Something about seeing Caitlin’s face and sweet smile made me know she was a kind and good person. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Mirror neurons fire both when one performs an action and when one sees another person performing that action. They allow us to imitate behavior.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The forgiveness, rather, of those many persons whose absence from higher education permitted me to be classed a minority student. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When had I leveled up to become the kind of person for whom he’d even offer? A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Apa opens his mouth to ask a question, but the grandma has already started to hand a ticket to the person behind us. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He remembers Henry’s words in the garden months ago: “D’you ever wonder what it’s like to be some anonymous person out in the world?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The frog kicks and is more difficult than the worm, it looks a little too much like a person swimming. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, you pile up your hands, choose a number, and draw out in turn, and the person who draws at the number has to answer truly any question put by the rest. It’s great fun.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The closest they came to him was when the police rode by, sometimes stopping to ask if anyone had seen this or that person. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re not the first person in the world to have to deal with a disabling accident!” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Wait, did the person who called you know that you and Mom are getting a divorce?” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I know,” I said to my mom, but inside I was thinking of the one person who would think less of me if I quit. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I had never watched a person be shot before, but I had seen the result. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When the person picked up on the other end, the man just said, “It is a go-ahead,” and hung up. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My mother had always said, “If you can even talk to a white person without lowering your eyes you’re really doing something.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Under the terms of our country’s founding document, slaves were defined as three-fifths of a person not a real, whole human being. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“How many persons are there in one God?” he continued. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I don’t know who Adam Dupane is, but you seem like a nice person, so he probably had it coming.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And, while he often tumbled heavily, it was never he who was hurt, but, rather, the unfortunate person on whom he fell. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

She walked toward the ladies’ room, waving at this person or that one, thrilling, it seemed, in the attention. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He recently did some drawings set near there, he tells Theo, and he’s the same person he was then. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She is such a real, vital person that I have made her my very closest friend. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents generally believed that I was the most well-adjusted and not-likely-to-break-into-SeaWorld person on the planet, since my psychological well-being was proof of their professional talents. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

But I met Bo, and now I know what it feels like for one person’s name to wreck you. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Every person seemed to be carrying an index card. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Don’t thank me, it’s what any decent person would have done.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The next day, people streamed into Harken Square from all four directions, crowding together so close that each person hardly had room to move. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Every war has turning points, and every person too. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like the worst person on earth. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I wish there were some kind of magic words that could bridge the gap between the person I am and the one I wish I could be. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Suli seers wore the jackal mask when they plied their trade and looked into a person’s fate. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He wondered if a crazy person wonders if he's crazy. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Without saying it, Elzenia meant, “Leave it where their anger is at the horse. One word could turn that kind of anger on a colored person.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would never have suspected it of myself, she thought, laughing still; everything is different, I am a new person, very far from home. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality—for this touchstone can be only oneself. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

When you as light skin as me and usually live with at least one white person, blacks don’t want no part of you either. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Food had little meat, each person s piece the width of two fingers pressed close together and the length of half a finger. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

That she was the most important person he’d meet that day? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He wouldn't spoil this wonderful, spooky Halloween story by telling him about the real person up there, the one with the limp. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to be the kind of person that doesn’t have to sit here and have this conversation. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I listen to them and make a wish that they get the chance to meet in person one day soon. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

This person the tabloids keep comparing him to, whom he compares himself to, thinks he’s better than Alex and everyone like him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Executive Order prohibits U.S. persons from performing any contract in support of a commercial project in Yugoslavia, as well as from exporting services to Yugoslavia. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Depending on a person’s life experience, they saw Reggie and his actions in slightly different lights. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They say: That kind of news could kill a person. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

And in all of this, the hidden places within another person are concealed from us. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It’s like telling a fat person about this new diet when you’re really skinny. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I remember when Du Barry paired us up to change our very first person. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Was it possible that every single person in this town had been in that awful Public Hall? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He’d contracted polio a few years back—the only person in town who had, as far as Stella knew. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In Newton’s time it was possible for an educated person to have a grasp of the whole of human knowledge, at least in outline. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it’s because I’m spending every minute pining for some boy who doesn’t want to meet me in person. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Bobby Fischer was the only person in the world ever known to have faced charges under President Bush’s bill. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As far as person went, she answered point for point, both to my picture and Mrs. Fairfax’s description. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But he was considered a suicide person just the same, since suicide was his clear intent. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Is that strange look on Tori’s face because she doesn’t know how to tell me what a terrible person I am? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. And I adore the person you are.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

How much oxygen does a person’s respiratory system exchange for carbon dioxide every hour? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“So,” I started, “it’s another way to think —” “No person has protected me,” Bouain interrupted. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The only other person who could see Billy and his spoon was poor old Edgar Derby, who was washing a window outside. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But whether one person or many would die, he had no clue. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The likelihood of any given person being killed in a terrorist attack is far smaller than the likelihood that the same person will clog up his arteries with fatty food and die of heart disease. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

They all believe that sometime in the next ten school days, at least one person in the room is going to discover his or her own personal fate: true love or tragic death. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But since the people they helped were usually poor, the black nurses often stayed and helped a person for no money at all. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Dicey’s panicked eyes moved to the face of the person beside her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had written to the wrong person; the militant and courageous broadside had been delivered before the wrong audience. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind each one, a person—some men, some women, all of them pale and thin—sat observing the Gladers, staring through the glass with squinted eyes. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the only person in front of me was the jumpmaster. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She was the only person I regretted deceiving with my feigned death. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She’s the second person who knows about him, but only as a major forehead crush. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“You are a real American! Ready to get to work, a no-nonsense person! Very good. First of all, tell me how you think we compare to Glass?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I think that I, a foreigner, am the only person Obsle trusts. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She goes on: “How ironic that the person who taught me the importance of letting people know I appreciate them is embarrassed by my appreciation.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The only person who wasn't happy with it was Miss Katherine. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The prince must go in person and perform the office of captain himself. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

It made me see Papa suddenly as a person, not just my papa, like a secret door had opened. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She was the busiest person Marly had ever seen in all her life. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder how it feels to be here as a person who’s supposed to have it all together but has some of the same questions that we do. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His eyes made a person think that he heard things nobody else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was more excited about Hermione, even though the person in the costume looked about thirty years old. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They passed one person after another, crouched in the hallways or in doorways, their bodies red and puffy, some of their eyes swollen shut, while others clutched arms and legs, wailing in terror. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Every person who bought a particular model of television came to believe that TV shows had become particularly mean-spirited of late, and they all canceled their cable and took to other hobbies. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

If the nails are too long, you can’t take the person seriously, too short, she has problems. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The class a person is born into, she said, is the starting point on the continuum. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“If you aren’t the most gifted person ever to have taken Mr. Benedict’s tests, I’m the queen of England.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

And Viola said she seems okay and maybe one Noise-less person can read another. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“This, my dear, is something you should take up with your father. All I’ll say is—I just want him to be happy. I know I’m not the right person for him.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Will there come a time when I do understand? Is it possible I am the right and true person to study with you?” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

A plane ride carries one of these infected persons to a new country, where still more Aedes aegypti wait to feed and fly off. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“This chatlink is part of our sales pitch. We want to give you the same experience you’d have if you came to visit our headquarters in person.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I think of the kinds of things that might make him mad and remember how he said a person can be too good at the wrong things. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“You know, someone at school was talking the other day about a person who took his house apart, and moved it, and then rebuilt it, just the way it was.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am the person who was going to read to someone?” said Raymie. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

We waved to the hill, the horizon, and the house, to the stone person, to the plants, and to the green door with the two windowpanes like eyes. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

George told Marco about their farm and their trip and explained that any decent person living in New York had to be a Giants fan. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Do I look like that type of person?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I feel almost certain that the person she ran from was Thresh and that is his domain. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then she sighed and said: “Sometimes I wonder if growing up isn’t the saddest thing that can happen to a person.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she was the last person in the hospital to understand what was happening. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I imagine her creating one beautiful person after another. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Let me put it this way: I just found out you’re not the worst person I know.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She felt like the last person on the entire Earth. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“This is not right! This person is obviously not awesome, so he must be...” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Depending on each person’s acclimatization and physiological makeup, we would still be able to function above the South Col—but not well, and not for long. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He is a person I think I could like. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

And unfortunately, sensitivity may suddenly develop in a person previously insensitive. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

When she and Zeitoun were married, he insisted that she get beyond the weight issues and eat like a normal person. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Numerous persons later said they saw two men rushing toward the stage, one with a shotgun, the other with two revolvers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to wonder how it was possible for the ideas of the Talmud and the thinking of Freud to live side by side within one person. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She had an overwhelming desire to please this person. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He said he couldn't imagine what kind of horrible person would steal from homeless children. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

In Japan, she said, a person learned not to complain or be distracted by suffering. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My mom doesn’t have another family! She doesn’t lie! She isn’t a criminal! You can stop thinking about any theories that make her a bad person!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Also being the sort of person who collected them. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s always been easier for me to lie when I don’t have to look at the person’s eyes. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“This is my clone. He’s the most important person in my life. If you thought it was any of you sorry, misbegotten swine, think again.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo felt goose bumps on her arms as he singled out every person in the group. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every person who’s ever been made to feel “other” recognized it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They watch for anyone with tattoos, especially gangsters who have skulls inked around their ankles—one skull, police say, for every person they have killed. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“You should be — a normal person would be. You don’t even look shaken.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

You might be lucky enough to be trained as a specialist—the person who watched the cane grow and who kept an eye out for when the plants were ripe and ready to be cut. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got no reason to trust me after our prior dealings, I understand, but Joey, well, he’s a good person and these are guys I used to know and it’s your grandmother they threatened.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s really important to keep in mind that none of us can know the mind, motivations, or intentions of the person who set flame to Sasha’s clothing,” he wrote. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

By comparison, Linton said, a ballistics expert could testify that someone had shot another person, but that doesn’t mean the shooter “shot that person on purpose.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Eleanor had only known one Asian person in her life—Paul, who was in her math class at her old school. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

But every once in a while, a person liked to watch. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Each cow has a name, like a person, almost. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

About one hundred milliseconds after the introduction of this new visual stimulation, the person showed changes at the neurological level. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

You can’t be a person without a birthday, they seemed to say. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They think they’re in a hospital or at a rich person’s house. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Little bits, but things I ordinarily wouldn’t tell a white person. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

One of the best and most efficacious remedies would be for the person who has taken possession of them to go there to live. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

I bought a Zoom off a person I remember absolutely nothing about. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He planned and waited until one time that admiring person exposed himself, and then something happened and the victim never knew how or why. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, Maddy was the only person at school who would gush about Doctor Who with me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I wonder if the customs people will question whether I’m the same person as in the passport photo. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might be time to ask an actual person. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

It had been a few days since everything went down, and when you're used to hanging out with a person every single day, a few days off can sometimes seem more like a few months. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Ash recoiled from her and looked back at the person who was pulling her away, and it was Sidhean. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if they assumed that as a black person, I was a speaker for all black people. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I then did what’s instinctive to me anytime I feel connected to a new person, which is to express my feelings outwardly. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person’s life. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she did all a person could to try to straighten out their messes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Don Apolinar Moscote had trouble identifying that conspirator in high boots and with a rifle slung over his shoulder with the person he had played dominoes with until nine in the evening. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Most of the families, like us, had moved out from southern California with as much luggage as each person could carry. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

But who wants to be treated like a real person? When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was clear that she saw Walter as the kind of person who would never kill someone violently, which was consistent with the opinion of everyone who knew him. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. van Daan is by no means a wonderful person, yet half the arguments could have been avoided if Mother hadn’t been so hard to deal with every time they got onto a tricky subject. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

That explained why he was nearly the only person standing on the platform. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

This, reader, was a little joke on Louise’s part, as she was not a person who laughed. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The diets of cornbread and sowbelly and syrup, the crowding of four and five persons to a single room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Dad says that it would be a sin against God for a person not to use the skill he or she was born with. And I think we can both agree that I have skills.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Any sane person would just forget about playing in the spring concert on Wednesday at all. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The only person who seemed to think it was hilarious was Jordan. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He never said much, but he studied Cole the way a person looks at a chessboard planning the next move. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

When a bear was killed and its skin was off, Omakayas knew it looked fearfully like a person. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes such an experience bound one person to another; just as often the shame of one’s powerlessness made all witnesses into enemies. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

‘But what I’m getting at is this. When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In truth, Scoob’s been so indignant over the fact that he was the only person to get in trouble despite not actually cheating, he hasn’t given this part much thought. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

If we are troubled by mosquitoes, chiggers, or other insect pests on our persons we have a choice of innumerable lotions, creams, and sprays for application to clothing or skin. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She seemed full of life—the kind of person who could smile and make everyone around her feel good. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It felt strange having a person bring me food. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew that the next step was putting a person into space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

The more she thought about Doon, the more it seemed he was the very person—the only person—who might be interested in what she had found. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t take particular notice,” he said, dubiously, “not knowing the ways of the place. But I think there was a person, too, come in alonger me.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

After some more research, we all finally agreed on one person, and I made that call. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Except for the latter, these men were offered as “character witnesses”—persons expected to attribute to the accused a few human virtues. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you see a person in need of physical assistance, keep your place in line, and notify a police officer at the first opportunity. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I think it’s traveling that makes a person think you can just walk up and talk to someone like that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They purse their lips or shake their heads or say something to the person next to them. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My dad and my brother and my cousins carry him out to the car of the person who is least angry at him. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

So avoid persons who are likely to do those things. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I can tell immediately if a book is written by a real person or a lifeless program. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the footsteps of Eratosthenes, he was the first person to measure the size of another planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thank God, because she made me feel like I needed to be a better person just through her existing. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“My entire school thinks that, then, Mom, because I’m a smiley person.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I was the only black person on the plane and I felt out of place. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to be the first person to walk on Mars.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“It just occurred to me that in point of fact what you just said can't be true because I am the world's most self-centered person.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s not right to hear another person’s confession,” I said, glancing at the expectant faces around me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a person who seemed to be looking out of a shadowed room. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You," he said, putting his arms around her and promising himself that it wouldn't be the last time, "are the bravest person I know." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Finally, the person in the backseat removes his cap and looks up so I can see him for the first time in the mirror. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Each person held their wounded selves closely, clutching their pain as if it were a precious thing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He talked about Nigerian politics with the fervid enthusiasm of a person who followed it from afar, who read and reread articles on the Internet. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I have at no time and to no person...claimed the credit for the winning of the Gordon Lim case,” she pointed out. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I made an effort to sound like an ordinary person talking about the weather, but I knew what MacDuff had heard. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

However, even Oliver ultimately agreed that he was not the best delivery person. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It’s a fine poem but a deceitful one: We do indeed remember Shakespeare’s powerful rhyme, but what do we remember about the person it commemorates? The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He was the only person at Hogwarts who could really control Peeves. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Usually the person who gets chosen to plug in the lights is someone who’s done something really special for the village that year. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Doreen was still working at the Waffle House and couldn’t find a person to pick up her shift, so Luke brought the boys, nothing but toddlers back then. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He had confided in me, thinking that perhaps I would be the one person who would side with him. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mostly I feel hollow, like a shell of a person. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Her father’s car isn’t much better, but at least there’s only one other person she has to deal with. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

What kind of horrible person could she be? The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“She’s like the first person in the entire world to get up.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

As had been the case many other times in her life, Katherine Goble was the right person in the right place at the right moment. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I wanted to hear him say it, in person and not on the phone. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s why I had to refuse. Unless it is an emergency, I can never reveal the future of one person to another. Such things are as private as thoughts.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

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

I'm glad the person at the other end can't see me. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Nobody with a smidgen of training, not even the worst roustabout, would look right in a grown person’s face. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We only lost one battle. We got to win, Prince O. If we ever wish to be one person, we got to win.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

If he ever wrote a book, he thought, he would present one person at a time, so that the reader wouldn’t have to worry about memorizing a lot of names. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly I told her I was sorry I’d hurt her, because a person like her, a great and gorgeous person like her, did not deserve to be hurt. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Good. Now, I think the way a person flips a crepe says something about who he is and his future.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Not pleasant. And there’s no countercurse. There’s no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he’s sitting right in front of me.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m not the best person to talk to about men, but you need to talk this through with somebody,” Edna said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Judge Bekker’s wife was a person sensitive to the needs of others. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She became thin, and looked like a different person. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

My hair was that red, the kind of red that looks okay on everything but people, because a person’s hair is not supposed to be red. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He was the only person she had ever met who played it her way. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

That was the first time that I really saw my mother as a person. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The agent jumped easily from person to person, apparently through touching and sexual contact. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes hospitals helped if the person couldn’t eat or swallow. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I gave up expecting Dad to be on time years ago, but David thinks everything a person says is the truth. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pictured a person shriveling up and crumbling to dust like the apple on my nightstand. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

If only that Pulaski person had let her study the will. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

They submitted to searches of their person and property and subjected themselves to long waits in order to spend a short time in Sing Sing’s Visit Room. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just knew she was the person for me, or that I was born to be hers. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the word spread, numbers of persons who had come before returned for another wait in the long, slowly moving line, wanting to see the Moslem burial dress. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie took a deep breath and thought about what Aunt Rose had said that first night she spoke to Ophie—that some of the more powerful haints could take control of a person’s body. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

‘I went round there in person. Her name’s Claudette. She smokes Charisma cigarettes.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully, as if approaching a sleeping person, Celaena walked to the large instrument. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

That was real conversation, dancing slow with another person, not all these words. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I suspected there was a great tally board in that methodical mind of his, carefully marking down the hours each person worked. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t understand what this Flipper person has to do with this.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He could think of only one person to ask. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

That guy with the spiky hair at the copy shop looked like one kind of person, but he could have been anyone. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I turn, curious to see what the most wonderful person in the world looks like. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

And the person I do know just left me hanging. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I was the only non-white person on the team, and the other girls generally weren’t very friendly. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

How was it that he, Ralph, had turned out the sort of person who would find the machine empty? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But you can’t lug a passed-out person through the woods, across campus, get her up through the bathroom window, and not want to collapse. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

If she set herself apart, perhaps she would be less of the person she feared she had become. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They looked at once practical and adventurous—the kind of boots that could really take a person somewhere. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She is, after all, a person, and she deserves the right to be happy just like everyone else. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

What I didn’t understand at the time was that the other kids genuinely had no clue what a white person was. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And just as naturally, they find the nearest person and blab. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

We sent out free goat cheese croquets with fresh fig jam to every person who came in to eat. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I did not know who I was become; but I knew this person would be named Augustus, and would be habited in excellent array. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He designated his new wife as the person to whom the flag should be presented. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Mmmm, terrible is pretty strong for a person with your novice level of sexual experience.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

He had undoubtedly shot someone in a psychotic rage, maybe a child, maybe a cop, maybe more than one person. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peregrine was not just the oldest person in our village, she had a special wisdom for healing, midwifery, and ancient magic. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

But what about the thousands of everyday memories, the thousands of everyday reminders, that every person accumulates? Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The crowd was blurry and colorful around her—someone’s tutu and butterfly wings, a person with a unicorn head, Benjamin Franklin, and a group of people with neon-colored wigs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When, for example, Mexican-American students began to proclaim themselves Chicanos, they taught many persons in the barrios of southwestern America to imagine themselves in a new context. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m trying to get to Houston,” I say to the most helpful-looking person I see, basically the only person I can find who isn’t texting somebody. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The person who lived there seemed long gone. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The only person I want to talk to is you, Rukku. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I never been that close to a dead person.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She was the oldest person in Winterfell for certain, maybe the oldest person in the Seven Kingdoms. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Grandmother was the only person in the village who regularly gave Masvita any chores. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that confusion changes your mood, it becomes your mood, and you become a confused, gray person. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were supposed to be also instances when the spirits returned to the wrong bodies and the person suffered from amnesia. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The English teacher, Mr. Ostrowski, was definitely my favorite person at Mason Junior High. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the one person I really wanted to come isn’t here. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The person that Louie had become was not, he knew, his authentic self. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“She didn’t like the new me. The person I had become. So I changed. And became better. But I was too late.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I saw the school principal, and your great-aunt Lynda, who we called Shelf Butt, because her butt was so big a person could set a glass of milk on it. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Saint Sarah sits, barking questions that she’s collected from previous Quiz Bowls, her silk flower turning with her head to gaze at the person she’s asked or aimed her quizzing at. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

If so, there was one person who would know. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Someone who was dear to the person sending the telegram. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You be good person. I hit you not with hate, but with much thank.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walking in the streets with Pa or eating noodles with Ma at the shops, I would sense that we’d run into a certain person and we would. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every individual person's immune system responded robustly to the vaccine. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My trips to the streetcar office were of the frequency of a person on salary. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And no religious person, until I was a man in my twenties—and then in prison—could tell me anything. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It might be good to hear a sensible person talk for a change,” Uncle observed, and stood up. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father said that if he was to learn kendo more would be expected of him than of the average person. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A person’s jealousy is a bit of a thrill until it becomes a monster. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The scientist on board tells us that the fluke, or tail, of a whale is like a person’s fingerprint. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

This one was a shadow shaped like a person. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was the only person who could stop it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But it’s extremely rare for individual cells from one person to be worth millions like John Moore’s. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And yet the truth is, we accept persons such as Mr Marshall or Mr Lane to be great, though most of us cannot claim to have ever scrutinized them under such conditions. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands be like hands of an old person, like Donay’s own. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I was the only person from the wreck unaccounted for. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And how many times could a person say good-bye? Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

As someone who could make them famous among their peers, I was no longer a person to be trifled with. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Eddington paused, then replied, “I am trying to think who the third person is.” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A light flicks on in the hallway, and the person who comes padding into the kitchen is none other than Prince Henry. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“How can a person find something like that funny? Messing with some poor man who’s just trying to take care of his team? If you find that funny, you’re not human.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it occurred to me that he might really be doing just that—killing the only person who might be able to help me find Kevin. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Woodhull pointed out that the Fourteenth Amendment used the word “persons” and that the Founding Fathers had also used the word “persons” rather than distinguish between men and women when they drafted the Constitution. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“God, your mom. Whenever I meet her she acts like the nicest person in the world, and then you tell me stories and I don’t know. Have you ever wondered if she might be bipolar?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A person must be more than spiritual, he tells them. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She was the seventh person killed in two months by the marauder. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

We shared the joy of being in this room, in the home of an artist, a person whose life was gracious and carefree, whose furnishings and decorations were as impractical as ours were utilitarian. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

That there are white men out there hungry to hear about a colored person crossing whites, ready with they wooden bats, matchsticks. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Okay, Joe,” he whispered, as if he could talk to the unknown person he’d heard his mother argue with on the phone in the middle of the night, right before she went away. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Dr. Benjamin Rush looked about his neighborhood that day and found that there was not a single person ill on his block. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Those speeches he made just brought out everything you wanted to say to a white person. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Looking at all of those could make a person keel over, just from how boring they were. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to Stella that every single person from her side of Bumblebee was trying to save the Spencers’ house. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When a person with an injured arm would be tended and assisted till he healed. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I stared at Dadi, easily the wisest person I knew, just thinking of how many lives I could change if my movies went mainstream. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He ended his e-mail with these words: It’s strange how I have felt, with every major event that has occurred in my life, that you were the only person who would understand. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Just catching a policeman’s attention might well cause a black person’s heart to skip a beat. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“This is a person who could be hurt! Let’s not worry about objects!” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“Second,” said Mother, “we sign that we agree to pay a war tax of two hundred rubles per person, children included.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

"A person who studies witches and knows a lot about them," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Sorrel, a neat and natty person, smiled and bowed. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet one person who is not getting rich from the mountain of corn is the American farmer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In all this thought about the past no distinction had as yet been made between places and persons. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But more importantly, the other person at the table is Matt Hubbard. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I was looking forward to meeting Alec in person at the Houston National Invitational in three months. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Others said something about the person who was six feet under. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I become a robot who repeats how I knew Khalil since I was three, how we grew up together, the kind of person he was. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Ideas turned into their opposites while you were talking to a person you thought you knew. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a person who could spot a cop could also avoid a lot of trouble. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that afternoon, after running more web searches that didn’t yield anything, Brandon said, “I’ve been thinking...your grandma wasn’t the only person who got a letter. Parker contacted four other people.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Riddle had caught the wrong person, the Heir of Slytherin had got off, and no one could tell whether it was the same person, or a different one, who had opened the Chamber this time. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

And I thought, Mom, don't laugh with that liar—that fake person. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” J. said, “because whenever you’d see that person, it would just be like...” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Momma didn’t have any room to criticize a person moving too often, but it hadn’t kept her quiet the last time we packed up. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I began to think of these people not as players mouthing speeches but as actual persons, living out a part of their lives before me. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

"They say that you can create a person from clay with your arcana, like magic." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Does that tell you what kind of person I am?” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

For such a smart person, Emma never explained things very well. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

From where I sat, the lump didn’t even look like the shape of a person. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I need the name of the person on the show. You know, the name of the character.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“The Church believes that thinking will take a person only so far. Where thinking ends, revelation begins.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But I don’t know what to tell him about the aftermath of killing a person. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And if I could have turned into a whole different person to make her like me again, I would’ve. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

And anything is better than living in a maze of hallways and sterile rooms, not knowing if the person you care most for in the world is alive or dead or hurting. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

This can’t be the first time Bill has shot an innocent person out of fear. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

First, Hassan and Aziz had a baby girl—my grandmother, my mother’s mother—and the only person who didn’t visit was the physician. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Most of them are charming, darling emails from a person supposedly without headaches. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Typical is a person in poor health. Someone with circulatory problems. Someone who’s old, overweight, or suffering from diabetes.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“For only such a horrible place could create such creatures who could burn a person with a flaming hot iron.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a chance to be a true explorer—mapping an unknown river and discovering new wildlife species in a land never before seen by any naturalist, or any non-native person for that matter. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

As she mentions each person who has wronged her, the audience sees a scene revealing a slice of their lives. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Black seems happy with this, and then he’s on to the next person. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

To his way of thinking, the Big Bang occurred after a single ambitious person seized power, perhaps in a coup. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Taisin had already gone to sleep, burying herself in her blankets so that she might not have to stay awake beside the person she had decided to be parted from. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I know it's stupid, and honestly, at this point, I spend about half my waking hours imagining us meeting in person for the first time. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

When a person guessed correctly, Jonas Apple would slap a bee sticker on him or her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Even the Catskill Park dot, which interested me because it was the only location not in or near a big city, was far too big and populous to find a single person. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

And we do further earnestly recommend it to all humane and benevolent persons in this Colony to explain and make known this our offer of mercy to those unfortunate people. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

When he calms down, he hugs me and says he thinks I'm the strongest person in the world, as strong as a polar bear. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

You have to understand, when he nodded to me or the doorman, it felt like everything was okay and you were a good person and you deserved good things to happen. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Neither Mother nor Grandmother ever once stepped aside to let a white person pass. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew why I was there, and had plenty to say on the subject, but seemed utterly exhausted at the idea of talking to me, yet another white person wanting something from the family. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The young man knew, in this moment, that he had hurt a real person, of his own age. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black person to black person, and neither could understand the other—the Tower of Babel. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

You begin to think as an independent person. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter what his or her genetic endowment, no one person’s immune system has enough different HLAs to identify every strain of every virus. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

That person, or that likeness of one, had belonged. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

With his quiet, penetrating intensity, he said that it’s not a “mistake” if a reasonable person knows the risks. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He gives me a lopsided grin and says, “The only person I want to see. My Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Jack said the person had found it playing Book Scavenger and thought it was Mr. Griswold’s next game. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

This is the kind of question that can really trip a person up. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“He was my mentor in every respect....He exerted more influence over me than any person, parent, teacher, or anyone else of the older generation.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But also, unless you want to become an ungrateful person, you have to understand that Karen was probably doing her best. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It turned out that the person who had written this letter was Eliot Rosewater, Billy’s friend in the veterans’ hospital near Lake Placid. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite what I’d said to Aech, knowing that I was about to meet him in person after all these years made me more nervous than I wanted to admit. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Living in the woods all alone probably made a person weird. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Or the desperate person in the other room? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

To which Nancy had replied: “Because I’m not grown-up enough to be one person with one kind of signature.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All we can do is help you be the person you want to be from now on.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

At least he hoped someone else was listening, so that he would know he wasn’t the only person hearing how crazy Grandpop was sounding. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was nearly unforgivable, and I’ve spent the past year wondering whether it was more or less unforgivable than the person Elsbeth wanted to marry, and which one of us should apologize to whom. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“So you did know I was here. Hard to tell when a person’s being ignored while standing, I may add, in the freezing arctic cold.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She longed to touch that fur, to rub her cheeks against it, but of course she never did; for it was the grossest breach of etiquette imaginable to touch another person’s daemon. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Decade by decade, she watched Rosa Parks’s fame grow as the person who had ignited the movement by refusing to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Each person seemed to come to our door with a new, unique story of what horrible things could happen. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

If Janey and Jerrie thought that a fellow woman pilot and the person who had helped fund their testing would speak up for the Mercury 13, they were in for a shock. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

The music cuts out in the middle of it fading, and there’s a brief silence before every single person in the auditorium claps. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He sat on the roof and scanned the horizon, looking for any person, any animal or machine moving. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It’s one thing to suspect what’s in a person’s head, and another to see the truth in actual words poured out page after page. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Because maybe the book is by freaking Casanova, and I only know one person who owns a book by freaking Casanova. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

For what you set and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends or: what sort of person you are. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

While other factors can help a person’s advancement, most Americans, regardless of income level, regard the individual’s efforts as critical. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

A person that fell in there couldn’t get out without someone dropping a rope, but there wasn’t no one else. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moses pulled a third person out of the back seat— X-Ray. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

When he is older and thus when so little of the person he was survives, the scholarship boy makes only too apparent his profound lack of self-confidence. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His sister, who was a hard, rather practical person, used to complain that there were too many scents at Manderley, they made her drunk. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Now she’s hurling them at the wall and shouting and stomping, and she looks like a crazy person. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She thought about her mother, wanting her father to be happy, even if she couldn’t be the person to provide that happiness. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But his face looked like a black person's. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“And you don’t. The only person you have to take care of is yourself.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He was the person—sometimes the only person—who made them think and listened to their ideas. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wonders if she is the only Indian person in the hospital, but a gentle twitch from the baby reminds her that she is, technically speaking, not alone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Felinia Tower had the skeleton of a person hanging against her living room wall, its bones all held in place with black strings. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He told me that every time a person says my name, he or she is recalling the attributes of my name into my very lifeblood. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Walter was not the first person to be released from death row after being proved innocent. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Also, all this changes from textbook to textbook and from person to person, so that some authorities describe seven recent epochs, while others are content with four. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Our classmates are talking and laughing, so I’m really the only person who notices Russ’s return. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He does not feel insulted when she tells him that for most of her life he was exactly the sort of person she had sought to avoid. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Doesn’t matter how well you know a person, it gets weird. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His face showed a tender pleading for the person inside to open the door and let him in. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The ground was so thick I had to walk slowly as I let myself take in each new landscape, checking each place big enough to fit a person. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

A person with active TB harbors hundreds of millions of bacilli in his lungs, enough to ensure that a small number will be mutant germs that aren’t stopped by anti-TB drugs. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t like we’d known her that well, but still, she was the only motherly person we’d met in the city. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It is possible these particular persons are simply united by the anticipation of the evening ahead. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Schizophrenia isn’t supposed to manifest until a person’s late teens, at the earliest, but I’d gotten a shot of it at just seven years old. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Talking to the wrong person about these murders was liable to get one planted in the ground. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Part of maturing into a regular officer at Sing Sing was deciding whether you were an A-block person or a B-block person. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagines the person consulting the same schedule that’s in his backpack, determining exactly when the train would be passing through. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But if all we saw of that person was his bookshelf or the art on his walls, we wouldn’t have that same problem. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Camila and Mya have visited me here a million times in the past decade, and they still can’t get from the lobby to my room without asking every person in the building for directions. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The point is that when blacks socialized with whites in the 1950s in Chicago, it didn’t happen by accident; it happened because a certain kind of person made it happen. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aravis felt Lasaraleen grip her arm—that sort of sudden grip which is almost a pinch and which means that the person who is gripping you is very frightened indeed. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

This was a piece that was well known to the young Debussy, who revered Liszt as a disciple, and who was honoured to be able to play for him in person in 1888. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A dead body, a thing and not a person. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But before that could happen, the Soviets launched Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was feeling like a pretty disappointing person. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Zoey, only you can choose what kind of person you become.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She was a large person, as tall as Nick’s dad, with wide shoulders. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a time when a person has to give up. That’s just the truth.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Like now: he was imagining that he was a pioneer, the first person ever to hike this hill. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

A plump person is envied because they aren't scraping by like the majority of us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He says that Ratchett told him of this person and employed him to watch out for the man. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked her, doing my best to sound like a normal person as we walked side by side. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He was a man who saw another man hit a helpless person. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then families and friends gather to feast on sumptuous food and honor the person’s longevity. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The last person who tried to bribe an Arbitrator had his tongue removed.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Dad said, “O.K., now hold the person in front of you by the shoulders. Wilona, you hold on to mine. This is only going to take a minute.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And one was at the hands of a person who was supposed to protect her! What, you think if you live next door to them, they’ll treat you different?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He was a person who couldn’t fake a smile but smiled often. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The last person in the squadron Major Major wanted to be brought down with a flying tackle by was Yossarian. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t think of one person he knew, or recall a single conversation. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“He’s the only person I wanted to talk to when all that was happening.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

This time the person held my face down, too. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“You ever feel like you’re not the person on the outside that you are on the inside?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The delegates were then allowed to leave one by one, each person interviewed by the police and his or her name taken down. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me: Look on the bright side-your legs will be so long that one of your steps will be the same as thirty or forty of a regular person’s. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“But, Aunt Adah, how can there be so many kinds of things a person doesn’t really need?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she is a giant person like in the long-ago stories Halmoni used to tell me so I would be a good girl. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Keep your eyes open — particularly when the person we discussed is around — and concentrate on keeping yourself out of trouble. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be the one person that it was easy for her to talk to. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A thing that, by its very weight, could make a person strong simply by pushing it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“How come I’m the only person who doesn’t understand what’s going on?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The doorman said the person had just dropped it off. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah! sir—but a thoughtless young person will sometimes step behind a window-curtain, and throw up a sash, without its being suspected. I have often known it done myself.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Alba understood then that her mother, who up till then had seemed like the only sane person in the family, also had a streak of madness. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no real friends, no single person who shared an equal interest in all games. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

First of all, it was as if my father had turned into a different person. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now, at that time—April, i960—there were in United States prisons one hundred and ninety persons awaiting civil execution; five, the Clutter killers included, were among the lodgers at Lansing. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Experience has established the fact that a person cannot move from a small, peaceful home into a family of a dozen without having something finally snap. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say man, but this person looked more like a living mountain than a man. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

After Lonna’s son made his way back to Coconut Cove, the first and only person he contacted was Beatrice. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked from stone to stone, feeling the loss of each person. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Here was a man who looked, for all the world, like the kind of person who should thrive as a lawyer in New York City. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I fancy myself brave and think I’m the sort of person who will always speak my mind, but that’s the one thing I’m too afraid to say. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Why? Can’t a person talk about that or offer an opinion?” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

There were crowds everywhere, thousands of people in a square mile of desert scoured to dust by army bulldozers, and there was nowhere for a person to find solitude. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m the only person in my year who doesn't have her own phone, practically. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Mama was the kind of person who would carry her youngest child until she collapsed. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Each person is made of five elements, she told me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A black person and a woman both, but also just Lieutenant Uhura, the most qualified person for the job. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He climbed up the big boulders, feeling his way slowly, remembering ledges and cracks in the cliff wide enough for a person to climb to the top of the mesa. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When a sick person was about to die, my mother could read the fact of it a year ahead of time on the daughters-in-law’s faces. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This strain of Ebola knew the difference between a monkey and a person. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I’m sure Hillary and I have things in common, and I’m sure she’s a great person, but… Me: It’s Hannah. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He complained of a double standard that made him a second-class person, and noted that his confidant Andy Kim was dating an intern. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“A person’s life can certainly change a great deal in two days,” Miss Lumley thought. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Quite right,” Mr. Gonzalez said anxiously, his dapper person quivering at the prospect of an on-the-job accident. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maria might have trouble figuring out some stuff, but she’s a real friendly person. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be the person who sat at that table. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It can only be proven that I brought a person onto campus who I presumed to be an expert on sexual deviancy in adolescence and who turned out to be an actual sexual deviant. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them wailed and whispered, the other buzzed like a fat and angry bluebottle at a windowpane, but the voices said, as one person, “Thief! Give it back! Stop! Thief!” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Seven! Isn’t it bad enough to think of killing one person? And in any case...bad enough to divide the soul...but to rip it into seven pieces...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

A word to the right person, and the sole supporter of a family was laid off at the factory. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I felt as if each person within visual range were slowly draining the life from me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I’m going to become bitter and distrustful of people because one person betrayed me. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It does sound curious, though. Perhaps they’ll write to the Lady Prioress rather than call in person. I wonder if it’s really sanctuary they’re asking about.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Her sack of rocks was so heavy now that an ordinary person groaned, trying to lift it. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He had always been a nervous and impulsive person, but lately his emotions were almost out of control. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Look, Skeeter, I didn’t have time. I have been at the campaign H.Q. since Wednesday addressing envelopes to practically every white person in Jackson.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It’s that the timing of stops and starts of each person’s micromovements — the jump and shifts of body and face — were perfectly in harmony. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, a person can cry only so long. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is seen as special and as a person worthy of adult attention and interest. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I didn't see one person the whole time I was in the park. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Part of the solution to that problem was for one person, the chief, to exercise a monopoly on the right to use force. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

You step out of your own shoes and put on someone else’s because you’re trying to BE that person for a moment. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed like a person for whom the word “jolly” would always be apt. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

For, even from a distance, she knew who the third person was. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She was very young, he thought, she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Moss watched him as he acknowledged each person who came up to him in the hallways as he slowly rolled toward his homeroom. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You’re a very mixed-up person. Sandra, personally, is much happier since she was psychoanalyzed. Some doctor at the college helped her out.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have no doubt now that this person is searching for me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

When Gullah people die, babies in the family get passed over the coffin so the dead person won’t come back from the beyond to take them away. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She asked with the highest respect for the natures of the brainy fellas she worked with, and she asked knowing that she was the right person for a task that needed the finest minds. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wyatt was the only person who would hire Daddy when he got out of prison, and he later said Daddy was the only person he trusted to run the store. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It is physically, chemically impossible for a person who likes Daughtry to have heard of Oh Wonder. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He had the feeling that talking to a blind person was like talking to someone whom he himself could scarcely see. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Making Rose feel bad made those feelings inside of me feel harder, less like a real person. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“They know their duties to the family and they act accordingly. In America, no one owns anything, and certainly not another person.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“You are a person. I am a person.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

As one person the five biggest Egyptians turned and looked at their temple. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

These soon took a pleasure in doing their work well, in keeping their persons neat, in learning their tasks regularly, in acquiring quiet and orderly manners. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The words “Oh, you’re late” had the effect of making someone who was ordinarily compassionate into someone who was indifferent to suffering — of turning someone, in that particular moment, into a different person. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I spoke though, I realized that here, a person might hesitate over his birthdate simply because he didn’t know it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Enid believed there was only a “good Joyce,” that a “bad Joyce” was a theological impossibility, that any such person who might appear was by definition an imposter in the guise of her daughter. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“And now there’s no evidence left to link any other person to the kidnapping. As they say, This case is closed.’ Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

But the last person to see Ross Wilcox was Arthur Evesham's widow, on her way home from bingo at the village hall. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“This whole rap persona of yours? I don’t know that person,” Malik says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly there’s a mistake, a tussle, and the gun’s with the second person. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a lot of ways, Sherman was the least handicapped person I’d ever known. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Pay particular attention to jewelry, as that may be the best way to identify the person for whom you’re searching. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He’s dressed like he’s in a Shakespeare play and doesn’t seem like a real person. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Yuni was a kind and gentle person, but she had only one pace. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mom points her phone at the poster of the person playing Rosie. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He must’ve thought I was a white person that said that word. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“My father was a lovely and unusual person.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Someday when I was a grown-up lazy person, I would wear my pajamas whenever I wanted. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re the stupidest person in this ocean. Did you know that?” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I wish I could have told you this in person. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I guess he knew that if a white person hurt me or my brothers or sister, as a black man in Birmingham he couldn’t assume the law would do much about it. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Someone suggested that one person hold a butterfly net behind the tailpipe while another person start the car, which would allow the engine exhaust to blast the ferret out into the net. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There’s one person he can burn down instead. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe you’re destined to end up being that person no matter what. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Can a person marry his own aunt?” he asked, startled. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t mean it was such a bad thing to be a complaining person,” she said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, after we’d done our prayers with the beads, I could not remember how to cross myself right, getting it mixed up like you would expect any Baptist-raised person to do. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was not a job for a stupid person. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seated on the couch, I could turn to smile at the person next to me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

So I just do my best to prove them wrong, to be the person they’re not expecting. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Some stronger, more tolerant person could drag or carry him the rest of the way. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Which naturally suggests another question: how might that same person express his preferences—and reveal information about himself— in the privacy of his home? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He had moved with his family to Detroit, and there had met a Mr. Wallace D. Fard who he claimed was “God in person.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the person usually held to be responsible for Athena’s becoming the protector of Athens. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt so thankful to every person in that arena for the way they’d supported all the gymnasts throughout the Games. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was a lime green car, sort of medium sized, and with a kind of long snout, so had it been a person, Carla would have described it as having a long nose. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The former is the most modest person at the table. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

My aunt, of course, is the coolest person in our family and would only work at the kind of restaurant that gets reviewed. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I studied the rules of interacting in the white world as a person of color. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It’s crazy the things a person can pretend not to notice. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Finally, small human populations are also susceptible to nonfatal infections against which we don’t develop immunity, with the result that the same person can become reinfected after recovering. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not even the chronology is described in conventional language: the century is an aging person, a contemporary of the story’s protagonists. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Catherine leaned close to me and whispered in my ear: "Neither of them can stand the person they're married to." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I am not a demon. I am not any of the things you want me to be. I am just a person. A person who borrows other people’s lives for a day.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

‘You wait a minute! That’s why it sometime seem to me you favor my Father more than any person I ever knowed.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The person had specifically said they were looking for a book with three stories, and Mr. Griswold’s had only one. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She was the only person I knew who crunched oranges, making it sound as if she were eating crisp apples instead. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

To begin with, our stove is an iron contraption with a firebox so immense a person could climb right in if they felt like it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The watchman had not particularly noticed; he should say a working person; to the best of his belief, he had a dust-coloured kind of clothes on, under a dark coat. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

This person had died a long time ago. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Nowjust a minute ago I understood you to say that you selected somebody that knew the law better. Now who was that person?” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

If the person in the lead trips and falls the outcome is not that no one wins but that someone else wins. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“He was the person responsible for local residential zoning,” Gerald says. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then a few things happened which, when added up, turned the wild youngster into an entirely different person. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feeling that it would be a bit of a giveaway if Ron punched Malfoy, Harry shot him a warning look and said, “D’you know if the person who opened the Chamber last time was caught?” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“Her father was still alive, and he was a person of great importance, she told me. And so they let her keep me. They probably thought I would die anyway.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For fifteen points, the concept that trace evidence is passed from one person to another during contact is known as what?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Jack was the only person she knew with an imagination, at least a real one. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

To fill a typical order, one person grilled the hamburger; another “dressed” and wrapped it; another prepared the milk shake; another made the fries; and another worked the counter. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

He was the first person in Greece to make a sundial, a map of the known world and a celestial globe that showed the patterns of the constellations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time, Momma was the last person to leave. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it still must be a surprise to see it in person. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beowulf was the rare kind of person who makes strength of his own weaknesses. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

The consensus outside Virginia seemed to be that “not one person in a thousand in the United States knows that there is such a place on earth,” and those few who did were all Indians. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Not one person says food pyramid or dairy product or candy or anything about why they are here. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was every kind of person the children could imagine on the streets of Paris. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I ran from person to person, laughing, hiccoughing, spewing out filth that made them bend double with glee. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know when Marcus stopped being himself and started pretending to be the person others expected him to be. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But I don’t accept that he was a bad person because he was surrounded by genetically damaged people. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

As I have noted before, the princess was not a person who was used to being told what to do. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Piper met their eyes, one person at a time. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Moving water sounds sleepy, like a tired person going “shush,” and before you know it I’m flat-out fast asleep. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that anything that made a person feel the way I felt at that moment had to be a deadly sin. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ocean allowed the gesture, accepting Yusef’s friendly bro-hug involuntarily, and I was guessing only because he was a nice, polite person. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The last thing I need is another person cluttering up my life right now. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s from a wealthy person who wants to help.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the glass door, a delivery person had left a self-adhesive note. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

At dawn, I drink three cups of tea and set out alone for the last person I must speak with before the banquet, my sister Vivienne. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As a former educator, Garfield decried the nation's high rate of illiteracy, particularly in the South, revealed by questions in the 1880 census asking if a person could read and write. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Well—” “I know I would. I always like a person who comes right out.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Was it the same person who gave you that bruise?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We begin with an assignment to write about a person that we know who is brave. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Lazear’s early attempts to show that mosquitoes could transmit the disease from a sick person to a healthy one failed in all but one case. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

It’s also used with / and we in some kinds of questions—when we’re asking what another person wishes: Shall we dance, or shall IJill your glass? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But I'm a really good person," I would remind them. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Pa’s complexion is the darkest in our family, though still really light, like a white person’s tan, and how he looks is how everyone expects me to look. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Saying the words out loud to another person made it more real, more permanent. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I listened as they were transferred from person to person. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Although Northern slavery had been abolished, every black person was still presumed a slave—by law—and could not testify or introduce evidence in court. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Besides, this sailor was poor and a foreigner, not the sort of person who would draw much attention from the community around him. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be no persons present anywhere, and at one point, when we were confronted by a closed gate, the doctor said: 'Sorry, old chap, but if you wouldn't mind doing the honours.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Some Foretelling groups artificially arouse perversion in a normal person—injecting female or male hormones during the days before a session. It’s better to have a natural one. He’s willing to come; likes the notoriety.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the length of the rope has to be calibrated in proportion to the weight of the person; otherwise there is nothing quick or easy about it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Another category of restriction: “persons convicted of a crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A person has very strange thoughts when it seems that life is about to end. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This sheet says his favorite food is mutton pie. I literally cannot think of a more boring food. He’s like a cardboard cutout of a person.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But it's not just the person who fills a house, it's their I’ll be back later’s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The person who must have made Erin laugh poked her head out the door. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Can’t a person be attracted to a boy and a girl? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“We are not the same person! And because of you, Benny asked someone else to the dance!” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I guess it’s obvious that Jimmy was kind of weird, because no normal person would have given forty- minute-a-day jobs to three sixth graders. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Maskelyne knew just such a person–the astronomer and surveyor Charles Mason. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She could not, that day, think of one decent white person in the whole world. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Rumfoord was thinking in a military manner: that an inconvenient person, one whose death he wished for very much, for practical reasons, was suffering from a repulsive disease. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have heard much of your master’s fine person,” said Mrs. Gardiner, looking at the picture; “it is a handsome face. But, Lizzy, you can tell us whether it is like or not.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Obsessively, in the way a person worries a rip deep in a pocket, she now reached up under the floppy hat to feel her denuded scalp for the thirtieth or fortieth time. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I feel like I’m about to meet a person whom I could relate to. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It turned out that there was a law that stated that no black person could be released or tried on weekends, for the Bantu courts were open only on weekdays. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat on the ground in front of them, as sad and worried as any person could possibly appear. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was not one person, or two, but many men. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He became that person you wouldn’t want to cut off in traffic because he’d pull a knife and slice you. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In New Jersey the cities of Trenton and Lamberton resolved that “a total stop should be put to the landing of all persons from Philadelphia.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

A snack of wild almonds can kill a person foolish enough to ignore the warning of the bitter taste. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The tomb was smaller than usual—only the top half of the deceased person lay inside. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

When we round the next corner, there’s another samples person. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

To the children she said, “Number Two is always hungry because she never sleeps. A person needs a great deal of energy to stay awake all the time, and thus a great deal of food.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the artist fills a sketchbook with pieces of a person, and uses the drawings as a foundation for a finished painting. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The Newton of rhetoric—the one person whose work in this department overshadows the whole history of the subject—was, of course, Aristotle. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“If you want to know where a person is coming from,” she yelled, "you need to read this material, not tear it up! You got to see what makes him think what he thinks!" The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“One person can’t make enough to feed four mouths even on a good day,” I said. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The chain was then pulled sharply as the next person in line was shackled behind her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Send in the most innocuous person from Twelve they can come up with. Find someone Peeta might share childhood memories with, but nothing too close to you. They’re screening people now.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In that second I try to summon some pity for the person who saved my life. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m a very patient person. This doesn’t end today, believe me.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She looks around the parade grounds, then starts walking back to the road like I’m not the person she’s looking for. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not one person snickered at the old Eskimo tradition. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Checking each person for a weapon would be more than impossible. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It was the voice of the person he loved. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

She was not much of a person at all! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Angel’s the last person I want to see in a place like this. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I seemed to become the main character, as if I had abandoned myself and allowed some other person to step right in and take me over. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem to matter who was playing, man or woman, whether he was watching the match live or on television, or how well he knew the person serving. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

"I like a mature person, if that's what you mean. Certainly." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Deliveries worked like this: First, the scanner mounted outside in the hallway would verify the delivery person’s identity and my computer would confirm they were delivering something I’d actually ordered. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

However, if the person who doesn’t look like you speaks like you, your brain short-circuits because your racism program has none of those instructions in the code. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At least I can say that I’m a person who can look around and see what she’s accomplished in this world. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a much stronger person than he was. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

More like the person he becomes when he listens to music. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At first, the government thought he was a big-time dealer since he’d bought more than any person could use for themselves in a year. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She appeared to be somewhere in that range between forty and seventy years, when it becomes difficult to precisely ascertain a black persons precise age. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He shifts our view to the actual person behind this specific mind. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was not the only person who seemed to be visualizing himself as the Hogwarts champion. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I thought she must be the only person in the building who was newer than I was, so she wouldn't know how really bad I was, the way the rest did. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The person who lives here no longer cares about anything. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

For years, every hacker and electronics whiz had dreamt of the day when a computer would come along that was small and inexpensive enough for an ordinary person to use and own. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“I left it right on the windowsill. You’re the only other person who uses it.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“She may not be properly dressed and I promise you don’t want to see a naked old dead person.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I know most folks like to say a dead person looks like they’re sleeping, but I didn’t think so. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

There was the Sidewinder, where she politely funneled smoke away from the person she was talking to out the corner of her mouth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Not that he was the most talkative person, of course, but Maya was used to a little more, especially after last weekend, when they had talked about things that were actually important. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It would have been so much easier to get bad news over the phone than in person. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“So, maybe not the best person to get advice from, huh?” she agreed, and we both laughed. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t think there is a person on this planet who would want to make those loathsome pizzas. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sure, I do. But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn’t really belong to the person that has them.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He makes me feel like I’m not the only person in Mr. Yukht’s class who gets mixed up when our class talks about Jewish holidays. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Every second person wanted to tell me something kind about my books. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The passage comes in the play after the football coach has shown the mother the sex tape and she confronts her son—a person she no longer recognizes. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She realized, when she looked around, that she was the only person remaining at the table; even the King and Queen were dancing. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The realization that the one person she most wanted to show the rebel flag cherub to, and laugh about it with, wasn’t there. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He quit the team before my junior year, leaving me as the only Black person on Duke’s fencing team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Even when somebody else was speaking and she was supposed to be focused on that person, her eyes would be on Master. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was the only person there without cuffs on, and when Moss saw the unnatural angle at which his arm bent, he understood why. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her hands trembled and she pressed them together to make them stop, for Kapugen had taught her that fear can so cripple a person that he cannot think or act. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, this is very important; do you have anything sharp on your person?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“All of it. I’m not much of a party person. And I can enjoy the music better out here.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He or she is a deep thinker, canny like a fox, inspirational, and in many cases the toughest person in the boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He felt his throat begin to constrict at the thought of another person gone from this world, forgotten, because he knew that was what Javier would eventually become. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Watching each person to see if they’re awake is taking too much time. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

You can imagine what kind of person he must have been. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But I was advised as I took this job to not mistake the painting for the person. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Now I see that sometimes the person you thought was your enemy was really your teacher, or even, in an odd way, your savior. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not as worried about them as I am a certain person. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Difficult enough to scramble a persons mind and leave him raving on a street comer? When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Not a road or village or settlement or power line or even a single person existed in this staggering immensity. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, you have to become a person first,” I said. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

She is the prettiest and strongest and funniest person who ever spent twenty- three hours a day alone in a basement. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the square, a short, wide person frantically waves their arms over their head. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Desperation can make a person do surprising things. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It’s like people you see sometimes, and you can’t imagine what it would be like to be that person, whether it’s somebody in a wheelchair or somebody who can’t talk. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

But requiring a person to disappear, to fade into the background wherever they go, is no better than encouraging them to punch one another. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I was the least trustworthy person he had ever met. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was my latest information from the boys on angels: Every person carries his or her own angel inside. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

There were so many we lost, the ones who were taken, cut down, for the color of their skin, or the religion they practiced, or the person they loved. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She had a formidable air; a person who went about setting everyone and everything right in the world. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I was fascinated just listening to the way perfect English came out of a person in the clothes of a Hasid. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Leastwise, if I live with her, I finally be the smartest person in the house. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He had believed that on certain nights, when the moon rose full and wide as a corner of the sky, a person standing on the high sandstone cliff of that mesa could reach the moon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Jennifers make fun of her all the time, because she has a boy’s haircut, but she’s not a bad person. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“So do you think I’m a strong person, or not?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She continues checking out my books while she tells the person on the phone about how to rent a movie from the library online. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“This girl has a message, sir. Claims it must be delivered in person.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very occasionally some persons whom you had believed dead long since would make a ghostly reappearance at some public trial where he would implicate hundreds of others by his testimony before vanishing, this time forever. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

With all her moths divided among so few rooms, she was able to study each person from multiple vantage points and take in every detail of them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Phoebe, you know when you said that your mother would never leave without an explanation? Well, she might. A person—a mother—might do that.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I was tired of Aunt Julia’s crying every single day, whether I saw it in person or heard it through the phone. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The person was certainly skilled, but he—or she—was attacking the music with such ferocity that it bordered on madness. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They believe in debts and bargains, and the person I am meant to be most indebted to is not here. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Ai! You ask too much already! You can ask her because she is not an ordinary person.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I seemed to be the first person to walk on these unnamed dirt streets in years. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I looked toward the water because I just couldn’t handle another person looking at me like I was someone to feel sorry for. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

If you lived in this community and you were a young person, what would be your thought? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were many relics of arrival in the Museum, because each person who had not been born in Village had his own story of coming there. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t the first person I’d had to say bye to. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Listening, you reflect that you are probably the worst person on the planet. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Yes, but if she ran out and the clever person heard Ethel tell the story, wouldn’t that cinch it? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"But then I decided it would be better if I waited until you came up, so I could ask you in person." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The fourth person to exit the classroom while I’m waiting against a bank of lockers is Lauren. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“But to expose the former faults of any person without knowing what their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable. We acted with the best intentions.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth was the first person he saw when he reached the wharf...Elizabeth, standing on something to see over the crowd, and smiling and waving. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But by and large the Miss Kenton I saw before me looked surprisingly similar to the person who had inhabited my memory over these years. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Any freedom you wish to take with my person.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

You had to have a sponsor, someone who would say, “I’ll vouch for this person. ” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

An aura is a color that your body exudes and tells the observer what kind of person you are; blue means happy, pink is loving, and black is mean. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have never known a person who has been to Calcutta. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, ask this Scout person to play on Tuesday.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Felicia is the only person I’ve known who didn’t see color. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother is basically a very understanding person. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the charismatic person started out depressed, and the inexpressive person started out happy, by the end of the two minutes the inexpressive person was depressed as well. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anderson was not a person who enjoyed controversy or welcomed confrontations. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I used to imagine what my life would be like if I lived like that, the kind of person I would be. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Kat and I had done the reverse: assumed the person in the pink fluffy jacket was a woman, just because she had long hair. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only person willing to eat lunch with me was Hugh. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

In the antebellum South, the lowliest white person at least possessed his or her white skin—a badge of superiority over even the most skilled slave or prosperous free African American. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Hence Onofre had written a thousand love letters for a thousand lovers, and he had also read those love letters to the persons who received them. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had never dreamed a person could be so powerless in his power. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You wanted to change your life. You had to do something extreme to become the person you’re becoming.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Don't be weird; just be a decent person. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“You can tell a lot about a person by their feet,” he mused. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dr. Webb says that losing a sibling is oftentimes much harder for a person than losing any other member of the family. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He had the confidence of a person who knew practical things. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s difficult to be the person I am in this world. I had a difficult time, living with who I was before.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

What makes one name more a person than another? The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Siobhan worried she was the only person left in the world who remembered him. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“However, I ask the jury to note that the only person in the courtroom not watching the doors was your client.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Part of him sensed that she thought of him as something like an animal, a useful creature like a dog, but not actually a person. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Cobwebs were handy when a person had a bloody cut. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a skinned person creeping on all fours, bent, a horrifying open gap where a mouth should be. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I’ve never experienced anything this perplexing before, and I can’t even be vulnerable with the one person who could help me navigate it? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

"All mothers think their children are beautiful. Rosalie was an exceptional child, they said, but she was the lovingest person that ever was." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then bum it, and scatter those ashes near the hated person. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She will not be the person I call when I have stories to tell. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

But another lesson might be that maybe you’re not the hero of every story, and maybe Farhad was Shirin’s true love, or maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The only person who might’ve been able to reach out and save her from herself. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

June is not typically an angry person, but it’s been a long day, and she looks about three seconds from using one of those heels to stab the guy through the eye socket. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She wore a dark gray skirt suit and heels, a lawyer or banker, the kind of person who ran things, not the kind who would hang out with a guy like me, jeans and sneakers. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inward person doth shrink and hesitate before the daunting inception of active deeds, wishing that some discouraging voice should intervene and forbid, so that no hazard might be made. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

How did she know the person didn't just look as if he was asleep, while all the time, inside, he was feeling the blue volts and the noise? The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The only person I could talk to was hurting me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Could she trust it now, the hilarious freedom of the upward flight, the blind trust in the kindly grip of adult wrists, when the fifth person could so easily have been Robbie? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There were two or three commercial subscription libraries in Oxford, but no free public library, and Malcolm wouldn’t be the only young person whose hunger for books had to go unsatisfied. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It takes energy to be the only black person in a lecture hall or one of a few nonwhite people trying out for a play or joining an intramural team. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

What makes one person allergic to dust or pollen, sensitive to a poison, or susceptible to an infection whereas another is not is a medical mystery for which there is at present no explanation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Was there more than one person out in the hallway? Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I know I’m an independent person, and I don’t feel I need to account to you for my actions. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“This is the state where a girl—named Ruby like me—was the first black person to go to a white school here in the South.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The last time he had seen her in person was when she had visited him at his mom’s apartment in Phoenix for his eleventh birthday three months ago. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes,” I said, “Mrs. Danvers seems to be a wonderful person.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she would rearrange her hoodie so her pin was visible and then position herself somewhere that she might be noticed, thereby leaving it up to the other person to do the approaching. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“But she wasn’t a negative person. She didn’t bring down the mood of the group. She was energetic and upbeat almost every day.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He glared at the wall all night, looking scarier and angrier than Deborah had ever seen a person look. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There was only one person I knew who did that. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Especially if the person doing the telling didn’t grow up here and doesn’t get how things have always been. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

They do not relate to the present any more than they relate to the person. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“Mary!” he cried, and you could tell by the way he cried it that Mary Poppins was a very important person in his life. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Oh! you would rather talk of her person than her mind, would you? Very well; I shall not attempt to deny Emma’s being pretty.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Will had no idea of the taboo in Lyra’s world preventing one person from touching another’s dæmon, and if he hadn’t touched Pantalaimon before, it was politeness that had held him back and not knowledge. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe by splitting into three pieces, we robbed each other of what it felt like to be a full person. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Maybe when a person dies they don’t really die, Mexico. Maybe they just go back into the earth again.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He told her to write her name in the first row, first column, then pass the sheet to the person behind her. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

And without looking back, she walked down the road, stumbling and crying, thinking only of this one last hope, that her daughters would be found by a kindhearted person who would care for them. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A baby. A baby person. When there were lepers here.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

A person would have a difficult time standing up on Jupiter, much less jumping around. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She brought them out proudly and, like a perfect hostess, carried the plate around, holding it over each person’s shoulder while they helped themselves to the desserts. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

For the rest of his life he would be draped with plaudits and honors, becoming, among much else, the first person in Britain knighted for scientific achievement. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She refused, over and over, to give any single person her devotion, preferring instead to make a home for herself that she defined on her own terms, and of which she was master. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It’s trying to put that person on a lower plane than you. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The person I wanted was ten feet away. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She knew their father from photos, though she’d never seen him in person. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How many times must I tell you,” she called after him, “polite persons do not take their supper in the nude!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Lily, the last person I expected to argue for me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The strike was to be orderly and peaceful: signs posted in five languages reminded strikers to “Obey the union’s rules to molest no person or property, and abide strictly by the laws of the country.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Almost every person had a flashlight by their side in case of emergency. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was rumored that Valencia was some sort of heiress and had paid for the million-dollar house in cash, much the same way a normal person might buy a belt or an electric skillet. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

To our left, uncut grass grows as high as the tires; I don’t see anything, although I worry that it’d be easy for a person to hide anywhere in that field. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Before I was half through my spiel, the last person was walking away. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, in the world of text messages, ignorance of grammar and punctuation obviously doesn’t affect a person’s ability to communicate messages such as “C U later”. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Twelve sets of cream puffs divided by twenty-three kids plus Mrs. Baker meant half a set of cream puffs for every person in that room. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The compound is thick with people this morning, all dressed in green or dark blue uniforms that pool around the ankles or stop several inches above the shoe, depending on the height of the person. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I was a person who knew right from wrong. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As White examined probate records for many of the murder victims, it was evident that with each successive death, more and more headrights were being directed into the hands of one person—Mollie Burkhart. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In 1785, he became possibly the only person in history to win a natural history museum in a raffle. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

And her fingers felt like a dead person’s, like an old peach I once found in the back of the refrigerator; the skin just slid off the meat when 1 picked it up. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not one person could be seen on the paths or in the alleys, but Mark kept catching glimpses of eyes peering out through windows and slats and cracks in the haphazard structures. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Totally. And thanks for coming to talk to me. You’re the first person who’s talked to me for more than a few seconds in a whole week.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The only person of interest is a man on the same side of the restaurant as me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She was as clean as a person could be, her hair still slightly damp from the water in the sea-star field, while her clothes had dried in the sun. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When Stephen’s mom says I’m lying again, I hand Principal Jenkins my spiral with the tabs of all my businesses and the dates I collected money plus the person I collected money from. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

It was traditional to put a stone in the mouth of a person who had been murdered, to prevent him from speaking to the living if he returned as a ghost. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They see someone, and somehow they let the first impression they have about that person’s appearance drown out every other piece of information they manage to gather in that first instant. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Macbeth and Malcolm are not the same person, though their names share an initial consonant,” she said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The panel questioned with greater depth Bryan Burkhart, about whom many locals had begun to whisper; after all, he was the last person seen with Anna before she went missing. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I must say you people know how to retire a person.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like, any time a human tries to break out and take action for him- or herself, the gods punish that person. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A skinny rabbit, tall and gray, stood upright like a person, using his paws as hands to hold a carrot. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A crime, RJ advocates say, is not an act against a rule, it’s an act against a person. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He scowled at the question of how a person might find out who was in which labor camp. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He has the sunken face of a person with no teeth. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said King Pelles, “they may have been the same person. If they were, it is interesting. How did your fellow arrive?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ewen the warm, soupy water of the Chattana River would make a person cold if he was in it too long. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When I saw how angry Auntie Fatmata was, I said, “Look, Auntie Fatmata, I have a gift for you. It’s a white person’s magazine and it has many wonderful pictures.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Enough. I’m not going to listen to this crazy person anymore. I work. They pay me. That’s it.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But once lunch started and Mr. Harding and I spent fifteen minutes on x and y and solving for the unknown, I felt like a new person. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another friend is another person you might lose at any instant. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sorry that you will never be allowed near our daughter again because you are different and strange and a person who cannot be trusted. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The synonym was official, authoritative; it was the verdict that the culture gave on a person like her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Some students thought you should be looking for a person twenty to thirty years older than yourself—the sort of age a normal parent would be. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t even see the person who had the gun. What’d they say on the message? Do they know who it was?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I’d never been this close to so much of a person. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

There was the imprint of a person on the fabric of the divan where my knitting had been before. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I said, "You should have told me that. You should have told me long before now. A person with good manners would have." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s useless now, when the guards could recall it and connect a servant girl’s disappearance to the household of the person who stole her. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She still admired him, his moral fiber, his life of clean lines, but now it was admiration for a person separate from her, a person far away And her body had changed. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

By that age, surely any rational person knows not to go around setting people’s clothing on fire. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

On the spur of the moment, Matilda decided that the one person she would like to confide in was Miss Honey. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was no else there, only this one person alone. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

In his manuscript about the war, he only said, “I opened a private correspondence with some persons in New York....” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was quite common for any white person to call on any black person to perform a chore. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Initially, Jefferson simply refused to assign Washington any culpability for the Federalist conspiracy, somehow suggesting that the person at the very center of the government was wholly oblivious to the schemes swirling around him. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The other person can then either accept the statement as a truth or reject the statement as a lie. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Police apprehended a person of interest, Jack Franklin, who was present when Johnson was shot but left the scene in a borrowed vehicle shortly afterward. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s some French person visiting Mr. Gervais on the fifth floor. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Your mother must be a very interesting person.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's another person headed out the same door I'm charging at. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do not think he is a trusting person,” Albert says. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t think I’ve ever met a person so nervously attuned to conflict. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Mister Singer sat on the banisters of the porch and he was the only person who kept calm. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Didn’t you know that I was the one person who wouldn’t judge you? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The truth was that the person their mother cared for the most, and always came first, was their father. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Who frightened off every person I thought might try to hurt you or prevent you from winning the tournament? Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

El Patron was capable of destroying a person who angered him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swear, I was the only person in that church who saw them. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“The point of the sickle can pierce a person’s skull.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I had thought was love for me, for myself as a person, was not love. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I replied that I had not, and was about to make another attempt to retire only to find myself detained by further inquiries regarding various persons I may have met. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, we’re going to swing by tomorrow, keep an eye on things. No lead on the person who carved that word. But with the eggs, and people just generally riled, and the cut-down...” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

This ain’t no personal thing ’bout you or any other white person. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has never struck me as a warm person, but he’s never been cold, either. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Regarded by her friends as a person of “irresistible energy and unbelievable persistence,” Elizebeth had been living at full throttle for years. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Papa might be the bravest person I know. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

This is more difficult than generally presumed, particularly after a person has been dead for several days. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Aru recognized this type of Otherworld person from the paintings in the museum. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A person like Anatole has so much to offer his country. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was only for a minute. I had never focused on one person before. It was like seeing into the man’s soul.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

This is not the person who the city knows as my father—the patient, calm leader of Abnegation who would never hurt anyone, least of all his own son or wife. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Wow, all of these compliments lately, from the same person who said my head was big enough. Why are you trying to make it bigger?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“It was about the size of a person. It slid down the far wall and was gone. A dusty cloud of white.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

How do you ignore a person who sits directly to your right? P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Does helping one person really matter, on balance? The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Like, he figures out what would be good for the person to hear. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t alarmed exactly, but since I seemed to be the only person around, I thought I’d better go and investigate. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A person that commits a sin like that is never too good for the post office or anything else. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

For example, if all you were shown of Caroline’s body were her hands, you would know at once that she was an artistic person. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The occasional Harmony or Unity flashes above, each purple letter larger than the person cleaning it beneath, like an ant holding a grape. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

At more than three hundred pounds and well over six feet tall, he was easily twice my size, probably the largest person in B-block. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt her tongue shaping the syllables of the person’s name, but she did not recognize what the name was until the rower turned to face her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He is the sort of despicable person who has no understanding of how despicable he is, and my badgering him with insults won’t change that; nothing will. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But then she would picture Joaquin as a baby, waiting for someone, a family, a person, and that terrible feeling would push its way past her heart and into her throat, choking her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Tucked away in the corner of the room, they’re like a private conversation between me and this mystery person. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The first thing I noticed was that every single person had drawn a central shape—a heart, circle, square, or triangle. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He was also extremely aware of the other key person in the room, Briana’s dad. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

By 1624, eleven years after he had made public his discovery that Venus had a full set of phases, Galileo could take it for granted that no competent person would defend the Ptolemaic system. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Like they all studied the same book about grown-up-ness, memorizing phrases like, Does that make it right? and Be the bigger person. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

As I watch her walk to the door, I realize that she’s just another person who probably can’t locate Florida on a map. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

How the world—the business of Times Square—can feel like it’s falling away when you’re with the right person. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The Inn of Bree was still there, however, and the innkeeper was an important person. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

One person in particular, Ucho, had changed his ways toward me as quickly as the air turns frigid once Inti sets from the sky. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

How could I leave Prim, who is the only person in the world I'm certain I love? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When a policyholder died, Spaulding placed advertisements trumpeting the delivery of the Mutual check as if the person had won the lottery. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But Lori began to see New York as a sort of Emerald City—this glowing, bustling place at the end of a long road where she could become the person she was meant to be. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the priest chanted the Latin prayers, whose meaning I barely understood, I knelt by his side and knew that God had taken away the one person I could claim as my own. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I guess that is what getting better will do to a person: make you forgive people who have been mean to you. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I would be the last person to say that it was all your fault. The Dixons’ move to Florida, for example. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Or maybe he was thinking about the cooks, who were heroes, sure, but still had to kill and serve one person every day to the serpent king in order to save the other. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Watching her go, I knew I wanted to be her favorite person someday. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, this is him in person. I hope you didn’t believe that funny story’ he give you over the phone the other day. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day you see people completely lost, trying to have conversations and having no idea what the other person is saying. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He was a literature professor, neurotic and blinky behind his glasses, who Blaine once said was the only person at Yale that he trusted completely. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It had been a while since the last person had passed through. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

If there's one person in our family who deserves the credit for the close-knit relationships between us cousins, it's Dayee Mehrdad, otherwise known as the true patriarch of our massive brood. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

And so she had the dizzying sensation of falling,, falling into the new person she had become, falling into the strange familiar. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She remembered how hurt Gigi seemed and how even Gigi was nervous about telling a real person, and she was sixteen! Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“We gotta go bigger than him. We shouldn’t target one person.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Gregory is not the kind of person who would get that wrong—he’s got his whole sleet and snow and rain commitment, and he takes that stuff seriously. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The kind of person who might never forgive me for being so totally careless. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

There would only be enough for a bite or two for each person, but he could hardly wait. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems every person on the slopes takes a deep breath and sits up. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

If I tell the wrong person what we found... Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Vivian was a normal, sensible person, but I think at that time she must have gone a little cuckoo. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Maybe Margo felt comfortable there because Margo the person lived like that all the time: in an abandoned room with blocked-out windows, the only light pouring in through holes in the roof. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

When a stranger lurks close—maybe a drug person slinking toward the nearby train—Guapo runs him off with deep growls and bites. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The number of mysterious persons who had rented houses in and about Indianapolis multiplied from day to day,” Geyer wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“A person is not killed here, but chosen. They are not cremated in the ovens, they are processed. There are no corpses, only pieces of drek, only shmattes, rags.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what is it that makes a person want to stay here on this earth anyway, and go on suffering the most awful pain just for the sake of getting to stay? Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

You see it in films sometimes, when one person’s pointing a gun at another person, and the one with the gun’s making the other one do all kinds of things. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only person who suffered more than she did was Amadeus. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They knew I had no immediate means of finding out the truth, and they did not believe that I should go into the matter unless my suspicions were aroused against one particular person. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

They cheer and pump their fists, and then another person drops into the net. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The latrine was a simple wooden structure only large enough for one person, with scarcely the room to sit. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The net worth of each person is calculated in current US dollars. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Dee is the funniest person I have ever met in my life. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I say, therefore, that in completely new principalities, where there is a new prince, greater or lesser difficulty in maintaining them exists according to the greater or lesser virtue of the person who acquires them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

I had run two Iditarod sled-dog races across Alaska, and I thought—really, it seemed to be that simple—that if a person could do one, he could do the other. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

What if they thought Mom was a bad person for leaving her kids behind and saying she was never coming back? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Instinctively, or somehow, I knew that because I loved him so much I’d never hurt him, but if I talked to anyone else that person might die too. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only one person in that photograph, and everyone in that auditorium knew it. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

When I was in Abnegation and wasn’t allowed to look into mirrors, I used to think that a lot could change in a person’s appearance in three months. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like the sort of person who might hand you an invitation to wizard school. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I could use a young person like you as an assistant, if you were interested?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Seven had tried to congratulate her in person, but Poppy had run off before she got a chance to and, when she’d sent her a message on the way home, Poppy hadn’t written back. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

They never been taught that it don’t take much to kill a person. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes you have to see a person in his real environment to understand him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most duels lasted no longer than a minute or two, one person quickly proving himself more clever or possessed of a stronger will. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Together, we swim, still linked, like a person with three arms. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Murder was all around us and we knew, deep in ourselves, in some silent space, that the author of these murders was beyond us, that it suited some other persons ends. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I know what you’re thinking,” Mrs. Jensen says to us—a statement I always find weird because I’m never able to guess what another person is thinking. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The only person in the world she genuinely hated, now that her mother was dead, was her sister. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

No, she reads Endurance the way a person might read the Bible—in small passages, repeated again and again, to help her stay grounded. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Saying something bad about a person that isn’t true.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I knew now that one person could hold many different dreams and see them all come true. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Maybe that’s what a person’s personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe that the woman responsible for keeping Anne Frank alive in the attic came to speak to us in person! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I thought it very bad manners for anyone to pound on a bathroom door the way some person was pounding. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I’ll just have to prove to him that I am the same person as yesterday. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Easy for you to say. You’re everybody’s golden boy, the son of Jupiter. The only person who ever accepted me was Bianca, and she died! I didn’t choose any of this. My father, my feelings...” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Olanna wondered if perhaps he had recently lost a person he loved. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We went around to the kitchen door, and, of course, it wasn’t locked; the only person who ever locked doors around there was Mrs. Helm—the family never did. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana kept staring at him, the way she always picked one person in any crowd to stare at. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nanobots the size of blood cells are injected, sometimes even without a person’s knowledge. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

"This is the work of a person far above eighteen years. This is no immature youth! The people must be protected from traitors like him! The Fatherland is at stake!" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The justice replied, “Yes, sir, and had valuable papers on his person.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Not a single person in that audience believes for a second that what I do up there is real,” he says, gesturing in the general direction of the stage. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I am the behind-the-scenes person, the invisible one who makes their lives run smoothly, the one outside the camera frame, the one in the kitchen cooking food or on the patio washing diapers. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

George was immediately arrested for the murders because he had admitted seeing the girls before they disappeared and was the last person to see them alive. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

How else could a person come up with this stuff? Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

His memory appeared so precise the ordinary person would assume that it was accurate in all instances. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And again my mom asked my brother not to use such language in front of me, which was strange again because I think I’m the only person in my family who’s ever been high. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The person who combined these two ideas was a student of Gauss’s: Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Two more people appeared where the man had been, but Mark could tell the strip of window was too small for a person to crawl through. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Someone knocked on her door, and as she went to open it, another person who had entered through the back of her home grabbed her from behind. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Nausea. It hit me right away, as soon as we started moving. Blech. Also I’m the only person on this thing who’s over the age of ten.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Brown always says that writing makes a person more thoughtful and interesting. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Now I saw that the stupidest person at my mother's college knew more than I did. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

There are times when I wonder whether brothers and sisters are, in fact, the ones who sense that something is off with whatever person I’m inhabiting, and move to take advantage. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

But for Jess it was better to see Dr. Morales in person, and her heart always leaped a little when he appeared at Clive’s. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

You could send messages from your own email address to other people with email addresses, and whatever you wrote came to the other person in a matter of seconds. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was mirrors, not aches and pains, that turned a person old, everywhere white hairs and wrinkles. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one each person passes through it, vanishing from sight. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was a relief, she told herself, not to carry the burden of debt or, what was worse, the welfare of other persons. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Here. The person who used to work 011 the files used to wheel back and forth on this along the lower drawers. Try it.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you get the alert? Moreau is free! The person who has the Black Book isn’t simply some apprentice magician. It’s one of the Night Brothers!!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

If I saw a rainbow person on the court, I probably would care, and I would ask them if they needed medical assistance. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“There are about fourteen dead people for every living person,” he said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“The person I’m thinking of is a far better singer than I.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Being an engineer, Mary Jackson would eventually learn, meant being the only black person, or the only woman, or both, at industry conferences for years. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I just look at her sometimes, and I think she is the prettiest and nicest person in the whole world. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I felt silly and wrong calling a grown person Brother So-and-So or Sister Such-and-Such, but thanks to Cecile, we now had brothers and sisters we had never before laid eyes on. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Said she loved “the symbolism" and the idea of giving all her "firsts" to the first person she would “truly love." Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

If you guess correctly, the other person scores. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s as if I had turned into a different person. The new life around me was so complete; it pulled me away. You became people in a book I had read a long time ago.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Were such a person described to me, I'd say, "Oh, you mean the village idiot." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Because he hated the person he was becoming, and he wanted to leave before you and your brother hated him too.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The Dodgers couldn't have a gay person in their organization. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Another person is barking out that we need an ambulance. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“But Cap Anderson is the most amazing person I’ve ever known.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

When there was just one person next door, listening, that person rushed to the student’s aid 85 percent of the time. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It is the first time I’ve ever written to the person whose life I’ve occupied, and it feels both strange and comfortable, knowing that Rhiannon will be the reader of these words. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

At a certain point it occurred to me that every single person in that cell might be faking it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

What will her husband’s And I think, How can she be her own person? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was now more determined than ever to get justice for Javier, for Reg and Shawna, for every person who had been harmed by the monsters who worked in the building behind him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He knew from Leo’s YouTube videos that the artist was fitted with a cochlear implant, which allowed him to hear, but not quite at the level of a hearing person. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Every single person on this street is subject to a mandatory search, by high order of the Kuhani. Failure to comply may result in fines and imprisonment. Make a neat and orderly line.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The punishment for being a person in hiding—an onderduiker—is immediate deportation. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

If one could make the Black Tortoise do anything, that person would be invincible, Amah had said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

In a little clearing outside the museum, an American Indian person was sitting on a tree stump smoking a long peace pipe. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

There was no way I could get heavy-handed and demand that an English person send me money, even if he owed it to me personally. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Of course Kim would go to Adam, to tell him in person as opposed to breaking the news over the phone, and then to bring him here, to me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A kingdom where carrying a person on your back was allowed. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

She had not recognized it in Pilate, whose equilibrium overshadowed all her eccentricities and who was, in any case, the only person she knew of strong enough to counter Macon. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caroline was such a quiet person it was hard sometimes to know what she was thinking. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

But nothing she can do or say will ever be enough, because she is somehow the wrong person. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

After all, the statement was coming from a crook seeking to shorten his sentence, and Spencer, the one person who could corroborate Gregg’s testimony, had since been gunned down by a posse of lawmen. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I thought back to our conversation in Dad’s office, and it was almost like I’d been talking to a different person entirely. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Others argue that a person who’s going to put money into the American economy should be given priority for legal residency. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person’s dating possibilities.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

When a rich person entered the lobby, we fell silent out of respect and didn’t look at them. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Why does the only person in the world who might see things the way I do have to be five years old? A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

For a while I thought “the loop” could be a street in Circle Village—a neighborhood that was nothing but looping cul-de-sacs—and that “Emerson” might be a person my grandfather had sent letters to. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Being the first person in the front row for pictures. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I never knew a person who reacted so wholly and rapidly to a changed situation as Estraven. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

This person crying in the doorway and calling me poor girl looked like a clown made up like Sad Ruth. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t even know who this person is. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Should that person be dragged into court or hailed as a hero? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Finding a job allows a person to establish a positive role in the community, develop a healthy self-image, and keep a distance from negative influences and opportunities for illegal behavior. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It's hard for one person to carry a sofa down three flights of stairs, so, seeing as I had nothing better to do, I offered to help. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She easily took care of the details that would have demanded half of a country person’s day. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same code, when input on the other side, deactivated it temporarily so the person could come back out. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

One can be in extraordinarily intimate circumstances with someone for months, and then never see the person again. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if she doesn’t believe in me, if she doesn’t feel the enormity, then I will simply seem like one more crazy person let loose on the world. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

And we were stuck on the outskirts of D.C., sharing a homeless person’s fire. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Why, he wrote to Ifemelu, do our funerals become so quickly about other things that are not about the person who died? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The person before me is not a savage, but a woman. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their voices were urgent and excited, each person barely waiting for the last to finish speaking. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That person isn’t going to lose their nerve just because there are a few cops around. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They don’t question me about why I want to hang out with this person I barely like or what we’re planning to do or when I’ll be back. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She was not normally a sarcastic person, but she could be brutal when she was. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Here and there a stray person meandered around the library or up a corridor... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

And many students, having studied first the book and then the Playboy interview, wanted to hear in person this so-called “fiery Black Muslim.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I need my mother to set a good example and be a person I can respect, but in most matters she’s an example of what not to do. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The man glanced at the forms and said, kindly, “Sorry, you don’t qualify. Next person!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She turned her back to me as she spoke to the person on the phone. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Mama was right. A person could get pneumonia. But I wouldn’t give her the satisfaction of letting her know. I guess I’ll have to put these lace things away until summer.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Best of all, it seemed like Jamie was the one person who was crazy enough not to think I was crazy. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It is strange the way a name can shape a person. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The answer lies in finding the right data, and the secret to finding the right data usually means finding the right person—which is more easily said than done. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Every single person on it is a supporter of integration. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t that money cover the cost of having an extra person?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

We’re nearly out of potatoes; from now on, we’re going to count them out for each person, then everyone can do what they want with them. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

How can a person walk around like that and expect to be taken seriously? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As I went through a metal turnstile, the ‘person- counter’ clicked to a new daily number: 20,054. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

A person whom one has loved seems altogether too significant a thing to simply vanish altogether from the world. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Anger can come into you so tangibly, so physically it's like a separate person. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

And then there was Flora’s mother, the person who had given Flora the shoe box. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But it meant being some other person than I was when I got to Nam. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is like that person you never heard of who wins one of those MacArthur genius awards for creating astonishing success in the most unlikely of settings. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She came forward, slow and deliberate, and her eyes danced from one person to the next. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It never feels like you think it’s going to. I suppose a lifesize statue looks enough like a real person to make you expect to feel skin.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Wab walked the line and handed a key to each person. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

As the person responsible for your situation, I wish there was more I could do to directly help. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shake him in the way you should never shake an injured person, but I don’t know what else to do. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to be that person anymore. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

This person who stood in the doorway wasn't me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m just not a dog person” is how Bill starts things off, in a perfectly reasonable tone of voice. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

A couple turned around, I guess to see who this Lala person was. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The only other person besides Lorena who cares about what I think is Mr. Ingman, and he’s paid to be interested in my opinions. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It is the same person who steals our children and poisons the water. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He’s the person who aces all his tests but doesn’t turn in any homework. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Can you really tell a person’s intentions just by looking at them?” asks a red-faced boy with a gulp. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He would vow to become a new person. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never seen a real live dead person. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

That was kind of how I felt when I decided that I would meet every person in New York with the last name Black. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I placed Bowe right up there with my roommate as a person to blame for my current existence. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

We make up a game with the force field that surrounds the roof—one of us throws an apple into it and the other person has to catch it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He was a person just like you and me and he was my friend. I want him back. Oh, Mamma, I want him back.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

It was the look of someone who's discovered too late that she's either set her house on fire or committed herself to traveling with the wrong person. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They knew the story of each other from then on, which is one of the largest things you can say about another person. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I begin to think maybe I am one person too many around Titid’s place. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hesitated, Frank was the only person I did not mind knowing. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

All but one person warned her not to cause trouble. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Flux twisted beneath the stranger in ways a normal person could never manage, stretching like he was made of taffy. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I dared to speak honestly to the one person who knew of our secret marriage. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

What is so interesting about this Headmaster is that he became a famous person later on. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to be that person I was, growing up. I want to be the me who’s here, now. With you.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s so nice to see you and your boys, Melissa. But I don’t like that I’ve never met them in person until now.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

When a person moving through the woods breaks a branch, it makes a short, sharp snap. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He said, “Die, human! Die, silly polluting nasty person!” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

"Just sign this receipt here. What do you mean, what does 'position' mean? It means position, like a job. Most receipts have that to make sure the right person gets the right letter." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said once that I was the best person he’d ever known. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

That’s when Joaquin knew that he would never tell Grace and Maya what had really happened: why he had left the Buchanans, why he really wasn't a good person. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I learned to trust the grief of persons who showed no emotion. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if that person went looking for our girls? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Later he added, with annoyance, “A person can ask, I suppose. It seems a natural question, with the sentries.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In our culture, if someone says you’re related, even if you don’t know the person, you respond with respect. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She was the only person in the Milky Way who called me by my full name, extra emphasis on the first syllable. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Although we had no better success, the other instruments at least were quieter than the piano and, more important, only one person could play them at a time. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every person had a seat, and they all had luggage, too. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh—certain furry beasts that took on the personality of a dead person.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will do dm for you, If you are anybody except one person. If you are he, I must fight you to the death.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above each window there is a flashing red number announcing which person may step up next. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I want him to fear that I could be there at any moment, in any person. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Them cottonmouths can kill a person,” Curly said. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am a hopeful person—my friends may say too hopeful, maybe even a little crazy. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“The only way a person can make a real difference is to know the rules of the game and use them to win.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Not once during my entire stay at the institute did a single white person show enough courtesy to avoid a wet step. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was scary that Mom had said, “You have to fix this. Or so help me, I will” to some strange person—Joe?—at three a.m. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They were the first South African expedition ever to be granted a permit to climb Everest, a mixed-race group that aspired to put the first black person on the summit. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“He asked me how many persons in one God?” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adding to the lure, he said, there is a concept of “attentional inertia,” which shows that the longer someone stays engaged with the television, the more likely that person is to have trouble pulling away. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They did not realize it, but she was the first person they’d ever met who wore perfume. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The happiness of causing another person’s death and pain. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The man told McWhorter that he had arrived from Germany two days ago and was going to see Mr. Hoover, the director of the FBI, in person in Washington, DC. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Had he pretended to be a nice person when he was just one of them? Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taken at its simplest, it is a clue which directly incriminates someone whose initial is H, and it was dropped there unwittingly by that person.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

A repair person arrived to fix the store’s cash register. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, when our predecessors at the Bureau inserted ‘corrected’ genes into your ancestors, they also included a genetic tracker, which is basically something that shows us that a person has achieved genetic healing. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I am not Girl Number Two! Please, Judge Spandex! I’m also Number One! I’m not a product, but a person!” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after, the traveler walked through the gate, and the guards turned to the next person, who was also permitted to pass. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“I do not know, Your Grace, but I would sooner not risk your person to learn the answer.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Once again, he remembered a tangible thing from his past, but couldn’t assign it to any specific time or place, couldn’t associate it with any other person or event. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

A law-enforcement official pressed him about his brother: “You understand he is the last person seen with this woman, Anna Brown?” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She wraps her arm around me like it’s second nature, and I lean into her and she leans into me until we make up one leaning person. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She stepped aside to let the next person fill a bottle. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I thought I was the first person to think of ’em. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I’d seen protests on the news, but seeing it in person, I felt the energy in the air. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

A few lines later, it becomes even more clear that Whitman no longer needs to listen to become another: “I do not ask the wounded person how he feels.... I myself become the wounded person.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The French had morphed over time, so now any white person was called a mundele. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Martian surface exhibits many impact craters, each named after a person, usually a scientist. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was enough to give a person nightmares. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

One person starts a poem, then the next guy has to step into the rhythm, pick up the poem where the first guy left off, and keep it going. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the person binding can see and speak through the spirit and its form. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

His aunty’s face was opaque, her tone flat: the demeanor of a person who carried more bad news than she had delivered. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Conversing not with the person next to you, but with all of the elements. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She says it’s because I’m “the right person for the job,” but I know she’s just trying to glom off my reputation as the main guy behind the paper chain project. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

In many cases, whether you lived free or were sent to prison or were executed depended simply on whether the person who tried you was in the right mood. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The Abnegation are willing to die for any person, friend or enemy, if the situation calls for it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

We talked at night, of course, but we rarely had a chance to connect during the day, in person. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’d heard August say more than once, “If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother was a kinder and simpler person, but like Sister Ibinabo, she was a person who denied that things were as they were. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Was she possibly the person he wanted to speak to? Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is a bigger gap between the average person and what they are aspiring to,” Schor said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But what is a person of limited means and no taste for “carousing” to do? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides the fact that deep down he’s a terrible person, he listens to the worst music—nineties heavy metal. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The same person who would dash out a five-year-old's eye with a poker. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Somewhere Ben, the one person in the woods who would come when she needed someone, heard the call and was coming. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I was just the person they were looking for. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Davis was subsequently captured by Union forces, he was told he could go free if he revealed the name of the person who had given him the information. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned around, as Yakov had done—I knew it, I felt it—but Frankie was the only person to emerge from the underbrush. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Bucket was the only person in the family with a job. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry Mamá, but I have to deliver these to the right person,” I said. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

As a student, I had been taught that South Africa was a place where the rule of law was paramount and applied to all persons, regardless of their social status or official position. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know a single person in California. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I have maintained for years,” Moore wrote, “that one hundred well-disciplined persons could break the backbone of segregated travel in North Carolina in less than a year.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She’s the one person in town who never gossips or says bad things about people. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The shortest was a single sentence. The longest was a couple dozen pages. Some of them were almost like little plays. Others were just questions to the person he was writing to.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Such persons are not only socially repugnant, in the climate of our present day they are extremely dangerous.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Yang was exactly the kind of tenant Mrs. Richardson wanted: a kind person to whom she could do a kind turn, and who would appreciate her kindness. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I push my limbs through the doors of the emergency room and say to the first person I see, “I swallowed pills and can’t get them out of me. Get them out of me.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

After an hour of questions, the woman said, “I want to thank you for your extraordinary patience, Colin. You're a very special person.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

What I know now is that I would be a different person, or at the least a better version of myself, more rounded, more fulfilled, more in touch with myself and everyone around me. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

A person had stepped out of nothingness and stood behind the ancestors, watching us. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In fact, it became hard to say when a person ever stops being disadvantaged. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until then, I had believed that a person inhabited his or her whole body. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“He had a great laugh. He was kind of a quiet, serious person. A total perfectionist. But when he laughed? God, it was contagious. It was the best sound.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was leaning forward, talking to the person against the wall. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Even though she’d totally understand, she might tell just one person. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

But my better angels lost again, defeated by drink, by the person I am when I drink. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not a superstitious person, but this gave me the creeps. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Monogamy means “being married to only one person at a time.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

That's just the kind of person he was: someone who made things right. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The newspaper person whom he ultimately came to admire probably more than any other was the New York Times ’M.S. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, though I feel miserable, I labor well for this misery of a person. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the darkness, I saw the shape of a person. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I walked all day and didn’t run into a single person on the path or in the villages that I passed through. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But these impressions—that Count Olaf was a horrible person, and his house a depressing pigsty—were absolutely correct. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

We could take every single thing that every single person in the world has ever had. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Then one person on his side caught my eye. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Because of my color, they thought I was a colored person, but speaking the same languages meant that I belonged to their tribe. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I tried to guess the exact spot that the person’s heart was at, then pulled my knife back. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He is probably the richest person in Clover City. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When I finally came out of it, he looked at me like I was a different person from the little girl he’d known before. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

They didn’t fixate on the person making the snap decision. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“She must have been there sometime in her life to have owned this picture. And if she was, a person might remember her, you never know.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the only person she ever knew who could paraphrase three authors into one sentence and have them all make sense. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

As the person responsible for seeking solutions to housing problems, she had reached her limit of tolerance. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A demon can be the ghost of a dead person, but he can also be a supernatural creature who can use his great powers for good as well as for evil, just like the dragons. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a sick or dying person is brought to her...this is the only time I think my mother knows who she is. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It also meant giving up all those values that I had been taught would make me a worthwhile person. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

If you are the sort of person who likes guessing games, you may wish to spend the next few moments pondering which of the preceding explanations seem to have merit and which don’t. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Which meant the person might be in this room, right this very minute, watching Ivy and waiting. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He felt like a new and a different person. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But the thing was, only one person could give the gift, and it wasn’t the great-grandson, not on his fastest day alive. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

She says she wants to be the first person in the store. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As Georgie had said, the man was just as tall and scrawny as a person can be, a human heron if I’d ever seen one. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Not really the person, of course. You’re sponsoring him, and if he does well you split the purse.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

He was one person with ties to many groups, which is a small but critical distinction. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember those messages I showed you on the Hideout wall on game night—the mysterious person I’m writing to? I want to find out who it is.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think life is necessarily fair. But if you persevere, you can overcome adversity. It has to do with a person’s willingness to work hard, and I think it’s always been that way.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

As in Sudan, the emergence of a life form that could in theory have gone around the earth began with one infected person. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure you’re supposed to kiss a dead person,” said Turner. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

But in some way, they hadn’t connected ... it was as if he’d become a different person. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In some games there are only two sides, but not in all; indeed, some games—solitaire, keepie-uppie—can be played by one person on their own. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He has no idea what kind of person she is. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Those demands included the release of all political prisoners, the lifting of all bans on restricted organizations and persons, the end to the State of Emergency, and the removal of all troops from the townships. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had not put my arms around another person since I was tiny. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shed was tiny, with barely enough room for one person to fit in crouched over. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” said the Pea, who was a person not at all used to being told what to do. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The person, a man, I could tell from the size of his hand, covered my mouth and held a knife up to my throat. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had not told a single person in the squadron who he was inviting. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But by means of the enormous wealth he had piled up and by the secret hold he had over various persons, he was acquitted on some technical inaccuracy. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she returned most of the beans to the tureen and gave it to the person next to Mrs. Mole and led Mrs. Mole off. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I doubt a person like me would’ve been allowed into those kinds of parties in the 1920s. Maybe I’d be in the kitchen or cleaning the bathrooms,” I joke. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A way we are able to see what another person saw at a very specific moment. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Never had he thought of his mother as a person, a separate individual, with a life apart from allowing or interfering with his own. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blanching at the thought of the indefatigable Lawrence pestering Fosdick in person, Weaver responded sharply, “I don’t see it.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“What about the person who got a Gaming Machine? You told me someone did. Who was it?” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She had no family left, and she was not a particularly useful person in the village. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter what challenges you face in life, you can focus on being a good person. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I was crying again, and the last person in the world I wanted to see me crying was Naomi. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“What if one person only has seven fears and someone else has twenty? That’s not their fault.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She told me that she could sense a person’s build, demeanor, sometimes even hair color. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The person’s bare right hand, naked to the frigid wind and grotesquely frostbitten, was outstretched in a kind of odd, frozen salute. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

With that decision, the Seneca Falls leaders established that it was a person’s attitude about female equality and not their sex that should determine who was, in fact, a feminist. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she said, “I don’t know that I’m an expert of anything. But one thing I can say is it’s sort of interesting that the person wrote the word ‘black’ in red pen.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Possibly it was the work of just one person with a grudge—or a mission. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

What she showed me today is that a truly self-reliant person takes action, leaving nothing to chance and everything to themselves. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But while I have never considered myself a very good person, neither can I bring myself to believe that I am a spectacularly bad one. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Amaroq has agreed that I can go on two feet. I am, after all, a person.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brutally murdering someone would, of course, require the State to hold that person accountable and to protect the public. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

What gave me the audacity to speak to him as if he were a person capable of seeing reason, I'll never know. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

And although there is no way the person attached to those hands could have heard her—not without magic, anyway—the fingers seemed to hesitate. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I am a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

At the house of the sick person, usually a cousin or aunt or uncle of ours, I put a holy look on my face. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not only are you getting extra chores next week, but you will each write a letter of apology to Mr. Beiderman, and you will also confess what you did with the prospective tenant. In person.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Alas, I haven’t yet found that person, so the search must go on. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“And you can’t protect us. I might be under eighteen. I might legally be your property or whatever, but I’m my own person. Cilla was her own person.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then they all share a meal, each person serving food to the person on his left. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I elbow the person next to me, a small girl from Georgia who Ida introduced as Sofi. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Even the regular-sized rats back home would attack a person if they were helpless. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Murdo was brisk in her manner, and in her person thin and straight as a nail, but she was kind in her unsmiling way. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

During the past year, there had been pictures of the revolution’s soldiers in the newspapers and on TV, but I’d never seen so many in person. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I needed someone sympathetic to my plight, and I didn’t believe she was that person. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The person doing the marrying, referred to by the one-word phrase Oedipus, has the function “subject.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She may also be the friendliest person on the planet -she smiles constantly at everybody in school, even me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

If there was one person I thought I knew, depended on, and trusted utterly, it was my mother. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Blink was the only person he’d ever shared this memory with. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Obviously, an airplane has no way of telling the skin color of the person flying it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door shuts, and I'm the very last person on,which always quickens my pulse. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Beauty is unique and special and it looks different for every person in the world. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But the important thing is that for today, they are granted, jointly, the guardianship, which is on track to not be temporary, of a person named Willow Chance. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The person must have died in the tree. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Just as they had with the buckets, folks took a sip of the soda and handed the bottle to the next person in line. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I kept in touch with Farmer by email—he wrote almost every day—and sometimes in person. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Each person was instructed to write his or her name on the packet and send it on to a friend or acquaintance who he or she thought would get the packet closer to the stockbroker. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone—even those who had not had diversity training at taxpayer expense—knew that even though it was correct to recognize a person's ethnicity, it was not correct to comment upon it in public. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

That many misspelled words from Metias can be nothing other than a message to me—the one person who was most likely to go through his writing. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

My mom wanted to order sushi, but my grandfather said the person who has the most degrees should get to choose. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Wittgenstein was surely doing both, and he deliberately moves back and forth between the first person singular and the first person plural to convey both views. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

If a famous person did that, it would probably be really popular and sell for a fortune. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I saw my grandmother and for a split second, I didn’t know whose bed she was at until I saw the person in it. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He did recognize, albeit faintly, that he was too long, and too big, for this bathtub—he looked like a mostly grown person playing at being a kid. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Others were satisfied to label me as a black person and attach to the label any definition they might have as to what that meant. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

If you receive poor service in a nice store and ask to see “the person in charge,” do you expect that this person will be a person of another race? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was the only person she’d ever encountered with eyes just that color. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then he said quietly, “Reuven, listen to me. The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire a teacher. Do you remember the other?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Something clever and resourceful that’ll shine a light on the person who wrote this note.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But here, Dallas didn’t know—and wouldn’t care—whether she was the kind of person who would wear a yellow scarf or not. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Amy adored both the new look and the new person it allowed her to be. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But his constant yeahs and nahs pull me into his conversation with this person who should be off the streets if what the detective lady said is true. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But I am a hopeful person, and therefore when I see problems, I will always think about solutions. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There were figures and faces, some human, some monstrous, and they had some kind of life and lightness to them, like the person who had drawn them could give them breath if he chose. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Babies were used as pawns, passed from one person to the next as they approached for registration. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was the fifth crewman out of the MDV when we landed, making me the seventeenth person to set foot on Mars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

You pretend to be brave, and do stuff to prove you’re not a scared person like she is. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I’m not even sure that most of us really believe that the kind of person who knows everyone really knows everyone. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But deep down, the truth was that the only person saying that was me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

It’s often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, “Stay there. Don’t move.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it seemed to be a person dragging something, for little puffs of red dust rose in sulfurous clouds at every other step. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my mom is a good-natured and religious person, and that’s always been the way she has lived her life. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He might never have noticed her as a person, if he had not seen the pain in her eyes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Life certainly gets complicated when you know more than one person. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Every single person in here looks like they could use a nap. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Robert is self-effacing; still, he’s a self-confident person. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m the only person on the face of the earth. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Yet here were two white persons whom I had known hardly a day, treating me as if we had known each other for years, as if we were brothers and sisters. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is confusing: Mary says that she wants a certain kind of person. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I don't know what it is about the hood that when a person yells "They fighting!" everybody stops what they're doing and runs toward the fight. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The first was small but powerful enough to break a person’s leg. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When the burning haze cleared from my eyes, the first person I saw was Zach, untouched and laughing at me. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I had linked myself to an unpopular person. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

You only get to make one first impression, unless the person you meet possesses a rare and specific kind of generosity. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Lucas Cader, the only person who could beat him at Monopoly. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I admit immediately that I was one of the persons who helped to form Umkhonto we Sizwe and that I played a prominent role in its affairs until I was arrested in August 1962. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1714, the British Parliament offered a prize to the person who could solve the longitude puzzle. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wrong kind of remark about my mother. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the past, agents had filed reports by phone or telegram, or by briefing a superior in person. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We’re planning to take an eighth person into hiding with us! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Zebras have the unpleasant habit of biting a person and not letting go. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think a person can break like a jar does? Can a person be hit so hard by something that they...that they break?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

At least that is what is supposed to happen, but you can always question the competence of the person who carried out the observation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You say, ‘No. Go call a taxi like a normal person because I don’t know you.’ Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Why would he cover a page with her name if he didn't think she was a nice person? The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Word passed from one person to another: the airport was being shelled by the NVA. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Soojin reminds me of Mustafa, when he was trying to convince Baba last year that being on the basketball team was important to show he was a well-rounded person on his college applications. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Part of him wants to turn around, go sit in his car until the person leaves—but he knows that’s not what Manny would want him to do. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The pain has been so constant for the past few minutes that I have gotten used to it, like a person gets used to a siren’s wail if it remains consistent. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Back then, I thought she was the smartest person I had ever met. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Making that choice would crack a person’s soul right down the middle. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

But he was afraid of dying alone, afraid of being deserted by the person he had depended on for so long. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sure there’s a real person inside her somewhere, but after having her for algebra I and II, I’ve quit trying to find her. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“A black person was part of the Lewis and Clark expedition? Really?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She was holding back on the arrest in the hope Angela would make contact with the person who hired her to do the hit on Nicole. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The choices someone makes—and the clarity of their mind— directly relate to how much information the person is trying to juggle. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“A Maven is a person who has information on a lot of different products or prices or places. This person likes to initiate discussions with consumers and respond to requests,” Price says. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You were Cilla, but all of a sudden you were this other person, too. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

What we should be concerned with is that this person may have brought into our community a terrible plague. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The scarlet tunic, with its pale blue facings, the white crossbands on his chest, the white breeches, made him feel like a different person. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A person could compose music, design a doghouse, and...something more, something even better. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s pretty clear that your mother cares about where a person is from,” Ned said. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I can’t be the only person wearing a shalwar kameez at school. Everyone will think it’s weird.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the stairs stood the only person who could make Harry’s situation worse: Snape. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

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

“I’m training myself to be more compassionate. My mint says I’m a terribly cold person,” she said and felt the top of her head again. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

When Gullah people die, babies in the family are passed over the coffin so the dead person won’t come back from the beyond to take them away. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He had no idea how to reach the person I had become and was too embarrassed to let me know. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The word settler is used so frequently that most people do not recognize that it means more than just a person who settles down to live in a new place. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t call me Wheeze! I’m a person, not a disease symptom.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thinks momentarily about calling his father, who would be the only person in town awake at that hour, but dismisses the idea after trying to come up with an explanation to give him. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The ill-made knight turned to his oldest friend, to the first person he had loved with his poises. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see it in every doctor and every nurse and every person who comes into her path. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“I am still the person who would have died rather than kill you,” I say, remembering the attack simulation and the feel of his heartbeat under my hand. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A person whose driver’s license has been suspended due to a criminal conviction or who does not have access to a car often faces nearly insurmountable barriers to finding employment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

His parents had told him the Government could trace calls, could tell if a voice on a phone was from a person who was allowed to exist or not. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was the kind of person I'd cross the street to steer clear of. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They killed sixty white persons, men, women and children, found on plantations within a radius of twenty miles. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the only person in Daffodil Manor who had tried to help Ophie. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Aristotle shines, in other words, because he was the first person really to grasp that the study of rhetoric is the study of humanity itself. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The one person I do want to talk to about everything is Gram. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then she looked up and saw what sort of person this Prince was. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The document also commended the local sheriff for his prompt and successful action to protect property and persons in the vicinity and for his judgment in selecting his deputies. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Good lord, how was a person supposed to eat through this garbage? The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“You can’t survive the death serum without an inoculation, and I’m the only person in the compound who possesses that substance.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Every tree, building, person, seems imbued with significance. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Love you, Megs,” he murmurs, and I feel horrible then, like the worst person in the world. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spectacle of the Transvice dissolving a person like a cloud of smoke caught in the wind wasn’t even what weighed on his thoughts the heaviest. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Remember, self-assessment is only for your benefit to develop and grow as a person, and is not punitive. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It may not make you a better person in all spheres of life, but it will be a source of continuing kindness to your readers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Except for two older women, who were deep in conversation on her left, she would be the only person seated in the long row of chairs. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if I had spent my life in that basement, doing the worst thing I had yet done to another person. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is the only person at the office. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

This person, the book went on to say, was one of the richest and most powerful men in the world, even though his business was illegal. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the only person in class who'd read her poem like it wasn't an assignment. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

And she didn’t understand the saying, she didn’t understand how a person watched themselves in the first place. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“There is only one person other than my own grandmother who would know that story and could have told it the way you did. You must be the Storyteller!” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

You know somebody has really cried a lot of tears over something when they don’t cry at the point a normal person would. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

For starters, I’m still a prime suspect, because I’m the only person who was ever caught alone with one of the swastikas. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“You don’t think you are a science person?” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Probably no person is immune to contact with this spreading contamination unless he lives in the most isolated situation imaginable. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“But why? I saved her life. I’m not a bad person. And I’m just like her. I’m alive too.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He became the first person to be released as a result of the Supreme Court's ban on death-in-prison sentences for juvenile lifers. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The person before us bore no resemblance whatsoever to Miss Peregrine. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Some nights, when the light of rocket fire was so bright a person could read a book by it, sleep never came. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He looked around to make sure everybody was watching, a big ole grin on his face like he was the funniest person in the universe. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

As the day progresses, I can’t help but feel that Alexander is the kind of person I try to be. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“This way,” snapped the duty teacher, and they looked forward again before Malcolm could make out who the extra person was. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

And he kept the cell, which contained a toilet, a shower stall, a cot, a chair, a table, as neat as his person. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like she’s letting me know if they pass her approval test because of the way they look and not because of the person they are. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Maybe. Most likely, though, it will just make a person worry.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bathroom smelled like an old person, and some of the tiles that were supposed to be on the wall were on the floor. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay. But you’re not the first person to make that promise, you know.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The first person to approach looked very familiar, and only after Ilya dropped to a knee and bowed did Anya realize who he was. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She's a good person, he thought, but she thinks too much about herself. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arm stood hypnotized as the person approached, moving with an easy hunter’s gait. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Alyce began to watch the man, not knowing he had long watched her and wondered what could so blight a person so young. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I was just another person in the system that he had to encounter. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me, I just looked from one person to another, trying to take it in. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when White learned about a potential witness in the Roan murder case, he discovered that this person had been bludgeoned to death. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"Hold on," he said to the person on the phone. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

On July 15, 1775, he paid $333.33 to an unidentified person “to go into the town of Boston; to establish a secret correspondence for the purpose of conveying intelligence of the Enemy’s movements and designs.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The person who the districts — most of which are now openly at war with the Capitol — can count on to blaze the path to victory. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A body does not like being bought and sold like a basket of eggs, even if the person who cracks the shells is kind. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since only one person from a family was allowed to go, the passengers on the bus were all strangers to each other. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“A constellation, a sign of the zodiac, or a person born under that sign,” said Sticky. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I stop still, watching her running figure with the coat flying out on either side and the unwieldy overshoes, as if she’s just some other person I’m watching, someone in a race. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Nora,” Ellen says, fixing her with a steely gaze, “is there anything you can do at all to trace the person who sent this to you?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I looked like a normally proportioned person with a balloon for a head. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

How can I get ahead when I'm forced to leave behind the person I love most? Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Not because you’re a girl but because I’m a good person,” he told me. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, every displaced person milling about on the streets means another pair of eyes looking for the five rebels on the loose. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“If a person is living out his Personal Legend, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lev wants one more chance to find a familiar person in his hometown. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You wouldn’t be the first person to fall for a jerk, Henry.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

We cheered when we saw a black person in the crowd. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The last time I found myself this close to a person, a person slowly dying, was the night of the party. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

It felt terrible, like you were the only person alive in the world. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Barack was the only person I knew who had this kind of faith, thinking that a book could solve any problem. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“If you’re accepted for Circle Justice, who’s going to be your sponsor? The committee requires some person to go through the process with you.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

When I called Deborah back as promised, she sounded like a different person. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Today another curious formula seems to declare he is fifty percent of a person. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The only person not participating in the game was Nico di Angelo, “Pluto’s ambassador,” who had climbed an observation tower about a hundred yards from the fort and would be watching with binoculars. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Auntie, Uncle,” I say repeatedly, nodding to each person there. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nobody did. They had picture-taking people and everything waiting for the next person to walk in the door. But they never did put my picture in the paper. Me and Mama looked, too, didn’t we?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana wondered if the person who could let it out, the same size it was to begin with, was luckiest. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Get me an outside line to E1. This Fowl person seems to know all of our rules, so it’s time to break a few.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

But the truth, overheard by one of the passengers from a conductor, quickly circulates: a suicide had been committed, a person had jumped in front of the train. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I barely know Gary, since I've only been hanging around Tiny again for about two weeks, but he seems like the normalest person Tiny has ever befriended. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

And she was the most important person either of them knew. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

As each person was “cleared” a Fruit of Islam man ushered him or her to a specific seat in the drafty interior of the 7500-seat coliseum. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only one person working behind the counter, a young boy who did not recognize Mrs. Sen as he handed her a bag reserved under her name. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

And the worst part is that the only person I want to talk to about it is Abby. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

August 21 Second Rule Add an s to verbs acted by one person in the present tense, even if there’s already an s sound nearby. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

If one mentioned a name unfamiliar to the warders, they would interrupt the conversation, and ask who the person was and the nature of the relationship. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in spite of himself, he minded, he wanted bitterly for her to be different, to be his, at the same time herself, and yet a different sort of person. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

It only now strikes Bailey that, other than the red-haired girl, he has never heard any person in the circus speak. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Of course, you have to do this without the person you're talking to catching on. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I hated him that much and thought he was the meanest person in the world. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, ma’am,” I said, and reminded myself that my mother was never a person to cross, even a little. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at this person who claims to be my brother. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I was really excited that an agender person was in the news,” they said later. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Woundwort led the first patrol in person, taking Groundsel to show him where Mallow had picked up the strangers’ southward trail. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of all the people who surround them at practically all times, Sonia is his only ally, the only person to speak and sit and see as he does. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If you look inside the eyes you can see so much about a person. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a truly thrilling scene, though some persons might have thought that the sudden tumbling down of a quantity of long red hair rather marred the effect of the villain’s death. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes are constantly scanning, never settling on any person or object for more than an instant, moving from an officer to the printout in front of him and back again. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sort of glow a person got when she’s found something she never knew she was searching for. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

To what extent did each really change events, as opposed to “just” happening to be the right person in the right place at the right time? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, I guess I want to know who this other person is, because it helps me to know I’m not alone in going through something. And I want to help this person.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She’s made a joke, but she’s the kind of person who doesn’t even crack a smile, so it’s not that obvious. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Like when you start to wonder if maybe you do have a choice about the kind of person you want to become. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“You don’t like him because he’s a better person than you are. He doesn’t resort to stealing and sabotage just to get other people to listen to him.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“It could mean movement or travel. The cards do not always mean the same things every time, they change with each person.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She picked up on it when they had met, and now, here was Reggie, sounding a lot more like the person Kaylene had described. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

And the person only what his name says? The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sounds like a person who is saying thank you to be polite, not because they are really grateful. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Every hour or so some medical person or other came in to take Jeffrey’s temperature or attach a new bag to his IV or do something that would ruin our rest. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was time for the festival to begin and I’d given the tech person the thumb drive with our movie and the bonus footage on it, I walked back out to the audience. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Students are taught—what I never had to be taught—that religion is not simply a matter of dogmas or theological truths; that religion involves a person’s whole way of life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each person that was chosen was asked to stand in a different line facing the previous one. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Think of what one person can do with a typewriter. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Discouraged but hardly defeated, Penelope felt she had no choice but to plead with Lady Constance in person. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I would hate to be the first person to try. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When I remind Safer that I haven’t ever actually seen Mr. X, he tells me not to worry, that I will recognize him because he is the only person who wears all black in May. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

If we could hand- deliver our stories to Secretary Riley, then one more person will know the problems teenagers face day by day. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

That day, I thought you were the prettiest person I’d ever seen. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’d gone from being the kind of person people pretended they weren’t staring at to being the kind of person who was openly gawked at. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Except Mom doesn't laugh like a normal person. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Harry was now the only person left to be tested. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The first person I see is Fat Barry’s son, who is staring wide-eyed at my head. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Meliagrance began telling him, wildly, gesticulating, seizing with excitement upon a fresh person to tell. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. The half a millionth person to walk into Sears and Roebuck.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This association is non-sectarian, being composed of persons of all shadows of religious opinions, and has no official connection with the so-called Woman's Bible or any theological publication,” the resolution read. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I am the only person trying anything on. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Because if you think someone is a monster and the whole world says he’s a saint, you begin to think that you’re the bad person. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

For some reason every person quit making noise at once. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“No, I'm here representing my own property. I’d like to speak with the person in charge.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Only one person we asked refused to sign. Marlee, I think this just might work!” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

I angrily wipe away my tears with the back of my hand, pulling my phone out of my pocket and texting the only other person I know who will understand. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

How can a single person have so much crammed in their brain and not have their head explode? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Jack hadn’t taken the idea seriously, but what if the person who’d sent it in to Bayside Press had been right? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She was the thirty-sixth person in Chicago killed in gun violence that year, and the year was at that point just twenty-nine days old. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Polite persons do not listen to conversations that are not meant for—” but Emma was already running from the room, and Miss Peregrine cut herself short with a frustrated sigh. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that he was now our closest living relative, he was the last person I wanted to see—a busybody who had once proved to me he was not to be trusted. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

However, if it’s known somehow that the person chosen is over six feet four inches tall, then the conditional probability that he or she also weighs more than 250 pounds is considerably higher. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But a person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“But I bet there’s a lot she liked about you too. You’re a very thoughtful and caring person.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

It could be that I am the only person who knows that the boyfriend exists. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who is that strange creature? I know who sportsfans is. I know who jocko is. I know who hog is. But who is this person, Mary Anne? I do not know such a person.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A person shouldn’t look too far down her nose at absurdities. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we added up all our forty-four pounds together, including Ruth May’s—luckily she counted as a whole person even though she’s small—we were sixty-one pounds over. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will not be the person she calls when she’s in trouble. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I got a theory that if a big brother looks out for his little sis he’s probably a good person, you know? We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

You may actually be the only person who gets more than 140 characters from me. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house con-tractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food?” he asked me. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Only every person who will do great stuff in the future.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

This conversation must be largely instinctive, she thought with amusement, and said gently, “You must be a very lonely person.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then he would only have one person to look after instead of two. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t always the best person for every job. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I do not know why this excited me, but I guess when you see somebody in the hallway or on the field or something, it’s nice to know that they are a real person. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re not the only person left in the world to prove that your grandmother was right,” he said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A person’s index is considered private, so we can only go by visible traits, which are no longer as obvious as they had been in past generations. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, then you’re the only person at this party who actually wants me here.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

We had not sat long thus, when another person came in. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The one sane and constant person he knew had flipped, had ripped open and was spilling blood and foolishness instead of conversation. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's settling in, that it's not going to transform for Christmas, that it's going to look exactly the same as it does now, only one person emptier. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“It takes just one person to ruin the whole thing, and then you wouldn’t have your fresh eggs fried in my pure creamery butter any more.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Yep, I truly do, son. I’m probably the only person around here who knows just about everybody in Bumblebee.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Samuel, who is the only person in the entire world whom you can trust?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

No doubt that his real-life person is doing the same thing right now. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That’s Farsi for “How are you,” but only if you are familiar with the person you are speaking to, or older than them. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The last person to walk through those familiar rooms was my enemy. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Rafik said, “I think the same person just kissed me for the tenth time.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The person seemed to float in the golden light, like an undersea creature caught in the tide. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“It certainly is. I taught you a long time ago, only person can 'make you better' is you.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And more than that, it feels as though the Bailey who entered the circus was an entirely different person than the one leaving it now, with a silver ticket in his pocket. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then I add, “It’s the person, Ma, not the place. If you left here, you’d have been the same anywhere else.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Mr. Dixon and Miss Campbell were the persons; and I thought it a very strong proof.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

This person does not have a clue about me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I am a horrible person for doing this to Jeff Garnet. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

My grandmother is the kind of person who always thinks the best of everyone. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t think Nali was the right person to go in his place. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And then there’s the footage of me saying, “That’s all anybody with a disability wants. Don’t sum up the person based on what you see, or what you don’t understand; get to know them.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Hard to keep up a friendship if you never hear from a person. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was probably one of the weirdest days of my life, going to meet a person I knew and yet did not know at all. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her smear of blue eye shadow is an unheard call to the person she always wanted to be. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A few brought only empty bottles for the next person to use. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The crowd was blurry and colorful around her—someone’s tutu and butterfly wings, a person with a unicorn head, Benjamin Franklin, and a group of people with neon-colored wigs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Of course I was the first person he wanted to see. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t remember the name of the person. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Grandmaster Lilienthal, this is Bobby Fischer,” said the person handling the introductions. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He would tell the intern about the person who limped into the Westing house; maybe that was the murderer—unless his partner was the murderer! The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

One interesting aspect of Greek modes is that different modes were considered to have very different effects, not only on a person's mood, but even on character and morality. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Did she refer to this person at all? Did she mention a name?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

If she squinted her eyes, everyone, every single person, melted into a mix of shapes and colors. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

When I was seven years of age, my prospects changed, as some say they do every seven years of a person's life—the grand climateric, I have heard it called. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll have to give serious thought to bringing a PR person on board,” Arnold said to me the next morning. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have a very different idea of the kind of person she actually was. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Where are you from? and Where are you going? are probably the most essential things to know about a person. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“You’re a monster. What kind of person tries to get someone arrested at their own funeral?” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It seemed to Polly that he treated his wife more like a delicate possession than a real person. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the first person George saw as they walked down the gangplank was Papa. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

I almost burst into tears when she said she was the person we were looking for. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Ever colored person in Jackson gets in front a whatever tee-vee set they can find, watches Martin Luther King stand in our nation’s capital and tell us he’s got a dream. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Margie looked around at the tombs and asked, “What kind of person could do this?” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure they have some way of letting their customers get into those bins. I’m sure I’m not the first person in history to have locked a key inside.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pass it to the person next to you. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I thought of going to the village for help, but there was only one person whom I could trust: Father Quinel. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Can we meet up? it’s the kind of explanation that needs to be done in person. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

If conflict in Dauntless ends with only one person standing, I am unsure of what this part of initiation will do to me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But it’s slightly awesome, because it means I’m the tallest person onstage during those scenes. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Who,” he asked, “is the luckiest person in the world?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Anya didn’t know if horses could have a favorite person, but she felt that Alsvindr liked her better than he did other people. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

We spent some time reminiscing about various persons from the past, or else exchanging any news we had concerning them, and this was, I must say, most enjoyable. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I laughed and nodded, like of course I knew the wardrobe inclinations of this person I’d never met. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Heck, the wrong person in question had threatened to turn him into a dolphin. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was from a very light tread — this person knew how to move quietly in a forest full of fallen twigs and leaves — and when the sound stopped, Ash knew the person had seen her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Mary Jackson didn’t know how to get something done, you could bet a dollar to a USO doughnut she’d find the person who did. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

By that time, the average person in England ate ninety pounds of sugar a year—and in the early twentieth century, that number kept rising. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“To the person who sent that email of me,” I said, “I’m not going to cower or allow ignorance to run my life. I’m going to be me, whether you like it or not.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

As a result, the only way the bilagdanaas knew the age of any Navajo was based on what age that person or the person’s family said. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a gentle, kindly person, with brown eyes, an oval face, and a soft voice, which at times was almost inaudible. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The paper that first brought Dr. Gazzaley his notoriety, published in 2005, showed the key parts of the brain circuitry involved when a person ignores something, or tries to ignore something. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She was determined to be the best saver imaginable, determined to see her precious Jermaine and Marlon in person, and determined to prove me wrong about her being irresponsible. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Oh . . . nothing. I was just—No, it has to be Hades. Maybe he sent this thief, this invisible person, to get the master bolt, and something went wrong—” “Like what?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Essentially, by the time two weeks had passed, I was the only person who was thinking about it anymore. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the only person who ever bought one of my rocks was Dad. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“One person can keep a secret, but not two,” he replied, staring directly into the camera again. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

If I can just see him in person, he’ll be able to explain away what Zero had said. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She looked no one in the face, but she felt as though every person in this place knew, that they were looking on with disapproval at what she and Mariam were doing. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

But I’m not a person who goes around announcing it at the post office. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Ready with a drink just as a person called for it, he talked and listened in the right amounts. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“That is what the audience says when a person bound hand and foot is shut into a cabinet—and disappears.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Adding another person to that rarely makes it better. So take it from me: If he’s already cool with you and your head, that’s a step above most people I’ve met.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“He asked to come? Since when has he known what is good for him? Is he not the same person who wanted to make me childless?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When I did, the sales person called security on me and two big guys swooped down and grabbed my arms. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He giggled like a crazy person as he excavated the scraps. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They were seventeen and eighteen and doomed from the start, both convinced they were the smartest person in any room. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A fractured hyoid—a bone in the neck that supports the tongue—can indicate that a person has been strangled. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Park was the last person she expected to see standing there. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Afterward she felt older and as though she knew him as good as she could know any person. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Trunchbull was not a person who would give someone a whole chocolate cake to eat just out of kindness. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen it happen over and over again: a black person gets killed just for being black, and all hell breaks loose. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Lally’s mouth falls open like a stupid person. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn from one person to the next as the questions get more and more absurd. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The modern idea of laws of nature is a by-product of Descartes’ philosophy, for Descartes was the first person to treat the laws of nature as being what knowledge of nature was all about. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

You'd think that every single person who called was his best friend in the whole world. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Now, Mrs. de Winter, you get round your husband. You are the person he will listen to. He should give the ball in your honour as the bride.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“If a Black person is ever gay, it’s because they’ve been around white people too much.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

"This is certainly a peculiar time to call a person up, though. Jesus Christ." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Chuck looked up at him as if he were a crazy person. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And Ola, out of everyone who was there, was the only person crying. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

No one came and burned someone’s house down in the middle of the night if that person was white. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“And then there was that other person”—Chrissie had turned to Ruth—“that boy you were telling us about the other day. The one a couple of years above you who’s a park keeper now.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could such a lonely person have been living so close to me my whole life? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some news reporters are there, but every time they try to stick a microphone in someone’s face, the person just waves them away. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Listeners reported that they or a person they knew had experienced a heart attack, shortness of breath, or a nervous breakdown. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“How do I know if the person who tells me he’s a friend isn’t a stranger out to hurt me?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I am a very adaptable kind of person. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t until I went to college that I actually had a conversation and interaction with a white person. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The only person who has ever done that is my mother and, when I was little, my aunties in my old neighborhood. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But by doing so we turned him into an almost different person entirely. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t want to tell you this, but”—he sighs—“you’re the worst person I’ve ever met in my life, hands down.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Finally, vexed and frustrated, Mary called the only person she knew could find out what had happened. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“That same person,” General Peckem replied with a definite trace of alarm. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I didn’t understand why the world kept throwing him in my path, but I also didn’t know how to be mad at him for being a decent person, so I took the phone. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The only person who looked my way was the boy in the red hat. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Life with Aunt Lorraine probably did that to a person. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I never saw such a change in a person in my life,” Mr. Ames said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Stapleton is the only person who knows how to get through the Grimpen Mire and he tells Watson to stay out of it for his own safety. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Always, as long as I can remember, she was pretty and popular—a person, even when she was a little kid. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the only adult—except for Aunty Uju—who treated me like a person with an opinion that mattered. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Okay. I’m gonna say this one last time. I am just a kidhe said slowly, as if talking to an elderly person or a small child. “ Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

And before she talks to that person she keeps a checklist of all the things on her journey that have changed. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Trust me. If I ever let you see me in person, you would be repulsed.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Pacioli is a mathematician; the person who painted him was surely also a mathematician, as demonstrated by his understanding of complex mathematical shapes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her voice had the tender concern of a healthy person speaking to an invalid, and her plain statement rang thrillingly true: “I’m thankful.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

On seeing my person, he took the opportunity to inform me that he had just that moment finalized plans to return to the United States for a period of five weeks between August and September. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Catholic God made me to be the person you write those things about. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The trick was to observe everything and every person without becoming the object of anyone's negative attention. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

A small, round person with a big, round laugh, neat in all ways, he is a maker of tejas, roof tiles, the kind I sometimes helped Papi make. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, each person acted as though no one existed but himself. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z