being different makes life more difficult.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
But there was always Miss Mortimer, who was like a mother to the girls; all in all, Penelope felt her lot in life had been rather lucky. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z
I’d never forgotten about a birthday present before in my whole life. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z
Maternity, or additional offspring, may force upon the woman a distressful life and future. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
Let’s begin with a journey from the perspective of the child—a very young child at the beginning of life. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z
A 1986 Gallup poll reports that 52 percent of American teenagers believe in it, and a distressing number of people in all walks of life seem to accept at least some of its ancient claims. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
As far as I'm concerned, I'd happily spend the rest of my life out here.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z
It’s like watching some strange sea animal coming back to life. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
Their eyes were dark purple, as if the clear blue water of their life source had condensed and thickened inside them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
There is no doubt this woman has hit on at least three million women in her life. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z
"If she waits much longer, she'll be alone for the rest of her life." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
The act seems to suck some of the life out of Trina. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
The life of a priest’s wife had been even worse than Aunt Zo had expected. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
I noticed a whistle hanging from one of the life jackets. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
A daughter's a daughter for life, Baba, I tell him. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
Our racially biased system of mass incarceration exploits the fact that all people break the law and make mistakes at various points in their lives and with varying degrees of justification. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
He would plant a disease in my brain that would leave me wearing a strait- jacket in a rubber room for the rest of my life. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z
In an instant I can see him living the same kind of life my father did: staying in Abnegation, learning a trade, marrying Susan, and having a family. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
Then he asked me if I wasn’t interested in a change of life. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z
Pet was very clearly here, but those who didn’t see or believe in it, all those families who were still living their normal, monsterless lives, they were the majority. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
Brute’s life was still hateful, still confined, still miserable and unnatural. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z
“That’d be great, with me on one side and everybody else on the other. If life’s an endless flow of the kind of talk I heard this morning, I don’t think I’d exactly fit in.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
Suddenly he imagines the house where Bridget’s husband lives alone, longing for her, with his unfaithful wife’s name on the mailbox, her lipstick beside his shaving things. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
Preformationism assumed that new life was never created, yet in 1741 Abraham Trembley showed that you could cut a polyp into a dozen pieces and it would turn into a dozen polyps. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Later in life, Johnson was reelected to the Senate, but soon afterward he died from a stroke, on July 31, 1875. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
Never in my life have I known Metias to misspell anything. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z
“If that were all, I would stop here where we are now, and let her fade away into peace, for I see no light in life over her horizon.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z
I told them, “This is how my mother lives. She lives in a hut like this.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I take this to America, bring it back here, and now it will follow you wherever you go in life,” Baachan said. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
It doesn’t seem right to screw them out of a chance to perform just because I’m more scared than I have ever been in my life. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z
Her life had gotten bound up with a domineering man, and so she shrank from the challenge her sisters were giving her. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Even if I were to regain Hamlet’s love, what safety would I find with him, as long as he sought Claudius’s life, and Claudius his? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
I was so invested now, having given over four years of our family’s life, that it was impossible not to feel everything a bit personally. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
“I wonder what life will be like now,” I said to Lori. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
“Don’t give up your life, preserve your life,” he would say. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
I had spent a third of my life traveling from the place of my birth to the North just to talk freely, to escape the pressure of fear. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
But I do know you’ll work your entire life to be worthy of all that kismet has given you. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
“Everybody is just walking along concerned with his own problems, his own life, his own worries. And we’re all expecting other people to tune into our own agenda. ‘Look at my worry. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z
“That kind of poison would probably keep even me from coming back to life... for a long time, at least. My essence would be scattered and degraded. So I’m risking quite a lot.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z
When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
“It’s just, when you could go one direction and have life turn out one way, or go another direction and have life be completely a different way, it’s nerve-wracking.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z
This has been the story of my life, he thought bitterly. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
Roses produced dabs of red; boats added intricacy and life. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
Even though they’d lived together for fourteen years, they weren’t married, but it hadn’t been an issue in our lives until Mami returned from New York. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z
Along the way, she introduces me to a few of her friends, and I am relieved to meet each one, relieved to know that she has more people in her life than Justin. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z
By African standards, Winnie was from a well-to-do family and had been shielded from some of the more unpleasant realities of life in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the end the Sushana River site was sufficiently remote to cost him his life. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
My father’s life story stands alongside such monumental works as The Diary of Anne Frank and others. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
Just once in his life he had possessed—after the event: that was what counted—concrete, unmistakable evidence of an act of falsification. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
She knew everyone and everything and she seemed to be everywhere at the same time, with her weather-beaten air, as though life had tossed her around for a long time. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
For most of his adult life, Harry Gold had been a spy for the Soviet Union. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
Complementary to her understated beauty, my father fell in love with my mother’s enthusiasm for life and her love of children. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
How is this the good life, when even the air in this place threatens to wrap its fingers around my throat? American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
They knew now that it was on these and on nothing else that their lives depended, and they were not going to waste anything they possessed between them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
Their grandson struggled with mental health problems during his short life, but he was a smart kid and they had been putting money away to send him to college. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
“Welcome to life as a god,” Scythe Volta said to him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
And here’s what I realized I was saying beneath it all: I didn’t want my life to change from the way it was before I’d seen that. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
“How many? Why, this is the first tuna I ever caught in my life.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z
And I’m relieved because Phyllis lives on the next block, right on the corner. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
“I guess I don’t know how to live the life I want and still be a good daughter.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
But I guess that means you need life in your life. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z
"Could he have saved my life? Healed my wounds with yarrow and a prayer?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z
The life of a warrior was very tiring. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
But for the first time in my life, I knew that there was nothing they could do to help me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
He was young and had his whole life ahead of him. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z
Funny how one lie leads to another and before you know it, your whole life can be a lie. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
She would give her life one more day to completely fall apart. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
“And all the girl is guilty of is a lie that saved her friend’s life.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z
Kill me at once, for I shall only fight you again if you spare my life.' The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
To justify the exterminations, the Nazis had already begun to describe the victims using the euphemism lebensunwertes Leben—lives unworthy of living. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
What I want to say is that Addie has been my friend my whole life, and Skeezie and Joe, for a long time...and, well, I think they are the bravest people I know. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z
“Maybe... I guess. But you should hang on to those vials for now. There’s a battle coming. We may need them to save lives.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z
The frigid environment of the Arctic has sculptured life into compact shapes. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
He ventured his life a number of times to bring in wounded men. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
The older boy made a deal with prosecutors and got a parole-eligible life sentence, while Evan was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
Every day for an hour I sat in Luce’s office and talked about my life, my feelings, my likes and dislikes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
But when the tent folded up, I found I had Nathan Price in my life instead, a handsome young red-haired preacher who fell upon my unclaimed soul like a dog on a bone. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
There was screaming, high- pitched whines that died slowly as the life drained from the body. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
His palms are practically blue with thick calluses, like he’s spent his life walking on his hands. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z
The whole movie was about getting “more life,” and it got to me after a while. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z
Risking life and limb, Smith positioned himself directly in front of the horse, facing him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
But on the train, I realized how far behind I was leaving my life. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
I sit there, watching the cars disappear from the parking lot one by one, tapping my feet against the concrete and thinking about what I’m going to do with my life. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
“Human life isn’t all posies and roses. We’ll bring you drama!” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
If that yellow towline slipped off my foot, would I sink into the sea as he had or would I swim for all my life to catch up to it? Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z
Nothing was made easier in his life because his dad wasn’t black. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
“Yeah. It might save a life. And, um, could you chip off a little piece of crystal from your cave? I don’t need much.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
‘All your long life we have been friends, and you owe me something. Come! Do as you promised: give it up!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z
Angela had neither the time nor the desire for a social life what with studying, her weekly shopping date with Sydelle, and Sundays spent helping Crow and Otis in the soup kitchen. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z
Time and again, I have seen men and women risk and give their lives for an idea. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The fever would soon be over, and our lives would return to normal. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Nothing wrong with city life. But I always felt lost.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
“I never in my life would’ve thought you could be so small about anything,” said Selena, who was just angry enough to use the word “small” but not quite brave enough to emphasize it. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z
It’s kind of like a dollhouse come to life, and everything’s within easy reach. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z
Early in his life, he had limited access to books. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
Justin laced up his sneakers and boarded the train, preparing for his run home. es walked through his new neighborhood, the fourth he could remember living in so far in his short life. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
“Seriously, Kvothe. I . . . that was the worst moment of my whole life. There was fire everywhere ” She looked down, blinking. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
“I have known her, and her brother, all their lives,” she says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
Mother used her own reserves, without stealing the life out of Ruth May or anyone else. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
The jostling ghosts were animated and eager, their eyes shining and their cheeks warm, as if they were borrowing life from the travelers. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z
My mom knew he had moved on to another life long ago. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z
If there were to be life on the moon, it would have a lonely time waiting for acceptance to membership here. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
That was much closer to the truth: Lawrence had gone to Geneva out of a sense of duty and a commitment to seeing the talks through, and the effort shortened his life. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
It was to be taken as gravely, and in as businesslike a way, as any other transaction of life:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z
“No, it is not agreed. Never heard such nonsense in me life. Besides, she don't make a noise like that She makes a noise like this.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
An aristocrat was the lowest form of life, a parasite who expected honest peasants to be his slaves. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
She might have been one of the Evers kids, but she was still the prettiest girl I had ever seen in real life. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
We did not have enough work to do because a thief’s life is always based on somebody else’s work. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z
It was dull work, made even duller on the days I was partnered with a fellow named Reggie, an alleged genius unhappy with the course his life had taken. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
I’ll think of the night I murdered another man and stole his life with my own hands. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z
He wanted to know something about his life for sure, without grabbing for missing memories. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z
As Uriah scrapes his tongue with his fingertips, I realize that all I have to do is get through initiation, and that life will be mine. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
He thought a lot about Ifemelu, imagining what she was doing, how her life had changed. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
I’m waiting for it to hit her, that her social life is doomed. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
It felt like her life had been completely readjusted. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
He propped the rifle on the dead and useless arm that had been so full of life a minute ago, and sighted with stolid concentration: one shot...two...three, and each found its man. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
‘Tes, yes, He saved you! And He paid a price for you. He gave His life for you. He was nailed for you. He became a man for you.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z
He didn’t want to have to decide something now that could change the rest of his life. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z
It felt weird to see the skyscrapers once brimming with life and now half dead. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z
Werner tacks across the room and stirs the coals to life. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
So eventually Fred took his last three dollars and twenty-five cents and bought a bus ticket north for a new life. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
This had never happened to her before in her life. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
It was both demoralizing yet heartening to know that life would go on without her. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
Normally, I would have said not on your life, especially since we weren’t even sure if he was a vampire. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z
A fraction of an inch of mistake, half a second of hesitation, and my life is over. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
“I thought you wanted her out of our lives as much as I do.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
Alyssa Arryn had seen her husband, her brothers, and all her children slain, and yet in life she had never shed a tear. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
With the tear in the sky making everyone’s lives down here a living nightmare, I wasn’t even sure I should go home, not without trying to help. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
She thought it needed to be done to give me a fair chance at a normal social life. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z
“It’s all about living a sustainable life. I don’t think I’m going to be able to have one.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z
I almost told him that Scrappy signed his letter with the word love, but then, that would probably sound dumb to a boy who gets loved so much every day of his life. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z
Like many birds, the birds of prey mate for life, but Frightful had two forces keeping her where she was—Sam and the iron plate under the arc of the bowstring bridge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z
He tells him about the night that had nearly taken his life, and the book that had saved him, and about the year afterward, when he’d been unable to move. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
The cows were in our old life, not this one. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z
We know in detail only about life here. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Startled by her rosy take on bus life. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z
His fame and income helped turn his family members' lives around. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
Was he now going to spend the rest of his life behind the counter of this toy booth like the old man? The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z
She looks so lonely—a loneliness of years, of a whole life. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
“You only have to risk your life every second you spend with me, that’s surely not much. You only have to turn your back on nature, on humanity . . . what’s that worth?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z
As the physicist and writer James Trefil has put it, "It would be hard to believe that the continuous movement of tectonic plates has no effect on the development of life on earth." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
“Your daddy didn’t get the life beat out of him for you to go waltzing around the city, inviting them to do the same to you.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
“We wore the same clothes. Leeches all over your body. It was a tough life.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
I am up to the challenge of bearing the guilt and the grief, up to facing the difficulties that life has put in my path. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
All of my life had shaped me to live by my own feelings and thoughts. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
For the first fifteen years of their married life they had called each other just plain Biff and Alice. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
When I had my fill of serious subjects I began to think about my life before prison, and I found so much more to write about. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z
Tom’s whole life was constructed on lies—falsehoods and half-truths told to make him look better, stronger, more interesting than he was. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
I had never seen a dwarf before, but I knew they were special people, sent to the earth marked for this sacred life of duty to the nobility. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z
He recommended that Ned also consider insuring Pearl’s life and offered to pay the initial premiums. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
Those quiet murmurs I’ve heard throughout my life, the ones that I never trusted, buried inside myself, in fact, for all these years? Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z
She gazed out the window, down the same streets she’d been staring out at her whole life. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
A cold, heavy presence passed over the beach, slowing time, dropping the temperature to freezing, and making me feel like life was hopeless, fighting was useless. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z
I grabbed my bag when the bell rang, ready to run for my life, when he said my name and only the very basic rules of etiquette held me in place. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z
There a library visit sent her life spinning in a whole new direction. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
He told Henrietta her cells would help save the lives of countless people, and she smiled. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
‘Once they’re embedded, even the slightest motion can set them off. I wouldn’t want you to miss the last four minutes of your life.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
Every single one of them was forced to take the life of someone they loved. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
All my life—if I recover—all I meet who know this dreaded train, when they see the brand, will know who I am: Manuel Flores, Beast Rider. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z
Of course, the owners held a far more positive view of mill life and of their own role in the world of their making. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
“All life is interconnected. If one species moves away or becomes extinct, the order shifts,” said Vern. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z
All of her, heart and soul, was spread out before this creature, and he examined every last detail of her life. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
"I have managed to put my Mother, Father, and Uncle into jail, decent People who never have done a thing wrong in their life." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
Yet for the first time in ages life in Osage County went on without his overwhelming presence. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
My day-to-day life indeed felt like a car ride where my foot always had to be firmly pressed down on the gas, but I had gotten used to the speed. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
Lina felt as though a lid that had been on her all her life had been lifted off. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
“This town was built by Mayor Carr and his politician cronies. You willing to give your life for some rich man’s delusions?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
And there was life everywhere—zumming insects, squirrels scampering along boughs, birds twittering and hopping about, spider webs gleaming silver in the sun. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
Darin put so much life into his drawings that it seemed if you just reached out, you could pull them from the page. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
How could her life have turned upside down so quickly, Mariam asked herself. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z
She is furious at him for how hard he’s made life for their parents. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
She took her brother’s hand and said it out loud: “Mama and Papa will do everything they can. We’ll be fine. We’re going to have the best life ever. That’s a fact. I promise.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
Face-to-face with those whose lives hang in the balance, they are far closer to the human tragedy occasioned by the drug war than the legislators who write the laws from afar. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
It looked bad, all right. . . but the longer Riddle stood there, the more life was dwindling out of Ginny . . . and in the meantime, Harry noticed suddenly, Riddle’s outline was becoming clearer, more solid. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z
I was interrogated for almost two hours by a white man who had in front of him a dossier containing every fact of my life. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
To say that MacKaye’s life at this point was not going well would be to engage in careless understatement. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
“Zoe Washington lives on the other side of this house, right?” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z
Even though I’ve been living in Brooklyn all my life, it doesn’t feel like home to me. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
Police raids were a regular feature of life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was a tickling, wriggling, gurgling feeling as life trickled back. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z
Amá said she had never felt so cold in her life. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z
She doesn’t understand at first, so I say, “Yes, I’d like you back in my life again.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
"But what if it can? The queen thinks Sophia will destroy the kingdom. Ruin lives. Is my life not worth the lives of so many others? Don't you think we should find out?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
He believed a man should work hard with his hands, that toil and sweat were evidence of a virtuous life. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
Better to pretend my old life has already disappeared. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
And anyway, when you join the army or navy in any country, you're paid to risk your life. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z
The Doctrine of Discovery influenced the policies of the young United States and directly affected the lives and the very existence of Native people. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
Through sheer, savage will, Minya poured even her life force into the colossal expenditure of magic necessary to hold on to her ghosts and keep her charges safe—and not just safe but loved. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
The Wall was his, and their lives were his as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
He was no older than twelve, and his scraped knees, tattered shoes, and windblown hair spoke of a life spent dodging wagons. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
“God, I really don’t want to complain to you about it, because I know your home life sucks.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
They had touched upon something deeper than protest, or religion; though now images of all the church meetings of my life welled up within me with much suppressed and forgotten anger. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
The decision was the pivot point of his life. : the San Carlos field leaned around the far turn, Pollard was bent over the back of Fair Knightess, who was racing along the rail in fourth. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
I remembered my root bag, still hidden under the house, full of my own breath that brought it to life. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
They are a breed set apart from the life around them, the long-distance truckers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
Thus our lives never changed, but went round the rolling years beneath the starry vault of distant Heaven. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z
When I think about our lives here, I usually come to the conclusion that we live in a paradise compared to the Jews who aren’t in hiding. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
But he was going to spend the rest of his life doing just that, wasn’t he? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
“High school can be hell, but there is life beyond, and tell them that on the Net, we geeks are not alone anymore.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
The third reason we haven’t had any tourists is that even if life has developed on a number of planets within our galaxy, there’s probably little likelihood they’d be interested in us. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
When her mother died, Ferula found herself alone and with no useful purpose to her life, at an age when she could no longer hope to marry. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
June’s hands are soft, like she’s never washed dishes in her life. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
While you work for their benefit they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons, as I said above, when the need to do so is far away. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z
It makes me proud—prouder than I’ve ever been of anything in my life. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z
With each step I seemed to move further away from my own life, as it had been; yet everything I saw tied me closer to the valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z
Standing beside her he too turned his hand against himself, but not to end his life. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I think he lives in Grand Rapids, I never met him.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z
But the library’s demolition also meant that those of you who are now twelve years old have lived your entire lives without a public library.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z
"I have been half my life away from home," Theon ventured at last. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
Then he turned to the boy and said, “You will never work that spell but in peril of your power and your life. Was it for that spell you opened the books?” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z
They had much better lives than the pigs, I thought. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
He was arrested on federal charges in 1983 and sentenced to life in prison two years later. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
Thank you very much for sending the nicest letter in my life. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
Clover was a stout motherly mare ap-proaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z
The stuff of life, it turns out, can be very easily made. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Malcolm thought she might die, and he wanted to do something immediately to save her life, but he didn’t know what he could do; and in any case there was Lyra.... The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
She had known Manny practically her whole life—they all had—and now he was just a heap of lifeless flesh and bones slumped in a barber’s chair. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z
Especially Simon—that boy spent the first seven years of his life on the Ringling show. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z
My heartbeat lives in my throat; lives in my cheeks. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang on to the good and sober moments tightly. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z
I told them about jellyfish life cycles—that jellies start off almost like a plant, clinging to the bottom of the sea, and how in that phase of life, they are a planula. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
I’ve been sheltered from violence my whole life, any real violence. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z
They called for him, and he climbed from the inside of the boat, taking off his life vest, looking down to undo the buckles. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z
“I mean... in life. What do you want?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
It was the great buck One Horn who saved them, who gave them his life. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z
Millions of lives, Japanese and American, would be lost in a full-scale invasion. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
That house belonged to a chapter in his life that was no more, the chapter his mother had lived in. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
All my life, people have taken my shyness for sullenness, snobbery, bad temper of one sort or another. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
There’s such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, and the greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else is life. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
It named him dictator for life even though the role of dictator had until then been reserved only for emergencies and only for a limited term. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z
“Christ, Lillian. I go five hundred knots in a jet practically every day of my life and you get nervous when I go seventy.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
“We have no choice. The baby’s life is at stake,” Polly replied, trying to sound hopeful. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z
For a sickening moment Penelope thought that the dead creatures draped around her neck had miraculously come to life and were now seeking some kind of awful revenge. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z
People too firmly rooted to the center of their lives find such questions uncongenial at best, quite distasteful at worst. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
In another way she was angry at these young men for taking over their lives, for telling them when and where to eat, for leaving her out of the conversation with James. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z
I didn't know how much I loved being everyone's baby girl until now when my life as baby girl is nearly over. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z
And at least he had the privilege of being able to say at the end of his life that he made his own mistakes. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z
Because Prism is the most beautiful building I’ve ever seen in my life. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
She shook her head, and maybe for the first time in his life, he could feel she was disappointed in him. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z
“He is going to transform himself into the wind, just to demonstrate his powers. If he can’t do so, we humbly offer you our lives, for the honor of your tribe.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
She must risk her life every time she lights a cigarette. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
“Blood is the water of life. Your friend has been drained of too much of hers.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
A tidy bit of a house on the heath where she lives with her cat, and if thou’rt there, she’d bake thee a bannock.’” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z
It was the beauty of a creature fulfilling her exact purpose in the world, being the precise thing she had trained her whole life to be. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
The last of the foreign life forms was abandoning ship. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
She liked the idea of keeping him on his toes, popping up where he least expected her, a flesh-and-blood ghost to haunt him for the rest of his life. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
Six years have passed since I received this initial request to prepare a new foreword for my father’s life story. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
I thought about this afterward: So many of us go through life with our stories hidden, feeling ashamed or afraid when our whole truth doesn’t live up to some established ideal. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
“Risking your life and other rabbits’ lives for something that’s of little or no value to us,” said Fiver. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
He lived, but not nearly long enough, and for the rest of my life I’ll remember how he died. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z
Because of the universal respect the regent enjoyed — from both black and white — and the seemingly untempered power that he wielded, I saw chieftaincy as being the very center around which life revolved. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
“An-mei,” she whispered, “have you seen the little turtle that lives in the pond?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
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