I made certain Mom was settled back into the house she loved, near the great brown strand of beach that runs along the Atlantic. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A loved and cherished addendum, sure, but still an addendum. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He loved giving gifts, drawing out the suspense, and he always chose wonderful things. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I was an athlete and I loved fashion. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I'm sure he got drunk just in order to get up the nerve to walk in the door and tell me he loved me, and after that eruption of sentimentality, he wanted out. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The Nazis loved having new prisoners who didn’t know what was coming. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had loved his arrow’s movement, its burning ambition in the sunlight, and, besides, it was his best one. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s true, lady. I’ve had older students that would have loved to do half as well.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And Gerald loved to watch her as she danced in her bedroom late at night, and danced in the kitchen while she was getting ready for school. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The penguins all loved to climb the stairs that led up to the kitchen, and never knew when to stop unless they found the kitchen door closed. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to tell her that he loved her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I loved how the actors kept looking at me when they voiced an opinion, to see what I thought. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In my bedroom were books by poets and novelists—books that I loved—in which male writers published feelings the men in my family never revealed or acknowledged in words. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved sticking my nose right on top of Joey’s head and smelling all those nice things baked together. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, it seemed the best thing to do was to become immediately involved in the thing we both loved best—chess. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Wes loved football, and his athletic frame made him a natural. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She thought of him now, while the singing and weeping went on around her—and she thought how he would have loved his grandson, who was like him in so many ways. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

There is the same shame, the sick feeling in my body, the same knowledge of my own wrongness, awkwardness, weakness; the same wish to be loved; the same loneliness; the same fear. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The blessing of giving love, of being loved. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As much as she loved it, she felt that its rightful place was with him. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now would come a lecture, or more accurately, an oration, because Scythe Goddard loved nothing more than performing to the gallery, even if it was just a gallery of one. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved to weave and she was an expert at it. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He was the only general Chamberlain had ever seen who was truly loved. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved flash—in his clothes, his friends, and his women. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“But we still haven’t figured out the fourth clue. She loved all.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dinner always took a long time, because Antonapoulos loved food and he was very slow. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was a place where neighbor loved helping neighbor, based on a long-standing tradition that ranchers always left their homes unlocked because you never knew who might need to borrow something or cook a meal. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just because I'm playing for the other team doesn’t mean that I’m this pathetic human being who's begging to be loved. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

When I got home, Mom had already cremated him and scattered his ashes on the ocean she loved. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She inherited the apartment from her uncle Steven, who loved her and lived alone and died of AIDS. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

How did she know I loved to write song lyrics? A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I could feel the electricity coursing through the air like I was coming alive for the first time in months, and I loved it. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry for prying. It’s just, the more we know about our loved one’s health, the more we know about our health.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mom says she felt relieved to get older, even though she loved Peachy. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He loved El Patron, and the old man would want to see him if he was very sick. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the way Farmer showed off photos of his wife and daughter wherever he traveled, I knew that he loved them deeply. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The light was very dim, but when he peered down close and looked at the child’s face, he knew beyond any doubt that this was the Lyra he loved. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

There was a time when Werner would have loved to solve that puzzle. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The first part was missing and he had never finished it. ... as Lovelace said so long ago, ‘I could not love thee, dear, so much loved I not honour more.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Pa would have asked you to come back to Brooklyn if you said you loved him and us. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I knew my parents loved me, and I felt safe with them. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Of a sudden she loved all of the family and a tightness came in her throat. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I loved it, and immediately thought it was up to me to record my boat's history, like so many other sea writers had done. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Her life was solitary, carried around on her back with all that she had of the people she loved. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He loved to tell about how one day Lenny, age six, was lying on his papa’s lap. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Your grandpa loved ice cream. He always said no one ever matched his vanilla kumquat recipe, which just goes to show that wooden shoe trees don’t help a bit when it’s time to vote.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing unusual; lots of people record Memories of greeting loved ones or sending them off. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Yet outside of school, in a little shed at home, Charles loved to do chemistry experiments with Erasmus. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she loved that he’d rebelled against us, or so she thought, and she thought it was something that you rebelled all over again by becoming a classical musician. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They still hanged black people as a form of punishment for the smallest of deeds, but at Bethel AME, every member of the church was welcome and loved. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I kept bugging my aunt Helen, which she loved. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

On those occasions, she would understand why Kapugen had loved him. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved the lunches I prepared for him—usually tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Amari loved her tribe’s design of animal figures and bold shapes. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boseman loved his souvenir, however, and the revulsion on a new client’s face was too delectable. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I had loved soccer from that very first kick in second grade. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone had lost loved ones, and no one looked quite the same as they had in our happier years in Uvira. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Even though I always got lost in the shuffle of tall, boisterous eighteen-year-olds, I loved moving through the quad with my sister. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But that bow was the thing Pita loved most about that dress. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The mulefa loved them, but it was hard for them to move on the sand and gather them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Some gypsy boy or girl had loved this horse. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was true, and it was also the main reason that Tree-ear loved watching Min. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He had tried, once, to tease and frighten her with a snake, only to discover that she loved garden snakes. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

But really, I’m sure it was because she loved throwing a little end-of-the-year party for her bees, seeing them descend on the supers like they’d discovered honey heaven. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt the sudden and unreasonable urge to tell him how much she loved the poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa, to redeem herself. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Once there was a rabbit who danced in a garden in springtime with the daughter of the woman who had loved him at the beginning of his journey. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“You loved moving back then. Remember you made us do the family map?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She revered God and loved Jesus, but she understood why people often turned away from these Two. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d actually figured out what I wanted my last words to my loved ones to be. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Elves dearly loved it, and among many uses they made of it ithildin, starmoon, which you saw upon the doors. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He still loved him, this faithful anxious friend. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved an empty city room, just the blinking terminals and a few deadbeats like myself. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I returned, it was to be sacrificed or to see those whom I most loved die under the grasp of a dæmon whom I had myself created. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Kelly came over to George’s for dinner, she loved to rattle off the singers and bands to George’s mom, who recognized a few. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Adah. I loved you too. I never thought less of you, but I wanted better for you.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think his shortcoming increased his appreciation; he loved it all indiscriminately—Beethoven, the latest love ditty, jazz, a hymn—it was all profoundly musical to Phineas. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, she loved to write short stories. Little romantic stories. She wouldn’t let anybody read them. But she’d always be scribbling in her notebook.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled the crooked smile that I loved. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

As in: JB says that he hates basketball because it was the one thing that Dad loved the most besides us and it was the one thing that caused his myocardial infarction. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Will loved his mother very much and often told her so, and she told him the same. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her I loved her and she said she loved me back. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She once was bold enough to tell her how she felt, and Clara wrote in her notebook that Ferula loved her far more deeply than she deserved or than she could ever hope to repay. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bera-Bera talked too much, laughed too loudly, and sometimes sassed me, but still I loved him. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know about that. I never loved any woman.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

You told me that you loved him but you were scared. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“He must have loved your mother very much,” she says. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When I was little, I loved to trace the vines with my finger. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Dread coiled within her like a snake, but she forced herself to smile at this man she loved, this man who put no faith in signs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

How he loved this river, how it enchanted him, how grateful he was to it! Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved the adoption people, who rescued animals and found them good homes. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

We loved one another, but how long would we mourn the absence of any one of us? The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Ash had loved the roar of the fire — it sounded like a wild beast, crackling and growling and hot as summer. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a youth, I had loved people and parties. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We loved our country as much as they; we went courageously into every action; but also we distinguished the false from true, we had suddenly learned to see. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the fluffiest pancakes ever, and I loved that they were both sweet and tangy—my favorite combination. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Glenn Burke loved doing imitations,” I say, laughing. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Her father had grown fond of his wife, and it was a matter of pride for Jinjoo that her parents loved each other. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Because I loved a boy once, and he was murdered, and I’m afraid that will happen to me again. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“And yet I knew and loved Sonia Armstrong. What do you think, then? That I would not soil my hands with killing such canaille as that man Cassetti? Well, perhaps you are right.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He got on my nerves but I loved him to death,” Cherie recalls. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

How I loved to sit and watch the way she worked. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It reminded her of her own father, the few times he’d confessed to her that he still loved Athena. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The guards were making the prisoners say to one another they loved each other, and making them march down the hallway, in handcuffs, with paper bags over their heads. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved Indian and Chinese food and consumed what seemed like barrelsful of salads whenever they were available. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her ladies evermore praised her beauty, and she loved to be told that she was too young to be the mother of a grown prince. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But that meant we all had to try to fill the dining room with Abuela’s essence—the thing our customers loved more than her cooking. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I told her that I loved her very much and missed her very much. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved her, she knew, but he lacked a certain strength; his backbone was softened by duty. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Church was the only real place outside my home where I felt loved, happy, hopeful, protected. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Ashamed of his terror, while Beregond of the Guard thought first of the captain whom he loved, Pippin got up and peered out. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The towering forms of the young hunters crashed to the ground, each pierced by the spear of the other, each slaying and being slain by the only creature he loved. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wall was everything I hated, everything I loved. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Death-Cast is here to prepare Deckers and their loved ones, not for the Decker to turn their back on their loved ones. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was filled with the late seventies and early eighties music he loved. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I always loved homework, but this felt more important than any regular school assignment: I had a new friend. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We both loved how white blossoms on a branch could make her so happy. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

She loved meeting all my human and animal friends. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She loved him, and the spirited easy life he gave her, and yet she often fought the urge to create rough edges, to squash his sunniness, even if just a little. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

This is the weather, my mother says, Daddy loved to garden in. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She looked up at him, her pretty eyes swimming in her clear tears, and he groaned because this woman’s beauty was more than he could wish and he loved her when he would not. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He wanted to go to Godric’s Hollow, even if Bathilda was in no fit state to talk to him; he wanted to visit the place where he and Dumbledore had both lost loved ones. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I loved toffee apples, and I kept nagging her the whole way through the shop. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I loved being able to touch so much of him. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I knew many of them were feeling desperate — for food or for the healing of an illness in themselves or a loved one. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

In that moment, being surrounded by a diverse group of ethnicities—all of us about to become citizens together—I realized that this is what I loved about America. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I would have pulled us into the pool together and died like that, his lips on mine, certain that I loved him and that he loved me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“But you always loved your old man, didn’t you?” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I was simply trying to find out if she came from a family that loved good literature." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

That was how much she loved her father. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I just can’t get it through my head. He loved you more than anything in the world.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he was thinking of the paper ballerina he loved so much, or perhaps he wasn’t thinking at all. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Rascal," murmured Papa, smiling, because no matter what Jack did Papa loved him. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was about how nobody loved this guy except his mother. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She asked him an endless string of wonderful questions, and Colin loved her for it. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He had loved to wash and tend his hands. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I loved the time with Grandma and the games we played. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Gone is Brother Worbs's spirit, gone is the old man that Helmuth loved, shouts and all, and in his place, a broken man. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I would know afterwards that I had loved Alice, and that this was the only way. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Becca was going to talk about the art, which I would've loved to talk about since I was the one who had been doing so much research on it. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

But he never found the right buyer, instead he moved her in, and she loved the house like I did, and they decided to stay. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles loved the room that he had picked to be his study. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved mac and cheese, and he couldn’t stand it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I loved that boy to death and he loved me. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eighth graders loved me after that They threw all of my clothes in the showers, and I walked home leaving puddles at every step. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He hated his father for it, and at the same time he still loved him. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Dad spent hours in the greenhouse trying to save the plants my mother no longer loved. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Nothing could be worse than losing everyone we loved. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Usually I loved the scent of it, rich with bubbling life, but there was something in it now that smelled burnt and bitter. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Two sentinel boulders, dripping wet, decorated with flowers, ferns, moss, weeds—everything that loved water—guarded a bathtub-sized spring. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t even a person anymore, just flesh rotting, but I loved her present tense. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what it’s like to be half of the loved Homecoming couple. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I loved the scratching sound of the match against the sandpapery brown strip when I struck it, and the way the flame leaped out of the red- coated tip with a pop and a hiss. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like all great communicators, he loved language: he wrote a whole book about the word ‘serendipity’, another about the phrase ‘standing on the shoulders of giants’, and he co-edited a volume of social science quotations. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Beside it was the creamer that he had loved so much. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved when Dad talked to me like I was grown-up. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel each of her loved ones, their passions and fears. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I mean, could he have, like, loved her?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

This life in the shadow of the great wall was not the life Wang Lung loved. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Arya had loved nothing better than to sit at her father's table and listen to them talk. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And if you loved her so much, why’d you help her go? Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

When Joe returned with the knife and a clean plastic bucket, he was trailed by the kids, all three of whom loved a good butchering. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as much as summer with Audrey had been fun and relaxing, I loved our threesome. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I talked with Sovoy. He’s still not over er. He really loved her, you know. Treated her like a princess, le would have done anything for her. But she left him anyway, no explanation.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She loved the fresh, damp scent of rainfall. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Marisol loved to build things, especially things for animals and birds and reptiles. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They didn’t have to be wrenched away from everyone they loved. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know why I’d said that because I’d actually loved the book and had talked to Dad about it; he was using it for his student teaching. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like most jockeys in the 1930s, he had nowhere else to go, nothing else to live on, nothing else he loved. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I loved him for that,” said Sister Price. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

As much as Constantine loved me, I can only imagine how much she must’ve loved her own child. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were always apologizing, like she was telling me she loved me but in a different kind of way. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He loved the way she would sit up naked in his bed, her long white back swiveled away from him, look at her watch and say in her practical way “Oops, I must be off.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She listened to stories about the boys we loved and the girls we hated, and offered sage and thoughtful advice. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Her slightest gesture, her faint scent of fresh laundry and soap, the light in her eyes and the grace of her delicate neck crowned with untamable curls—I loved everything about her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The juice came out of her lips as if it was being extracted real careful by a rock-star dentist who she loved. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not all the time. But there was one teacher I loved, and she said...” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“You did say you loved me, didn’t you?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

They loved their jobs, and they saw their own absorption reflected back at them in Katherines questions and her interest that went so far beyond just running the numbers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I had always loved Christopher Marlowe, and I found myself thinking a lot about him, too. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And to make it worse, everyone loved me for it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first he’d seen in some while, common in the north, leading out of the looted and exhausted cities, hopeless messages to loved ones lost and dead. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She loved opening her home to others and having people around. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I feel loved like baby Rosa when I sink into her lap and she uses those sugar words that mean “beautiful girl” in Yiddish. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“No. I didn’t. I wish I had. He loved a celebration of the human soul. Such things were like a personal triumph to him.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Miss Riley—” I realized suddenly that I loved her, that I had never known and never would know anyone as good as she. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby loved to climb onto his bed and then jump off to see how far away he could land. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Peace women simply loved maleness, for its own sake. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They said the deer gave itself to them because it loved them, and he could feel the love as the fading heat of the deer’s body warmed his hands. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Drawings of things Ivy loved, like the little cape off the Gulf of Mexico where her family went the summer she was ten, water like a sapphire under the sun. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But before he could reach the donkey—one of the creatures which he loved the most—a shiny blue crow fell from above to perch on the donkey’s unprotesting muzzle. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

"Deem is little loved in the streets, I am told." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The clarinet was one of the only things she truly loved. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

On this night, he thought of all the dead Marines he had known and not known, and he loved all of them; the beauty and loss of this night moved him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Alas for my brother, whom I too loved!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

That she named me for a poet whose words she loved and kept hidden in her heart, just waiting for a baby boy. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear loved the symmetry of the prunus vases that grew on Min’s wheel. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She loved to stroke him, to feed him, to put him to bed. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He smiled at his mother, certain that he loved her more now than he did before. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She loved eating out, so we agreed to meet for lunch at her favorite Chinese restaurant. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was the one Olanna loved, the one she said made Baby look like a doll. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“What a silly thing to ask. You know I did. I was here when Mellie came home from the hospital with Joseph and Bridget. God, how they loved that baby. Don’t know why she...” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

If he really loved her, she wondered, why the lack of passion? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Some stories were a bit far-fetched, but they were all told in a way that said that people loved the old woman. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time she told me she loved me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was reading it because I loved it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I knew he loved saying it because it was a word he was not allowed not use, a word that was banned. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The high-cheating holidays are fraught with miscellaneous anxieties and the high expectations of loved ones. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Her mother, Jeer, had been born in Africa and loved to tell her daughter and her friends stories of her childhood in a small village by a river and all the animals who lived nearby. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

More than affection: they loved each other with a passion. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As I returned to the clearing, I imagined finding him there on my tarp, lying back with one foot in one hand, the position he so loved; but it was empty. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She loved the smell out here, of earth and bark and pine and...and...what was that other smell? Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was one of the fattest men Catelyn had ever known, but howevermuch he loved his food, he loved his honor more. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Back then a feeling would well up in her sometimes, like she just really, really loved America. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Once, when Sefia had asked why she loved gardening so much, her mother had sighed and sat back on her heels. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

All these sounds made him feel comfortable and happy, for he loved life and loved to be a part of the world on a summer evening. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Granddad and Tipper loved the girls so, they couldn’t say whom they loved best. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I would have hugged my parents and told them I loved them. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder this about everything now, trying to piece together the last minutes of the boy I loved. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I laughed as if I loved the name. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But I loved the soft coolness of the little cat’s fur. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She loved being in the library, the almost sacred silence you could find there, the way it felt like another home. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I knew loads about Jesse—he loved baths but hated hot tubs, he listened to self-important indie music, cologne made his eyes puffy, he never washed his jeans—but Diego was an enigma. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

‘They loved you,” I said, hoping that Harry could find a shred of conviction in my voice. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I loved Izzy's mom and dad and spent endless hours hanging out at their house. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Hanako loved the way you could always tell rice was cooking, and yet it had no smell. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It excited him too that many men had already loved Daisy--it increased her value in his eyes. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I loved the strange and mysterious shapes of the letters, the sounds of the prayers as we all recited together, and the stories about how to live a life according to the teachings of Allah. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

You sobbing about how you still loved Alex, then sobbing about how they made him break up with you. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Both of the judges loved the city, and the picture highlighted San Francisco. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She was faithful to him even in those moments when he lost himself in a sea of straight-haired, long-boned nymphs, and never loved him any the less for his digressions. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abu rarely spoke about his childhood, so these stories were all new to me, and I loved hearing about where I came from and what my father was like as a child. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Wealtheow, seizing her chance, wanting to die with the man she loved, flew down the stair and flung herself on her husband's unconscious body. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

A jazz album roared from the home-built stereo shelves in the dining room, and we dined on a potluck brought by loved ones—baked ham, Jell-O molds, and casseroles. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I would dishonor those I have loved and those I love now to claim anything else. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To punish her He made her walk in sand for forty years. And she returned to her king, the Lord, and He loved her and sent her David!” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Emma and Charles were both loving parents, and illness had kind of a happy aura about it, in part because Charles was always sick, and everyone loved Charles. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks, Dad. I loved Pride and Prejudice. I’m sure I’ll love this, too.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

A love sip, he called it, because you shared the little things you loved with the people you loved. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He daydreamed out his life, and his mother loved him more than the others because she thought he was helpless. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I loved that candy and I’d beg and beg until I got it all. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He begged the Lord’s mercy and forgiveness, prayed for the souls of all he loved and for Christ to find it in His heart to let Julie live. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I realized my family loved me very much and this world could be such a great place to live if you just realized the structure for coexisting with the other five billion inhabitants. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Every time her mom had left...it was because she loved her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And it seemed that he loved those boys. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wilbur loved his milk, and he was never happier than when Fern was warming up a bottle for him. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Not even at the beginning when I would’ve loved two automatic friendships. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Your wife, she never loved you,” Bodega blurted as Vera buried her face in Bodega’s shoulder. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

His favorites were the two cheerful deaf-mute brothers who ran the barbershop and who loved to clown around. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Axel remembers the way Byrd loved the crane’s dancing, the way Frank wished for the bird to make its trumpeting sound, and how he watched and listened for both. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Volpe loved being able to understand Italian, but could not speak it fluently. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

El Patron loved to talk about such things. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved you both, but he could not love Hassan the way he longed to, openly, and as a father. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She loved to give parties and she loved to go to parties. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

So did the embraces that under the gray glow of the moonlight seemed as lingering as a slow dance with someone you suddenly knew you no longer loved. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone else who loved books; she couldn’t remember the author’s name, only the words. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mtisha never looked in my eyes and just laid out how she felt, how much she loved me and everything. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He loved to draw and grew obsessed with the angel on the ceiling of the theatre. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“No, you were right. Luke loved you. At the end, he realized his fate. I think he realized why you couldn’t help him. He remembered what was important.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“All shiny they were, and sticky to touch. I did not even know them, but I loved them so much.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't know that my life forever changing would be because you loved me and then left, and in such a final way. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He loved playing the familiar tune on the ancient piano. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He had to listen, he loved her, even the queen said so. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He loved his son no matter how he behaved toward him, and he knew I could do as I threatened. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

We will give aid and comfort to those who have been injured and to those who have lost loved ones in this tragedy. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

"I don't know what it was about seeing you move like that. But your daddy loved it. You were definitely his Pancake, but you were also his little sprinter." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

She must have really loved him to leave her home for the Seam. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She loved those children as if they were her own flesh and blood, although sometimes she would call them by the names of those long dead. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The witch turned her into a warthog because she loved nobody. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

I loved watching people do things they were really good at, and the crews who came out like this were always at the top of their game. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

My grandfather, Sam’l Hamilton, loved good writing, and he knew it too, and he had some bluestocking daughters, among them my mother. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She, who, unbeknownst to Clayton, loved watching a baseball game at the stadium, was always welcome to join them. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

If you could see it like I do, how proud he was that I was his—you’d feel so good that a grandpa like that loved you—maybe you’d never cry again. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Well, I was; and I loved my wife dearly, as I loved my son, my only child, a little boy not yet one year old when I wandered out of my world. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gordievsky considered himself a devoted family man, but his secrets and lies created an inevitable distance between him and those he loved most. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was thinking that he and Bull Meecham were as different as two men could be, yet there was no one in the Corps that Virgil Hedgepath loved more. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was just the magic that had happened to him during his sleep and the Om in him —he loved everything, he was full of joyous love towards everything that he saw. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is it possible to be loved too much? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

My father loved the sound and meaning of Watende, a Shona word that means “revenge will not be sought,” a concept that aligned with his gentle spirit. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

What if he had told her he loved her? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved it, being deep in the quiet, near the water. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people loved peace and quiet and, because of this, they were pleased by decent princes, while the soldiers loved a prince with military spirit who was cruel, arrogant, and rapacious. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

She loved her red mittens and she loved the candy, but she loved her doll best of all. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to give him rice, and yet...she loved her brother so much. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And it wasn’t going to be here, watching people he loved die. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Kids could see it. I loved blindly. If I didn’t love him so much, would I have seen it?” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was about a wealthy English duchess whose spoiled kids pretended they loved her but were really just trying to cheat her out of her money. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

My father gave it, for he loved him well. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marly loved her new boots and scarves and gloves in the fall. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I realized that I loved Gertrude and would keep her secrets forever. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I’m sure he loved my mother, too, in his own way. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Elizebeth did not see “the man I knew and loved” in its pages. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The fat boy was dutiful and easily frightened, but he loved Jon like a brother. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If their loved ones so far away could have seen the crew of Endurance, their hearts would have broken. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She was their Ammu and their Baba and she had loved them Double. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved being up on deck, where I watched the sea and glimpsed dolphins, sharks, and flying fish. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was important to me to hear how Littmus survived after losing everything he loved. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once, there was a China rabbit who was loved by a little girl. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Baker had come along—probably because he loved camping, and Mrs. Baker was willing to put up with soggy ground, mosquitoes, sleeping on rocks, and dew for his sake. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He loved boxing where everything was visible—the jabs, the hooks, the roundhouse swings, the glove in the stomach. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t mind the lecture one bit; his father loved him. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She loved to hear it when the flames jumped and the frozen world outside the small cabin was dark. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Siobhan was one of the smartest girls I ever knew, though she never rubbed it in your face like other people. She loved puzzles, especially ones involving math.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Any other woman I’ve worked for, I would’ve loved to have had just one hour of bossing them around, see how they like it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I loved taking care of Agnes and her hair, and I loved making her look pretty. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She hugged me and told me she was proud of me and that she loved my movie, like, a zillion times. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They had a Newfoundland called Bob, who loved to go on walks with Charles. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the people I loved most stared back at me: Thomas, Sir Fig Newton, Dad, and Mom in her Star Trek outfit. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I almost told him that Scrappy signed his letter with the word love, but then, that would probably sound dumb to a boy who gets loved so much every day of his life. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Most especially, he loved for her to play with the medals on his chest, taking them off, pinning them back on. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever the scientific theory, I loved the idea of creating my own mini twinkling star, even if it only lasted for a microsecond. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

"He took from me all I loved, for the sake of a few lice- ridden poachers and his precious honor," Ser Jorah said bitterly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I loved the stories Suzanne brought back from the eating-club banquets and parties she went to, but I had no interest in bickering myself. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But he did recognize her and he still loved her. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t really understand The Occupation because it didn’t seem like the kind of War we all knew and loved from your average made-for-TV miniseries. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And for a woman who kept her emotions buried, seeing her in tears made me realize that she loved me. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“The eighth graders loved my name for our mission model. I told them it was our destiny to win the competition, and that this was our child. They thought it was brilliant.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He said he loved me but this was over his head. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I spoke about how much I loved school. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I felt the powerful pull of Sacred Sun City on my own being, but it was my sister, unscarred and loved by all, who had been chosen to go there. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Zeus, who loved him no more than Hera did even though he was their son, willingly gave her leave. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next came a beautiful young Yugoslav who identified herself as an optimist, saying that she loved everything that life had to offer. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The gods of Olympus loved order and beauty in their sacrifices and their temples. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if she were, she would’ve told all her loved ones, unlike her best friend, who didn’t come out and tell her he’s dying. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As Howard had foreseen, he loved the conditions. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the pieces were baked in the oven, Laura loved to spread the soft insides with butter and then scoop the yellow flesh from the rind and eat it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jacob have I loved—” she began, but I hurried by and up the steps as quickly as I could. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell Nattie, “He said he loved you. Specifically. He said he was sorry.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That was all, there was nothing more than that, they wanted their farm and the closeness at hand of the people they loved and the scent of strawberries outside their window. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He loved her so much he would have died to protect her. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know that Rosie loved anyone who rubbed her rump, so when she mooed and swayed her behind, Joseph took a couple of quick steps back. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

She loved me, even after I became a ghost of my former self. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Of all my uncles I loved my uncle Pedro the most. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved her very much and she loved me. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was obvious that he loved that book. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I didn’t like Ivanhoe, hated The Prince and the Pauper, tolerated the poems, and loved Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Without working up to it, he asked if I loved Maman. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

For the people who loved Luna, time passed in a blur. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She loved dancing and took to it instinctively. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ah, ah, how I loved you, Mama—dead these many years! Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember knowing the kids in my district loved being with me.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn’t even know your name scrubbed your back. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt loved it when Tam Lin spoke of things he must have heard as a child. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scythe Goddard loved to make it difficult for Rowan in these training sessions and always judged him harshly when he didn’t rise to some imaginary level of perfection. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He loved words and had a small collection of his most favorite books. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

For every bad judgment, the fine was no silver-wrapped Kisses, the sweet chocolate drops that I loved more than anything in the world, except Bailey. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stannis, my lord, my sad sullen boy, son I never bad, you must not do this, don’t you know how I have cared for you, lived for you, loved you despite all? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He loved Mom’s Texas cousins, but all of them, five wild little girls and their grumpy mama, lived in a tiny little house. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had a good life in California, pretty Victorian home with a peaked roof, a good marriage, a promising writing career, in-laws who loved me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She loved me hard as she could till she left this world. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Sahara told me once at an ERC meeting about how the women who loved him saw him dead and then alive again. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I loved to read, probably the result of the unique education I received from the Coalwood School teachers known as the “Great Six,” a corruption of the phrase “grades one through six.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A simple exercise but he loved the ordered lines, the neatness, the stark beauty of planes and angles. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved Ma Charles as much as I could love her without having been around her much, but I couldn’t slave over those white sheets. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I know I must have been loved like that, even if I can’t remember it. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember you loved eating fish and veggies on the porch of your tia Darma’s farm. It was the cutest thing.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

They turned all those beautiful golden sculptures into boring Spanish coins and shipped boatloads of them back to the king and queen of Spain, who loved the gold but wanted even more. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You had a child once, whom you loved and lost.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I loved the history of Ethiopia and the story of the meeting of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There’s a faint scent of Violet Mints, the lavender-flavored candy Nan loved. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She loved the way Claire’s hand felt in hers, how her skin could sometimes feel like the softest, most electric thing that Maya had ever touched. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Our friends and loved ones were used to attending debutant balls, but since I didn’t have one the year before, this party was like my make-up quinceañera. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He loved the feel and colors of beautiful cloth and he would sit with his scraps for hours under the kitchen table. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“He loved me. He loved me, and I didn’t do anything to save him.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It showed that my biggest brother loved me. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have always loved our elm trees which seemed like trademarks on our landscape,” wrote another Wisconsin woman. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She loved the feeling of a cigarette between her fingers, the rhythmic rise and fall of it to her lips. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The fact that I liked Miss Love didn’t mean I hadn’t loved Granny, and I figured it was the same with him. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Just like even though you didn’t answer my first set of letters, I know you loved me. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was at that very moment that I knew with certainty we would always be one, together forever, protecting our loved ones, braving the wind and illuminating the sky. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Dimple loved the buzz of energy, a slightly drunken, heady thing. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I loved all the sounds and smells of the festival—corn dogs and kettle corn and chili and funnel cakes. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Once there was an old man who loved things, for the slightest contact with people produced in him a faint but persistent nausea. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even his enemies loved him, because Atticus never acknowledged that they were his enemies. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I mean I really wished I had a wife and kids, somebody somewhere that loved me in a way I could look forward to going back to the World to. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many had been separated from loved ones during the fire and now had the daunting task of searching through a ruined city for them. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“He must have loved your grandmother very much.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

An enabler is someone who helps a loved one act in a destructive matter. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

But then it hadn’t, and anyway he loved the dog fennel and the silver poplars and the hedge of lilacs on the south that separated Jenny’s well-drained kitchen garden from the dooryard. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first I was threatened with not being allowed to go to Bible school, which I loved, but eventually an arrangement was worked out. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Looking back on that day, Van thought of Reggie: “He was almost as broke as you’d see with someone who lost a loved one.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She knew her father loved her, but that was not the point. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Billy Clayton loved a good prank and had been happy to deliver the 1918 newspapers that had not made their way to the basement. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She loved to bring him to flame instantly by taking his whole ear in her mouth suddenly and running her hand down his front all the way. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Usually I loved going to Sunday Mass. That, along with our Tuesday visits to Grand Island to run errands, was the only time we left the farm. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He was breathing heavily from the effort of the hike up the mountain face when he reached the spot where Trina loved to go for escape. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I really loved that moth, too. That one was my favorite.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I have been loved every day of my life. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I panicked, looking for a way out—out of the truck, out of Plaszów, out of this nightmare that had already swallowed my parents and everyone I loved. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

They wanted to know how many men were on the train and if we saw their loved ones. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He loved Luna, just like everyone else did. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She loved keeping up with the Kennedys in the supermarket gossip papers but also loved wagging her finger at them. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She sighed, wistful, and rested her chin in her hand, gazing down to where people lived and danced and loved and gossiped and didn’t ever eat kimril if they didn’t want to. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She loved reading so much, I’d forgotten she was dyslexic, too. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“All you have to do is let go of that scrap of cloth and let it drift down here to me. The moment you do, your loved ones’ safety is assured. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But my mother was loath to pass up even the flimsiest excuse for a celebration—she once invited friends over for our cockatiel’s birthday—in part because she loved to show off our house. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He understood and loved children and they worshipped him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had one picture back, a drawing she loved, but this wasn’t how she wanted to find it. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I loved the idea of restoring old treasures and pieces of art. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They would never leave you, no matter how you looked, no matter who loved or didn’t love you. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He loved playing rough; I couldn’t imagine my casting him off was enough to anger him. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Our friendship has held up under an incredible weight, the weight of me shooting someone she loved, the weight of so many losses. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A number loved by the God of the Sea. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I knew they loved their kids more than anything. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“But now I know that I do. Just the same as anyone else. I have a right to exist and live and love and be loved.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He laid it on the table in front of the king, saddened by the memory of the man who had pinned it on him, the friend he had loved. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She was strong and long legged and loved to explore, to range and roam. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But, I just let him go on and on because I knew how much he loved his Dante and he was so happy and I was happy that he was happy. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

This was the way we loved, until the night became a silent day. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

What might she have been like had her husband loved her? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chess growled, which was from a book Finn had loved when he was little. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They loved to prey on rootworkers and suck up all their strength. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Considering that Corky knew this friend, loved this friend, had earlier been asleep in this friend’s own lap, the growl was surprising, to say the least. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She played because she was fighting with her sister and best friend, the person she loved most in the world. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Most of her fellow students hated studying, but Nhamo loved it—except for the writing. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved the Shenandoah Valley, every inch of its gorgeous spread. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She sent a man who had long loved me, though I spurned his advances, to find me. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The only thing I know for sure is that this—being here with Olly, being able to love him and be loved by him—is everything. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was just four and a half years old when sister Flossi came along—and, of course, she loved to play with and help care for the baby. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Your abuelo loved to watch comedies. He laughed a lot for someone who had a hard life.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Of course, the sport I loved the most wasn’t one I played. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Five hundred years is an awful lot. Too many. And you have a mother who loves you. Who has loved you all this time.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I was seventeen, in a red jeep, and a boy I loved had just touched my hand. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

All I’ve heard about is how much he loved farming and the outdoors. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

They had done so a few times before, and Beans had always found something he loved in the refrigerator. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Every night she held a lamp so that the boy she loved could swim from the mainland to meet her. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The soft sounds of the prayers being chanted and sung make me feel loved, like you’re there, watching. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

With those kisses, he was saying that he loved me with his whole heart, that he was proud of the woman I’d become. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The servant would mix a drink—Matt loved the clink of ice—and place it in Felicia’s hand. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The others exclaimed that they too loved Chinese food, and we talked about recipes and restaurants until the music faded in: Girl of my dreams, I love you, Honest I do, You are so sweet. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved that no one could tell I was listening to music and that, because no one knew, I was never asked to turn it off. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I loved the sound of the wood and lead being ground down. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he loved the people he lived with, he cared about their lives. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved that dog, even if he had a moron for an owner. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Christiaan Huygens loved to grind and polish lenses for astronomical telescopes and constructed one five meters long. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved the idea, even though the gallery seemed like a pipe dream. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Oh, how Mama would have loved this! she thought. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved banging in the paint like a giant pinball and fighting for the rim. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I never really understood the point of this game, but my brother loved it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the classroom he cajoled and badgered and tormented and loved. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This might sound dumb, but the only thing I really remember was that she loved green Life Savers, which she called the Irish Life Savers. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fascinated by it. He used to read endless books. Was a big Star Trek fan. He loved the final frontier. We had several high-powered telescopes too. Still do, in storage out west.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They said they still loved each other, but that sometimes marriages are like friendships that get tested, and people have to work through things. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She loved listening to her brother’s tales—everything was an adventure to him. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think the whole reason she wrote that story was that she loved the idea of living in the sea. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I loved This One Summer, so thank you for that,” I said. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He’d make up a story about why he wanted to know, and someone would tell him, because Joseph wanted to see Jupiter so badly, they would be able to see he loved her. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

She said it was to let all those teachers know that I was loved. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Notwithstanding he loved them very much, and went into the adjoining room where they slept to take a look at them ana make sure that they were resting comfortably. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

We passed the turn for the hospital, and I was tempted to go back in search of Mrs. Pelham, who knew and loved Jason the way I meant to do. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I loved them because they were like moving artwork—Taro and Shoji just liked them because they were cool. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They see her as a thing, a bridge to their lost loved ones that they so desperately cling to. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He loved his father, but sometimes he wished he wasn’t so—so military. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

No one protected him or loved him so much, except, perhaps, Tam Lin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“First baseball as a youth, then track and tennis in college and beyond. But truly, it was his family he loved more than anything else in the world. They were his everything.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He loved his small swamp—of course he did—and he loved his small life here in the crater of the volcano. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Bobby loved languages and, in addition to being fluent in Spanish, was becoming adept at Russian and German. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Unconsciously, she touched her hair, which her mother had loved to brush. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I loved your sister. You have to believe that. Her death ruined me. It destroyed me like you can’t imagine.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

To be accepted, honored, loved, like someone’s child. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"Of course she might have loved him, just for a minute, when they were first married--and loved me more even then, do you see?" The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The giant rolls of newsprint, the rhythmic clacketing of the press—I loved it all. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“We weren’t sure you would make it through the night, but that’s past now. It’s time for you to eat something, so we can get you home to your loved ones.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gary was fifty, with that smooth Lacks skin, a thin mustache and soul patch, and a gap between his front teeth that the girls loved. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Hanako loved taking care of him the way she had when he was a baby. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She thought of Dewey Prince and how he loved Miss Marie. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I knew him well and loved him, and I was there. "We had toured through several states to which he was carrying the message. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved Lambert, despite what it did to her and her father. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

At Maer without Charles, his charm, his wit, his very presence to remind her of all she loved about him, the problem of their religious differences loomed large. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But what can I do? I’m happy here, I’m loved, even as you loved me. I am what I am, and I take what can be taken; too late now, they’ve caught me.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She loved me. Enough to hold me at gunpoint so she could die for me. I have no idea why, but that’s just the way it is.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

As much as I loved every one of my cousins and had significant relationships with each of them, I have Mitra to thank for one of the best days of my life. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

And just as he had loved the queen with the whole of his heart, so, too, he loved his daughter with the whole of it, even more than the whole. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Since I loved music, learning to play piano seemed like a good choice, even though I’d never actually seen a piano, let alone had any idea of what it took to play one. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They also loved to trade us things we needed for the used T-shirts the UN gave us. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man sang that he would never forgive the ungrateful woman he once loved because she had abandoned him at what was supposed to be the happiest time of year. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

And he loved us so much that he sent us to the pit, to be devoured by lions. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I doubted that Uncle Abdullah ever loved any of his wives, or he would not have beaten them. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The demoness’ father had never really had any time to take her traveling, which was too bad, since she loved to travel. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was from the very beginning a bright and sunny baby, who loved to be held and hugged and kissed. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was lying on Siddhartha’s bed in his hut and Siddhartha, whom she had once loved so much, was bending over her. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, that night, in that kitchen, there were people—people who cared about me, people who might have even loved me—squashed around Fang’s table, eating some tasty homebrewed chicken and rice concoction. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

South of the city was where our dead were buried—but not my mother, whose ashes returned to the ocean that killed her, which was also the ocean she loved. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Powerful, but in the end not widely loved. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

But she could not face him, for she was no longer the innocent girl he had once loved. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And one of the things that had happened was that now he loved to cook. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I struggled with this dissonance—a whorish dress, gifted to a loved daughter—until the meal had been finished and the plates cleared away. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She looks up at the ceiling and declares, “I always loved your cooking, Grandma.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I didn't want to join them, admiring British-born actors who loved, cried, fought, and lived while we applauded. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I loved looking at the glossy pages of campus life, young people on their own and independent. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Hamlet cried out to the ears of everyone present tJiat he loved you.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“And I’ve loved you more every day. Watching you grow up. Watching you grow into yourself. Watching you learn to cope with a world I can’t always protect you from. But I wish I could.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Edward loved looking up at the stars, and he loved the sounds of the constellation names. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Baba played this singers songs in his car when I was little, and I loved hearing the drums and clapping. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baumbach made wedding dresses, which are mostly white, so she bought samples of materials with bright colors and patterns because Rosalie loved colors best. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, law, was Mama fixing to hear how he’d loved Miss Love from the minute he laid eyes on her? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Was it one of these people, each and every one of whom she could swear loved Redemption more than their own life? Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

No matter how strange her mom acted, I could see she loved her daughter. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They sounded like they loved watching dice tumble more than anything in the world. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Peewee got a letter from Earlene that said she still loved him even though she married somebody else. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if he maybe loved her and that was the trouble. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He wasn't a dedicated student, but he passed anyway because everyone loved him, students and teachers both. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I loved looking at patterns; each one with alteration ideas was a solid set of instructions packed with possibilities. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Time and again she told me that Bess loved me, wanted me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could a stone image look to her like the man she had loved for so long? Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of losing the two people I loved most in the entire world made me feel dead inside. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

To my friend Waverly, I said I never knew how much I loved Ted until I saw how much he could hurt me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jim always wanted everyone to share his obsessions, to love the same things he loved. I think this contest is his way of giving the entire world an incentive to do just that.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then Rufino, who collected them, knowing how much Mate loved them, offered a new one to her. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the veins of this city he loved, after all. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She loved the symmetry of it, and the lack of symmetry. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I wanted South Africa to see that I loved even my enemies while I hated the system that turned us against one another. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at her, in her red plaid skirt and strawberry T-shirt, a woman not yet thirty, who loved neither her husband nor her children, who had already fallen out of love with life. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

But it hurt so much to see him sad, losing all that he loved. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She realized that she loved the road: Every day was new and unexplored. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She had to face the fact that she couldn’t protect everyone she loved. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The very night before the day Hannah had asked Eva if she had ever loved them, the wind tore over the hills rattling roofs and loosening doors. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He needed to see the formula not as math, which he hated, but as language, which he loved. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Much as he loved power, he was more comfortable leading troops than trading barbs with senators. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Although it was only a puzzle, it had been important to receive something—even if it wasn’t from someone who loved me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She loved her neighborhood and wasn’t ashamed of it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ceyx was deeply moved, for she loved him no better than he loved her, but his purpose held fast. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why it wasn’t enough for the people in the music business who loved Kenna to act on their gut feelings. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Our rules dictated that the girl’s choice be respected and once she had chosen her favorite, she was free to continue on her journey escorted by the lucky boy she loved. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently he thought he deserved only to be loved—from a distance, though—and given what he wanted. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Balder’s wife was Nanna, and he loved her and only her. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I loved to sprint, just to feel the wind blowing on my face and see things and not be at home. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he loved them, too, of course, even if he didn’t understand them. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She knew that she was walking a tightrope, supporting a cause she believed in and a man she loved, all the while spying on the country she called home. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maxim was not in love with me, he had never loved me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Hopefully, you didn’t fill most of the pages lamenting the fact that the boy you loved didn’t love you back. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

His hands, always moving, with their scent of chocolate, which Pax loved, and of mitt leather, which he loathed. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Luke loved playing it when he visited our holiday. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Milwaukee loved Hoo's Little Foot-Eze, and so did Chicago and New York and Los Angeles, but he still had not taken his wife to China. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

You kept your distance, because you knew if you didn’t, you’d be helplessly and hopelessly caught up in everything you loved about her. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“When I was your age,” she said as she worked, “I loved bracelets. And necklaces. And rings. Trinkets of any kind, really. I don’t know why, but they always made me feel happy.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Siobhan’s father loved tennis, but he grew up idolizing a team in another sport. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I loved everything about it: the music, the moves, even the history. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t even a little bit panicky, because both Mom and Dad worked in midtown, and Grandma didn’t work, obviously, so everyone I loved was safe. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tyler had always loved what Dad called “book learning,” which was something the rest of us, with the exception of Richard, were perfectly indifferent to. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I, like every kid I knew, loved The Dukes of Hazzard. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

How can it be explained, not only to the loved ones left behind, but to a censorious public? Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“And he loved you. Like me, he found you witty as well as beautiful.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She saw now that she could not tell him about the books she had loved any more than she could make him see the palm trees swaying under a brilliant blue sky. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She loved women too, and old people and especially children. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Starks led off with a great eulogy on our departed citizen, our most distinguished citizen and the grief he left behind him, and the people loved the speech. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Let your name evermore be a light to those who loved you. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Even though I would have loved to know Lissa’s thoughts, I shook my head. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Starry Night. I had to look for it, but I found it and left it by her side. Do you think that’s okay? She really loved it.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

My mother swore that she loved me, and she abandoned me in the end. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The farmers loved her bees, thanks to all the pollinating they did, how they made the watermelons redder and the cucumbers bigger. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dog was their first genuine common interest, and they loved it equally, each in his or her own way. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I have loved more deeply than a killer like you can possibly imagine.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Where I was alone with the world I loved, the world as I remembered it. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I felt rotten hating someone I really loved but I couldn’t help it. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t like Uncle Darnell for what he did, but I knew I still loved him. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He switched over to the magneto and the Ford of Lee Chong chuckled and jiggled and clattered happily as though it knew it was working for a man who loved and understood it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I rubbed those leaves, they left a fresh smell on my fingers that I loved. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When everyone I loved was always there with their arms around one another, laughing and building our home. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just wish I could have loved her more.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I started school in kindergarten, and I loved it. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Tortoise and Snail had been boys together and loved each other with a deep love. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Not knowing if Prim or my mother loved me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hyatt, the kindergarten teacher, loved that messed-up snowman, just three huge balls of yellowing Styrofoam, stuck together with pins and pipes. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She sang loud and proud, and Ivy loved that about her. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She loved music and had talent, and she played the piano, sang, and performed, in school and at home. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I loved the combination of flavors when I bit into a burger—the soft, sweet roll, the crunchy pickle, the tasty moistness of the meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She loved me, in some mysterious sense I understood without her speaking it. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above all he loved to watch with wonder and admiration whenever Dustfinger took a few little sticks and lit a fire. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Boots had grown bigger, but also fatter—Aurelia loved to feed him and she gave him more than he really needed. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The stories behind the constellations were his favorite part, and he loved sharing them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Here was where I had almost lost everything, even my life, but it was also the place where I found that I was connected to the people who loved me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Tell me about today’s reading assignment. What would you do if you were Romeo and you loved a girl you couldn’t have?” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had struggled and protested, but in truth had loved the feel of warm water. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

When all I had to do was hold her, and she loved me more than anything. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Can you imagine being forced to watch as the people you loved and protected were hunted down and dragged away, never to be seen again? Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It was one of the things he loved best about her. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

But Beauty loved her new children so much, she spent all her time with them. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I thought no one loved us and no one cared, least of all God. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He had never loved his mother, but had always known that she had loved him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It really did make me glad to know Penny was learning the same books I loved so much. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry about your loss, dear. It’s so hard when the Lord takes a loved one away from us.” Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

I loved her with more than my body. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

While I scratched and petted them, I let them know that I still loved them. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved all the dogs, but he’s the one I miss seeing every day the most. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Whoever built this place must have loved light. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I saw these people often, because they were family to someone whom I loved. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I hardly knew him, but I immediately loved him for that. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I once loved you,” he admitted, reaching toward me with his hand. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Back when we were on the farm, I thought I loved you, but that was not love. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We never told the tree how much we loved it. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

As much as Tessie loved her son, she knew there were certain things she’d be able to share only with a daughter. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Kate would have loved to sneak down to the culvert again, but this was not a clandestine operation. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

More than anything, I just wanted my mom and my loved ones to see it. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

That I am not a burden has to compensate for the sad envy when I look at women loved enough to be supported. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd loved any way-out lindying style that made a colorful show like that. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I really loved that book. That’s, like, my favorite book in all the world. I’d really love to be in a picture like that. Written by you. I’d do anything for a shot at that.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I loved a man who was forbidden to me. I enjoyed his caresses, then married him in secret. He renounced me and now he is dead. All of my family is dead.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

That she loved the island and didn’t want to go. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He loves me as he loved her, not as a knight loves his queen but as a man loves a woman. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He probably loved to win as much as Lenglen, for instance. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

They loved the fact that the brown of the backs of their hands was the exact brown of their mother’s stomach skin. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She loved King's Landing; the pagaentry of the court, the high lords and ladies in their velvets and silks and gemstones, the great city with all its people. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I always loved the beginning, where Dorothy’s in Kansas and everything is a brownish gray. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Jeremiah loved soccer and wanted his brother to play for the Fugees too, on the older boys’ team. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I have a hard time believing that all of Travis’s memories—everything he loved, all that he was—don’t exist anymore somewhere. Why would God make such a universe in someone and then destroy it?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Mom comforted me and tried to explain how much of a privilege it is to be alive and loved, and for a while, it all made sense. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Yes. I thought”—she sounded about to cry—“I thought I shouldn’t have any secrets from the man I was about to marry. I thought if Clayt really loved me....How stupid I was!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, almost everyone liked the Journal of Researches and many loved it—his expert friends and reviewers in journals and papers. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I've always loved Amber a little more than the others. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

And while Luna loved visiting the towns on the other side of the forest, this time the journey also vexed her. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I loved the way it sounded, the way it smelled. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

From then on, I loved coming to the schoolroom. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He loved her, and no empire, no king, and no earthly fear would keep him from her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was on this court that Ben learned he could dribble, that he was quick, and that he could beat others because he loved to hustle. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The longing in Eliza’s voice as she sings about aching to see Hamilton again, and wow, I loved every second of this. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Grandpa loved the dustiest stores best because they were the ones that would have uncracked rolls of coins in the backs of their safes. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He had taught me which plants made which colors and how to mix them to make more, and I loved being his assistant in both the kitchen and the field. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“And you’ll get some fresh air and ride horses. Mamá said you loved that. Doesn’t that sound nice?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Inej had predicted that the Menagerie would arrive late—Tante Heleen loved to make an entrance—but they still needed to be in position and ready to move when the time came. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He had not given 19 hie mistress because be was afraid of being punished by some sort of Holy Bogy, but he had been confronted by two people whom he loved. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had a queer time with Aunt today, and, as I got the best of it, I’ll tell you about it,” began Jo, who dearly loved to tell stories. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved the friendliness of it and the small-town feel of it, the way she knew everyone out at the country club or at the store, the way the gossip made an easy circle. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered impossible things, like being cradled and held close and told over and over by her mother that she was loved. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

George says that he never expected to feel so loved in all his life. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She loved being barefoot in school; it made her feet feel free. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I loved looking at the trees more than anything at first, but after awhile even those started to depress me. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Finally she said she loved him as meat loves salt. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He loved arguing about old movies, even more than I did. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I told him I didn’t want to see him anymore and walked back through the black neighborhood, into the store, and went upstairs and cried my heart out, because I still loved him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew he loved the part about our being evil spirits. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

She did love the library, partly because she loved the books there but also because it was nice to talk to Ube. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I have been loved, Edward told the stars. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

That he was gonna cook up a fancy supper for Mama with candles on the table and Willie Nelson on the radio and maybe she’d wear that red dress he loved so much. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I loved them and all, I guess, but maybe it was having no money, or maybe it was Cholly, but they sure worried the life out of me. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed too complicated, as if each one of us were really two people, one who was loved and the official one who, I assumed, was not. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They loved the book so much, I suggested we make a little movie. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The garlic stalks, which Mama hated and Doc loved, had recently blossomed into fat flowers, adding their sharp, stinging scent to the air. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The first time he said he loved me, and I forgot to say it back. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

"I mean, I guess, but—what has He done for you, for all your faith? He took away everything, everyone we loved...." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“How could I ask you to love me when I knew you loved Rebecca still?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Because I loved being around little kids and I quickly learned that it was a pleasing answer for adults to hear. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He discovered that he loved moving through the water, and he found that he loved competition itself, whether swimming or playing chess. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

For here you were, Big James, named for me—you were a big baby, I was not—here you were: to be loved. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

He’d taught them how to disagree, reminded them how important it was to do so while still showing care and respect for the person you loved. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

"But please tell me you're going to sing, too. I never got to tell you this—I was a different person then—but I always loved your voice." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His only regret was that he’d never had a daughter, for he loved little girls as much as he loved little boys. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Silas, you deserve to be more than tolerated. You deserve to be accepted. You deserve to be loved for exactly who you are. Full stop.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

All those Welk shows were really old, but people loved them, so the station kept on playing them. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a voice reflecting doubt, fear, and an unmistakable desire to be loved, I sounded not like a thoughtful college professor but, rather, like a high-strung twelve-year-old girl; someone named Brittany. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He loved it even more this time, jumping onto the table and clapping. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had the awkward tenderness of someone who has never been loved and is forced to improvise. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wealthy, old-money, Cuban, Miami, parties with his sister: he loved them. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I loved having Grandmother or Mother read me stories in the dining room, or Papa seat me on his lap to do math problems or build airplanes at the kitchen table with Brother and me. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My mom and Abuela loved each other so much, but there was always this kind of friction between them because they were so different. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

This champion the lord of stormcloud, Zeus, and strong Apollo loved; nor had he ever to cross the doorsill into dim old age. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even now I mind that I loved cypress and roses, clear, The great blue mountains and the small gray hills, The sounding of the sea. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent nearly every waking moment around Nikki, and I loved her dearly. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

What she loved best was to rub the leaves of the tomato plant between her fingers and breathe in their pungent, powdery smell. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But Parker only saw the woman he had loved for most of his life. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I loved the little jolt of satisfaction I got anytime I finished off some small organizational task. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The time allotted for the tributes to say goodbye to their loved ones. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There were moments when Ivory Christian loved the game he tried so much to hate. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t you attend, Nina? You would have loved it.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I loved the big triplet fill in “Satin Doll.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t dare say I loved the others less, but my first three were all babies at once, and motherhood dismayed me entirely. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a biracial family, the kids exhibited an eclectic mix of physical characteristics and loved comparing which traits they got from what parent. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I loved hearing these histories, because officers were not supposed to know them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason, knowing that she loved laughing was enough for that moment. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He had loved them doggedly, had always been at hand with his money to pull them out of their errors. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I know you’re upset, but I want you to know that I loved your sister.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

What Aunt Tess loved to say was: “Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up your pace.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They loved playing tag or card games with campaign staff during the quieter moments and made a point of finding an ice cream shop in every new place they went. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"She's decided to leave India? I thought she loved it there." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bo would really have loved to know how he did that. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s all the same. Don’t you see? The Beast, the Bog, the Poem, the Poet, the world. They all love you. They’ve loved you this whole time. Will you come with me?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

But that never bothered Laney; he had always been the same to her, and she loved the way he talked nice and slow so she could understand all the words. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I had lost faith in the Dodgers’ ability to win a World Series, but I still loved them. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

They loved anything different, or new, or from out of town, except for Jews. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little Willy loved to look at all the people, especially the “city slickers,” as Grandfather called them. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never said that she loved her with all her heart. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I loved eating meals with my friends every night. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to realize that he loved the woman—to her misfortune. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

But even if magic was so rare it was more like myth than reality, the people of that country still loved their fairy tales. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

How did you explain to someone—how did you explain to a child, a child you loved—that someone they adored was not to be trusted? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Plus, I loved throwing my name up on a wall; it felt like splashing in the shallow end of the criminal pool. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He told her he was the god of the river, Alpheus, and that he was following her only because he loved her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew, trusted, even loved each other for reasons that required no explanation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The joy he feels when he is sitting across from a loved one quickly dissipates at the end of the visit as he walks back through the gate to his cell. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

After another moment’s silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might hate her for the same reason. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

To be loved, baby, hard, at once, and forever, to strengthen you against the loveless world. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

We loved the Deuce and a Quarter, too. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell him that he was my best friend and I loved him like crazy, but boys didn’t say such things to other boys, and nobody said such things to Rowdy. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I loved that he was deep and vulnerable and creative. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Barbara Larson worried day and night about whether she could ever make a real difference in the lives of those kids she loved so much. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I loved having long hair, and would resent it when I woke up to find my long hair was gone. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

In my presence they could talk and agree with themselves, the world was nailed down, and they loved it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Baron Weasel loved the snow, and was up and about in it every day before Frightful and I had had our breakfast. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never loved him like I did at that moment. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He’d killed someone who loved him, someone who had given him a special gift. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was a Jack Kerouac quote their dad loved to repeat when the family deliberated weekend plans. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Now that she knew that he loved her? Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Since he paid his bills on time, the printers loved him and took extra care with his work. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Wish my mum and dad had loved me enough to worry when I left home.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I was excited to get started because I loved painting. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She thought for a long time, then finally said, ‘Your mom loved to laugh. Even when things felt like they were falling apart, she found a way to laugh.’ Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But I loved being with my Mississippi cousins. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

The Beast loved the Bog and the Bog loved the Beast, just as a person loves the image of himself in a quiet pond of water; and looks upon it with tenderness. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

My own home life had never even remotely resembled the one depicted in Family Ties, which was probably why I loved the show so much. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I thought he used it because he loved her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Olga loved her job, even though she was only a receptionist. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She even loved Martin Addison the few times she met him. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I thought of the victims of violent crime and the survivors of murdered loved ones, and how we’ve pressured them to recycle their pain and anguish and give it back to the offenders we prosecute. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He lied to me, informed on me, but he loved me too, and he always gave good counsel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Except that underneath he loved her very much, loved her plump gentle flesh, her quiet way of sewing, cooking . . . of being true. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned into the curves like he loved the raspy sound the blades made. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Sitting there in the dark of the house, he called up the memory of the first time he had known—really known—that she loved him. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I was thinking how much I loved it when she did that. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In fact, just the opposite happened: I loved it. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The Filipinos loved him; Marcos entertained him at the palace and on his yacht; Marcos’s wife, Imelda, dined with him at lunch; young ladies gathered around him constantly, as if he were a movie star. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was wishing that somebody would come over to us because I knew Peaches loved to dance and I figured that maybe a little shaking would get her out of her bad mood. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved the way her eyes grew wide with shock and the way her voice went all high-pitched with excitement as she asked me a bunch more questions about my charred arms. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They loved tennis balls and would go down to the court and slime any that had been left around. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps they felt they had no other choice,” Miss Maggie said, and I loved her for it. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think you know how loved you are.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Mack and the boys loved the Palace and they even cleaned it a little sometimes. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not know if he loved her. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

That was something Tea Cake loved so no matter if Janie had fixed beans two or three times during the week, they had baked beans again on Sunday. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

And if His love was so great, and if He loved all His children, why were we, the blacks, cast down so far? The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

She heard them sigh, “The poor, poor thing,” and clutch their loved ones a little more closely, as though madness was contagious. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Tanu loved to hear the poems, and after a bit even the widows who had disapproved of them began to listen. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

One thing I loved doing at the time was using a magnifying glass to burn my name into pieces of wood. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

His absence showed me how much I loved him. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When girls and men gathered to sit and talk, when the great phonograph played music that throbbed in his stomach and made beautiful and huge pictures form vaguely in his head, Frankie loved it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In many ways, I loved him the most of all; and it is with him that I am most tempted to embroider, to flatter, to basically reinvent. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He loved getting back into the woods and cutting timber. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I loved the quietness that fell as shops and businesses closed, a welcome respite from the weekday routines. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Remind her that I was Caroline Murphy, her only daughter, and that she loved me too much to leave me behind. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She loved the food, the bustle, the gossip, which she said reminded her of home. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Nate loved the sidewalk puppet shows and jugglers who spun torches on the street corners. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

That he traveled all over the world and went to college in New York and loved living there in a place called Harlem. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

People loved her potato salad, chicken potpies, and most of all her BBQ spareribs. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I loved him, and I just don’t know if a world without Jesse Franklin is worth saving. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They only became that way, she went on, if nobody loved them when they were kids. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was smiling so warmly, Hazel knew instinctively she must be looking at someone special—someone she loved. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I belong in my homelands, with my loved ones. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had also taught Reginald how he could work a little while for a railroad, then use his identification card to travel for nothing—and Reginald loved to travel. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It w as one of the things Tom loved about me, he said: my stubbornness, my strength. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved to be in that house, admiring the craftsmanship, the great care put into the most eccentric details and flourishes—a mural over the mantel, one-of-a-kind ironwork on every balcony. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She would have loved her daughter’s gift, though. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As DePreist left the stage, Marian Anderson’s recorded voice rose up and filled the hall with the words of the spirituals she loved. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I would have loved to have another child, at least one more. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The uniform I once loved now made me feel like a criminal. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In a conversation with friends he would talk about how much he loved smoked salmon when Ammu knew he hated it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guessed from the student’s reactions that Master Hemme was not particularly well loved. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I both loved and hated being in the South, for the simple reason that it was so different from what I knew. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I think I really loved him when I was a little boy. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He’d told people that he “loved” Bobby Fischer...as a brother. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They all came to my grandfather’s funeral, but while I loved their warmth and sympathy, it also felt very surreal. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

What lay ahead most immediately were good-byes—dozens and dozens of them, all emotional, as the staff we loved and appreciated so much would begin to rotate out of the White House. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they were the only ones I could talk to, as their loved one lay immobilized nearby, heavily sedated or asleep. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Though she did not say it herself, he assumed then that she loved him too, but now he was no longer sure. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She had forgotten how much she loved them once upon a time. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Pax jerked free and then backed toward the south edge of the clearing, hoping to lead the coyote away from the tree, away from the den, away from the foxes he loved. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe because I would’ve loved so much to have attended something like that. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“But he loved that house. Remember the tour? The Chicago designer? The purple living room?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Otto loved the noise, smiling and making the raspy noise I was coming to recognize as laughter. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I have loved you, Ophelia, though I treated you badly by deserting you in your time of need. Forgive me.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Saying the usual things about how excited and happy she was to see all the parents in the audience and how she loved seeing this kind of support and blah-blah-blah. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

But, reader, we must not forget that King Phillip loved the queen and that without her, he was lost. 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 couldn’t I loved my life in Greenwood. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

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

“I just thought...I could have loved him, Mama.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He loved being a surgeon and we were great friends. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

With twins, she could only have loved each of us by half. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved the music so much that two other medics, Stringer and the Walrus, pulled him to his feet and even got him to mouth the words. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Our customers loved that our dresses were full-length and came in variety of vibrant colors. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I loved you so much. You were the best cat. It’s all my fault.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He refurbished it, took it down to the water, and discovered that he loved rowing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And, even while I loved my job, I knew that it was just filling in time. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The mother may not give me the love I crave, but I know what it feels like to be loved. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved the woods because Hunter taught him how to. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved her bracelet, and had worn it every day since he’d given it to her. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Periclymenus, exactly! Oh, he was a nice fellow. I loved the Argonauts!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And yet he loved his wife—and what was worse, his wife knew it. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I laughed because if there's one thing Jazz loved to brag about, it was her cooking. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

They loved her very much and didn’t want to see her get crushed. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He loved the water, and was as much at home in it as the other two hated and feared it. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved the breeze blowing through, and my privileged position firmly astride the prison wall, with both sides in plain sight. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had the outward appearance of somebody who should be loved. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I loved the secrets I found within the sixty-four black and white squares. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her son was a blessing, and Laila was relieved to discover that her fears had proved baseless, that she loved Zalmai with the marrow of her bones, just as she did Aziza. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It sounded like Riverbank was a place where he could be his own master, do the work he loved, and earn good money. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He said his group members just loved it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He had to be just as scared and miserable as she was, and she loved him for trying to make her feel better. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Yes, good. There’s something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You’ve never even accepted that the man is ugly,” Kainene said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too. in W Was it wrong to stare so much? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I loved washing the chalkboards, sweeping the floor, and hearing stories of her college days. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I loved white church because I didn’t actually have to go to the main service. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And when the Graphic View II arrived, procured secondhand from a classified ad, well loved and packed into its own case like an expensive violin, Mia knew this would be true. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He loved singing even though he wasn’t very good, ha. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t remember how our obsession started, exactly, but my brother and I had always loved breakdancing videos. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Chief Wimbe also loved his cat, which was black and white but had no name. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

We loved coming here to shop and walk around because all the stores were outside between palm trees and flowering plants, fountains, and brick walkways. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She loved being with her mother, too, and Emma adored her. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I loved Richmond, but my heart was always right here,” she said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ashima has always loved these hours before a party, the carpets vacuumed, the coffee table wiped with Pledge, her dimmed, blurry reflection visible in the wood just as the old television commercial used to promise. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pictured him finding her: “I’ve always loved you, Vera. Look at me. I fixed up everything, just like it was before.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I also watched the soccer World Cup with great interest; I loved the game. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"A shadow with a sword, I swear it, I saw. Are you blind, the girl loved him! Help her!" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Miss Adebayo visited and said something about grief, something nice-sounding and facile: Grief was the celebration of love, those who could feel real grief were lucky to have loved. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But really, my parents abandoned everything they knew and loved because they didn't want their daughters to grow up with a strict religious code. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I loved the nurse and I thought she did a lot of special things so I told her in a whisper I snuck in to the gifted and talented speech. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if they weren’t nearly as good as donuts, I knew I loved cookies. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I loved everything about that slide—the steep metal stairs that led to the top of it. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Antain loved woodworking—the stability of the material, the delicate beauty of the grain, the comforting smell of sawdust and oil. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Big Joe had loved her mama for a long time and he did own a Bar-B-Que joint that was the serious bomb. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a book I had once loved and carried around with me, but I knew the real reason I was reading The Stranger wasn’t because I wanted to drift back into the past. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She looked at their houses, smelled their linen, touched their silk draperies, and loved all of it. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a little boy he had loved to watch her comb and knot her long black hair. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I loved your photo exhibit at last semester’s Arts Night,” I said, trying to change the subject. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I know it’s nothing to you now, but I was from a place—America— where cruelty toward humans who loved as their deepest instincts instructed was a kind of law. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She says, “I loved it. High school was a great experience for me. Enjoy it. It goes by fast.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She sensed now how this might be achieved, through desire alone; the world she ran through loved her and would give her what she wanted and would let it happen. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He wanted them to know, he wanted them to know he loved her. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Now, however, she moves down an avenue gently buffeted by the familiar and therefore loved images. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few years later, they became the only real parents I’ve ever known—the ones who have raised and guided me, and loved me every day of my life. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

King, who was still pretty sure nobody loved him, including his mom. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I dared to hope that because he had loved my mother, perhaps he could be made to understand my love. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A soft negative movement, left to right, and then her paw pushing something positive, like the small red ball she loved so much, across the table to me. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I loved Javier,” Moss said, and as the words came out of his mouth, he believed it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

You would have loved her like crazy, Hales, my uncle said. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He loved her manner of sleepy acquiescence when they lay on the beach at dusk. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And if the person I loved wasn't even a person, then how can he be dead? We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Wine gave out first, and soon thereafter the dotted mare's milk the horselords loved better than mead. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was a warm summer evening in the city that I loved. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They must have all loved her, except perhaps my father, the only brother who never went back to China, having once been traded for a girl. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most people weren’t big fans of fasting for thirty days—each day from sunrise to sunset—but I loved it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

By this time, I had begun to realize that I truly loved music. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

All loved him for his goodness and admired him for his nobility, but they had no idea that he intended to try to kill the Minotaur. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The white man has always loved the kind of black leaders whom he could ask, ‘Well, how’s things with your people up there?’ The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I loved spending time at the river, I never got any good at fishing. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I had always loved and admired Dr. King, and when I read his speech, that love and admiration deepened. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My father, the man I had loved like no other, lay six feet below me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I loved you the best of all of them, he wrote, but you had a knife in my back the whole time. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And Ramsay loved nothing more than to set his girls baying on the trail of some fresh prey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As always on Tuesday the hot lunch was chili, which Minnijean loved. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved her pewter, but she stood dry-eyed and looking, for her, a little stern as she saw it disappear in Johnny’s crucible. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always loved it when I pretended to be one of his toys, and Matt Medic was perfect for the occasion. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved the sight of his sleeping children. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“No. I asked Lee. Know what Lee said? Lee said, ‘Your mother loved you and she still does.’ East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was going to be a dancer and she loved space. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two letters: F and L. That was Ulysses, she knew, trying to type her name one last time, trying to tell her that he loved her. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I remember what he said about how he loved driving, the forward motion of it, like you might go anywhere. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Aren’t you in the Crack House Quartet?” a guy in a Hillary Clinton mask asked me, referring to some hard-core band that Adam loved and I hated. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent tells Theo there are three stages of love: first, not loving and not being loved; second, loving and not being loved; third loving and being loved. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It would take near the whole day to wash, hang the clothes out on the line, and iron them, but I loved the way the house smelled clean with wood polish and soap. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

His father may have called their plow horse President Lincoln as a joke, but Macon always thought of Lincoln with fondness since he had loved him first as a strong, steady, gentle, and obedient horse. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved hunting and fishing and getting away to the wilds where nobody could bother him. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably Wash had never thought to cross the lines that marked out who could be loved and by whom. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Matt still loved the old man, but there was no question he was evil. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he came it would mean he loved me. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Whoever this person was, they loved her drawings. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I wonder whether we would have loved the weaker, flawed, unembellished version. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Miss Annie loved them beads, boy. Right away she started saving a rosary.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

DRACO: You know what I loved most about your mother? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure why, but they loved pointing out to me that they could already see an inch of my hair, like maybe that would be enough to nullify the whole thing. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Rebs loved Lee, no doubt of that. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved them both, but they satisfied different longings. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Times like these, I can see how much Dad loved Mom and how much we both miss her. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see that you needed to hear that this closed-up, tricky, dangerous old man . . . loved you. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I loved that I’d caught her in a rare moment, being carefree and unburdened. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A person whom one has loved seems altogether too significant a thing to simply vanish altogether from the world. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But they’d learned the hard way that funerals were expensive, that hiring lawyers was even worse, that when you lost a loved one, it sucked your finances dry. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My Arabic was never very good, but I loved its sound. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was loved for his wicked humor, delivered with a Buster Keaton straight face, and boundless generosity. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We loved our sports pavilion, maybe because it reminded us of those sweet little cottages people always had in picture books when we were young. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Son to an English professor who hated everything about the South, grandson to a gentleman farmer who loved everything about it. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I understand the fear that overcomes someone when a loved one is lost. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And she didn’t notice when the wizard who loved her—her beloved Zosimos—began slowly withering away. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Seeing the rum reminded me how much I would have loved another drink if only I wasn’t so hungry, so angry, and now also foggy. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Shaken by the death of a boy they had loved, each person had found ways to be more worthy of the sacrifice he had made. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In those days they were all milked by hand, and I loved to watch the dairymaid squirt the white milk into her pail while the cow placidly chewed its cud. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, after a while they just dropped like eggs and we loved having them, but I couldn’t see how we could afford a church with all these kids. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mabel Perry It made me sad that Mama had written to Peewee to say that she loved me. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Balder was Odin’s second son, and he was loved by his father, and by all things. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I’d played soccer before I was in high school and loved it. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I loved the mall, so sleek and flashy, filled with shoppers and treasures. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Anywhere but here, listening to this unbelievable story being told to him by a man he loved. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Does she love these new kids as much as she loved us, I wonder? Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Next to him was Tyrell’s father, an investigator in the Essex County prosecutor’s office, who loved to talk hoops and sometimes took Tyrell and me for milk shakes after the games. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

In my response, I wrote that many people in the US thought squirrels were annoying, but I actually loved them—that’s because I loved all animals. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He loved the way the words being together felt on his tongue, like nectar. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She was loved by many Hayti residents and feared, though often respected, by her numerous foes in Durham’s officialdom. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

August said he wasn’t feeling well enough to go trick-or-treating later in the afternoon, which was sad for him because I know how much he loved to trick-or-treat—especially after it got dark outside. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She had to go home, she said, and see if her husband still loved her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Luxa should not have struck you, but your fight invited horrible death to those she loved. This is greatly felt by her, as both her parents were killed by rats.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Will she ever know how much I loved her? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

G’ma obviously loved him enough to marry him, and Dad’s always saying, “William, your grandmother is a queen. Never forget it.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

She loved the way her feet sank into the carpet, the bowls of salty soy nuts, the way their cat snuggled with them on the couch. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

They knew that he had slept all night next to their loved one’s casket, on the night before the funeral. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And Pantalaimon didn’t ask why, because he knew; and he didn’t ask whether Lyra loved Roger more than him, because he knew the true answer to that, too. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The fact that you loved me all along. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She loved her parents, though, with a desperation that sometimes scared her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They loved the grooming, but sometimes they were a little shy of the dandy brush when we came close to tender spots. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

And phil is a word meaning ‘loving'; you are loved by God,” she says, pleased by this interpretation. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The one thing I loved most in life has been taken away from me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He knew Julie loved Bri, but he couldn’t help thinking there was a part of her that would be glad to be the only girl in the household. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The way Fozia said he loved to dole out punishments and had personally burned an entire village to the ground. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know Sarah Ruth. She’s my sister. She’s sick. She had her a baby doll made out of china. She loved that baby doll. But he broke it. “He broke it. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

This knowledge, like so much of my self-knowledge, had come to me in the voice of people I knew, people I loved. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that we were thirteen, and a little too old for it, I loved them. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

However much he loved us, he couldn’t live with the madness in our Queens home, preferring to keep his old digs at 478 Carlton Avenue in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved him because he made it plain, never mystical or esoteric, because his science was not rooted in the actions of spooks and mystery gods but in the work of the physical world. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

As much as I respected him as a leader, that is how much I loved him as a man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the worst of times, they made me feel I was loved and that my life mattered. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The first thing was, because I loved to read, people thought I was real smart, teachers especially. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

To compound this—all these unpleasant recollections to the contrary—so much remained of the old Bunny, the one I knew and loved. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He loved the story and was never tired of hearing it. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He loved being able to knock into the smaller characters and send them flying. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was like a secret signal between us of how much he loved me, his youngest child. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

People, I felt, ought to love the Lord because they loved Him, and not because they were afraid of going to Hell. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

As much as he hated Archie, he loved to see him when he was swinging into action. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although I loved her, I did not want to give her the satisfaction of rejecting me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved the aromas of the dirt, the grass, the flowers; the rain. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never knew when another one of her loved ones would die. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dylan was a total champ about it and loved the attention. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

First, when she was eight, going on nine, her mother had died, an event not immediately recognized by Elizabeth as a disaster, since she had scarcely known her mother and had certainly never loved her. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Whenever my mom talked about the guy, I could just tell that, despite everything that had happened, she still loved her delinquent brother, or at least her memories of him. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She loved our kids as if they were her own. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She wanted June to come around the corner and smile and tell Ivy that she got the picture and that she loved it. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

For some unknown reason she loved him, and he was a better person for it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“And my father? Was there some woman he loved better than his queen?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then at last and every day, from our Manhattan apartment, she would take day trips to any part of New York City, which she loved and thought she would never leave. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then an old wife, Ioreth, the eldest of the women who served in that house, looking on the fair face of Faramir, wept, for all the people loved him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I never felt like I was very good at science, but I loved the lab. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She loved her house and enjoyed manipulating her daughter and her husband. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He loved the way she wobbled to work every morning on her bicycle. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your brother would want you to go on living your life. He loved you more than anyone.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was the voice of the person he loved. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

She loved finding things out, and she loved running. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But she never acted like she loved me.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face was sweet and tender, and, like Mr. Morton, she loved the vast hordes of unwashed and unwanted children more than she loved the cared-for ones. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A person whom one has loved seems altogether too significant a thing to simply vanish altogether from the world. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

All the while, people visiting the graves of their loved ones would complain about the smell of another rotting migrant. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I’m not lying, the whole class loved us. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“When I was fourteen, I loved going out at night. It’s a treat at her age.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved the farm because he could be out in the real air, and he wouldn’t wear work gloves be-cause he liked to touch the earth and the wood and the animals. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Hear me, Pip! I adopted her, to be loved. I bred her and educated her, to be loved. I developed her into what she is, that she might be loved. Love her!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I loved her, and the way she used to tell me she couldn't wait until I married her brother and became her sister for real. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I would probably have indigestion if I ate one—now that I no longer felt ashamed of the things I had always loved, I probably could no longer digest very many of them. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

One thing I was starting to understand was that August loved to tell a good story. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood in the midst of people I loved and I was afraid of them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, he listened to Led Zeppelin and Hendrix like everyone else, but he loved Coltrane, too. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Qunu was all that I knew, and I loved it in the unconditional way that a child loves his first home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved and hated the moment when they set birds free. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Mama loved to sing, but she was always a little off-key when there wasn’t any music going. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her daughters-in-law loved her, too, and she returned the feeling. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those moments I decided that although Bailey loved me he couldn’t help. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m really sorry too, Mia. I know how much you loved him.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She loved Michael Jackson, but she loved Uncle D more, and she clamped herself around him in a hug. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Jack bent down to them as though he loved them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

My mother always loved anything that normally grows or lives out of doors— anything—lizards, trees, cows, caterpillars, birds, flowers, crickets, toads, ants, pigs. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Considering how much I had loved my Barbies as a child, the thought of little girls, both Muslim and non-Muslim, playing with a Barbie who chooses to wear hijab made me so happy. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Boy, we loved that little dinghy we made. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I killed McKinley because I loved the people,” he is quoted as saying. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

There was one thing Shanti loved, but it was not the sort of achievement that wowed judges. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

More than anything, we loved seeing the astonished faces of Mr. Milgrom and Uncle Shepsel when we returned with our nightly feast. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The chaplain loved his wife and children with such tameless intensity that he often wanted to sink to the ground helplessly and weep like a castaway cripple. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Moss loved her willingness to expose herself—she angered all the punk kids on campus just by existing. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother loved hearing about all the people in the North End. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

He loved rather to take his roll of bread and garlic to the field and stand there eating, planning and thinking, “Here shall I put the black-eyed peas and here the young rice beds.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

But I could tell from Pefta’s tone that he loved seeing women cry. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She taught history and English at the colored high school, but what she really loved was music. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most religions had them, and his grandma loved a book of them by a guy named Nostra-something. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She led the congregation in prayer, asking the Lord to comfort all the families who had lost loved ones in the protests and riots. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

If there really was a God and he supposedly loved me as I was, which Dad claimed he did, I didn’t understand why I couldn’t wear my shorts and T-shirt. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I sing the lyrics I do remember, stumbling over some words and repeating others out of place, but it’s a song Dad loved and I hope he hears me singing it since he can’t. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

For here you were, Big James, named for me—you were a big baby, I was not—here you were: to be loved. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

As much as he loved food from PJ’s, Chip wasn’t thinking about fried croaker and jalapeño hush puppies. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I took care of him once a week. He was elderly. He loved reading.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

And God is loved in Mississippi, Home and church her people hold dear. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your grandmother loved to ride the bus,” he murmurs. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

I loved it so much I watched the sequel right after. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As he cursed his father, as he loved Elisha, he had, even then, been weeping; he had already passed his moment, was already under the power, had been struck, and was going down. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He shot the boy I loved, Will MacEvans, through the heart. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaka, near those he loved. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Jessie loved hearing about George; she could tell he was brilliant and told Emma that if he could find work he loved when he grew up, he would find happiness. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was just Will again, the boy she loved, which sucked. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I made a spicy hot chocolate that I loved, but Audrey didn’t. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

It’s not clear whether Elizabeth shared his romantic interest or if she loved him like a brother. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I loved any time I could glimpse my daughters in the context of their own worlds—free from the White House, free from their parents, in the spaces and relationships they’d forged for themselves. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I was happy because I was always loved and respected. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Baba loved her no matter what, and Turtle didn't care if the others thought she was the bomber—except Sandy. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had loved her mother, and would miss her terribly. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody loved to gamble, as far as I could tell. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the chill of knowing they had used something they loved—the study of physics—to build the deadliest weapon in human history. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d spent the next two weeks in that skyscraper, realizing quickly that they couldn’t search for loved ones yet. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“We would certainly have loved to have seen that.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I loved to run, to jump, to test my strength and speed against other boys. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She should be telling me why she loved me the minute she laid eyes on me—“You were special, I just knew it”—and how she has never stopped. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The perfect time to show her how much I respected and loved her. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He said he was fine, that everything was fine, that he missed us and loved us very much. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I loved the impaled-on-the-fence story and, never having heard his version, I stayed put, pressed his take up against mine to see how it fit. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The only help for my condition, then as now, is that I refused to let go of what I loved. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marian Anderson loved to sing, and site loved to listen wltile others were singing. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

"I never loved him," she said, with perceptible reluctance. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I climbed into the rickshaw with my mother in it, which displeased Amah, because this was presumptuous behavior on my part and also because Amah loved me better than her own. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had never loved him so much as she did in that instant. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Greeting guests was what Abuela loved most besides cooking and family. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Jadzia loved music and listened to Italian opera on the radio while she did her homework,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were few things in his life that he loved more. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Dagon the Drunkard, men called him, but drunk or sober he loved to fight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then he prayed, asking God to take care of us and our loved ones, things like that. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also never told her that I loved her, or that I loved the two little stretch marks she got from carrying Vera. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He wished he knew that he would have risked his life for his family and country — that he loved them the right way. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just hard. My grandma died when I was a kid, and my mom told me, ‘She lives on inside of everyone who loved her.’ Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We both loved books and stories about stars and distant planets and spaceships. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Oh, do not say such things. I know how you loved the king,” I murmured, trying to soothe her. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Your nan could never understand why Louise and I loved this show.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

At this time, Khosrou loved his sister and would agree to anything she proposed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I try to make something good of it because I loved my father. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Buried underground or burned into ash, they couldn’t do anything but haunt the memories of the people who had loved them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Dad, I loved that helmet! It meant a lot to me! I was bummed beyond belief when it got lost—don’t you remember?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Young black men killing the people who loved them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I bet my sister would have loved to have one. She made Mom get a room in a fancy hotel so she could have a slumber party for her Sweet Sixteenth.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Plus they had already ganked Vega’s new coat that he had loved so much. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The Lord loved the poor and hated those cast high in the world. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Robert loved to hunt boar. I have seen him take a thousand of them." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“What a nice thing to hear! And I thank you. It’s a good thing to be loved, even late.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As more of their loved ones died on faraway islands, many Japanese people saw that nothing was possible but defeat. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ones chosen to defend it, hated it; those chosen to oppose it, loved it. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I think I've loved you since we met at your mother’s funeral. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought everyone loved Shay, but as I look around the room, some kids are glancing at me. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Paganini loved it when Panda-Laney came out to play, because that meant carrots. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“When your mom and Michael started dating, the first thing she told me was that he was a builder. Your father would have loved this.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Your brother loved you, Ari. He did. And he didn’t want you to be around. He didn’t want you to think of him that way.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

It felt good to know that they loved the dog, that they let themselves do that. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

That I have a niece and that you loved her. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Waving and blowing kisses to loved ones as the military trains pulled out of the station, the black soldiers were at last on their way to fight for freedom. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I guess they were of hobbit-kind; akin to the fathers of the fathers of the Stoors, for they loved the River, and often swam in it, or made little boats of reeds. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

This intelligence has driven a wedge between me and all the people I knew and loved, driven me out of the bakery. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

And they heaped white stones upon it, to show how much they had loved him. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never loved a strip of potato like this before. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She would’ve loved his topic: “The Ecstatic Impulse of the Artist. ” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

That it was happening so far from home, unmonitored and unobserved by those she loved, had made it more miraculous still. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I love you, Olly. I loved you before I knew you.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The two people I loved most in the world were down there somewhere. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

We loved questions like that, since we already walked around pretending to be twins. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Dill loved being on bagging duty on these early evenings in late September. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I loved the watch until I started hating time. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And loved my father too, for the careful way he spoke. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I loved Malcolm because Malcolm never lied, unlike the schools and their facade of morality, unlike the streets and their bravado, unlike the world of dreamers. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Everybody depended on him for rides, and he loved being the center of that attention. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she had deeply loved her husband and this, her first awareness of feeling attraction again, was a startling revelation. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There was nothing he loved more than a debate, dragging me into silly arguments, pushing me to passionately defend positions I didn't really care about. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

You get one chance to love, to be loved, Nick. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We both loved the Beatles—especially Paul, if we had to choose—and we were still in undershirts, though we both had started our journey toward brassieres. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

That morning, when I offered pollen, I prayed for his family and those who loved him. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps more fitting was a short note from one of the younger monks in the monastery: “Gentle, free-handed, and kindly....Flowers he loved.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The other girls rarely spoke to me, but I loved being there with them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She also had to watch our three chickens, who loved to wander away from our farm. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd, however, loved the gestures, and went completely mad. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Papa also loved to go to wooded areas around Concord and Lexington. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

If God really loved us equally, where was our rulebook for them? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I loved my desk, my teachers, the smell of freshly sharpened pencils waiting patiently in their box. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I thought you loved him,” he said calmly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She liked to believe that he had never loved her in the first place. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved her, even after that, but I knew better than to trust her the way I had before. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

One who was as soft as bird feathers and loved sharing quiet cups of tea in the morning. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Believe me, before the lust for revenge seized his mind, he loved you deeply. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

"A thousand other women might have loved him with all their hearts. What did he do to make you hate him so?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You loved who?” he says, his voice breaking. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She says, “I think this dog loved you from the day you sailed into the cellar. He must have thought, that boy is spectacular!” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I thought everyone loved changing the way they looked. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Or why loved ones got sick, and stayed sick even with treatment. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I loved it—the Tilt-A-Whirl and the Dragon Tail and the Racing Rollers—coasters on a double track! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

They spoke of how she had loved her family. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And she had loved them all—of course she had—and they had had happy lives...but oh! The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Right, well, we didn’t have fireplaces in Saudi Arabia. He read to me at night by the fire. I loved the stories. When he died, I was so sad.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

"He loved to be a journalist. He wanted to write the truth about what was happening in Afghanistan. A house of lies was no place to raise a child. That's what he said." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I wish I could tell her I loved her. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

That he loved his father; had an intimate relationship with him; that his father loved him, trusted him, and found him worthy of working “right alongside” him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Temperance came to pick my mom up, and she happily bounded up into his car, ready to go and be with the man she loved. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I had always loved this painting and the story behind it. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were Matlock reruns on TV every afternoon at exactly this hour, and I was not embarrassed to admit out loud that I loved them. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had a deep streak of sloppy sentimentality to him and he loved to sit around fires singing sad songs of home. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told Nate about his life on the farm, how he’d loved being with his parents but had nearly gone crazy with boredom. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

She knew I loved gymnastics, and she didn’t want that to ever change. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I loved fire and I especially loved fireworks. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Or maybe she couldn’t let the fact in, because she just loved her little brother so much. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Wilson had them all write him a haiku, because Mark loved haiku so much. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Would you believe it, Lizzy, that when he went to town last November, he really loved me, and nothing but a persuasion of my being indifferent would have prevented his coming down again!” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

And there is always a kindly doctor plus the patient’s loved ones there to say, “You’ve been in an accident.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossibly hard for them to expect people to just calmly abandon someone they loved so that he could be executed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Under different circumstances I would’ve loved the view from the terrace. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I loved it when he had a moment to come out on the church porch and tell me a quick Bible story while I listened, astride my bike, fascinated by his sonorous voice. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was the song to the Virgin, who loved all gentle things and who had watched over him in prison. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Stessman loved this kind of stuff—theater in the round. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She loved Africa, as I had known she would. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

And because the queen loved it, soup was served in the castle for every banquet, every lunch, and every dinner. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

She loved him with the strength of iron. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I still loved those old black-and-white movies, even if Audrey said they were boring. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Now he knew why he loved her so. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though he loved his children, he did not give them much freedom of thought: He was certain that his views were the right views. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a face in the world she loved more. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was romantic how at the school dance, he apologized and told her he loved her. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The right to hug your loved ones, whenever you want to. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She used to love ice-cream cakes, so I loved them, too. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be honest, all us kids in the class loved to see the two of them square off. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

To be loved, baby, hard, at once, and forever, to strengthen you against the loveless world. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

She loved their little old man faces and their sad, wary expressions. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Killed her? Are you crazy? Look around you. No man has ever loved a woman more than he loved her.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He loved it and was always on me to add more. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told him about her little brother and sister at home, who loved to crayon every piece of paper they could find, whether or not it already had type all over it. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearest his throne the son whom he loved best, Laodamas, had long held place; now the king bade him rise and gave his shining chair to Lord Odysseus. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was touching to see how they loved him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He loved Tom and he tried to give him the things he himself found pleasant. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Someone there was climbing into a rowboat, and she knew that she loved this person. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

How come I had never noticed how much everybody loved her? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

You’d have loved all of this—as well as the strings of lights she wound around the crèche and the branch she stuck in a pot and called a Christmas tree. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

"I loved them. They were so nice, so happy, nothing like my parents. I went over to see them all the time," she paused, "until you came." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I have loved my children and tried to be a good mother and it is right that my children grieve for me. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, there was a rabbit who loved a little girl and watched her die. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

They loved their knives and did terrible things with them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But he loved being told that something was impossible. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They loved telling the story of that day they found me. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

On weekends, little Immie played Lego, baked cookies, and went to the American Museum of Natural History, where she loved the reptile skeletons best. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

"Yes. It is grievous sad. I must blame myself for the poor sweet babe and her mother, who was so young and loved the king." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Don’t remind me. Dad loved it so much, but I’d rather be anywhere but the desert in the height of summer.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She told Dad once that she sounded young and naive, but I loved the way her paragraphs sounded—the way the botany-speak blended with her excitement and became a secret language with magic words. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Maya wasn’t sure why, but she could feel a spiral of darkness starting to weave around the people she loved. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Somehow during their aimless but oh-so-significant conversation with its delicious pauses and thrilling undercurrents of emotion, they came to know that they loved each other passionately. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily at the cemetery the lid of a coffin was lifted a final time before interment, allowing loved ones to say good-bye, but the condition of Anna’s body made that impossible. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Still, “I’m back! back! back!” echoed down the hall like a giant’s footsteps, and I loved the sound of it. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I loved the cool evenings when I could lace the tent shut and make it cozy inside with a storm lantern. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sop and his friends had tried to hurt her but she knew it was because they loved Tea Cake and didn’t understand. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell him it doesn't have to make sense, but then he said he still loved me and wanted to see if he could help me with whatever else I wanted to do. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Mouse had a fur coat, too, and I loved to bury my face in it. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It's hard to feel very festive on Christmas when our family has lost two loved ones on the holiday. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes parents loved their sons so much that they made a romance out of their lives. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

All three of them bonded by the certain, separate knowledge that they had loved a man to death. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dunbar loved shooting skeet because he hated every minute of it and the time passed so slowly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There were other roomers, who had jobs, and I knew she received help from relatives; still there was no mistake, Mary loved a variety of food and this concentration upon cabbage was no accident. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he, although he loved her again, loved her not so wholly as before, and never again so wholly as he had loved her. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She played because they had to move out of the home they loved. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The picture, almost like a selfie of Frank, only, the point wasn’t ever to capture his smile, it was to capture his Byrd and his Axel in the place he loved most of all. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how much I loved being on the track team until now. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“They ain't worth more than me. And besides, I never loved no man because he was worth it. Worth didn’t have nothing to do with it.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps loved him back. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

How we loved him then, when his frown wrinkles reversed their field and became a wide grin. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in my life I became aware of the life of the modern world, of vast cities, and I was claimed by it; I loved it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby loved being there and was in a perpetually good mood, with thoughts of growing rich from the impending match. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Colin, for whatever reason, had always loved desks with empty drawers. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Us worry bout God a lot But once us feel loved by God, us do the best us can to please him with what us like. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poem ends, Soft as it began— I loved my friend. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

There was no one I loved more than the Virgin. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a matter of fact, the boy loved Joanna and was willing to marry her after—as the saying goes—he had gotten her into trouble. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told Mary Elizabeth that I was sorry and how much I really loved the e. e. cummings book and wanted to ask her questions about it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had dug a hole for himself: He loved the Net and found it safe, so he spent almost all his free time there. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I tried, I’m sure I could access moments when he loved him and moments when he didn’t. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

How could her mother have ever loved someone like this? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Charles and Emma showered love and attention on him, and he loved them back. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the ladies loved him, even petted on him a little. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s lucky I studied martial arts for so long. When the Liberation Army woman saw my back bend, she just loved it.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved that rush the day I chose Dauntless, and I love it now. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He loved sleeping on her bed, though her grandmother often forbade it. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I will tell them all the ways I loved this country. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The two loved each other devotedly and were never willingly apart. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew he loved basketball, went for long runs on the weekends, and spoke wistfully of his friends and family on Oahu. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And now, I had a new way to persuade him: My sister and I loved playing with our neighbor’s dog, Bo. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was just a Bollywood comedy, but I loved it. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I loved to listen to my parents’ voices at night. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt a little guilty for keeping a secret, but mostly reassured—loved and reassured. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If Bobby just hears it? He loved her. We both did. I have to be the one to tell him.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They cried out the names of loved ones. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a bright child, an accomplished child, a child who loved and was loved. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The children loved it dearly and had given it an affectionate name: Tootsy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what he loved more was the fence behind it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There was something in her which loved to see him bow—when he came home, stinking with whisky, and crept with tears into her arms. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I loved Uncle Joe with all my heart. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“There, darling. Now you’re all clean inside and out. Tell me. How many people have you ever loved?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I loved the sound the fire made, too. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She loved it when she could communicate with the locals. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The outside world loved and reviled Charles Darwin. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then Grans told me she had a secret to tell me: she loved me more than anyone else in the world. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

When he was growing up, his mother loved animals, and they always had cats and at least one dog. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Mama, when she was only known as that swift girl Yellow Kettle and had no children, had always loved to dance. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She loved the sturdy boulder beneath her dearly. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

While the other bonobos loved to frolic, he barely moved all day. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I loved imagining what I would buy from the catalog if I was rich. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite clowning him about it, they loved him. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He loved that boy and that boy loves him. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“His students loved him. And not only because he wouldn’t beat them with rulers, like other teachers did. They respected him, you see, because he respected them. He was marvelous.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The smell of incense and lilies, the candles lit for loved ones passed away, the throaty intonations of the priest, and the majestic trumpeting of the organ. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Burnham loved Chicago for the opportunity it afforded, but he grew wary of the city itself. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Francie loved the smell of coffee and the way it was hot. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me he loved me and I’d just ignored him. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It sounded like the beginning of a pirate adventure he and Blink would have loved. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And with more loved ones getting sick and word spreading of an even worse strain of influenza heading west from Chicago, Indianapolis, and Des Moines, those wives and mothers were determined to protect their families. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

About Frank leaving, not about Byrd feeling loved. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The wolf pup loved her, even if no one else did. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I thought of our wedding night, gazing at each other’s reflec­tion in the mirror under the green veil, and how her cheeks blushed when I whispered that I loved her. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The person I loved more than anything in the entire world. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He loved us and we were to respond, like children, in love. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your grandmother and I didn’t always see eye-to-eye, but I still loved her, flaws, claws, and all. And she loved you more than anyone else in the world.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I knew they really loved each other because they continued to date even though her stepfather did not like Mexicans. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

But they loved it, and when I handed in my fake list of new members they responded with enthusiasm. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are a few more white folks in finer clothing, and I'm starting to wonder why they ain’t storming the sheriff's office, asking where their loved ones are. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She tucked the hair behind her ears in the swift movement he loved and took out the black velvet bundle. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She would not stay outside alone and away from those she loved, no, not even if it meant her life. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

What did you say to people who’d lost someone they loved? Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But I also loved Friday nights because the waitress knew to bring me club soda after club soda. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She loved her bosses at Essential Baking Company, and the smell of warm pastries, and the way the old people’s faces at Sunnyside Eldercare would light up when she came in. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: "I never loved you." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

And before she could even finish the story, I kissed her cheek and told her I loved her more than all the cupcakes in the world. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

He loved her so much, he thought he’d die of it. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She wanted there to be someone who loved her unconditionally, someone who would forgive her anything. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In answer to this assertion, I can say, I never loved any or confided in any people more than my fellow-slaves, and especially those with whom I lived at Mr. Freeland’s. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was relieved because he feared leaving people he loved. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I loved sitting out on the porch with your uncle Damani waiting for Frank Ski to play “Fresh Is the Word.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Plus, they have no idea how much I loved my sister. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think the only thing he loved as much as his late wife was Afghanistan, his late country. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The cemetery lies among wheat fields ripe for harvest, fields Vincent had loved. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Mexicans honor the dead. Skull pictures celebrate our loved ones.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

How small-minded and hypocritical mortal man was, for even as they despised the enders of life, they loved nature—which, in those days, took every human life ever conceived. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He was stuck being rocks all the time, so nobody loved him. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Another true piece of myself I recovered: I remembered that I’d made some marionettes for my little nieces when I was a teenager. I remembered how much I loved carving the wood.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He firmly believed the tiger loved these visits as much as he did. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

His childhood illness had helped to make him both self-reliant and something of a dreamer, who loved his creature comforts. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I like what you had to say, Tyrone. And I loved your cipher,” he told me. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved his new sneakers, the ones Mrs. Beale bought for him. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was singing the night I realized I loved him. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But that day I loved him because he gave me a great idea. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t kidding when I told him I loved him. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The numbness that had settled on him when he saw the man he loved and admired fall off the fence; something wild ran S> through him when he watched the body twitching in the dirt. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was garrulous and sociable and loved to be at the center of attention, but at the same time he was extraordinarily guarded about his private life. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I cherished this album; it was the one way that I could see those I loved whenever I wanted. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had loved them, and he played them over and over and over and over. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved how that sounded and I didn’t want to have any other words come into my head again. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They said Robert Baratheon was strong as a bull and fearless in battle, a man who loved nothing better than war. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I had never told her how much I loved her. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“She was too old to run to the United States.You know that. But I’m sure she loved you,” he added as the little boy sniffled. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Girls loved him, and he was dumb as rocks. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

That he was the most inspiring and the best loved of all Hogwarts headmasters cannot be in question. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He also loved the atmosphere of peaceful hospitality at the Wedgwoods’ home. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is impossible not to think of Darin and how much he loved the festival. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

We loved flying kites but it wasn’t the pot that made the flying adventurous, it was the Gillette blades. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He loved Frosted Flakes and tended to eat them all up in record time. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

If he touched her, he couldn’t talk to her, if he loved her he couldn't leave, if he spoke he couldn't listen, if he fought he couldn’t win. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I loved when Lil looked out into the seats to see if I was watching her—which I always was. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ralph felt as if nothing was fair and nobody loved him. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy had loved drawing that picture of June and giving it to her. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If it weren't for him, Hugo would be rich—able to marry the girl he loved.... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Everything about running an online clothing company was new to me, but I loved the challenge and the added perk of never being at a loss for what to wear. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

For his many sacrifices, he received only scorn and suspicion from those he loved. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I could tell right away he loved his horse. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I heard you guys arguing. Why did you hesitate when he asked you if you loved him?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The more time passed, the less sure I was whether he was someone I would have loved or someone I would have rebelled against. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

My other mother loved me to pieces, but she stood ready to clobber me if I moved. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because he loved you more than anything else,” she says. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Frank was married to a woman named Amy, whom they loved; they could not wait for the baby. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I had a passion for ballet, I now found that I loved all kinds of dancing. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reminded me of all the wonderful things I loved about church and community. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I let out my breath: now I could truly say I loved the Lord! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve loved seeing the landscape, drawing it over and over from this perspective. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She wished Immie had loved her back, and she sobbed because it would never happen now. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She loved it the way it was, free and undaunted. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad loved music, especially rousing stuff that made you want to get up and dance, or at least sway your head or tap your foot. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You got no right to cry. You never even loved her. You don’t know nothing about love.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

I loved Siobhan, and that is why I spent thirty years destroying the Allens, step by step. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was a man who loved the moon, but whenever he tried to embrace her, she broke into a thousand pieces and left him drenched, with empty arms. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I had felt loved, love pouring from their fingers when the adults tucked red money in our pockets. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father would have loved to hear that.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She loved her children, but she didn’t have control over them. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They loved you, Crow. They didn’t want you to become ill, like they were. And you said it yourself: They knew how lonely Jason was in that orphanage and they wanted something better for you.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

"If you loved a traitor, you must be a traitor too," Joffrey said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And she loved exploring every nook and cranny of the city, which was what a messenger got to do. said Doon. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the sweet calm, surrounded by everything I loved—moonlight, air, grass, animals, earth, people—I wondered, with a pang, how much longer I would be able to savor such moments. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Bren knew how much Vanessa loved pastelitos, so he kept tipping his cards so she could see. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I discovered I loved him at that moment. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daario might whisper words of love when the two of them were as one, but she knew it was the dragon queen he loved. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I loved the walks with my uncle, because they gave me a chance to talk about my childhood, about growing up with my father and older brother. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

What else had I, who’d known and loved you so long, missed, that he’d discovered after knowing you less than a week? The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I had loved that flag when I first came here,” he said. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The keeper of the stone would live forever, but so long as he kept it, misfortunes wouldfall on all those he loved one after another in unending rain. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Doc still loved true things but he knew it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Jethro loved Bill far and away beyond his other brothers; his mother understood why. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Of all the four girls," the mother told the lover, "that Yo has always loved poetry." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Or how much he loved it when they took the subway out to the stadium to watch a baseball game. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

P.J. particularly loved the ospreys that lived in a nearby nest, the otters that swam close to the boat, and the alligators he could hear barking under the clear, starry nights. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Then, just to show you how crazy I am, when we were coming out of this big clinch, I told her I loved her and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I loved drama and giving speeches at school, but I was worried about speaking before a huge crowd. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Before he died he told Deianira to take some of his blood and use it as a charm for Hercules if ever he loved another woman more than her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing I really knew about him was that he loved comic books. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

To the contrary, my father loved to be the rock for others. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My parents loved me too and would always be there for me. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

All wild places were his home, thickets and forests and mountains, but best of all he loved Arcady, where he was born. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But most of all he loved the Russians. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the kitchen light sparked flecks of fool's gold stars, and out of the waves burst hand-painted shells, white and pink, the kind my mother loved. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She loved it when she could get under her big brother’s skin. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her free hand dabbles in the blood on her chest, making the tiny swirling motions she so loved to paint with. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Safe with all thy loved ones. ’Tis the Feast of Christmas, and thou hast found the door in thy wall.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

At that moment, I loved and admired the president even more than before. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess I revered him more than loved him.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I learned that she never learned to swim, and for that reason she always loved rivers and lakes. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The glaring difference between us was that my parents still loved me—and despite the problems I’d had with them, I loved them, too, in my own quiet way. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It hurt him, he would say, deeply hurt him, after all these years, but if you loved somebody as he did her, you had to think of them first. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I so loved the burglary lessons we got when we were training. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I loved a maid as fair as summer, with sunlight in her hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We have not stopped trembling yet, but if we had not loved each other none of us would have survived. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s different. Do you think Dupree Johnson’s daddy loved his gas station more than his family? Or Robbie Chambers’ daddy loved his doughnut shop more than his wife or kids?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may be one of the explanations of her double love—perhaps she loved Arthur as a father, and Lancelot because of the son she could not have. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I always loved most about middle school was that it was separate and different from home. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I would never tell Jazz this, but I always loved her braiding my hair. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Sure, he liked military history, weapons, and biplanes, but he also loved old films, especially romantic comedies from the 1940s and ’50s. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was a squirrel riding in a car on a summer day with someone he loved. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I had become indifferent to my old connections, an attitude I had adopted in part to justify my flight and somehow alleviate the pain of my separation from a world I loved and valued. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I usually loved all of Mama’s cooking, and most of Doc’s when Mama let him use the kitchen. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

To Cabot, Alma Ember seemed just innocent enough to be loved but adventurous enough not to bore the hell out of everyone. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The racing was lawless and wild and the Americans loved it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I worked in the company’s tax division and loved the work. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She knew that men could take and take and leave the people who loved them wrecked or dead. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

How they loved to promise heads, these men who would be king. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

All the people he loved the most, bright-eyed, grinning, frozen in time. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They say that her parents loved her dearly, that she was the apple of their eye. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a time when she would have loved this assignment, when she had a thousand made-up places at her fingertips just waiting for someone to ask to see them. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

A week later it did not matter who loved us or who wanted us. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I loved showing off to my dad especially, since he also spoke French very well. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

My brother Philbert, the one just older than me, loved church, but it confused and amazed me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They especially loved throwing parties that involved code breaking. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

His face resembled that of another person, whom he had once known and loved and even feared. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t say that because he really loved them and if the house caught fire in the middle of the night he’d rescue them, he’d be willing to sacrifice his own life for them. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So did I. “Aunt Florentine loved you as much as she loved me.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Why didn't I realize that she could have been running to someone she loved just as much, in a different way? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Late July was a good time to get out of murky, hot, dirty London, and Charles loved the Staffordshire countryside around Maer, which “was very pleasant for walking or riding.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am a useful and much loved creature. Ask any gardener you like. And as for you...” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know if Cecile loved us when we were born. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She loved the fine hairs on his chest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But like you, I was made carefully, by a God who loved what He saw. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He loved the smell of the wood he was whittling, even the acrid smell of the oak that Brother Matthew was working. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I loved it when the separate colors would come together all smooth into a brand-new shade. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She tried to believe that William still loved her, and that in time he would come home. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But although his ways were mischievous and bold, Pinch loved his mother deeply, and he clung to her side. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Had she told her mother she loved her before she left the museum with Boo? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

So full and loved and sure of myself. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And I remember thinking how much I would have loved for that to have been my life, how much I would have loved to have a past apart from the fear. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Normally I loved playing DJ at the record store, but for once it wasn’t getting me out of my sad mood. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It was the sounds she loved—the sounds that turned and fell in kaleidoscopic wonder. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I loved the feeling and remember it to this day. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When it came to observing sports, Dad was a baseball fanatic, but when it came to playing, he loved to shoot hoops. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’d learned the more I loved didn’t have to mean the more I had to lose. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The radio purrs and the woman laughs and Herr Siedler looks almost nothing, Werner decides, like his neighbors, their guarded, anxious faces—faces of people accustomed to watching loved ones disappear every morning into pits. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Arthur loved his Lancelot so much that he wanted him to have a splendid setting, in which his crowning achievement could be done. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is time for you to be reunited with your loved ones, time for you and your children to claim your place among the stars.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She had clasped her arms about his neck, she was calling him darling, precious one, loved one. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Aunt Florentine had loved to work on my hair. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I would have loved you forever, through anything. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I left, they both cried, my mom explaining that it was just empty-nest syndrome, that they were just so proud of me, that they loved me so much. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Seeing the pine trees started him thinking about her mouth; how she loved, as a girl, to chew pine needles and as a result smelled even then like a forest. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

For just that moment he was again the little boy Dicey remembered, who loved to wrestle and tickle and never asked you to stop, who made games out of everything and anything. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just loved how crisp the bills were when they came out,” I say. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He could not stand the idea that his wife, the woman he loved, the mother of their children, would hold in her hands a monstrous life form that is lethal and incurable. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once she had loved Prince joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted his mother, the queen. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I loved the hulking Gustloff with its thick steel walls and multiple levels. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I loved selling stuff, and I was selling something that everybody wanted and nobody else could provide. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You must miss her. We have all lost loved ones as well.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved the Princess Pea with every particle of his being, and she had been taken from him. 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 loved photography and always kept the camera strapped over his shoulder. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She also told him she still loved him. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Others claim that a loved one’s criminality is a private, family matter: “Somebody’s business is nobody’s business.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I loved how the sun and salt spray perfused my skin, filling me with the memory of light. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

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

I met a dark-haired woman named Janine who somehow loved me despite my schedule and the constant absences. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I promise, I read each and every story, and loved them all. But the three winners we honor tonight are nothing short of brilliant. Please join me in celebrating our third-place winner, Gordon Jeffries!” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

When Rosie heard us, she turned her head back and mooed her happy moo and waggled her rump to tell Joseph she loved him. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

His feet ached, he was tired, and he would have loved to be sitting next to Ida on the couch. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I loved Grandmamma, but I missed my room, missed my TV, and most of all, I missed Monday. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And they were right, because if it weren't for Izzy, I wouldn't have loved shopping at... Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But I also knew, from other comments he made, that he felt guilty if he couldn’t love the ing babies of much as he loved little Catherine. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn’t ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They were two sisters who loved and hated each other. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“It smells delicious. Marigold loved the one you made her, you know.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Knew I’d never be loved again as much as when I was loved by my mother. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

From a window, the tall young man known as Leader looked down and watched the slow and cheerful pace of Village, of the people he loved, who had chosen him to rule and guard them. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Part of why they loved it was the specter they left behind. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chipper had the run of the house and loved to join a gathering. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But they are all of them loved?” said James. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly, she hated how much her mother loved it. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She loved to watch Besa stare into space, smiling as he drummed, lost in the rhythms he created. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every one of us, from the smallest hoodlum to the biggest, loved and respected him. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, we got along and I know he loved me.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the bubble I was to place all the objects I loved, all the colors that made me feel at peace. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He believed Charles was right, and he loved a fight. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their shed they found the ponies; sturdy little beasts of the kind loved by hobbits, not speedy, but good for a long day’s work. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Thomas had claimed that I’d already won, because in spite of my second-place reign, I kept showing up and doing what I loved. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I loved him, I had always loved him. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

No, my dear grandson, that distinction belongs to the first time I mustered the courage to tell your abuela I loved her. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I found I loved pretending to be a deer, loping through the forest as the boys counted to one hundred. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

You want personal attention to you and your loved one in a time of great loss. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Even though he was from the Deep South he loved the New York Yankees baseball team. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spinning around, I raced back up the hill to the cottage, to the place where everything I needed and loved could be found. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

This is where Kazi came back and made me feel loved. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I guess that was one reason why Auntie loved him so much. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was only in the second grade but he loved to read stories by himself—and he never asked anybody else to read to him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

That day, as Mr. Birkway talked about Greek mythology, I started daydreaming about my mother, who loved books almost as much as she loved all her outdoor treasures. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I loved the hole in his jeans and the dirt on his bare feet and the scab on his elbow and the scar that laced through one eyebrow. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It was the first time he’d said he loved me — in so many words. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I loved him more now than I did then. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He loved to toss surprise exams at a class—and he also could suddenly be the nice guy, not giving a test for weeks or giving a test and then throwing away the results. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is not Ned, this is not the man I loved,* the father of my children. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“No, I don’t think so. I think she loved my brother. At least, I think she liked him a lot.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I began thinking I never really loved my wife. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

From this arises an argument: whether it is better to be loved than to be feared, or the contrary. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

When he had time, though, there was a part of the job he loved. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

What kind of memento do you get for the mother who has loved you your whole life, who has given up the world for you? Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They loved to point Adah out when they saw us, pantomiming a lion’s roar, which didn’t help us to put the affair behind us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose I loved my father too much to escape being molded to at least some part of his vision. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women in the Delta knew I had risen above the tragedy of the church bombing, and they loved and admired me for that. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was Papa’s favorite of favorites, and Mario and Mama loved it too. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since that time he has withdrawn, no longer joins his men for the poker games he once loved, for which he was famous. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, every one of us loved to play baseball and didn’t let the rest of it get in the way. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Normally I loved school and proved an active, talkative student. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yeah. She didn’t just sing with her guitar. She rode horses in the rodeos. She loved being the center of attention.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He had forgotten how much he loved it all. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He loved that anxiety, that terrible and oppressive anxiety which he experienced during the game of dice, during the suspense of high stakes. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he danced each new dance with a curious stiff-legged step that the girls loved and other boys eventually copied. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was said that he loved the sound of his club cracking open a skull like a pumpkin, but this was not true. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He took care of his parents and he always loved us, even though he lived so far away. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He was an ugly dog, but already, I loved him with all my heart. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

That was how Joseph heard for the first time that Madeleine, whom he loved, was gone. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The moment Slash answered no when I asked if he still loved me, the relationship was over. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Uncle Chester and I shared one Wright trait: we loved our books. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was small yet fast; I loved racing with the bigger boys across the bumpy ice. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

But maybe the last part of the symphony was the music she loved the best—glad and like the greatest people in the world running and springing up in a hard, free way. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I loved a maid as fail as summer, with sunlight in her hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was the man whom I had been told had spent years of his life in suffering and sacrifice to lead us, the black people, because he loved us so much. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Somebody must have loved her a lot, to name a boat after her." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He says he loved the guy He says the guy was his best friend in the world. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And despite their occasional squabbles, it was clear as could be that they loved each other dearly. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The eyes were not the eyes of the man I loved, the man I knew. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The aunties loved to tug on our tightly braided cornrows, because it hurt so much but left no evidence of their abuse. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then why did you stop, if you loved it so much?” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She loved buttered bread, and probably felt bad about taking one more thing from a cow. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

"My husband. Unfortunately he had to leave. He would have loved to've met you, but then he's always dashing off. Business, you know." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also loved stories of wolves, bears, and wolverines in North America and Canada, jaguars anacondas and sloths in South America, orangutans, Indian elephants, and tapirs in Asia, and so on. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma Smith was a West Texas flapper who loved dancing and cussing and horses. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You asked me where I’d been. I had to tell some families that we weren’t able to find their loved ones.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It was a wonder that Cristiana had not discovered that it was Hamlet I loved. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Father’s mission had been a success in at least one regard: the Congolese loved our music. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said their names, and then he said the names of the people who loved him. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Peeves was bobbing overhead, now grinning wickedly, surveying the scene; Peeves always loved chaos. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She discovered that some of the things she loved so much in her father were considered very comical to other people. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never wrote that she loved him, though she would have if she thought it would get through. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I loved sitting next to him at sundown, high in a tree to get a better view of the gold and purple in the distance, swinging our legs as we watched the sun disappear. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I hated how I was forced to walk away from him, hated that he didn’t know the truth, hated that he told me he loved me and I’d just ignored him. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He got into more trouble over the years than all the kids put together, but we loved him just the same. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The one I don’t know but the one she loved. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Grandpa, did you ever tell Grandma you loved her?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time they too were kids, maybe had families who loved them. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She would not forget that he had a father who loved him, who took him in while she battled cancer. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They got a job together taking care of a public school and they loved it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Book Scavenger was an online community of people who loved books and puzzles and games as much as Emily did, and it traveled with her no matter where her family lived. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Robert loved a silly girl. She did not love him in return.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I tolerated the teasing and tried to keep my attention on the things I loved about school, which were pretty much everything else. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I met Alice’s thin pale little boy and saw with relief that in spite of the way she talked, she obviously loved the child. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he didn’t say he loved me because he loved me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And yet, wasn’t she better off here with Lyddie, who loved her, than with those two, who must not have given her enough to eat? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

They found the body of their friend Hyena, and many of the animals wept for him, as even an animal like Hyena is loved by some. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

And I would have loved it if I knew something about being Japanese that didn't make my mother turn her nose up. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When he lowered it over the face she loved so well, a tall young knight sat on his grey stallion where her son had been. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She loved experimenting with differing amounts of pigments and binders, seeking the clearest, most durable colors. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In spite of her practicalness, she was soft and feminine and the men loved the low and breathless way she had of talking. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved hearing Welsh people talk, even if half of what they said was incomprehensible to me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I loved fantasy, loved to get lost in worlds that didn’t exist. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I wanted so bad to tell him how much I loved him, and I didn’t know if I was gonna get the chance when he was in that coma. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Sarah had warned me and most of the time, she loved him like one of the sons she had lost. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted Jackie to see how smart he was and how much he loved me. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I loved times like this when Byron was about to really get it and couldn’t pay me back for teasing him. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Could you love a fellow soldier the way you loved Grandmother?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Like me, Barack loved children in a deep and genuine way. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Whenever something was missing, Marie attributed its disappearance to “something in the house that loved it.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was more like the Grandpa I loved. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mind cycles through visions: my mom alone in my white room wondering where everyone she’s ever loved went. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They loved to stay in the water until their lips turned blue and they couldn't stop shaking. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I loved a maid as fail as summer, he remembered, with sunlight in her hair ... A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"She never loved you, do you hear?" he cried. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I had lost everyone else I loved in the world. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had done well by their children, dreamed of having grandchildren, prayed seven times a day, loved needlework and flowers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He loved learning how the clocks in the station worked, and there was a kind of satisfaction in knowing how to climb through the walls and secretly repair the clocks without anyone seeing him. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I loved to hear Gladys's high, sweet voice imitating her favorite singers on the radio. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I wondered if Abuelo ever had to hold in a secret this big from someone he loved. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I loved his soft, warm fur and the feel of his heartbeat against my cheek when I hugged him. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It puzzled her, the ability of romantic love to mutate, how quickly a loved one could become a stranger. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Next to the calendar there is a postcard of a Duchamp painting he has always loved, of a chocolate grinder that reminds him of a set of drums, suspended against a gray background. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She loved everything about that typewriter; the way the keys felt, the sticky, crunchy noise they made. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Matt loved to see the old man then, with his eyes half closed and his mouth curved up in a gentle smile. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

People will say it’s sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He could not love me very much, I protested, because all he said was that he loved me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s always loved the ritual: starting off the day with a devotion to God. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

But as will happen in gardens, other plants grew there—dog’s mercury and Jack-in-the-hedge—and they tended to overtake the plants Emma loved. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nina spoke Kaelish like a native and loved the challenge of taking on a new identity in every town. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A little boy playing Tizerkane in an orchard would have loved the feel of them rolling off his tongue. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Grandma loved trees with all her heart, perhaps the way I loved Zuraiqee. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had come to love this man Ogion who had healed him with a touch, and who had no anger: he loved him, and had not known it until now. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

And he told his son he loved him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their opinion, religious rule had damaged the country they once loved. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The sixteen-year-old boy who won the second Quarter Quell must have had people he loved — family, friends, a sweetheart maybe—that he fought to get back to. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It was nice to be able to relieve the pain of one you loved, and Charles and Emma wanted desperately to help Annie feel better. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had always been an A student, and I loved reading and learning. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to think what I had loved knives for, but my mind slipped from the noose of the thought and swung, like a bird, in the center of empty air. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He loved the way she dressed—every twist and turn, and there were many. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure whether it will surprise you to hear that my parents loved Ocean. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He loved the sound of pancake batter hissing on the griddle. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a husband I deeply loved and two beautiful, healthy girls. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Catherine could not walk very far now and I loved to ride out along the country roads with her. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I loved hearing the prayers resonate throughout the building. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

No, she did not accuse him; but she accused her aunt, and this from the moment she understood that her aunt had loved her mother, but did not love him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Even wicked people, thieves and robbers have children, love them and are loved by them, except me. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the winter I loved to curl up in front of the fire and read. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, Gregor had loved the rain forest exhibit, and the cafeteria with french fries shaped like dinosaurs. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how treacherous El Patron had been, Matt loved the old man. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Ivy unwrapped Taryn’s present—a new turquoise messenger bag that Ivy loved, with a nice wide strap and magnetic closures—they settled in front of the TV to watch a movie. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe while strolling through the sidewalks of the Jordan district that she loved to visit, I would meet a woman like you. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Even though Styx Malone was convinced he had never been loved. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I loved to listen as Grandma Charity would tell of freedom day. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I see you, you know. The way you paint with such love. And you always stare back at the painting as if you aren’t sure you’re truly worthy”—he hesitates—“of being loved back.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But then I recalled all those framed pictures of Ben in the DiAngelos’ house....His parents had loved him, too. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Truth must be searched, loved and professed by all men; nor must any mens authority, old or new, hold us from it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Of course I’d have loved looking up to see her in the viewing area as I trained, but I also enjoyed the feeling that my gymnastics practice was completely my own. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It seemed everyone had a funny anecdote to share or a touching memory of a loved one. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Frankie could be stubborn, but I knew the one thing my little brother loved more than fishing. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He loved Mark and Linda too much to let them adopt him, so if the decision was his to make, Joaquin would make it. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Rowan resolved that he would make up Kohl’s last words to share with his loved ones. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Dad was like me, he loved putting on a show, or as Momma said, we both loved acting the fool. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But he still loved it that I hurt that boy.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved the theater and talked about it with friends and with his mother. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She would have loved to read aloud to her mother from her own favorite books, but of course she understood why Mo very seldom did so, even now. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mom said it had something to do with the zodiac and Pisces, but then she admitted that if it weren’t for Laleh, who loved taking care of the goldfish, she wouldn’t include them at all. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I loved my mum and wanted her locket back, so I was acting out of love,” I say. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Hi,” Naomi said, smiling and remembering what the twins were like at six, how they loved singling a grown-up out to get a little extra attention. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He opened my Christmas gift to him and loved it. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He loved his brother, but he would not have wanted to be with him in the Whispering Wood for all the gold in easterly Rock. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She loved finding bits of wood that she could smooth and connect and fashion into something else. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The boys in the band loved having us out there in front of them all the time, bending back and stepping high, in our snug satin outfits and short skirts. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Envies are gone, and the measuring stick is: “Was he loved or was he hated? Is his death felt as a loss or does a kind of joy come of it?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Mostly, though, I want you to know, I love you. Just like I loved your mother.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nasya Boulos. Everyone loved her. She tortured me for four years. No matter what I did, she made certain I knew I would never be as beautiful or as popular as she was.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

You can love a baseball team without worrying about not being loved back, or about being awkward in your approach. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

A kind and generous man, Lewis Krakauer loved his five children deeply, in the autocratic way of fathers, but his worldview was colored by a relentlessly competitive nature. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll buy my own —” “Bet you loved that, didn’t you, Potter?” said a voice Harry had no trouble recognizing. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“No, it wasn’t all her fault. She was misled. She loved me. At the end, she tried to protect me.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was infectious and I loved it, and I had to fight a sudden urge to kiss her, right there in front of everyone. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Once the radios were installed, the 586th Regiment loved their new Yaks and couldn’t get enough of flying in them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

On the day the poems were read in class it was mostly funny stuff or poems about how they loved their mothers. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have always loved each other in our way, and Bors was riding through the forest, when he came face to face with two things. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman who had brought me into the world, and nursed me, and advised me, and chastised me, and loved me, didn’t know me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved the Wiggles, a group that wrote silly songs for kids. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I believed that King Hamlet and Queen Gertrude loved each other and were true. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When I gaze at the food-court skylight, the moon Stella loved is shrouded in clouds. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She’s up to something, but whether it’s trotting out loved ones to lobby on behalf of my continuing my earthly existence or whether she’s simply bringing them in to say good-bye, I can’t say. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Anne was good to us and we loved her and her family, but like Dad she insisted on having her own way. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if he joined the camp, he would never be loved. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Georgie and I loved to sneak up to their cars and make scary sounds. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

"Especially about men and women. But I loved it all the same. The way he tells it I feel I am right there on the spot watching it all happen." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were standing at the edge of the lawn in front of Mr. Crane’s house, the only grass that anybody had loved hard enough to get it to take hold. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z