The longer she stared at the candle’s sizzling remnants, the harder it became to ignore the question forming in the back of her mind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And then my dad’s life comes to mind and I think, No way. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not Henry, mind; not the boy, which would have been outrageous enough; but Judith, the girl. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, my mood was - I do not mind admitting it - somewhat downcast. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of death didn’t cross my mind at all and killing had become as easy as drinking water. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was entirely possible that he was also thinking she was out of her mind, but at least he was listening. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mind that it’s emphasized,” she said of football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sounds of the bullets filled my mind. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He sat next to me quietly for a long time, and I could almost hear his mind working, trying to come up with something to talk about. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“It is important that Danny know exactly what he will tell his father. He must anticipate what questions will be on Reb Saunders’ mind. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

"Would you believe teleportation? No? Then I came down through the bulkhead door like always. And like always, I have a quest in mind." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ranofer was standing like an image, a sharp suspicion in his mind. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

We’d fill our pockets as we walked along the shore together, watching the ships go by, and talking about life, or the future, or whatever was on his mind. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I felt the trickle start at the back of my mind, the warning before the flood. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I didn’t say a word the rest of the way home, too scared he’d change his mind. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to put that thought out of my mind. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was running over some of these in his mind when Dandelion appeared. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he walked home that evening, no answer surfaced among the questions that darted about like fish in his mind. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Well, someone with sense better nursemaid the lot of you young rascals. Put my chair on the wagon, but mind you don’t scratch it.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like you,” he said and wished he could gather the words back into his throat and into his mind. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, her mind felt like a vast storage room whose locked cupboards were all at once not only unlocking but flinging themselves open and dumping their contents on the floor. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Without her, Lanre’s life was nothing but a burden, and the power he had taken up lay like a hot knife in his mind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“And by changing men’s minds he makes the best of it. Why not?” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The veela had started to dance, and Harry’s mind had gone completely and blissfully blank. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

My mind is screaming at me, telling me to sit my behind down. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Every experience he had had outside of his own mind had ended in frustration. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

And I will speak the best parts of my mind’s magical library into our new world. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now that where he was going was firm in his mind, he slid into the empty seat below the posted subway map. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Making computers work requires a particularly rational mind. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zero’s figure is still hovering in my mind, ominous and silent. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Never mind that — pig snout, pig snout,” panted Harry, and the portrait swung forward. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I did not sign up that day, but my mind was made up. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But those better things, just like the faint recollections he had of his mother, never lingered in his mind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I told him he hadn’t had time for her to die in his heart or his mind and I was afraid he’d regret rushing into something like this. ‘ Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

‘I was just running over some of the Rhymes of Lore in my mind,’ answered the wizard. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They, the men, were saving with the mind what they lost with the eye. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I think about it, replaying Erin’s words in my mind. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll never change our minds about adopting you, but you can change yours. Let us know when you have made your decisions.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s probably best if we keep an open mind. And I didn’t say it was a pageant necessarily.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It became such an ordeal—so painful—that I forced myself to take my mind off her. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

And the very young children couldn’t make up their minds whether to watch the man circled in blue on the roof or the bits of red flashing around on the ground. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm thinking about Blue—always Blue—because really, my mind only wanders in one direction. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The pain that had been building in their arms and legs and chests did not abate, but it fled to the backs of their minds, chased there by a sense, almost, of invulnerability. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She forced herself to relax, letting her body go limp, and tried to clear her mind. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Telling people to mind their own business is maybe another Agnelli Curse. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

So you know what it is like to have so many family members and friends and well-wishers gathered around the hogan, all of them putting their minds together to wish success and goodness for you. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, mind if I sit with you? You can kind of show me the ropes and tell me what I missed.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fm going to call her that, if you don’t mind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I’m not filming, but I’m etching this into my mind forever. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“You went to a farm yesterday and escaped from a cat. And whatever you were up to, it was so much on your mind that you forgot to ask about Holly last night.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heart was thrilled, the mind astonished, by the power of the preacher: neither were softened. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But no matter how deep I went, my mind failed. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

We’d peeked in the windows many times before, often with pranks in mind. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I kept up my single-minded obsession with finding food, to the point where I had no time or room in my mind for other thoughts. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Callie, listen, I don’t know you, but I don’t have to know much to know that I don’t like you. So back off and mind your own business.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But even as my life was moving forward, the questions about my dad were always there in the back of my mind, bubbling up to the surface now and then. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Tiara said, grabbing hold of George, who didn’t seem to mind. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

In his mind, only one part of what his brother had said echoed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

For a second, he almost changed his mind and left her there. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It would be the first time that he had had leisure to study and improve his mind. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

But, then, what was he to do—tell Min he had changed his mind? A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

And then suddenly she made up her mind. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mind if we have a look at the shark?” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Generations of ancestors hurl accusations inside Ranee's mind. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Woman, I have a mind to prove you wrong.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The abrupt sound of my voice scattered any other dream memories I might have pulled from my mind, but I was pleased to finally recall this much. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and in my mind I could see the funnel-like entrance of the hole, and the sharp slanting points of the nails. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mind felt peeled open, skinned and scattered. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Jethro was sensitive to color and contrast; the memory of the golden kitchen and the velvet shadows of the room beyond was firmly stamped in his mind. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we set our minds to starting a fire again. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was clear that nobody at school wanted much to do with him, but he didn’t seem to mind. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I have to get outside of myself, or I’ll die inside my mind. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now, suddenly, he couldn’t shake it from his mind: fission might make it possible to build a whole new type of explosive. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cottage was full of memories, but it was easier to accustom the mind to new ones and train it to the loss in surroundings that were so different at this time of year. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey what,” I said, but my mind was still trying to figure out why I ever thought my grandparents would want me here after everything that happened in our family. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Why can’t you just look into Zak’s mind like you do everyone else’s and—” “Our power is not without its limits. We cannot penetrate the minds of those who have learned to shield themselves.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I knew whatever I said would be written down in his mind to deliver with the mail. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

So he remained for a great while, until a thought came to his mind. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Has it ever crossed your mind that maybe the attacker is a woman? For instance, somebody insanely jealous of Nicole?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The clouds spun in my mind, pushing, pressing against the back of my eyes. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo began to think about running away, but at that moment, as if reading his mind, Uncle Claude grabbed the back of the boy’s neck and didn’t let go until they reached the train station. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Soon they too drifted from his mind, leaving only silence. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But we don’t mind having to work at it. In fact, that’s what we want; it’s what we came for. Dale’s going to stay on there and work while the children finish school.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“How could you not know?” she asked, for in her mind he always seemed to know everything, even the things he could not possibly know. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But there was no way to convince Styx Malone once he’d made his mind up about something. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Nothing comes to mind, but there has to be something. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When I get home, I play it all over in my mind. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

A nagging worry lingers in my mind, but his words still pull a smile out of me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Stock your minds and you can move through the world resplendent. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

In his mind, he saw the numbers, the shift juggling, the outright lies and borderline crimes he'd committed to put this mission together. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances,” he said. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Do you mind if I take her for a walk? I need to feel the wind on my face today.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I tried to get my mind around this shocking bit of information, but the music and the girl and the insanity of the situation were sort of fracturing my thoughts. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She watched an elderly woman stumble, fall, fumble for the transmitter around her neck, and Barbra Pierce’s voice-over echoed in her mind. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The thing that did surprise her, that she couldn’t get her mind around, even now, was that she was having a conversation with a stranger. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I be proud to hear the things that air in yore mind.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I would mind, Father. I love you and I would die if you stopped breathing.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I think he had that in mind for an engagement present, only you needed it in a hurry, so...Listen, you want me to talk to him? Try to move him along faster?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But Turner did not mind all that much. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Would you mind if I rode on ahead? I’m worried about that child. I’ll tell you how to get there, and I’ll go on ahead and keep watch.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some vague thought was trying to worm its way into my dense, naive, childlike mind. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride—where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Surely,” I said, “you do not mind letting me know so much.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

There isn’t a day that goes by without the enemy shooting suicidal thoughts through my mind. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Well, in my mind, we can conquer the world / In love you and I, you and I, you and I... Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My mind swings from Poor guy to What if he is a bad one? Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I can still feel the sting from the belt on my back and legs as he violently lashed me in his usual drunken state of mind. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Everything was falling into place in her mind. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But none of those who listened in his mind would answer him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I could be subsumed into Abnegation’s hive mind, projecting always outward. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Oh! yes—did not you know?—Well, well, never mind.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

I got to turning it over in my mind. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a waterfall of snapshots, the memories splashed through my mind. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

There’s no telling where her mind might be when the police get here. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white man, despite his protestations of brotherhood, had made the first dirty suggestion that came to his mind. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If animals existed in a world of instincts and senses beyond the conscious thoughts of the mind, what happened to people in their frantic worlds of noise and hectic rushing? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Nothing’s wrong with that, Ms. Laverne said, being a teacher/mind reader. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Nate stood there under the cherry tree, his mind swirling with sad memories. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

I studied those windows closely every Sunday, and each one permanently etched itself in my mind. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re out of your mind,” Jasmine says, “and I love it. See you soon.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

The long night marches turned their minds upside down; all the rhythms were wrong. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you mind if we change the subject?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow, perhaps, they would come and rescue her—but she didn't really mind. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m doing this all wrong. Never mind your father’s song. We’ll talk about it after he finishes it. Knowing Lanre’s story might give you some perspective.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In his mind, he realized that moment he left her on the farm when she swore love, certainly she meant it, but she was barely eighteen. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore did not speak for a moment; he looked as though he was trying to make up his mind about something. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The stuff— the stuff called pride, that attitude, that aura, your identity, your self, your pride, peace of mind, worry free. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He needed peace to clear his troubled mind. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

For a moment the thing was so out of place that his mind could not translate what it saw. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you mind helping me walk her over to my Jeep?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t mind hearing more about what you had to say.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

To his mother’s limited mind the psychiatric ward would seem an attractive alternative. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You still have to go to school today,” Dad says, as if he is reading my mind. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Look at you. Community minded all of a sudden. Maverick, what time did the claims agent say he was coming?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I did not mind Cristiana’s presence, for at least she held her tongue, perhaps out of respect for my loss. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

All the top scientific minds of the age worked on the problem. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Honey,” Mom replied, sticking with what was on her mind, “does your dad know you have all this dangerous war stuff out?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My mind is working hard trying to figure if he’s lying or tricking me or just likes books as much as I do. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He calmed, and then, staying low to keep out of the way of any passing bullets or buckshot, she reached out with her mind to the other two. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Poppy was always served after a feast: it clarified the mind and stimulated the tongue, and made for rich conversation. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw there was only one chance, and I made up my mind to take it,” Davis said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Therefore we need only probe your knowledge and speed and stamina. We need no enemy for this. The enemy is always in the mind. Visualize him.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Why think these wild things with your idle mind? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had made up her mind not to speak to them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then he applied his mind to his early morning meditations. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

With Curt, she became, in her mind, a woman free of knots and cares, a woman running in the rain with the taste of sun-warmed strawberries in her mouth. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’ve written short stories in my mind, chuckling at my own humor, saddened or stimulated by structure or content. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reconstructed in his mind the details of the room as he had seen them by the glow of the flashlight when he had first come in. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, um, Will, if you don’t mind, I have a few things to add.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

"Could I have tea? Enough for two. And would you mind lighting the fireplace?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Mark’s mind jumped between clarity and foggy anger. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The thought of her brought to his mind the sense of her wise and childish sweetness. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He found that if he kept his mind busy, he didn’t notice the hurt so much. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

All at once, I lost my home, my husband, my son, my peace of mind. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But now would you mind joining us in the library?" he said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I watch a mind movie of me being the only girl without flowers marching in to see all the parents. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

In my mind, in this moment I see a dung beetle, working with all its small might. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't mind going with you, Mr. War-Horse, but what about this boy? How do I know he's not a spy?" The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Before you criticize him for discouraging me from Christian theology, keep in mind that he and my mom had negative experiences with organized religion. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

There was one bookstore in particular that he had in mind, a place he stopped in regularly on his way home from school. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It darted into his mind that he had heard long ago that there were giants in these Northern countries. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The bloodshed poured through my mind again, and the screams of battle echoed in my ears. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

His mind filled with the image of die money inside. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“My dad used to say that anything was possible when you put your mind to it.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She wondered if the rumors about Clara’s talent for reading minds were true. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, oddly, she didn’t lean back against the wall or mutter “Never mind” or let her hair hide her face while she did nothing but text. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

My mind leapt to my bedside table drawer. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“So, Lou, inquiring minds want to know. Why go through all this trouble just for dirt and trees?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

By the time he reached the hospital, his state of mind had shifted. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And then she’d never mentioned it again, this essential fact about his life slipping from her mind as so many others did. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t seem to mind their off-key voices, although Gregor could feel the muscles in Ares’s neck getting tighter with each verse. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell Charles about the Illuminati, but the words belonged to my father, and even in my mind they sounded awkward, rehearsed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her look told me my outfit was not what she had in mind. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He wrote: As I held the flask, I concentrated on the picture I’d formed in my mind of the cells, visualizing a disturbance in the cell fields and the cells blowing up. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“But how did you find out? We’re not supposed to know. “Never mind,” said Harry quickly — he knew Hagrid would be in trouble if he told the truth. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I change my mind and begin to withdraw. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I just don’t know, she said in his mind. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I can’t get away, she thought, and looked down; she saw one face clearly, and the name came into her mind. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first really universal law of nature ever propounded by a human mind, which is why Newton is regarded with such universal esteem. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The other girls don’t mind, they say, so most of them have taken bunks on that side. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a better idea to chill Maddy out sprouted up in my mind, and I walked to the other side of the room to grab one of the two chairs that were there. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Their words ignored it but their minds never left it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As Calder absentmindedly watched the droplets forming and re-forming in shape after shape, an idea came to mind. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“He loved her with his whole mind and body. He gave her everything he could imagine.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

If that had been the end of it, he would not have minded. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The same thought had crossed my mind, more than once. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

If there is in your minds a reasonable uncertainty regarding the truth of the charge made here, you must find the defendant not guilty. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

His mind, in the words of one biographer, was "always operating out towards the frontiers, as far as he could see, and that was a great deal further than most other men." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The words that Gandalf had murmured came back into his mind. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I had a feeling that maybe Dad would call me, so I didn’t mind hanging around the house all day waiting for the phone to ring. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

My mind searches frantically for a way out. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hang up before she can infect my mind with anything else. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In my mind I pulled away the layer of strangeness that had covered everything. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Doc could lie there until nightfall if he had a mind to. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He snarled in what he hoped was an aggressive manner, “Never mind who I am! Who do you think you are, you little rag-head?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I don’t pay her no mind at all. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the thought had built and built in Rishi’s mind until he couldn’t contain it anymore. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Instead, I felt my body muscles turn steely and my mind strain to focus. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nimble minds in 1244 were already hopping from Mars to Jupiter and on to Saturn, like stones skipped in a glassy lake. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

At last lulled by the wind in the boughs above, and the sweet murmur of the falls of Nimrodel below, Frodo fell asleep with the song of Legolas running in his mind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sabeen sighs, “Father wouldn’t mind. Father says, ‘Sharing ideas is good.’ Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

She knew it would mean battles for her and for me, but she had made up her mind. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He went over the story again, fastening every detail firmly in his mind. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

No one in their right mind could have spent the night in that building. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In the back of my mind I’d been thinking I had saved him and Miss Love from the gossipers. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Pastor’s preaching up a storm, but all I got on my mind is this pageant. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When I panic, my mind starts to go on walkabout, but I need to be here. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

We’re not supposed to think; just write whatever comes to our mind first. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

‘Not a word to the old gentleman, mind.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I was so mad my mind went blank. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I resisted the urge to hurtle out of the foliage to Otto’s defense, tried to calm my mind enough to reason through what to do. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’d follow Mama around every step she made, getting in the way and feeling hurt because she didn’t have time to pay him any mind. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did she mind having to relive that punch in the eye? Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing you have for measuring what’s real is your mind...so what happens when your mind becomes a pathological liar? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“I don’t get why they have it out for us. I mean, when they were trying to mind control themselves an army, sure, but now? Seems useless.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

His face was fixed in her mind: haunted to start with, just to be returning to this place of his torment. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“How can the weather have a state of mind?” said Papadimitriou. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

But the thing was eating up his mind, of course, and the torment had become almost unbearable. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And though by now I was fighting older boys and didn’t mind that one bit, for some reason I didn’t want to fight about books. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then how could one live in a world in which one’s mind and perceptions meant nothing and authority and tradition meant everything? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to clear my mind of what had happened. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Even among those powerful engineering minds, he stood out. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“She thinks of herself that way. She doesn’t mind being meat.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thinks: It’s hunger, the fever, I’m imagining things, my mind is forcing the static to coalesce . All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Anything to take my mind off the pain.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My friends don’t mind that I don’t say, “Or mine.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Discovering him, seeing his surprise, and presented at once with choices, Winnie’s mind perversely went blank. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I washed and got changed, my mind was on fire, and it would have been impossible to chant team if Coach had asked me to. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In his mind he began composing a letter. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

And a small, scared part of my mind reminds me that, if I just stop right now, just leave like Hideo had insisted I do, Zero might return my Memories to me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In my mind’s eye, I tried to see myself as she had. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

They spoke with one voice, thought with one mind, and maintained an annoying privacy. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I found a long strong stick to protect myself as I sat playing with leaves on the ground to avoid bringing up thoughts that occupied my mind. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My powers are great, as you shall see, so be easy in your mind, my child.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when she decided to move into New York City, my mom decided Auntie Seema was just a little bit out of her mind. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His teachers, as a result, could shape the minds and values of students without contradiction from children who might know something about what existed beyond the fence. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

A mind movie flickers in my brain of an angry fish at the bottom of a tree, banging on the trunk with its fins and complaining that it can’t climb it. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I reckon,” he said, malevolently, “you is just made up your mind to serve Satan all your days.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t get the word out of my mind. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was afraid because he had no idea what Assef had in mind. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The pages of my mind flip back once more to the snowy afternoon when I’d run into her room to find her staring out the window. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Betsy’s brother sent her a volume of essays “to improve my mind.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Not one of them changed their mind about bringing me home. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Matt had flunked out of high school but had an impressive mind when it came to cataloguing Dead trivia. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The image of it blocked the alpana designs that used to dazzle her mind with color. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were people who had trances, I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we could know nothing, they obeyed the tangled orders of their own sub-conscious minds. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She was starting to worry that he wasn't coming at all—he could've gone to the wrong high school or changed his mind—when he honked for her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

It is something you can work out in your own mind just by looking at the sky above your head at night and thinking without having to ask anyone. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was truly a load off my mind when I could tell that, even with it dark as it was in the stable, she didn’t have four arms atall! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She could see it in her mind, the whole place, the slope, the trees, the tumbly barn against the hill. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He said that Hicks had “an open mind, and he never panics for the white man.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I yell, but she pays me no mind. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Was I fair just now in describing your husband’s state of mind as ‘terribly excited’ on the morning of the sixteenth—the morning Carl Heine was murdered? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I pictured the idea of “writer” in my mind, pictures from my schoolbooks came to mind, and Hughes did not fit that picture. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I think if I had told Mrs. Baker, she would have said that it was a miracle, that all dawns were miracles—miracles being much on her mind lately, as you can understand. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

And as I followed Joey into the store, I kept asking him, “What do you mean, except for when it comes to girls’?” But he just said, “Never mind.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Every task we were assigned was just glorified busywork to keep our hands moving, our bodies occupied, and our minds dead with boredom. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” I said, “it’s all right. Mr. de Winter won’t mind.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The word beware echoes in my mind as Chantal pulls me away from Detective Stevens. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But his mind was too active for his body to be still. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Good, then you won’t mind that the game is being taped, and that twelve colleges called and asked for copies of the tape,” Goldy said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

There before her in her mind’s eye was a fortress rising up from the frigid sea like a mountain of snow. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A simple, clear image floated through his mind. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Thoughts raced through my mind, one after another. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Somehow Harry connected these unsatisfying, vague images with the destruction of his wand, as if it was the blackthorn wand’s fault that he could no longer see into Voldemort’s mind as well as before. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Robert waves to me, and again I see another possible life in my mind’s eye. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“The only guess I have is that maybe your mind doesn’t work the same way the rest of theirs do. Like your thoughts are on the AM frequency and I’m only getting FM.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Do you mind my telling you all this, Bobby? It feels good to talk.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

By now she’s learned that his architect’s mind for detail fails when it comes to everyday things. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It begins to control the ant’s mind, making it do things that no ant would do otherwise.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There’s that word again, “damage,” the one that’s been sinking and surfacing, sinking and surfacing in my mind since the genetic test. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

My mind made a final attempt at being lucid. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I mind less, it’s true. Anyway, since I have a home here, why should I have another one?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s funny. He always said he wouldn’t mind getting captured. Something about a face-lift.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

That woman had a devious mind that was only predictable when she scented an opportunity to vanquish her husband. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will not tolerate any romantic notions between the two of you, so banish the thought from your mind now. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“If you ever change your mind and need contacts, let me know. I live in Tollygunge, just behind the tram depot.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. You know, I think I’ve changed my mind about my mom and dad.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I just wanted to say good-bye. I really enjoyed our talks. I hope you don’t mind being a naiad again. Are you mad at me?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A lot of the guys call me Spier, and I don’t mind that, but I don’t know. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He groped about in his mind for an image that would calm him. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Why are we demonizing this man for speaking his mind?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you mind him, sir!” broke in Mrs. Tom, with a cheery laugh. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I tried to calm my mind and shut out the sounds of the cheering fans. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Sweat snaked down his forehead as it finally clicked in his mind, and both panic and joy erupted within him as he turned and faced down one of the hallways. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In the hoarse shouting and the heedless screaming of the women there was a mounting violence, and a terror she had never known before closed over Kit’s mind like fog. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Then as he reached his office door he said, "I haven't changed my mind about you, boy. And I don't intend to!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph’s mind continued to race as he waited for his uncle to appear. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Now one of the junior varsity quarterbacks was leading the team, and Frankie didn’t seem to mind. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t much to do or look at to occupy themselves, even though they very much wanted to be occupied to take their minds off their nervousness. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I think he was going to say something else, but he changed his mind. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

His mind leaps from violent imagery to sex to people jumping out of burning skyscrapers to very practical issues, such as how to get a duvet to stay on a bed. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The poor woman had lost her mind and soon afterward Trueba lost his patience, fed up with finding in his food the hairs she had torn from her head in her unending grief. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Hope you don’t mind me asking. But what is it? What’s it like?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the only way out,” he tells himself finally, his mind spinning. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

This thought is what echoes through my mind the rest of the day. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Little did I know how much I would still need that support for the next task God had in mind for me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t mind, for I like ‘to see folks eat with a relish’, as Hannah says, and the poor man must have needed a deal of food after teaching idiots all day. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Never mind that!” she cried, slapping her hand on the bar. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Her mind grows lazy and wanders around too many topics—her schoolwork, a cute boy she met in Phnom Penh, movies she saw—but always it comes back to our family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And with Mom’s calming words whispering through her mind, Jess fell asleep. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Echoes—shreds of memories arising out of the void of her mind. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I wish you’d make up your mind and be mean or be nice. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

To his mind, of course, the fault lay not with his system but with me, for being so thickheaded. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The trip is a difficult one, and I must ask my favors while my mind is sound. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I even understand why it’s helping him mentally—keeping his mind off the bigger questions. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just remembered. The gorgon’s blood—maybe it’s starting to heal my mind. The Sea of Monsters. Hylla... she welcomed us at the docks, took us to see her boss. Hylla worked for the sorceress.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

LeAlan: Do you think society had anything to do with affecting their minds to throw a five-year-old out that window? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And once you get started, you don’t really seem to mind, am I right? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, I am thinking vegetarian might be a good thing for me to consider becoming since I would not mind parting company with some of my fat cells. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some distant memory from the first night he’d had the journal was curled up at the back of his mind, but he couldn’t recall it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It’s whatever he pictures in his mind’s eye. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I kept careful track of her the same way as I used to mind the neighbor’s bull when I took the milk cows out to pasture. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very soon, naturally, butlers up and down the country, under pressure from their employers, were focusing their minds on the question of silver-polishing. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She made the decision then, mind over heart. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

There are questions and questions that whirl around my mind like a tornado, and they slowly make their way up to my throat to form one deep, angry wail. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He also told me that he didn’t mind my coming to his room the way he used to; in fact, he liked it. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

China had changed her mind about the bangs and was arranging a small but sturdy pompadour. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Darn me if I couldn’t eat ’em,” said the man, with a threatening shake of his head, “and if I han’t half a mind to’t!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped home to drop off my backpack, and then headed over to her house before I could change my mind. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genie thought about how he wouldn’t mind it being part of his life too, so he asked, “Well, can I help?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Though it has crossed my mind that a person could go to jail for the kind of thing Safer is planning. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

So she tried to concentrate on something that focused her mind and woke her up in camp: an anger that she always felt in her fists. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Then you know of nothing on her mind, you can’t suggest a solution, Mrs. Danvers? Those words ‘I have something to tell you,’ do not convey anything to you at all?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Every shelter has a register in which visitors make diarylike entries on the weather, the trail conditions, or their state of mind, if any, and note any unusual occurrences. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was single- minded about it, and I later realized that it was a way to keep myself from thinking negatively. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were worried out of our minds. Thank you so much.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I caressed the smooth surfaces, my mind drifted back through the years, back to my boyhood days. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to remember what I just said, but speaking in class has made me so nervous that my mind is doing its Etch A Sketch thing. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

At that moment a woman and two men stepped from the jewelry store; I moved to one side to let them pass, my mind intent upon Grigg’s words. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Second, there was always the fear, in the back of all our minds, that we might get caught. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

We tried to get ready for bed, but all we could hear was Nelson outside whimpering to be allowed to come in, and we became scared out of our minds. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On and on he led them, tireless and swift, now that his mind was at last made up. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She had just the type of tree in mind: a pretty birch tree with its wild orange leaves in contrast over white bark. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I forgot to ask Dr Strauss if it was only me or if everybody has two minds like that. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately my mind went blank, and I could not think of a single thing I knew for sure Plotinus had written. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Images invade my mind—of me on my back, arms pressed above my head. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be too sure. Jenny has a mind of her own; she sees through nonsense like a flash.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was something that Mrs. Frisby and the children did not ordinarily mind; Moving Day, in fact, was normally a gay time, for it marked the end of the gray weather and the frost. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It looked better than it tasted, but she did not mind. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Please don’t mind too much, Wheeze. It means so much to me.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what was strangest of all, no one minded. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t ever been mentioned in Miss Sadie’s stories, but in my mind, it had worked its way in on its own. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

You felt you would have to mind your P’s and Q’s, if you ever met living people who looked like that. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I can see her mind wondering, What happened to my bowls? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

There is a part of her mind that is part of mine. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put this Thug guy on my list of people not to pay any mind to. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

My feet carry me without my mind having any say. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

What I did mind, now that she was dead, was being in mourning. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I had not settled in my mind whether I believed in God or not; His existence or nonexistence never worried me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mind had been occupied with Chuck and now Teresa. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And that is why people think that computers don’t have minds, and why people think that their brains are special, and different from computers. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some distant, rational part of my mind thought: of course, to make it volatile. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

While you slept, doubts slithered into my mind. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Now that I was banned from black tennis it was easier on my mind whether to decide to seek membership at a white club. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rachel steered us away from traps, but we had no destination in mind—only away from that dark mountain and the roar of Kronos. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Not that she minded hanging out with Hazel and Piper. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Clear my mind so it wouldn’t show on my face. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Recognition entered my mind, and I froze, unable to speak. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t mind going back to Antwerp—he’d be closer to her and the rest of the family again. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I don’t mind saying the chicken was out of this world. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure he will put his mind to the task of studying hard now, sir,” Baba said. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

My mind had practically stopped on the word Mummy. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

My mind is already speeding, thinking of designs and patterns and colors. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“I said I’ve changed my mind. I want to go home.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even if I didn’t always perform at the top of my class, I always felt that it was with those minds where I belonged, and felt the most comfortable. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For into Merry’s mind flashed the memory of the face that he saw at the riding from Dunharrow: the face of one that goes seeking death, having no hope. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Even with all of the fear, and with all of the time passing, somehow, a new image floats into his very heavy mind. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The problem with the passives that bog down bureaucratic and academic prose is that they are not selected with these purposes in mind. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But he felt a persistent, nagging worry in the back of his mind, and as he leaned forward into the sunlight, he closed his eyes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Cornflower voiced the question that was on the mind of every creature there. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

My mind whirls with questions when I leave the smithy. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In one short hour she had conjured away the rebellion that had been seething in the girl’s mind for weeks. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

‘The Ents made up their minds rather quickly, after all, didn’t they?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

During passage through several thousand years it transformed into hail, hale, health, hallow, holy, whole, and heal, and all of these still move together through our minds. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A thought crossed my mind. I thought of all your kin coming in angrily to break such a will as this. You can’t do this.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was trawling through every detail in my mind, every possible misstep, until I caught myself. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I introduce myself to put her mind at ease. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“If you’ve actually lost your mind, this is going to be a lot tougher than I thought,” said that raspy voice. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Some people don’t know when to mind their own business.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“What?” said Rowan still trying to wrap his mind around the moment. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He went over things carefully and conscientiously in his mind. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Sticky, remember when he told us the Whisperer was going to be a ‘healing device’ that would bring peace to thousands of troubled minds?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

My mind hums this kind of static, and I just know the buzz is gonna come. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But it’s a very powerful illustration of the way our minds work. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The manager momentarily had disappeared completely from his mind; by contrast, at the sight of the flowing coffee he couldn't stop himself snapping his jaws in the air a few times . The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

They haven’t been able to see each other in a couple weeks, so his mind is quick to supply the image. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He put his mind to remembering the day in Washington, working on details of pictures and statues, dredging up the sound of Miss Edmunds’ voice, recalling his own exact words and her exact answers. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“The trick is in holding the Alar firm in your mind. You need to believe they are connected. You need to know they are.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Everything came together so quickly in Thomas’s mind, he almost heard an audible click, as if the pieces all snapped into place at once. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

One look at Mr. Reilly and the students would understand that the note was the meaningless fantasy of a sick mind. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bodega broke away from wherever he was at in his mind, peeled his eyes off Vera, and chased after me. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He coulda run this street with me, if he put his mind to it. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In my mind I saw what I had seen for all my other girls. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

So Saruman guessed, and he had concealed his mind and deceived his messenger. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In her mind, she saw his death again: blood leaking from his eyes, his nose, his ears. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Emma’s teachers were always telling her she had a scientific mind, but science only helped when you had enough data to come up with a good hypothesis. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t stand to think about what had happened, though it played over and over in my mind. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Because they were supposed to discipline the mind and the eye and the hand. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Anne and Ernestine had made up their minds to explain the situation to them, when destiny delivered the psychologist into our hands, lock, stock and moustache. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

All my mind could concentrate on laying there was the sounds of them surfer kids across the way talking in their low voices and laughing and being all happy. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Do you mind if I sit, sir? I’m still aching near everywhere.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Taisin tried to focus on her meal, but the fisherman’s words rang in her mind. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

How did Fizz morph, in my mind, from a best friend with a no-nonsense attitude into this stern, judgmental person in the span of a few days? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“You go, dear, I’ll keep Jolene company until her mother comes for her,” Mrs. Clutter said, and then, addressing the child with unconquerable timidity, added, “If Jolene doesn’t mind keeping me company.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Button the collar. No. I’ve changed my mind. Take it off and start over.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Consequently, from the very advent of agriculture, worries about the future became major players in the theatre of the human mind. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tells her shut up and mind her own business and she goes quiet by the fire. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He pushed ahead, feeling almost at peace, as if here Djel could hear him and ease his troubled mind. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Right now I wouldn’t even mind watching Fox Five News with the lady who talks so fast and so loud you can’t hear what she’s saying. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

His slow deliberate mind could not accept so many thoughts and emotions at once. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

That doesn’t sound like much—but keep in mind how tiny atoms are. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess what’s funny is that until he mentioned it, the thought—the possibility—of us together hadn’t even crossed my mind. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Please, tell the young ladies what I say, and if they don’t care to come, why, never mind.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

To take Bo’s mind off things, Victor took him to St. Mark’s Square to feed the pigeons. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In his mind's eye he could see them already. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I never used to give it much thought, since my mind was filled with my friends and having a good time. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A million different questions pop into my mind. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Woodwell says I got to pry off these two planks, Rose. I hope you don’t mind.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mind sleeping on the floor,” I said. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw how their minds worked; if they had minds and if they worked. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Never mind. The important thing was I didn’t drown.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

How easy it would be to fall into a trance, and let her mind drift away with the floating particles... The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

That was the last that was ever heard from the forbidden city, the unseen city, the lost city, and this was the mystery that had opened Lazlo’s mind like a door. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

One part of my mind shoots straight back to that moment on the table, and I blush. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was the only thought in my mind. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“What is it, Jack? Jean Louise, I thought you—” “Never mind that. Is there any missionary vanilla in this house?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

For the first time in months, the RAT, tat, tat, tat, tat of war faded from his mind. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Spender filled the streets with his eyes and his mind. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew it when I first read it, but then I kind of switched it in my mind so that I made it seem like after school. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Noisy, active, obsessive, eccentric—with a dervishlike mind that spiraled from one scientific question to the next—Thomas Morgan was a professor of zoology at Columbia University. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In the distance a clock was tolling, “Be pure in heart, be pure in mind!” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She even ridiculed him in her mind and was a little ashamed of the association. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The same question had been on everybody’s mind, not just mine. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

My mind was as mixed-up as that sentence. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must be, if only to preserve the sanctity of your mind. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep my mind focused, but it was really distracting. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel hated that, it meant casting about in his mind for an answer and casting about in Hazel’s mind was like wandering alone in a deserted museum. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed the steps, determined to mind his manners. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

A picture of three boys walking along the bright beach flitted through his mind. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Mark thought he was probably retracing their path in his mind, trying to match it to what he was reading on the maps. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I have made up my mind,” she says. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The possibility of being distinguished by her notice did not enter John’s mind, and so he simply stared at her. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I want to believe the parrot can read my mind, but he can’t. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

My mind clung to those two words as I tried calling for her again. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But, always, my mind returned to the alley. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Sarai spoke of the nursery, and the babies, and the gifts—years of them—questions lined up in his mind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I know just how the minds of animals work—just the kind of games they like to play. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

As I listened, I was of two minds. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

A torrent of panic and plans crashes through my mind. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sorry, I’m not very good at small talk, do you mind if we skip on to the serious business? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Needless to say, my mind is no longer on this Rae person. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I looked away swiftly, back to him, and I asked the first thing that came to mind. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Two complete and separate thoughts ran in his mind. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t had such a difficult question in as long as I can remember. Would you mind repeating it? It’s slipped my mind.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

In their minds people began rehearsing champagne toasts. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

‘If you have walked all these days with closed ears and mind asleep, wake up now!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s like a needle in a haystack,” Mark said at one point as they stared at the computer, but Joaquin didn’t mind. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And then lots of other things the Preacher did came rushing into my mind. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Doon was so glad to see Lina that he didn’t mind at all that Poppy was coming with them, making a risky journey even riskier. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You have until Sunday to make up your mind. Time is ticking by.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I kept hearing about the Rosenbergs over the radio and at the office till I couldn't get them out of my mind. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“How did she react? Never mind. I already know. She’s sitting here looking like one of those blowfish we saw at the aquarium—all puffed up and spiny.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

After the last shovel of dirt was patted in place, I sat down and let my mind drift back through the years. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure he would, so long as we don’t mind Katie and Jean tagging along.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

That he plucked them from the minds of passersby the way children pick currants from a cake. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read from The Federalist Papers to prepare for a quiz I had the next day in government, but my mind kept returning to its continuous loop: Guthrie and Whitman and New York and Margo. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I watched, but my mind was far away. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I needed something more splendid, something that I could picture in my mind. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I knew there was room for my dad to change his mind, and I had inherited his stubbornness. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Strain your mind, spend your free time wanderin’ your thoughts, and think about this place. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

"Never mind, I am who I am. Just don't beat up your gums at me," I said, throwing him a newly acquired phrase. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your shadow was on the table. Never mind! Never mind!” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

In Gogol’s opinion, eight months in Calcutta is practically like moving there, a possibility that, until now, has never even remotely crossed his mind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I was the most frightened I’d ever been in my life, Lita found a way to take my mind off Halley’s Comet. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“He thinks about her all the time. Nothing on his mind but her. Won't work. Can't sleep. Grieves all day, all night...” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped the pages into his backpack, his mind churning with hundreds of possibilities of what to shoot. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

From the darkest corners of her mind, a chilling image grew vivid. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“We couldn’t change our minds after he did that for us.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then she trundled back to the window to catch a breeze, if one took a mind to come by, while she combed her hair. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted the soldiers to keep certain things in mind as they followed him in. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had had a hard fight, and there was more than enough to fill my mind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“You and Zu are going to share. I hope you don’t mind.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He had hardly slept, the time in Donatelli's gym running through his mind all night, like a movie. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow the sky seemed more beautiful here than the sky over Tule Lake, but she knew that must be all in her mind. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

"I should not mind it, for it is a long, long chain; but the knowledge of it irks me, and I miss my father's land. And the witch-woman is not the best of mistresses...." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The following day I went up to Harlem, an area that had assumed legendary proportions in my mind since the 1950s when I watched young men in Soweto emulate the fashions of Harlem dandies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her steel-trap mind knew a beautiful solution when it saw one. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t come back to earth until Heather says, “I knew you wouldn’t mind, Mel.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s all in your mind. You have this age psychosis. You’re still a very attractive woman. You must say to yourself, ‘I am still attractive. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little owl brings Frightful back to mind. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither of them said any more, but there was a thought in each of their minds that they wished was not there. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I thought that no man in his right mind would take on Narciso’s brute strength, but Tenorio had and so he must be desperate because of what was happening to his daughter. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"As the creation of a single mind," they write, "it is undoubtedly the highest intellectual achievement of humanity," which is of course as good as a compliment can get. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t get the newspaper images of the dead out of his mind. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

We also waged a battle for the minds and hearts of the children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s Peeta, but he couldn’t do any more than speculate, and who knows what state his mind’s in, anyway. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Not skinny mind you but a feather in my arms and there was many a sorry man when she left Limerick. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You’ve just got love on your mind because of Sam,” I said. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A needle and thread,” said Gregor, wondering if his dad’s mind was beginning to wander again. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A thought fed into her mind, and she recoiled because for the first time ever, at least so directly, it wasn’t hers. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Before he made up his mind, I had the shadow children cup their hands around their silent mouths. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“It don’t matter. I don’t mind walking all that much.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

But then all the lights shut off, plunging us into a darkness that, to my six-year-old mind, was worse than death and Brussels sprouts. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

As Ben had said, sympathy is not for the weak of mind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Above all, he wanted to put his mind on something besides the one girl who seemed to want nothing to do with him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He got to his feet and pushed his mother back into death and closed his mind against her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was good being back at school with friends and lots of work to occupy my mind. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

You are obviously sick in mind as well as body! Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Something tugs at the back of my mind, a nagging little worry. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Because now that I’ve been reminded of Hiroshima I don’t think the shelter should be fake. See, Miss Volker has changed my mind already. Her talk of history has me fearing the future!” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Never mind that his handiwork was in jeopardy when a high tide rushed in; if disaster struck, he would simply rebuild everything. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

We are covered in leaves, my tie is caught on a branch, but it’s just so full of life that we don’t mind. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Never mind about that, I’ve got to talk to you,” he said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mind going off to meet our father who art in heaven as soon as I can.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

That never crossed my mind until this moment. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d have liked her better if she hadn’t added, “If you change your mind about your dog, let us know.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I guess they wanted to go home, but Ma had something else in mind, and you all landed in Gondwana instead.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Let Ned work it out in his own mind; her voice would not be welcome now. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s been paid, and raising your voice won’t make me change my mind. My policy . . He let go of the door and stepped nearer Momma. The three of us were crowded on the small landing. “ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Masha always tried to get Galya to distract her in the air on the way to a mission, to take her mind off the hard and terrifying work that lay ahead. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

His mind wanders back six months to a fetid basement. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

We bring with us all the riches of the human mind and soul. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The images he was flooding into my mind. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Never mind. Maybe you could buy some crackers and ginger ale?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Blackness and stench and crushing pain came upon Pippin, and his mind fell away into a great darkness. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Ash heard her speak the words, but it was as though she heard them very distantly, for the dress was still pulling on her, tugging her mind’s eye back to Sidhean. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ten years previously, Bobby’s slender volume Bobby Fischer’s Games of Chess was seen as a revealing glimpse into the teenager’s mind, but it was criticized for its sparse annotations. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The tracks play a waltz; in my mind I hear Chopin. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Get his mind off of that train trestle.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Pictures flashed in my mind of shopping for school clothes with Big Ma. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

They pried into your mind, using fear or anger or longing to influence you. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And each weekend, they didn’t mind my catching a ride over to Lansing for the afternoon or evening. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

All she probably sees in her mind is her brother dead on the ground, because that reality seemed so big a moment ago, it persists even after reality shifted elsewhere. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I sometimes think that old age has affected my mind and that you can’t just ignore the fact that I buried her twenty years ago. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See what the waves brought to the shore last night. Catch some crayfish, ashaageshinh, watch out for their claws. I don’t mind helping.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Lets just say that I got some stains on my soul that I wouldn't mind getting scrubbed clean.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Melanie was having trouble keeping her mind on her reading because she was so worried about what she Was planning to do. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It lasted only the fraction of a second and I rejected it immediately; still it had flashed across the dark sky of my mind. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But now would you mind joining us in the library?" he said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world!” burst out Jo, who was in an unusually up-lifted frame of mind just then. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alba abandoned her studies; the school of philosophy, like many others that open the gateway of the mind, was closed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first I thought this was just the drugs, but then I realised his mind was clear enough. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What does small mean? It means he’s got a gun,” says de Becker, imagining what flashed through their minds. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Baruch tried to say, and Lord Asriel realized his mind was wandering. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“All of us are sinners. It is not the purity of the body, but the integrity of the mind, that best pleases our Lord,” she says. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And into my mind, once I let myself hear it, a plan came. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

My mind ached like a broken bone as I struggled to stand in the new place I found myself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Never fails. But you only want to use it if you don’t mind being brought to the doctor.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Annh! Why do you Americans have only these morbid thoughts in your mind?” cried my mother in Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Terror screamed through my mind, drowning out any thought. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You know it’s true. I have a quicker mind and you just won’t admit it.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even with him stoned out of his mind, I could see how people might confuse us for brothers. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

"You'll have to get yourself another manager, Alfred, one that doesn't mind a little blood." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mind went blank; I shut my eyes; my heart thumped somewhere in my throat. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As his words of support echoed throughout the gym, Papá’s face flashed in my mind. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I’d had it in my mind for a long time—as a servant of Allah. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

So if football was going to be the thing that took our minds off the mess for at least a few hours, then fine with me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You mind if I call my dad too, G’ma? I’d like to check in with him. Make sure he’s doing okay at home without me and all that.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

But he was unable to put what had happened to his son out of his mind. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Doon, in his mind, was saying the same thing, only he didn’t say please. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I think it’d be cool to move stuff without touching it. I saw that in a movie once. This chick was making stuff fly all over the room with her mind.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I’m still in control of my mind and I have medication and I am going to make this happen. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Jonas tried to sort it out in his mind so that he could explain it clearly. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Taphouse set off, slow and steady, and he didn’t seem to mind Malcolm coming too. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Naima’s mind raced ahead to the long afternoon rests Father would take before driving her to the repair shop. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

But no pleasure came; I huddled with my mind elsewhere, oppressed. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It never crossed his mind that his friend may have lied to him about their destination. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Even after he could no longer see the man, C.P. remained standing on the sidewalk, replaying in his mind what had just happened. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The business with Julian was heavy on his mind; it had impressed him deeply. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

"I hope you don't mind me calling you back to court. Though the king says I'm behaving like a finicky cat, and I should be embarrassed." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

There was nothing in all this either to astonish or interest, and it caught Emma’s attention only as it united with the subject which already engaged her mind. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

He might have been praying, or else counting silently in his mind, and Harry, standing still on the edge of the scene, thought absurdly of a child counting in a game of hide-and-seek. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As if his strange mind didn’t have enough to think about. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“More money than you’ve ever seen. The kind of money that could make a woman change her mind about anything.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Besides that, my mind kept seeing it again and again even though I would as soon let it go. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Nan ever tried to lick me, I’d think her mind had turned to marshmallow fluff. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Cal’s mind careened in anger at himself and in pity for himself. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Flournoy reported that Miss Love had ordered a whole outfit with her in mind. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I have not yet made up my mind.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

To put things in order—that was the thought in his mind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In his mind he sees them burning somewhere. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The subject Mill had in mind was the nature of women. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

‘But how would this suit? It ain’t what I call proper poetry, if you understand me: just a bit of nonsense. But these old images here brought it to my mind.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

You will be betrayei by one who calls you a friend, the Oracle whispered in my mind. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In a meeting a few hours after the Horse and Horseman award presentation, the Iceman offered Smith and Howard a glimpse into the mind of a riding genius. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Minya,” she said, “you have to listen to me. Please. I know you’re angry with me, but please try to open your mind.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My mind whirls with information, attempting to process all of it and getting jumbled in the middle each time. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

As I walked around the campus, this thought came to mind: How wonderful it would be to go to a university like this! While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His amiable North Country personality cloaked a sharp legal mind and soaring political ambition. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Joined together, the great mass of human minds around the earth seems to behave like a coherent, living system. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stored the fact that they were real glasses in the corner of my mind the way a squirrel stores a nut. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Worries and doubts began spilling forth that I didn’t even know had been lodged deep inside of my mind. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Disjointed pictures flashed one by one through my bewildered mind. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I couldn't get that off my mind, so finally what I figured I'd do, I figured I'd better sneak home and see her, in case I died and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Never mind. It’s fine. Just please don’t cry. Please? Don’t? Okay?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She roused them early even though nobody in his right mind would wash his car on a rainy day. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell being away for a whole week from a job that don’t mind firing colored workers is on his mind. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“What comes to mind when you think of Thanksgiving?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Oh, don’t pay me no never mind. I fuss and peck like a cranky old hen.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Never mind speaking German; I couldn’t have faked it like that, just off the top of my head, no training or anything. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

His mind seemed, to me, like an extremely peaceful place. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He watched me for a second, and I knew he was saying, without speaking, that I could tell him what was on my mind. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Images of the boys at home, watching television too late, popped into his mind. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In my mind I see her sitting up and drinking broth, and her eyes are bright again. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I flew back to Miami feeling that it was Allah’s intent for me to help Cassius prove Islam’s superiority before the world- through proving that mind can win over brawn. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I squint into the beam, and force a smile at the man like I don’t mind bright lights in the eyes and guns pointed at my head in the slightest. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

"There wasn't any question in my mind that we hit gold on this one," one FBI agent commented. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not like I’d done a bunch of work, or anything like that, but I think my mind was just tired and ready to shut down for the night. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And his mind, dwelling bitterly on Elizabeth, yet moved backward to consider once again Esther, who had been the mother of the first Royal. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And then, as if he can read my mind, Safer says, “You’re not a novice anymore, Georges. Is novice on your famous vocabulary list?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Back and forth my mind went, weaving a yes by night and unraveling it by day to a no. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And somehow, after that, he didn’t mind hiding so much anymore. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she was wrong, but in her mind she was standing up for Jesus.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Have no fear, my lord, Tyrion thought, it’s not the Wall I have in mind for you. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"Never mind that the bell has been rung just once in three hundred years," Patrek had told Theon the day after, as he shared his father's cautions and a jug of green-apple wine. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But I hadn’t minded him coming into the boiler hut after me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rhythm stopped, but a strong picture formed in her mind and she let it form so that she could inspect it again. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I just saying that the thought is there in my mind. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I have this flash in my mind, of grabbing her by the hair or kicking her. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Different emotions battled for dominance in his mind and heart. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It did cross my mind to wonder why Pascal had a freedom to play and roam that his sisters didn’t. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

What he needed was a younger, fresher mind to assist him. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But he did nothing for the moment and his mind emptied. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Staphopoulos believed that flexing your toes cleared your mind and that once your mind was clear, it was easy to isolate your objectives and figure out what to do next. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Tibbets’s mind raced back ten years to a night on the beach in Florida. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trouble is that these phantoms are hard to displace, once they take hold in our minds. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m spoiling your dinner, Robert; never mind what I say. You haven’t eaten a morsel.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letter is dated three weeks ago, and from it they learn that Ashima’s grandmother has had a stroke, that her right side is permanently paralyzed, her mind dim. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Granny seemed to have gone out of her mind, for she stood like stone, her eyes dead upon me, not saying a word. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry made up his mind in a split second. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Their minds were not nineteen-inch screens but those of the big drive-in movies. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In her mind, she was planning her escape route: She could follow the cliff-top plateau north for a way, and then there were rock jumbles and trees she could hide in. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” he said slowly, “yes, I suppose so. But for safety’s sake do you mind if I come with you too?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Stella started to protest, but a firm push from her mother changed her mind. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It’s not the water I mind, but the mirror that reflects my naked fire-mutt body. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“You can’t keep a secret. Never mind, it saves trouble now.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s clear that no matter what amount of money was in the envelope originally chosen, given permission to change your mind, you would always do so and take the other envelope. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You're too stupid. But I don't mind telling young Mike here about it seeing he'll be joining me in the business one day." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

With this chronology in mind, we can now address an important question: was Copernicus’s adoption of the terraqueous-globe theory the key event which led to his switch from geocentrism to heliocentrism? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Thanks to my time spent with Merriam Webster, I had a few words in mind. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s on my mind the next morning when I sit down to write in my journal, as I do every Monday through Friday before heading down to breakfast. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I’m here. Listen. I’ve kept you awake all night anyway. Could I come over to your place for a drink? Wouldja mind?” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Kali said: “Never mind. There will be many later on. You have plenty of time.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Never mind. I thought the teachers were all stupid.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Something nagged at the back of my mind. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

All these memories rushed through the doctor's mind. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“If you wouldn’t come interfering, I’d make her mind,” I says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to his surprise, she seemed to change her mind. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was evident from the moment Lawrence stepped off the train in Boston that Harvard president James B. Conant had more on his mind than hearing his lecture. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Gladys rolled her eyes at me as if to say, "Don't mind Cook." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Further discussion of Sirius Black plainly wasn’t what Ron had had in mind. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

And never mind what he said, deep inside I did feel like it was partly my fault. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He was still concerning his mind with the infants yet unborn when something happened he had not counted on: the vine was not long enough. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Iorek roared above the clangor, “Hold it still in your mind! You have to forge it, too! This is your task as much as mine!” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I’ve a good mind to take you up too, for assault and battery.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

My world darkens when the thought that they might be dead enters my mind. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To enter a mind and show it at work, or being worked on, and to do this within a symmetrical design—this would be an artistic triumph. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But he was a different kid—George—going around by himself always like a person much older and with nobody, not even her, knowing what was really in his mind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I tried to put Raji out of my mind, but my mind would not obey me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Imagining a future in which I didn’t exist, in which I had unwittingly erased myself from his memories, kept my hands pinned under my legs and my mind, for once, in check. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Never mind that my heart was up in my throat pounding like runaway drums and my stomach was squeezing and screaming pain. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Once that thought fitted into the thousand fragments of memory flitting through my mind, the pain of the scratches and the scraped skin left me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together, they can infiltrate the minds of good men and decide a battle before it's begun. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Before Sandy’s even talked to him to see if he’s of sound mind. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t feel like laughing at myself right now, if you don’t mind.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t especially like doing the work, but I sure didn’t mind the little bit of pay I was getting. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something about the whole thing that was not what it seemed, something from which Ranofer uneasily turned his mind whenever he thought of it. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

That must have been in his mind in those days when he talked about saving money and gave me my haircuts down in the basement. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I try to map it in my mind as I go, in case I have to find my way out alone. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Helene’s face is white as bone, her mind, like mine, unable to take in the travesty occurring in front of our eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

You got to keep that in mind and don’t do no wrong. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Milton had something else on his mind: “Whatever happened to that old clarinet of mine?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If she did, I can’t explain what changed his mind—why suddenly a ten-year policy of not registering with the Government ended without a struggle—but I think maybe it was that telephone. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For the first time since the crash his mind started to work, his brain triggered and he began thinking. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of me wishes I could burn them from my mind, so I would never have to mourn for them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Speak your mind. Tell them how you feel about the bounty on the screechers. Get it off your chest.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She always wore black and some of the times waren’t in such a happy mind as she was today. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She nods, with a half smile that tells me she knows exactly what I have in mind. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s because if you cannot mind-read—if you can’t put yourself in the mind of someone else—then there’s nothing special to be gained by looking at eyes and faces. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I made my mind a blank and fell, sank away like a stone through earth and sea, toward the dragon. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mind definitely had too much free time, and it was getting out of control. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I tried to make my mind go blank. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I finished the meal somehow, though my mind wasn’t on it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When Ellsworth returned, Olmsted told him he had changed his mind. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

His observations of the Keepers’ activities and his understanding of the factory’s machinery showed an intelligent mind. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, the game’s simple two-sentence room descriptions were able to conjure up vivid images in my mind’s eye. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They shifted and then moved and quickly evaporated from his conscious mind. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I had made up my mind to accompany my father wherever he went. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Were strangers. For some, strangers are threats, and they look at us accordingly. Pay it no mind.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Charlotte had a million thoughts running through her mind: How much time do we have left? Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because it had been on my mind I told him that my mother didn't like black people and asked him why. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Julia and Sander tried to cheer me, but the only thing that might have done the trick was to hear that the queen had changed her mind and would have the Lord Admiral's men instead. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

His mind, as he spoke, seemed far away, as if, though polite, he were indifferent to all this —an outsider not only among the Danes but everywhere. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was to be Bateson’s fateful journey: by the time he reached the society’s office on Vincent Square, his mind was spinning. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Their eyes met for a long time; it looked like her mind was spinning, trying to make sense of it all. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I’m sorry, I tell him in my mind. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The longer he looked, the more his mind became filled with a delicious fog. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His mind had gone limp; I felt like I could reach both hands up and reshape him. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But being that way did make me not mind the rock being there. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Somehow, the game had become inextricably linked in Harry’s mind with success or failure in his plans for Ginny. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“It was ... I swear I heard it. But in my mind, man. I can’t explain it.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t mind him being Boy21, but I sort of like Russell too. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary was a good little girl who always kept her dress clean and neat and minded her manners. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bull had started down the slope now, his boards out, and he was descending, alive, alive, adrenaline reinforcing every platelet, every blood cell, and his mind radiating with its response to danger. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, when we have a lot on our minds, we can get confused about where the “false” tag belongs, or can forget it entirely. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Descartes solved this problem as best he could by claiming that mind acted on the body through the pineal gland. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I wanted to scream the thoughts that were flashing through my mind at her. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Then tell Dennis that. Tell Jack. Look, I’m going to the phone. I’m calling Jack right now. I’m going to tell him and then give him a piece of my mind.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the while I was working, it was hard to keep my mind off food. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I can put your mind at rest on this matter absolutely. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Speechless, too bewildered by this to voice any of the dozen urgent questions that pressed at her mind, she sat by the fire and watched him leave the room. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we’ll have it tonight, then, if he’s lucky. We eat late, hope you don’t mind. Late as Europeans, around here.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“He’s a mighty smart cookie. He must have some of that extra-sensory whatever, you know, reading people’s minds and such.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

My mind flickers to the attack poses Grandfather taught me, the ones the Blackcliff Centurions don’t know. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Less a state of mind and more a physical reaction to something. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I have reflected since that the letter I finally sat down to compose had been subconsciously shaping itself in my mind. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know why, but she could feel sweat running down her dress, even though it was a cool day, as if her body knew something it wasn’t telling her mind. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mind was in a sort of daze, midway between daydreaming and thinking. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we circled it, rising in a spiral, the sheer height of the thing blew my mind. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then, inside my mind, I hear whispering: I have me. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

In my mind, the warm sun burned bright. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I asked instead of the real question that was on my mind. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Because everyone in that room had not one mind but two, and all the while their conscious mind was blocked, their unconscious was scanning the room, sifting through possibilities, processing every conceivable clue. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It isn’t a sheep’s liver—Now his mind was alert. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reword that last bit in my mind, then cut it altogether. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

But inside the quiet young scholar there existed a second, unsuspected personality, one with stunted emotions and a distorted mind through which cold thoughts flowed in cruel directions. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I think of all his many actions as a rescuer, big and small, it is this one act that first comes to mind; I think perhaps because it demonstrates such extraordinary compassion. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Still it brought to mind a lack in my supplies: I had no bandage, no disinfectant of any kind. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It drew me as the mind of the dragon did once. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a mind to make homecoming hard for them, seeing they would not think straight nor behave, or some would not. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He does not say what sort of ‘engines’ were employed, but Swift surely had in mind the first steam engines, which were generally used for raising water. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her weary body and wearier mind, which had seemed, in her exhaustion, to be drifting away from each other like untethered boats, made some peace with the tides. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she said, “never mind. You’re holding up your end just fine.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure they’ll only put in a brief appearance. I can pretty much tell you there is only one thing on Saleem’s mind right now, and it’s not cutting that cake.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

This necklace that had almost bought my heart and mind now had one bead of crushed glass. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, from within the fogginess of my mind, something resonated. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He hung up then and sat for a time, his mind vacant. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

You could see the Great Experiment hatching in his mind. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

A good naturalist needed more than just a scientific mind—she needed artistic skill. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And Dad, using two fingers, hesitatingly pecked out the first thing that came to his mind—his name. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She blushed, “I'm not of a mind to wed,” she murmured. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I was kidding; that was a joke. I know you had to make up your own mind. Of course you did.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even as he phrased the thought in his mind, Milkman knew it was not so. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sigurd’s ghost leered at her from the back of her mind. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I do mind your asking,” Mr. Curtain said coldly, but then he collected himself and said in a friendlier tone, “We both know you’ve had similar experiences, do we not, Reynard? For being different?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She took her place on the stage, closed her eyes, and began to sing, “with one part of my mind waiting apprehensively for the voice of doom upstairs.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

In all, the wiretap in "Harvey's Hole" recorded a staggering 433,000 conversations, giving America insight into the mind and plans of its main enemy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

One by one he stored the pieces of information in his mind, unwelcome, unforgivable. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing gave them as much excitement as the wanderings of her mind. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Drunk, you mean? You think my mother minds drunks? He’d be safe as a baby.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Piper’s expression said, Are you out of your mind.'? Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My slight build, my thin waist, the smallness of my head, hands, and feet raised no questions in anybody’s mind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But no one seemed to mind their presence. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Before I could make up my mind, I had to visit one more industrial organic farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In a corner of my mind I had realized that my mother was unreliable, hut Adele was a loving grandmother who had always done what she said. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

This is how it is when a person joins your body and there is a part of your mind that swims to join that person against your will. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mind was still back at the mosque and on the imam’s sermon. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Still, he had a mind of his own. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the potential hazards of the chemosterilants are not constantly borne in mind we could easily find ourselves in even worse trouble than that now created by the insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

After I finished reading the novel, I could not get it out of my mind. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m very sorry, Alex. I have to go back down to the lobby. Do you mind?” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It felt like everything, from Gum Baby to the Bottle Tree to the weird shadow man to the Burning Sea to the bone ships, was piled up in a wobbly tower in my mind. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

My own mother is looking at me as if I completely baffle her mind with my looks, my height, my hair. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And a mind movie plays in my head of a silver rocket with blue stripes flying to the moon with Keisha, Albert, and me strapped in. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Some of them, like “the second wave,” I’d heard before even if I didn’t know what they meant; others, like “the hegemonic masculinity,” I couldn’t get my tongue around let alone my mind. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Sweetheart, no one says yes to ice cream and a second later changes their mind for no reason. What’s going on?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Big Mav, I’m sorry. I should’ve told you the other day. I did change my mind ’bout killing them dudes though, but now King wants me dead. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Well, I will; but mind you are a very good girl, and don’t be afraid of me. Don’t start when I chance to speak rather sharply; it’s so provoking.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t mind, because just as Em in no great hurry to get into London in the morning, I’m in no hurry to get back to Ashbury in the evening, either. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Arizona Republican said that Spencer, with his “diseased mind and a misguided love of adventure,” appealed to the “portion of the population of the country that fed on false idolatry.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I can’t reply because my mind has gone somewhere else entirely, and it’s not the words he’s saying, it’s the aftershave. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way out the door, Camp asked Papa would he mind stopping by the house before going back to the store after dinner. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Once Dorothy made up her mind, no one— not her husband, not her in-laws, not the principal at Moton—would be able to dissuade her from her goal. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Henry gave her a look, but he didn’t try to change her mind. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Shackleton had hoped by setting out across the ice to enliven the crew and focus their minds on action. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

During all our years growing up together, he never complained about his affliction and I never gave it any mind. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In Charles’s mind, neither his father nor stepmother showed him much affection. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I figured maybe it was because Mtisha was crowding in on my mind, or maybe just that me and Ice were getting older and being close was harder than before. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Never mind. We make you safe. Big hole. Food too.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ellsworth insisted that what Chicago had in mind was something far grander than even the Paris exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Then I don’t mind if I am in the same room as them and don’t have to watch them all the time. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Reynie and Sticky tried to appear unconcerned, but their minds were in turmoil. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Just look at yourself. Look at your beautiful American wife. Look at the many things you have, how you can go anyplace you want and speak your mind.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His body was exhausted but his mind was wide awake, buzzing with the day’s turbulence. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she heard huge, her mind tried to adjust—okay, perhaps it was like the Galapagos tortoise she’d seen in the zoo once, with a shell big enough to ride on. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Seeing no one about, I made up my mind to wander the town for a short time. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then I would hate myself for allowing my mind to dwell upon the unattainable. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to lean against the wall for balance, but it’s sturdy, so I don’t mind. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Yet even now my mind was tormented by images. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could see the place in her mind. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He made up his mind that he would never use that button again. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Had Mr. Curtain said “your rightful place”? Or was that his own mind? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing I couldn’t do and my mind was as good as anyone’s. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t been paying any mind to where we were going, but looking up I saw that we’d made it to the mercantile. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me mend them,” said I. “I don’t mind it, and he needn’t know. I’d like to, he’s so kind to me about bringing my letters and lending books.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

His positions were firm, so thought-through and fully realized in his own mind that he sometimes seemed surprised that she, too, had not arrived at them herself. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

His mind spun until he understood who it had to be: one of Storch’s men! I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

But perhaps more than his body was die change in his mind, or in the way he was—was becoming. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will, I trust, Dr. Seward, do me the justice to bear in mind, later on, that I did what I could to convince you to-night.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

But then, squeezing his lips tight in determination, he signaled the words before he could change his mind: Whisperer too strong. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t move, I say over and over in my mind, even as my heart pounds. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She looked at the word, and the picture of a gray mouse scampered through her mind. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hand keeps flashing, urging me to make up my mind. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

A plan began to unfurl in his mind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The warning was fleeting, banished to the back corners of my mind, where it wouldn’t interrupt how good it felt to touch him—how right. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I understood instantly, not with my mind but with something quicker, and I darted around in front to block her way. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I admit, I prefer an open mind to a closed one,” he said. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise was sure Jem had made some kind of deal with Henry to take her to the dance, but she did not mind. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

These were not built with defense in mind, either. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

While we can’t get inside a Neanderthal mind to understand how they thought, we have indirect evidence of the limits to their cognition compared with their Sapiens rivals. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next few days his mind filled with plans, each more complicated and extravagant than the last. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It messes with my mind a little, seeing how much there is out there, how big everything is. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I called again, my mind unable to grasp that she could not answer. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

His—the way that he spoke about them left no doubt in my mind what the implication was there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t that Dad was half out of his mind, or that Mother followed him. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When I got to the apartment I had no name to put to the face I’d seen in the drugstore, and her face wasn’t on my mind right then. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He travelled the way of self-denial through meditation, through the emptying of the mind of all images. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a kind of boot camp, training young minds in the use of theological weaponry against the fortress of Roman Catholicism. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The good Lord gave her a mind and she intended to use it to support her mother and her children. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wave of anger washed over my mind. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you’ll change your mind in the morning,” he says, switching off my light. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

That ain’t to say that he caint force you to study something till it sticks in your mind for a while, ’cause he can. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I hung balanced, a creature of two minds; and one of them said—unreasonable, stubborn as the mountains—that she was beautiful. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tapped my finger on the number so my phone would start calling and then quickly put it to my ear before I could change my mind. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was some time before he went on, as if he were recalling the words to mind from long ago. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Don’t mind the landlady. I’m leaving at the end of the week. Close the door and come up.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The third she set to the apple, locking its meaning in her mind onto the level that stood for a general inquiry of any sort. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Marco closes his eyes and draws it out in his mind, focusing not on the wishful dream but on the practicalities. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The bears were curious, but restrained by their respect for Iorek Byrnison, and his for Lyra, and she put them out of her mind and sank again into the alethiometric trance. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

This was as close as white terror had ever come to me and my mind reeled. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking any minute he would tell me what was really on his mind, I just said, “I declare.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In our day and age, you might give a cop-out excuse like "The heart wants what it wants," but keep in mind this was Iran in the 1940s. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

In his mind’s eye, it was almost as if he had seen DNA. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her state of mind when she moved from Baltimore back to Vesper County must have been a study. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a small, frightened voice in the back of my mind warned me that they might be something worse than thieves. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The helm reached into my mind and ignited my worst nightmares, my most secret fears. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“This Derby fellow must be out of his mind.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We won’t really lose what we feel, not if we keep it clearly in mind. You never really have gotten the hang of fusion, have you, Rick?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He had been rewarded for marrying a girl nobody in his right mind would have married. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never mind that this principle didn't hold true in her own family. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Then out of the blackness in his mind he thought that he heard Dernhelm speaking; yet now the voice seemed strange, recalling some other voice that he had known. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

We all turned and turned, and for a brief few minutes, I thought I could spin the rest of the party right out of my mind. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Amy shook her head and opened her sketchbook with an air of resignation, but she had made up her mind to lecture ‘that boy’ and in a minute she began again. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anybody was passing by out on the road, she would either change her mind or just give me a few licks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody had started for the tournament, and the court was empty, when Guenever changed her mind. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Mecca is the place Leftie goes to in his mind, when the memory of losing his arm becomes too much. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Once he got under the covers, it was like his mind was a TV flipping channels by itself. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“You all have lost your minds. And I don’t know what you’re talking about with that ‘abuser’ talk. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Curtain’s boosting the power,” Reynie said gravely, and when Kate and Sticky looked at him, still not comprehending, he said, “It’s the hidden messages. Our minds are reacting to them.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I think about things that I like to do, my mind rambling over my years. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The image had already burned into Thomas’s mind before Alby jumped up, blocking the view but not the moans and screams, pushing Thomas out of the room, then slamming the door shut behind them. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But I had to put that out of my mind, 'cause over the very next fence waited the most dangerous garden of all. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure your parents didn’t mind. Ah! Ah! You have been coming first since we started class one. Chinwe said her father took her to London.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Scott, a friend of theirs, was an expert in setting up projects like the one Salva had in mind. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to squeeze Lisa’s face out of my mind, but it’s impossible. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth’s mind was now relieved from a very heavy weight; and, after half an hour’s quiet reflection in her own room, she was able to join the others with tolerable composure. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Ivy’s stomach flipped and flopped, a familiar feeling by now, and her mind flashed to her notes with Keeper. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I don't mind it though—it makes me feel more comfortable. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I looked dejected, for one of the women said consolingly, “They were sharp-tongued tonight, probably they were tired...you must not mind.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe all that had happened was beginning to work on the old man’s mind. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry obeyed, his mind still full of what he had just seen. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“It sounds a lot better when Emery says it. Never mind.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

To take his mind off himself he listened intently to all that he could hear. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Yes, modern Afghan women married to modern Afghan men who did not mind that their wives walked among strangers with makeup on their faces and nothing on their heads. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Though I knew that I had killed the kitten, my mother’s words had made it live again in my mind. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mind races and fills my head with images of death and executions. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another of Grandma’s sayings came to mind: stuck between a rock and a hard place. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“The possibility of lightning striking the tower was very much on my mind.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But lingering at the back of my mind is the fact that Christina and Will are my competitors. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And soon enough, he was there in his mind, in the place where trails wound through the woods, and where a boy could throw anything he wanted and it wouldn’t get him in trouble. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Your door was open. I hope you don’t mind.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Odile did not mind this predilection, seeing that it went along with, and probably helped, his emancipation from the dullness of his Northampton upbringing. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Larry had something in mind and I stayed with him till he stopped. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigwig returned to his burrow and tried to put the coming evening out of his mind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt good to go, because it took my mind off things. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

What if they had all been instructed: You may lief His mind reeled. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t mind, but I can’t force it the way I tried with meeting Hudson’s mom. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Even the graphs! The questions were all about people buying and selling everything from gasoline to hula hoops, but in my own mind, I put it in terms of tickets.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The mind can only take so much weirdness before it accepts it as a new normal. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

If there was any doubt in her mind about Tom, she didn’t voice it. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you say you don’t mind doing dirty jobs?” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was instead that an ominous picture was congealing in his mind of patriot soldiers being fleeced by an army of speculators whose only loyalty was to their own profit margins. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I liked babies, so I didn’t mind this job at all. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gratefully, she took the book and returned to the old woman’s room, her mind whirring with plans for what to do next. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I was the only one who applied for the job, which may explain why they didn’t seem to mind about my previous job experience. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A question that has been on my mind, ever since the beginning of our appointment. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he halted as though his mind were made up. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

And that word in her mind, echoing from one side of her skull to the other, Mama, mama, mama, over and over and over again, like the cry of a faraway bird. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Terrifying memories of the earthquake the previous year were fresh in their minds; some of them had buried children and husbands and were still grieving. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Not about the hundreds of mind games I watched them play on the PSFs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

If only each bite had pushed the maps further and further out of her mind. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Those cheers rang through Nate’s mind as he lay in his tent at night. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing will make me change my mind about the button, but I’m trying my best to maintain the status quo for the days that remain. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I would have wailed along with them, but I knew Pa’s mind was set. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Mommy, do you want this? Could you bring it, in case Maisie changes her mind?” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Never mind, it doesn’t matter. We know it’s drawn to fires. We just build one and hang it from a branch.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

While his supper cooked, his mind ran over all the possible answers to his question. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But now, as Elena prattled on about her marvelous children, her husband’s high-profile case, the new landscaping they planned to do in the backyard once the summer came, Elizabeth changed her mind. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tally brought her mind back to the present “I had to. I only had one chance.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then I licked the plate like a dog, and by the time I finished my mind was a mess and my legs were pumping. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The past few months played through my mind. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Even though they don’t include me, they don’t mind me knowing who has a crush on Jermaine. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She had dreamed her own death a half-dozen different ways, as though her mind were making up a list of choices. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When Mami comes in with the bedpan, I tell her I changed my mind. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I try to take my mind off it all by checking what the others are up to. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

To my mind, being in the upstairs meant we were closer to God, and our prayers got there first. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dim remembered picture of Charles leaped into her mind. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I get the vibe he wants me to read his mind. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Work that keeps my hands and mind busy is probably just what I need. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The boys later told me the name of it, but I had no exact conception of it in my mind. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie planned to pick it up and hand it to the owner saying coolly, “Do you mind? I have to get something out of my desk.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had not lost it now, but sat there with his hand over his eyes and Longstreet felt shut away from his mind and in that same moment felt a shudder of enormous pity. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And not when a plan is starting to form in my mind. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My mind wandered, and I fantasized about the end of everything. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But Booth has already made up his mind: the Navy Yard Bridge. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He finally acknowledged that what he carried in his arms was not Sarai but only a husk, empty now of the mind and soul that had touched his in their dreaming. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

To take my mind off of things, I decide to call Tanisha. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She leaned forward, face flaming, ready to speak her mind about how she really felt— When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t pay any mind to the rising tensions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

These are the thoughts that go on in my mind and really mesmerize me. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together in my mind. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, I went to see Julian on the pretext of talking about credit transfers, but with something very different on my mind. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Instantly, his mind moved elsewhere, to the holler, to the cabin, to the loft, to the bed with its soft quilts. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Though I was never quite able to put Falconer out of my mind, I saw no sign of him. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ben doesn’t seem to mind, even though he’ll have to shower chocolate out of his hair and eyebrows. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Another moan echoed over the water, taking my mind off how heavy my arms felt. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But she stopped at the door, chewed on her bottom lip like she was thinking, and then seemed to change her mind about barging in. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s almost like he enjoys messing with my mind. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, speaking more quietly than before, “I will show you a treasure that will change your mind, great Hrothgar.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t matter to me anymore. Listen, Jack. This is my mind finally speaking.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his mind was not on pursuit, nor would it be until the pain diminished somewhat. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trip is a difficult one, and I must ask my favors while my mind is sound. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

When no one came over, Maribel and I watched television, hours and hours of it, finding small comfort in its ability to numb, to keep us from losing our minds. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It was all in his mind now, though, wanting to cook. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As I said, by the time I got to Spanish, I was in a better frame of mind. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t help the way numbers came together in his mind, automatic and sure. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I went upstairs to get ready for bed, and a new obsessive slogan started running through my mind. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scabs harden and, at length, fall off; and gradually, the mind reasserts balance and health. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes, trying to remember, my mind racing. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His body was raw with pain, his mind was like a disordered room still ringing with panic. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He recalled only that it was funnier then—everything was funnier—but tfie story had fled his mind. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Annabeth tried to hide it, but I could almost see her mind working on the possibilities, maybe starting to hope. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“The other girls don’t seem to mind,” he whispers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I tried to talk to him in my mind. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“But no. No clue. You know I don’t get how the minds of straight girls work.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The main thoughts that flash through my mind have to do with the first time I ever saw Noodle. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The wiring in her mind has been snapped in vital places, she fears, and now the strangest things have been happening. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

After a moment I stole a glance at the white man out of the corners of my eyes; he was still staring out the window, his mind fastened upon some inward thought. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I flinched away from him, shrinking against my chair, the phrase if looks could kill suddenly ran through my mind. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It's the life of the mind that matters, I told myself as I picked up The Catcher in the Rye off my bedside stack. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“He was out of his mind,” said Harry. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There as Cassius Clay’s guest in Miami, I tried desperately to push my mind off my troubles and onto the Nation’s troubles. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had made up her mind to forget him and she did forget him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Friedrick replied that of course he did not mind in the least, and she would be welcome at any time. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Believe me, before the lust for revenge seized his mind, he loved you deeply. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

My eyes bugged, the better to transmit my raging mind stream. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

While I’m old enough to know Carl’s disappearance had nothing to do with my mom leaving, there’s no disconnecting the two in my mind. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Their minds can stay blown for all I care. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Dr. Whitman, sir. Do you mind if I ask you a few questions?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The fact that white people made all the laws, ran the country alone, had not yet entered my mind. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She just flapped her hands at Lina and said, “Never mind, never mind, never mind,” and kept on searching. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents made the match with business and stability in mind: Johann gained a skilled, hard-working partner, while Maria gained social and financial security. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s a good idea, but real opportunities of the kind Hazel has in mind aren’t likely to come very often.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the back of their wagon, Rorge cursed and threatened and told them to unchain him while Yoren was gone, but no one paid him any mind. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The memories, the dreams, all the night terrors blast back into my mind. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Seemingly they went back to their master’s house across Salt Lane for dinner, while the nephew ate out of a basket and minded the shop. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She idled through the roads quietly, trying to lay out a map in her mind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then I remember that Will once memorized a map of the city for fun, and I say, “Oh. Of course you have. Never mind.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He knew he should run into the Maze and help, but the rule about not leaving the Glade was seared into his mind. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Yossarian made up his mind to keep his mouth shut and did. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It came into his mind that someone had told him that Leslie was dead. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Look like to me only a fool would want you to talk in a way that feel peculiar to your mind. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her mind, she had narrowed down the possibilities of her secret admirer. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

My smile will be welcoming, my mind frantic as I scramble through the past, trying to locate their names. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In such a place lived the hermits of the early church piercing to infinity with unlittered minds. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Friendship depends on interlocking time, place, and state of mind. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never mind that if Joey so much as flicked her with his forefinger and thumb, he’d propel her into next week. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The discussion is excessively electric. We sometimes emerge from it with tired minds, like an electric battery after it’s run down,” Vincent tells Theo. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Once Annabeth had made up her mind, arguing with her wouldn’t do any good. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You’re out of your mind! The first thing the Marxists are going to do is destroy freedom of the press!” several voices said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something slows inside me, and my mind speeds up. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

My eyes saw it but my mind spun in disbelieving circles. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I felt bad, too, ’cause of how I'd used my mind on him. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I kept my mind busy trying to remember details about each Christmas at home. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The idea slowly forming in his mind was no more than a budding sprout; small, impossible, but...it was there. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Just as Genie was thinking he wouldn’t mind a bite as well—a bite of lunch—Grandma said, all excited, “Ooh, I want y’all to try somethin’.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Many died of this sickness when they became so fevered that they lost their minds, threw off blankets, and walked outside to freeze. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and had a well-developed sense of independence. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Do you mind sending your letters to her house instead? From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Staying out of trouble is pretty much what Calvin and I have in mind. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“I’ll have some more, thanks, if you don’t mind,” Bunny said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Scipio was afraid his father could read his mind. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Skimming down closer, they found themselves ignored, for the first time, because something more interesting was gripping the minds of all the ghosts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Images of the Youns attacking and killing us run in my mind, filling me with fear. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You don't mind my going on, do you, beautiful?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m at the moment you hear the landing gear of a plane grind loudly into place, in that instant before your rational mind tells you it’s just the landing gear. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It was in that frame of mind that he found me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

My mind grew dazed and my senses dimmed; my thoughts scattered like dry leaves. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Kathy drove for a mile before she could even wrap her mind around what had just happened. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

For a moment, Hooper thought he might change his mind, for he was a little afraid of it himself, now. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Do you mind shaking hands with a white man?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And the task of casting such a work calls for a specific image in an audience’s mind.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It’s when the last bell of the school day rings that Jasmine finally pays me any mind. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Just like that, they had changed their minds and instead of keeping the valley floor to themselves, now they wanted a hilltop house with a river view and a ring of elms. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing cleared George’s mind quicker than being in the woods. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Bledsoe there, sat weary in mind and heavy of heart. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time, my parents seemed to be of one mind. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He glanced cursorily at Inej’s papers, his mind still clearly on the prospect of unwrapping Nina’s layers of blue-green chiffon. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“But when did you make up your mind to all this?” demanded Monsieur Farival. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wished he still had Quidditch to distract him; nothing worked so well on a troubled mind as a good, hard training session. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I hastened to drive from my mind the hateful notion I had been conceiving respecting Grace Poole; it disgusted me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Every obstacle his sister placed between himself and Clara drove him out of his mind. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as I minded my own business, they never bothered me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to make up my mind quickly; I was faced with a matter of principle. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And you, sitting by, should marry your mind to the winner. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Round and round the questions run; Marie-Laure’s mind threatens to boil over. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She said she didn’t mind being different, but maybe not on her very first day. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Very little of the Sanchez, now Trask, place was under cultivation, but Adam in his mind could see the wheat growing tall and squares of green alfalfa near the river. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kira had thought that when this work was complete she could turn to her own projects, to some of the elaborate patterns that she could feel and see in her mind. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all the different outfits she tried on, though, Melissa couldn’t keep her mind off the first. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

A heartbreaking thought crossed his mind: He has nothing left. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thousand questions pushed through my mind, but the Voice within me did not answer. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think they talk to each other all the time,” she said, “but our minds are not always peaceful enough to hear them.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Pomp is a fellow given to dreams, and did not much mind his tedious days nor his isolate, swampy environs. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Nor could I remove from my mind the steward’s hateful look when he brought down his sword with the clear intent of killing me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ruby was in her late eighties too, with a sharp mind that seemed decades younger than her frail body. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Hel and I face each other, and I wish for the Augurs’ power to know her mind. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

During this trip I was in a different frame of mind. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He saw a boy with a black beanie on his head, crooked, tilted to the side, and his mind betrayed him for just a second. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The one hemlock tree among millions came to mind, and she lifted her wings to fly. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But every once in a while things would come into my mind, not like a thought but like a picture, and I felt a little strange about that. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hopefully not that frosty blond girl who looked like she ate little kids for dessert, though Celia probably wouldn’t mind, judging from the way she was still darting glances over at that group. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“To take their minds off things,” Millard explained, “and make the waiting easier. Here, Jacob, come and help me turn the pages.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

My mind wanders to Pa, Ma, and Geak, and I become deaf to the conversations around me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made her cough, but she didn’t mind. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The fact was, my mind was going in various directions at once. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe’s question played in my mind on repeat as I walked home. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The music was loud and quick in her mind, and she ran faster and faster on the sidewalks leading to the home block. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I suppose you’re right. Even Louis Pasteur, the father of modern medicine, said that ‘chance favors the prepared mind.’” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He felt that they needed lessons in—for what passed in his mind—geography, civics and sociology. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Never mind," he said as I showed my surprise at the sum. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary felt as if the ground had given way beneath her mind. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And I was saying in my head, “Train coming. Train stopped. Train going. Silence. Train coming. Train stopped. Train going .. .” as if the trains were only in my mind. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I made up my mind that we were going to follow that advice. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also needed some chocolate for the dessert I had in mind. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

My own mind was spinning from the ideas we had bandied back and forth so rapidly. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But in the mind of the FBI’s domineering director, J. Edgar Hoover, they were rivals. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He had made up his mind that he would never eat it, even if he were starving. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got off the path and walked carefully, minding my footstep on dried leaves in the forest to avoid making any sound. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My mind was full and crowded—falling sparrows, my brother’s ghost, Dante’s voice. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“About a rock and a river, and a guy trying to make up his mind.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“No one has challenged my mind in years and I love it....By the way, may I smell both goblets?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“If I could only get myself to fall in love with you,—you don’t mind my speaking so openly to such an old acquaintance?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her mind drifted among impressions the way a bat drifts and swoops in the evening. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She knows we’re best friends, and also that the blog post was written with Meg and Mr. Morrison in mind. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care what all the kids do. I don’t want you in there. I’ve seen those boys hanging around there, and they’ve only got one thing on their minds.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

For a moment all thoughts vanished from • Doon’s mind; there was nothing but the fearless words of the song: uBlack as sleep and deep as dreaming, Darkness like an endless night. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She gave that question a little time to settle into my mind. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

They found it was easier to spot errors and get results when you had “different minds, centered on the same problem.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I find the volume knob in my mind and turn her down. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, his mind was racing with the events of the day. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

My height, which was now slightly over six feet, had become a handicap in my mind. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Not exactly—because she had done too much lying of her own to mind about this. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just had a lot on his mind. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

If he picks my mind again, I swear, I’ll shove this blade through him, Augur or not. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Try to discover a hidden secret within his mind that would help them know what to do. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Do you think I minded when she touched my hand? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

At the sound of drums up ahead, and the squeal of trumpets, his curiosity drove even his anxieties from his mind. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

What if the SIM have a way to read people’s minds? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Three years later, Dasch went back to school, but he soon changed his mind about becoming a priest and quit. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Working with wood and stone is a good way to keep my mind off what might be happening to Captain Smith. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

His father’s Roman and Greek personalities screamed back and forth in Frank’s mind with the usual soundtrack of battle noises—explosions, assault rifles, roaring jet engines—all throbbing like a subwoofer behind Frank’s eyes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In his own mind, he was not altogether certain that daylight might not bring the white bird down upon them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lord knows, there’s so much in the offing, it’s nice to have a little peace of mind.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When Hermann Muller arrived in Berlin in 1932, the city was home to the world’s preeminent scientific minds. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He was more jolly and cheerful than usual, and it is quite evident that last night’s work has helped to take some of the brooding weight off his mind. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Ma whispers back, “Tell him I’m right out my mind with grieving and ain’t talking nor thinking straight.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“No. Look, I didn’t mean to insult—Ah, never mind. The point is this is good news!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Okay. Never mind. I made it up. Feel better?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

My mind raced through the layout of the ship. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Well. Anyway—Brady, would you mind just coming over and checking on things while I’m gone?” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You just have to put it out of your mind,” I advised her. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“So, tell me,” he says, “what changed your mind since yesterday?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

So she decided to put it out of her mind. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Anytime at all. Thanks for keeping us posted—” All the same, as he reached the street outside, Kyril Montana felt something uncomfortable nagging at the back of his mind. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each high-pitched meow sends Sunkist-orange coils dancing in front of me, but I don’t mind. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I only half-listened: my mind was preoccupied with comparing my situation with his. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I doubt you could even lift a longsword, little sister, never mind swing one." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The words trigger something in my mind, but it flits away. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

None of the boys were particularly good dancers, but the girls didn’t seem to mind. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I see a mind movie of me standing outside a huge glass box. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

In my mind, she’d been so vigorous, so staunch, that surely if death was to approach her, she would give it a good tongue-lashing and send it on its way. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He donned an old, well-worn doublet, in case his niece had a mind to throw another cup of wine in his face, but he left his sword belt hanging on the back of his chair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And now in my mind I stood upon the walk looking out across the hole past a Hooverville shanty of packing cases and bent tin signs, to a railroad yard that lay beyond. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before the boy could trouble his mind anymore, the man straightened up and began talking to him. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Paying me no mind, he held the cross in his palm, in such a way that it was illuminated by our little fire while he squinted at it closely. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The prince lay abed, staring at his ceiling, dreaming without sleeping, remembering, imagining, twisting beneath his linen coverlet, his mind feverish with thoughts of fire and blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I fought to speak, to get out the words to the question that was suddenly weighing heavily on my mind. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Now let’s fly round, and do double duty today, so that we can play tomorrow with free minds,” said Jo, preparing to replace her pen with a broom. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

No sheriff paid them any mind, no journalist listened to their stories. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I added quickly: 'I never held any high office, mind you. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

His mind was still absorbed by the spangled ring. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

And his mind could not contain the terrible stretch of time that united twelve men fishing by the shores of Galilee, and black men weeping on their knees tonight, and he, a witness. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

A man’s mind vagued up a little, for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As though some beast breathes all the time at the windowpanes of his mind. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

White drug “criminals” are collateral damage in the War on Drugs because they have been harmed by a war declared with blacks in mind. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

These exercises distracted my mind from the menial tasks that fell to me as the lowest of Gertrude’s ladies. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She watched Adiah process the words, weighing and considering them in her mind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Then his mom looked at my mom and said this: ‘Would you mind not letting your daughter put her feet in the Play-Doh?'” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I kept having flashes of scenes go off in my mind. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The heavy air seemed to slow the working of my mind. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kat didn’t seem to mind me being there. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maya Angelou’s words almost fly off the page and into my mind. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I turn over in my mind these things I have been saying. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sara White remained on his mind long after he and the Forty Odd departed the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I always try to mind my own business. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I didn’t catch her name yet, so in my mind she’s Miss Cream. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I make them all the time, I am at no loss for yarn. I started this one with no particular rêveur in mind to wear it, so clearly it is meant for you.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“We have to mind our p's and q's,” Grandma reminded us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But there was way too much else on my mind, and I couldn’t focus on it. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The boss had just about made up his mind to have him sold, when he got an idea. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her mind’s eye she saw Sidhean pacing by the crystal fountain, and she felt pity for him, for now she knew what it was to be in love. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though there was nothing in his mind but horror and fear of its touch, the cold black pain that drained his life away, yet he waited, unmoving. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you mind not shaking the tambourine in the store?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I can see her in my mind’s eye—Nurse May- inga, the source of the virus in the United States Army’s freezers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A quick swim could refresh his tired mind and body. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

In Scott’s mind it was a done deal. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me sleep, Chas. I’m sick. I don’t mind if you guys go ahead and play.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We are all a part of the same mind. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

That was the case with most of my friends, and we didn’t mind collecting cans of food to send to the starving kids of Wherever Starving Kids Were Hanging Out. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

For his part, Verdi spoke nothing but praise about his acid- tongued contemporary, writing that Tristan und Isolde was ‘one of the finest creations that has ever issued from a human mind’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Considered and considerate, formal at every turn, they were shut out and shut off from the deep interplay of their minds. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Oak Ridge directors agreed to redesign the factory with this new information in mind. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

To one thing I have made up my mind: if we find out that Mina must be a vampire in the end, then she shall not go into that unknown and terrible land alone. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I think of Frightful and pick up one of Bando’s sapling logs and concentrate on it to erase her from my mind. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I force a grin, but my mind is whirling. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Tally swallowed, trying to erase the image of his sagging features from her mind. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Doon occupied his mind by calculating how far underground he was. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon’s events certainly seemed to have changed her mind about Snape. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He opened his eyes, coming slowly back to awareness of the world outside his mind, and found it echoing with silence. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

These, detached in our minds from all the rest, we take to be unnatural events, anomalies, outrages. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at her, hoping she wouldn’t mind the interruption. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mind whirs this way and that, weighing the alternatives, then grinds to a halt under the strain. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Maybe not, but what makes you different from him? You and I are friends, yes, but once we're out of here, who's to say one of us won't change our mind?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I’m going to speak my mind, she told Abdul early in their relationship. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It is not easy carrying on both halves of a conversation and having to avoid words that are on the top of your mind. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But since no one in their right mind was buying homes there anymore, she couldn’t make a single sale. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The pervert from when we were eleven appears in my mind’s eye. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Quite the opposite in fact—often I find it all too easy to speak my mind, and things go badly because of it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Leona hated it when my mind went elsewhere than her classroom. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He’d walk us up the bluff like that, making every other kid on the beach with their flimsy fathers out of their minds with jealousy. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, never mind that,” said Harry bitterly. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

My mind spun around everything Styx’s questions stirred up. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Much more than a remembered place, it had become a state of mind. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you mind terribly if I threw an occasional snowball myself? That is part of the fun, you know.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

As usual a song was in her mind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Happens when I have my mind on the lieutenant. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

On and on she goes, and though this would normally be so frustrating, to listen to someone talk as much as the frogs make noise at night, I realize I don’t actually mind. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Papi has said we have to stay and mind the store. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“I have somewhat in mind for thee,” said Brother Luke. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

My mind flashes back to when I landed in the hospital in the fifth grade with a fever that wouldn’t break. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

For instance, right before I had my motorcycle accident I saw the whole thing happen: saw it in my mind-—the rain, the skid tracks, me lying there bleeding and my legs broken. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed satisfied by that, but their perception stuck in my mind. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their minds are on one goal; they are truly united; they think as one. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The gods have changed their minds,” she announced in a moment. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was trying so hard to navigate my conflicting worlds at school and at home, I left it buried in the back of my mind. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His mind had paused in puzzled frustration at the golden corner of an eye when Zahotep’s touch on his shoulder brought him with a start out of his daydreaming. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Is that really what you think is going through my mind right now:I hesitated. Reconsidered. “ A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I did not mind this question as much as her probing about my feelings. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In my mind, I make a silent promise to my brother’s killer. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Plato had a mathematician’s sensibility—his investigations into reality took place in the mind alone. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you don’t mind talking about it, do you?” she said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He entered the Elite Theater to show himself a film, to distract his mind from his isolation. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must be that I had a small mean mind, a conventional, petty hatred of gossip. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The power to create with your mind would take you everywhere, and my imagination was blasting out of orbit. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how a man in his right mind can go off and leave a wife and family to starve and shiver in a Limerick winter. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I sure got a hard road, Mr. Robichaux. I don’t mind telling you.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm sure John hated working at the steam plant, but at least he got to leave the house and take his mind off things for a while. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Before I could change my mind and run back to the woods, Mr. Morrison took my hand and drew me inside. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Reminded how long it had been since she had flown a plane, Maddie made up her mind. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It would be a good idea, because I’m pretty sure I’ve changed my mind. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her father’s eyes were downcast now, the eyes of a man groping in his mind. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I followed her to a seat near the front and quickly sat down, in case the girl changed her mind. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I assigned him to God’s care and asked San Jose and the Virgencita to mind him as well, but still I worried all the time. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My body knows what to do before my mind, and I dive in front of Laia. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

His mind wanders, like it sometimes does, to images outside the walls of the school, even while his teachers are asking him to think about things inside the school. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He could even see in his mind how her expression would be one of panic at her question. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was his mind playing tricks, the G forces sloshing his brain around, but A-Dawg was sure he saw his dog nod. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

My mind feels like it’s been caught up in a violent twister. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But like many innovations, the solution is remarkable not for its inherent difficulty, but because it took one remarkable mind to apprehend its power. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

From the time I leave Addie’s house Tuesday night until eleven in the a.m. on Thursday, all that occupies my mind is the mess I have gotten myself into by agreeing to give this speech. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

In my own mind, Father was the embodiment of Uncles superior man. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mind raced as he struggled to think of a way out of this. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I was put to mind of my nightmarish thought, that I had come to Hell. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It both bothers and reassures me that, in my mind, he'll always be seventeen. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He didn’t really mind losing to his friend. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I hope you don’t mind a long and dopey letter. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Harry asked coldly, his mind working very fast. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And then horribly, unexpectedly, his mom’s parents died, he said, in this really tragic car accident, both of them at the same time, and his mom kind of lost her mind. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Hey, do you mind stopping the car. I just want to get a shot of this guy.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Seeing it, the preacher could hardly keep his mind on how good Granny had been or how it was God’s will and all. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I expect he’s forgotten about it. Besides, he said to mind me tonight. Didn’t he didn’t he say to mind me tonight.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she spoke to people and animals with her mind. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It might have held a presence medieval; and, reaching to the desk for pencil and paper, I sketched in fancy with an absent mind a profile, pale and aquiline. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Dauntless soldiers turn as if moved by the same mind. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And for no reason the stupid proverb of my school-days ran through my mind, “Time and Tide wait for no man.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“True and true and true. I’m a born leader. I speak my mind. And it’s not like I’m reading people’s diaries or breaking into lockers. I’m observant. Your turn, Lucy.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She has to open her mind, she says, so that when the clues start coming, she can see the thread that joins them. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Reckon I talked to it so much before I conjured up a mind’s eye view of it. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though she has lived in Toronto for over thirty years, her French-speaking mind still slips on occasion on the understanding of English sounds. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mind, my soul, is greater than anything that can bind me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Reynie could make up his mind how to answer, she slipped out of the room, leaving him to puzzle over her mystifying behavior. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Honestly, I wouldn’t even mind going to prom with him. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Do you mind if I use your bathroom?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the back of my mind, I didn't expect to find anyone else who knew her. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But when the body failed to come alive and scar my mind forever by breaking the glass and going for my jugular, my initial panic subsided. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“It slipped my mind. David asked me to find you and take you to the labs. There’s something there that belonged to your mother.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Only white for his eyes and the smell became worse, filled the cockpit, and all of it so fast, so incredibly fast that Brian’s mind could not take it in at first. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t mind how unsure they seemed. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Ray must be in a movie in his own mind at this point. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He stepped into the darkness of the passage, dismissing the subject from his mind, and disappeared. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

That sound—the swift, shocking report of gunfire—called the scattered, irascible, permanently seeking part of his mind into focus like nothing else. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He counted the parts and thought he would go clear out of his mind. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t mind sounding like her if I could talk. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The voices of Mars and Ares spoke in his mind, strong and unified: Break them! The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

‘Do not tell me that he has changed his mind, and will send me away with the maidens! But no, the last wains have gone.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I’d forgotten about it, or maybe I’d just put it out of my mind, a little scared what I might find out. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That name shook a little bell in Lyra’s mind. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Neb’ mind ’bout all dat cleanin’ round de front yard,” he told her as she straightened up from fixing the bed. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I know this isn’t what you had in mind when you assigned me this extra credit project. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They were all standing now, and as Cecilia leaned toward Marshall’s lighter, Leon said, “He’s got a first-rate mind, so I don’t know what the hell he’s doing, messing about in the flower beds.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

If he closed his eyes, he could see the banners in his mind’s eye, snapping bravely in a brisk north wind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It did not appear that anything had been disturbed—aside from my peace of mind. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the early dawn light, I tried to train my mind on the walk with Anemone to block out the yelling from the kitchen, but I couldn’t. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

There’s something crawling through my mind like a black insect, causing me to doubt. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Listening to my heartbeat, my mind wanders to Ma and Geak. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the mind and will of the Black Captain were bent wholly on the falling city, and as yet no tidings came to him warning that his designs held any flaw. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The gravity of all this had put us in a solemn state of mind. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It may have been puzzling to me, but it only took Mom about a second to make up her mind. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Surely I can make up my own mind. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hell, I’ve spent the past eleven years pretending none of it ever happened, and outside of the nightmare, I’ve been successful at keeping it shoved waaaaay to the back of my mind. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Bother the things, she would have to keep her mind on them! The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The three arts of the trivium relate to the mind, and the four of the quadrivium to matter. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Other scientists besides Kelvin turned their minds to the problem and came up with results that only deepened the uncertainty. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Not really. It was no ‘Rains of Castamere,’ mind you, but some parts were ... well...” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Werner does not yet believe there is much promise in it, but maybe it’s enough to give the mind something to do, a problem to solve. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sarai saw their distress and mastered her own, pushing the dreamer from her mind—for now. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I’m going to write back to that company and tell them never mind, I’ll keep her. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

How many great problems have gone unsolved because men didn’t know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselves, to let go for the whole mind to work at it? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

My cheeks grew hot, my mind dizzy, like I was still toeing the ledge. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She turned the words around and around in her mind, trying to make sense of them, but she kept coming to the same conclusion. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Ben would interrupt this God and this God would not mind. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two fought for the hearts and minds of black America—and, at least for Washington, for the blessings of white society. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But she realized that sometime during the night she had made up her mind: she would not run away today. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made pictures in my mind of the summer until the pictures became so real I could leaf through them like pages in an album. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mind slips to last fall and a writing course at the local community college. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It’s the one chore I don’t mind because it’s our private time together. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

And it is a history of the paradoxes posed by an innocent-looking number, rattling even this century’s brightest minds and threatening to unravel the whole framework of scientific thought. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“David’s trying to fix our toaster. So far it’s a disaster,” she explains, which raises more questions in my mind until I remember her brother is into robotics. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It put Lazlo in mind of the way they avoided looking at the citadel itself. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He spoke it to himself on the school bus, causing three different kids to move farther away from him for fear he had lost his mind. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

King Lear loses his mind with what we, in modern times, would call Alzheimer’s. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

My father and Ultima were the only people I ever knew that did not mind breaking their fast before communion. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sensed I was not going to like what he had in mind. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t have anything in mind, and well you know it,” she snapped quietly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a soothing rhythm to pushing the wheelchair, and now, in the lull it offers me, the monster’s face reenters my mind. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

But he had pushed fear out of his mind. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

You could never call her a welcoming woman, but today her mind was truly miles away. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The image of that woman and her baby plagued my mind as we walked back to Mattru Jong. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was that his mind was somewhere else. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ivy’s mind flashed to June’s poem, to the way June had so clearly not wanted Ivy to see it. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe because for once I don’t mind that he might be right. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

An old framed photo on my mother’s bureau pops into my mind: My parents standing on a tour boat against white rails, close but not touching. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The Bacon family didn't mind the misfit food, but soon they found out I was the greater misfit. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was not top late to change her mind. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Before I can answer, she says, “Never mind. I remember now.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The mind shies away from a head tax, a facility tax. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could have changed her mind about school and run off with the boy she ate pecans with. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of the hobbits saw in his mind a vision of the cloaked and booted Riders. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Which portion of my mind, of my memory, had I lost to a minuscule stroke while I was asleep? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

That was one thing her Dad could never get off his mind—ways he could have made money and didn’t. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

To help the wine merchants out, Kepler chopped up the barrels—in his mind—into an infinite number of infinitely tiny pieces, and then added them back together again to yield their volumes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He probably had plenty on his mind with the war and all. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I entered another space in that moment, as if I could see a corner of Stick’s mind that had long been hidden from me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

A dozen different things that he might say flashed through Digory’s mind, but he had the sense to say nothing except : he exact truth. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Look,” said Harry angrily, “Crouch isn’t right — he’s — he’s out of his mind — he says he wants to warn —” The stone wall behind Snape slid open. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He’d been flinging questions at me with such speed that I felt like I was taking one of those psychiatric tests where you answer with the first word that comes to mind. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Before he had gone, Papa had told the domovoi to mind the family. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you see that this is because of the skin? You two aren’t like this. Think. It’s affecting your mind.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

His mind would well over at last and he would not be Montag any more, this the old man told him, assured him, promised him. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

But according to the approach I described in Chapter 1, a scientific theory is just a mathematical model we make to describe our observations: it exists only in our minds. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever neighbors or relatives came to talk about the bad things white people were doing, it was like adding height and weight to this monster that lived in my mind. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Between flight cancellations and Farmer suddenly changing his mind about where he was going and for how long, his travel constant monitoring—a task that fell on the shoulders of his brand-new assistant at PIH. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

A Martian, far cleverer, would say: ‘This is a fine picture. It came from the hand and the mind of a man inspired. Its idea and its color are from life. This thing is good.’ The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

They said it in such a degrading way; they never said “please” or asked if we minded. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The two movements had been merged in the minds of many voters. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The mind was already trained to find it exquisite. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t mind my saying so, we were all a little surprised when he showed up with you,” said Francis. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And to say what was on my mind. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Those were the days when I didn’t mind surprises. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He hung that way for several minutes, choking and heaving and gasping for air, fighting to clear the picture of die pilot from his mind. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right after them came the wolf, like he had his mind fixed on catching them, and nothing else. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if she could read my mind, as if she knew what I had wished for, and I felt ashamed for having made such a selfish wish. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had heard every note, and somewhere in the back of her mind the whole of the music was still there just as it had been played. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

His mind functioned without flaw, trying to calculate his surroundings and predicament. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But her mind was nothing but fear and pain. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I really hope she didn’t change her mind about wanting to see me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

After a while, I didn’t mind the smell because Timothy’s back was very warm. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were having music class, but we couldn’t keep our minds on the teacher’s directions. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Claudia didn’t really mind too much when she saw the snack bar. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s something about the hush of air to skin that sets Axel’s mind free of worry. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Are you out of your mind? Your own daughter, you have killed her. Murderess!” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Normally, I would have been bored, but I knew I wasn’t going to be in Greenwood much longer, so I didn’t mind spending time with Grampa. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Louis never minded if his scientific staff had higher degrees or not: The important thing, as far as he was concerned, was that they had knowledge and were hardworking and dedicated. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

His heartbeat slowed, and the words to the Water Monster’s lullaby appeared in his mind. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Roberto must have read my mind because he said, “Why don’t you sing a Mexican song?” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

His smile flashed in front of her mind’s eye, the sheepish one on his chalk-covered face when he stepped out of the shadows of Prospect Park. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

No amount of cajoling would change her mind. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t neglect me,” entreated Madame Ratignolle; “and don’t mind what I said about Arobin, or having some one to stay with you.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

I was trying to wrap my mind around this, wondering if I had misheard her. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He had known from the beginning, he always knew, though he twisted and turned in his mind, trying to get away from whatever drove him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I try to go back in my mind to a time before genetics, before everyone was in the habit of saying about everything, “It’s in the genes.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When my sisters and I are lying down after lunch and my mind is idle, I think of these scenes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I personally think the paper chain is stupid and most of the people who are losing their minds over it are annoying. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The old woman was standing over her, that one milky eye fixed on her as though it could see into her mind. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I tried to make it sound like I don’t mind. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

And he didn’t mind that at the top, the elevator stopped a couple of inches below the floor. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

No parents in their right minds would ever allow their son to come here alone, and certainly not to stay with Cole. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

"Great. Nice little chat. Now, if you don’t mind, my friends will be wondering—” "There is more,” Mr. D warned. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He did not mind his work and knew himself to be quite good at it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

These thoughts were running through my mind as I heard Buzz counting the seconds to ignition: “9-8-7-6-5. . . Beautiful!” Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He figured maybe this was just the kind of moment when God wouldn’t mind his stretching. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

In fact, they were welcomed as the Tallises began to understand that the baby of the family possessed a strange mind and a facility with words. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A dreamer in whose mind the best version of the world grew like seed stock. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And when Uncle played the albums Cecile had left behind—the ones with piano, bass, drums, and smooth-voiced Sarah Vaughan—in my mind, smoke still filled the house. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if they had only ever been in my mind. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I got the heater running, for once not caring about the mind- numbing roar of the engine. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“No. Only in my mind. And I told the water to freeze and it did,” Nathan said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Her mind was a tornado of thoughts and questions and anxiety while she recorded herself playing the violin section of Paganini’s “Cantabile for Violin and Guitar” for the CD she was making for the Beiderman. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Drink the beer. It’s just a Natty Light. Allah’s not gonna mind.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I had half a mind not to show up at the graduation exercises. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She promulgated this philosophy with disastrous effects to two southern belles whom she took under her wing in order to renovate their backward minds. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

DDT is now so universally used that in most minds the product takes on the harmless aspect of the familiar. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I can go and find it’s an advertisement under the door or I can sit here and let my silly old mind tell me death is on the doorstep. Well, I want the advertisement.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She felt warmer toward Valley than she probably ever had, but her mind was lingering on what Valley had said about her dad. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The money is good, but if Dan has to keep traveling like this, I’m going to lose what little is left of my mind. I can’t keep doing all this alone. Raising boys is complicated.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He gave the impression of having been up for days, in the saddle for days, and not minding it. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope you don’t mind my asking you all these questions,” she said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A man, Pete said, was what he made up his mind to be. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mind might as well have been encased in concrete, and mine might as well have been made of jelly. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But Rush’s mind was made up, and everyone knew what that meant. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Yes, well, both of you may know what the hell you’re talking about, but I don’t. Do you mind filling me in?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I knew he didn’t mind taking me back home early since now he knew he could hunt more easily by himself for the rest of the season. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But if he let it get his goat now that would be even less his style, and so he forced it to the back of his mind and had some more coffee. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem fair, and I made up my mind to ask Mama what the trouble was with being a woman. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“If you, uhh...wouldn’t mind keeping this between us—” I point to my wet face. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

If I think too much right now, I’ll lose my mind. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I thought about them all night. But I don’t mind it. I don’t mind it at all.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

As the work intensified, something that had been hibernating in her mind awakened, and once roused it would not go away. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He did not know that she had seen her own destiny, that she had summoned him with the power of her thought, and that she had already made up her mind to marry without love. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked as though he wouldn’t mind chopping her boat in two! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mum was about to demand an inspection but, thank God, she changed her mind. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

That at least my body could rest, even if my mind wouldn’t. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As Jonathan worked, he kept going over what to do in his mind. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

He put his whole mind to holding it back. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

If your mind is divided, the knife will break. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It crosses my mind to reveal myself and enlist her as a second ally against that pack. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In the days preceding the ball, if there were moments when Char and the balls weren’t in my mind, they were when I was asleep. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the cold pond, his mind became almost trancelike. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I spent as much time as I could alone in our room, trying to empty my mind of every thought, to forget where I was, even who I was. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

No distractions, nothing to stop myself from blurting the things that come to mind. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things—they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He spent a short time in Syria, but he could not keep his mind on his work. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

On the day of the accident, Van couldn’t get the idea out of his mind that something bad had happened to Reggie. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes, and the images from Kabati flashed in my mind. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I walked out of the gym, my mind made up. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she rode the bus through the strange landscape of Atlanta, she tried to put the fear of the past few years out of her mind. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

All my second thoughts rushed forward, causing a traffic jam in my mind. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cecile had already told me to mind my business about her feelings and about Pa, but I still wanted to know why my parents didn’t get married. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Yes, she knows now that I’m not dismissing her pleas from my mind . Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t understand. You could be killed! You can’t change people’s minds now. It’s the only way to protect yourself. When we leave for the new India, things will be better. I hope.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I’d rather you told me about this land,” Adam said uneasily, for a sick picture of piled-up bodies came into his mind. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Then one day a friend of mine took me out there and showed me something that changed my mind totally.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s proud, but I don’t believe she’d mind, for that dowdy tarlaton is all she has got. She may tear it tonight, and that will be a good excuse for offering a decent one.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

For his mind now went where it would and he could not hold it long to any one thing. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

His fever waned, his mind cleared, and his burns congealed into scars. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Some analytical part of my mind warned me that I was dangerously close to snapping from the stress. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It’s not that I minded the stories because I didn’t. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Howard sang louder than anybody and, personally, I thought it was a little embarrassing, but nobody else seemed to pay him any mind. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Will it be the tug on their heartstrings that makes it all too much, that makes them turn to a convenient comedy to take their minds off the harsh corners of the world? How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Soon even the speeding up became automatic and again Francie’s mind was free. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to smooth it down with his hand, but it was too thick and bushy to mind anything but scissors. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I changed my mind and brushed ’em all in the water. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m in debt to a dangerous person. I could use every penny ...” I trailed off, my mind working. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Middle- and upper-class whites were happy to keep poor white immigrants out of sight, out of mind. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I had it in my mind that she’d grown up spending four hours a day in front of the mirror, narcissism to the point of solipsism. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He says the mind and spirit are useful, too. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never had one hour’s happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You stay right there with Naomi, don’t go no further. I tell you to drop back, you’d better listen fast. And mind your sister, you hear?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The authority of the law loomed big in his mind; he remembered, “You and your family will be in serious trouble.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

In either case, the matter receded to the back of his mind still unexplained. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

But the memory of the fire on Penikese was warmer than anything, and I had trouble keeping my mind on my work. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He’s sure taking his time, I thought, pushing down other ideas that were trying to bubble into my mind. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy’s mind grew more receptive, the Whisperer’s wrinkled messages straightened, and Mr. Curtain had at last settled into some real, productive work. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Everything swirls around my mind like a tornado. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I left the room silently, not looking forward to whatever he had in mind. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Manya took care of me during the first nightmarish days of blind panic when my mind collapsed and would not function. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

As you have shown, color is used all the time to create images in our mind. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he asks you if you want to change your mind and pick the other unopened door instead. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His sardonic mind glowed and his speech took on its old singing rhythm. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Come, be silent, Richard, and never mind her gibberish: don’t repeat it.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

As I walk home, something writes itself to the edge of my mind. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He continued to ask about her, and once a year he sent an offhand inquiry through Yuko, just to be sure she hadn’t changed her mind. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Hey, you mind if we play something a little less...violent?” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The roof leaked badly but we didn't mind. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The terrifying thought of how close she’d come to killing the people she loved reared back up in her mind. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The voice of Kronos didn't so much speak as pierce my mind like a dagger. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason—for we would know the mind of God. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

My mind filled up like a pretty girl’s dance card. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’m sure he was playing Louis in his mind. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t mind going again this year, do you, Miss Mallory?” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t mind her threats because she never stayed mad. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He focuses his mind, doesn't want to be numb. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas whispered, trying to avoid the real question that had popped in his mind: He’s not dead, is he? The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I broke my mind into two pieces, then, with some difficulty, into a third. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She liked factory people better and she liked keeping her mind free while she worked with her hands. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went with the party to the search with an easy mind, for I think I never saw Mina so absolutely strong and well. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

In a few moments passengers began to wrap their minds around what the scythe had said. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Beyond the Milk of Hera, past the Backbone of Night, the mind of Democritus soared. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have that much, but I knew even if he were next to me, he wouldn’t mind if I tried on a jacket or two. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The divining rod in my mind dipped sharply and a spring gushed water when I remembered that I was on a genuine, regulation lifeboat and that such a lifeboat was surely outfitted with supplies. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The very moment I put hammer to chisel with the intention of finding NoahandJude, my mind goes to the day Noah almost drowned. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The first question on the minds of many people released from prison as they take their first steps outside the prison gates is where will they sleep that night. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And those things were true, but even as they crossed my mind, I knew they didn’t completely explain why talking to August about my mother made me so uneasy. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah...mind you, it’s a very cheap one,” Ron said. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I have been distracted when I’m with her, my mind constantly tuning into Radio Olly. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

His hatred continued to spill out into the broadcasting ether until Monath could stand it no longer: “Mr. Fischer, you are destroyed in your mind,” he said, and Fischer’s microphone was rendered mute. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care! I’m in love with your mind—with the person you are. I couldn’t care less about the packaging.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Before Thomas could answer, the faint memory of last night, before he fell asleep, came to him, Teresas words inside his mind. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

Only, his mind takes flight along with the bird, thinking maybe, just this once, A. P. Brown’s Collection of North American Birds is wrong. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I know it, and I might perish from sheer embarrassment. But no mind, I brought you a little gift to repair the damage,” she said, handing him the paper bag. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am not sure which actions should weigh more heavily on my mind. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But my mind wandered across the Atlantic Ocean back to Sierra Leone. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

His mind wanders to his mother, then to his family and Maria Isabel, who might be pregnant. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It seemed to Nat his mind fumbled, trying to grasp the meaning, as cold fingers fumble, trying to untie a knot. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes they don’t mind their manners much,” she said. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I rush to the door before she changes her mind. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

And soon it wasn’t Nell’s voice he was hearing in his mind. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the back of my mind were the stories I’d heard, of drunks, of old people, of careless skiers freezing to death, but for some reason none of this seemed to apply to me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A thousand thoughts flipped through his mind, and he saw her in all of them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Drags helped me push the thought to the back of my mind. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marjory thought the game was absurd, but her mind went to work anyway. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

His teeth gritted and the last image he had seen of Gus going through the door lingered in his mind. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Katie had made up her mind to marry him—if he asked her—simply because life was incomplete without a man to love her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “I don't mind if you give me a new name I never heard before.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the mind of Théoden the thought took shape, like a shadow of doubt: ‘He will betray us; he will go — we shall be lost.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Girl with the Golden Earring, you are driving me out of my mind. Look, here’s the door.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nate’s mind was filled up with memories of all that had happened to him over these past seven months. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Call would give me a look that indicated that I had lost my mind, but he was smart enough not to think it out loud. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her mind a final voice whispered to her, urgently. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

They were of her—a dimension of her mind or soul that took form only as they emerged. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly, he opened his mind to the voices of the war god. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I'm pretty sure she means she doesn't mind as long as it's her idea and on her own time. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The charm of an object to occupy the many vacancies of Harriet’s mind was not to be talked away. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

For the better part of the night, he’d wandered the city’s empty streets, letting the count of his footsteps numb his mind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

After that, Fawnda was sent to a special school for the differently abled — out of sight, out of mind, as if she had never existed. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He wanted to make a joke, but nothing came to mind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“With any luck, we both might make it Though I wouldn’t mind a face-lift Ready?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I have a lot on my mind—mostly about my children and what’s happening on the streets. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hope I didn’t wake you, don’t mind if I cut on the lights, do you, ah, here we go, yes, yes....” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Abuela exhaled slowly and deeply, wrinkling her face like she knew my mind was full of crazy thoughts. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

With its notions in mind I see my place in the universe. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Muhammad’s two- edged sword was his teachings, which cut back and forth to free the black man’s mind from the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were getting closer to each other in that connected way of theirs, as if trying to make up their minds. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

You must use this, she said and pointed to her mind. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He had disagreed last night, had argued all moming, but now he was setting his mind to it. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That fellow Gay is moving in with us I guess. His wife hits him pretty bad. He don’t mind that when he’s awake but she waits ’til he gets to sleep and then hits him. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he said: “I have no choice. I can only hope you will change your mind,” he paused, “and act more like an adult and less like a schoolgirl.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The kind of mind that could conceive of and execute such a fantastic course! The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But Anna and Dorus didn’t mind; they wanted their family to be close now, and forever. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

All this passes through my mind in an instant. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She fell to her knees in the road, not minding the scrape of the pavement on her bare skin, and threw her arms around his shaggy neck. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It certainly didn’t sound like the honest job of a dairyman, or bring to his mind cold bright cans standing on the back porch, glittering like captains on guard. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next three days, Deborah came to my B&B room each morning, sat on the bed, and unloaded her mind. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Yet it crossed his mind to wonder if indeed Gollum was not now as dangerous turned loose as kept with them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Because he was hungry, the first words that came into his mind were about food, and so he sang: I must have food. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

And then, quickly, before I can change my mind, I take some coins from the Doctorita’s purse and walk to the shop with a phone booth. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Has his mind done this, some kind of adaptation? Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The idea of him being out there made me angry, and that helped clear my mind. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I was a kid in age but my mind had the reality of a grown-up, ’cause I seen these things every day! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I believe I have changed my mind,” he told her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I could see that he had something on his mind which he wanted to say, but felt some hesitancy about broaching the subject. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Now the origin story flashed into her mind: Her parents in the front yard of a pretty little house at the end of a cul-de-sac, in that tiny Alabama town. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes and picture the girl inside my mind like a small statue. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The two of them had taken little notice of each other until now—their modes of being were so different—but they were of one mind about this, clearly. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

This was hardly the goal in the mind of the Chicago school officials who conceived the lottery. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The truth does not change whether it is seen or unseen, it whispered in her mind. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The voice simply floated overhead like a movie narrator’s, as if a single mind controlled all the creatures. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The two of them were so happy and boisterous that they didn't even seem to mind anymore that the Conte had duped them. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly in my mind, I began to envision that we could march forward. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And so the philosophers turned their minds to other things; later, no one could even remember the year in which they had performed this experiment, and no one wrote about it at the time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Today she didn’t mind at all that they were crowded. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

All the while, with one part of his mind, he wondered how soon they would shoot him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Never mind my real father who begged me to come down to Memphis ’cause he need somebody to pass on that big ole house to. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

‘You see? Already you too, Frodo, cannot easily let it go, nor will to damage it. And I could not “make” you — except by force, which would break your mind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It lives to keep all men in mind of honor forever, Akhilleus. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought would make Alfred sad, and he'd speed up until he pushed it out of his mind. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mind worked furiously, grasping for anything she knew about Mithras. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She spent far too long in the bathroom in the mornings for one thing, and didn’t seem to mind if Bruno was left out-side, hopping from foot to foot, desperate to go. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2006-01-05T00:00:00Z

“It was amazing to see how rapidly his mind worked,” said Alvarez. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her mind she was back on the path, heading north, and now she realized there had been something tugging at her, so gently it was barely a whisper. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

They’d say: I bet one night with me would make her change her mind. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He never had had his hand on so much money before in his life, so he made up his mind to see how it felt to be a millionaire. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

His feelings clamored for an answer his mind could not give. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She moved ahead, holding her tray out to the serving person behind the counter, and put the boat crew out of her mind. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t get his mind back to the delicate balance he knew it needed, and he got more and more frustrated. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought compliments were for sissies, but he changed his mind after the first few sessions. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

This seems to reflect something about how the mind actually works. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Instead they seem to be of one mind, determined to whip us into shape. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

With his eyes closed and his mind open he lay on die rock through the night, lay and hated and wished for it to end and thought the word Clouddvwn, Clouddown through that awful night. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toby was content watching them fly around, the anticipation building in his own mind. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I had shut off completely. I had made up my mind I was not taking him home.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s not her health that troubles me now, it’s her spirits. I’m sure there is something on her mind, and I want you to discover what it is.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

But gradually her depression lifted, and as she kept rehashing the Town Hall recital in her mind, she came to realize that much of the criticism was justified. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

It was what I would be from this day forward—my commitment, my character as long as I lived—and nothing alive or dead could change my mind! Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I knew my mother had already made up her mind. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He felt suffocated in that cell, let out only to exercise and to eat, food that brought to mind a bowl of boiled worms. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Has the man gone right out of his mind?” she whispered. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Somebody has to stay and mind the store.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She held Emma’s new friend’s face in her hand and said to her sister, Miss Duncan-the-second, “Dot, I know you waren’t but eight and it been fifteen years, but who this child bring to mind?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

A prosecutor said that he was now someone “whose mind is at ease because he has relieved his tortured soul of a terrible secret and now seeks repentance and forgiveness.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She knitted slowly now, like her mind was someplace else. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

His mind was steady, his thoughts careful and even. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The desperation to find her affected his mind as he got older, and I believe it stayed with him until the very end.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

My mind spins at the idea that there is a whole organization of magicians out there that not even the Bureau knows about. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

There are some situations where the human mind needs a little help. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I figure if there's a God, He won't mind, considering the situation I'm in. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he confessed to her that he had a great deal of work to do that preoccupied his mind. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m comfortable with it, and no community outreach program will change my mind. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

No matter how hard I tried it seemed I could not rid my mind of the sinister force that had suddenly blotted out all memory. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long ago, when his mind had been a nimble boy’s called Wart—long ago he had been taught by an aged benevolence, wagging a white beard. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes an owner forgets we are coming or forgets to leave a key under the mat or changes his or her mind about the service without thinking to notify Ted. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Do you mind if I come up and sit around the office?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

No one else seemed too upset, but my mind was going a million miles a minute trying to figure out how I could get back to school as quickly as possible. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In the transitional space of the bus, she turned over the questions that had loitered in her mind since sending off her application six months prior. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Something about the howling of a wolf took a man right out of his here and now and left him in a dark forest of the mind, running naked before the pack. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Seeing the way he bruised only solidified Toby’s weakness in Jimmy’s mind. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It’s a long way to the Dock Road but we don’t mind because our bellies are filled with sausages and bread and it’s not raining. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She is not the sort of person who will lose her mind with abandonment and jealousy. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know exactly what was going on, but when he saw the men shoving Wilbur into the crate he made up his mind to go along. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

We didn't mind a couple of weeks, but a whole summer? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

When my mother didn’t have the four cents, I would cling to my “affluent” friends like a parasite—they didn’t seem to mind. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

How was he supposed to know what the translator had had in mind when he had used “pain” with and “pain” without quotation marks? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Although, instead of lightning flashing behind the thumb, in Stanley's mind, the lightning was coming out of the thumb, as if it were the thumb of God. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He was listening, Nels knew; his tired demeanor shielded an active mind from view. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Moss stood from the desk, heart thumping, mind reeling, and the solution came to him suddenly. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Nor were we to be ignored in the general betterment scheme he had in mind. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mind, while he works, is almost quiet, almost calm. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Her health is great—cancer’s gone, heart’s good, no other real problems—but her mind is a balloon with a slow leak. Sometimes I think…” Audrey looked at me when I didn’t finish. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Denna looked at me, and I could see her mind jumping to the same conclusion. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At least it kept our minds off the situation, which was getting more depressing by the minute. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

"I don't understand nods and I can't read minds," Coach growled. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Momma said I need to get my mind off things. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The plan must have been in El Patrons mind all along. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll tell you, I hate to write. Don’t mind reading so much, but I hate to write.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The old stories had begun by then to lose their hold on men’s minds. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron looked still more awkward at this, but a moment later they had entered the Great Hall, where the Halloween decorations put Hermione out of their minds. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

And when I kissed him, when my lips pressed against his one last time, slipping inside of his mind was as easy as taking his hand had been. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I thought some wind had blown up the embers in my foolish mind,” Samuel said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her mind was darkened with jealousy about his past. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

No one in their right mind would let me make the plans. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They registered as flashes of color in her mind’s eye. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

If there were such a thing as a world mind, it should crack over this. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hands seemed to have a mind of their own. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Papa had spoken his mind on this questionnaire. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I occupied my mind with other things and tried not to twitch at the nahlrout- dulled jabs of the needle. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One part of my mind was saying that it had only been one of Auntie Braxton’s cats. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not being mad. I don’t mind what you said, but it might be true, and I would mind that.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reorganizing sickbay and battening down the storage area took them most of the day, but Piper didn’t mind. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z