I looked back the way I had come and could not see Rufus. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He’d pushed out of the niche of the dome and was looking back at the Ice Court. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The people I passed would look me up and down, and I would look back, give the traditional head nod, and then go back to practicing my crossover dribble. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Over and over again I had looked back at our evening at the river and wondered why I had not heard from him. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maribel darting across the street ahead of us, looking back and tapping her toes in mock impatience. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I looked back at Mama, frozen on the sofa holding Frankie, who had hidden his face in her chest. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The two guys hooked up at the curb and put their heads together, looked back at Ice, then moved on. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

As he looks back, he says: “I continued to believe what I was telling him was everything I knew and everything I remembered.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I yelled when she looked back at our pursuers. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

But when she went outside with a basket of washing she looked back to see him standing on his hind legs peering after, his soundless mouth opening and shutting behind the window. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot remember to what extent I analysed this feeling at the time, but today, looking back on it, it does not seem so difficult to account for. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth looked back at the elevator, which was now completely out of reach—a polished set of metal doors hanging in space, attached to nothing, six hundred stories above Manhattan. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Carlos and Shannon were also in the bathroom, both leaning into the urinals but looking back at me, which, by the way, is a weird thing to do. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I looked back up into the rafters to see if the bat had woke up. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I looked back to see Deidre Baker, her two sisters, and another girl I didn’t recognize. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I looked back and saw her standing on the steps. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

And looking back at the letters, they didn’t even do that good of a job on that. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

With every step I take out of the terminal, I look back, and up, and around, as if my mother will appear from out of nowhere. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He looked back at their great round tracks in the snow. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was not safe to spend time looking back. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I look back, the four adults are watching me like hawks. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, his reflection looked back at him, just his head suspended in midair, his body completely invisible. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“It was one of the most awful things I’d ever heard about,” he says, looking back. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She nodded coldly and looked back out to sea. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But as he left the boy looked back over his shoulder, and when she saw his eyes Dany thought, The Harpy has another Son. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the first light, Bull taxied his plane to the end of the runway, looking back to see the long line of F-8’s following behind him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take him by the arm and lead him toward our door, and when I look back and mouth the words “thank you,” at Mrs. Krajewska, she blows me a kiss. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I saw the traffic moving with the lights, and across the street a few pedestrians were looking back toward the center of the block where the trees of Bryant Park rose above two men. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I'm on the other side of Ellis, I look back. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked back at the mural of Papa Acevedo, barely visible, now against the crumbling brick wall. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The girl looked back and forth at us, still deciding if she wanted to stay. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Through the rains, the snows, or the desert heat, he would jog along, never looking back. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back the length of the bus and saw that Joey was alone too. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The driver—the woman—didn’t so much as look back at him. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When she looked back, he had crept away again, and the aisle was empty. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paused, looked back, and smirked at her confusion. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When Lancelot looked back again, without seeing any soldiers, he found the lady sitting beside him with no head on. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I look back, I am doomed, Dany told herself... but how could she not look back? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As we went out the door I looked back and there were three girls at his table. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

As he sped off, Deen turned to look back at her over his shoulder. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He looks back and forth from end to end and then one of them catches his eye. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I looked back at her, all covered in her “blankets,” a goofy smile on her face. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Emily and James were more than halfway down the stairs when they stopped to look back. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I look back and forth between them: Golly, the lovable giant, and Britain, who might have an issue with woman worship but is really very sweet. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

He looked back to Constance and saw the realization hit her, her eyes widening with alarm. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Turn to look back at the shelter tree.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He looked back at me and smiled so sadly. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The men turn, look back at William, and then peel off and stand in the middle of the road. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He looked down at the boy and when he looked back toward the road the first of them were already coming into view. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Natalie wasn’t even looking at the list now: She had her neck craned to look back at the code on the computer screen in front of Emma and Chess. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But he kept looking back and throwing words at Papa. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

We hit the dock running and never looked back. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t looked back once since coming over the top of the ridge, but he still kept low, moving down the stream at a crouch, holding the rifle in one hand, balancing with the other. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lane gave his Martini glass a brief glance, then looked back at Franny. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Afraid I might stumble in my woozy state, I stepped carefully out of the car and shut the door behind me without looking back. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I looked back down at Blue Beach One. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas turned to look back into the Maze and dread washed through him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But he seemed to feel her looking, and always raised his head a little to look back at her. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

They reached the mouth of the cave, and Seven looked back at Thorn and Valley. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

As his senses returned, he looked back at the canoe, and it was still there, and the rucksack was still under the seat. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It’s me, all right, but the girl looking back is different somehow. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

And when he leaves our front stoop and walks down the block with a little bop to his step while looking back at Charlise, I say, “I know you’re not that thirsty.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They summoned Eurydice and gave her to him, but upon one condition: that he would not look back at her as she followed him, until they had reached the upper world. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man Jack looked back to where Bod had been, then stared around the room, puzzlement and rage competing on his face. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I walked down the hall, knowing that the gun was pointed at me, but afraid to look back. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He realizes how loud he’s being, then looks back at the ground again. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

As they rode from under the eaves of the wood, Legolas halted and looked back with regret. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He looked down at his feet, and when he looked back up, his ears were pink. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The first night we ate without Momly's tired face looking back at us. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

When I look back at Adam, he’s staring across the room. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her caught-in-headlights eyes gave her a look of perpetual astonishment, so that we found ourselves turning and looking back over our shoulders, wondering what we were missing. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

From time to time, he looks back at me. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I look back at the star on his cup and realize what it means. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I kept looking back to see him because I had that nagging feeling he would be leaving all too soon. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told you not to look back there. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

At the door he turned and looked back, his face baffled and unhappy. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back and two of the demons appeared around the side of a car. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Shasta gave up looking back at it, for it only gave him the feeling that they were not moving at all. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He smiled and looked back down, resuming his sketching. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She hooked her arm in the ladder and looked back. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I just wondered,” Judith responded, and as Matthew Wood turned a stem look back at them, both girls walked on in silence. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

But he could give no guidance, and she looked back at Ruta Skadi. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy looked back at her, waved slightly, and grinned with a questioning look. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Descending from Camp Four after the storm, at 25,000 feet, Krakauer turned to look back at the upper reaches of the peak, where his friends Hall, Harris, Hansen, and Fischer had lost their lives. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And when I looked back at where I’d walked, saw myself standing there in street shoes, no galoshes, wet to the ankles, I knew. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t look back, his eyes on the road. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The deeply wrinkled face of a sleeping woman looks back at me, alongside her grace, fragility, and her sadness. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

As the stupefied high-schoolers were leaving the scene, they looked back. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look back, and, hallelujah, the girl on the bleachers is gone. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

At first only Dicey was looking back at her, into pale blue eyes that blinked behind plastic-framed glasses sitting high up on her nose. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept looking back over my shoulder at what had been our home, but Sass stared straight ahead. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

"During these times of indecision when all the old answers are proven false, the people look back to the dead to give them a clue," he went on. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rhonda, see that she does. I’ll lure them off by heading back for the boat. Perhaps I can cut behind them. Number Two, drive like a fiend and never look back!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Rishi smiled, looking up at her quickly before looking back down again. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I sighed with relief, then looked back at Digger’s house. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I reached the end of the bridge and turned to look back. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I don’t look back once as I stomp toward our building. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

And when he did they stopped and one of them looked back. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She stopped in the middle of the living room, looked back at me as she placed her bag on the coffee table, and said, “Let's start with the proper way to sit at the piano.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Stella looked back at the door to make sure it was still closed. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I look back at the wall of fog extending in a straight line as far as I can see in either direction. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

His face is bloody, and he doesn’t wait or look back. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She runs off but looks back to make sure I’m drawing. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Stella exhales, fog swirling out of her mouth as we look back at the snow and the hospital, far behind us. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I’m about to look back down—but something shifts in the corner of my vision. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I looked back at the eye of the dying gull, who knew that everything was ruined forever, because that's how it always is. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He walked the rest of the way home without once looking back over his shoulder. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I swallow, trying to get rid of the pressure in my throat, the unbelievable sadness that comes and comes as I look at it looking back at me. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I look back just in time to see the elephant pull her trunk from the trough. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Kate read it three times, looked back at the date, studied the cook’s signature. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I guess now that I look back, it was worth it. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And then—without looking back—he strides away through the house. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Once Hamilton encountered a major obstacle to the advancement of any cause in which he believed, he instinctively hurled himself onto the offensive, never looked back, and waited for no stragglers. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I look back at her and then raise my eyebrows. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Never once did he pause to look back at the gathered men there. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dared to look back with the greatest loathing I had ever felt. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

But I stopped at the end of the driveway and looked back. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looked back down at the sheet of paper, dipped her pen again, and continued. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

From the top of the second ridge Shasta looked back again. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Frank looked back and his courage crumbled to dust. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When he had wriggled under the barbed-wire fence, and into the cornfield, he looked back over his shoulder again, and now, he could see much farther, the mist was clearing slowly. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

They go out the door and don’t look back Then us hear a car motor start Dear God, Harpo mope. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pause with my hand on the doorknob and look back at him. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I look back at the table—the greeter woman isn’t there anymore. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I looked back to the crowd where Joey and Kevin had been standing, and I saw that Coach M and some other adults were holding on to the other three boys. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I looked back at the surfer kids talking around their barbecue pit. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was an angry roaring behind them and looking back Shasta saw a great, shaggy, and terrible shape crouched on the water's edge; but only one. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Gino looked at the ball bouncing away in the distance and then looked back at me. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take three steps into the gel and look back. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

When she finally did leave it was well past dusk, and she walked out of the woods and into the open with the intention of not looking back again. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I waved over my shoulder, but I didn’t look back. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

But when I look back at Master Wingfield, I see he is pale and shaken. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He started to take a step away, then looked back down at Mr. Rizzo. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I looked back at my brother, who was sleeping peacefully. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then, still incredulous, he looked back at Judith. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The dog halted at the treeline beside the cat and looked back, but the commanding, summoning bark was heard again, and together the two passed out of sight and into the blackness of the night. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the far corner of the room, something crashed: her bag had slipped off the chair onto the floor and when she looked back, she was alone in the room. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Charles looked back and forth at the two of us. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I would live the future he had been deprived of, and I wouldn’t look back. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When I looked back out there, the bird was long gone, probably scared off by the outburst of yelling that was going on in my classroom. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glancing over the twenty-three faces looking up at him from the darkened room, his eyes met Cara’s for a moment before looking back at the screen. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

When he had gone fifty meters he looked back. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He looked up, and then looked back down. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I look back down at the crew skimming along the glacier’s surface. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When she looked back she saw Portia sitting at the table with her long, thin hands up on her face, very still. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe how much younger they looked back then: Dad was this hipster dude and Mom was this cute Brazilian fashionista. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I felt Gum Baby twist around to look back. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And when they looked back down the road, they could still see smoke lifting from what was left of the fields and the cane of Vienna. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yossarian escaped, but kept looking back over his shoulder anxiously as he retreated through the street People stared at him strangely, making him more apprehensive. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But her spirit goes into the mirror, and the next time the pretty one is brushing her hair in front of that mirror, she looks up and there’s the burned one looking back at her. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As a former officer looking back into Sing Sing’s history, I was struck by lost institutions of the old prison, such as the bands that played as prisoners marched to chow. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Newt finally saw his friend hanging in the ivy, and looked back at Thomas. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I squint at him in the gloom to see if he’s teasing, and he looks back at me sleepily. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I stop and look back, to make sure that the guy from the convenience store isn’t chasing us. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Before going into the house, I turned to look back. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Oh, turn now and come back, look back and see the smoke and turn for me But it kept moving away until he could not hear it even in his imagination, in his soul. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivan grabbed at where the spoon had struck him and looked back at the kitchen, searching for who had thrown the spoon. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He looked back and watched it bounce into the tall grass and tumbleweeds beside the road. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Faster and faster he walked, but he never looked back. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

When he looks back, I thump thcjjuitarrdn With all the heart Of five skinny fingers. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, at the sight of the farmer with his dog still waiting patiently under the tree, it came back to him, he remembered everything and he turned to look back. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When I looked back at him I realized for the first time how old he was. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Wage” something...I look back through my notebook to see if I can find it, but that was before I started writing things down. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I rose; I looked back at the bed I had left. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He looks back at me and I shrug. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The fog was lifting somewhat with the wind, and Robin, looking back once, caught sight of the castle he had left behind. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I felt my way naked through darkness, found the chair with my clothes, dressed hurriedly and slipped out, halting only at the door to look back through the dim light from the hall. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks at it, his eyebrows scrunch up, and then he looks back up at me. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

When he looks back to the child, the eyes are open, staring up at him, unblinking, as dark as the hair on its head. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe, looking back, there was an atmosphere of something being held back, but it’s possible I’m only thinking that now because of what happened next. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look back across to the open field. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I look at Bob, and he looks back at me. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She looked back up at me and shook her head. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He turned around to the Brown Pelican, and then he looked back at me. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She looked back and saw that Brutus was following her, so she started again, hurrying to keep out of his sight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

When I look back across the pavement, I catch sight of a familiar face. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I open the door but look back at Lily. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I look back at her staring at me while Mr. Daniels compliments her again. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Guillermo turns to see what I’m looking at and by the time we both look back at each other, Oscar has walked through the studio door, his face shining with fear. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I stop and look back at the girl but her face is just the same, just the same as ever, and is it cuz she crashed and her parents died? The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks back to me, his face completely drained of color. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I come to a stop against a brass rail and straighten up, looking back at Earl in shock. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

When a guy dies, like Curt Lemon, you look away and then look back for a moment and then look away again. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss looked back toward the cops who had been coming their way. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Some children looked back at me and said, “Who are you?” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The boy took one last look back at the cart and then followed him out to the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I looked Mom in the eyes, searching, and she looked back. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I looked back at him, surprised, and he smiled so hard he almost laughed. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he found himself speeding along an unfamiliar country highway, and as he looked back over his shoulder neither the tollbooth nor his room nor even the house was anywhere in sight. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was the symbol, looking back at her like some dark eye. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And so Conor looked back down at his mum, at her outstretched hand. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Only once I was past the nursery did I risk looking back. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not looking back for fear of what he might see, Seth scrambled to his feet and dashed along the path. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The soldiers ignored her and the boy kept his posture straight-backed, as if he could not trust himself to look back at his mother. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And John looked back, seeing the saints approach. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

When she looked back at him, he bleated loudly. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I look back up at the eye and again it blinks. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I looked back at him, trying to think what that meant. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He wanted to look back and see where the others were, but he resisted the temptation. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I look back the way we came, up the tunnel of water. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” he said, looking back down at the radio, then back up at me. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Now that my cocoon has fallen away and I have emerged as a magician named Professor Alcofrisbas, I can look back and see that I was right. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I looked back at Dad and told him calmly, “I’m not a water boy, Dad. I’m not a team manager. I’m a player.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every few seconds I look back to make sure they’re all still with me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When I looked back at Lev, he was studying me with a puzzled frown. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Z looked back at Diana with a look that he hoped would make her understand that she might think it was okay to kick him around, but she couldn’t do that to Kaitlin. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Diana turned and looked back at Miss Willis. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He’s been pulling at a thread on the duvet, but he looks back up, squarely into Alex’s eyes, and says, “That’s not good enough for me.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Buford bowed and moved on, turned to look back at the beautiful woman, who stood there watching him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look back before I walk through it, and Christina gives me a pained smile, her hand pressed to her thigh. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

When you look back at things, you can see their meaning more clearly, like you have perfect 20/20 vision. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I look over at Dutchy, and he looks back at me. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

When Naomi looked back, Henry was looking at her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was uneasy and disturbed by the slinking gray shape that merged into the undergrowth every time he looked back to snarl at it. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I looked back to talk to you,” Bridge said. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He looks back at the photo of Devon. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was very important for Paul to witness things,” Ophelia would say, looking back. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

So they all walked out to the truck together, Mother and Chrissie and Marly walking last and looking back at the shining door. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Never mind,” she answers and looks back at the road. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

When Sandra looks back at her sandwich, I frown at Tats and shake my head. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Clutching the bundle to her breast, she left the study by the garden door, looking back briefly once to see the Master’s daemon watching her from the windowsill. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

When he looked back up at me I saw pity staring at me with hollow eyes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He looked back at the camp through the black palings of the trees. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I run to the edge of the woods and wait for her to look back, but she doesn’t. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He looked back into the Maze, at the closing wall. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They left together and Ugwu looked back to make sure that everyone had noticed that they were together. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jaden looked at the envelope in his hand and then looked back up at me. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But at Gregor's first words the manager had already turned away, and now he looked back at Gregor over his twitching shoulders with pursed lips. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daisy looked back at me and smiled with her mouth closed. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Even looking back through a daughter’s forgiving eye, I have to admit: my father was never good-looking. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She raised her hand again and it growled, ran a few feet and stopped, looking back in sulky rage. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My head went off to the side as I watched him recede and he looked back one last time before disappearing round the comer. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

James looked back and forth between the two emblems. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When I look back at my first party at Manderley, my first and my last, I can remember little isolated things standing alone out of the vast blank canvas of the evening. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when I look back at the camera, I've missed a number. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't even like football," Park said, looking back at the door. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

After while, she stopped weeding mid-swing and looked back up at me. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“I might be moving,” said Peach, looking back. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He throws open the door, and I can only think it’s good that there’s no one walking to the toilets who could look back and see this crowd of Jews in my house. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He looked back at the door, as if he expected it to fly open before he could get back to it with the key he did not yet have. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Peregrine turned toward him and squawked, then looked back at the pigeon and squawked louder. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But Thomas refused to look back, knowing every second counted. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The wolf started up the steps, stopped, looked back at Jon. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She walked up the steps and through the screen door, without looking back. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started to step into line beside him, water dripping from my hair, but he shook his head and looked back over his shoulder. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He looks right at me, maybe because he wasn’t expecting me to be looking back, and as soon as our eyes click together, he hesitates. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I looked back at the two cars coming and the farmhouse. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She stopped and looked back at Westover Hall, which was now completely dark, looming on the hillside beyond the woods. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I saw the faces looking back at me and I saw that they were not appalled. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I feel her watching me, but I don’t look back. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was crazy to look back over my last couple months. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

We waited for a taxi by the plaza, and didn’t look back. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened the door to let himself out of the crypt, walked back up the gentle slope to the path without looking back. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Angela looked back at the embracing couple; her father's face was buried in her weeping mother's tousled hair. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She frowned and looked back and forth between Edward and me, this time very deliberately. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And when his eyes slowly winked open, the very first thing he saw was the robot looking back. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He took a deep, steadying breath, then got up again and hurried forward, looking back over his shoulder as he ran away from the golden mist, which twinkled innocently at him in the moonlight. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Franz looked back into her hazel eyes, and Hyacinth knew in her soul that he understood the importance of this moment. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

All I did was laugh, so he looked back at the bridge and tilted his head a little, said: “Why’s it all red like that?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He looked back at the photograph of the apparently happy family. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She looked back at the girls in her drawing. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He turns without looking back at me or waiting for a reaction and walks through the kitchen into the backyard. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t realize my mouth is hanging open until Jiro looks back at me and chuckles. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Adam looked back at the letter, and again it changed mood with its paragraph. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, without looking back, I raced into the house up into the sanctuary of my bedroom. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked back to see if Finn was behind her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Senator looks back at me with a blank stare. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He ran out the kitchen door and down the field all the way to the stream without looking back. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Jonas reached the opposite side of the river, stopped briefly, and looked back. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing voices, he managed to look back at the dock for a moment. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sophomores leapt out to a one-length lead and never looked back, pulling away decisively at the halfway mark and cruising to a seemingly effortless win. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I blew by them because I couldn’t imagine Jules sitting there with them, and as the guys continued to call my name, I didn’t bother looking back or answering. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I turned from the window, and I didn’t look back. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He looked back at Sticky, slumped on a cushion in a posture of weary defeat. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Claire’s hands were moving her hair back from her shoulders now, and Maya couldn’t tell if she wanted to step closer to her or run away and never look back. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Moss looked back to the pulpit and saw that Kaisha had returned. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She pulled down her blindfold and looked back at us. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I don’t look back at you, not yet, but I know anyway: Now you are turning the dial of your combination lock. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Nam looked back at me once, and I was certain they were talking about Paul and Guzzo, and therefore me too. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But perhaps one should not be looking back to the past so much. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Joey sighed and looked back at my mother. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

She climbed it and from near the top looked back to the farmyard. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mary climbed the slope and looked back across the marshes, where the incoming tide laced a brilliant silver through the glistening dark of the mudflats and the reed beds. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then he ran down the hallway without looking back. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“So, what else is on the list?” he asks, looking back down at the drawing and then back up at me before starting to shade something in. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He looks back as if to ask, “You okay?” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The cashier looked at her, looked back at me, looked at her again. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I look back to the blood on the bodyguard’s shoulder. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The older nurse studied Stick's forehead, then looked back at me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Anya didn’t dare look back to see if he was following, but then another booming whistle exploded behind them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Lyra reached the dais and looked back at the open kitchen door, and, seeing no one, stepped up beside the high table. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

As Frankie’s words echoed in my head, I turned and looked back into the chamber. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When I looked back, she favored me with a brief smile. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When we get off the bus and the other kids from the bus stop have spread in other directions, I look over at Silas again, and this time he looks back. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I looked back at the diner, which had only a couple of customers now. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Max hits the button for the elevator, and we look back at the closed double doors. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But when I looked back along the dirty, rocky road with the heat rising up off it, I decided I must be closer to town and should just keep going. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He splashed out to the diving platform and pulled himself up to sit on its weather-softened planking and look back at the city. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man didn’t look back but continued to march on. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded, but she didn’t look back at me. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It had ceased crying and lay with its eyes tightly shut He looked at his wife and she looked back at him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

No more looking back; it slowed him down. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back at the soft and lumpy ground. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He did not even look back at the castle that had been his home. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t dare to look at the house as I follow him to where he stands at the edge of the road, looking back. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She tried to not look back as she rowed. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When I looked back at him, he was still staring at me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I did fairly well on it for a while,” Bobby said, looking back, “but chess had more attraction and the accordion was pushed aside.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He looked back at Peggy; it was as if he had thrown himself upon her mercy; was waiting for her to say some word that would take the horror away. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then she straightens her shoulders and leaves without looking back, her high heels tapping down the length of the car. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I should have smacked that girl,” I said, looking back at them and feeling sorry, for two seconds, that I'd missed the opportunity. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He saw how he had arrogantly and contemptuously looked back on his Samana days, how he had proudly and eagerly begun his worldly life. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laughs, and I look back at the screen. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

You don’t look back along time but down through it, like water. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He made an elaborate act of tipping to the door stealthily Then looked back at her with an irresistible grin on his face. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

It would be foolish now to look back upon that in the light of injustice. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, motionless in intolerable doubt, he looked back. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I turn back around, jump the steps, open the door, and go inside without looking back. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

After a moment, he turned again, and looked back. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He held Jupiter’s picture, looked at it, looked up at the sky, looked back at the picture. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

She took her cloak and went out the kitchen door and did not look back. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her quarry, who had paused and looked back at the flash of light, was already scrambling up the bank the fox had just fallen down. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I wonder if old people ever look back on their lives and see it in terms of seasons. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

When I looked back, the mob was a block behind me. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

At times, our pursuers were so close I could look back and see the anger in their eyes. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hate to admit it,” Bertha went on, “but I bet half these cats of mine would run off and never look back if somebody came along with a can of sardines.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

By the time Maniac looked back, they were almost on him. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went out the door without looking back. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I turned to glare at him and he looked back calmly. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I broke out of his grip and didn’t look back. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

As they groped their way past giant boulders, using their stolen pikes as walking sticks, Werfel cranked his spectacles to maximum magnification and looked back down the slope. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He stuck his head out into the hall and looked back toward the kitchen. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“You can act like you don't care now, but in ten years, when you look back through this, you're going to wish you had made more of an effort.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You think we’re going to grow old here?” she asked, looking back and forth between them, gesturing to the walls around them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Well, we did reach the other side and when I looked back, I saw that the bridge was still there. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to run from her, tear out of her classroom and keep going, and never look back. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Chubs took the front passenger seat, throwing one last look back at me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I looked back at Lefty Lewis and he was still watching so I opened one of the doors. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

As he stood up to return, he looked back up the slope. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He looked back up, wondered who could possibly be inside the vessel and what their purpose might be.Trina squeezed his hand and he squeezed hers back.They were both sweating. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Slowly but surely the oxen and horses start moving forward again, pulling away from us, people still looking back but at least getting farther away. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“When 1 woke up the coast was clear. Now I look back on it my head must be getting soft not to lock and barricade the door when I’m in here.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked back at Mr. Jacobs, who stood awkwardly, legs shaking. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I look back down at the drawing, rotating his questions in my mind like I’m searching for their hidden agenda. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A man and a woman were standing next to it, looking back at Mark and his friends with fear in their eyes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She runs out of the room like everyone else, without looking back. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I opened my arms, and she looked at Anastasia, looked back at me, then slowly climbed up. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mother smiles and looks back at her list, making a few changes. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Kept her eyes forward because when she looked back she saw the faces of those she left behind. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But when he stopped to catch his breath, he looked back and saw how far he had come. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The boy kept walking forward but looked back over his shoulder at them. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He paused in the well of darkness at the foot of the stairs and turned to look back up at her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to prove myself to him so that no matter what happens between us, he won’t ever look back at me and regret our choice. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He went over and looked down at Lennie, and then he looked back at George. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I jerked my head toward the elevators, she followed, looking back and forth between the elevator bank and the office floor, her lip caught between her teeth. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And when Lazlo last looked back to wave, the caravan starting down the trail and the Godslayer staying behind, he had seemed not only diminished, but haunted. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I grab her hand in truce as we huff and puff up a hill, turning around to look back at it all when we finally reach the top. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Buford turned again in the saddle, looked back again at the high ground. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she looked back into the mirror where the stone glimmered like an emerald. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

There was a strange air of unreality about the luncheon, and looking back upon it now it is invested for me with a curious glamour. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But I do look back before the door clangs shut. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He looked back and forth down the line, looking for a familiar face. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that, Ged bowed his own head, and turned and went back to the docks of Vemish and sailed out, not looking back. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled a small notepad from his jacket pocket and jotted down some notations, all the while looking back and forth from the pad to the glass of water. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I look away and then look back quickly, trying to catch myself unawares to get a more accurate picture, trying to see what Olly will see. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just looking back at the ivy-covered shack made him shiver. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

As I got to the main hallway I turned to look at him, sure I could feel his eyes on me, but when I looked back it was Riley who was watching me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not look back to the gate, but only forward, toward the peeling sycamores. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back at the brick building of the Historical Society, itself a converted early mansion. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Orcs upon the Rock, hearing the rumour of dismay, wavered and looked back. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I sat on the edge of a gorge in the Badlands, looking back at Gram and Gramps and the pregnant woman on the blanket. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He thought he saw Ginny look around as he passed, and wondered whether she had sensed someone walking nearby, but he did not speak, and he did not look back. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She fingered the money and, looking back and forth from the coin to her son-in-law, shook her head and laughed. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and looked back at Longstreet for one long moment, straight into his eyes, fixing Longstreet with the black stare, the eyes of the General, and then turned away. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back at her, and she looked so sad, I gave her a little smile. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I was wrong, and maybe someday I’ll look back and regret lashing out like that. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was already possible to look back over the Scientific Revolution, to identify its leading protagonists and sketch out its main characteristics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Craig looked back at me as he scooped up the ball. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When my father looked back at the tiger, the beast was reaching for the paper on his face...but the beast's claws had transformed into fingers! When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He struggled on a few more feet and then turned and looked back. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Meggie looked back at it until the darkness had swallowed it up. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

My mother went on eating her half grapefruit with her special serrated spoon, and I looked back at Mrs. Baylor and caught her with her head bowed and smiling to herself. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I look back just in time to see him flap his arms. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was wrong to look back in church, so it seemed that it would be worse to look down. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then she looked back into the microscope and said, “John Hopkin is a school for learning, and that’s important. But this is my mother. Nobody seem to get that.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He moved his wineglass toward his family, who looked back self-consciously, lowering their eyes at last as everyone drank. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kissed me fast and then pulled away, and then she leaned in for a longer, harder one and lingered, and then she pushed away really hard and left without looking back. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We joined our mother at the TV and never looked back. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She held her arms around herself, and when Turner looked back at her, her eyes were large as she looked into the rooms off the hallway. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I look back on my Little Rock integration experience as ultimately a positive force that shaped the course of my life. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look down, embarrassed, and when I look back up I see that he’s rising to his feet. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She paused for a moment at the edge of the Wood and looked back across the field at the bulk of the house, dark and still. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of each stunt he looked back, and each time she encouraged him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had reached the top of the Cliffs, and first the Sicilian jumped off and then the Turk removed the Princess, and as the Spaniard untied himself, he looked back over the Cliffs. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She told the boys to hug Luke, looking back at Annie. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He looked back toward the isle, which was nothing but smoke. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

As I’ve said, we never mentioned it to the guardians and looking back, it seems to me this was a rule we imposed on ourselves, as much as anything the guardians had decided. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back at the roots and thought how I had to show my gramps I had heart. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I stopped outside the doorway and looked back in. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She is gone and never looks back to see if I followed. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He sees me rushing and looking back at the Detentionheads and whispers, “Do you want to just go?” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’m almost to my old table in the corner when a commotion loud enough to reach my muffed ears makes me look back. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I look back and see the way our footsteps intermingle to form a single path. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Just before we reached the exit, Chestnutt slowed to a stop and looked back at me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She looked back, even though California was far behind us now. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I looked back at her, my heart squeezing at the sound of her childhood nickname for me. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She could not slow down, and she could not look back, either. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he leveled out of his loop the pilot looked back again and shouted, “More?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Snape looked back at her, quite impassive, as she turned slowly away from him again. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He slips the phone into his pocket and looks back at the shelves. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I assumed that Phoebe would follow me, but I didn’t look back. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

As I sang, I kept my eyes closed, too afraid to see the faces looking back at me. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I look back at Joe, who raises his hands in a gesture of exasperation and surrender. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I lookup at him, and finally, he looks back at me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

When I look back, ready to say hi, I notice he isn’t alone in the weight room. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I could almost leave and never look back. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Annie looked back at the apartment one more time and—with an air of urgency—leaned forward and kissed Luke hard. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I look back at that Anne Frank as a pleasant, amusing, but superficial girl, who has nothing to do with me. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But there wasn’t anything he could do now, except look back. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just had to pray that they wouldn't look back there and catch me. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He’s big and fast and has become like a shadow.Yet every time Mark looks back at him, he seems to disappear into some nook or cranny. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I looked back to the shoreline for the girl, but she was gone. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Digger looked away for a second, and when he looked back at me, his voice had lost its angry timbre. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

We held our breath as he paused on the steps and looked back, right in my eyes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing that impressed Winston in looking back was that the speaker had switched from one line to the other actually in mid-sentence, not only without a pause, but without even breaking the syntax. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I look back at Thomas with a steady face. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Tally thought of Peris, and tried to remember the way he used to look back when he was Nose. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

After the last of the hunt’s wagons passed, Jonas pulled the carriage back onto the road, but Ash clung to the edge of the seat, looking back at them until they disappeared around the bend. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe some time in the future people will look back at our treatment of animals in the same way. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

"But somebody's going to." suck me off Eleanor looked back at the street. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I looked back down at the paper in front of me. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“You have to imagine that, Colin, that one day they will all look back on their lives and wish they'd been you. You'll have what everyone else wants in the end.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

After the cab passed him by, he looked back idly and saw that the cab light was back on and that, a little way up the street, it stopped for two white women. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When I look back at it now, I believe I must have caught him so physically weak that his defenses were vulnerable. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you always been able to do such things?” he asks her, looking back at the watch again. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He never looked back to see whether I was keeping up, or whether I was following at all. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘One hobbit at least stood here for a while and looked back; and then he turned away into the forest,’ said Aragorn. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“True,” Oliver admitted, looking back down at the obituary. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He looked back just in time to see Ekon’s deepening frown and raised his hands defensively. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I looked back at the closed door of the master bedroom. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Pinmei looked back and forth at both sides of the walkway. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

Hearing a noise from the bed, I looked back. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he drives straight into the garage, turns his car off, and shuts the garage door without looking back. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

At the wall in front of the courthouse he stood for a while and looked back. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I step through the door, Elsie rushes over and pokes her head into the hallway, looking back and forth before closing the door behind me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I spared the Master Namer half a glance then looked back toward the shattered lute in my hands. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When I looked back at the house, lights were on but no one was outside yet, a testament to the brilliant simplicity of the well-Vaselined doorknob. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I look back at him though he’s fuzzy, appearing in focus then out of focus, in turns. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He didn’t look back, not even when I called his name. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Kit looked back at the gray figure bent over a kettle, stirring something with a long stick. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Stick blinked, then looked back up at Father. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I look back out at the crowd, all those people in front of us. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

When she looks back at the branch, an identical bloom has already appeared. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She took the arm he offered, but still she lingered, looking back. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

As I look back over this early book, I relive memories that are etched on every page, though invisible to the reader. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Run, Ben,” I urge, turning, taking off like a firecracker, not looking back. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Nathan looked back and noticed that the path behind them was gone, and that above them were the dark shadows of massive creatures. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Beiderman had some hard times,” Mr. Jones said, looking back at them. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Hideo returns to his meeting room without looking back at me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Harry glanced at Ron, who looked back hopelessly. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I looked back just as Mr. Leroy started sliding off of Jingle Boy. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Get over that hill and you’ll see a big farmhouse down in the valley. Run and don’t look back. Yell for help. Don’t stop until you reach the door.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up at me real quick and then looked back down at his boots. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the deck of the Jean Bart, the three new French citizens looked back at the burning city, ablaze from end to end. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I saw Captain Stewart look back to see who was talking. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped shooting and looked back at me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Nathan looked back at his father, who was still dumbfounded by the frozen water bottle. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She looked back over her shoulder, to where Mari- sol was punching a text into her phone. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

As she walked toward her own gate minutes later, she looked back often, hoping to catch a glimpse of the son from overseas. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Thomas shook his head and looked back into the Maze. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

At the open door, however, he stopped and looked back at them. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The man went last, and he didn’t look back when he melted into the darkness. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I looked back and saw a bus, Maribel’s bus, turning off the road. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

But when he looked back again, he yelled, “For God’s sake, hold on! It’s got us!” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He did not look back as he rode away from Bliant Castle—and Elaine, standing on the barbican tower, did not wave. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn, walking swiftly toward the elevator and not looking back. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And then I give her the same look back—and that’s how it goes. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

She looked back at Luna and pictured the mechanism inside that girl—rhythmically ticking its way toward her thirteenth birthday, as even and inexorable as a well-tuned clock. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

After I typed a page I looked back and her eyes were closed. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He looked back at his mother one more time, his eyes swimming, his face pale. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

From sleepy eyes he looks at me and I look back, long long. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jan backed farther away, then turned and walked rapidly off, looking back over his shoulder. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now that I was safe, I finally looked back. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I turned away and ran in the opposite direction, never looking back— never turning to let him see the tears in my eyes. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without looking back once, he opened the door with the Venetian printer's mark on it and closed it quietly behind him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was funny, then, to look back in and see people moving to nothing. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I went out the door I looked back through the two thicknesses of glass and saw them sitting there. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She took a deep shuddering breath and looked back at Reed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I have to go,” I tell them and fight my way through the crowd without looking back. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Then I recognised her face looking back through the window. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I heard the whip snap and the buckboard lurch forward, I looked back. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hardly an arm’s length away, he was looking back at her, his face alight. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then, without looking back, Rashid strode down the hall to his right, around the wreckage, looking for a path that would get him as far away from Tad and his hate as possible. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I looked over at Augustus Waters, who looked back at me. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

At the bend, where I could look back and see that he was not following, I sat down to examine my ankle. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

When I look back, Lita is motioning to an identical pendant around her neck. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

After he flew past the finish, rewriting the course record, he looked back up the long straightaway. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Several times he turned his head and looked back for their car, and if the traffic delayed them he slowed up until they came into sight. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He glanced up at me when I walked in, didn’t smile, then looked back down at his papers. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps someday, if they survived, they would look back on it and laugh, but not now. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He didn’t look back up at us, but I knew he knew I was watching him. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Byrd looks back to the wall, like the rest of her sentence might be found splattered against it. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I walk downstream, looking back until the zebra calms down. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

His blue eyes crinkle, looking back at me through the rearview mirror. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She gave him a quick hug, then ran off without looking back. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They take off in a V and I turn tail without looking back, back through the woods and the Pepsi-Cola sign, past the Brooklyn Bridge to my porch. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I looked back at the cap’n to see if he was hearing it too, but he was staring ahead. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

When they turn out of the Field of Dreams parking lot, I look back at Webb. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Two glittering blue eyes looked back at him. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

But it hadn’t finished yet, and she looked back, frowning, until the instrument fell still. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He glances up when he hears Alicia whisper, but immediately looks back to his newspaper. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was in the middle of the bus looking back to front, back to front, waiting for the long seconds while Brandon aimed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Once we clear the breach in the northern wall, I pause and look back. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I eased her to the ground and looked back at the cap’n; I knowed he was no good, but who could put a bullet in someone who wasn’t even holding on to a knife? The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He looked back, hoping the sea breeze might revive, but it lay in the hallway, stricken and still. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

They were looking back up, searching for smoke or flames. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He turned in his saddle, looked back, saw the entire Fifth Corps forming behind him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe if I walked and didn’t look back he’d leave me alone. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll show you when we get there — oh come on, quick —” Harry looked around at Ron; he looked back at Harry, intrigued. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I looked back at my talker and typed very slowly, “I want to be like other kids.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Off I go, Manchee reluctantly on my heels, looking back as much as he can, barking my name all the time. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

When she looked back again her jaw was set and her eyes shone; her old confidence was returning. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Shasta saw all this in a glance and looked back again. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Radar looked at me in the rearview mirror, and I looked back at him. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

As he stepped into the shelter his men had built for him, he paused and looked back at Jon Snow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His backpack thumped against his spine as he looked back. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She looked back once to make sure it was still there as she returned. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Then he stood up and looked back at his worn-out Marines. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he reached the sidewalk he turned and looked back over his shoulder. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Moss looked back to Esperanza, whose face was crunched up in confusion. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He started up the trail, not looking back. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back at Rondell, who was still nodding his head, looking at the fire. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I ran up ahead of her and stood in the path looking back at her. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

When she reached the barrier, she looked back and they had gone. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I draw courage and smile back, doing a little wave before realizing Lauren has seen and is looking back at Jeremy. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Bod stared at Scarlett as she walked away, hoping that she would turn and look back, that she would smile or just look at him without fear in her eyes. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It was a slow march and as I looked back from time to time I could see young zoot-suiters, hep cats, and men in overalls and pool-hall gamblers stepping into the procession. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chess looked back and saw the blade of an ax coming through the drywall. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

On the way out, Werner looks back only once: Jutta’s forehead and palms are pressed against the glass of the living room window. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Now I'm running at a full gallop, weaving through the crowd, and I don't even need to look back, all I have to do is follow the way Freak is kicking his feet, steering me. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

He looked back at the house, where he could see the light from inside spilling out his front door. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

She looks back over her shoulder, and I follow her gaze. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But mostly, it was freaky to look back into the eyes of the younger me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“And she takes our children. One every year. We have to leave the youngest baby in the circle of sycamores and never look back. If we don’t, the Witch will destroy us all.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He looks at them, they look back bewildered. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

From the open doorway, with Frolic already outside sniffing the earth, they looked back to the large room that had been Kira’s home since she had been a young girl. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Tally tinned to take one last look back. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The boy took one look back to the bakery as if checking that the coast was clear, then, his attention back on the pig, he threw a loaf of bread in my direction. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Anna, looking back on this terrifying time in her school years, commented bitterly that “the vigilant hawks of the Stalin regime...converted the whole great country into a big concentration camp of life-term inmates.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The dog looked back at us and stood there, wagging his tail, but did not return. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t look back at the little fire in the wide darkness, at the sleeping children and her witch companions. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Pippin, who sat in the bow looking back, caught a queer gleam in his eye, as he peered forward gazing at Frodo. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When Hiroshi looks back at me, a black strand of hair hanging at his temple, he doesn’t say anything. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

For looking back would have been sickening to the heart. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than trust her voice, she took a sip of wine and looked back to Lord Nugent. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Before we reached the escalator, I looked back again to see Nathan moving away and Lily searching the crowd. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She crossed the air in front of him and, without looking back, he left. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They jogged toward the shadow at the slow monotonous pace of their mounts, and it was not until they had entered it and felt the sudden coolness settle softly about them that Donovan looked back. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He’s looking at me, and I’m looking back at him, and it’s the strangest thing, because I thought Locke would never notice anyone like me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Wednesday looked back at the bank they were leaving. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

We separate and shake hands and he makes his way down the hall, waving without looking back. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then he looked back quickly, determined to smile this time, to make some useful gesture, but she had turned her back to him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Annoyed, avoiding my gaze, he slammed down his magazine and stalked through the double doors without looking back. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He looks back at Russell; his eyes are doing this as well. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

When I looked back, sure enough, Mom’s tiny meatball had disappeared too. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And then she walked off to the dressing room without looking back at any of them. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I look back to where the boyfriend stands, expecting her. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The satyr slackened his pace, looking back with a mischievous grin. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Every few steps she looked back to make certain no one was coming after diem, and when she neared the trees she broke into a run. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Is this okay?” he asked, turning his head to look back at Jam. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He looks back down at his work, blind to the impact his words have had on me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Diana hurried after him, but he didn’t bother to look back. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Hazel glanced at the ground, and then looked back up at Nina. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I’ll go first, and when that Special grabs me, I’ll give her a face full of pepper. You run straight and fast and don’t look back. Got that?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“If she does look back,” said Katie, “it will be because you put it in her mind and not because it’s anything wonderful to remember.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked back at the door, and afore I could answer, she said, “Now, where them men you was talking ’bout?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Mom looks at Dad, and she smiles that "Kids!" kind of smile that I hate, then looks back to her paper. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was blinded from the constant looking back: Lot’s wife. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep looking back, but he’s not there. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I look back and there’s Leroy with the kids, late as usual. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Hazel looked back at the cottage, thought of Nina standing behind the gate, eyes full of pain and longing, a longing she could fill. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He woke in the morning and turned over in the blanket and looked back down the road through the trees the way they’d come in time to see the marchers appear four abreast. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Respect the curtain,” he intoned, and looked back down at his book. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was nice—in the dark and the quiet, with no possibility of me saying anything to screw it up, and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was no sign of Bartsia, but as he looked back to make sure that the others were following, he caught a glimpse of the astonished face of Avens peering out of the other hole. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The traveler was not one for looking back. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then he looked back, and to his great joy he perceived that the Lillian had gone off in a wild direction and was yawing all over the pond. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The man looked down at the baby and the baby looked back and laughed delightedly as though something wonderful were about to happen. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rondell stood there too, looking back and forth between us, not saying a word. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then he looked back and stopped, transfixed, as Sasha’s skirt erupted into a sheet of flame. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I can hear him yelling at me, but I don't dare waste time looking back. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She took my empty glass and went to the kitchen, looking back twice at me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked back at Balliol he was still leaning against the desk, his shoulders slumped, spectacles pushed back on his head, pinching his nose between his fingers as though he had a migraine. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I open the door, but before I close it, I look back. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

She looked back on the drunken episode as an infantile adventure and it seemed so funny to her that she told Aureliano Segundo about it and he thought it was more amusing than she did. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

And then I done the worst thing of all: I walked away from her and she was crying and calling out for me and I did not even look back. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I looked once more at them and they looked back at me, remotely, possessed by intense life. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

They looked back, but they could not see far because of the many windings and rollings of the Road. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When he looked back at his mother, he saw her shudder, and he let go of her hand, pulled her closer, but she resisted. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then she looked back at her sister, and her voice was low and fierce. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I paused for a sec at the window, and Rondell looked back up at me. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I went out hunting with Dad once, and he said that when you first scare up a rabbit, it hops a short way, then stops and looks back. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isabella asks, looking back and forth between me and Tyler. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Ulysses pulled himself up straighten He looked back at Dr. Meescham. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I sit here looking back at my four years of high school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Run and don’t look back and then throw it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

We look back at the black iron gate and the condos. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I look back on the discomfort of that moment now and recognize the more universal challenge of squaring who you are with where you come from and where you want to go. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She looks back down at the cards on the table. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When he looked back up, it was just a tree again. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

She kept her eyes open, and when she looked back down at me, they were dry and calm, like some kind of peace had been returned to her. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Carla looks back and forth between us for a long second, noting the tension between us. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before we rounded a corner I looked back over my shoulder and saw the night-watch guy bumbling into the road in front of the house. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I thought Liz might introduce me, but her father put his arm around her shoulders, and her mother led her away, and only Tommy looked back at me and glared. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

June makes a strangled noise, and when he looks back up, she’s digging through the top drawer of her dresser. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Freak is in the wagon and he's trying to look back at me, trying to shrug his shoulders and let me know he doesn't understand what got into the Fair Gwen, but I know. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I threw open the door, resisting the impulse to look back to see if the men were watching me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

At the top of the rise when he looked back they were still standing there. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

When he looks back at Toyo he expects to see her weeping. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked back when he reached the door. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Although I didn’t look back again, I did stop sometimes and squint forward. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I looked back at his hand, and then deliberately returned to tracing the lines in his hand with my fingertip. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Some had bloated stomachs, others were lying down without the strength or will to look back at me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

At every corner along the way to the two-brick hole, I stopped and looked back. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

We looked back to see a length of rope uncoil itself and float across the gravel at ankle height. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

As the car pulled away, my eyes were so clouded by tears I couldn’t look back. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

As Conor watched Harry walk away, walk away without looking back, walk away without doing anything, Harry moved past the digital clock. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He looked back at the building and wondered if any of his handiwork had survived the fires. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Rashid looked back at them all and let out a bitter laugh. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Thick black clouds hung heavily overhead as they fled through the darkness, and Milo, looking back for just a moment, could see the awful shapes coming closer and closer. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

No one looked back, or spoke, or paused. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Trina looked back at Mark, heartbreak in her eyes, then returned her attention to the girl. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I slammed the door behind me and I didn’t look back even once. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When I was far from the backyard, I kept looking back. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

But when I look back at the children, I can tell they're not thinking of Bibles burning. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Minho looked back into the Maze, which was now almost completely dark with nighttime. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Now, looking back, my mom thinks my grandmother went through bouts of clinical depression. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I turn and look back through the rows of trees. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I think, looking back on that day now, that’s the line that will always stay with me—another room, by ourselves. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I had to stop, and I had to look back, because something was nagging at me. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we near our trailers, I turn to look back toward the mountains, the stunning granite peaks off in the distance. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She looked back at her sister and grabbed her hand. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I’ll tell you one thing,” he said, looking back and forth as if someone might be sneaking up on them. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

And when I look back, it’s the handsome SS man. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Penny reaches the bottom of the steps, looks back at us, smirks, and says, “See Daddy! Gotta go to work!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Ethan looks back and forth between us, his leg jiggling and shaking the table. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s time to go,” she said and walked away, not looking back. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waited until I had looked back at him over my shoulder before continuing. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Henry’s looking back at him, beautiful and vital and heartsick and still, always, the person Alex is willing to risk ruining his life for. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As she looked back at the boat, Gran’s face changed. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He looked back at her, narrowing his eyes, his black mustache twitching, as if to say, “Don’t even think about making me race.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But now I looked back of them and felt the pinch and pressure of the environment that gave them their pitch and peculiar kind of being. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When we got home we were talking of the old time—which we could all look back on without despair, for Godalming and Seward are both happily married. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I head off the right way, Manchee following, and I look back and the girl’s coming after us. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I look back now and I think this was not the best way to solve the problem. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In the rearview mirror, Dad looks back at me. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She looks back to her mother, who’s already moving down the aisle, then back to me with a shrug. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mom yelled, looking back and forth between Grandma and me. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I saw him walk away looking back at me over his shoulder. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I look back, I don’t see Sophie, and I am not entirely sure I didn’t imagine her. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I looked back over my shoulder at the receding Stuart. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Souls continued their animated conversation, when suddenly, as if on signal, the four of them looked back at Mrs. Olinski. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back at our soggy little camp. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Gimpy started away, and then he paused and looked back. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He looks back down to find that his brother is no longer there. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Out of the ghetto. Out of Warsaw. Out of everywhere. Just get out. Go. And don’t look back.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I looked back at my cousin who began to ask me questions in her low, thrilling voice. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I was staring into his eyes as if I were an eye doctor, while he was looking back vacandy. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pong ran after him a few steps, then looked back over his shoulder. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He led the way, never pausing or looking back. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be able to look back and say I had a good run and made some great memories along the way. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But when I looked back at him, he was already pushing his bike in the opposite direction. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I looked back down toward the broken lute in my hands, but before my gaze wandered too far he caught my chin again, tilting my face up. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He looked back and saw that Carmela had her hand up. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I look back at the door and stand on tiptoes, trying to peek in. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Three times or four I stopped thus and looked back. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

When they got to the bottom of the hill the man stopped and looked at him and looked back up the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Me and him glanced at each other real quick, and then we looked back at the cops with Mong. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But when I looked back at Mama, she wasn’t smiling at all. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He started to cry, and when Harley looked back at him he did not wipe the tears away or pretend it was the dust and wind in his eyes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

If he turned away and then looked back, there was no longer a sign of her, not even a whispering motion in the needled branches she had moved through. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When he looks back at her, she has picked up a rag to wash the kitchen sink... Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He never looks back once to see if we’re coming for him or stops for his comics and backpack. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But I did not obey or even look back. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

At the first ridge Shasta turned in the saddle and looked back. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Thomas looked back at his captors, feeling awkward but desperate to ask questions. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was just the glare in her eyes, but she seemed to be looking back at me with a hard, stern expression. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not look back at the glittering eyes of the figures on the ledge. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I look back at him, he’s analyzing my change without saying a word. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Alfhercht looked back and put a finger over his lips, shushing them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I feel sorry for Malachy up there on Dad’s shoulder, looking back at me, tears on his cheeks and Dad’s teeth bulging in his mouth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They looked back on their own youth as a period of ignorance, and regretted that they had not made more of it. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if to his eyes some sudden vision had been given, Gandalf stirred; and he turned, looking back north where the skies were pale and clear. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He looked back at us all skeptical, then picked up his folder and started riffling through his papers again. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She nodded to her daughter, Jackie, who looked back at her mother sympathetically. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Don’t go. Wait. Wait now, somebody look back and wait.” The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father cast a look back at the table, then opened the door. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He breaks the eye contact and looks back out the windshield. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

They tried not to look back over their shoulders. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

From the high place they looked back westwards over the lower lands. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There’s no use in looking back, for here’s the truth I’ve found: It’s hunger, want, and wickedness that makes the world go round. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Before she departed, she looked back at the house, and there was a woman in white standing in the kitchen doorway. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But looking back on the next day, I can tell you that happy endings are possible, even in situations as fraught with complications as this one was. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

I can still hear them talking, tho it gets steadily quieter, no one looking back to see if I’m still following. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She would look back with grace and modesty at the son or daughter who had given her the look. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He looked back at me for a second, then frowned. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Fred looked back over his shoulder for a second, though he never stopped jogging. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Warmth slimed my palm and a fangy lurcher looked back up. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Joseph stepped into the house and looked back at his uncle. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Turning, he walked through the doors without looking back. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

He looked back at the white guy, then turned back to me. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

They looked back once at the dead woman, now some distance away, and tried to think of something else. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He checked his hands to make sure no puke got on him and then he looked back and forth between us. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I looked back and there was nobody chasing us, but it felt like we’d be caught any second. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A couple turn to look back at me, but no one steps away from Katherine. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But he kept looking back at the ruined machine, and for some reason he couldn’t leave it there. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Thus in this respect the Scientific Revolution is not like the American or French revolutions, which were called revolutions as they happened; it is a construction of intellectuals looking back from the twentieth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I run my fingers along the tendons in his hand and look back at him. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And there was Despereaux Tilling, covered in flour, looking back at them, the telltale red thread still around his neck like a thin trail of blood. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t look back at me, but I can see his lips tilt up at the edges. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He slows the truck, pulls to a stop, looks back toward the bridge. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He looks back at me with a trollish grin that doesn’t show his teeth. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then, climbing over a wall I looked back, seeing a man hurrying after me, slipping, sliding, going over the low dividing walls of the roofs with puffing, bustling effort. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she did not look back at the island. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He watched me walk through the gate before he climbed back up onto the seat of the wagon, lifted his reins, clucked to the horses, and drove off without looking back. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fiona looked back at me and rolled her eyes, trying to keep pace. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He climbed the porch steps and knocked, looking back at me. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, looking back, I think that it might have been I who had become distant as well. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I watched them go down the road, their shawls close around them, looking back apprehensively at us. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I jumped up onto the wagon and looked back across the white countryside, trying to get a feeling of how far I’d come since I last saw him. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had taken two hours for Dallas and Sairy to hike beyond the limits of the holler, and now they stood on top of a ridge, looking back the way they’d come. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Doyle looks back at me in the rearview mirror and winks. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

They were miles from Crete, over deep sea, when Icarus looked back and saw his fathers worried expression. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I wanted to hear something so bad and terrible it would make me want to run away and never look back. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes you look back over your past life experiences and you realize that if you would have done something different, you would have been someplace else,” he said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He looked back to his friend, whose leg was awkwardly twisted up and behind him, rigid against the side of the metal detector. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But Harry did not look back, and at last they reached the entrance to the Room of Requirement. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was dark on the ridge, and I did not look back. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

When I looked back, all I could see were flashes of green and blue as my father fought the Titan, and the sea itself was torn apart by the two armies. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then, a mind movie of the butterflies at the museum drops into my head and I look back up at him. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Grandpa had grabbed Miss Love hard when I swerved into the creek; he still had aholt of her when I looked back to see if they were all right. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When I looked back in the side mirror, the SUV was on its side in a smoking heap. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He looked back to see Ton-Ton watching gravely from shadows at the top of the pass. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry looked back at the snake, willing himself to believe it was alive. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

As I look back, everything I did seems curiously deliberate, though it certainly did not seem deliberate then. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Only when he gets across the street does he turn to look back. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

When I look back now on what first drew me to Volpe, I think it was just that I loved to hear him talk. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was enough to make us all run away as fast as we could, up the hill without looking back, for fear of the evil Cecilia had set upon us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She pulled away, squeezed his wrist, and got on without a word and didn’t look back. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Walking away, I break my farewell rule and look back to see Ma, Chou, and Geak crying and standing in the doorway. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I neared the street, I looked back in time to see the woman’s face leave the window. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom looked back at her phone, but not before Emma caught a glimpse of Mom’s face. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She looks back at the map, she looks at the boys. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

She kept looking back down at the ground as if she was too ashamed to keep eye contact. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

As I looked back I noticed something I hadn’t been able to see before the dark lifted. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look over at Heather, who’s looking back at me sympathetically like she alone can see the cabbage on my neck. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I looked back down at Dari, who was now running around in a panic. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe one morning I’ll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

No warrior looked back to see where I was going. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back at him, a million questions in my eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Bodega looked hard into the old man’s eyes as if he wanted them to look back at him and share his strength, come back to life. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The rower was Kaede, and she looked back with dark, troubled eyes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I looked back at Mom, unsure what else to say. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

If the face really was a reliable guide to emotion, he reasoned, shouldn’t he be able to look back at the film and see that Mary was lying when she said she was feeling better? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Looking at herself in the mirror, she was surprised to find a pretty girl looking back at her. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

When I looked back at that monster—he had to be at least seven inches taller than me—he was staring at me like I’d said something about his sister. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was too embarrassing to even look back, so I just kept on running till I got to the nurse's office. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When I looked back, Mom stood gazing out the door. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I turned and looked back the way I’d come: a prickle of marble spires, dim mausoleums, pale in the growing darkness. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then he turned and looked back on the ranch, on the low, whitewashed house girded with red geraniums, and on the long bunkhouse by the cypress tree where Billy Buck lived alone. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The full moon is bright in the sky, bright enough to show me my mother looking back at me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I lifted my hand in a wave, but he didn’t look back. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Christina is looking at Will, and he is looking back at her. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And then I would find that I had come up right behind the pack of eighth graders, and they were looking back at me, and I slowed down. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She grabbed two of the jelly bean fish from the bag in her bare hands and looked back at Seven and Thorn. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

When she didn’t answer, I looked back into the living room. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the unfinished sculpture of my sister, and the unfinished girl looked back at me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

His father looks back at him and motions for him to sit down. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Before Ralph had time to reply, he smiled quickly, turned and climbed into the forest Ralph looked back at Jack, seeing him, infuriatingly, for the first time. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Grampa looked back into the living room and saw I was awake. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Even without looking back, she could sense the shocked gazes of the Seasons. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Calvin looks back at Shayleen with her dark hair chopped so it points at her chin. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“I’m saying that if I didn’t have any other choice but to be here—if it wasn’t between this and death, I would be halfway across Erilea by now, and not looking back.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We went in all hesitant, looking back and forth at each other, not sure it was cool to even be in there if you weren’t a regular. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She didn’t feel bad about missing all the horrible stuff—the tributes, the look back at the shattered graduating class. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

As he crawled across the tablecloth, he remembered the words of the prisoner in the dungeon, his regret that he did not look back at his daughter as he left her. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

They swarmed up the beach, and back down, and finally disappeared abruptly into the pines, Perlie the last in line, looking back at him and holding her nose. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It’s not obvious whether this is because it didn’t happen, or because it simply wasn’t something these women chose to talk about when they looked back on their wartime experiences. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

By the time Leo looked back, the island of Ogygia was a dark line in the distance, their campfire pulsing like a tiny orange heart. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When they arrived at the truck, Jimmy looked back toward the battle ridge. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Rashid didn’t look back at him and instead went to the next door and tried the handle. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When we caught up with him he was standing with his feet planted in wet sand, looking back at us with a self-satisfied 1-told-you-so grin. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I feel, for an instant, as if the shadows are looking back at me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Rishi smiled wryly at her before looking back down at his drawing. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A skinny boy of fourteen looked back at him, his bright green eyes puzzled under his untidy black hair. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Celia looks back at the figurines on the table before she responds. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He looks back at his followers, and is met with hearty guffaws. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

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

I looked back up to my father and saw him gasping for air, holding his throat. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I looked back at her and said: “I guess so.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He opened the door and the white man stepped out and looked back at Shorty as he went toward his office. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I looked back and a few of them were looking at me, which was okay because I was normal. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watches me as I look back at the lights. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I'm sorry, he thought, not looking back again. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He looked back over his shoulder at the weather. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The conjurer looked back at me and said loud and slow, “Do...you...speak...any...English?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Before I take off, I look back at the house. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

When I look back, I see Cardan’s hands are deftly splitting the deck of cards, but his glittering black eyes are on me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Yes, I was fairly incensed last night, but looking back, shouldn’t I be the one apologizing for what I did to her? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

So I walked down the steep stairs, afraid to look back and afraid not to do so. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew I never wanted to see any of those people again,” she says, looking back. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He looked back at me and smiled, his mood shifting yet again. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

When Dadi didn’t say anything, I looked back at her to see her gazing sadly at me. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I look back to the television screen, which is split in two by a flashing lightning bolt. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Poppet asks, looking back and forth between her brother and Celia. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

For us, looking back at these events and trying to understand them, there is a frustrating paradox at work here. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He looked back at his mother for the last time. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I darted a quick look back to see Beau right behind me. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She pressed a doorbell and stood there at the door, without looking back. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Lorren looked back down at the book he had been reading when I had come in. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He stopped at a ledge and looked back; he saw in the lurid glare of the slashing lances of light a man stumbling over the snow. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I look to Dean Anderson, who in turn looks back to Officer Jameson for a response. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He was still holding me tight when I looked back and saw that T.R. was right out there where we’d left him on the trestle. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Håkon—Was it really him, though?—looked back and forth between them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I looked back at my paper and tried to figure out how he got 18. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I look back down at my phone and wait, hoping she’ll come close again. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan took a look back and saw that the shortcut entrance had transformed back into rock. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I looked back out to the fire snaking through the dead brush. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

People stare, but I find that if I look back at them and smile, it surprises them, and then they have to smile at me. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

As I pass, I look back over my shoulder at my parents. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he looked over their heads at me and I looked back at him, and I knew we were both thinking the same thing. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanley looked back at him, unsure what he meant. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Well, we don’t know anyone else. Just him,” I said, pointing at the drowned man and then looking back at the girl in the white dress. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He blew out the lantern and looked back at the dim shapes of his father, of the witch, of his father again before turning to go down the mountain. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I scrambled to my feet, I looked back to see the brigade of attacking mothers within striking distance, shouting about how they weren’t going to have me in school with their kids. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look back through the amphitheater gates to where Elias kneels, chained. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I looked back to a ferry passing the Statue of Liberty now, its backwash a curving line upon the bay and three gulls swooping down behind it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was hunched forward, not looking back, trudging his way to practice, and I wondered if there’d even be enough players there to run a play. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Everybody in the circle looked back at him, not knowing what to do. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know now that the sign says DONNER’S BAKERY, but looking back in my memory at the sign I can’t read the words through his eyes. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back for Mom, but could not see her among the wave of kids. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

A tear fell from Grandma’s eye as she looked back and forth from Genie to the truck. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Syl looked back at the cap’n and the surprised face he made showed he was really seeing him for the first time. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I look back again, and the police officer is a blue dot against a blur of cars. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He entered the office and without looking back at her said, “Shut the door.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In one motion he sprang up, using his gun as a staff, and twisted to look back. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’d stumbled and fallen to my knees when I turned to run from Spot’s charge, and she was too close behind for me to be looking back and watching what Old Yeller was doing. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he looked back, Luke knew he hadn’t. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But Gina always looks back at us—as if to say, I'm watching you. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I was seeing human beings, flesh-and-blood men with eyes that looked back at me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

But Winnie leaned round the constable and looked back at Tuck. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked back at me, “And you said you’re from Flint, Bud?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I look back and wonder: how did I not guess who was there? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he looked back at me and bounced his eyebrows before walking away. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At the bell, as we left the lunchroom, I looked back. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

But then again, I have never known a single person who achieved a measure of success and could not look back and credit at least one treasured teacher. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Gwenforte stands there, looking back at us, wet up to her haunches. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

We can look back and make the era of the American Revolution a center point, then scan the terrain upstream and downstream, but they can only know what is downstream. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He scanned the barren sea and then looked back at me, his old eyes growing remote. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I look back, I see a wad of gauze in Uriah’s hand. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to look back one day and think of the Freedom Writers as “them” or “that group.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

One of the boys standing in front of them looked back over his shoulder, annoyance crossing his face. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I wanted to run and run and not look back. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Later in life, looking back on those days, I realized she was more than pretty. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel inhaled and stepped into the trees, and though the gaze of the witch tugged at her she did not look back. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I carefully look up to my left, like I am weighing what he has told me, and slowly I look back at him. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Only once did he look back at us, and when he did, his eyes were empty, empty, empty. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Perrington finished with a broad smile that made her instincts tell her to run and run and never look back. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She looked back at the other girls and they laughed again. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Please try not to look back. You may fall off.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She looks back over her shoulder to me, as if to ask if it's okay we've stopped. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He flew on to the window-sill and paused, looking back over his shoulder. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

When I look back up his eyes are soft and his lips are parted, and then I understand. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Edwin gunned the engine and angled out of the bay, refusing to look back. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

They didn’t look back, but the police had already lost interest. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose if I had a moment of doubt at all it was then, as I stood in that cold, eerie stairwell looking back at the apartment from which I had come. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mom looks back at the colorful pages in her lap. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Every little way they would stop and look back at me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She paused, resting her hand on the banister, and looked back at me. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He looked back the way he had come. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

As Kit looked back at him mutely, the restraints that held the tensely waiting crowd gave way. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I went in no particular direction and never paused to look back. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back over my shoulder, being careful to keep my free hand on the grocery boxes. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the bell rang, one of the girls even looked back at her and said, “Come on!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

At once, he knew that he had pushed his luck He looked back Hooper was watching him, the huge stone held between his hands, dripping water. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But as the moment faded and I picked up my gear, I paused and looked back down the gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they walked to the elevator, Arm looked back. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I only look back in the mirror and say, “Why should I?” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Her eyes shine as she looks back at me. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I look in the mirror and see my dad’s eyes looking back at me, my mom’s thick hair, thick everything. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She typed something, then looked back at Luke. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

We cannot look out into space without looking back into time. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

George noticed that Mom kept looking over at George, but when George looked back, Mom had her eyes fixed on the television screen, even if it was showing commercials, which she usually hated. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

When she looked back, Jello’s tongue was hanging from his mouth and his sides were heaving. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car doors opened and the woman got out without looking back. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He looked back at the coils of line and they were feeding smoothly. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sounder was already across the road into the stalk land, whining, moving his head from one side to the other, looking back to be sure that the boy was following. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he looked back at us and said, “What the hell are you thinking?” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Hanako looked back up at the sky and was surprised to see that the clouds had already disappeared! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He did not look back as he closed the office door. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He headed away from the waterfront quick, without looking back. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I look back at his face, he’s staring at me with an eyebrow raised. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Mrs. de Vries has walked to one of those shelves and is looking back at me with irritation, waiting for me to help her push it aside. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Serafina looked back to the discussion at the table, because she heard the word witch. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked away, but stopped a moment to look back at him. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She looked back at him once, and again he had that sense of perfect openness, as if they knew each other very well and there were no secrets between them. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The judge, his head resting on his hand, yawned and looked back with detachment. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I saw my father glance at them briefly, then look back at me. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was sleepy and weepy and did not look back when I felt Rudy's eyes on me. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Tam Lin had included small binoculars among the supplies, so Matt stopped frequently to look back at Opium. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man stopped too, several steps ahead of him on the forest path, and looked back, polite by an effort. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept trying to catch my eye during band practice or in class, but I refused to give her the satisfaction of looking back. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She looked back down at the scratches on the table and continued dusting. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, strapped into the litde seat, his mouth speckled with leaf fragments, the infant looked back and grinned at Claire. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A ferocious rat face glared at him over her shoulder, but he looked back coldly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she made her way down the path, past the cabins, and then along the beach in the direction of the bone tree, Jinny stopped to look back at her island. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I looked back at Allie, who was standing at the bar. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Leaving the castle grounds by a roundabout way, I looked back, expecting to see a spy set upon me by my father. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Ollie looks back at me with that universal dog wisdom, then promptly goes back to sleep. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He looked at the line and then looked back at me. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The man doesn’t apologize, he doesn’t even look back at me, and I’m too shocked to cry out. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned to thank him, but he was hurrying across the street and didn’t look back. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I look back at the letter I hold, California scrawled in my mother’s hand, hastily, desperately. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I looked back up at my father’s tired eyes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“He was willing to jump in the car, with supposedly the person you love more than anyone on earth, and drive too fast after a night of partying,” he says, looking back. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

At the top of the first flight he looked back. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rider who’d fled had reined in his horse and turned around to look back, shading his eyes to see what was going on. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tucker hissed, casting a quick look back at Miles. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Dimple raised an eyebrow and looked at Ashish, who looked back at her with an agonized expression on his face that pretty much yelled HELP. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The boy who looked back at the crowd with fury in his eyes was a stranger. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But deep-set brown eyes look back at me. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When they landed, Hazel looked back and saw no pit at all—just a three-inch crack in the floor. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Finally, Robbie looked back at his sketch, his brows creased in concentration. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I looked back down at the ground where our bodies had lain side by side, the wet grasses pressed down, perfect depressions in the earth. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Luke looked back at his family’s porch, where Mother and Dad and Matthew and Mark were standing and already waving. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, you look back at me. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Little Charlie looked slowly around at each of the four old faces, one after the other, and they all looked back at him. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

I looked back at the telekinetic girl, pulling the blind brothers along by their hands while they clicked with their tongues. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Her open, friendly, clever face looked back directly. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I looked back to see Nathan and Lily in the second row across the aisle. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She knew moments of doubt when she was half-afraid, and kept looking back over her shoulder, imagining that she heard the sound of pursuit. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been holding a pose above his cider of Gibraltar invulnerability; he continued to gaze challengingly around him until he began to realize that wherever he looked, calculating eyes looked back. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Casual passersby were looking back over their shoulders at the windows, and a few rather stunned-looking people had actually come to a halt, transfixed. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I looked back down the valley at all the houses. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back at Spoon and frowned as if to say, Come on, we’re better than that. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then I paused, looking back to my secret place. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He clenched his teeth, looked back at Chess, and said, “Your mother knows me as Joe.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I look back over at the table of otters. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” Rashid said, looking back at the school where so much had happened. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He looked back; the woman was vanishing through the snow, in the opposite direction. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He looked back at us, his eyes wide. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She walked to the bottom of the steps, then looked back at him. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Katherine looks back at the sheriff’s dead body, lifting one of her fair hands to her cheek, which is dotted with bits of the dead man. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I looked back over my shoulder at the vast slack dump as I followed my father back to the car. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They looked back, but the turn of the road prevented them from seeing far. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At the sound of her voice the cat looked up for a moment and immediately looked back again at its prey. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we pulled away from Central High, I looked back to see students gathered on the school lawn, staring at us as though they were watching a parade they hadn’t known was coming their way. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked back Jerome was gaining on me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We would have run for the woods outside of town and never looked back. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

People were starting to stare at Emma for being different, for not turning around and looking back toward the huge screen at the front of the auditorium like everyone else. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Most of the stuff looks lame and corny when I look back on it, but they’re only for me, no one else.... Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

When she looked back at where she had been, there was only the cold morning behind her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the cover of the hedge beside the lane they turned and looked back. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty years from now if I’m still living I will look back on that one afternoon, and the morning that followed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We crossed the far end of the square and looked back at the cathedral. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I look back down at my phone, remembering the encrypted note I’d received earlier in the afternoon. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After a moment, I look back to the nun. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He tightened his haunches to rise, then looked back in surprise. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Bigger looked back to the roof to his left; the man was still standing there, flashing a light round. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

One thing I remember is that I never looked back at the gate. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black-and-white photos looking back at me were proof it wasn’t a dream. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then I left his office without looking back. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

When I looked back, I realized that Jeffrey must have slipped off the stool and banged his face on the counter. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Diego looked back after we rounded the corner, and when he saw we were out of Principal Cody’s line of vision he whacked me on the back of my head one last time. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I know. But Hannah needed me, and I needed her. She wasn’t a witch, Uncle Matthew. If you could only have known her — ” Matthew looked back at the constable. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

When he looked back up again, there was a softness in his eyes that made him seem younger, like a curious boy who’d discovered something new and intriguing. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He looked back over his shoulder as I stayed holding on to Frankie. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Cal sat two seats behind him, so Park kept having to look back over his shoulder to see if Eleanor had walked in yet. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Then Ivan looked back, saw they weren’t being chased, and slowed. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She looked back until she could see them no more. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when she looks back, the charming smile has disappeared. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She looks back down to her puzzle, but doesn’t try to fit any pieces into place. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Or maybe goats are nocturnal. Some animals never sleep. Sheep never do, not that I could detect; whenever you look at them they’re looking back. Expecting to be fed.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She looked back ahead, her face turning rather green itself. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I broke out laughing, but Byron shot me a real dirty look and I stopped and looked back down at my math book. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had to look back then, because she’d never heard her mother breathe like that. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He stared at the note for what seemed like forever, and then he looked back up at me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Not before Joseph looked back one more time, and he saw me, and then he was gone. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Elsie takes a deep, trembling breath and looks back at us over her shoulder. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Jamie looks back at his computer screen, tapping his finger against the edge of the keyboard in time with the music. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Kendra paused at the threshold of the church and looked back. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

For once in her life, Jill didn’t shoot back the last word, and Guzzo stalked off without looking back at either of us. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Okay, got it, Ross,” she said, then looked back at Moss. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

On all fours, he scrambled to the next ledge and then turned and looked back; the man was still standing, throwing the spot of yellow about over the snow. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Something made him turn away from the window and look back into the room. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It takes no small degree of humility for him to look back on his life and say, “I was very lucky.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

After crossing the valley, Tree-ear stopped on a peak at the far side and looked back. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

There was even a rack of well-worn picture books for those days when fifth-graders felt like looking back at the books they grew up on. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor looked back at the roaches and tried to make sense of it. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He began pulling stingers out of his face, working down, and taking his time looking back up the bluff at Toomer’s bus. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked back up the stairs and raised his head, letting the raindrops splash on his pale, wrinkled skin. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They stood and looked at him, and then looked down into the dark and then looked back at Chamberlain. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy turned and, without looking back, began to walk slowly away. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked back at my father, and he pushed himself past her and stood in front of Lucas, who sat there the whole time, facing straight out, even when someone spit on him. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Tempted to unlock himself and hop on his bike and just start pedaling, never looking back. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Bran turned his face away and looked back out into the night. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She did not look back when Gwen called after her, and as soon as she broke free of the crowd, she quickened her pace so that she would not lose her nerve. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still don’t like her, but while Anise is talking loud, Marie Antoinette keeps looking at me silently, and every time our eyes meet she looks back down at the table again. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I didn’t look back, but I could hear Uncle Turu’s sure voice, already captivating the people. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I looked back at the island as the light was fading, not knowing whether or not I would ever see it again. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn my head to look back at him. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I looked back at the sagging farmhouse, sure that I was missing something “So what do you think happened here?” she asked. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I looked back down at my shoes and took another deep breath. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Miss Duncan-the-second looked back at the little girl and all the sudden slapped both her hands over her ears, her mouth jumped open and she ’peared to be dumbstruck. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I called after him, but he didn’t look back. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

My throat starts to swell, and I look away, and when I finally look back, Willem is still holding my eyes, appropriately polite and achingly concerned. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She looked back to see her mom jotting something on a notepad. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When I looked back, the lake was steaming. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

His new family was already outside; they turned and looked back at him. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked back down the path and saw the green maw out of which he had come, a greenish-black tunnel, the end of which was nowhere in sight. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stopped at a street comer, not looking back. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started to answer, but when I looked back up at Miss Rossit, her smile had faded to a look of alarm. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“A little blip—now that I look back on it.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You just tell me the second you don’t want to anymore,” his mother said, then looked back up to Esperanza. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They had climbed far up into the Deeping-coomb when they looked back. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When I looked back, the old man was circling around like a dog trying to catch a fly on its tail. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I look back at them after I pass. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

On another trip he looked back and saw the smoke curiing up through die trees and realized, for the first time, that he now had the means to make a signal. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

We often try to look back on it and to find an explanation, but never quite succeed. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time I stood and looked back at the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it only took a few more Katherines for him to look back nostalgically upon The Great One as the perfect spokesperson for the Katherine Phenomenon. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

She strides out of the kitchen without looking back. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Can I help you find a book?” she says, still walking but looking back at me. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He fanned it away angrily, looked back at the eye, and did its bidding. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned in his stirrups, looked back at the high ground, the cemetery. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So suppose she looks up there and sees that they’ve chewed a hole in the tiles and they’re looking back down at her. What happens then?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

When J.T. looked back at his grandmother, I jumped on my bicycle and tore out of there. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I looked back at my uncle casually smoking his cigarette. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

It seems comical, looking back; we were a band of Charlie Chaplins marooned in the California desert. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he quickly looks back down at my wound. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I look back down, reading the rest of the text. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She hit the ground when Ivan did, and they both looked back to see what had snared them. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Sal was in the street, still running and looking back over his shoulder. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I never looked back at Wheeler Hall, my residence building, as I quietly bolted through the door. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They looked for the next challenge and didn’t look back. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then he looked back at Natalie, too, and it was like the big kids were talking without even using words. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Lil’s stomach was hurting so bad, she didn’t even look back. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Isabella watches me like I’m a science experiment, and Julia looks back and forth between me and Tyler like she’s at the movies. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He looks back, and there’s so much that passes between us that I feel exposed. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Day 13 We have looked back and taken the first photograph ever obtained of the Earth and Moon as worlds together in space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn around and look back at the half mile we cleaned up. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Later that day, passing Hannah in the halls, I took a look back as she walked by. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

As they turned the corner, Harry looked back. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I packed my few belongings and never looked back. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She strode toward the elevator, hands again thrust violently in the pockets of her coat; she did not look back, and he hesitated for a moment, feeling annoyance, before he at last trailed after her. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s only that I just happened to look back and something’s there.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back and forth between them, their faces all serious with concern. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I look back up to his eyes and see my reflection there. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wrung my hand, and taking up his hat, went straight out of the room without looking back, without a tear or a quiver or a pause; and I am crying like a baby. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Sarah and the ghost boy walk out of the courtroom, turning once to look back at dead me. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Checking the horse to a walk, he turned and looked back. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Someone stepped quietly into the elevator, looking back at the search party in bemusement. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Again and again he repeated this movement until they no longer turned to look back. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He keeps looking back to make sure Rebecca is still here. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The first thing he did was to look for the Gallivespians, who looked back at once, fully focused on him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Teddy passively looked up from his newspaper, but the woman had passed, and he didn’t look back. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I wanted her to know how much I hated what was happening, but when she finally looked back at me, I knew it was me she hated, instead. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

A mother’s death causes a man to look back on and evaluate his own life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With two lechuzas at their backs, they busted out of the barn as if their heels were on fire, never once looking back. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

As Roz sat in the airship, broken and alone and speeding toward a mysterious future, she looked back at her miraculous past. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You still didn’t get him?” she asks, and when I look back, she’s got her eyes to the left, then to the right. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kendra looked back, understanding why Seth had called the disheveled barrier of bushes a hedge. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Marlena is a few people in front of me, looking back through bobbing heads and desperate faces. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

When the door opens, she steps in, looking back at me angrily. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I looked back at Lily in the idling car. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I look back to the steps, and the woman has disappeared. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I kept looking back and forth between them, thinking how crazy it was that me and my bro were this close to a principal and we weren’t even in trouble. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The doe looks back at SCORPIUS, and then starts to run. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Juanita didn’t even look back at the fence damage as she put the car in drive. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He looked back and the road was clear and unending; there was nothing to shield him from the soldier’s bullet. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jus looks back and forth between Dr. and Mr. Rivers, who are both smiling but obviously waiting for some kind of response from him. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But when I looked back up at the blue house I knew this had to be the spot. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone looked back for a moment to see where I would sit, then turned away to face Lilian. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I climbed a small dogwood tree and looked back. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped outside, looked back up at the sign, and said, “Oh? What it say now?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I looked back toward the house and saw her crossing the yard, her white dress catching the light. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Camel looks back again, this time with a raised eyebrow. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I fidget and smooth my hair down, looking back over at Poe in time to see him raise his eyebrows at me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She stopped, unsure for a moment whether she had imagined those words, and then she looked back at the man. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He walked down the highway with his thumb high in the air, and he didn’t look back. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

So without looking back they rode the mountain-fields, until they came to a bridge over the growing torrent and found a road that went down into the land. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He peeked through a hole in the door and looked back at Anya. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Prentiss Jr. looks back at us, spits again, and says, “Be seeing you,” trying to sound tough but his voice squeaks and he takes off as fast he can back to the town. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

As Mr. Flournoy took it, he turned and looked back at his wife. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry about it! Just look back there behind where it was.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The man turned and looked back at him. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I wondered if he was following us—wished I could look back at the road behind without giving him away. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She looked back at the large man, who had yet to even crack the slightest smile. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

And then she spent a few seconds looking back and forth between me and Calista and the bathtub, which was smeared with zombie blood. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

When he looked back at the end of the block, Brannon was watching from the sidewalk. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And looking back it seemed to Carolina as if the children had been an explosion of no more than a moment’s duration, instead of a twenty-five-year travail. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight might be the night I look back on fondly once things have turned around for me. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He looks back out at the sea of people in front of us. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I looked back over to the small council and nodded, smiling. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The brother gave a wave through the rear window, but the other two didn't even look back. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I study the hairs standing up on my arm, and by the time I look back at the screen, Violet has responded. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She told me stories of Tientsin whenever my face looked back at where we had just been. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We looked back from the beds of the pickups and watched Miranda sit on the porch swing next to her father. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked over at her, then looked back, nervously, at the road. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I decided to ignore him, looking back down at my bowl of salted potatoes. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Pa said, “Cooter, head on back and find where Emma Collins is at. Tell her she needed. Don’t be looking back, and once you’re out of sight, run hard.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I looked back and saw Rinaldi standing watching me and waved to him. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

We looked back at the inn with light coming from the windows and the woodcutters’ horses stamping and jerking their heads outside to keep warm. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He never counted what it cost him; he never looked back. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I pause at the doorway and look back pleadingly, but my mother waves me on. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I hold my breath and try not to vomit while I wait for Hiroshi to look back at me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He just looked back down to his wrinkled paper. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He got louder and louder and finally stopped, abruptly, as he looked back down at the motionless figure on his floor. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He was scared to look back even after he was in the car and on the main road for fear he’d see his mother screaming after him. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

At the end of the hallway he looks back at me, and then disappears around the bend. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He turned toward the voice down the hall, raised his eyebrows, then looked back at her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When he looked back up, Javier was staring, his phone in his hand. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

As she passed the doors she turned and looked back. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Because when someone does look at you, and you notice it, you look back at them, and they look away, right? Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry looked back down the hill to where we waited in the car. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He looked back at the sand dunes and then noticed that the water monster wasn’t leaving any footprints. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Jinny looked back up, and out, into the endless sea, the distance. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He took a few steps away and looked back inquiringly, like a dog inviting them for a walk. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She looked back from her seat in the Ford Fairlane to face me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Without looking back, he smacks his butt with his glove. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I look back at Tobias, who is pacing back and forth in front of the windows, gnawing on his fingernails. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I looked back at Bat Lady’s house, up at the window where the bedroom light still shone. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Kaede looked back at her before she exited the carriage, feeling oddly reluctant to leave her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When the other two had trotted down the beach to look back at the mountain he had followed them for a few yards and then stopped. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The young nun looked back at the windows behind them and stood aside. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew better than to say anything, or to even turn around and look back at her. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I looked back, wondering if I should thank him, but the gate clanged shut. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Halfway down the street, he paused, looked back. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

With a little jerk of her head she looked back into the hall. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I adjusted the heavy knapsack and looked back at the woman with her rifle and her well full of water. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As she puts the car into reverse, I look back up at the house, and standing there on the porch, with her arms folded and that smug smile, is Tressa. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

She stopped by the door, and her face was full of despair as she looked back at Mrs. Torrance. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“No, I’m not,” I said, looking back to the kid selling clay suns. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Spurge stopped for a moment, looked back up toward Werfel, and called out faintly, “Archivist! It is the elfin army! They’re here!” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Glancing at the envelope he looked back at me with a strange interest in his eyes and said, "Have a seat, please. I'll be with you in a moment." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But not too strong,” Rishi said thoughtfully, looking back down at the envelope on the counter. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I watched the road ahead for a good place to turn around, but when I looked back, the woman was gone. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my bad,” says Dylan, looking back and forth between us. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I take a moment to look back at the kid crumpled in front of the theater. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He looked back, expecting to see the dolphin as the boat went over it but there was nothing. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we walked down the front steps, mother paused and turned to look back at Grandma, who was standing at the edge of the porch. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sight made Ophie’s palms slick with sweat, and she swallowed drily as she turned to look back to where the ghost had stood. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Anya twisted to look back at Alfhercht while she kept her hand on the key, as if letting go of it meant it would vanish into the keyhole. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Jane grabs my hand and stands up to say into my ear, "Hey," and then I look back at her, trying to act like it doesn't matter. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Shay looks back at her and turns forward. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The boy kept looking back and when he could no longer see him he stopped and then he just sat down in the road sobbing. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

As we walked down the street, I looked back at the man in Bermuda shorts. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

She heard Ivan’s ragged breathing from behind her, but she didn’t want to look back and take her eyes off the dragon. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I ran down the steps, then paused and looked back up. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rashid could hear them moving, but he couldn’t look back to see how fast they were going. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The space was too narrow for him to turn and look back, but he knew Kayser was behind him—he could hear the man’s breathing. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked back to see Calder high on top of the slide, still clutching his bundle, the man standing below. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

When I look back now, I think Rosa Parks was the right person to represent that movement at that time. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Harry looked back into the flames, and jumped. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She glances around nervously at the people shouldering against us, but when she looks back and up at me, her gaze becomes trusting and soft. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dazzling me,” I admitted, trying to concentrate as I looked back at him. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Today, I look back and realize how amazing, precious, and powerful both time and life can be. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I looked back and saw Jack leading the chant, fist in the air, smiling and signaling for me to keep going, and Amos shouting through his hands: “Woo-hoo, little dude!” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The Spirit Bear never once slowed or looked back. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I ran up the bank about thirty feet, turned, and looked back. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lane watched him leave the room, then looked back at Franny. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Best of all, when you looked back, Tashbaan was already small and remote. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I look over at Viola and she looks back at me and just smiles and shakes her head and wipes away the wet from her eyes. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He dumps his paper plate into the trash and starts heading out of the restaurant without looking back. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Frightened eyes and a fountain looked back at her. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl was looking back as if waiting for Mariam to pass on some morsel of wisdom, to say something encouraging. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

As he walked down the steps, he looked back as I closed the door. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I looked back up the path to the house. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

This is the moment I remember clearest of all—how I stood in the driveway looking back at them. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss ran to the corner and unlocked his bike as quick as he could, jamming Javier’s bike chain in his bag, and he did not look back to see if anyone had followed him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She had a funny expression on her face, which made Adria and me pause in the doorway and look back at her, waiting. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But the boy simply blinked, then looked back down at the sea star and tugged again, harder. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Mom nodded and waved as Dad drove us away from the house without even looking back. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Only when he chanced to put his hand on his bald scalp did he remember the seamed, ruined face that had looked back at him out of the mirror. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He peered into the mirror fragment again, and saw nothing but his own bright green eye looking back at him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She dared not look back, she just ran. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

When I looked back up, Liam was studying me, his light eyebrows pulled tight together by some unspoken thought. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They all looked back as they reached the trees. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He stopped and looked back at the boy. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Her grey sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming discontented face. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He was looking back at me, so I frowned and looked perplexed and said, “I think he has a fever as well as broken ribs, sir.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She pushed through the door without looking back. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He looked back at the girl; it looked like she was starting to cry. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

At the door Winston looked back, but O’Brien seemed already to be in process of putting him out of mind. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the frenzied greeting the dogs lowered their noses to the ground in a businesslike way and went ahead, looking back now and then to make sure that the boy was coming. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she was already standing up and looking back at her house. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He looked back to see his friend at the bottom of the stairs, weapon raised to shoot whoever dared try to come down first. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Chess opened the door a crack, then looked back at the others. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Jesper looked back at the rocking waves, at the broken bits of mast and torn sail where a ship had been only seconds before. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I think he will regret this when he looks back on his life. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mami prepared for our trip with the steady resolve of someone who never looks back. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Nevertheless,” he looked back to me, “you have no feather. How do you bring it down?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I made her tell me one last time, and I wrote down her answers so I could look back at them when I wanted to. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Though my heart aches, I do not look back. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grumman leaned on the stick he carried and shaded his eyes to look back, and Lee turned to look too. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he looked back at Emma and said, “You want them? Here!” and he pulled back and swung the cage at her face. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I jerked around and looked back behind me. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I think when I’m done looking for my patron to be, I’m going to wash my hands of this place and never look back.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She looks back down at the paper to find her place again. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And he’d peeked out from behind her coat, and people were looking back with murderous expressions. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

And even tho it’s too loud for her to hear my Noise, even tho she can’t read my thoughts, she looks back at me. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“As pups go,” she says, looking back at me, “ye are as easy to read as a newborn, m’boy.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He let out a breath and looked back the direction he came. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish—” Lyra said when they had nearly left the square, stopping to look back up. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look back at Chloe, facing away from me on the log. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He turned and looked back at the stand of raspberries. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie mopped the rain off her face and looked back at him with equal reproach. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In no time, he's at his front door, and he walks into his house without looking back. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I came to see God’s power only much later, as I looked back on the difficult journey. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had gone down the road to the house without looking back. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Ben asks, looking back and forth between my parents. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

For when I look back over his career, I can see with hindsight that he must have striven throughout his years somehow to become that butler of his story. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I look back and forth between my friends. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Though it was forbidden to look back while the lodges were burning, I could not resist. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She nods and looks back to the gate. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Lucky I’m not a bat. I might just fly out of here and' not look back.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ambrose half-turned to look back at me and I saw flickers of amusement play across his face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So he straightened his tunic and went, looking back once to throw a brave, shaky grin at Alyce. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t look back,” she cried out in a voice high with fear, “don’t look back—don’t look—run!” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed his upper arm and he looked back at me. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I hear my parents’ footsteps behind me, and Barb’s, and Dr. Hamid’s, but I look back at Will, one more time, his eyes meeting mine. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

When I look back on that head-to-head with the Pastor, I’m pretty sure the only untruth I told was saying I didn’t know where I was headed after I left him hollering up Water Street. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I pulled her into my lap and stared straight ahead, afraid that if I looked back, I might break. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked back and took measure of the clouds. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back at Zed, who had been studying me with the same look that I see in the neighbor’s cat’s eyes when she watches baby birds learning to fly. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He too glanced at Harry, then looked back at Dumbledore, and said, “You are — er — prepared to take Harry’s word on this, are you, Dumbledore?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A great gust of laughter went up from behind him, but he did not look back. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When Alex looked back up, he caught eyes with a woman across the aisle. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The chill in my veins didn’t return, but halfway up the first flight, I stopped and looked back the way we’d come. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Clara closed her eyes, breathed a contented sigh, and left for the other world without looking back. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked back at him, he was staring at me, measuring with his eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

When I look back at the big top, August has disappeared inside. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I look back again down the river at where we’ve run. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Every few feet, Ryder stops and looks back, waiting for me. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He pulls open the door and looks back. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And, looking back, he felt that, for all of Reggie’s assurances that he hadn’t been texting, Reggie might have been taking cues, too, from the family. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“He started to accuse me about knowing something,” she says, looking back. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then he looked back at me once more, and began. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I looked back toward the carousel, which was now quite a distance away. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The kids and Leon Longbridge looked back to see the falcon fly in terror. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I know it didn’t really happen like this, but when I look back, it all happens in slow motion. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Will looked back through the window at Lyra, and saw her face, moonlit and wide-eyed with fear, biting her lip to keep silent and straining to hear, as he was. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look back at the door and turn the knob, but it won’t budge. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then he would look back down at his plate, embarrassed for staring. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Abuela told me she was tired as she looked back at the impeccably dressed man. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I looked back down at my journal, at all Mei-li’s words I’d just written down, and I shifted in my seat. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She slaps tiny starburst hands against the stone and looks back at the camera. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Ah could throw ten acres of it over de fence every day and never look back to see where it fell. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Amar gives the basic explanation as we go, looking back at them instead of the road far too often for my comfort. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Eliza had walked past and been heading down the hallway when she stopped and looked back. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

She looks back at me as she stops in front of a pair of frosted-glass doors, her expression unreadable as she punches a code into the keypad. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She put me in charge of chopping off their heads, but 1 didn’t like chopping off the head of anything looking back at me. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t look back as she struck out from under cover to join the other people on the road, but Sefia couldn’t stop herself from shuddering at Nin’s words. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Zohra looks back at the camera and gives me a smile, but it doesn’t reach her eyes. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

When I looked back, he had sat down in the swing and opened his Bible. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He did not answer at first, and even looked back at the other riders as though they were sharing a secret. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When he gets to the bottom, he looks back and sees us still watching him. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Aimee looked back to see if her mother and father were watching. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Sefia looked back over her shoulder, and the mate turned his cloudy eyes on her. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When I got to the bottom of the hill, I looked back. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I look back into the emptiness of the library “They’re hardly jumping off the shelves, now, are they? I don’t think anyone else wants them just now.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

We don’t look back, but I know it’s him, because I can smell the sweet cologne his aunt makes him wear. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I need both of you to close your eyes and cover your faces with your hands. Look away. Make sure you do not look back.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

When I looked back, the cheetah was following us along the side of the cage. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She paused to look back at Turner, and looked back again just before she went into the kitchen. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

When they looked back, the monsters were only a few yards away—dozens of them surrounding Thalia. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit looks back at Celia, and when he speaks she understands the words once more. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Babou looked back and forth at the road signs and said something in Farsi. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She kissed Ma on the cheek and then quickly hopped in the taxi without looking back. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I looked back at the dark river, wondering if I had really seen her children drowning. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Alma looked back at her mother, held a finger up as if to say Give me one minute, and began to walk across the street. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He looks back at me while lifting his coffee cup to his lips, gaze stern. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He looked at his wet, black hair and the dark gray eyes which looked back mistrustfully from the mirror at him, looked at the marks on his coffee-colored skin. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

His expression held indecision as he looked back and forth between Ekon and the surrounding fields. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Saints, please let that be Jesper,” she pleaded as they pulled themselves over the lip of the gorge and looked back at the bridge festooned with ribbons and ash boughs for Hringkalla. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Yossarian whirled and plunged ahead up the path without looking back. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I look back at the Bambi video and put it back on the shelf because it’s giving me a recess feeling in my stomach and I don’t know why. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, don’t get started on that. Remember what I said: There’s no point in looking back.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Presently, down he climbed, as stately as royalty, and off he marched, never looking back. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she jogged down the path toward the archery field without looking back. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

At the door she looked back ruefully at her brother. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“But when I looked back, he was gone.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He paused with one leg over the sill and looked back at Chronicler. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Z shoved the phone into his pocket and looked back at Nick. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He straightened up and looked back at Candy. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she looks back down at the bin and scrutinizes each object for clues, for some bit of information to store away and examine later. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I shouted, then looked back to catch a last glimpse of Sam’s face, framed in the closing door, her eyes big and scared. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“You keep looking back and you get stuck in the past.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

My dad looks down, doing some mental calculations, then looks back up at me again. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Well, the mynah was free now, and it hadn’t even looked back. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry about your wife,” he said sadly, and then looked back at Vera, who had lit up a cigarette and was nervously smoking it. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Carmen couldn’t help looking back as she and Tony ran for their lives. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

With a rush of panic, I look back. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The children hold on to their mothers’ hands, and often an older girl leads the little ones who stumble onward and are for ever looking back. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls kept looking at Rondell, who was looking back and forth from them to me like he had no idea what we were talking about. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I walk without looking back, all the way to where my grandparents are waiting. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The children could look back and see their own car, green and lonely, in the middle of the parking lot. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they began to climb its first slopes they looked back and saw the lamps in Hobbiton far off twinkling in the gentle valley of the Water. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I quickly realized I would never recover my composure looking up there, so I looked back at the students and forced a smile. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And beyond ’em, in a camp by the side of the river, I see an Aaron who ain’t looking back at me at all. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A heavy-set mulatto with mirrored dark glasses that flash my own scared look back at my face. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he looked back down at me, he wasn’t smiling. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I did this so I could look back at the other kids on the bus. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Senator’s grin deflates and he looks back at the maid to collect these mundane drinks. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I gave him five, told him to keep the change, and hurried out of his barbershop without looking back. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I look back to the crowd, but the faces of Rue’s mother and father swim before my eyes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Again he looked back at the old soldier, recalling—with an avalanche of associations—all the stories he had heard about Hessian brutality. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

His step was almost steady and he never looked back. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed out on deck for a long time, sitting by the lifeboat, looking back at Curacao, feeling lonely and sad. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, I will look back and wonder at myself, my lack of compassion. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He kept looking back toward the others as he pushed his way past three screaming girls who were trying to remove a couple of pigeons from their hair. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer looked back again at the beach and saw nothing. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

These will be the years you look back on fondly. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that if and when I finally escaped from the stacks, I’d never look back. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As I looked back I saw he was staring wide-eyed at my sack. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jacob, finger still in his mouth, looks back at me till he and his pa disappear outta the house. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

In fact, looking back, I see they really went out of their way helping us settle in. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, and looked her in the eye, then looked back at the basket, which looked like it had been woven by a raccoon. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then they stopped, gathering together, and looked back. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The gravelly voice was in Wash’s ear, and when he looked back he saw more men. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The woman looked back and forth between Thomas and Teresa, then let out a sigh. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

When we arrived at the Locktons’ she walked up the front steps without ever looking back at me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wormtongue halted and looked back at him, half prepared to stay. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Yet looking back it was difficult to see how or where the mistake had been made. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look back at her, eye her suspiciously, even though she is so frail under the wool blanket. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He stopped and looked back at her when he realized she wasn’t walking with him. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He looked into the water, then he looked back at her, and simply shook his head as he raised a hand to cover his mouth. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He looked back up, wishing he were a thousand miles away. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I smile to myself but don’t look back. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Thomas took a deep breath and looked back toward the crowd around the hole. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Grant stops short and looks back at us. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

And, reader, as you already know, he did not look back. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I guess. I dunno. Maybe,” Cabot said, looking back into the car behind him. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo looked back into the surprise and awe of her friends’ faces and felt her chest puff out in importance. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He’d get in that plane with his best friend of years and years and take off—never looking back. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Vincent paused, looked back, saw the Regiment coming up the road, shook his head, violently. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel the same way, looking back at him. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I looked back again and she spotted me and waved. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he’d just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

When he was down the road a little distance, he turned to look back; she was standing where he’d left her with the rainy wind whipping at her skirt and the ends of her scarf. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, looking back on it, Roosevelt believed that he never would have become president of the United States if it hadn’t been for his experiences in the Dakota Territory. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

There was a pause, and the riders looked back and forth at each other uneasily. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I stop and look back at Mags’s limping form, the sheen of sweat on Peeta’s face. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stop and look back at the school to make sure no one’s around, to make sure no one’s within a soccer field of our conversation, a conversation I can’t believe we’re having at school. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Before I pulled out of the tube by his office, I looked back at her, standing by the door. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grins, then winks at me and looks back to the crowd. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“That was not flying,” said Roz, looking back at her upside-down son. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t think he made it off the rooftop. He was watching from the edge when I looked back.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Through the crowd, I spot Gale looking back at me with a ghost of a smile. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I look back at Olly’s ocean eyes and I’m drowning, surrounded on all sides by water. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He started the engine and drove on another mile or more before stopping again, climbing out, carrying his lunch bucket, and walking to a little promontory where he could look back at that dusty city. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went quickly, almost running, and didn’t look back at me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Once or twice he looked back at her. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Soon Vincent is able to look back at his journey through despair and poverty and loss, and the long walk to Courrieres, and see what all of it had actually meant. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then he looked back at me, and his voice was gentle as he spoke. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I looked back at her, and she was staring at me with her ginger-cake eyes. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Klaus looked back at her and saw something he hadn’t seen in quite some time. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Ash recoiled from her and looked back at the person who was pulling her away, and it was Sidhean. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave a lazy grin and looked back down toward the courtyard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As I moved down the hall I looked back. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Why would I be happy to see someone who abandoned us without warning and never looked back?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see...He turned his head and looked back toward Broadway like maybe there was a giant clock hovering in the air right behind us. “It’s three-sixteen.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I can’t look back on my memories of my father if I wanted to. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

With something like this, I will always look back and wonder what would have happened if we kept it? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I thought about it for a while and looked back toward the plane s johns. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want to trust your kids,” she says, looking back. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He looked back at the jar, empty now except for a few wilting flower petals. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I go back to that one moment when I stood in the driveway with small rocks and clumps of dirt around my feet and looked back at the porch. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back, wondering if it was some sort of hallucination, and then realized—I knew that shade of red. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He turned to look back at me anxiously. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rubio looks back out the window even though we can no longer see the planet. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Me too,” he said after a minute, and I didn’t need to look back to know that he was crying, too. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Gregor couldn’t believe his dad would abandon the family and never look back. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was flowing in the wind, and she appeared to be looking back at something or someone behind her. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

With one last desperate look back at Ron, Harry and Hermione charged through the door and up the next passageway. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Every time I look back, no matter how far we’ve climbed, the fire is no farther away. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The other guys picked up their hands, putting what they received in order, but Gramps just stared, daring Jones to look back. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Everyone looked back at David, who took off his top hat and round spectacles and shook his head. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Back then, anyone looking up at it was likely to find it looking back with its immense, inscrutable eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I try to look back for Aunt Pooh, but the stampede makes it impossible. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She looks back at me, and her mouth moves—one word, sung over and over. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She looked back at Ash and smiled at her, then rose to her feet and walked away, her tread so light that Ash couldn’t hear it. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look back down at Tori, and her eyes are closed, her body still. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Why should she leave and not look back a single time—until now? The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

She looked back but all she could see was black smoke just beginning to rise above the treetops. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Ash looked back at the carcass of the stag, and saw that the dogs were being held off now, and one of the men was approaching with his kit of knives to begin the butchering. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I say go, you hightail it outta here and don’t look back, got it?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Sierra turned and looked back into the room. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

JT glanced at me again, then looked back at his older brother. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drank the cold beer, looking back to the rear of the room to the booths. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She nodded and looked back at the ocean. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I figure that’s the last I’ll see of the beagle, and I get halfway down the road again before I look back. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He streaked toward the woods without looking back at his humans. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I immediately look back down at the glaring digital numbers on the bike, trying to ignore the red creeping slowly up my face. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

They stood looking back at the road in the dusk. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

There it was: her own reflection looking back at her. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I squinted at every dappled leaf in the mulberry wood, hoping to see leopard eyes looking back. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I don’t need to look back to know that the look on her face is just as dumbfounded as mine. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what she thought, I don’t know what she understood, or what she wouldn’t allow herself to understand, I turned around and walked away from her, I didn’t look back, I won’t. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then he looked back at Bod, and said, “Unless it’s a busy night, and we have to put you in with some of the drunks. They can be nasty.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Miss Duncan looks back down the road, her lips pursed in thought. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I shook my head and looked back at the Tree of Power, but it was no longer flickering. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Diana handed Mrs. Kennedy the schedule with a practiced smile, then looked back at the computer screen as Mrs. Kennedy left for the copier. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I looked back and saw the three cars all climbing, spaced by the interval of their dust. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

His chin level with the banister, the manager looked back for the last time. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even before he betrayed me, he left me for the Erudite and didn’t look back. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They climbed on, finding the going easy on the rock road, and when they reached the top of the ridge, they stopped and looked back. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She turns back around and doesn’t give any more looks back. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He looked back, and then he looked up; and he was amazed to see how far his last effort had brought him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

When I look back up, she's standing before me, adjusting my cape, her long fingers brushing my neck. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He therefore pulled his wand out of the inside of his robes, cast a nervous look around the office, looked back at the contents of the basin, and prodded them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I always turn and look back,” I said, falling into the measure of his walk. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It takes every bit of discipline I have to keep walking, to not look back. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. Murrow looked back at my IEP form and then at me. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shorter of the two women looked to her companion and frowned before looking back to Ekon. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I know you,” Gaily added without looking back. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He looked back at Felix, who, thankfully, was still deciding what he wanted. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

One of the dudes calls for Sneaky to come on, but he looks back at me. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She did not look back as I called to her to stop. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Their laughter hounded me, but I refused to look back. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The marionette’s black eyes looked back at him blankly. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Not willing to show fear or weakness, I stood there looking back at her. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days—that was sad. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Like I said, personally I don’t remember the whole thing, but looking back at what I do remember about myself, I’d have to say the story is probably true. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Halfway across, I look back to see we are all in. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But Will and Lyra had no strength to look back; all they could do was move on after the harpies, and hope. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But as chemistry developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, people began to look back on Boyle’s book as a turning point. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I turned and looked back, and saw that clouds were darkening the sky, announcing the arrival of the afternoon rains. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Longstreet turned to ride on, and then the voice registered and he looked back: a grinning Fremantle, hat held high like the cloth on the arm of a scarecrow, bony, ridiculous. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, looking back at Rishi, he added, “I said I’d been locked out of my room and needed to borrow the spare.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I straightened up swiftly, turned away from him again, and stalked off to Gym without looking back. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

When she looked at herself in her wedding photographs, Ammu felt the woman that looked back at her was someone else. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t allow herself to look back at the island. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But looking back, I wonder how much of it there really was. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four men at the table regarded the silent man who stood looking back at them. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks back at the water, her eyes glazed over, her mind far away, on the top of a cliff in Arizona. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

When I saw nothing and looked back Dad was smiling a mile a minute, acting like he hadn’t done anything but I noticed that his toothbrush was gone. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at my dad in agony, which was the same way he was looking back at her. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Javier shook his head and thanked her, then looked back to Moss. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And all of them, at some point, look back at Aibileen as if to ask, Are you sure? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When Major Major looked back on what he had accomplished, he was pleased. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He looked back and saw the old man and the bantam policeman grappling beneath the department store clock. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jody looked back in time to see the hammer rise and fall again on the flat forehead. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in that transitory moment when at last the pearl was about to be handed to him, like Orpheus or Lot’s wife, he had to look back to find Vera. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Ray clings to Pop; Pop gathers fresh pajamas from a box; he opens our door, then stops and looks back like he’s forgotten something. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I looked back and saw that my sister was asleep. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Gun in hand, he went out onto the porch and looked back in. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back at Luzan’s door and started to speak but Jimmy swiftly approached from the side and pressed a bandanna around my mouth and nose. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to look back without tipping off the log. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

They walked back home in silence, but just before he shut the gate, Moss looked back at the market. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Legolas turning to speak to Gimli looked back and the Dwarf saw before his face the glitter in the Elf’s bright eyes. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Pausing unsteadily on the stairs, I looked back at Francis’s door, indistinguishable from the others in the long faceless row. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But then Sohrab looked back at me as I watched him from the doorway, and his eyes squinted up again. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When he looked back at me, his eyes were glassy. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She began to make some urgent point to the men outside, then left with George, not looking back at us. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say, smiling hopefully and looking back and forth between Camila and Mya. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

When I gave up yesterday, I looked back for a last glimpse of her manor, since I couldn't have a last glimpse of her. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mustafa asks, looking back and forth at Mama and Baba with raised eyebrows. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

At their first halt they looked back, and they could dimly perceive the roofs of the forest they had left behind, lying like a vast dense shadow, a darker night under the dark blank sky. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Dad's looking back at me, expecting me to say something. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As she headed for the door she looked back at the three kids staring after her, and she said, “Now that’s what I call news.” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Conor made an exasperated sound and looked back at the broken clock. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Without looking back, she ran out of the house and down the street to the courthouse, where she collapsed in a doorway. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

At least I would never have to look back and wonder if things could have gone differently if I'd only asked Evan to the dance. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know what to call it, so she walked away and didn’t look back. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She turned and looked back, and Joe was the only one who had followed her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually, Rachel, I’m sorry, but I just don’t want to know. 1 cannot have this in my house. I cannot have . . .” She tails off, but she’s looking back down the hall, towards the stairs. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly I swim to the shore, looking back with each stroke. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

At last I found daylight at the edge of the courtyard and turned to look back. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I look back at the house before we walk away. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They could not see the two dogs at all, only the steady furrowing of the sedge where, invisible, the dogs quar-tered the slope until one of them flung up his head to look back. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

She half hugs his waist and looks back at Arthur. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

And like Dadi says, I have a feeling that if I don’t take this opportunity, I’ll look back and kick myself. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She looked back at Ash and asked, “Can you find your way home?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while Sam turned and looked back at the way they had come. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Toomer did not even look back, but continued into the store where he heard the laughter of these white men whom he had known all of his life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at me some more, chewed, swallowed, sipped, looked away, looked back. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I looked back, wondering if I should have thanked the goddess before we ran. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Sam sat in the bows, clutching the sides, and looking back wistfully to the shore. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Zooey looked back at her steadily, then smiled and faced around to examine his beard in the mirror. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I stared straight ahead, refusing to look back. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Adults passed those looks back and forth when they didn’t want you to know what they really thought about you. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But every so often I look at Tobias, and he looks back at me, like we’re passing fear back and forth between us. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He looked back down at the table and the project in his hands. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The girls you can see looking back at you are gone. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

To take the trail and not look back. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dylan looks back over his shoulder and smiles. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But I could tell by the way he walked out, without looking back, that he wouldn’t return. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Hibiscus sagged immediately, unconscious, and Redemption massaged his hand as he looked back up at Jam and Pet. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I looked back at the kid selling clay suns, but he was looking somewhere else now. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I look back to the van and ask everyone else if they want anything. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He didn’t wait for them, didn’t look back to see if they were coming. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

When he looked back on this in a year, when he was at MIT, he wouldn’t remember any of these feelings. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He looks up, and Henry is looking back at him, mouth open, eyes wet. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My pretend brother looked back at me and stuck out his tongue, then reached up and took my pretend mother’s hand. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Now that I look back, I don’t know why I was so stressed about it all this time. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I looked back to the street and shook my head. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

From Monks Mound we walked halfway across the southern plaza and then stopped to look back. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Kit looked back at the faded eyes, sunk deep in wrinkles, and caught the twinkle there. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

When he looked back up at Dimple, it hit her how much this really meant to him. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I look back and the face is gone. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think we’re done, but Tyler dips his head down a little, clears his throat, and then looks back up, staring me right in the eyes. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Only then did Moss look back up at them. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She looked back with longing at the land of her birth. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took me a minute to focus, and even then I wasn’t sure who was looking back. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Bryce glances at me and then looks back at the TV. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I never looked back, but that doesn’t make me any different from a million inmates who have left a prison behind them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crouched next to him and looked back at the beach. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I look back to the dining table, John and Mom are still there, but Eden's gone. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when I look back on that summer I think that it was the last summer I was truly a child. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My face looked back at me from the thick glass. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bigger one turned its head toward her and looked back at her with beady black eyes, taking her in. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

In the powerful humidity the powdered mix got transfigured like Lot’s poor wife who looked back at Gomorrah and got turned to a pillar of salt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked back at the casket, I felt dizzy again. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder what I’ll see when I look back later in life. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Perhaps this is Vincent looking back through his own painter’s eyes, thinking they both wanted the same thing. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“She was so little. I can still feel her fingers sliding across my biceps, and then letting go. I never even turned to look back.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“We believe that the village of Loun-Ariik was attacked and probably burned. Your family . .Uncle paused and looked away. When he looked back again, his face was solemn. “ A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked back at me, smiled, and shrugged. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then he clears his throat before looking back up. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Nailer looked back at his father, conflicted emotions warring within him. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I look back with praise to Ethwen, where my luck changed. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The boy smiled and turned, but then stopped to look back. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She stood up quickly and hurried away, without looking back. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

As much as I hated the system at that time, looking back I realized that they saved me from myself, and saved my life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her face lit up when she saw Carmen had just opened her eyes and was looking back at me. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When Pinmei finally dared to look back at the Sea King, she saw his head had elongated, with deep brows shadowing his glittering eyes and his horns now majestic. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Rondell looked back and forth between us for a minute or so, and then he went up to the fence too. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I look back over my shoulder at the valley still erupting behind us. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He was staring intently at the Sea King, who was looking back at him, the brow above his blank eyes creased in a cavernous fold. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“It be gone,” Amari said as she looked back to where they had run from and scanned the water’s edge. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced at him and then looked back out of the window. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Merry and Pippin looked back, when they had passed some way down the winding road. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I guess so,” I said, looking back into the mirror and adjusting the knot on my tie. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mikaela blinked at her, and then looked back at the other table. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I looked back to see Lily before she boarded, and suddenly there was Nathan—standing near the entrance of the gangway. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Finally she turned and looked back at the large Council Edifice where she lived. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hid the books in the kitchen and moved from the house again to the alley and looked back and the house was still dark and quiet, sleeping. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not as if I could simply run away without looking back. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He looked back out the window, and we sat in silence a long time. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Renee glanced at the chart, then looked back at the sisters. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I look back at these three boys who are all running toward us. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I hear footsteps behind us, but I don’t look back. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I stepped past him, then hesitated and looked back. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I look back at the horizon, click my tongue, and turn on my microphone. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

We sit at the table with our tea and bread looking at our new brother but he won’t even open his eyes to look back at us so we go out and play. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He paused in the doorway and looked back. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked back, his silver muzzle moved as he tried to respond. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The mayor glared at the constable, then looked back to me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When he was in the seat and ready to leave, he looked back. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bright as hammered gold, it hurts my eyes when I sit down on a patch of clover near the stables, looking back at the house. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Seriously,” he says, looking back at me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The cat gave a guttural yowl, then deliberately ran ahead, looking back as he paused beyond the range of firelight. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned my attention to my own book and then looked back at the girl. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I have to force myself not to look back as I get out of the car and head toward the dorm. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Wes ran by her and, without even looking back, told her nothing was wrong and to go to bed. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

When she sees me looking back at her, she smiles a little. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Outside, she began walking away and did not look back, though just before she reached the end of the street she heard her stepmother shouting her name. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lizard looked back and a moist stiletto tongue darted in and out. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we walked away from her house and started to climb the hill with the goat in tow, we dared to turn around and look back at it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“You come on, boy,” I said without looking back. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shoji looks back at me with his dark, familiar eyes. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Without looking back she fled away from the stream to the woods and ran with all the speed her fear gave her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lingered a moment and turned to look back at the rectory. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Stella fixes her face mask, looking back at me, her eyes meeting mine for a fraction of a second. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t like him right now, so I look back at the sky. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I grabbed Jingle Boy’s reins and never looked back. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The driver of the Cadillac never even stopped—he couldn’t have known that he had only killed a homemade go-cart, and not a child, but he sped on down the street, never looking back. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't have anything to give you, either, except words, Kabir. So remember all I taught you. Go on. Go ahead. Don't look back." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I know—fairies are so lame!—and when I look back I can’t believe I was so scared of this stuff, but I freaked out at this trailer. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She stood in the hallway, turning, looking back of her at the staircase and then around again at the front door. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He looked back up at the second floor. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She noticed Reyna looking back and forth between Jason and Piper, her brow creased, as if just beginning to realize the two of them were a couple. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Liam and Mike burst out laughing about something—even Zu looked back to grin at them, Liam’s hat falling over her eyes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Even though I said I wouldn’t, I turned around once and looked back one more time. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I looked back to where Maribel had been standing with Mayor, but I didn’t see her. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

They kept running, and they didn’t stop to look back at the big truck or the corrals until they were a quarter mile away. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

"During these times of indecision when all the old answers are proven false, the people look back to the dead to give them a clue," he went on. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z