They liked these places too because they could watch what the leopards were doing, and they could bark out a warning if they saw a leopard coming too close to their children. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe they thought that if they did not notice him, he would not notice them . . . but he saw them anyway and picked whom he liked. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Rafik liked to say, “Our mother is a DJ,” but the station was mostly news, interviews, and cooking programs. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She would have liked to have been there. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everybody liked Henrietta cause she was a very good condition person,” he said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I could tell that Betsy liked it, because she tucked it carefully into her folder, and then she looked up at me and said, “Thanks, Albie.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was feeling a little sick and I’d have liked to leave. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

We mostly played other colored teams, but we were good enough that we drew some white fans who just liked to watch good baseball. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Phil jumped into the conversation to give me a hard time about it—he claimed that he liked it, after all—and the next morning, I found this postcard taped to my locker. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

One seemed to find something it liked at the edge of a canal. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And I liked the two people who lived here. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

And I got to read books I liked, like Captain Underpants, and Mrs. Rouse didn’t care so much. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was a farmer’s son, and Anya liked to imagine that if Ilya could go from being a peasant to a knight, maybe she could too. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He liked their gathered shapes, seen from the end of the drive. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“I think we all would have liked to go to sleep but somebody had to clean up,” Henry said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He liked the way reprisal attacks came out of her mouth. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She liked it a lot more when I was digging the bomb shelter in the sun. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I think they just liked having this thing they shared in common, never mind all the hours it provided them alone to practice. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He hated these things—just because he liked Bernard. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sliced eggplant, chili peppers, and onions in tiny, even cubes the way Mother liked them, instead of chopping them quickly into thick chunks the way she usually did. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I never did see a child who liked school so much.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“You did that, and that would be enough, without more. How dared you to come betwixt me and a young woman I liked?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

My brother and I shouted and banged as much as we liked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the producers liked my audition, and they’ve given me a role in their upcoming Western/ Now, I know what you’re thinking. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She liked the way the melody held its notes and lingered over its phrases. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked what a good person he was. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She liked the airiness of the living room, with its large windows, and the narrow flight of stairs that led to a tiny verandah charmed her, but, most of all, it was in Ikoyi. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The boy liked to smell the oak slab. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s just because I liked the lab. It was fun, wasn’t it?” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He had been there from time to time on railroad passes; he liked what he saw. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Dr. Barnes liked things to be spotless and orderly, like his own office—a place for everything, and everything in its place. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

He liked it better when the torches were put out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So, trying desperately not to disturb the universe, Hazel took her place in her usual desk, third row from the back, right next to the window where she liked it. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He took her small brown hands into his large ones, and she felt as delicate as one of the little birds that Kwasi liked to catch and release. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never brought up Evan on my own, because I worried it would be obvious that I liked him as more than a friend. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She liked Laura the one time she met her, and I can see why. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is all very wild and childish, I thought, but to hell with being ashamed of what you liked. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked his black and bitter, I remembered. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I liked tomatoes, especially the little ones, but I didn’t want to be called one. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

They were a fixture here; she’d have liked to talk to them and hear their story. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Jim liked to say that he and Paul were “twin sons of different mothers.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“But they would have asked the bean of a darker roast and they would have liked a little chicory for bite.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She liked to bother me, but she never did anything to other people. I think something strange is going on, but I don’t know what.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She liked the way her grandmother said one thing and then the opposite, because it made sense to Dicey, the same kind of sense Dicey made to herself. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of Rick, the white college boy he and James had liked so much. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a calm purposefulness to her movements that he liked. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The water was scalding hot, as she liked it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Of course, they might not have any, but he liked the chandlery anyway. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He, like a child, had thought this was because she liked to get up. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it will be a big one. Everybody liked old Jimmy. Sure will miss her in the pew.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked to hear the funny way the trader at our post tried to talk Navajo. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t hurt that they liked to hear themselves talk, and it gave them opportunity. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But the Lieutenant mounted confidently, picked up the reins and held them exactly as Goblin liked. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he rode off there by himself he liked to talk to himself and you could see his lips moving. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked to please him, to see his small, milky-marble teeth. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the summer, she said, she liked to go to a market by the beach. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

As for me, I liked his wide, dreamy eyes, gazing off into the distance. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in a special room and everybody had come to see him whenever they liked, and he had books and biscuits and any drink that he asked for. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He liked for her to mount him so he could see her towering above him and call soft obscenities up into her face. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I also liked some of the training I was getting. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom doesn’t seem to think he’s worth talking about too much, but you never know...maybe he secretly liked documentaries as much as I do. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps I had said the wrong things in the right places—whatever, they had liked it regardless of the brothers, and from now on my life would be different. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she went upstairs to change, Shukumar poured himself some wine and put on a record, a Thelonius Monk album he knew she liked. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He didn’t demand attention but everyone liked him, including the girls. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mr. Birkway liked this passage because it showed that even though someone might be our best friend, he or she could still drive us crazy. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I named him after a young man I liked who had been killed by the Aleuts. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

What’s more, everybody liked Kitty because she had one of those bubbling kind of personalities that soon as you met her you knew she was your flavor. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked it better when she could be all alone with her friends the animals. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” said Little Jimmy, “I was hoping it was true. I liked Liz.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether she liked it or not, Cecile had to let us inside her green stucco house. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cut a quick glance at the window, then said evenly, “You won’t find anyone around here who liked him enough to even talk about him.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked George Orwell’s work, and for years held on to his copies of Animal Farm and 1984; he also read and admired Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was a worn little volume; Darius must have liked it very much. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I knew this about Julia Bishop: She was a miracle—artistic, imaginative, and gifted—and she also liked to mess with me. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I liked thinking about how people had managed to create and erect such large cement pillars. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Not really, but I always liked to pretend the business was a front for the Persian mafia. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then, in a timely piece of fortuitousness, America got a secretary of the interior, Stewart Udall, who actually liked hiking. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He liked to yell at her and her classmates as they left the candy store, sometimes calling them names. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But I think he liked it that way, too. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The crowd evidently liked this from the buzzing cheer it sent up, increasing the din to an unbelievable level. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We spent the next hour talking about other things we had in common—he liked Hawaiian-ish pizza too! From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He liked cats and bugs and would be thrilled to see a gator. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu liked to watch Clinton on television, in her square trouser suits, her face a mask of resolve, her prettiness disguised, because that was the only way to convince the world that she was able. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He liked eights best, but he’d settle for fours, sixes, twelves, sixteens, any even number, really. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I liked the idea of my wife and kids being involved with helping the lunar landing. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” he cried, “but I should have liked to be born with a proper father and mother, so that I could be a knight errant” “What would you have done?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think they liked my vulnerability,” she says. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Dad pulled Mom down for another kiss, this one at the corner of her mouth, which was how Dad liked to kiss Mom when they had an audience. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I liked the way she made it seem like the world around us, even the normal everyday stuff, was actually kind of amazing. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But I liked how short the book was. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When his student says, “But you liked it the last time,” the classroom lets out a collective “oooh,” and someone makes a catlike screech. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I never liked for anyone to see me check my box. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was the best feeling I could ever have dreamed up, and I could tell Annie liked it too, but it was really making me crazy. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“The madder they got, the better he liked it,” Greenberg remembered. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked to say that Alba was a daughter to him, but that night he caught himself thinking that he wished he was neither her uncle nor her father but Miguel. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

P.J. liked going to Mass, serving as an altar boy for a time, but he didn’t find in church doctrine the answers to the philosophical questions he was already sorting through in his mind. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

—Phathmus Mouzaive: natural philosopher; liked to declare that his field was no less than “the physical laws of the universe,” but whose focus, in reality, was somewhat narrower: magnetic fields. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She would have liked to be fully asleep. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

One and Two appealed to me, certainly, but mostly I liked the idea of just her and just me on campus. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

They liked the idea right away, and we became partners. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Drummers liked to flirt, were fresh-shaved, and wore suits, patent leather shoes, and big smiles. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I always liked that pickup; there’s no good reason for getting rid of it.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Lyra felt a mixture of thoughts contending in her head, and she would have liked nothing better than to share them with her daemon, but she was proud too. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Nicole and Ana still liked to poke fun at me for choosing to fence, but no one could deny the fencing team was Columbia High School’s most accomplished sports team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I liked that freedom on the rails, but for the first time, it didn’t feel right to have no roots, to have no family. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy’s father-in-law laughed and laughed at that, and he begged the quartet to sing the other Polish song he liked so much. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Built in 1929 by the Daughters of the American Revolution, it is a grand, historic venue, but one that I never liked for that purpose because it was just a rented space; it wasn’t theirs. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Or like last year when Dr. King spent a few months in town “stirring up trouble,” as the white folks liked to say. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

But what he’d really have liked to do was nothing like that. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I've always felt the same as my sisters—the only difference was that I liked to experiment with my arcana, even if it landed me in trouble. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Not me, I liked it from the start; it sounds so reassuring, especially at night. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Besides, as I’d heard it, nobody liked to camp there at Where the Sisters Eat. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I kind of liked having the letters and mementos mostly to myself, so I decided to keep those a secret. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You never liked him! You tried to make a fool of him!” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I liked to imagine that it was a long, wrinkly skirt that danced just above the ground when she walked down the banks of the White River. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Their houses had been instantly transformed into what seemed liked palaces. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked storms, but storms could be dangerous. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced — between the unpalatable and the inedible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever I reached peak frustration levels, my parents liked to remind me that my grandmother had had a difficult life and that I needed to practice compassion. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Her visitor had brought her sweetmeats and some fresh grapes, and also a small jug of wine, which the nurse liked perhaps more than she should. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

My father was a good natural athlete, though he never liked the competitive aspects of sports. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She’d have liked to be surprised in a good way, just this once. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Jody liked to do the things he had to do as long as they weren’t routine things. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was revenging himself on his two friends for liking one another more than they liked him. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In school it was poems I liked best—Wordsworth and Keats and Shelley. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I had been advised to have massages, but I never liked them: I hate to be touched by mercenary hands. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was very proud of his ability with boats and he liked to show off. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

We talked about who we liked in the University, but more time was spent mulling over who we didn’t like, and why, and what we would do about it given the chance. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure I liked people knowing my business. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Barely lost a roof shingle,” he liked to say as he patted the wall like you’d pat the back of a loyal friend. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason, I never quite liked the book. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked being high above the world, and I spent a lot of time either on the roof or sitting in a tree in the park. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I would have liked to go, or I would have liked to have gone. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked the book because much of it took place in areas of New York with which I was familiar. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He’d tied Pax to its trunk once when the kit hadn’t liked their war play. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, she liked it, and she kissed me, and I liked it. Don’t little boys like little girls?” asked Demi, with his mouth full, and an air of bland satisfaction. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a dachshund, so she was probably a good person because she liked dogs. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"I always thought you liked working in the deli." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He liked it, but was at first a little homesick for the Laphams. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess I liked to see her suffer, ’cause, you know what they say, misery digs company. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Ron looked as though he would have liked to reply scathingly, but perhaps he didn’t want another row, because he contented himself with shaking his head disbelievingly while Hermione wasn’t looking. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

For some reason people loved using Aladdin to put me down, which made me sad, because I really liked Aladdin. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He liked to get to the end of things. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He liked what he was doing and he didn’t want to be somewhere else—one of the very few contented people I met in my whole journey. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Possibly they liked to hassle me because I was half-white, and they assumed I needed to be taken down a notch. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Winston was an acne-covered kid, short but muscular, and it seemed to Thomas the Keeper liked his job way too much. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Most of all, the residents liked that Boori Ma, who slept each night behind the collapsible gate, stood guard between them and the outside world. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

And they could have picnics and ride horses, and she could keep as many three-legged cats as she liked. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Likewise,” Mom replied, and she smiled at him in a way that made me think she really liked him. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked to wear jackets with large brightly-coloured checks and he sported ties that were usually yellow or pale green. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

First there was Luke Castellan, her first crush, who had seen her only as a little sister; then he’d turned evil and decided he liked her—right before he died. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And I gave him the Vulcan salute, which was just the four fingers on my right hand making a V. It was from an old TV show that Erlan’s dad liked. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I liked him immensely, his sullenness, his corpselike color, except when he was lodged in a good mood, when he became overbearing and megalomaniacal. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her bedchamber was the only place that Arya liked in all of King's Landing, and the thing she liked best about it was the door, a massive slab of dark oak with black iron bands. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He liked me too, and we were inseparable for one whole summer. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I liked jasmine in Rose City’s Dragon Pearl Jasmine, but that paled next to the scent of the fresh flowers. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Owen would have hated it, always liked the boat to be “tight and shipshape.” The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’re the restaurants that smell like the salted stew beef and boiled plantain my mom liked so much. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“But I liked how I was,” I tell her. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We forgot about it, till Teddy told me that Mr. Brooke owned that he liked Meg but didn’t dare say so, she was so young and he so poor. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked to rattle his water bottle, for one thing. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I liked the way his story ended with someone else. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“That's not the whole story. I told her I liked him. I told her I was going to tell him, and then next thing I know they are totally scoring.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. I had a cousin I used to visit. They had a piano, and his mother played it. I liked to listen to that.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I honestly didn’t think Celia would hurt you. I thought...I thought she still liked you too much.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to be pigeonholed,” she liked to say. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Laura liked best to look at the pictures in the big Bible, with its paper covers. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had come to like the boys who were trying out much better than he liked the boys on the team. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked to look at the advertisements in the mail-order catalogues he kept by the cash register. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Ma always liked having cheese danish on Christmas morning. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“I liked doing a good job,” I say, finally finding an honest answer. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For instance, she would have liked to be at London—in the Tower perhaps. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked the women who wore tailored slacks or shorts, pastel tops, trendy loafers, and quality earrings, like Mary Miller’s. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She attacked the piano with a fervor completely different from her usual, sluggish self, and Matt liked to hide behind the potted plants to listen. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one thing I liked about tennis was that it was not a team sport like soccer. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would’ve liked to have known her, a wild horse of a woman, so wild she wouldn’t marry. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

As much as I liked him as a teacher, he was a figure of authority, and I, a subject. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He liked the name, referred to himself by it, preferred that his closest friends use it, and gave it to every dog he ever owned. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A towering man with a dense mustache, Emmett, as Tom’s father liked to be called, was poor, stern, hardworking, and pious. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When I saw her later at that dance, I asked very politely if I could talk to her, which was a sign that I liked her. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might have been a long time, but Mark still liked to think of the man that way. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The weak link—she liked the ring of it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“People must of liked that archduke a whole lot for the world to start going to war.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she liked school and certainly missed all the friends she had made there. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Its tongue was rough and wet and it liked the smell on my trousers and started sniffing them. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Seven and I are reverse HP fans—we liked the movies first, then the books. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She liked having a glass-half-full outlook and was adept at putting a good face on things. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I loved the piece, but even more, I liked to watch what it did to my father. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hannah, if you kissed back then like you kissed at the party, trust me, he liked it. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

And before we knew where we were they were planted here and there all over the Shire, and were felling trees and digging and building themselves sheds and houses just as they liked. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Hazel and her mother—Queen Marie, she liked to be called—lived in an old apartment above a jazz club. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I would have liked to have gone in. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I thought Dad liked Nowruz more than the rest of us combined. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She was still very pretty, with a tiny waist that looked good in the gold belts and shiny sashes she liked to wear. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t like being on soft ground any more than I liked fumbling my way through a new movement. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never liked to hear this cry, but it was all in the game, the hunter and the hunted. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had some great friends who were couples, their children friends with our children, families we liked to vacation with. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I thought about what had happened in the park and knew that I liked hitting the guy who had the chain. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I know she was smart and shy and liked to read books. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Our caseworkers tried to figure out what kinds of foods we liked, but communication was difficult. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He liked to pretend he was a superhero creeping up on his enemies. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My sister was only three when they got me. I think my mother actually liked little children.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

If a showtime crowd liked your performance, when you came off you were mobbed, mauled, grasped, and pummeled like the team that’s just taken the series. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked the poem, which turned out to be “The Creation” by James Weldon Johnson. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

His hair was falling over his eyes in a way Zara probably liked. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And I had to admit, I kind of liked it. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I set up the congas at the height I liked; I was tired and thirsty, but I couldn’t wait to come back down and play the Latin pieces I had been sweating over all year. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu liked the name of the town, Willow; it sounded to her like freshly squeezed beginnings. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Still and all, just about everybody liked her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

This case, said the judge, raised serious issues, issues he would have liked to present to a jury. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Finn was always hungry, and he liked food a lot. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The tourists and merchers liked to keep to well-lit thoroughfares, so the foot traffic here was sparser, and he made better time. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I was looking for a burglar who liked to dress up as a nun and, unfortunately, I caught a real one instead. We've never been on good terms since then.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. She liked the bees. And we would talk. I made her s’mores with extra chocolate. She liked chocolate. But she liked honey more. She would drink it right out of the jar.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t recall having liked school much when I was their ages. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The other thing we liked about Titi Generosa was that even though she was a mother herself, she believed everything we told her, no matter how farfetched. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She liked to be in control — it was her safety net — and she could feel that net being ripped away from her by the star-shaped fruit. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I thought you liked all that stuff,” I said. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

But 1 saw soon enough how much your father liked me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You always said how much you liked riding around in that buggy. Mr. Chris said we could borrow a horse sometimes.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

For the most part, white boys liked white girls, and black boys liked white girls. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It seemed like I liked Bud Searcy a lot better than I ever had before, even if he did talk too much and spit tobacco juice all over the place. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nok liked it quiet, and this would have been a peaceful and pleasant outing if she didn't know why she was there. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She was also like that last month when our favorite restaurant changed its menu and they no longer made my favorite dish the way I liked it. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Charles wasn’t completely sure he liked London himself. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They especially liked the wild black persimmons that the Mexicans called chapotes. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, I liked you, Taylor, but I thought you were...” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Difference, inference, interference. You’ve interfered with the order of things is what I’m saying. You should have left it the way it was. I liked this place when it was wood.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The fellows at the stable liked her and said that she was a better worker than Flittman. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked him so much, I figured that we ought to have a dog too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Anna liked order, structure, tranquility, good behavior. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My father loved being a lawyer and was a well-regarded practitioner, but the fact is he never liked the business aspect of the law or figured out how to make gobs of money at it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I gave him my mother’s note and he said thanks and he hoped that my mother liked the orchid. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He liked people to know he’d gone to Yale and often brought it up in conversation. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Clayton never liked the mushy song about the wings of love, but he could see his grandparents once had the kind of happiness that had wings. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Ron quite liked the idea of using the Summoning Charm again — Harry had explained aboutAqua-Lungs, and Ron couldn’t see why Harry shouldn’t Summon one from the nearest Muggle town. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was a sentence that I liked saying very much, so I said it again. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She was now coloring in the heart, which tickled in a way I liked. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Harry was suddenly reminded of how he had been unsure, when they first met, of how much he liked Ollivander. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Would he chum inside her slowly as she liked? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lina started to say that she liked running and hardly ever got tired, but Lizzie didn’t wait for her to answer. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I liked riding in the bus to the game because it felt good when you showed up and got off the bus and everybody from the other school was looking at you. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Rabi was worried about the Russian explosion, too, and liked our plans,” he wrote later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Lily was wearing the navy sailor outfit she knew our mother liked. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Francie liked school in spite of all the meanness, cruelty, and unhappiness. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poppy had told her they liked to talk about—everyone else. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I liked talking to her like this, first thing in the morning. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie liked to sit there and enjoy the warmth and watch the orange and blue flames dancing an inch above the bed of small black coals. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As much as I would have liked to go hang with my roommate and the other girls from our dorm, I knew there wasn’t enough time. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The Christians liked being able to borrow money from the Jews, but they hated paying it back and often they didn’t. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Professor Trelawney seemed to consider the matter for a moment, but Harry could tell that she liked the idea of retelling her little adventure. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She wasn't exactly eavesdropping—all her mom's friends liked having Eleanor around. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Scoob would never admit it to anyone, but there are books he’s never finished because he liked imagining all the things that could happen. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I liked that Vern’s walls were covered with artwork, mostly landscapes. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He was not sure what very fierce meant or whether she liked it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She liked how they started each meal with a bowl of fresh yogurt, how they squeezed sour oranges on everything, even their yogurt, and how they made small, harmless jokes at each other’s expense. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Goodbye, dear,” and with these words, uttered in the tone she liked, Laurie left her, after a handshake almost painful in its heartiness. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

As you know, reader, Roz had always liked to keep herself as clean as possible. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Interviewed later, one of the men conceded that the painting was nice, saying, "Sure, I liked it okay." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He liked it, as a king of swagger stick, such as military officers sometimes use. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He claims it was because Harriett liked being someone’s girlfriend on Instagram more than she actually liked him. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But he felt so out of place there—like a white man working at Afro Sheen headquarters, he liked to say—that he quit. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

My mother liked her dress pattern and the little ones their candies, but the next day I was out helping in the fields like I had never been gone. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He would treat her with the respect she deserved and do only what she liked, only what she wanted him to do. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m sure you liked to cook, Mama, even just a little bit. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He liked handsome things, things that had luster and color. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I often wondered if she even liked us. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And not one of us liked it, except perhaps little Nina, who was too young to know. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was one of those people who really liked to have the last word. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She found Papa very funny and liked to goad him. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Never having had much to call my own, I guess I liked having those few treasures all to myself. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I liked my tree, and although I could live somewhere else, I certainly did not want to. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seemed like a stupid question to ask, but up until that point we’d all been sitting there listening to Carlos ramble on about how he thought Silky Wilkes really liked him. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He knew the guards liked to lurk in dark doorways, invisible as ravens at night in their black suits. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She liked this—liked being kissed by him, liked the smell and the taste and the feel of him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

All I knew was the crowd liked it, and that was enough for “Harriet Tbbman,” who proclaimed, “Either you want to be free or you want to be scared slaves!” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see why people liked it so much. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

A woman who liked her hair and thought Curt would too. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He still liked candy, hard candy—not divinity or caramel—sour balls being his favorite. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men walked the edges of the yard in a semicircle, their hands outstretched like the stiff figures I liked to cut from folded newspapers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

His family, who all liked these fruits, used to wait to meet him in the evening and enjoy the food which he brought back from that special place. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He liked them in all their shapes and dispositions simply because they were people and not machines. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I liked the kitchen best It’s behind the dining room, and you can find your way there by following your nose. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Momma didn’t say anything but I knew she liked it. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked the way his long, straight hair brushed against his shoulders. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We accepted this, I believe, because it was steadying, and steady was how we liked to be. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Lonogan had a white Persian named Fabian that she liked to dress in skirts and push around in a baby carriage. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I liked my teacher, a diminutive white lady named Mrs. Burroughs, who seemed ancient to me but was probably in her fifties. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I’ve always liked watching the sky drop down like a foamy purple curtain when a summer storm rumbles across Florida Bay. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

May always liked the weird ones best, the ones you couldn’t peg right off. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

No one liked to take on such a job. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana had never touched a cockatoo, but she liked how it sounded. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

We had quite a few close calls, but I thought Marcus liked the thrill. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He grew up on the Mississippi, where the fever liked to visit when the weather turned warm. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The truth was, I really enjoyed playing sports, and I liked the opportunity they provided to spend time with my friends. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She liked the concept and offered them a penny for every download. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Katie had married Johnny because she liked the way he sang and danced and dressed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The MetroCard let him ride the train as much as he liked for just a one-time charge. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was his money and he discovered he liked the authority of editing. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

And he liked to have a good time, especially at the end of a long workweek. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I liked having a project to do and I liked it especially if it was a difficult project like a book. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that why your test asked whether we liked television and radio?” asked Reynie. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I said that I liked things to be in a nice order. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tommy never liked it much when the unzipping stuff came up again, but by then the days of his being teased were past and no one connected the joke with him any more. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had gotten some of my best marks under him, and he had always made me feel that he liked me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked my job, and while it wasn’t perfect, I also liked my life. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It had been Mom’s growing up, and it was one of the few presents she’d ever given me that I hadn’t asked for but had actually liked. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The colonel had never liked the chaplain and now he loathed and distrusted him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

People liked me well enough, but they also didn’t really know me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We also liked to swim in nearby Lake Tanganyika, one of the biggest lakes in the world. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Dad admitted he was as green as any valley when it came to music, but he had a good ear and he liked symphonies. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of Fuchs’s reserve, people liked him. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Country Joe liked to get to concerts long before he was scheduled to appear so he could see everyone else perform, and Woodstock was no exception. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, how I liked that bird from that smelly minute. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put it on, and turned the old peak around to the back, the way I liked it, and then I went over and took a look at my stupid face in the mirror. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t realize you liked the colour yellow so much.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Through typing all his papers and everything else. I didn’t mind. I liked it. A dear friend of mine said, ‘He used you. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

"I've never liked court much. I was lucky to be at sea with my father most of the time. He's grooming me for a boring life on a boat." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

There was just something about it that she liked. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But this is where Kenna runs into a problem, because whenever attempts have been made to verify this instinct that other people are going to like him, other people haven’t liked him. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

As had always been the case, I figured that whatever Craig liked, I would like, too, and that whatever he could accomplish, I could as well. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Daddy liked things organized and efficient—a place for everything and everything in its place. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Each day brought small discoveries: I was a Cubs fan, while he liked the White Sox. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They drink the champagne out of Styrofoam cups, forcing Ashima to have some, too, and they play the Perry Como Christmas tape his father always liked. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I liked their courage, but I doubted their wisdom. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked owning things that no one else had. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I should have liked something clearer; but Mrs. Fairfax either could not, or would not, give me more explicit information of the origin and nature of Mr. Rochester’s trials. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

They’d say that it was because they liked Reagan’s policies, or they thought he was doing a good job. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked studying the Bible, particularly the story of Job. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I liked this because with her being gone all Saturday, I could usually do whatever I wanted without her telling me not to. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Luma liked to run her practices in private, where her players wouldn’t be distracted. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She even liked the way it smelled, like metal and shoe polish. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I guess I liked to imagine myself having this complicated secret identity. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t have liked it so much if she had had to take a stenographic course like Hazel and Etta had done—but she got special permission and took mechanical shop like a boy. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I liked the way he looked right in your eyes when he talked to you. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Matty liked that about Leader, that you could say what you wanted to him, that you could tell him what you felt. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I’ve always liked making things, and when Daddy was a kid, he took wood shop and made a little bench we still use. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He liked a room to fall silent as he entered it. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I liked knowing I wouldn’t run into anyone,” she says after a moment. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I liked researching Nazis as much as the next war historian, but I would never use the term as a nickname. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Miss Jiménez liked to teach us English through song, and we learned all our songs phonetically, having no idea of what the words meant. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He’d always done well in his classes, he was insatiably curious about any number of subjects, and he liked the idea of testing his intellectual abilities. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I had been lucky and had said the right things at the right time and they had liked me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

This sort of furnishing was what Mr. and Mrs. Clutter liked, as did the majority of their acquaintances, whose homes, by and large, were similarly furnished. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is only one me I’ve ever really liked, and he was good and awake as long as he could be. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her jumbled thoughts skittered like the marbles Jojo liked to play with as she made a beeline for town. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He grinned at her, and she laughed and said she liked him best of all. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn't know you liked to fight,” Dante said. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Something oily and slimy that left a greasy trail and liked to mooch off other people’s ideas. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

But when Esther asked him apprehensively whether there was anything wrong he just shook his head and claimed that he had never really liked boat trips. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Always. He’s amusing; I liked him; I felt a little sorry for him. What was it to me, to lend him money for his schoolbooks and know he wouldn’t pay it back?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Chemistry is simply numbers, an idea Pythagoras would have liked. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had pulled her down onto the ground, she was utterly unresisting, he could do what he liked with her. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And he liked to flip flapjacks high into the air. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I liked to look at pictures of writers, and none of the writers whom I was studying in school had any relation to anything I knew as being real. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I liked it, but wasn’t as excited as I guess I should’a been. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She liked to put them with granola on her yogurt for breakfast. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Wes reluctantly got up from the red plaid couch and turned off the television, but the truth was that he liked going over to his grandmother’s house. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I also liked her warmth and openness, even to the kid who lived on the floor below. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I made the drinks too strong—which she liked too well; and I brought up politics—which she all but hated—too early in the evening. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was simply good luck that Steven and Emilia liked each other. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked to write out what she imagined to be their rambling thoughts. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Bigger liked that; it was easy; it would be fun, almost. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’d be able to read as long as he liked, as long as it took to find out who Flamel was. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The Skylab astronauts found that exercise was very important in keeping their bodies strong, and they liked to exercise for at least an hour a day. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth liked to watch him move; his body was very thin, and beautiful, and nervous—high strung, thought Elizabeth, wisely. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Still, from what we can tell, everyone, rich or poor, liked to flavor their food with spices—a taste that may well date back to Roman times. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It gave her house the foreign air she liked to affect, for she was the core, the very heartbeat, of the city’s literary world. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She said you never cared what anyone else thought. I could tell how much she liked that about you. I think she wished she had a little more of that in her.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I'd always ranked them between boa constrictors and Planet Hollywood T-shirts in terms of vulgar accessories, but once I stuck the headphones in my ears, I found I kind of liked it. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Earlier I hadn’t liked her, but now I felt bad for her. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The competitive part of me liked the feeling of winning, crossing the finish line, and coming home with a medal. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“When we were little, my brother and I liked to give each other dares,” he said. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Bobby Gene and Dad liked to set their dogs straight flaming. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know what to make of that night. Everything that happened. I’d liked her for so long from far away, but I never had a chance to tell her.” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Her legs groaned as if they would have liked nothing more than to be curled up like that forever. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. McElroy never laughed, and seldom smiled, and to his credit was the fact that he liked to talk to Uncle Willie. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell Shiloh likes the fried chicken better than he liked the sour cream-frankfurter mess he’d been eating all week. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and I were together for less than a month when Christa told me that she liked him, too. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I replied to your reply, but you failed to acknowledge my acknowledgment, ’’said Howie, who liked to play email ping-pong. acquaintance. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the Americans learned to jump and liked it as much as the “Saws.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I never liked the ‘look at me’ part of running for president.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Beadle—or “Beets,” as his colleagues liked to call him—had been a student of Thomas Morgan’s at Caltech. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She liked how Mrs. Borkowski threw back her head and opened her mouth wide and whinnied when something was funny. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He looked around for the bird now because he would have liked him for company. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the grace of a god I never really liked, much less believed in, my mother is actually coming back. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe they hadn’t liked the deep- tissue massage? The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I liked his attitude even when I didn’t agree with his view. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I always liked to play with friends in the different villages. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You passed the day I met you, Jenna. You gave me honesty and attitude. I liked that.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He went through the racks until he found one in the back he liked. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Who told you to pick such a demanding discipline? he liked to tease. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Since the storm, tears liked to leak out of her eyes without her even realizing it. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Du Bois said when he asked Richard for a definition, Richard had said that it meant he wasn’t gay, that he liked girls. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Don’t think she knew much about poetry, but she liked to write.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Rick liked to think of them that way; it made his job palatable. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

No, reader: gratitude, and many associations, all pleasurable and genial, made his face the object I best liked to see; his presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He liked the way the stars took their time showing up. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

T.R. had long since jumped down to chase something, and the mules were restless, but I liked being with Grandpa like this, just him and me. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

No one, not even Monique, was home—just the way she liked it. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The investigator asked the toddler if she liked it there, and she said, “Yeth.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But all I remember thinking is how great it was to have a friend who liked purple jelly beans as much as I did. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My father said that the books were a little too old for me, but I liked them so he just shrugged and let me read. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He came up with a sentence he really liked: Coo gives her comfort, courage, and confidence. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what I was exactly supposed to feel, especially since she’d never actually told me she liked me, liked me. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She was wearing the white dress he liked. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Alba liked to sit with the cook at siesta time, listening to popular singing on the radio, especially the songs of the man she had met in the Japanese Gardens. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes me and him would sit out on the stoop waiting for Mama to come home and he'd tell me about girls who liked him and guys who thought they were bad. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He liked that it was big and warm and peaceful. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We know him as Giordano Bruno, but he liked to invent long names and titles for himself, names, it was said, longer than his body. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I liked what you talked about at lunch,” I confess. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

In examining their deeds and their lives, one can see that they received nothing from Fortune except opportunity, which gave them the material they could mould into whatever form they liked. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to be liked because my dad killed you.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

I’d have liked to go to school, but it cost too much, and I didn’t have the time. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The bag contained all six kinds of cookies he liked best. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

No one liked being in the forest, away from the Road. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was warm and soft and smelled like the honeysuckle oil she liked to put in her hair. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The Clarion is across the street from the precinct, and Pete liked to buy the cops ending their eight-to-fours a pony beer or two. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He’d have liked nothing better than to blow something up, but it was clear to everyone, himself included, that he and his powder were on hand as a last resort. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Grandma liked having her around so she’d know whenever someone was coming in the yard. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I liked fish a lot when I was seven. I had a goldfish named George.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Why do you think she liked your brother?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Dill’s a good first boyfriend. He’s liked you as more than a friend for a long time,” her mom said. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I liked sitting with him and hearing his stories of life with his father, even though I thought he had made a lot of it up. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

People did what she told them to because they liked her—not just because she’d make their lives miserable if they didn’t. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She liked this solitary work, her lingers catching and releasing, pulling and knotting in old rhythms, especially after having to mentor the Hunters. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But she liked the design, after all, and they arranged to have it silk screened on five hundred red T-shirts, which they shipped north. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backward,” she liked to say. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he really liked Celia—and she’d read some of the texts; it seemed like he really did—why was he being so aloof? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Those were a bit more interesting than geometry, but he still had to push his brain harder than he liked. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“If we didn’t have rules,” Mr. Trepid liked to say, “everything would be chaos.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

But it could have been true; Obinze’s mother had liked her, after all. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He planted himself in front of us and asked how we liked the job. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all liked Swann, did not believe him guilty of any misconduct; but we did not want to offend the party. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked to entice me into lies: “Gorgeous necktie,” he’d say, “that’s a Hermès, isn’t it?”—and then, when I assented, reach quickly across the lunch table and expose my poor tie’s humble lineage. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But I went to the clubs because I found that I liked the music and the dancing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You probably liked letting me make a perfect idiot of myself,” she said with a flash of her old spirit. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked to read this writer named Toni Morrison. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I knew this was because she liked for me to be happy. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I liked the way her face scrunched up when she played. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

They bivouacked in the woods much nearer to the road than he would have liked. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He used to give me the blues in the ring, so bad, but I still liked him. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

And of course Marshall’s hieroglyph was the double crown of Egypt because he was already the boy-pharaoh—and that’s what he liked to be best. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to get my book back because I liked writing it. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“As soon as I saw the sign I wanted to go in, and the minute I went in, I liked it.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Mrs. Baker and I were done, we looked liked someone had thrown a whole can over us both. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Yet, in fact, he would have liked to talk. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Everybody went to church in those days, and liked it. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have got to get by the lions first,” said Jo, as if she rather liked the prospect. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you liked it the last time,” she shoots back. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I suppose he smiled at Cody--he had probably discovered that people liked him when he smiled. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I liked the sound of it, the derision with which my mother pronounced it, and knew immediately it was what I wanted to become. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew and liked the damp earthy smell of the dirt floor, even though they slept on the floor, huddled under thin ragged blankets, aware of the chill. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or as she liked to see herself, she was born strong-willed, while a lot of the world was wishy-washy. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He liked to say that he could run his program with fifteen kids if he had to. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Freedom to go where one liked,” he began. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lazlo had only marginally more experience with cake than Sarai did, so this was one of the things they made up between them “however they liked.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I imagine he meant to say that he liked it very much.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He liked to sit in the room and watch Aron’s face straining with effort to learn. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I also liked living vicariously through her letters. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I’d already been sitting with Jasmine at Camille’s bench since the start of the school year, but I had no idea she liked anime until she overheard and asked if she could sit with us. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

She must have liked what I wrote, because she gave me a good grade. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The fourth night, she said that she never liked the one poem he’d ever published in his life, in a literary magazine in Utah. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I liked the idea that I could take my messy life and make something else of it with my own two hands and a little effort. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Aside from following the action in the ballroom, Bobby liked the analysis room. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

This was why he liked me so much. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That I have always liked it best. Of all his work.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I knew Papa liked her having said that. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I liked to think I had an old soul. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She might not have read it if Blaine had recommended it, because she more and more avoided the books he liked. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Churchill liked to play martial music while he prepared speeches, the better to kindle that vital emotion in himself that he hoped to communicate to the crowd. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Moss liked Mrs. Torrance, who was born and raised in Oakland, just like he had been. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My father liked to drink, and he liked women, so the story goes that his every-month visit home became every six months. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But this area, all concrete and sad little houses, was the kind you liked to pass by quickly. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been adding more rooms on for her, trying to work around hints I got of things she liked. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At home, I liked to see how fast I could crawl up and sit on my brothers’ shoulders while they were standing. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I was the oldest, but I liked to be up first anyway. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked Sinjin, liked his silly humor and the way he didn’t take himself too seriously. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I liked him in that moment, I wanted to take his hand and squeeze it, but I didn’t, because that would have been weird. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like she was worried as me to see if Miss Lizzy liked her food. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Billy had liked Spot a lot, and Spot had liked him. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Rita liked the old woman, and Granny, grudgingly, accepted her. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just...nobody had ever said they liked me before.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She liked that Claire’s socks never matched, but she had the best shoes. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“So he liked to goof around, he liked to imitate people, and he liked being the center of attention,” Grace says. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He would have liked to continue talking about his mother. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The colts must have liked the mirror image; they had become inseparable in the Claiborne paddocks. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

You wouldn’t say he put on airs or pretended to be what he wasn’t, but unlike Grandpa Blakeslee, he liked seeming well-off and “modrun.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He had always liked to eat domestic raspberries this way, and although the taste was reassuringly familiar, it did nothing to appease his hunger. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked how he grinned when she brushed her thumbs across his nipples. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I liked getting into things with other kids in the school. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I also knew there was somebody she really liked, because her and her little friends were always giggling about something, and boys are usually the main thing little girls giggle about. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Was it possible he really didn’t understand how much Reyna liked him? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was curt in his greetings, even to Manolo, whom he had always liked. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the truth were known, he liked the man as much as his own father, but sometimes— often, actually—he had trouble remembering exacdy what the Mellower had said. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I liked it because I was able to think about where my life was going. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They liked it when we would push them on the swings and sing silly songs at them. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I liked a lot of things about Harlem, especially the block, which was how we talked about 145th Street. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Gay told her that Mrs. Moss had kept my dolls and Easy-Bake oven, my mother said, “I never liked that woman!” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

This was not because the other animals liked the lion; it was because they were all afraid of him. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

‘A bug, ” said the king, who liked to be right. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

No one else moved liked that, as if the world were smoke and she was just passing through it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He liked this area—it was the only place on Ogygia where he couldn’t see the sea, so he could pretend he wasn’t stuck on an island. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know whether he liked her or not, and so she didn’t like him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody said she liked to explode stuff for science experiments. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In 1999, she decided to move to Atlanta for no other reason than that she liked the weather, which reminded her of Amman. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

My mother looks surprisingly pliable in those old snapshots, as though she liked nothing better than to have her man in uniform arrange her against the porches and lampposts of their humble neighborhood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For a second, I liked the loneliness of it. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She liked to put them on sandwiches, and in spaghetti, and fried in tempura batter. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was surprised to find that he immediately liked her. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to make sure you had it exactly the way you liked it.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Radar obviously knew the old man and liked him, so Alex breathed a little easier and figured the old man must be okay. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The kids at Lincoln Elementary School liked Nick’s new word. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think Dell would have liked to go bowling instead of to Sam's U-Rent. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He had figured out how to live like a millionaire, he liked to say, even before he became one. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t think Jesus Who is Our Lord would have liked the weather in Limerick because it’s always raining and the Shannon keeps the whole city damp. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

What I liked best, though, was the river. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about one of the stories my uncle liked to tell me. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I never liked it all that much, too many couples just the right side of forty drinking too much and casting around for something better, wondering if they’d have the courage. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not because she liked it, but because she kept waiting for the story to change, kept waiting for the day she’d turn the page and a woman would get to go to the husband store. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

About the way he smiled when he liked something, with his lips just turned up at the corners . Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I liked that she left me alone like that. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Even though she was five, Robin liked eating it sometimes. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Her breasts were small, but he liked die firmness of them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The first man tried the milk and liked it. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked like a different person, and Park didn't know if he liked it better. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Through my haze of discomfort, I pantomimed some of the games he liked to play, and even though Otto was sluggish, they were soon having a companionable time. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

And me ... as much as I liked the big guy, I couldn’t help feeling embarrassed. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dad wasn’t above stretching the truth, because there was nothing he liked better than a joke, particularly if it were on him and even more particularly if it were on Mother. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Timothy liked the third city because it was large. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not calculating; if she liked a man, she just liked him. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss liked her because she seemed so comfortable being by herself. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Matt kept using “untoward”—I don’t know where he got that expression, but he liked it and kept using it—that’s how I knew Matt was speaking; everything was “untoward.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked it, but I felt guilty at the same time. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Right then, I would have liked to take the truck out onto the open road, my brother sitting next to me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

And my grandpa would have liked to know I could play. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He liked to shoot pool in his spare time, he played cards and dressed like a man from a much flashier part of the country. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew he liked her, but it seemed like he hated her a little right then, too. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Once she told me that she liked to yodel and that she had done so as a child. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She asked me to write out a list of the foods I liked. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

At dinner, where just the two of them sat, she turned toward her husband and asked him how he liked the centerpiece. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said I liked maths because it meant solving problems, and these problems were difficult and interesting but there was always a straightforward answer at the end. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I liked the place where the bundles fell off and tumbled downstairs,” said Meg. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those first months after preliminary training, Fiona and Briony had little chance to find out if they actually liked each other. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I liked girls and women, but guys really put me off most of the time. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I liked it when she called me sweet pea. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I put Momma right amongst all those ponies and horses she liked so much. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I used to think it was because she liked wigs better than her own hair or that she thought black people’s hair was bad hair. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Indeed no,” I said, “it is just that I would have liked to see Kenny under our roof. He did so much for my mother.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She figured out early that nobody liked an angry disabled person. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

But perhaps Octavia liked them because they were small, soft, and squeaky. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The unripe mangoes were sour, but we liked that taste. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

With vindictive pleasure, she said in Fjerdan, “But you always liked the way I spoke your tongue. You said it sounded pure.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Colin liked being so special that scholars would take note of him. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“I liked her very much,” I said, “she was very nice to me.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I would have liked a sacrificial bull, but times have been hard recently. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought that Goddard might actually like him made Rowan uncomfortable—because the things that Goddard liked, Rowan categorically despised. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I know you never liked that sort of thing, Cee. But how else do you become a doctor?” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I discovered what sorts of things my mind liked to make up. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

And a lady who looked like she liked the same things Aurelia liked sat behind the counter in the front of the place. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I’ve always liked men, receiving them, paying them attention, listening to what they have to say. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And somehow, this morning, Finn liked that better. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Michael liked the first city they passed, but this was vetoed because everyone doubted quick first judgments. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was stronger in those days, and he liked to check up on things personally. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked the moves that Bobby was making. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I would have liked to bring myself back as a boy for my parents to welcome with chickens and pigs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked to say that Twizzlers were one of his favorite food groups. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I liked the D.A.! I learned loads with you!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Uncle didn’t like to bowl because he only liked games where you had to think. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sherman saw a girl he liked and tapped her on the shoulder and hit the dance floor for about ten straight. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

My dad liked to believe I was as popular and adventuresome as he was at my age—a myth it had always seemed easiest to perpetuate. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

That was something I always liked to do outside. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“That was a tough year. I wasn’t liked at all,” he later said. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He and Jam had been lying on a grassy hill behind the school, one they liked to roll down, watching the sky bump and skip in hiccuped blue as gravity played with them. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Yet among all these pious wooden dolls there was one Bernabe liked. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I concluded that was why my mother had to wear foreign-style clothes, in the manner of newly rich Chinese people who liked to display their wealth on the outside. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we settled on Mei Mei, the Chinese word for Little Sister, which I liked better anyway. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had me describe the contents of the cupboard and the particular plates she liked best. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even as small as we then were, some of the African and Asian personages had sent Mr. Muhammad private word that they liked his efforts to awaken and lift up the American black people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three years later, Karl’s classroom included a boy who sometimes liked to dress as a princess and a girl who talked about maybe being a boy someday. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I may not have liked the people in Lily that much, but I felt sorry for anyone being massively scammed. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

"And is that why Gwenforte liked you so much? Because she knew you were an angel?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Most teachers used a Smart Board, but as Mrs. Friedman liked to joke, she was “old-school—literally.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Kaori wanted to explain that they weren’t merely lines, but she figured it was best to leave well enough alone, as her father liked to say. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He saw what was happening with Brandon, how uncomfortable he was, and he liked it? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For a week I wrote faithfully, describing friends I liked and teachers who were mean to me. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

After hearing this, I’d spent a good amount of time trying to think up which month I would have liked to have been named for. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dywen, the gnarled old forester who liked to boast that he could smell snow coming on, sidled closer to the corpses and took a whiff. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Any kid entering a new class wants, first of all, to be liked. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

We liked the sound of the water, and the look of the rocks. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then he settled down into hymns that liked a trembling vibrato. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s a paper I wrote for my English class on Trampita. My teacher liked it,” I said proudly. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Grace had never liked him, and Max knew that. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Also, I had no idea how much people in the thirties liked melodrama. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They told Mole that Sam was a young adolescent, nonviolent, and that he liked wild foods. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I found that I liked this class arrangement very much; it divided my work neatly and made it easy for me to concentrate separately upon Talmud and college subjects. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mama also liked to read True Romance magazines and would let me sit on her lap as she read aloud. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

That looked like a good deal to me because Big Joe was really successful and everybody liked him. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Partly because she would have liked to have known, and partly because Dad had said to me as I left, “If you find the place, tell someone at Delhi. I may visit you someday.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought they were funny, and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Despite herself, Dede had to admit she liked what she sensed, that the power was shifting in their marriage. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Jimmy always liked it better down East. He rose up to his position in the East. Were you a friend of my boy's, Mr.--?" The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I didn’t feel like it, but I liked him saying that to me and I nodded. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think he liked it, but he went slower. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I liked it best when he sang, in his deep bass voice, some of the silly nonsense songs he and Mother used to make up when they were children. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mirjam said they liked to joke that they were like sisters. And royalty. To be honest—and I feel badly saying this—she was a little irritating about it.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I read that in a book recently. About some poor creep who liked to stick his nose in his mama’s nasty ol’ panties. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was our leadoff hitter and liked to study the pitchers as much as I did. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I liked most was the absolute silence inside my head and heart—silence I had not enjoyed for so long. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still liked riding bikes, playing with my Barbies, and walking down to Main Street to get ice cream. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

No one liked him except for his few shuck cronies. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

When we discovered that she clearly did not want to dominate us, we liked her. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

When breakfast was over, I thought, Maybe if he liked us enough, we could get him to stay. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I took thirty-nine steps to the west because I liked the movie The Thirty-nine Steps. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Because he knew something: even though outside he looked twenty, and his mustache was already coming along nicely, inside he was still this nine-year-old who liked rhyming things. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed Mrs. Dent had not studied that science: though, as she said, she liked flowers, “especially wild ones;” Miss Ingram had, and she ran over its vocabulary with an air. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Anyway, of course he liked to watch television—everybody liked to watch television. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Papa always liked a good party, but he said when he came home after the hospital he just wanted to have some peace and quiet. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But if I were a doctor poet, I would spend all day with people who could not run past me, and then I would go home and write whatever I liked about their insides. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as Frederick remained on the throne, Tycho was able to enjoy an unprecedented amount of freedom to run his observatory just as he liked. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He liked Bernard; he was grateful to him for being the only man of his acquaintance with whom he could talk about the subjects he felt to be important. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The husband and the fee-ance really liked each other, I could tell. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

No one wanted to live in that neighborhood anymore, but I liked it. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she just holds my hand limply, the way you would if you were at the deathbed of a relative you barely knew and liked even less. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I rather liked the storms that came rumbling up the coast, but the biggest of the nor’easters were frightening, and we always spent them with Miss Maggie, hunkered down. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Worse than that, she realized, she liked him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Neither Jinjoo nor her sister liked it very much, but the boys loved it. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He liked his children and was true to his wife. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked to sing songs just for fun. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

From what I remember, though, I got along with you very well and rather liked you. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked him, cornrows running down the length of his scalp, and his expression always wry, scornful of sentimentality. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I asked him to dance. How is that making him look stupid? He liked it, didn’t he?” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know who she liked, really, boys or girls. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“We would have liked to contribute more, but if you let me do the hot magnet, I won’t tell on you.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She liked a more expensive house in another part of the countryside and wished that Dr. Darwin would give them more money so they could buy a nicer one. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate half of the box on the way to school and shared the rest with the girls and teachers I liked. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I remember when we saw him on TV and you liked him a lot.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Bunnicula liked his liquid diet so much that the Monroes have kept him on it. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were many birds in the fruit place, as they liked to eat the seeds which the fruits produced. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The possibility of it stung more than she would have liked. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The women of the 125th Guards liked and appreciated the Frenchmen who flew for the Normandie-Niemen Regiment and protected them in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In the end, I liked it, and the songs got stuck in my head for days afterward. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Emma wasn’t sure if it was because he’d had to claim in public that he liked lima beans, or if he was afraid someone else in the school office would overhear their secret code word. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Gabriel and I used to play this game we liked to call What If? where the object was to take turns creating the most absurd “what if?” scenarios. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She was proud and could be hard enough but she was as true as steel and would never have deserted a companion, whether she liked him or not. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The possibility of that tantalized everyone, whether they liked football or not. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He no longer had aspirations to publish his translations but did the work because he liked it and because it kept his mind sharp. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Aside from her hardships, the other thing Boori Ma liked to chronicle was easier times. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I liked him a lot — great with animals.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It was perhaps a bit thicker than she would have liked, but the weight was about right. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The skits that Dad liked best were the imitations of him and Mother. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Movies I’d liked and hated, the few places I’d been and the many places I wanted to go, and books — endlessly books. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He could install a pet door in the kitchen, so Ken and Barbie could go in and out as they liked. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both Ma Charles and Miss Trotter liked that and took turns mimicking Cecile’s words. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Stanley would have liked to stop and rest, but he was afraid they'd never get started again. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Ms. Bethune asked me about you—said she’d seen you at the park with a camera and that you really liked photography.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Some of the trees were enormous, and she liked to pause to imagine how long they had been growing—probably hundreds of years, for some of them. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I liked to watch sports—but couldn’t really play any. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She always liked the rhythm of the words of the pledge—it made her feel like she belonged to something important. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Jason wasn’t sure what Favonius wanted, but if facing the god of love meant forcing Nico into some sort of confession about which girl he liked, that didn’t seem so bad. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There was a tone in his voice Theon did not like, no more than he liked the insolent way the Dreadfort men were looking at him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Besides, he liked the idea that his neighbors envied him for having this distinguished guest at Tres Marias. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took up a lot of time, but they’d liked him anyway. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Sit down. Your uncle always liked this tune. I used to play it on the old piano in the back of the shop. Listen.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And Doc’s idea of fancy really wasn’t at all—he had what he liked to call simple tastes. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Simpson said that they kept our squad up to par because the battalion commander liked him. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what Bobby liked most was that nobody at the inn, other than Bezold and his son Michael, an up-and-coming chess player, knew who he was. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey sipped tea, which she had never liked, and thought about this. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calder had always liked the man’s appropriate name. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“The third eldest liked a little of everything, so I made sure nothing escaped his interest.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Fly at me again. I rather liked it,” said Laurie, looking mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked the idea of being a conventional person, a schoolteacher and family man, and Levittown was full of people seeking conventional lives. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Luma liked the school well enough, but winter in upstate New York was colder than anything she had experienced in Amman, so she decided to look at other schools. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I liked that rule, because I hardly ever know the answer to Mrs. Rouse’s questions anyway. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I understood that he would have liked me to have been saddened some by what he had told me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think you have more to tell me,” he said, and I liked him even more for saying “tell me” rather than “tell us.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to admit, I liked being seen as one of the classroom helpers. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jerrie answered every question they threw at her, even though many had nothing to do with flying into space, such as what she liked to cook. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sansa had liked that once, but now it made her sick. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Park thought she kept the accent on purpose, because his dad liked it. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

But, to be honest, he would have liked ten million dollars, too. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

A minute later, he said, “It’s Chopin. I have always liked that piece. Do you know, Calpurnia...” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Besides, I liked getting out on the Yazoo, and I wasn’t sure what R.C. would do to me if I refused to go fishing with him some time. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I can only see third- grade Rachel who liked barbecue potato chips and who braided pink embroidery thread into my hair that I wore for months until my mom made me cut it out. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finn fell asleep draped in Kittens and dreamed that the corn walked the earth on skinny white roots, liked to joke with the crows, and wasn’t afraid of anything. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But he meant what he was doing and Brian liked him more and more all the time. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Beetle liked to watch the cat stretching in the sunshine, combing his belly with his tongue, chewing the burrs and stubble out from between his toes. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suddenly liked the way all the wrinkles in her face crinkled up in tiny smiles. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he liked to go to doctors’ offices and see their certificates and degrees on the wall. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of the maids liked Chucha because they all thought she was kind of below them, being so black and Haitian and all. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Of all the treats in the entire world—celery sticks, baby carrots, orange slices—Gulliver liked dandelions best. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Burger had never liked or trusted Dasch, and it crossed his mind that Dasch might be leading him into a trap. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I would bring a sketchbook or something and try to draw, but mostly I just liked to go there. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no, he was the least nice. I liked Jack, though. He was nice. I thought his name was Jack Will but it’s just Jack.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Her mama kept a tight rein on her and I wasn’t too sure that her mother liked me, but I came up most weekends or days that I had off. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Selmy thought he knew the answer to that, though it was not one he liked. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I never liked the way my mother kept this place,” she explains. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Someone must have really liked tarantulas to put all these pictures up,” I said to Henry as he scooped my ice cream. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Of the old gang, only Jack had been his friend, and he had never been so close to Jack as he would have liked. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He liked to rummage through the messages on her desk, and he sometimes contributed to solutions. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I always liked to get out early because of the heat, particularly with cotton picking. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you liked somebody, you wanted to trade the best things you knew about. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I would have liked him anyway, just for being called Woodrow, but I especially admired him when I read that he weighed 350 pounds and was doing the hike to lose weight. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mama was a short woman— a little stouter than she liked to admit—who wheezed and got a red face when she had to climb steps. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never really liked him very much after that, however, and when he came he pulled his hat far down over his eyes so that Miss Lark might think he was somebody else. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Altogether there were four brothers—he, Henry, Walter, and Garland—and they epitomized old-time cool: suave, handsome black men who worked hard, drank hard, dressed well, liked fine women and new money. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

People just liked Hassan, the way people like fast food and celebrities. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He was still getting used to American food, and he wasn’t sure he liked a lot of it yet. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Her eyes flashed liked a pretty’s, and the lines of her face disappeared into a welcoming smile as she gathered her son into a hug. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You would have liked your grandpa Wynton. And he would have liked you. He was very much a rapscallion.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The way they knew that the Cordero family had a ghost that liked to rifle through the fridge at night. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Never in her life had she liked the stories told by mirrors. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew and liked Fischer, and I didn’t know much about Hall at that point, so I was initially reluctant. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The mud was nice between her toes, and she liked to feel the earth underfoot when she walked. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“How long have you known you liked him? ” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She also liked that Farmer wasn’t overly impressed with the celebrity of her parents. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him, he liked to say. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he liked knowing that the forest and the pond were just outside. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nobody liked to fight in the cold, and when there was snow on the ground it was hard to march and easy to get sick. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I skimmed the first couple of pages and decided I liked the play already. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Near the gate was a young Latino officer from the Bronx whom I had helped train and whom I liked. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Soviet Union and the United States were allies in World War II. But that’s because they were fighting common enemies—not because they liked each other. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you liked it so much, why did you come here?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked to sit by the train window and watch the thick woods sliding past, the grassy plains unfurling, the cattle swinging their tails as they were herded by bare-chested nomads. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

James decided that he rather liked the Centipede. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

She particularly liked the sound of the last word, the way the “r” ’s rolled in her mouth, the explosion of “p” ’s. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anna was my science partner for the plant unit, and I liked working with her. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

To stay awake and alert, the captain, a Greek man of middle age, liked to take up provocative subjects. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

When I was a kid, my mom's old friends liked to wrap their arms around me, pet my hair. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It made her feel small when they did that, and she sort of liked it and sort of hated it. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I liked how confident he was about that. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

They liked to do exactly what the Washington boys did so well. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I think of the rare jackpot nights when I ended the day at a sleepover or sharing the room with a sibling or a friend I genuinely liked. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I liked the idea that a little pain made life more interesting; I especially liked that Arletta felt the same way. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He had always been well liked and gotten along with just about everybody. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But Alaska liked the Colonel, and in the confusion of the moment, I just looked at her blankly, unsure even of what to ask. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

They liked to taunt him when he came to fetch hot water for Lady Arya’s bath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Nobody liked to think what might happen if Worsley lost any of his instruments or tables. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“I oil the pistons,” he liked to say. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He also liked the owner, an intelligent, vivacious Thai woman named Sonja, and insisted that only she wait on him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She had a feeling that her father would have liked Nathan—taking him fishing and telling him tall tales. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They shared a heavy blanket—the weight of it pressed against Hanako, but she liked it. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The picture she liked best was of the fourth mayor, Jane Larket, who had a serene smile and fuzzy black hair. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The guys sometimes liked to kid her about it—our own little native, they’d say—but Mary Anne would just smile and stick out her tongue. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma liked everything on her table to be pretty, so in the wintertime she colored the butter. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of all, though, she liked the sense of dignity and purity embodied by the Muslim women she knew. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I never got why she liked this place so much. There’s not much here,” said the Carpenter. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I did not have any photographs of myself that I liked. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He liked it here, in the darkness, moist and warm and wet. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was not sure if he liked it down here. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She smiled, and for a second, I remembered that I actually liked her when she wasn’t yelling at me. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Though I liked Pink just fine, I couldn’t help thinking that if Blu hadn’t of died, it would be him going out to Banks County with me this hot July morning. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She liked to look up places on the map, and to arrange objects by color. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trashman not only liked guavas, he seemed to enjoy the nutty taste of the grubs. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She liked money as well as most women, and accepted it with no little satisfaction. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked my mom, but her perpetual nearness sometimes made me feel weirdly nervous. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She liked, most of all, to arrange things. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was never an awkward quiet, but the kind that Ivy liked best. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He knew that Fielding would come to Warings, because Fielding was easy, he liked to go anywhere and do anything, things pleased him, he would be friendly with anybody. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Get the three of us together, someplace we all liked. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Aunty Onenu liked to say, “Most of my staff are foreign graduates while that woman at Glass hires riffraff who cannot punctuate sentences!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Hosie had washed himself and combed his hair and put on clean overalls, and I could tell Grandpa liked him. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I would have liked to hear what Amari sounded like when he sang. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

At an actual meet, Luke’s routine began as soon as the 126s started—slowly transforming into a workout probably more vigorous than his coach liked. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She liked movies, and her brother Frank made her tapes of this great music that she shared with us. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He turned to the channel that told the news the way he liked to hear it. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why I’ve always liked that one, but I do. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Will liked to live so that no one could find fault with him, and to do that he had to live as nearly like other people as possible. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even the dragons had been fond of old Brown Ben, who liked to boast that he had a drop of dragon blood himself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Claudia would never have permitted herself to become so overheated, but Jamie liked perspiration, a little bit of dirt, and complications. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked him right away because he replaced the girl who’d lived there before, a four-year-old who was always trying to convince Hazel to come to her tea parties, where no talking was allowed. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Finn got along with everybody, and Emma didn’t care whether people liked her or not. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I liked it when Papa talked to me as a man. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because it was always assumed that we would lead professional lives, my brother and I were free to grow as plump and ugly as we liked. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was like I was a ghost hovering outside of myself, watching some alternate-world Evie have a conversation with the girl she liked. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I liked a dark blue one, but when we checked the price tag, Mamá and I convinced ourselves it did not fit right. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I liked that she thought I was a kid just like her. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was the sort of thing my mother liked to watch: historical, educational. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robin couldn’t always remember which ones came first, but he liked to hear Brother Hubert tell about them. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“From the first time I saw you, Virginia, I liked you a lot.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Janet’s were hard because sometimes she had essay questions, but JR’s were harder because he liked to press his pencil into the paper so hard that it made mountains and rivers on the pages. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It would take commitment and organization to make all this happen, I knew, but that was exactly the kind of work I liked. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I liked to find my rhythm on my own. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The news directors must have sensed that their viewers liked Kwang’s youthful face, his grinning eyes, the tiny, new wrinkles. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I walked through the front gate and outside, a sergeant whom I liked, Murray, called out. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked the way it sounded with my Dinka name, Arual. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She'd always have one or two books in her bag 'cause she liked to read on the train going to work. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

At some point, she introduced him to her mother, who liked him. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was not the way Curve smelled that Colin liked—not exactly. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He liked the way her eyes already crinkled in the corners. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He’d liked the sound of it ever since he was a teenager listening to Nina Simone records in the housing projects in Cleveland. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Irene and I were wedged down beneath the covers on her big bed, the room cold and dark, the sheets warm, just how I liked it. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I liked being babied more than I dared to admit. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

So people told my sister the kid probably liked her and that she should be nice to him, even though she should have pinned him down and made him eat the crayons. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And I knew that Adam liked how into music I was. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I liked best about Christmas was that for a whole day grown-ups seemed to agree to take time off from being grown-ups. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked the names—Mr. Bumble, a villain, but, like her bear, a clumsy one. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

But the new furnishings were fine, and I liked my room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Not as my fellow victors make fun of me now, but because we genuinely liked each other. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If you liked it here, that would be a very bad prognosis!” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

David Greybeard, for example, was a calm chimp who liked to keep out of trouble. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He built her face in front of him and studied her wide-set eyes, delicate nostrils, mouth smaller than he liked but sweet, small firm chin, and back to her eyes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I think part of why I liked Jenna right away is that I like the color of her name. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Mitt liked to carry the coin with him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But you would of liked to try," said Alfred. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy had also liked coffee, strong and black with lots of sugar. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She wore her rimless glasses that Frank always liked to steal, and her fuzzy gray fleece pullover that smelled like cinnamon. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Did she own she liked it?” asked Meg. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opened up the search engine on Mama’s smartphone and scrolled through some recipes on the cooking website they liked to use. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Besides, I liked to think he had good table manners. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Turner had never liked this line of thinking. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I really liked him—except for one thing: he now and then would drop something that hinted my mother had let us down somehow. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such musings didn’t make him resentful of the football players; he liked them. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never liked to open his eyes in this room, at night, he could not stop himself thinking about Hooper's grandfather, lying dead. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

When he was finally able to concentrate on what he was reading, he liked the book better; the burial was on a snowy day, and he welcomed the feeling of being cold. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether we liked him or not, he was never out of our minds. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked to hear the porter call them out, but Linden and Red Hill looked pretty much like Lassiter and Hughes Springs before them. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the east wall of our compound was the river, which my father said liked to swallow little children. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soraya asked if he liked his room and I noticed that she was trying to avoid looking at his wrists and that her eyes kept swaying back to those jagged pink lines. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Although Officer Delinko liked the town of Coconut Cove, he had become bored with his job, which mostly involved traffic enforcement. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlotte liked to do her weaving during the late afternoon, and Fern liked to sit nearby and watch. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

For one thing, he liked to hurt people. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I practiced the songs anyway because I liked them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Hugo liked that he had kept it, though. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Sherman and Billy both said they liked it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

So Mr. Popper, who never liked to be a nuisance to anyone, always took taxis instead. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Posters were tacked to the wall, almost haphazardly, as if Javier had tried to cover every bare surface with something he liked. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She liked this, because it was the first time in her life that she looked around herself and saw...everything. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He liked talking to Larson no matter what he said, “because he’s interested in history and where we all came from and what we’re supposed to do.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since I was an Indian and had to lose anyway, I liked most to be shot when I was up in the loft. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked that he didn’t need to depend on anyone else to win a match. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

White liked to interview a subject in a place that was unfamiliar to the person in order to unsettle him, and so he had Lawson taken to a room off the warden’s office. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He said it was so I would stay alert during my shift, but really I think he just liked to punch me in the arm for random reasons. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I wrote a long report saying why I liked Buddenbrooks, and came up with as clever a list of negatives as I could. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was liked when noticed, but not noticed much, and that did him no harm either. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He’s absolutely sure that guys who kissed a Prince of England and liked it don’t get elected to represent Texas. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Usually he liked the quiet; in fact, he would have happily sewn most people’s lips shut. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mama was a vivid conversationalist and people liked to hear her talk. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Very different from Incheon, but we liked it because it was safer. Away from the worst of the fighting.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It always startled Bloom that his feminine, self-effacing wife not only liked to be in front on a hike, but also could maintain a strong, even pace. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he did have a little white-haired granddaughter that I sort of liked. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peewee got a letter from his girlfriend, but I don’t think he liked it. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana asked Poppy, “Do you remember that Emily Dickinson poem I liked a lot in second grade that starts, I’m nobody, who are you?'” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I already knew Rosie didn’t sleep well, that she liked avocados, and that she was named for Ms. Solomon’s grandmother. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She and Anna were the only ones to come up with food that the plant liked. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Mary liked that, but Laura liked better to play with Clarence. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

A four-feet-eight-inch ball of nonstop energy, I liked to say I was four feet nine just so I could feel taller. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But Gwenforte had decided that it was indeed time to get up—either that, or she liked the salty taste of William’s sweat—because she began licking his ears and forehead. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

"That may or may not be. In any case, I have never liked thieves, and I suspect you are one." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Cole hesitated, Garvey added, “I thought you liked being in control, Champ.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

People thought he was a glutton for punishment, that he liked getting dumped. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“I...when I say we weren’t close...I mean, I think he liked me....” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Beto wondered if Miss Bell liked him or might come to like him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I liked him because he had been stung and it hadn’t changed him. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Darissa taught us a new handball game called Butt’s Up, which none of us were very good at, but we liked playing because it had the word butt in it. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was tearing Jon apart, yet he dare not shout for the direwolf as he would have liked Other things might be listening as well. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It surprised her that they liked the same films. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I had no idea this was how pastry chefs came up with new flavors, but I liked the sound of it. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

While Joseph was prickly and hostile, Zeke was all smiles and warmth, the kind of person people liked to be around. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Part of her would have liked nothing more than to lead her people back to Vaes Tolorro, and make the dead city bloom. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A silent slave was not liked by overseers, because a silent slave was probably brooding about escape or revolt. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he liked me, he sure wasn’t showing it with words. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“You did, didn’t you? You made a choice, for all of us. Whether we liked it or not. You got your way, Jinny. What else is new?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“It mentioned a boy whose name she abbreviated as T. It was a boy she liked.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was just a body; it could have been anyone’s, or Lefty liked to pretend so. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He just liked to have fun, and the good fun went real bad on him that day in the snow. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Katy, Farmer’s oldest sister, suspected that more family adventures lay ahead, whether everyone liked it or not. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, not usually. And if they do—” Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: “They’re wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Moss liked that memory, even if his father wasn’t in it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Because the two of us were such close friends; so obviously, I knew how much she liked Leo, how she worried he didn’t like her back. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But he liked how steady her voice stayed. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It loosened him up after a long day in the saddle, and though he would have been embarrassed to admit it, he liked the change it had made to his body. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I liked picking up my book satchel each time the bell rang and looked forward to talking about something entirely different the next period. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The government of Kenya had issued a law that every nomadic family must send one child to school, whether they liked it or not. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

A chess player himself, Laucks liked to surround himself with other players, many of them offbeat and highly talented. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had done just that for most of my short life, with no one to trust, and frankly, I liked being alone, since it made surviving easier. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But I also liked the ones we’d watched over the summer. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I liked Mrs. Dawson, despite the fact that I often made her cross. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that his father would never come back now that he had found that he liked the other place to which he had gone. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She said she liked to keep herself to herself, which was uphill work in a town like that. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know what it was, or even who it was, that Paolo liked. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

None of us liked this idea, especially my mother, but we understood. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I would have liked to have a good, maudlin drunk, but I couldn’t afford it, so I made my slow, limping way back across the river as the sun was setting. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He'd talked with her father for a long time when they arrived, and even though the two of them disagreed about almost everything, Nok liked the old monk right from the start. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I asked him if he liked the army, and he said it was okay. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what I had always thirsted for were the details: the way her hair glinted in the sunlight, her favorite ice cream flavor, the songs she liked to hum, did she bite her nails? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In his speeches, Farmer liked to talk about “the nation of humanity,” as opposed to developed or undeveloped nations. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She recognized that I liked to joke around and told me not to hold back with my humor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The part I liked to practice best was the fancy curtsy: right foot out, touch the rose on the carpet with a pointed foot, sweep to the side, left leg bends, look up and smile. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

What he read was that I was an honest man, a steadily employed, tireless worker, loyal to the firm that employed him, well liked, and sympathetic to the misfortunes of others. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He pushed it away from him, aware only that it was the memory of some action which he would have liked to undo but could not. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He liked to do the driving himself, especially when a road was as bad as this. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know what Mr. Flux liked to smell. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I was a capable boy, intelligent, well- liked, but powerfully afraid. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I liked it, because everything that was put in the cart had a future in our kitchen, and I greeted most of the food with anticipation. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

But at the same time I liked it a whole lot. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I had never been to Yale, and Yale was the place all the seniors in my house liked to go best on weekends. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Aunt Mary liked to boss all her workers around, and one day she told Dennis to pick up a huge roll of leather and take it to Manhattan by subway. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The critic explained that he liked it very much, but that so far it had been incomplete. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Not because we liked her wig—it was the worst-looking thing you ever saw—we just didn’t like Otis giving her orders. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear liked arranging his wood neatly so the potters could take what they needed without the whole of the stack collapsing. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Bloomberg just then stood up in her lap and, more like a dog than a cat, began to circle around to find a sleeping position he liked better. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

She liked the way he said “Can I come to you?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You’re just an Indian pretending to be white” was what Corky liked to say. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I liked it when Uri laughed—his red hair seemed to brighten. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“No. He don’t. But I can’t figure out why. Why he never liked my hair.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, the waitress took their order as though she’d be more than glad to stay as long as they liked. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edusco liked him, he could tell; he imagined Edusco talking about him in a gathering of other self-made Igbo men, men who were brash and striving, who juggled huge businesses and supported vast extended families. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She liked to eat meat and salt and chocolate and grease. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In those days, people in New Orleans also liked to gamble, roll the dice. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all he can say is that he wouldn’t have liked it? Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I remember how she liked that about me at the first dance. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over yonder were what she called her “word plants”—the wild flowers she planted because they had names she liked. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I did indeed wear the sundress—this blue print, flowey knee-length Forever 21 thing—with tights and Mary Janes because I liked being quite a lot shorter than him. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He had deals worked with the boss men to do whatever he liked. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Langley liked to think of itself as a place that eschewed bureaucracy, where an idea from a cafeteria worker could get a fair hearing if it were compelling enough. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

In describing the fire dead, the term the newspapers most liked to use was “roasted.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In just two hours, hundreds of people have liked and reblogged the pictures. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I woulda liked to have tried those twenty-nine- dollar eggs.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“If you like that flick and you liked Shane, you probably qualify to be a real movie freak, like me.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Parvati and Lavender went into transports of delight at the sight of them, and even Pansy Parkinson had to work hard to conceal how much she liked them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

If he liked, he might even bring a suit against Mr. Lyte. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I liked Francis well enough, I had always been nervous around him; oddly, it was this pass of his that cleared the air between us. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mom liked to say that Dad could talk a blue streak, spinning tales of jobs he’d never had and college degrees he’d never earned. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had chosen the dinner menu, so I liked everything—especially the ice-cream cake. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Instead, while Sticky helped them practice, she composed a poem about a bunch of bossy gargoyles who liked to eat cat food and pick their ears. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't see my sessions as the sort of thing that one would want to advertise, but as my teacher liked to say, "I guess it takes all kinds." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

This time, he actually went to take a look at the place, checked out the neighborhood, liked what he saw. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few feet away snuggled into her bedroll, Koffi slept, and the sounds of the jungle formed a melody he almost liked. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I liked your life. My parents knew, I knew, I needed to get out of this place.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The poet Dylan Thomas, who liked a good drink at least as much as Alaska, said, “I’ve had eighteen straight whiskeys. I do believe that’s a record,” before dying. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I would’ve liked to try my hand at teaching. If I hadn’t been born like this.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He hugged her, kissed her, and then slid down and began to massage her feet; she liked the warm pressure, the feel of his fingers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Whether she liked to admit it or not, her parents were important to her, and Rishi respected that. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He liked “the Creek,” as he called it, but ‘You have to be careful here, with students and with teachers. And I do hate being careful.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Most people agreed as to how they was close to useless, but I still liked them anyway. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was written by a man named Montaigne, who was a soldier. But he grew tired of being a soldier and spent his time studying and writing. He also liked to walk on country roads.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had liked being Cat, more than she had ever liked being Salty or Squab or Weasel or Arry. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Because he walked Delilah on Fridays, he had a key to our house, but he never liked to use it if he thought someone might be home. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I tried going alone,” Mother said, “but I never really liked it. The minute I got into the woods it felt lonely, and I got scared and hurried back to Grandma.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was getting harder to fit into these small spaces she liked to hide in; her arms and legs were getting longer from her growth spurts, and she was almost as tall as Bitter now. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

One weekend he suggests going to one of the beaches where his father had liked to walk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They would have liked to ask why he was going to forgive his nephews, or to protest that it was impossible to pardon matricides without damaging the Round Table. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pap liked to tell Bible stories, often to me, dramatizing them as he sat in our small kitchen. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“She asked if I liked to go riding. She meant on horseback.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He told me I was going birding with him the next day whether I liked it or not. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, the Muramotos liked The Twilight Zone, so we got to watch that every week with them. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Smith liked that look, and nodded at the horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t really need to, but they liked these Touchable games. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew whether they had siblings and whether they liked them. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But I liked salt and pepper and I wanted to know more than I did. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Caroline looked so much like Papa that Ma liked to say they were one head on two bodies, Tèt koupe. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Heck, Percy kind of liked the coach’s idea of using it as a missile and sending Gaea up in a godly nuclear mushroom cloud. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

DeSheim informed the company that he would produce any play they liked, and they sat like frightened mice, possessing no words to make known their vague desires. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cal did not question the fact that people liked his brother better, but he had developed a means for making it all right with himself. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the summer he liked to get started early on chores before the sun blazed down on him. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you miss me a little? I thought you liked me.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had liked school and had grieved when Papá told her she must leave and start earning money by doing errands for people. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

She liked the way he said locate, all twee, like a schoolmaster. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

When I had the chance, I liked to hang around and talk with them, and we became friendly. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Lady would have liked this place, she thought. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I thought you liked that sort of thing.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up at the half smile on Fred’s face, wondering whether he still had liked playing patriotic songs with Mr. P, while he was listening to experimental jazz upstairs in his room. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I liked to look in those windows too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rifle changed him, the minute he picked it up, and he wasn’t sure he liked the change very much. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thorn was different than she’d first thought, or maybe she was changing, but Seven liked this side of her. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her mother liked to take the phone out to the verandah, to make sure the neighbors overheard: “Ifem, how is the weather in America?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Yes, the women liked the fanciful stories that she told to amuse restless tykes, and they admired the little threadings that she made. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, I was someone who liked things to be neat and planned in advance, and from what I could tell, there seemed to be nothing especially neat about a life in politics. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The robot and the gosling liked to spend afternoons up there, working on the finer points of flying. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

If a person liked cookies, he was going to keep more than one at hand. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Hailey wanted to start a band, but I liked the idea too.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It was a question he liked to answer, a chance for him to show his bravery. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I asked Patrick how he liked the after-prom party, and he said that it was a lot of fun. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“No. Actually they are good to eat—the Romans liked them a great deal—but people avoid them as a rule because they are so easily confused with their evil twin.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Will’s mother liked to say that Will had a Talent for getting lost. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Like the glass paperweight or Mr. Charrington’s half-remembered rhymes, it belonged to the vanished, romantic past, the olden time as he liked to call it in his secret thoughts. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He liked the feel of her trembling under his hand. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I liked to make her laugh, so I’d put the words into wacky order sometimes. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Who was Jimmy?” asked Amy, who liked to have things explained as they went along. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her brother, Gordon, revealed that he had lived with the Mosses for eighteen months now and liked this home better than the others. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She spoke very little, and had lost that fresh, brazen laughter that was the first thing I had liked about her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I loved this one. Read it so many times, my father replaced my worn copy with a new one. He didn’t realize I liked the feel of the old one.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The only thing she liked to do indoors was cook and tend the sick. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The Wart did not know what Merlyn was talking about, but he liked him to talk. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was very kind and thoughtful; she knew exacdy how I liked my coffee and fixed me peanut butter and Ritz crackers, but she didn’t say much at all. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Her duties were lighter as Lord Bolton's cupbearer than they had been under Weese or even Pinkeye, though they required dressing like a page and washing more than she liked. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I thought it was funny he called the key chain a charm, and was so glad he liked it. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Miss Havisham’s family I took upon myself; intending to communicate with Mr. Matthew Pocket only, and leave him to do as he liked about informing the rest. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I liked reading about explorers planting flags all over the New World and I marveled how they never looked mussed up in their pictures, although I thought exploring must be dirty work. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe liked it better when she wouldn’t look at me. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Have you seen? Autumn is my favorite. I like the smell of it, when people burn leaves in their gardens. My mother, she liked springtime the best. You knew my mother?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I ever tell you how much I liked your father? Arthur was one admirable man.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had trouble sitting still, and he did not like eggs, and he did not want nutcakes either, and he liked to throw the things he didn’t like, to be sure everyone knew. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The town is bordered by rivers, something Finch would have liked. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I liked being in a warm room, any warm room, when it stormed. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And after much searching they found the servant girl I liked so much, the one I had watched from my window every day. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked the idea that a part of one's body might be thought of as lazy—not thoughtless or hostile, just unwilling to extend itself for the betterment of the team. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Rafe was the kind of running partner that she liked: quiet. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He liked to talk about Graham Greene, the British novelist, and his novel on Haiti, The Comedians, which narrated the story of the Duvaliers and their secret police. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He knew what I liked, so I let him pick. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I liked that part about your being stupid, though,” said Constance. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Whitlaw had provided thick sandwiches with meat from a fat bird which the demons liked, a turkey I think it was called. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some evenings he'd sit clipping coupons for the cereals we liked and the laundry detergent Mama used. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure whether I liked her, and I doubted whether I could trust her, but I cared at least enough to try to find out. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Both Fred and I liked our sandwiches dry—no mustard, no mayo. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

And he liked the laugh that always followed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I always thought gangsters liked to dress in pants three times their actual waist size with white T-shirts. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Nhamo was almost never shown affection and she liked the feeling. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And over time they learned what she liked. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Bridge didn’t examine the idea too closely because she liked it and hoped, really hoped, that it was true about the long, hard roads. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Hadley liked riddles and puzzles, so this answer actually worked for her. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sunny Baudelaire, the youngest, liked to bite things. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I was a little too drifty in school so she thought it was a good idea that I read more books, and she knew I liked history and adventure stories. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I sat beside her, and when she didn’t move away I liked her very much. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I know that then I always liked to start off with my favorite analogy of Mr. Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a pleasant enough woman, with her steps made mincing by age and her little hands like gentle claws that liked to touch young skin. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave me an A on the written report, saying she liked my tongue-in-cheek approach to criticism, but warned me to clean up the language and watch my run-on sentences. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The one she would have liked and the one I used to like before...My grandmother fed me stories about a little blond child. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d talk about boys, which ones she liked and which ones liked her. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Jon had never liked surrounding himself with guards, but today it seemed prudent to keep a few good men beside him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His own recently whopped head throbbed in sympathy, but he had never been happier to have a chaperone who liked mixed martial arts cage matches. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Remembering that he had liked my playing music, I asked: “When you were young, did somebody in your family play the piano?” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I liked the way it felt to have someone look for me, to hear my name again and again. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He liked the way she walked; there was a boldness to it, part saunter and part sway, that suggested she would be just as bold beneath the blankets. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Clay was a lot like you, Jubilee—full of ideas. But he didn’t talk about them much. I think he liked to open his heart more than his mouth.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Exactly. I have always liked the notion that the American twins were actually a poltergeist phenomenon; certainly poltergeists can overshadow any more interesting manifestation. Bad ghosts drive out good.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

And he said it was something just for him and her, since sometimes he liked to focus on her and Akira separately. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Plus, she liked how she looked in her current outfit—everything from the high heels to the deep red lipstick that matched her scarf. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

If Fist could have been persuaded to nap, he would have liked it even more. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Obviously, Washington’s spies liked to be paid in money that jingled. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half a century ago, something strange and horrible had happened there, something that the older inhabitants of the village still liked to discuss when topics for gossip were scarce. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When I was working with horses, Johnny liked to follow along. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was forced to resign from the ANC, the organization had to replace me, and no matter what I might have liked, I could no longer wield the authority I once possessed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the OASIS, you could create your own private planet, build a virtual mansion on it, furnish and decorate it however you liked, and invite a few thousand friends over for a party. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

"You know who T is? A boy Mirjam might have liked?" Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I think he might have been a bit hard of hearing, or else he just liked shouting at people. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “I always liked you, Red,” and he said that he had never really wanted to kill me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Erasing history, Farmer liked to say, served the interests of power. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Beast: “You’re not going to scream. You didn’t scream before. You liked it. You’re jealous that I took out your friend and not you. I think I know what you want.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But you just said you liked it. And now you say you have no feelings toward it either way. I’ve just caught you in a contradiction. Don’t you see?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I admit that I liked the way he danced, how he sang a song...the way he looked...” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was not his world; he had been foolish in thinking that he would have liked it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a matter of time, I figured, before she'd want to cure me, and I liked the idea that using a couch was part of the cure. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The more convoluted the story lines, the more I liked them, and I imagined that all the long-suffering heroines looked like me, or rather, that I looked like them. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He liked the angelic beauty of his face and his smooth cheeks, his narrow hips, and long straight legs. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I liked the company. Have a nice supper, Morales.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I wondered why she liked that book so much,” Dad • says. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He liked the harder ones better, actually, when he was outfitted with food and a carrying pack and sent on long journeys through Forest. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jeavons said that I liked maths because it was safe. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why kids liked them, pretending they were down with the rock trade. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She liked the beautiful logic of the circulatory system, the elegance of the neurological, and the fierce warrior spirit of the heart. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was too small to sleep in, but Tree-ear liked the look of the huge rocks. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“You never liked her. Now you’re calling her a troublemaker? You don’t know her at all. She’s the person I most want watching my back.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I had liked him although we hadn’t even had a fight. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Orders and regulations must be obeyed, and Irina would have to do her duty whether she liked it or not. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When I watched JimmyTrotter milk Sophie three years ago, he didn’t seem to like milking any more than I liked ironing white sheets in the heat. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I would have liked to grow wheat for flour to bake with, but I had no way of processing it—no thresher, no mill. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I liked the part right at the end of the movie. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Although I suspected Father wanted me to wear another mourning gown, I put on the frock Mother liked best. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

And she liked pranking people by waiting until they pulled out a book, only to see her making strange faces in the empty space on the shelf. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He liked the safe, comfortable darkness.“I am an animal,” he replied. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he had pale blond hair, if you liked that sort of thing. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And I liked that because I like mice and rats. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I liked the way my body felt sore at the end of the day. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The only time you don’t find a four-leaf clover,” he liked to say, “is when you stop looking for one.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Annabeth sat up a little straighten I could tell she liked the “Your Highness” thing. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“The Hand. Once I saw him riding up die hill. His men had red cloaks and little lions on their helms. I liked those helms.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At that point the doctors liked what they saw: her cervix was a bit red and inflamed from the first treatment, but the tumor was shrinking. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Normally he liked dogs, but these glared at him with ruby eyes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Because I had liked the science teacher in junior high, I thought the emphasis on science would be all right. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

They liked to call me "field slave" and "sharecropper." Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rarely read back over what she had written, but she liked to flip the filled pages. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I wonder how the great DiMaggio would have liked the way I hit him in the brain? The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could best understand her, too, who was worshiped, not like other gods by the bloody sacrifices men liked, but in every humble act that made the farm fruitful. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been given the name of a powerful male dog, but she was a cat without personality, which is why True Belle liked her and wanted her close by. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

So caring for them was new to me, but I liked the horses. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Alaska liked the bears. Her mom liked the monkeys.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I liked that she said us, though she didn’t even know my name yet. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I liked the stained glass in the sanctuary, even though crucified Jesus was really bloody, too bloody for stained glass, I thought, all those red and magenta pieces filtering sunlight. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

But drawing that spiral drew Newton into more correspondence on ‘Philosophy’ whether he liked it or not. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He liked Sissy and had been fairly happy with her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was making it because she was good at it, because she liked being a reporter and a newswriter. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Frances was a little drunk and would have liked to have kept it up but the coffee came, and Lavigne with the liqueurs, and after that we all went out and started for Braddocks's dancing-club. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Even Voltaire, who avoided the dialogue between a philosopher and a lady, a form popularized by Fontenelle, liked to imagine his book being read by a sophisticated woman at her dressing table. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I would have liked to see in person what creatures the planet has.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Fledge also made an excellent breakfast; he tried one of the toffee fruits and liked it but said he felt more like grass at that hour in the morning. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I liked the way it rolled off my tongue. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He liked Burnham and approved of the marriage, but he did not entirely trust the young architect. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I liked it that she didn’t protest and say, “That’s all right,” or “Forget about it,” or, “Don’t worry about it.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked her because she seemed like the same kind of Mormon I was: she wore high-necked, loose-fitting clothing, and she’d told me that she never drank Coke or did homework on Sunday. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had not liked eating every meal in front of so many other people. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“You like your grits sweet, like Wood used to, so you might like your tea like he liked his too—sweet.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

While I liked to save my money for hard times ahead, I would use some for a paying ticket. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa liked it when the villagers made an effort to speak English around him. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, she personally found poetry very interesting, and since her students were more or less blank slates when it came to literature, she felt she might as well do what she liked. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I liked being a ghost in this place, unseen. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Baby liked it here; life was slower and simpler. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Thanks,” said Barry, who liked this one even better than the original. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Aru always liked lying down in the panorama theater where it was cold and dark and silent, watching the stories of the gods and goddesses rotate around her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Malcolm wasn’t put out; he liked his idea and thought he could work on it to improve it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She knew that none of them liked talking about this, but they all must have felt it was the truth. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"He liked to tease me and torment me," she recalls. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. 03-01 liked the whole thing not a bit, and frowned. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She liked his accent, his English drenched in Wolof and French. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Even when I thought I was liked, I wasn’t. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Matt walked carefully into its shade, keeping his eyes peeled for snakes that also liked the cool dark. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she was young, she says, she had to go to church whether she liked it or not. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our teammates thought it was funny, for example, to ask Josh and me if we really liked to eat fried chicken and watermelon for dinner. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It felt good to close her eyes and float, knowing she could rest as long as she liked. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He liked his brother, his sisters, his cousins the Wedgwoods. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the songs was called “My Favorite Mistake,” and my mother liked to joke that she could have written it herself—about my dad. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I liked smiling and giggling and not feeling like I was hiding anything. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Eventually he became a kind of mascot, and the bigger boys liked him in the way they always like the smallest and the youngest member of their group. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I liked Mark. He always gave me a doughnut. A first'day doughnut.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

However, sex was a hot-button topic and I think caseworkers liked to gossip about it, even if the accusations were ridiculous. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to explain it. I just liked it.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She was kind, she was sincere, I liked her very much, but there was a tiny doubt in her voice that made me afraid. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But every once in a while, a person liked to watch. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Thomas was having the hardest time figuring out if he liked Minho or not—his personality seemed to change every minute. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They prepare an elaborate meal, fish and meat bought one bitterly cold morning at Chinatown and Haymarket, cooked as his father liked them best, with extra potatoes and fresh coriander leaves. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She's always liked to tell lies about the other islands to scare us, and will do anything else she can to make us feel inferior. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In the mornings she went to a deli and bought a baguette and little containers of things Dev liked to eat, like pickled herring, and potato salad, and tortes of pesto and mascarpone cheese. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t realized how much I liked him. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was ironic; as a child I hadn’t particularly liked working in the fields. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I think I liked being the only one who knew. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She liked how she talked about people’s souls. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I also liked it that I had my own room, since in the trailer I shared one with my brother and my sister. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Brian liked my idea, too, especially when I pointed out that he could have my bed. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The last time she told the story she liked to tell about the eldest was when Carla got married. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I liked losing myself in the physicality of sport where I didn’t have to think or plan for what was next. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

If this was what surrender felt like, she kind of liked it. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I had no notion that he liked me so very much,” said Harriet, contemplating the letter. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, lots of the women there liked Ron the instant they met him, and lots of the men liked Lillian the instant they met her. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

How Madeleine liked to watch movies eating popcorn with cinnamon—but never butter. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Except I never got the vibe that he liked me. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

On hot days, Fred and I liked to take the spiral staircase downstairs and sit on the rug in the children’s section, looking at books. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Malcolm liked the sound of the word, and he could see how to spell it already, in his imagination. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I liked the boy, and from what I’d heard of early nineteenth-century medicine, they were going to pour some whiskey down him and play tug of war with his leg. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

As much as my mother would have liked to, she couldn’t keep them out. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

As a tourist he could take as many pictures as he liked without anyone thinking anything of it. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

What I really liked best that summer was going on little breakfast picnics with Lin Nai-Nai. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The part I liked best was when I went with Father to pick up the dirty laundry and deliver the clean. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom, however, told us that the FBI wasn’t really after Dad; he just liked to say they were because it was more fun having the FBI on your tail than bill collectors. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The car was parked in the lot next to the hotel, and Maten had left a cooler inside, full of the foods her husband liked. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It was very cold, but she liked the garden in wintertime. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I liked that way to say my name the least of any of them. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

So she bought them and tried one and liked it! Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Most kids probably liked to use their lunch period to, I don’t know, eat lunch and socialize and all that. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

What ever happened to reading a book because you liked it? Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

My father went by the same name, and though he lived a thousand miles away, I liked to imagine someone getting the two of us confused. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But I believed she liked this green stucco house. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began to like him because he liked her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He kissed me gently, but at the same time hungrily, and I liked how he tasted, the scent of his skin, the way his lips opened and closed, opened and closed. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she was brilliant, learned easily, and when she liked something, she put her all into it. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His toes showed, but he hadn’t liked it when Jehu had referred to him as ‘a boy with broken shoes.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he liked Moniek’s friendliness and was pleased he was Polish. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe no human beings had been there for a long time, but lots of things liked to live in cool, dark caves. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I still wasn’t sure if it was okay to like Carmen or if she even liked me back, but I had to find out once and for all. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was too bad, because I really liked where we lived, even though we’d only been there a couple of years. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I talked and she liked me; she thought I was smart. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Aunty Uju liked to talk about The General, different versions of the same stories repeated and savored. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She may not have liked the books she’d had to read for school, but she’d loved the stories her mom had read aloud to her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

This prince liked to dress the creature in his dead son’s clothes and pretend he was a child, Ser Axell claimed, and from time to time he would propose marriages for him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Claire may have had to choose my clothes hastily, or maybe she chose them because they wouldn’t draw attention, but at least she tried to get a color she knew I liked. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I liked getting to know people of different backgrounds, so that was fun. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But I liked to go for long walks at night. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

For William, who liked to be aboveboard in everything, this posed ethical dilemmas. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

My mom liked that about him; she used to say there’s a type of ugly that women find attractive. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She opened her door and fiddled with her seat, the pops, the sweater she liked to drive in, and finally, finally climbed in and left us alone. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

August liked to keep a little pollen in her honey because it was good for people, so we saw to that, too. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ladies liked her because she made hats that could of come straight out of New York City. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Inside Morning Glory Cottage, it’s toasty warm, just the way Gram liked it, and Lily is sitting at the kitchen table. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“The girl’s father was annoyed at his clever daughter, but he liked his grandchildren, so he forgave her.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a matter he liked to hear others talk about. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

What we really liked to do was play. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both of these, depending on how they liked the waiter, could make his job miserable or pleasant—and I meant to become indispensable. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matty had once been like them, when he was new here and hadn’t liked meetings or debates. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Fiona turned out to be a good mimic, and for all her merriness, there was a cruel touch to her humor that Briony liked. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He liked to complain about things: people at work, Harry, the council, Harry, the bank, and Harry were just a few of his favorite subjects. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Apparently, he liked to tell stories in weird voices and spent years scratching out a replica of New York City’s skyline on the converted classroom’s blackboards. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I liked him very much and I hoped he would get back to the Abruzzi some time. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

And Mrs. O’Leary liked him, which had to count for something. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I think she liked Fern’s stubborn little face. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Twice I walked into a spider’s web, feeling the fine, transparent threads across my face, and I liked them there. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Stanley's father liked to say, "I learn from failure." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t get the work he liked to do. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She even asked once if I liked her cooking. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And some of them I met briefly and liked and won’t ever see again, like the vicar’s son who flew Spitfires and Anna Engel and the Jamaican gunner. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“He could do what he liked here,” the slow, dark voice went on through the door. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the way I had been brought up, but I found that I liked the big city, all right. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, Mitch, you remind me of someone I knew who also liked to keep things to himself when he was younger.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You would have liked me,” Henry says again. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

None of the girls at school would own leather shoes, purple coats, or plaid skirts, so she wouldn’t fit in the way she liked to do. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He liked being a brother to my sisters and me. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I would not have liked to be a woman,” he said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I think it was parched corn that I liked the most. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked this view down the length of Hancock’s Wharf. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course it was just my drowsy madness, though it dawned on me that I had become more like Hoagland than I would have liked to admit. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was what it was getting to be: hoping that what you liked, what you had seen before, remained whole. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Awkwardness aside, it is nice to be liked. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

My marathon work hours notwithstanding, I liked to socialize. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I started driving her like a horse, the way she liked. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked taking care of people, but handling boxes paid more. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I liked how she didn’t just talk about some things being right and some being wrong. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked Mr. Tushman’s speech, but I have to admit: I kind of zoned out a little during some of the other speeches. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mom still liked to tell the story of my first real trip to the grocery store. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She thought she liked the sootiness of sex and its comedy; she laughed a great deal during the raucous beginnings, and rejected those lovers who regarded sex as healthy or beautiful. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He liked people and always thought the best of them. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I liked his words though I didn't know the answer. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men from the green lands liked their women soft and sweet in silk, she knew, not clad in mail and leather with a throwing axe in each hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He liked the shape of them, the way they fit his fingertips. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think he liked the idea of me following in his footsteps. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

When Helgi Olafsson, a grandmaster, asked him how he liked living in the country, Bobby answered in his typical Calvin Coolidge style: “Good.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The thing we liked to do most was go exploring in the desert. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some of my friends would go for money and a good time, but I never liked it. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Even when she wept riding, she liked the boy to saddle the horse and bring it to her in the yard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You see, they liked us,” Penny said, with a hopeful little smile. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, he agreed to let me assist him in the next few captures and see how I liked it. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She said that my dad had liked them too. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He told them how no one liked him or wanted to play with him, how no one appreciated him or cared, and how even his guardian had abandoned him. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She liked to learn the printed English words in books, and so a month passed rather happily. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked it because it was like a real restaurant where a waiter would come to your table and ask you what you wanted. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He asked where we went to school, what subjects we liked, if we played any sports. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

So I don’t know if Salim was handsome, but he looked like his thoughts were not in the same place as his body, and I liked this about him. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bran had always liked the godswood, even before, but of late he found himself drawn to it more and more. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Chess noticed that Finn was clutching a teddy bear that was missing an ear and an eye because he and his friend Tyrell liked to use it as a football. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Harry, however, was shaken awake several hours earlier than he would have liked by Oliver Wood, Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She knew when to restock his office refrigerator with Dr Pepper, and the exact time he liked to eat lunch every day. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The only thing Harry liked about his own appearance was a very thin scar on his forehead that was shaped like a bolt of lightning. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Talking back meant a slap across the mouth, but I never liked talking back to my ma that much when she was around. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

This family liked the way they lived and wouldn’t think of going back to the old way. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked to choose what kind of meat we were going to eat during the week. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nice on a hot summer day because the catfish liked to collect in the cooler waters that was under t lie shade of the big willows. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were the Georgian maps I’d had framed, the Persian rugs, and the overstuffed leather armchair I liked to sink into at the end of the day. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He liked to read and study and be by himself. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Most of my mother’s paintings were trompe l’œils—à la Magritte, as she liked to say—in which the subject, person or thing, always seemed to be trying to escape the frame. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“I’ll also give you a ration of bread with some margarine . . .” He liked my shoes; I would not let him have them. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t like me, and hasn’t liked me for years. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was keenly attuned to Ruby’s pleasure, in part because it could kill him, and in part because...he liked it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Mom gave it some thought and eventually decided to indeed use the money to help her family, which Rumenge would have liked. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t think he liked very much about being a painter that day. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

And liked among men because he never cheated in a game, egged a stupid fight on, or carried tales, and he left their women alone. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when I wasn’t doing a paying job like that, I still liked to break horses. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked the way she seemed to softly rake the keys at times and at other times made her fingers dance on them. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Wondering about why I didn’t like girls in the way Darrell liked them. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He liked to think about being with Hatsue in some place like Switzerland or Italy or France. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu liked Sunday mornings, the slow shifting of time, when she, dressed for church, would sit in the living room with her father while her mother got ready. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Not regular animals like Miss Bessie or the chickens, but crazy animals with problems— for some reason he liked to put his beasts into impossible fixes. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Harry had learned from Uncle Vernon that people liked to be left alone while they did this, but it was very difficult, he’d never had so many questions in his life. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She used the oily stuff that smelled like coconuts, like Coach Ted, even though she didn’t need it, as tan as all of us were; little natives, Grandma liked to say. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, if Maurice really liked my sister, it was inevitable that I would become closely associated with his X-ray work on DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem quite decent to complain about Constance, nor did he like the thought of expressing doubt in Mr. Benedict, whom he liked very much. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He also read when his friends were late for lunch, to avoid drawing the attention of some of the football players, who liked to harass him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I could tell that she liked me well enough, but I could see not to push things right away neither. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that a crack boss didn’t have as much control over his subordinates as he would have liked. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

My mother looked at foreign magazines and clipped out pictures of dresses she liked, and then she went downstairs to discuss with the tailor how such a dress could be made using the materials available. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kraft was a skinny, harmless kid from Pennsylvania who wanted only to be liked, and was destined to be disappointed in even so humble and degrading an ambition. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Tyrion looked down on them all, and found he liked it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Gay’s father—he liked it when I called him “Grampy”— coughed. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t send that email about you. Trust me, I liked it, and kudos to the guy who made it...but I didn’t have anything to do with that.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He asked me once if I “er liked errer my mother.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tugged at the thin metal railing of her verandah, as though to check how durable it was, how safe, and she liked that he did that. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After we moved to Ridgeford, he'd ride his bicycle to a park along the bluffs and watch the sunset to "meditate on God's splendor," as he liked to say. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Plus, he tried hard, and I liked that—most of the time. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

That is, of the six men she’s met, she liked the first one she met third-best, the second one she liked fifth- best, the third one she liked best of all, and so on. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked that smile, the quick unthinking way it came to her pretty face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

For certainly he felt more attached to them for their having turned abstract — missing them more than he had liked them, the missing being simpler. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She liked to sit out there, you see—on this little terrace we’ve got. She liked to sit out there and watch the trains.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had always liked that: I liked routine. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I think I liked it better when I only saw him on a computer screen. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He liked to think so, but he had no idea. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He liked eating them one layer at a time. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She figured out I liked books, so she got some earphones and hooked me up with audiobooks on CD. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I liked to mow patterns or pictures in the grass and had just finished the outline of something that looked like the Sphinx from the Lost Worlds book when Dad strolled out toward me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The engineer liked to believe that his work at Magnetic Propulsion Laboratories was useful, even though it had always appeared pointless. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Once the shock wore off, Dad liked the idea. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I liked the hours though: eleven in the morning to seven thirty at night, Monday through Thursday. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Buddy’s questions made him feel a little more at ease; he always liked the adoration Buddy showed him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Especially, I liked to drop in and visit at the Gohannases’ home. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I already said I liked him! You don’t get to steal him!” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The crate was isolated—that was why I liked it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The boy liked the woods when they were quiet. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Margaret and I had always liked each other but it wasn’t until the first Thursday of Knightsbridge Middle School that we became good friends. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I thought you liked me, she added in her head. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Megan Renshaw was looking at me like she liked me or something And she said, “Smart guys are such a turn-on.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I say, “For the record? I liked it just the way it was.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The second youngest liked the sciences, so I made sure there was always an abundance of living things to study.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

G’ma gave it to him when he was five years old and obsessed with an old cartoon he used to watch at her house about a dog who liked to solve mysteries. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

We bought fresh new cloth diapers because my mother liked to see diapers hanging on the fine outside. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He didn’t like the way she casually tossed out information about drugging captive creatures or which of her babies liked to devour demigods. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“It took me nearly an hour to do a style she liked,” Mama murmured. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

PB&J. Who knew teachers liked PB&J? Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

She liked knowing exactly what she was supposed to do. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He was sailing fast into the face of a cold wind that all but sucked his breath from him; but he liked it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I guess the Silvers liked that, and the matches began. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

I liked to ask Lynn questions, because she knew so many answers. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

They were glad Katie Nanna had gone, for they had never liked her. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

She said the thing she liked to say when she wanted to remind him that he could not afford any sort of unusual behavior. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mom never liked that, and stood up for my dad. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She added quickly, though, that she liked it all, because she did like it and she knew, too, how much he needed to hear that. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Boy, you must have liked peanuts when you were a kid.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He liked it when Archie involved the brothers in the assignments. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a cheap little dime store bracelet but I bought it with my own money and I liked it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They liked best to clean the assembly room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Candice would have liked nothing better than that—but that meant she was running out of time to solve the mystery. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Lee should have liked that kind best since beauty must be somewhat like ourselves, but he didn’t. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now, however, I considered it well to let them flow as freely and as long as they liked. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“James or Reggie or whoever he was. I wonder if he liked being someone else.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I worked for the college radio station. I used to get all kinds of free records. And if I liked a girl, I used to dedicate songs to her.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I mean, we all liked Annabeth, and we wanted her to have a quest, but this one seemed insanely dangerous. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I liked, at least, that I knew the people in the pews around us, and that I knew when to stand and sit, how most of the hymns went. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The waves were higher than she liked, but safe enough. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Evan Parker liked me, if he really wanted to go to prom with me, he would have found a way to make it happen. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Malfoy was looking furious, and as Ginny passed him to enter her classroom, he yelled spitefully after her, “I don’t think Potter liked your valentine much!” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She said she just liked to sit in holy spaces. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He liked the quiet of those mornings, how he could skateboard down the street without worrying about dodging slow tourists or toddlers making a sudden break from their parents. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Honestly, I would have liked another month’s practice, another year’s practice before gambling away an entire talent. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nico claimed that he liked to keep watch because he had good eyes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad liked to make a big point about never surrendering to fear or to prejudice or to the narrow-minded conformist sticks-in-the-mud who tried to tell everyone else what was proper. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A girl who had only one brother liked the place where she and her parents lived. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

What I liked was that there was space to play in the center of their circle of houses. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you can see why Crazy Horse liked this area,” he said. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

She didn’t make a big fuss about his return, which Clayton liked. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Jam pressed herself against the dresser, practicing being invisible and waiting for when she, specifically, would be in hot water, as Aloe liked to say. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“It would be very convenient. Extremely convenient,” he added, aware that the blind man liked it when he exercised his vocabulary. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

By ‘popular’ I don’t mean some people quite liked it; I mean almost all city dwellers would have known the songs from the latest operas. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

After a couple of years, it was clear that he and Mom really liked each other. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I told that to Mr. Clifton, because he asked me what I liked to do after school, so I told him, and he grinned at me and said, “Albie, I think you accidentally did math.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you saying that she liked you more than my dad does?” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

My dad knew that I sometimes liked to fight. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t afraid of nobody, and that’s why everyone liked him. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was quietly squawking a tune Mama liked to hum while she prepared the evening meal. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The only girl who had ever liked me. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He liked feeling like a part of things. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“That sequel or whatever to that book you liked.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

"So you liked it, did you, Brother Tarp?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could never have thought it. He is a proud man: all the Rochesters were proud: and his father, at least, liked money. He, too, has always been called careful. He means to marry you?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Because of this, the businessmen and ad men liked to sit in her section, and they usually left an extra dollar—or sometimes a five—on the table. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, but, leaving his land out of the question, do you like him? Is he liked for himself?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Of all the cities Bobby had been to, Buenos Aires was his favorite: He liked the food, the people’s enthusiasm for chess, and the broad boulevards. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Rose’s house was in a nicer part of the city, the place where respectable colored folks lived, as the elderly woman liked to brag. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

When my father was growing up inside the Old City of Jerusalem—that's the ancient part of town inside the stone wall—he and the kids on his street liked to trade desserts after dinner. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Alfred pretended he hadn't heard him, a big-shot politician he had never liked in high school. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time I ever saw it I thought the façade was ugly but I liked it now. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He liked the community’s stasis, its plebeian virtues and unassuming mien. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have liked to feel a shark against my fingers. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

"I liked The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," Matilda said. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was good-looking back then, I assume, because the only thing I ever heard about him was that women liked him. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The word burzhuika comes from the same word as bourgeoisie—the middle class who liked luxury. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

To use a word he liked, I think both of us were a bit “spooky.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked her and I was afraid of her at the same time. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

At thirteen, she was really pretty, with her golden-brown skin and long, slightly fuzzy ponytail that she liked to toss as she walked. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked being the man getting the bags. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I liked how you sounded on the phone. I am sure with you on board our circulation will soon surpass Glass. You know we are a much younger publication but already catching up to them!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I really liked the girls. It seemed to me there were always beautiful girls involved in drama, and they looked so good onstage when they were all made up.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Man, Lucia, I liked it more when you were a pushover.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Genie, she kept telling me to smile, said she liked it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Percy had never liked sea demons, but now he felt sorry for them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was a very nice kid, and I liked him, but I could never see eye to eye with him on a lot of stuff in the Bible, especially the Disciples. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She would tolerate anybody he liked, but she felt no obligation for affection. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Kaira hadn’t heard her before, but she liked her right off. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He liked them, liked the feel of them in his hands. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Tell me the things you thought you’d have liked to do?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I liked my social studies and algebra classes in the afternoon. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

If he hadn’t liked it when one new person—me—had invaded his world, I could only imagine what this was doing to his nerves. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He had been feeding him all the things he liked himself, but now it occurred to him that what was good for a boy might not be right for a cricket. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

We liked nothing better than to sit on park benches and watch the faces go by. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And then I asked him if he had any special dish he liked; if he did I’d try and fix it for him the next day. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked watching his parents, especially his dad, squirm and get frustrated. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She liked teaching children, and hopefully there might be a library where she could extend her own learning as well as that of her charges. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

My mother and father liked to watch my interviews, but I usually ran out of the room when they came on the TV. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Don’t play dumb, Starr. Y’all liked each other for a long time.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I liked watching them, all three of them around my truck. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I liked it when she said that, so I stopped crying. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hank Williams’s wife invited the black community to attend since so many of us liked his music, but Mom wouldn’t let me go because the funeral was segregated. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Fewer cards meant she was winning, and she liked to win. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He liked to sail mostly in coastal waters, up and down the coast to visit the small California towns, and probably just hadn’t thought of being out very far. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle would tell me to go sit with him, and the old man would tell me that he liked me. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked the sound of it—Life is a fog—and wondered if maybe he should write it down. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Having German ancestry did not mean you liked the Nazis, of course. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He laughed and looked at Helen Jean to see if she liked his story. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

That was something Clancy Gray liked to do, apparently—watch me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He liked the games, there was no denying that, but it was hard not to find the rest of it pointless. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked pretending that I didn’t have a mother, and that my father simply caught me when the stork dropped me from his crisp white sling. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I liked the idea of being in charge of one thing rather than two, of not having my brain scrambled by the competing narratives of home and work. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She also liked the way Polly talked to her constantly, making sure she knew the words for each food or task they encountered. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Romans liked Mars better than the Greeks liked Ares. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A while ago, the nurse I liked with the lilting accent said she was going home. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Preacher liked waving his arms ’round whilst he was talking, and he was really going at it to try to impress these new folks. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Pizza was her favorite, except she liked everything on it.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

There was an hour allotted each day when they could do whatever they liked. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

If I liked, I could pull it in to me by saying I had to go to the toilet or by starting a fight with Bailey. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fitzsimmons liked Pollard’s strategy of pushing for the early lead, but like Smith, Woolf, and Pollard, he believed that the match was not going to be determined by speed. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked mv job, but I didn’t have a glittering career, and even if I had, let’s be honest: women are still only really valued for two things— their looks and their role as mothers. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tools meant change to me, and I liked my home the way it was. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I liked it just fine. But I took my mother, and she didn’t hold with it at all. Said she couldn’t wait to get back to the mountains.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She isn’t much liked by the other girls. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And she never chose her husband, and never even grew up to decide what kind of stuff she liked as an adult, or dated anybody with the same interests. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Oh, sorry,” Natalie said, and Emma liked that she didn’t make it all fake and dramatic, I feel so bad for you! The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I liked Sohrab’s laugh: It was loose and free, like he didn’t care who heard it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Rick was perpetually shirtless, because he liked to show off his impressive collection of prison tattoos. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I liked those hard loyal men, but they lived in a trap there was no getting out of, and I had work to do among people I liked less. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

But I liked the idea of forgiveness and, by the time I reached our island, dripping with my cold Atlantic wash, I felt lighter than I had in a long time. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I liked meeting at his locker between classes and always having plans for the weekend. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Old friends liked to drop by as well. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We liked to think the garden could hide things for a thousand years. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the sort of person who liked to be constantly busy, Reynie realized. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The snails liked to burrow deep beneath the tangled tree roots. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He's liked her for ages, though he pretends not to. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Our sixth grade teacher, who liked to explain things to children, let us read our files. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though nobody much liked it, it was Hwin's plan which had to be adopted in the end. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I had the feeling that Ty and Johnny weren’t the only kids who thought Annie was a little weird, but I liked hanging out with her. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They represented, he liked to say, his authority as an officer of the law. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It might have been the first time I’d actually thought about whether I liked a guardian. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d never liked monster class—reading Pliny the Elder and those other musty authors who described legendary monsters from the edges of the Roman Empire. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I saw something I liked this morning, and I meant to tell it at dinner, but I forgot,” said Beth, putting Jo’s topsy-turvy basket in order as she talked. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what I especially liked was that its founders were focused less on parachuting Ivy Leaguers into urban communities and more on finding and cultivating talent that was already there. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"I used to live with my auntie. She kept a candy store. I used to get ever so many candies. As many as I liked. When'll your dad rescue us?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He greeted me formally and shook my hand, which I liked. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

But it was hard to breathe when June looked so pretty, and Ivy hoped so much that this note meant forgiveness and that June liked the picture Ivy drew. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Farmer was forty now, a medical superstar, and he had the credentials to operate in the way Hiatt envisioned, the way that Jim Kim liked to operate—on an executive level. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The Mirabal sisters liked to run their men, that was the problem. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had never liked to tie it up the way other women did. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t remember the day you showed me that book you made about your prophet? After I showed you the Mahabharata? You liked it so much; you were so proud of yourself.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Jenna got to school super early, since her mom dropped her off before work, and liked going straight to class to study before school started. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

He actually liked how she would get infuriated—but they had too much work to do to indulge in emotional distraction. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But I could not eat; to even try to do so was repulsive to me, and, much as I would have liked to please him, I could not bring myself to the attempt. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

No doubt Max would’ve liked it, the irony in particular, but Max had become a pure idea, which was its own irony. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more I looked at the site I had chosen, the better I liked it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Men came and went, but if you had asked me, I liked it well enough that I had thought I could of stayed forever. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to admit that I had in fact liked his holding me or that I had liked his smell or the hard heart-beating, so I said nothing. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Butler also liked the new public path that C.P. was blazing for the Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Did you think he liked you, or better yet, loved you? Did you think he'd keep your secrets?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

And whenever he drank beer he liked to talk to somebody. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

People liked him; they came to him if they wanted money or advice. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked when my mom told me about how she felt about things. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The African members of the expedition, who liked termites, had pushed Gene to try them, too, and finally he did. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The worst part was that I liked Cap now. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He liked the sea, wet and big and endless. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked to have musical accompaniment, like a movie sound track. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I especially liked the part when Christopher Columbus lands on her shores and sighs: “¡Ay! This is the beautiful land I’ve been searching for!” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Jack assumed that Moshe liked to talk to him because he was young, for Moshe had been a schoolteacher and enjoyed teaching. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The living room has two big upholstered chairs and a sofa, all placed so you can see the fire, which my father and mother liked to do in winter. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He didn’t need to worry—Dicey liked her work, she liked making money. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never said it, but I knew he liked the fact that Lelia was white. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked to look at the stars on the still and quiet mornings and listen for the howl of the coyotes. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for the other two: basically, they were friends, and then I found out they liked me, and then we started dating. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She said that people liked to hear the sound of their own names above and beyond any other sound in the world. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When she was a kid she liked to fight with boys—real fights but just in play. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He liked the guy, but he didn’t know if he liked him enough to trust him with his brother’s mouth. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Dad, who usually liked debates on questions such as whether a bag of things is one thing, was not in the mood and told me the rocks were too heavy. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I liked the way it sounded, like there was music hidden somewhere inside it. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Apart from the excitement of meeting a thinking person in prison, I liked talking with Larson because it gave me hope that the inmate-officer gap had some chance of being bridged. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked the look of her long dark hair flying out behind her, her long legs in their black socks, and her flapping red jacket. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Over the noise of music and static, he said, “Now, this ain’t gonna hurt you much. You liked it before, didn’t you?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something like Mirjam running away from a safe place to try to find a boy she liked? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

As far as she could tell, it was what he liked to do best. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But Tariq liked to think himself a wordsmith, so it all got worse after they started hanging around. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Delaware women liked to flap their gums, that was another thing. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

No matter what I did in summer while I lived under his roof, I knew that when I could, I wanted to work with animals, whether Dad liked it or not. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Whenever he got cranky, he liked to lay hands on a gun, like a child seeking the comfort of a favored doll. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There was nothing wrong with them but 1 liked the way they felt when they were wrapped. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He generally liked me, tended to treat me, I thought, as he might some rising young VP in his Boston-based holding company, alternatingly coddling and browbeating me. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The youngest liked to admire himself, so I made sure there were plenty of places where he might catch glimpses of his beauty.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was in eighth grade and I had a little speech to say at my graduation ceremony—I liked that. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked watching a man finally dumbstruck into stillness and silence before me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The other boys of his village liked to mud wrestle. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He would have liked to stay where they were for a few days, so that Bigwig could recover his strength and the does find their feet and get used to life outside a warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their new home was not going to be as neat and organized as Charles liked. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Making a cage out of thin trees, the brother carried this to a lonely place where lions liked to walk. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

"I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you. How do you feel, Jake?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She liked the park because, however spuriously, it re-created something of the landscape she had known. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I liked the way he looked at me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He liked most to sit on the second-floor balcony of his house overlooking the camp and shoot Jews with a rifle while he listened to music on his record player. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then, he asked me about how I liked my first year of high school, and I told him, making sure that I included all the stories in which I “participated.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was very pretty, with soft, full lips and large dark eyes, but when I asked Shawn if he liked her, he said he didn’t. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Speaking of which, you never said if you liked my new sweet ride or not. That’s what you kids call it these days, right? A sweet ride?” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I liked his manner, but I wondered what it was he was dedicated to. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He did whatever he could that he liked, and he liked womanizing best, drinking second, and abusing Eva third. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She liked it, and in spite of their story, she liked them, too—especially Jesse. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked the curves of the Cyrillic letters, their unexpected sounds. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas felt like he’d been caught stealing, but he was genuinely concerned—Newt was one of the few people in the Glade he actually liked. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It’d be cool to date someone who liked the same stuff I did. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Not just a few notes, but whole songs with multiple verses, if you had the patience to sing them and if they liked your voice. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She was so much smaller than me now, and I liked the way she sometimes leaned into me or hugged me, like she was excited. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“How would I know? Maybe he liked rats.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

But both Charles and Emma liked having visitors; Emma still ran to the front door when she heard someone coming up the drive. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And from the smug look on her face, I was pretty sure she understood how much I liked math, after all. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have liked to drive over the new road but it was not yet finished. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I liked to sleep out, too, when the weather was fair, the sky sagging with stars. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

But I liked Lovey, so I had to go along with it. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She had a few crumbs on her chin, and Annabeth liked the fact that Hazel either didn’t know or didn’t care. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Catherine Barkley was greatly liked by the nurses because she would do night duty indefinitely. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

This was very unpleasant, for Shasta felt all the time that this young king was the very nicest kind of grown-up and would have liked to make a good impression on him. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Neither of them much liked the idea of jumping into that pool, but neither sa d so to the other. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Bod liked Miss Borrows, and the coziness of her little crypt, and that she could all-too-easily be led off the subject. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Something he certainly didn’t feel at home...“I mean, it was nice feeling like people liked me again,” he says. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

You could prove things to people and they would have to believe you whether they liked you or not. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t like Joshua, and Caleb’s named. He’s the smart one—the dark one. See, the other one is awake too. Well, Aaron I’ve always liked, but he didn’t make it to the Promised Land.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Guests could catch bream or tiger fish for dinner, if they liked. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Otto liked Mr. Flux, or rather, he liked that Mr. Flux liked them—fans were awesome—he knew to be cautious when strangers offered help, either by gift or effort. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I liked the sound of Little Tomato for a nickname, so I started calling you that. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I liked this about May, since it reminded me of my bug-loving mother. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked the rapid gait at which they spun along, and the quick, sharp sound of the horses’ hoofs on the hard road. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was pretty clear to see that he liked her. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He himself seldom had that sort of feeling about people—if they were nice to him, he liked them—but his dæmon’s intuitions had proved reliable many times. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Searcy picked the one I always liked to sit in best. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he let her rummage through his desk drawers, rearranging them however she liked. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. But once, she visited me. You were about to be born. She said she liked the peace in my church.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I should have liked to dine on her soul. It’s got no taste on its own, the peculiar soul,” he said, addressing us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She had super white teeth and she wore glasses, which I liked. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Abra saw that she had crushed their highest treasure, and while she knew the weaknesses of men she still liked them, and, besides, she was a lady. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone liked bream; the tiger fish weren’t as popular. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t worry about being resilient, about being a good representative for millions of people, about whether I was tough enough or whether people liked me. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He was as ebullient and ruddy as mulled claret, and Nately liked him a great deal, although he did not like mulled claret. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I liked that and handed him my ticket. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Got a man in the Bible, son, who liked music, too. And he got to dancing one day before the Lord. You reckon you going to dance before the Lord one of these days?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I hoped she had fallen back to sleep, since the old cook liked to scold. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He had passed by the pits many times before and had always liked looking at the scene there; the geometric pattern of the clay bank pleased him. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Clearly she didn’t understand how much I liked math. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Last night. I liked hanging out with you.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I liked to tag along with my brothers to the shop and hang out. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It couldn’t have been her personality because she was a good talker, liked to joke and tease. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure what it meant, but somehow she liked the sound of it. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure she liked Fabyan, whose high-handed ways reminded her of her father. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He liked looking at them freely this way. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The one you drew of all of us that I liked so much?” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A lot of the books I would like to buy—would have liked to buy—are in the, Ogdentown Public Library. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Everyone watched him, for he was not well liked, not trusted. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Blink liked to play it on his violin. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They liked my necklace, the cape, and the cormorant skirt that shone in the sun. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, when Martín was truly mad—yeah, everything I’d seen up to that point was him being cheery—he liked to blast death metal in the kitchen. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His voice rang off the stone walls and down the length of the halL He liked that too. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“They liked the one 011 the desk with the glasses 011. They thought it was some kinda teacher or something. I want only that one this time.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked going to the village and meeting its people, for they were a friendly lot and most of them anxious to help if they could. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked the smell of the New Testament under his cheek, the leather and ink and paper and glue, whatever the chemicals were. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t tell if they liked my hair or if they thought I looked like a whang- doodle. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Moses was in my Bible, too, after all, and I felt certain that God had liked him. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Meggie liked the view of the surrounding hills, the swallows’ nests under the roof, the dried-up well that yawned darkly as if it went straight down to the earth’s core. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She would have liked a brother or a little sister, but her parents had already traveled to another planet to get her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I liked the story you were working on. With your uncle.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

But I kept hoping that one of these days Betsy would figure out that she liked me again. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I liked that there were all these neat little drawings and paintings by students on the walls, framed like they were important. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Curt liked to say that it was love at first laugh. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I did not care if they liked it or not; I was through. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Elizabeth was happy, for she liked Charles very much. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is what he liked—to be in command and everything going smoothly, the students responding to their names smartly, accepting the chocolates, showing school spirit. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her dad was playing it. I liked it, so I added some of his songs to my playlist.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Junior was a rotund little man with a cherubic face, who was as smart as a whip and liked all over the town. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was teasing him and he liked it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Drogon hunted far afield, but when he was sated he liked to bask in the sun at the apex of the Great Pyramid, where once the harpy of Meereen had stood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He’d liked the movie fine the first time, but the need to watch it a dozen times in as many days was beyond him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He offered their new friend a corner of the fudge on the edge of his greased knife, and showed him the trick that he always performed for anyone when he wished to be liked. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Do you like him? Is he generally liked?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was one of the things she liked best when her mother told her the stories: villains could be heroic, and heroes could do evil. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The suit, the tie, the shirt he liked best. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although he had little trouble getting As in classes he liked, he had a C+ average and his ACT test scores were below the mean at the university. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he was annoying, she still liked him, and he seemed to like her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Nobody cheered when they named the new Paul. But I think there was a feeling of satisfaction. People liked my father,” she said. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When she saw him, she liked his eyes, his handsome, gold-skinned face. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I liked that black instrument with the silver keys and the pointy top. That one played a note, and everybody else followed. What was it?” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnson liked to say to people that we don’t really know what Ebola has done in the past, and we don’t know what it might do in the future. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked the bridges and the hills and even the steel mills. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The one good thing about Miss Williams was that she made us learn poems by heart and I liked that. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe they liked to hide from each other,” Luke said.“I can’t understand why they wanted everything so dark,” Theodora said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He liked Linda and he didn’t want one of his last memories of her to be full of quivering excuses and weak reassurances. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I tried some of the mosses that they liked, but decided moss was for the deer. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother liked my father’s quiet sense of humor and that he had an entrepreneurial spirit. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They blocked a full view of Lilian, whom I instantly liked because she smiled as she uttered every word. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I’ve always liked people with two names, because you get to make up your mind what you call them: Gus or Augustus? The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t know how much money to charge for all the good days I wasn’t having in my old high school with friends who liked me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first real lover called me Dulator because she liked the sound of it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At the beginning, we would talk about what music we liked and then it became all things Hudson. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“I liked it better when y’all was there,” Sneaky says as we walk back upstairs to his place. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Neither of us liked being on a road all exposed so anyone could drive up behind us at any time be-cause there was no place to hide without scrambling up a ten-foot slope. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you liked walking, you were my friend. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t know that Darren liked me before that day either, so I guess sometimes you can just be wrong about things. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

A New York TV station liked the story and sent a cameraman to Jon’s house to film the children with Frightful. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

And then another time Damon "DW" Woods told everybody that I kissed this girl named Janine, who was the only pretty girl who liked me, but I hadn't, and I hadn't told DW that lie. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“He told me he liked his privacy. Now, be quiet.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z