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