It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Calloway had escaped a provisional farm in upstate New York long before Magdalys was born, and she tried to be as nice to him as she could. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

When she tells them she was born and raised in Manhattan, his father shakes his head. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She never knew if she should say where she was born or the last place she lived. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

After Daddy dies my grandmother brings the bed our mother was born in to Brooklyn. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Then you wouldn’t have been born,” Grandpa says. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“All this time, I thought the letters were MS. For Mississippi, where my grandmother was born.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The room was familiar; it had belonged to me since I was born. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“How do we know you didn’t lie? Can you prove when you were born, Mr. Capricorn?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I interviewed Jenkins, he and his family lived on Japan’s remote Sado Island, where his wife was born and where North Korean agents had kidnapped her. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Because most of them had been born and raised in America. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Johns Hopkins was born on a tobacco plantation in Maryland where his father later freed his slaves nearly sixty years before Emancipation. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I was born poor and I will probably die poor. No one from my neighborhood has ever made a difference and I probably won’t make one either.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

You take somebody like Superman, who was born with his superpower, and somebody like Spider-Man—the way he got his power was kinda tragic, right? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Can you believe Bunker Tower had been standing for nine years by the time I was born?” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

My young mother, younger than I remember her, as young as she must have been once before I was born. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I don’t even remember that. It was right after I was born.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“He died before I was born. In the pestilence.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

But unlike theirs it was full of little swirling currents of intention that eddied and broke off and drifted about, to disappear as new ones were born. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I must have gasped, because the next second, Anise looks at me, and her face turns into such disgust that it’s clearer than ever that she thinks I never should’ve been born. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Though you can’t see it,” my mother said, “a red string around your ankle ties you to the person you’ll marry. He’s already been born, and he’s on the other end of the string.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One infant in one hundred babies is born with moles. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Once again, I’m the odd one out, the outsider, not really part of this community where I was born and have lived all my life. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“But what about your real name? The one you were born with?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Whilst they played wits against me—against me who commanded nations, and intrigued for them, and fought for them, hundreds of years before they were born—I was countermining them. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I was born Clementine, and I loved that name until I turned ten. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Both of them were born sandwiched somewhere in the middle of large families, and were far from being their parents’ favorites. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

After refusing to help an innocent girl who hadn't done anything wrong except be born a Scholar instead of a Martial? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then I would thank Allah because I had been born into the house on the right, rather than the one on the left. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been born free—one of the lucky ones—to a black mother and a white father in North Carolina. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Stamitz, who was born 120 kilometres from Prague and baptised Jan Stamic, has probably the greatest claim to being the inventor of the symphony as we know it, though posterity has largely forgotten him nonetheless. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In preparation for the interview, Ginzburg had read Elias Canetti’s classic work Auto-da-Fé, written eight years before Bobby was born. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But Haupt learned that the baby had died a few days after being born. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

When Freud was five years old, his brother Frodo was born. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel was the eighth, and his mother became confused about his sex when he was born. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he added somewhat maliciously, pulling at the hairs on his mole, “And do not think that silver will waken him—he has had silver under his hand since he was born.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I was born free — free in every way that I could know. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every so often a hermaphrodite was born, a seeming girl who, in growing up, proved otherwise. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Venezuela is where I was born and where I lived until I was twelve years old. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I was born in the middle of the hottest of the Louisiana heat, right in the middle of the summertime. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

It was October 7, 2002, and like most days in Stokum, the rank little pinprick of a town where I was born and raised, the seventh of October unraveled in a completely unmemorable way. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“You would have to have been born an Arab to understand,” he answered. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At least,” said Nathan, “I shall be where I was born and bred. This city is no place for me, I am lost in it. And I am too old to learn to like it.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I was born, they stopped being musicians and became normal people. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“We know a cow died to provide them, but we don’t like to think about it. We pretend they came out of the pantry. Well, the villagers pretend the evil baby was born dead.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

One of the boys with the trunk said, God, are they Americans? and Mam said,They are.They were born in New York. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I remember my pride when Amelia, the first one, was born. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to imagine her as a poor girl like Mabel Hatch, but perhaps even his mother had felt like she was born into the wrong family. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

All the other dragons are born with only four. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fearing her father’s anger she left the children on a lonely mountain as soon as they were born, but they were discovered by a herdsman and brought up by him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

You were born for this, I thought to myself. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He was born on 27 December 1571, but when he was only 2 his father went off to fight in the Netherlands, and Katherine followed, leaving the infant in the care of his grandfather. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

In any case, I was born thirty-nine weeks later. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“I was born to wear jewels like this.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I love hearing about the blue-skinned Hindu god who was born behind bars, like me. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Yes. I was born in Birmingham and went back to Nigeria when I was six.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Some African Americans who had been born as slaves were still alive, and could describe how they had lived sixty years earlier. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It’s enough to make me wonder if Kalinda is even really from the same mundane world I was born in. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Since I was born on his day, and as he was the village’s patron saint, I held him for the kin I never had. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Those, I repeat, who are born in the Reservation are destined to die there.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was said that, when I was born, the sun was so revolted it went into hiding for a full month. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was born in Puerto Rico, but Springfield definitely feels like my home. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

That was what her brother was born for. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

She was born on August 18, 1921, and her birthday just happened to be Soviet Air Fleet Day or Aviation Day. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But an objectivity of vision was being born within me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never knew if she should say where she was born or the last place she lived. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Thebes was Dionysus’ own city, where he was born, the son of Zeus and the Theban princess Semele. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my language, when a child is born, we don’t say “boy” or “girl,” but lashe, which means “male cow,” or ngache, which means “female cow.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother says I was born a runner; that I entered this world wanting to get up and go. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She broke up with Curt a few weeks after that, and she signed on to WordPress, and her blog was born. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“No. We never get anything. We are born with all we have and we never learn. We never get anything new. We all start complete. You should be glad not to be a Latin.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t know that it was born of tales told years ago by a monk slipping into senility, or that it had been fed ever since by every source Lazlo could get his hands on. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Autumn was born a few days earlier than expected, and I was relieved that we would not have the same birth date. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

This person will have been born in a demographic trough, so as to have had the best of New York’s public schools and the easiest time in the job market. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

When Dad was twenty-seven, Luke was born, at home, delivered by a midwife. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I could put my finger on the exact spot where I was and had been ever since I’d been born. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a baby is born you shouldn’t say discouraging things about it like “Hey, I seen prettier dogs than that baby,” or “Maybe he ain’t ugly, maybe he’s just inside out.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hit’s the fact thet a boy like Jesus was born to a mama who could leave Him be. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In my case, no one was sure when I’d been born. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Rømer was born at Århus on 25 September 1644, and after studying at the University of Copenhagen he stayed on there as assistant to the physicist and astronomer Erasmus Bartholin. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It left her to wonder what beast this weapon had been born from. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

When James Abram Garfield ran for political office, his supporters told voters that he had been born in a log cabin and worked his way from poverty to admirable achievements. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Okay, Grandpa, will you please introduce yourself and tell us your year of birth, and where you were born? Then tell us an important event from your life.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Imagine what that sculpture looks like now, and you’ll know what I looked like when I was born. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Never felt how the earth existed long, long, long before I was born. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

You know he didn’t even drink after she was born and that was a miracle. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I wished I had been born a man, so I could have been a scholar. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“She’s the house manager. Has been since I was born. She’s like what we have now instead of a parent, kinda.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“When you were born it’s a wonder your parents didn’t reject you,” she said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Kunthi’s child was born a few months before mine, a fine boy who nearly took his mother’s life in exchange for his own. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made sense, Khalid being born right in the middle of all that celebration. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Starting before she was born, her parents had bounced from state to state because, in their words, “that’s where our paychecks pulled us.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In the meantime he had gotten married, and right after his first child, Adrian, was born, he decided to go to college fulltime to get a degree. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another famous Frenchman was Jules Verne, who was born about a hundred and fifty years ago. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when water came out of those showers, not gas, it was like I was born again. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He felt like he’d been born into the wrong family, and he didn’t know what he was meant to do with his life.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s true then? I was born a magician?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

My father had spent two years in the Army, but well before I was born. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We pull into the parking lot of this tall brick building that seems like it’s been around since before my grandparents were born. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Every time a new baby was born, they’d always go out to the Holy Grove, and pray to Saint Gwenforte, the Holy Greyhound, to keep that baby safe. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“You were born in Luxembourg in 1899. You came to live with Miss Thrush when you were sixteen years old, and have been here ever since.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“It has been many years since a child of the Sea God has been born. We have watched you with great interest.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She is also from Köln, the city where I was born, and she knew my parents. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I hadn’t sweated it. I told him that this was money that had just come to me for being born into one class, while he was born into another class.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then right after Reba was born he came and told me outright: ‘You just can’t fly on off and leave a body,’ he tole me. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The state all of us are citizens of, the one most of us were born into. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t really come back. I was born in America.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

With the memory of her own birth pangs still lingering, she had knowledge now of what her mother had suffered when she, Katie, was born. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How lucky we are to be born in the ‘A’ nest don’t yew think, and wouldn’t it be awful to be one of those old B’s.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back before Axel was born, Byrd green-scaped the whole property from the turn up the driveway to the big red barn. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The cutoff date for almost all nonschool baseball leagues in the United States is July 31, with the result that more major league players are born in August than in any other month. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Right after I was born, Mom and I went to live in Grandpa Ted’s guesthouse, a one-room studio where I felt safe and cozy. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Lots of them pretend they're just getting fat. My mom said she went shopping the day before I was born, and nobody noticed. But that’s my mom and shopping.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

It's been a week since they were born and they already look like three-year-olds. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

You’ll have to write to the Pope, missus, to find out what year this child was born in and I’ll save this dress for next year. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I had all but forgotten that I had been born on a plantation and I was astonished at the ignorance of the children I met. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every single one of my sons’ playmates has at least one parent or grandparent who was born outside the United States; that’s true of three of my own sons’ four grandparents. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was born in Philadelphia at the turn of the last century, the son of a dentist from Russia. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

And, of course, it stood here on the day I was born and will likely be standing on the day I die. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When he was one year old, I remembered something: At some point since he had been born, I had lost Bera-Bera and never even noticed. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It was made in 1910, the year I was born,” he said proudly. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“If I die,” she murmured, “maybe I’ll be born again when the Rosen Association stamps out its next unit of my subtype.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

There were people who were born with an inability to be tangled up in dark emotions, in complications, and Iloba was one of them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Just a few years before he was born, in 1983, Time magazine did a twist on its person of the year feature and instead named the personal computer its “Machine of the Year.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He was an only son, and he was born six months after his father was mustered into a Connecticut regiment in 1862. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

How a self-made man should always say he was born in something like a log cabin, preferably with no running water. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure she ever liked me at all for being born. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In bed that night, I couldn’t stop thinking about the key, and how every 2.777 seconds another lock was born in New York. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some people were born to inhabit such scenes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I know my family is with joy that I was born. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Just to be nice, I pick the number 17, for the day Joon was born. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

At last Sissy made it understood that she was willing to take the child off their hands as soon as it was born. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was born on the anniversary of the first-ever atom bomb explosion on Planet Earth. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Currently, as far as the government and my driver’s license are concerned, I was born on September 21, 1980...even though I was still resting comfortably inside my mom’s womb that day. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

"The baby was born exactly nine months and ten days after the wedding." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The youngest of the Baratheons had been born with a gift for easy courtesy that his brother sadly lacked. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He did not know who he was, or what he was, why he was still alive, why he had ever been born. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s all a scam, remember? There's more than enough food in the world, especially now that there aren’t enough babies being born.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. de Roo was born in South Africa but one day she was told by the government to leave the country in twenty-four hours or she'd be thrown into prison. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The goat’s belly already held a baby that would soon be born. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

My mother says healers are born, not made. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When our food and clothing and housing all are born in the complication of mass production, mass method is bound to get into our thinking and to eliminate all other thinking. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The segregated South where I was born twenty-odd years before Brown v. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I done told you time and again to give me the money when you get paid, and let me do the shopping—’cause you ain’t got the sense that you was born with.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was signed “Afua,” the African name our mother had tried to give Fern when she was born, but Pa wouldn’t let her. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

When a boy is born in Pakistan, it’s cause for celebration. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I was around four years old when she was born, and I remember this tiny, squirmy baby girl with a big, beautiful Afro of soft curls appearing in our home. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The “buttonhole” is what the doctors put inside Auggie when he was born to allow him to breathe. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He might have studied the saxophone had he not been born to immigrant parents who considered even pot holders an extravagance. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Why, Luke, you know the story. It was right before you were born, wasn't it? I’d always been special, able to see through the . . . what- ever-they-call-it.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You mean . . . some of the Peacekeepers are born in Two?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“What may kill, kills; what may eat, eats. All things are born unequal, and there is no law but that inequality.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

A few years after the marriage their daughter Joan was born. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother was fifty when I was born.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was said even the babies were born smiling. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

If she had been born colored, not a soul would of hired her to clean up or cook, either one. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Poor baby. She was in that truck for days. Mack bought her from a circus, the same way he bought me, but she hadn’t been there long. She was born in the wild, like us.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Her nine-year-old daughter, Diana, who was born in the United States, offers comfort. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When Creüsa’s time had come she went all alone to that same dark cave, and there her son was born. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a lovely story in Sanskrit, Sen added, about a frog that is born in a well and stays in the well and lives its entire life in the well. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“No. But once, she visited me. You were about to be born. She said she liked the peace in my church.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Though he only now realizes that it was also the night that Widget was born. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Initially, it simply seemed like an interesting story—a young swimmer from America who longed to compete in the summer games, but her nationality was in question because she had been born on a ship. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Blacks were born in separate hospitals, attended separate schools, worshipped in separate churches and were buried in separate cemeteries. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“From when I could see. Long before you were born.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I’d like everyone else to be happy too. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe I would earn the title after I determined if I’d been born allergic to cleaning or if the aversion had been learned. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes,” said the King, “I wish you had been born forwards like other people. What with Victorians and Mafeking Night...” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

If my father had not gone to France in 1918 and collected a hip full of German shrapnel, Caroline and I would never have been born. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was arrested and taken to Namwon. When I finally found out where they took her, I begged the Governor to release her, but he refused. That's how you ended up being born there.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t born with a hyphen linking me to Africa, any more than I was born with a desire to dribble a basketball or to write. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I thought you could use a little something,” she said, and gave me a goofy love look, like she was remembering the morning I was born. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He’d been born only a few years after Hazel, and had been locked away in a magic hotel for decades. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

So when Anne was born, in New York, Dad was not in the least bit disappointed, because he had known all along she would be a girl. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each new emperor was born in one panaqa but created a new one when he took the fringe. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We wept quite openly that Friday in the second week of May when Israel was born. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

What did being born black have to do with excellence? Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

"Yes, that's why I'm kept at court. To watch over this process. They use my blood to ensure that enough Belles are born." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When I asked how she and Carlton were related to the black Lackses, they looked at each other from across the coffee table like I’d asked if they were born on Mars. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Pennsylvania ranks fourth in the nation in its percentage of residents who were born in the state and still live within its borders, often right on top of where they were born. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“And it’s all about something that happened a long time ago? Before you were born?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was a summer when the sun never shined. This is before you were born. Fog came in on the Fourth of July and didn’t leave until Labor Day.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, there’s the obvious answer that sitting right across the Schuylkill is Bridgeport, where he was born. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You can read? You said you were born behind bars." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

They were born in County Cork—we still have family there—but they were always too poor to make the trip back. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that my colleagues upstairs would condemn my proposal, and that would kill my initiative even before it was born. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Galileo’s father, Vincenzio, who had been born in Florence in 1520, was an accomplished professional musician who was keenly interested in mathematics and musical theory. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He knew that she had been born with brittle bones, and that she got fractures easily, and that two of her six children and two of her grandchildren also had the condition. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was born in the 1880s, her parents in the 1840s. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Defender’s founder, Robert Abbott, had been born in the South, and like the Barnetts and Gustavus Swift, he recognized Chicago as a place where he could do big things. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Each person was born into a “caste”—a role in society. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

You may be born into a family, but you walk into friendships. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Babies were born and did not get fatter. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

You must have just been born, for I as yet had had no news of your birth. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a child may be born without an arm, so one may be born without kindness or the potential of conscience. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Glerk told her that the world was born out of that bog. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Haiti was born free; human rights won over property rights. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I was born here,” Gitano said patiently and inflexibly. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Otto’s second child but eldest son, Tycho was born with the proverbial silver spoon in his mouth, but his life almost immediately took a twist which might have come right out of a play. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Six months after Merriam was born a new crisis hit the family. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father disappeared before Chris was born; he was said to have died in Mexico. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But after Sabrina had been born a few months ago, our space talks had always been cut short. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

My father and my mother were also Norwegian, but because my father had a business in England, I had been born there and had lived there and had started going to an English school. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Listen to me, you fool! I know what it’s like outside the wall. I was born there.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The woman had been a palace fixture since she’d been engaged as a wet nurse when Aurelia was born, and she had been interfering and even criticizing ever since. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

This snake, which may reach gigantic size and live many hundreds of years, is born from a chicken’s egg, hatched beneath a toad. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“Not exactly. It’s like, not enough redheads are having babies with other redheads. So we’re just not being born anymore.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“She’s a dear child. But she does say the oddest things. Sometimes I think she must have been born knowing them. I tell her she has eyes in the back of her heart.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All strength is born of association,” wrote Beaumont, “and 30 individuals united through perpetual communication, by ideas, by plans in common, by concerted schemes, have more real power than 900 whose isolation makes them weak.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the world I was born into didn’t want that. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

His grandmother, the queen, lived in a high tower, where she spoke only of the other princes, past and present, who were born whole. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I am writing these words in 1984, but this grandfather of mine was born, believe it or not, in 1820, shortly after Wellington had defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was born, he couldn’t breathe and came into this world having a seizure. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The good part about my brothers being born was that people stopped saying, “All girls,” but I learned new grievances. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We knew all this about our father before we were born and then we forgot it and had to learn it all over again. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

After the baby was born, Henry joined a law firm in Boston, and Elizabeth alternated between living there with her husband and in New York with her parents. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Ultima told me that when my brother León was born that his mollera was sunken in, and that she had cured him with manzanilla. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jesus, Mary and holy St. Joseph, if you don’t hurry with this child it won’t be born till the New Year and what good is that to me with me new dress? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Suzanne Slenn, my ballet teacher, said, “You were fortunate to have been born with naturally great extension and talent. I expect more of you because of that.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Listen, Nick; let me tell you what I said when she was born. Would you like to hear?" The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The vet told us that Mango was born with a deep rip in the lining of one lung and that it couldn’t be fixed. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

‘Now, you have to be born somewhere. North Carolina—Tennessee—Alabama—some place.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

How quickly Oak was born and how we weren’t allowed to see him for months because he was so sickly. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Without a word, she picked up her blanket and came back into our room, the one we had shared ever since I’d been born. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been born in the South in 1858 to a slave father and a free mother. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But when, a few weeks after Teddy was born, Dad gave away his leather jacket—his prized beat-up motorcycle jacket with the fuzzy leopard belt—we finally realized that a major transformation was under way. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

TaShon, the last baby she birthed, was born with extra fingers. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

We could be born in a crowded, bustling city or in a rural area. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Katherine didn’t pick the face she was born with, and it ain’t her fault her perfect smile makes me want to break things. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Man is born, grows up and dies according to certain laws that have never been studied,” Quetelet wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Zeide was born in Russia and he mixes Spanish and Yiddish when he talks. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I was born in Puerto Rico, where my dad’s from, but I don’t remember even the slightest thing about it. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Art was born around 25,000 years ago, when the subhuman Neanderthal evolved into our human ancestor, Cro-Magnon man. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

When you have an aunt who was only ten when you were born, sometimes she acts like an aunt and sometimes she acts like an annoying older sister. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When each baby was born, the parents rejoiced, the heavens rejoiced, even the fairies rejoiced. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

When the family moved up north, Eugene had found that some of the other children at his school had roots in New York or Philadelphia or had been born right there in Chicago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My father had arrived there in 1980, after my older brother, Nation, was born. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I could also tell you that the children here are born with teeth and gnaw on bird bones in their cradles.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“And some children have diabetes,” Ben said, “and some have leprosy, some get eaten by tigers, some are born without arms, some get struck by lightning, and some use leaves for toilet paper.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I don’t even remember that. It was right after I was born.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It proved such a financial boon that when the family’s third son was born that year, Elias in gratitude wanted to name him Columbus. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He had sent a big basket of fruit when Laurie was born. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What has your mother told you, Hazel? Has she never explained her wish? Or told you why you were born under a curse?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Baba, I read Dr. Schneider’s biography in the waiting room. He was born in Michigan. Michigan! He’s American, a lot more American than you and I will ever be.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As new flies had been born, selected, and bred, the gene frequencies had changed, resulting in populations with new genetic compositions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The link was born on the night when he casually mentioned Colonel Aureliano Buendía and Gabriel was the only one who did not think that he was making fun of somebody. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

A few years before I was born he had settled the family on a twenty-two-acre farm near Watsonville, California, raising apples, strawberries, and a few vegetable crops. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was lighter than air from the minute I was born,” Olive said proudly. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

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

“How is work going?” she suddenly asked, words I hadn’t heard from her since before Mitt was born. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mithras was born from rock,” Annabeth said, hoping she was right. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“People say maybe she was born too soon, before she got finished cooking. Is that true?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, provided we survived whatever tribulations we were about to face, I could always go and find my parents in a few decades, once they were born—but what would be the point? Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

"John John, you was born a senior citizen," Trey said. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Since I was singing that hymn before your father was born, it’s likely I would. Try something snappier.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Some people were born lucky and sailed on clipper ships. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I once knew a girl in my village who was born with an extra thumb.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Every night, the same prayers: Why couldn't I have been born into a family where my parents loved each other and were happy for their kids? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A true southerner, she never felt safe in the city, despite living here since I was born. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Thus, the concept of the Great Escalator Trade was born. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Of course, Koffi had been born long after that golden age, but she still tried to imagine it as she traversed the city’s ancient streets. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

When I was born, my hair was a ridiculous shock of black. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

By the time Cleopatra was born, Alexandria had become the largest and grandest city in the world. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t. This is where my dad lived before John and I were born. We come on the weekends.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

No one heeded him, and there was running to and fro, but he dared to stop no one to ask what sort of a child had been born or even if any had been born. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Each of us is born with a history already in place. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

There Leto’s children were born, Artemis and Phoebus Apollo; and in after years Apollo’s glorious temple stood there, visited by men from all over the world. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone is born with the hair they have and you just do the best you can with it.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

One night, a short time before their first child was born, Fernanda realized that her husband had returned in secret to the bed of Petra Cotes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Squelch's funny in the head 'cause he was born too early, so nobody ever thumps him one. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I was born with a massive tumor in the middle of my face and two deformed legs. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Galton was born in the winter of 1822—the same year as Gregor Mendel—and thirteen years after his cousin Charles Darwin. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I read more than ever, and wished my soul that I had been born a boy. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I was born in the country nineteen hundred and twenty. Born here, raised up here, always lived here, and gonna die here, I'm sure," he said, and then winked at Lindsey. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He meant it as a kindness, for how could he know that God had judged me before I was born and had cast me out before I took my first breath? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My nanni made my bedspread as a gift for my mom when I was born. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It was like it was the only time he could ever be born, the only time that’d ever made sense for him. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Herold is a former pharmacy clerk who was born and raised in Washington, D.C. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mass incarceration, like Jim Crow, was born of racial opportunism—an effort by white elites to exploit the racial hostilities, resentments, and insecurities of poor and working-class whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Ronnie York, blond and blue-eyed, had been born and raised in Florida, where his father was a well-known, well-paid deep- sea diver. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was born a long time ago and is convinced that marriage is a woman's only real shot at happiness. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Partridge was born in Norwich in 1785 and was a demon walker—possibly the first person on the whole planet who walked long distances for the simple pleasure of it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

They would wake up a few hours later, when the new batch was born. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Worlds and stars, like people, are born, live and die. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m stuck with the character I was born with, and yet I’m sure I’m not a bad person. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

His friend couldn't help where he was born. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“What, do I look like I was born yesterday?” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was born twice in India, and then a third time, in America. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Died a few weeks after you were born.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

‘Well, I was born lucky, whatever my gaffer may say. There’s another wish come true! Where is he?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He had no idea that Moliere had been born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin and that Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A public journal, testifying to those who will never die and those who are yet to be born, as to why we human beings do the things we do. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

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

Most black babies were born at home in those days—rarely in hospitals. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But she and Lucinda had both been present when I was born. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is born when Mr. Neck tracks me through the cafeteria, demanding my “Twenty Ways the Iroquois Survived in the Forest” homework. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The day I was born they saw the color of my eyes, and they took me from the village. The Spaniards in the town looked at me, and the Catholic priest said, ‘Let her die.’ Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Though he was born in Russia in 1845, Cantor spent most of his life in Germany. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“It was born an hour after you left this morning.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In Cuba it’s good to be born in November,” Mami replies. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“She’s the one who was born right after they adopted Maya.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles reasoned that if too many individuals of a species are born in the same place and try to live off a limited supply of food, there is a fight for survival. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The middle star in the sword is not actually a star but a great cloud of gas called the Orion Nebula, in which stars are being born. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been born right here in the Montlake district of Seattle, not far from the shell house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe more than wanting to cook, he was born wanting to see the future. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

This last fact made it possible to identify the hundreds of thousands of California mothers who had themselves been born in California and then to link them to their own birth records. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

They were inseparable, spending almost every moment together from the time Emma was born. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do you think people are born for a special purpose? Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“My parents are American. They were born in Brooklyn.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suddenly hate the twins for being born, and Tía Inés for not using babysitters. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Ira was seven when my first son was born, and she took a great interest in the newcomer. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would tell them that the Border Patrol officer had made a mistake thinking I was here illegally, that once I proved to him I was born in Colton, California, he let me back in. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Like Hernan Cortes, who conquered Mexico, Pizarro was born into the lower fringes of the nobility and hoped by his exploits to earn titles, offices, and pensions from the Spanish crown. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My uncle Pedro had lost his wife long before I was born and he had no children. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was wondering whether you could tell me anything of Tom Riddle’s history? I think he was born here in the orphanage?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She had been born in Nigeria and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, though her family had moved to Maryland when she was a teenager. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe the first month of Sundays was the January after Jesus was born. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

All wild places were his home, thickets and forests and mountains, but best of all he loved Arcady, where he was born. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few months after Maureen was born, a squad car tried to pull us over because the brake lights on the Green Caboose weren’t working. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Campbell Junior was born, he did go see the baby and made a big to-do over it being a boy, which really pleased Aunt Loma. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The bombings in Birmingham began the year I was born, 1948. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He passed away before I was born, but I've always wondered if he was purposely stalling so he could keep his youngest daughter in the same country with him for as long as possible. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

These games were outdated digital dinosaurs that had become museum pieces long before I was born. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“We’re your parents, Link. We love you. The instant you were born, we were on your side, no matter what.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“What you think this is? Sir Wallace, my van is your van! We will come back so you can meet your friend. Word is born.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She was short like me, and wore faded dresses that she’d bought way before I was born. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slavin was born a hemophiliac in the 1950s, when the only available treatment involved infusions of clotting factors from donor blood, which wasn’t screened for diseases. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

This is the first Easter we’ve been apart since I was born. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was telling a story about how he became friends with another boy before they were born. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Fats had struck it rich singing songs way before Dad was born. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not...” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“When I lost my whole family, every single one, it was as if I had been born all over again,” Inatimi told Richard in his quiet way. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In it we had lain together, and our children had been born. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the birds of the North are born with a migratory instinct fused into the albumen of eggs, then the military families of America develop the same instinct out of necessity. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved you both before you were born, he wrote. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My mother was born ten minutes before my aunt Julia, who seemed to have become some sort of a recluse that summer, rarely leaving her house and, according to my mom, “stinking to high heaven.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

But Scoville thought the best chance to save Guiteau was to show that he had been born with mental defects and was insane. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

That early autobiography didn’t begin: “I was born twice.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“How ridiculous, celebrating a birth date. I don’t even know the day I was born, and I sure can’t remember any of theirs,” he says, swinging his hand toward his kids. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

After all, when Tyler was born twenty months later, the birth took place in a hospital. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Grandma, please introduce yourself and tell us your year of birth, and where you were born. Then tell us an important event from your life. Specifically, your time during the war.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I finished high school before you were born,” my mother retorted. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Sure, I was born in this country, but if my mom isn't supposed to be here, am I still American? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He asked me to feed him jelly beans as we drove, and a friendship was born. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Like quantum mechanics, the theory of relativity was born in light; this time it was the speed of light that caused the trouble. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The hand I held when my goddaughter was born, and the many mornings and evenings after Christian died. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The baby was born on the Fourth of July. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But long before Pacheco’s indestructible sow rose to prominence in the townsfolk’s fertile imaginations, another phantom was born to roam through the Miracle Valley wreaking all manner of curious havoc. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he died before I was born, and you and Dad used some of the money he left you to buy our house. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“No, sir. We haven’t changed our ideas. It has been in me ever since I was born.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Jerome died in the city. Chicago. The same city where Emmett was born.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Then, casually, “Where have you spent the most time? Where you were born, I imagine?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If I had been born a Native American in another time, I might have been lauded as a medicine man. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

In the final paragraph, Mother described the birth of Emily’s second child, a daughter, who had been born a month before. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She had been born here, bred here, she knew it all, she belonged here more than I should ever do. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

All kinds of things, like when he was born and did he know how to swim and what he did in the Overland. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had not crossed the tracks to see her since his son was born and he had no intention of renewing their relationship now. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They say he was born with his eyes open,” whispered Uncle Alfred. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

All these will disappear when the universe comes to an end and a new one is born. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“He was born when you were almost two,” Aunt Leanne whispered. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Dragon was born from an inkstone made of Fruitless Mountain, the heart of Jade Dragon. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He had not been born with that name. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Edward Baker Lincoln was born on March 10, 1846, in Springfield, Illinois. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

At the time Galileo was born, the family had good connections and a respected place in society, but finding the money to maintain that position would always be a problem. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

One of my good friends, David Maynard, had been born into a wealthy Bahamian family. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I wonder how it happened or whether it’s something he was born with. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Not long after I was born, everyone in the county pretty much suspected Momma had birthed me, the height of scandal in a place like Haller County, Kentucky. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Wilbur was what farmers call a spring pig, which simply means that he was born in springtime. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

How life is born from chaos and explosions. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

People in the contracting phase would live their lives backward: they would die before they were born and get younger as the universe contracted. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was alone and afraid, yet perceiving old, familiar sounds and smells—those of the field where he was born. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring, wolf packs stay at a nursery den where the pups are born deep in the earth at the end of long tunnels. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Plenty of time to decide after the baby is born,” I said. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He imagined not only walking, but walking away, as far as he could from the place in which he was born and in which he had nearly died. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thoroughbreds are placed in age classes according to the year in which they are born, rather than their birth month. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You two, you grew up with families. You’ve probably lived in this house since you were born, right? Right?” he said again when Maya didn’t respond, and she reluctantly nodded. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Things will be better in the next life. Maybe we’ll be born as the sons of noble families. Maybe we’ll even finally find release from this world.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alexandra continued being the decaying shantytown it was before I was born. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His words had imbued millions of South Africans and people around the world with the hope that a new South Africa was about to be born. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sister was born the year you came here last...brother, the year before that.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy’s aunt Rose and the rest of his family all lived up north, and Mama’s people were dead and gone long before Ophie had been born. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She was born into a family of musicians in Moscow, the second-largest city of the Russian Empire after Saint Petersburg. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I’ve known your husband since he was born,” Mr. Jones said, accusation in his eyes. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Now it was official: the woman who was born on Aviation Day, born to be in the air, had died in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Their mother had passed away shortly after Maeve was born; their father, when the children were nine and twelve. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She’s so happy being out there on the basketball court doing what she was born to do—and I start to envy her, because I feel as though I might throw up. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was born in the shadow of that sugar mill,” Guy said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Extra bags of rice delivered to one house signaled a coming feast; a normally sober man stumbling home drunk one night might mean that a son had been born. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Will people at such a time be born in the grave and die in the womb? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the day we were born, twins like Jacob and Esau, the younger had ruled the older. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Mike was born, though, family life had begun to fray in the Rantz household. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to get into the details of Athena’s children—how they were born straight from the mind of the goddess, just as Athena herself had sprung from the head of Zeus. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The President announced that the lights on the White House Christmas tree would not be lit, and the gas-tank lock was born. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Shortly before you were born, I was pulled over by the PG County police, the same police that all the D.C. poets had warned me of. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I was born in London, on April 3, 1934, but soon my parents moved to a house just outside the city. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Christianity was born there and in cities near the Mediterranean. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

My parents said that I was born with a sharp cry and a personality as prickly as an African hedgehog. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day the baby was born, I spied, in the dead of night, midwives, under a cloak of great secrecy, digging small holes near the house. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The injury happened before I was born, during the Great War. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She was in college when she met my dad, they got married, and then I was born. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

My mom, who is of Persian descent, was born and raised in the States. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I should’ve been born, hissed Unborn Twin, not you, you cow. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. He left my grandma before I was born. She says he could talk to animals and make a sculpture that was more real than the real thing.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Before I was born, she actually picked cotton for a week at Longleaf, my own family’s farm. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She thought back to one of her earliest memories, when she was four years old and her sister Catherine was born. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“But I think it won’t be long before the babies are ready to be born.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It’s a very scary thing, manifesting without understanding what’s happening to you, though it’s a fright nearly all peculiar children experience because so few of us are born to peculiar parents.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Both of them passed away before I was born. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I believe in knowing where your roots lie. That kind of thing shapes your identity so much. I was born right here in Shaker, did you know that?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He shows her the American professor’s house where he and his parents once lived, a time before Sonia was born, years that he has no memory of. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I know the conditions under which you were born, for I was there. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I can see kids counting backward on their fingers, trying to figure when their grandparents or great- grandparents were born, when they came to America, if they would have made the Neck Cut. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

In addition, I had humiliated her by being born a girl. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In addition, stars are born, stars evolve, and stars die. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had she been born five hundred years sooner, Raphael would have chosen her as a model for his cherubs. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

And I didn't sound wooden the way some people who weren't born actresses do, which I suspected I was—along with being born to write. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Cleveland’s newspapers made a strong point of declaring that only eight of those arrested had been born in the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She wept when they gave birth to daughters, knowing that to be born a woman meant a life of humble hardship. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black boy is born in Daytona Beach, Florida, and his mother abandons him at the age of two. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Timothy looked at the deep ocean sky, trying to see Earth and the war and the ruined cities and the men killing each other since the day he was born. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“People do rituals because they were born in the tribes. And in the tribes rituals are done every day. They are a way of life.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eighteen months later his sister was born, and five and a half years after the birth of his sister, his brother was born by Caesarean section, both in that same hospital. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In fact, she was probably still getting used to her being born. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be a jíbara more than anything in the world, but Mami said I couldn’t because I was born in the city, where jíbaros were mocked for their unsophisticated customs and peculiar dialect. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Now a girl had been born into his house as well. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

By knowing each other’s clan—the clan of the mother that we were born to, the clan of the father that we were born for—we can recognize our relatives. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the world Daisy’s grandfather John was born into. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But I would never have been born in the first place if not for the great and selfless kindness Miss Peregrine had shown my grandfather. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I felt the numb isolation of those days when I was just a little motherless kid, emptied of words, waiting to come through my door and be born. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

But the mice—with equal and obdurate consistency—had been born with tails perfectly intact, generation upon generation. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“They’re like me and Zion. Sharing genes from the same parents. It’s science. DNA. Zion and me were born right after one another. Twins. Me first,” she brags. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I am born on a Tuesday at University Hospital Columbus, Ohio, USA- a country caught between Black and White. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

It’s them, but much younger, before I was born. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Newton was born on Christmas Day, 1642, so tiny that, as his mother told him years later, he would have fit into a quart mug. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was always held to be the real founder of Rome because Romulus and Remus, the actual founders, were born in the city his son built, in Alba Longa. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You guys have been geniuses since kindergarten. You were born smart.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“My name is Mr. Jacob Benally. I am born to Salt Clan and born for Arrow Clan.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your mama sure makes a fine gingersnap. My mama always says she was born to manhandle a cast iron skillet but your mama was blessed with the lighter touch of a baker.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Well then, we could say that I was born in Salem.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jasmine was born nine months after one such visit, and now the Delanys owned two slaves. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“The theory behind the camps was to cleanse unto three generations the families of incorrect thinkers. So it was inconsistent to allow another generation to be born.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When asked about a dead friend who had been born and raised in the United States, Biddle explained that he hadn’t really died of the fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Before they were born, before they came into this world, the chimookoman must have starved as ghosts. They are infinitely hungry.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Ten gold-rimmed glasses Father brought back from America where he trained before I was born. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

And a good thing too, because it wasn’t so long before Novella was born. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was going through a second childhood; a new sense of the limit of the possible was being born in me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Reba was born, he no longer came to Pilate dressed as he had been on the woods’ edge and in the cave, when she and Macon had left Circe’s house. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been born and raised in Macondo and he was an apprentice mechanic in the banana company garage. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Except where you came from before you got here, that you like suits and jewelry, and that you was born with that face.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

They hung out together a couple of times before any of the babies were born. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Doctors had done a small operation just after I was born to remove the tumor that split the middle of my face and caused my facial deformities. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He’d dropped out his sophomore year after his son was born, because his wife was sick and there was a mound of medical bills. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“She was raised in Herat, I was born here in Kabul.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

If two black boys, Jake Williams and DeShawn Williams, are born in the same neighborhood and into the same familial and economic circumstances, they would likely have similar life outcomes. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

After that, Buddy took me out into the hall where they had some big glass bottles full of babies that had died before they were born. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“No, it’s genetic. That means you have to be born with it.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

‘When a Jew boy is born they put a gold piece in the bank for him. That’s what Jews do.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Had not this voice of hate been sounding long before he was born; and would it not still sound long after he was dead? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

So from the day she was born, I called her Charlie. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

A big ball of hatred had been born here, she realized, and it would have to be dealt with sooner or later. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I thought of writing about being deported, but I did not want my teacher to know that my family had crossed the border illegally and that I was born in Mexico. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Of course, Oliver had earned that right by being born between two sets of sisters, but he had the honor of being the only boy, which held him apart. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“So now we’re supposed to find out when somebody was born? Who? This is ridiculous!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

A new subculture was born, composed of the millions of people who now devoted every free moment of their lives to searching for Halliday’s egg. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“How about Henry Ford? He was born understanding how an engine should work. He just knew without studying it.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“After Tommy was born, it was like his world changed in one night.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Is there a perfect time for a New York Jewish lawyer to be born? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“The pig couldn’t help being born small, could it? If I had been very small at birth, would you have killed me?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I should have dumped you in an orphanage the day you were born. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were twins, and their birthday is February 19—the same day as Rere was born. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you were born on Friday, you could be called Friday. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Lara’d been born in Russia or someplace, and she spoke with a slight accent. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

As much as Dad liked to tell stories about himself, it was almost impossible to get him to talk about his parents or where he was born. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

From the day I was born I have lived with hardships that most people couldn’t even bear. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then, four and a half months after baby Joseph was born, Henrietta went to the bathroom and found blood spotting her underwear when it wasn’t her time of the month. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The evening stars shine brighter, And glad is every dewy morn, For way down South in Mississippi, Folks are happy they have been born. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the one people went to when a baby was born or when someone in the community died or when a couple wanted to get married or when someone needed food or money. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I bet they’d be divorced by now if I hadn’t been born. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

They are born and die in periods of tens of millions of years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty days after they lost Annie, on May 13, a new child, a son, Horace, was born. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the baby was exhumed but before she had an opportunity to formally examine the body, Enstice told an investigator that she believed that the baby had been born alive. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And on January 1,1804, the victorious Republic of Haiti was born. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Most of the delegates were freed slaves, though the younger ones may have been born free. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Because it was really in Poland, or, more accurately, in the Slavic countries of eastern Europe, that Danny’s soul had been born. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Don’t try to fool me, Micay. I was there when you were born!” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

This was not a bad thing to do in China back then, to kill a baby before it is born. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt saw nothing wrong with being born in a stable. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether from fright, or the running, my baby was born a few days later, a month too soon but healthy for all that. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw your next-door neighbor, the lady whose husband died before we were born and who sometimes let us swim in her pool. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She was glad she hadn't been born into one. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, nobody gave the Night Brothers their magic. They were born magicians.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

From that union would be born a race destined to hold the entire world under their sway. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will forget all about such nonsense when your child is born,” she said. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, my first and only baby. He died just a few days after he was born, the poor tiny thing,” she sighed. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I guess if you’re going to be born with an illness that requires constant care, then it’s good to have your mom as your doctor. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Biggest pile seen since I 'was born, Oh! Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The exact spot where Aphrodite was born of the foam could be visited by any ancient tourist; it was just offshore from the island of Cythera. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will feel better when it is born,” he said. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then after the baby was born, he couldn’t bear to leave her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s just a child that has to be born, the by-product of good nights in Milan. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was shortly after Penny had been born, and she still had a good-size baby bulge. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, continued the monster, it was a kingdom, small but happy, for the king was a just king, a man whose wisdom was born out of hardship. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Dalton was born in 1766 on the edge of the Lake District near Cockermouth to a family of poor but devout Quaker weavers. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

French reappeared shortly before the baby was born, but the months of worrying had weakened the developing fetus; Ann lost the child soon after the birth. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“She called me right after you were born. She said you were so pretty it hurt her eyes to look at you.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the people who knew her were looking forward to the day when the child was due to be born, as they knew that it would be a most unusual child. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Mariner, Viking, Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity, just to name a few, had all been born in this one room. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bangladesh—not India—is where Baba was born, on that jute farm the Das family lost during the war. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were ashamed, she told me, ashamed and angry with her for eloping with someone from an even lower caste than the one she’d been born into. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

We were born exactly thirteen months apart from each other. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was a kid, before the twins were born, he would have moments of complete terror that overtook him. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

To perform in the sport he was born for, he had to be very thin, but to survive his disease, he had to maintain habits that made thinness virtually impossible. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Richardson asked on an impulse, and after a brief pause and the clacking of a keyboard, the woman replied that yes, a Mia Wright had been born in Bethel Park in 1962. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was then that Alba entered the nightmare that her grandmother had apparently not seen on her astrological chart when she was born, and that Luisa Mora had seen in a fleeting premonition. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One must die and be buried under the floor of the hut where it was born.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

My heart gives a hopeful leap when I find a stack of pictures in the bottom bureau drawer, but they are all of Gram, Grandpa, and Dad right after he was born. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

At last, but how no one ever tried to explain, two children were born to this shapeless nothingness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It takes a special gift, and the MBL appears to have been born with it. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For the sake of my children whom I wished to be born in a free land.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Salinas in California, where I was born and grew and went to school gathering the impressions that formed me, there was only one Negro family. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in his brain was born sharp appetite for the future—a pleased warm anticipation, as though the coming minutes and weeks must bring delight. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I wondered if all the crying I did hurt you. I wonder if that's why you are born too soon." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Picked on all the time, even though his dad sliced off the extra skin on his hands when he was born. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“We have no more choice in that than in whether or not to be born.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you wrote that poem after I was born, about finding love in quiet places.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“She was born with a gift,” Hestia said. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

After Sasha was born, I debated whether I even wanted to return to my job at all, thinking that maybe our family would be better served if I stayed home full-time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He was born on November 19, 1831, in his parents’ log house in northeastern Ohio. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“No, that’s my newest story. I was born like this. The truth is totally boring so I make up stories for fun. I have lots of them if you’d like to hear.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But it’s real life for the billions of animals unlucky enough to have been born into the industrial food chain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The couple’s first daughter, Dessie, had been born out of wedlock, an event entirely within the realm of what Pitezel’s parents had come to expect of their son. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“You just take this form and fill it out. Now you figure out what year you were born, and you put it down right here, and you remember it.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My parents like to claim that after he was born, I frequently locked myself in the bathroom and very loudly plotted schemes to run away from home, because no one paid attention to me. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Could such geniuses have equally well been born in Tasmania or Namibia? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Just before he was born, I was camping with Hugo in Ngorongoro Crater. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

My mom's labor had to be induced to avoid any risk of me being born during a bombing raid. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You know it is. You were born for this, Rowan. Don’t throw it away.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“But you were born here. I thought all Venetians love boats.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

What had Will done in that gravel pit to help Tansy with the calves who would not be born? The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left the day after you were born. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He was born in the Year of the Dog. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You might have been born the biggest fish in the sea, but the skill and perseverance of those lower born can take you down and destroy you.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Swaying hypnotically a foot from his face was the biggest, strongest, most evil-looking adder that had ever been born. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“We’ve sort of known each other since I was born,” he laughed, smiling at me again. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Even though her schooling focused on the Governor's teachings and his deeds, she had never been taught when he was born or where. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She turned the page, hoping for a photograph of the city where Dev was born, but all she found were graphs and grids. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I was born in San Francisco. But we left when I was just a baby. I don’t remember it at all. We never stay in any place too long.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I was born in Incheon, the year of 1940,” she says. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

To put that in perspective—World War II ended eleven years before the first female pilot for British Airways was born. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Any children will be born with the tail of a pig.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When their next child was born, on March 2,1841, it was a girl, Anne Elizabeth. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would have been changed, as they said, forever; sown in dishonor, he would be raised in honor: he would have been born again. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe it isn’t a good idea to tell a newly arrived human being that he’s been born into a world of chaos, pain, and poverty just in time to watch everything fall to pieces. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Starting before she was born, her parents had bounced from state to state because, in their words, “that’s where our paychecks pulled us.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I never regretted that you were born. I only regret how I handled it. I never should have lied about who you were.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Grandma Gilbreth was born in Maine, where she said the seasons were Winter, July and August. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sheed said, “You were born because Petey missed an opportunity? Shouldn’t there be a bunch of Missed Opportunities, then? Like millions?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

If she had been born a generation later, or even a half generation, she surely would have gone on to college, but she worked as a secretary. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The pages were filled with my cramped hieroglyphics, a byproduct of being born a lefty. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The canal showed the blurred reflections of the houses, just as it had done long before Prosper had been bom, before his parents and even his grandparents had been born. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

His mother is the crossing guard at Latimer Middle School and has been the crossing guard there since before he was born. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Did being born in Germany make Karl any less my friend? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I took this baby from my womb before it could be born. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can’t forbid people to be born— at least not yet. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Started out where he was born—China—then went to parts of Europe and up and down the East Coast of the United States before settling in New Jersey. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“All that work, down the drain. I’m not blaming you, Katniss. It’s just that very few people are born with camera-ready faces. Like him.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The shriveled and twisted calf and foot he had been born with made sure of that. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

In the earliest age of the gods, existence was born from non-existence. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She had forgotten that Jaime had been born on the same day and did not have such fits. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Round and yellow, yellow and round,” the Beast said, and the sun was born, hanging just overhead. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Died August 12, 1869: this last, the date, added later, crudely with a chisel, who even dead did not divulge where and when he had been born. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father had been slain before she was born, and her splendid brother Rhaegar as well. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“No. He was born like that,” I explained. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

As she worked, she remembered something her parents had said to her when Klaus was born, and again when they brought Sunny home from the hospital. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He was born in a house, a pretty ordinary house, right across the river from here, in Bridgeport. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

That being dead will feel like before you were born, which is to say, a whole lot of nothingness. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was strange to me that someone who could influence the thoughts of others had been born with a personality that naturally drew people to him. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The wedding was exciting, but the most exciting day for me was when my daughter, Agot, was born. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose my lifelong paranoia was born in those cold, molasses-slow minutes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stars and their accompanying planets are born in the gravitational collapse of a cloud of interstellar gas and dust. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Must have been born on one,” he mused. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was born here, you racist! And that guy was Egyptian. My family’s Indian.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It happened around the time my younger brother Hunter was born. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly after Nation was born, my dad left the village for Mutare to find work. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He had been born a nobody, a worker ant in the hive of the New South. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tullahoma was where Momma and Wynn had grown up, where my daddy had gone to high school, and where I was born. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Is it better never to have been born? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“He said I was born to be a Keeper. He said that Keepers don’t have families, only one another, but that it’s, uh, better because families only run off and abandon you.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after you were born, someone sent a letter to Penikese, asking questions about a baby who had washed up on one of the Elizabeths. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“You were born in Panamá. It's in your bones.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

We could have been born millions of years apart, but we were able to meet each other and fall in love. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’ve no more notion where I was born than you have—if so much. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

But Miss Whitlaw had been born and raised in that house. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Long time past, my heroes,” Gawaine was saying, “before ourselves were born or thought of, there was a beautiful grandmother at us, called Igraine.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katrina was a full year before I was born, but we learn about that hurricane in class and have a moment of silence every year on the anniversary. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Black and white babies were born in separate hospitals, lived their adult lives apart from one another, and were buried in separate cemeteries. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Then Hazel appeared next to him, swinging her big cavalry sword like she was born for battle. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Seventeen out of the twenty-five players on the team were born in January, February, March, or April. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“The ocean wave reminds me of California, because I was born in San Francisco.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I asked them that, they said that they didn’t kick you out, you’d just decided to “relocate” until the baby was born and you weren’t so “conspicuous.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Some people are born with it, Papa said, and most people could never afford the surgery to fix it. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if she was born this way, or if something broke her along the way. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I haven't spent a night in a hospital since those first months after I was born. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My mother died when I was born, so I was suckled by one of the sheep. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Now, Miss Brooks. Will you please tell me where you were born?” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Mine just be born. A little girl” She cradled an invisible baby in her arms. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was born Jewish, but became an agnostic when he was a teenager, partly because of all that had happened to him as a child. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And was being a coward something you were born with, like ears that stuck out? The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The girl should have been taken to the Field when she was born and still nameless. It is the way.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mom always says I was born thirty-five years old and that I get more middle-aged every year.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You wasn’t there the day I was born. And I know you don’t want a coal-black woman.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

If Agulen could have seen him, another pottery sculpture would have been born. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess. But it’s not like I was born smart like you and Kojo.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Aegeus went back to Athens before the child was born, but first he placed in a hollow a sword and a pair of shoes and covered them with a great stone. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even worse,I was a girl child—and a spotted one at that, because I was born with a skin condition called vitiligo, which caused me to look like a baby leopard. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The birth date on the card showed that “Janice” had been born just two years before me, though from his appearance, I would have guessed that he was at least ten years older than that. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like he was born an adult, a father, a doctor. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The legend took hold in Berkeley that this fancy was born in the Lawrence brothers’ neutron treatment of their own mother. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

We were thinking not about country but about family as Malia Ann Obama, one of the two most perfect babies ever to be born to anyone, anywhere, dropped into our world. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"Few men are born to lead. The rest are born to follow," he tells Helmuth. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was born on August 4, on the one-year anniversary of their wedding. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We discovered that we had been born in the same year, two days apart. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The ones that were born a bit yellower to begin with lived to an old age in the drought; the birds couldn’t see them in the parched grass. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Francie didn’t tell Evy how she was afraid the baby would be born crooked because Mama had worked on her hands and knees up to the last minute. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, some of us were born to be punctuation vigilantes. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

But these tours had been discontinued long before Lina was born. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We were all of us new ones once,” he said with a smile, “except for the youngsters who have been born here.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I know the conditions under which you were born, for I was there. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“I was born on Halloween, and until I was eight years old my parents had me convinced that the candy people gave out when I knocked on their doors was birthday presents.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I might as well have just been born, or just wormed through a Lazarus Door—one atom at a time. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“No! In that letter, Marcus said that he wanted me, before I was born. I wasn’t expecting that.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Yes, he was born in Germany, but he is Karl—no Hun who bayonets babies. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The baby, Charles Waring Darwin, was born on December 6,1856. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I made this before Campbell Junior was born.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“You were born to it? Like a slave?” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He'd been born there, and though my parents had immigrated to the US when he was little, Iraq had always remained home for him. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

According to Mom, even though I was born on April 2, she went into labor with me on April Fools’ Day. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Indeed, he was so violent that Flo had not managed to wean him properly by the time her next baby was born. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “No, ma’am, I was born free in the Buxton Settlement, in Canada West.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“That was only a joke, Sticky. I’m hardly a queen, you know, and I’m not from England. I was born in a country called Zambia and brought here to Stonetown when I was a child.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“This is my country! I was born here!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Adam Trask was born on a farm on the outskirts of a little town which was not far from a big town in Connecticut. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The same one your mother worked for just before you were born,” the woman growled back at him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days before I was born, the village had held a meeting and agreed that, with grass and water everywhere, it would be a good time to move. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bateson knew that he needed a name for the discipline that was being born around him. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

‘The lack of ghosts is eerie. Back in ancient times, Delos was sacred ground. No mortal was allowed to be born here or die here. There are literally no mortal spirits on this whole island.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Dr. Eastman told me that I could write to you with more questions about Penikese and the babies who were born there: Jason and Morgan. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was a show that was created even before I was born, about a really old, really expensive lawyer named Matlock who solved criminal cases for a ton of money. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The big-bang theory was born Yet scientists were aware that the big-bang theory suffered from a significant shortcoming. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She had been born into a family of craftsmen who worked for a living. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

After I graduated, my mother and father encouraged me to come home to Birmingham and live with them until the baby was born. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He hated the things with a hundred hands and fifty heads, even though they were his sons, and as each was born he imprisoned it in a secret place within the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then at last my child was born, a nicely formed boy, smaller than the others had been, but of course I was older now. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a neighborhood peopled by fifth and sixth generation Americans, whereas in the Nolan neighborhood, if you could prove you had been born in America, it was equivalent to a Mayflower standing. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom, frustrated, finally responded that I was born on “the twentieth of Mehr in 1359,” according to the Iranian calendar. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

For that matter, hadn’t Jesus been born in a manger? The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I was born a “queen” ’cause Daddy used to be a King Lord. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Eddie Robinson was born in Athens, Georgia, on the same day that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was first inaugurated. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike Darwin—gentleman biologist, and soon to be England’s most lauded natural historian—Wallace had been born to a middle-class family in Monmouthshire. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I remember the day she was born,” said another. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The oldest ones had been here before George Washington was born, before the Mayflower sailed, when the only people here were Native Americans quietly hunting and fishing among the trees. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then one day when she was five—long before Arjun was born—Nathan pointed her out to me as she played in the fields. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you roll an egg on my face like that when / was born?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I confess it was conceived in delight, and I grieve to think that it will be born into misery!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The only thing wrong with the whole business was that the baby was born dead. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your father was born in Erudite,” she says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The disreputable circumstances surrounding Lee's pregnancy were enough to influence the pathologist who conducted the autopsy to conclude that the stillborn baby was born alive and was then suffocated by Lee. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This kid was getting brainwashed—trained to hate the gods and lash out because he’d been born half Olympian. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“When you were born, didn’t someone give you a name?” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Two daughters were born in the same year as each other, 1688, but were not twins. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

In addition, since humans are born underdeveloped, they can be educated and socialised to a far greater extent than any other animal. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She not only concluded that Marsha Colbey's baby was born alive but also asserted that the child would have survived with medical attention. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was as if a glacier was being born somewhere in the heart of the place, and its frozen tongues were squeezing out wherever there was an opening. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It all had to do with what side of a fence you were born on. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“How can you not know where you were born!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

If Huygens was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Boyle was born with a canteen of cutlery in his. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“But that’s only because she was here first, you know; she was already in there when I was born.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

And I added that they were worthless daughters of baboons and they should never have been born. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was born with a fever. The midwives were certain I would die.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She learned a bunch when she was in acting school way before I was born, which is how she met my father. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As reliably as I can learn, my mother died the same year I was born, the year of our Lord 1587, the twenty-ninth of Queen Elizabeth's reign. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

They spent so much time staring at each other’s faces before they were born they can go the rest of their lives passing up mirrors without a glance. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That fall in the false warmth of a Brooklyn Indian summer, Katie sat on the stoop and held her sickly baby against the bigness which was another child soon to be born. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If only I HAD been born a boy, she thought. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now let me tell you about a man who was born in that century, and I think you will begin to have your answer. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Told you when I was born,” Cora said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When I was born, my mother told him that he could name his first grandson. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

When I was born, my mother hadn’t seen her family in three years, but she wanted me to know them and wanted them to know me, so the prodigal daughter returned. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The deer, whose name was The Deer, was born about a year or so ago and grew up freely in the woods. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

You spoke haltingly, and you hunched your shoulders, which made you seem smaller than me, though you were born a year before. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The first of Sam and Rosie’s children was born on the twenty-fifth of March, a date that Sam noted. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

When the daughter's baby girl was born, his wife put her foot down. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She didn’t even know the woman who had given it to her when she was born, an old college friend of her mom’s. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Gray like the others surrounding it except for the roses my mother planted around its border just before I was born; they still bloomed each spring around this time, without fail. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

While settling in Cape Town and the surrounding frontier, the white colonists had their way with the Khoisan women, and the first mixed people of South Africa were born. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I thought she’d been born to American parents overseas. It had never occurred to me that she was Jordanian.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

One entire cupboard was crammed with boxes of vintage breakfast cereals, most of which had been discontinued before I’d been born. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Some people are born to wield power and to exercise authority. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whose new wife always seemed to suffer emergencies at the last minute that kept him from visiting more often, especially now that the baby was born. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Most of us were born in this country; we had no other models. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course we were born. We’re here, aren’t we? We just don’t happen to have any of those birth certificate things in our pockets.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The one that would ride in his back pocket, whisper words of encouragement, tell him that he was born to chase the light. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I was born on June 22, but in her anxiety-ridden state, Mom said it was June 1. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And therefore, sometimes for fifteen minutes in a row, Mrs. Beale was seen doing something she hadn’t done since the little ones were born: nothing. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three lambs were born, one with a black face. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

“No,” said Harry, “I was born in July.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Martin had thrived at them all, always with that superior smile of people who were born to belong and excel. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But often there was truth at the heart of local legends—people who had been born with gifts that their countries didn’t understand. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.’ The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I was born in Nicaragua, a country where a communist regime was implanted, after Somoza lost his presidency. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

"They must walk across their native sand. We think that something registers in their brains that kicks in twenty-five years later because they return to the beach where they were born to lay their eggs." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Linda had come from the Other Place long ago, before he was born, with a man who was his father. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was born ambitious to be a great cook, way back in another time, way back in America, which was now across the ocean. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

So now, my dad told me, there are so few babies being born that the population’s going to be cut in half.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hamilton had been born on the West Indian island of Nevis, the illegitimate son of a down-on-her-luck beauty of French extraction and a hard-drinking Scottish merchant with a flair for bankruptcy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t have been born these perfect angel parents with halos hovering over their heads and church outfits on. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“So you were born with it and I wasn’t.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Their other children, who were born in the U.S., were normal and could translate. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we moved again, this time to a village called Wernyol, where my father had been born. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was born, my older brother, Carlton, looked at me and declared to the hospital room, “It’s not a baby, it’s a skeeter!” and from there the name stuck. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She might not have been born at all. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Shin never came in contact with a classmate who had been born outside the camp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

So there was no doubt in her mind, whether I agreed or not: Once you are born Chinese, you cannot help but feel and think Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, you are. Today, you reminded me of me. Yet, still without question, you. Watching your focus, your joy, I knew you were born to fence.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But you can be sure of one thing: Both of them wanted a girl to be born next time. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaori knew in her bones that they were meant to be born in the mountains. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I had wanted to find out which Indian group he was born into, but he took the question another way. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There are times when I wish I had never been born, But I will be healed at Saint Winifred’s well. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I was born on January 1, 1900! I lived every day of the twentieth century!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wished that I had been born into a trouble-free family. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A second daughter, Polly, was born that year, and as his business took root Harry bought a stump farm—160 acres of recently logged land southwest of town. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If you journeyed into the past and prevented your parents from meeting, then you would never have been born—which is something of a contradiction, since you clearly exist. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some men are born for great things, and others to help great men do great things.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The night you were born was the first time since we were kids that I saw my big brother cry. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

My mother says I was born on an evil day and prays for me. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been born in the wartime years; they’d been raised by parents who’d come of age in the Depression, who threw nothing out, not even moldy food. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Especially the tricks of illusion came to him so easily that it seemed he had been born knowing them and needed only to be reminded. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Richard had not been born in Maryland, but he was working there, the summer that she met him, as a grocery clerk. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“For thus is it spoken: Oft hope is born, when all is forlorn.” The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

"I was changing Doña Laura's diapers before you were born!" she quarreled. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He thought about his eight-month-old daughter, who still had no name, and about the child who was going to be born in August. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

After the girls were born and Mama Lessie passed age thirty, she was able to fulfill her long-held dream: to go back to school. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When they got married, and when Robin and I were born. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Bernard Zuckerman, who was almost as studious as Bobby in analyzing games, especially the strategy of opening moves, was born just days apart from Bobby and ultimately would become an international master. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

Each time someone was born or died, we had the preacher put it inside the Bible. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom said we had ridden on the train once, going up to Chicago for Aunt Cecily’s wedding, way back before Susie was born. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I was born in China, in Taiyuan,” she said. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Brown hair like you. She was born six weeks early but the doctor says she’ll be fine.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never wanted to be born to lepers. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“When any baby is being born upside down or a mother is too small for her baby, Sister Redempta is called in.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

At times I tried to picture the world she had been born into, in 1866 — a world, I imagined, filled with women in long black skirts, and chaste conversations in the parlor. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Viola had been with us always, since before I was born, since before even Harry was born. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She told investigators that her son was born dead and never took a breath, despite her efforts to revive him. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was mad weird seeing across the border for the first time in my entire life, taking in the country where my grandparents were born. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

My dad was born four years later, followed by my two aunts. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She imagined they all knew that she’d been born a harami, a source of shame to her father and his family. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Hannah heard her and added hastily, “She died years ago, when he was born.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They say he was born with his eyes open. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was born in Thebes and for a long time was held to be the son of Amphitryon, a distinguished general. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came home six weeks after Adam was born. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The woman said that he had been born with his eyes open, looking at people with the judgment of an adult, and that she was frightened by his way of staring at things without blinking. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I was born seven months after they got married.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I miss Khalid so much that sometimes I have to pretend he’s still here, still in the first body he was born to, just so the pain won’t hurt as bad. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Even if he weren’t, he’d been born in a birthing center, not a hospital, so there was no chance of an accidental baby swapping. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly all of us were born at home and not in hospitals, with only our families and a midwife present. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calpurnia said, “As sure as the sweet Jesus was born, baby. Get this in your head right now, you ain’t pregnant and you never were. That ain’t the way it is.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Men are born and remain free and equal in rights,” it announced to the world. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Bright and serious, Ismail Meer was born in Natal, and while at law school at Wits he became a key member of the Transvaal Indian Congress. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and my mom have been friends since before I was born. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t take much accessing to know he left just after the youngest daughter was born, and it’s been a struggle for their mom ever since. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Of course you are, darling. You were born in Georgia and you’ve always lived below the Mason-Dixon Line.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them were alive when Benjamin Franklin was born. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She made only two lasting friends in Las Pasturas, Ultima, for whom she would lay down her life, and Narciso, whose drinking she tolerated because he had helped her when her twins were born. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was thirty-five now, had been married three times, and had given birth to ten children, all of whom had died soon after being born. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tells him her parents went to India once, to an ashram somewhere, before she was born. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Woo,” it says at the top, and below that, “June May,” who was born in “California, U.S.A.,” in 1951. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the God of the Vine was born of fire and nursed by rain, the hard burning heat that ripens the grapes and the water that keeps the plant alive. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know he would never sire cubs, never have the ferocity and energy that he was born to. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She knew the exact date because it was her fourteenth birthday, and her mother had recorded it in the black album her grandmother had started when she was born. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s twisted. I was born that way. They wanted to take me to the Field but my mother said no.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was there, in that little shack, that Hassan was born in the winter of 1964, just one year after my mother died giving birth to me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“He was fighting just as hard for those who had lived before as he was for those living at the time and those who would be born later.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I was born at the end of the rainy season, so everything was green. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor was she old enough to appreciate the injustice, to see that it is the creators of the harami who are culpable, not the harami, whose only sin is being born. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Oh, her. Hemiplegia. Half her brain got wrecked some way before she was born so the other half had to take over, and it makes her do certain things backwards.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And thus, from the ambitions of the priests are born the disorders and the quarrels among the barons. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, sweetheart, you haven't messed up anything. You are perfect, so perfect, do you know that? I remember when you were born. The moment I saw you, that was my first thought: she’s perfect.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

"Right after you was born. He must be a magician, because as soon as he heard the magic words 'birth defect,' he disappeared." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

That was because enough enslaved children were born, lived, and grew to become adults. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I don’t care, because that’s exactly what I am: as scared as the day I was born and pushed out wailing into this world. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

It had gone on for hours when Tam Lin brought out a special wine that had been bottled the year El Patron was born. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The laughs and howls and hoots must have raised the roof of the tent five feet, all ’cause Sammy was naked as the day he was born. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

As soon as the chicks were born, the sexers hurried to separate the males from the females. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The girls had never been called angel children before, and thought it very agreeable, especially Jo, who had been considered a ‘Sancho’ ever since she was born. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

You might even be able to track down your mother and kill her before she meets your father, preventing you from being born and causing a terrible paradox. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He died the year before I was born, and we only have a few grainy pictures of him. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“I’ve known you ever since you were born, Naima. Some of your ideas are crazy, but you always think of something. And a few of them are really good.” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was born in the hill country of Texas to the daughter of a single mother and the son of Mexican immigrants, all of them dirt poor—luxury travel is still a luxury. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I remember when I was twenty-one. My father told me, ‘A man is born to die. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No one knows what animals future years will be named after. I mean, the last reptilian year was the Year of the Gecko and that was before I was born.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But Thalia and I had been born anyway, and now we were both getting close to sixteen. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

From this unintended encounter, I believe, the steam engine was born. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She had been born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, where her father had been a “checker for Ford automobiles.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Even before she was born, Ni'vea had known she was not of this world, because she had already seen her in dreams. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Governor’s words pounded in Pong’s temples: Those who are born in darkness always return. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Each child is born with different strengths and abilities, including different types of creative thinking. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She knew only the area she’d been born and raised in, and she couldn’t read a map. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I was born on board. Never was asleep.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

But this was the road my dad knew by heart, because he was born in Ardestan, and he was going home. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

When a baby is born in the village, it’s a big celebration. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

If their mother ever wondered about those calves that were born like miracles every spring, she never mentioned it. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a secret—a lie that had been in my life since before I was born. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

In the early eighties, before I was born, he opened one of the first integrated restaurants in Johannesburg, a steakhouse. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Wasn't ever anything mean in it—like that he wished I hadn't been born or something—just stories, quiet stories that would make me smile and help me fall asleep. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

When Pearl was born—on an unseasonably warm May afternoon, at the hospital, after fourteen hours of labor—Mia took the birth record card from the nurse. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My sister’s middle name was Akiko, which means “autumn”—when she was born. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Mom had gotten a text from Dad: he’d moved out a little while after Hadley was born, but I knew they still fought about money. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Soon they were rumbling along the road in a beat-up Ford pickup that had been new about the time Hazel was born. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Unlike most babies, Stuart could walk as soon as he was born. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

When we were born we were blank pieces of paper; nothing had been written yet. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned back against the wall, looking at me as if he’d had me figured out from the day I was born. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“My father was born in England, and he was a good-looking man,” she began. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our baby brother, Roman, was born pale as dust. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Besides, states that arise quickly, just like all the other natural things that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and branches and will be wiped out by the first adverse weather. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

My parents probably argued before Héctor was born. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I thought the lights were the ghosts of those slaves coming for me because they were jealous that I’d been born free. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And he needed the education that Florence desired far more than he, and that she might have got if he had not been born. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And, indeed, compared to other animals, humans are born prematurely, when many of their vital systems are still under-developed. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read that van Gogh was Dutch and that he was born in 1853. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My aunt, she was born here, and her husband is from America. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Only that she’d been born on a farm, raised on a farm, married to a farmer somewhere far from the sea, and that she had lost it all. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The dog man despised me for not being born here. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I thought as to how that mule had been there since I was born and that I had hurt it bad. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was a young man, long before I was born, Mamaji was a champion competitive swimmer, the champion of all South India. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I often tell people I was born in Birmingham, halfway in and halfway out of the South’s violent Civil Rights era. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But I’m still thinking about being born on a spaceship, an honest to badness spaceship. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to think of death; how everybody was born but to die. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The various communist regimes that had held power since the night Laila was born were all defeated. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was because this was where people were born and born and born until finally the result was you, drinking a Coke in the Jitney Jungle. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

As soon as his son was born, he began to make trips and inquiries to gain influence, in hopes that he could marry his son to a member of the imperial family. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Caroline had been born without her left forearm. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

His mother had been born a slave, and after freedom she was a washerwoman. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Stars like the Sun are born in batches, in great compressed cloud complexes such as the Orion Nebula. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shouldn’t those who were born to expect death be the sole subjects of gleaning?” went the popular wisdom. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

If he’d been born again once, what was to say that he couldn’t be born again a second time, back into his old ways? Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Meme saw them as if they had suddenly been born out of the light and her heart gave a turn. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

For his part, Norman Mackworth had been born in India, the son of a British eye surgeon who performed cataract surgery for locals. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

And when we found out that she had been born with six fingers on each hand and that there was a little bump where each extra one had been removed, we smiled. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

In southern California, it felt like summer all year long, the drive-ins never closed, and a whole new industry was born. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

I had no desire to share the fate of Galileo, with whom I feel a strong sense of identity, partly because of the coincidence of having been born exactly 300 years after his death! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cells were born, or differentiated anyway, knowing how to do this kind of thing together. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If you'll check the date on the coin, you will see they are new—minted in the year The Souls was born." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Known, you mean? I should hope so. It's where I was born and raised. Alsatia, we call it." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Back in 1948, the year I was born, several black families had crossed the “color line” that separated white homes from black homes in the Smithfield area of Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew your mom her whole life. She was born in that house, just like you were,” Mr. Patterson said, pointing at my house again. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

How is it different from Grandfather God sending the African children to hell for being born too far from a Baptist Church? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was born grown up” was her pet description of her willful and self-reliant elder son. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When three cubs were born ten weeks ago, rangers visited all fifty or so of the inhabited islands to share the good news. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

You wouldn’t like to be forgotten as if you had never been born. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dense hair on my arms was almost blond, and my eyebrow hairs weren't nearly as thick as the ones my sister had been born with. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

And had I not been born in the South, her trivial act would have been as unnoticed by me as it was by her. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five children were born to Phyllida and Harry, three of whom lived. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

What made Kate so effective was the fact that she had either learned it or had been born with the knowledge. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I was born in this hospital,” he said quietly, “The day before yesterday was the first time I’d been in it since I was born.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He told me that he and Mom had their first argument on the day I was born. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“An old boyfriend. Maybe he split when your mom got pregnant. Or maybe he got killed in an accident before you were born.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Always,” he blurted out, “since I was born!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they made her feel like she’d been born with proper claws. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

This pretty little girl who was born by day wants to get taken to the candy store. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I have no name. I didn’t know I was born until I was torn away from his heart.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I wished I had been born into a red family so I could do my revolutionary duties without worrying. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like it had been when Peach was being born, like her body was working separately from her brain, and she closed her eyes and tried to breathe. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Eventually, when the region got small enough, it would be spinning fast enough to balance the attraction of gravity, and in this way disklike rotating galaxies were born. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I color in the bubble next to my favorite number, 11, for the day I was born. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s just like Pa said when you were born. Something is not right with you.” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He had been born with his eyes open. 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 woman who was born on Aviation Day, the woman who was born to be in the air, had vanished in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Babies are born with this thing on their heads, a class of a hood, rare and magical. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“If you had been born such, would you have been here now? Not you—” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I was born, disturbing the tranquility of Anthony’s remarkable career as a three-year-old wonder-jock, the video cameras were fully trained on his every sprint, gasp, dive, and volley. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Is this the same part of Japan you were born in?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But when he straightened, I saw in his slumping shoulders that the life I had known since I’d been born was over. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was born there in 1898, the first of five children. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late in 1876, during his seventh term, Garfield bought a farm in Mentor, Ohio, about twenty miles from where he was born. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

During my visit at Granny’s a sense of the two races had been born in me with a sharp concreteness that would never die until I died. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow’s a busy day for me. The twins are being born tomorrow, and the test results show that they’re identical.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

She looked like she was born to wear Greek batde armor, but I didn’t see how even she could stand against that bull’s charge. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Papa got a serious look and said, “Always remember, a man is born to die. A man is born to die ” He looked at me, hut I didn’t know what to say. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.” Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hera, furiously angry, turned the maiden into a bear after her son was born. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every sheep is born with a tongue that lets him go ba ba ba and there’s a great lack of tongue in this head. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I understand. I used to sleep naked all the time. Up until you were born.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“No child is born a delinquent,” Mom said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

His father had been born a slave in Virginia and had risen to the position of overseer. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Today, because this is America and you are not destined to remain in the class into which you were born, I live in a house with four bathrooms, and there is always enough hot water. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

When I was born, my sister was only three years old. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Etiquette is a set of rules people use so they can be rude to each other in public. I was born Dennais first, Threpe second, and count last of all.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was born all broken and twisted, and he was born mad. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was the treatment that all of his children received before they were born. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was born in He grew up poor in the Bronx, near Yankee Stadium. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Since Pearl had been born they’d lived, by Mia’s count, in forty-six different towns, keeping their possessions to what would fit in a Volkswagen—in other words, to a bare minimum. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Out but to relieve herself, mistress. She will be back soon, and then your babe will be born.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or you would have been born, but to another father.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“When I was born?” the dragon asked, thinking hard. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that Silly’s father had died shortly after she was born. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Geography didn’t catch up to Eratosthenes until true oceangoing ships proved his calculations directly, almost two thousand years after he was born. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“I was just nineteen when you were born. I was eighteen when I married your father.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Biggest pile seen since I was born, Oh! Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had taken the angels a long time to get rid of that kind of dangerous in Lucille; it was a fight that had started decades before even Bitter was born. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

When the baby Jesus was born, there was a brite bright light in the sky. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

During one, my mother got pregnant with their second son, who died a few days after he was born. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

This is the kind of activity student government was born to do. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

When I was little, I thought people were sending up rockets and cherry bombs because of me—hurray, Lily was born! The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sinfulness, therefore, was embedded within us thousands of years before we were born—from Adam’s loins directly to his line. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The baby had been born just an hour after the father had left. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was surrounded by men and women who’d been born in Africa, or born in chains, who had freed themselves or escaped. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I pick up the bag of presents and make my way to the house where my father was born. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lill was born the next day, in Dad’s and Mother’s room, where pencils and notebooks and proofs were within easy reach of Mother’s bed. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus the instrumentarium was born—the complete set of which includes bass bars, bass, alto/tenor, and soprano metallophones, xylophones and alto and soprano glockenspiels. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

De la O was born in Texas, part of a large Mexican American family making a living working in the fields. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Because I don’t know how to make it. Many years ago, my family used to work the roots, like yours. But before I was born, they made a decision to leave those ways behind.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was born when my parents were both twenty-six. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She wondered if this rebellious streak was the reason why “so many people remark that I should have been born a man.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Yet when Precious Coins was about to be born and the hospital miles away with bombs falling like hailstones, it was Mother alone who soothed the frantic household and quietly delivered the baby. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mother said, “If he’s got the brains he was born with he won’t tell them that, will he, Colonel Read?” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d never been born again with the baptism and weeping and all that, but it couldn’t feel much better than being born again as a guy with no known past. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mother wants to sell the amethyst ring Father brought back from America, where he trained in the navy before I was born. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Outside of writing, acting was what I was born to do! It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

As human beings, were born believing that we are the apex of creation, that we are invincible, that no problem exists that we cannot solve. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“He’s so ugly, when he was born his mama thought he was a backward centaur—with a horse butt for a face.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And thus had the Muse of Nightmares been born, and Sarai’s fate decided in those few words. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They died in the months after I was born. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You committed a great crime, but you at least deserved to be born as a worm or a lizard. I mean, really, it’s a bit drastic to be born as a softskin, don’t you think?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pax had been born with that same instinct as well, but distrust is no match for kindness administered consistently and unmeasured, especially in creatures new to the world. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She would be alive if I were born on a day that didn’t snow. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And then, to make matters worse, I heard my mother saying to Waverly: “True, cannot teach style. June not sophisticate like you. Must be born this way.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains—whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

On the plains of the American west, where steer 534 was born, bison and the prairie grasses lived together in partnership for thousands of years. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I somehow didn’t picture him with a family at all. Funny, no? What did I think? Maybe I just imagined he was born fully formed, like that goddess from the head of Zeus.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

All the boys were born in New York. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And indeed a daughter and a son were born. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was born there, like his dad, but his mom’s from Ghana, which is where he learned futbol before they moved here. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His mother was running a hotel with his sister in the village where he’d been born. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He thought about how he’d had a big family when he was born. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

New larvae were born, matured into flies, and died in that carton. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It happened around the time my younger brother Hunter was born. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pile into the car, a rusting Buick that was already old when Gran gave it to us after Teddy was born. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said since me and my sister were born in this country, we were born with the American Dream, like a silver spoon in our mouths. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

‘My father dead before ever I was born ...’ Now, for as long as it stood, this would be a haunted house. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she said the words that her parents had dreaded hearing for the past sixteen years, ever since the day Grace had been born. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I had a wealthy father, and many other sons were born to him of his true lady. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Biafra is born! We will lead Black Africa! We will live in security! Nobody will ever again attack us! Never again!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Though he was the chief wizard in the whole island of Iffish, Vetch made his home in Ismay, this small town where he had been born, living with his youngest brother and sister. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Over the years nine children were born, four boys and five girls, and with each birth another quarter-section was added to the ranch, and that makes eleven quarter-sections, or seventeen hundred and sixty acres. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It just always makes me think about Wood. He was born on a rainy day, and even though it was ugly out, it was the happiest day of my life.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Mahler was born into a Bohemian corner of the Austrian Empire, into a German-speaking Jewish community of about a thousand souls whose existence was entirely wiped from the map during the Holocaust. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I don’t mean to suggest, of course, that every software tycoon in Silicon Valley was born in 1955. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Hall was born into a working-class Catholic family in Christchurch, New Zealand, the youngest of nine children. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

This is how some people in rural areas of Zimbabwe are born. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The ban on phone calls was, then, purely punitive, just as the pepper-spraying of the child-man had been born of a combination of opportunity, cruelty, ambivalence, and sport. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She’d been born into a world of plenty, then had to watch it all slowly vanish. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“They put that piece of skin into a special kind of cow. You grew inside, and when the time came, you were born. Only, of course, you didn’t have a father or a mother.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Michael was just four days away from turning ten when I was born, Gary was eight, Paula seven, and Catherine four. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m a shepherd, and I have been to many places, but I come from only one place—from a city near an ancient castle. That’s where I was born.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the universe could not spring forth from the void, then something had to be floating about before the birth of the universe; there had to be a universe before the universe was born. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It had been her job to keep Mom relaxed while she was pregnant, and worry-free after the twins were born. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Those are the ones who were born last night,” she said. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Hubble was born in 1889, ten years after Einstein, in a small Missouri town on the edge of the Ozarks and grew up there and in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

More individuals are born than can possibly survive.... Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had wept in his mother's womb and had been born with his eyes open. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

My mother’s troubles began the night she was born. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And this town, so old, from the year 1926, long before any of my men were born. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn't a code, and had nothing to do with people receiving false papers containing names different from the ones they were born with. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Seven sons had been born to her, brave and beautiful young men, and seven daughters, the fairest of the fair. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They say I was born with a caul, a skin netting covering my face like a glove. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

"You know I didn't believe it at first. He was born in 1905. I was in school in Paris, then. Think of that." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Most of the babies of the period were conceived in Model T Fords and not a few were born in them. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because he done let this child’s mother go off and die when the child was born. That’s how so.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She was born in China and moved to Cambodia as a little girl. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of us were born steeped in sin, the sin of our fathers that Baptism and Confirmation began to wash away. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Auntie,” he said softly, “what did she look like before I was born?” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mamani was born in France to an Iranian father and a Lebanese mother. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

You’re back where you started, in the city where you were born, only now you go to work on the forty-seventh floor in a downtown building with a wide plaza and a sculpture out front. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

From an early age Carmen had felt that she had been born into the wrong body. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother, Gloria Grace, the woman who Grace shared her name with, had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer a month before Grace had been born, and died right after Grace’s first birthday. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Charles missed them terribly when, a few months after Etty was born, he went to Shrewsbury to see his father and sisters. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Right after you were born, us telling her how grateful we were, but it was returned.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The way Maniac fit in, you would have thought he was born there. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Bessie settled in San Antonio, where the first of their two sons was born. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The outcome had been rigged from the day they were born. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“You always were the protector, even though I was born first. It’s time to let me take on my responsibility, Janey. It’s way past time.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It’s as if, when I was born, someone decided that I was not allowed to be happy. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I’m American. I was born here. So were my parents,” I said. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

But when she told them she wasn’t exactly sure whether Luke had been born in May or June, that set the voices positively buzzing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

First off, I was born on Pearl Harbor Day, December 7, 1941. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father started the school three years before I was born, and he was teacher, accountant, and principal—as well as janitor, handyman, and chief mechanic. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

All the nurses at the hospital took turns coming to see him when he was born—they had never seen a Japanese baby before. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

And it seemed to her that the whole world changed in between the time that Laurie was born and graduation day. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Man is born to sorrow as the sparks fly upward. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hannah looked so at ease, it was like she was born confronting people. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

Sometimes I wonder if I was born into the wrong family. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Hatsue was born, the first of five daughters, and the family moved to a Jackson Street boardinghouse. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In their letter, they told Hitler that their son was born blind, had a leg and part of an arm missing, and seemed to be mentally impaired. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was born in Lowe River in the tiny parish of Trelawny, Jamaica, hours away from the tourist traps that line the coast. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I like to think that Amélie remembers you, though, that some part of you imprinted itself on her when she was born. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only notable thing about the birth was that the infant was born with a caul which was supposed to indicate that the child was set apart to do great things in the world. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was true—his parents had seen so many birthdays by the time Rowan was born, they had stopped celebrating them. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The child to be born at Randalls must be a tie there even dearer than herself; and Mrs. Weston’s heart and time would be occupied by it. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was because the Corcorans were Irish, maybe it was that Mr. Corcoran was born in Boston, but the whole family seemed to feel, somehow, that it had a mysterious affinity with the Kennedys. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A tough little hellion, with an overdeveloped underlip, he had been born like other babies and nursed at his mother’s great breasts. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now of all of them who lived in these courts it seemed there was none wholly at peace and comfortable there except the small grandson who had been born to Wang Lung. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Carlisle was born in London, in the sixteen-forties, he believes. Time wasn’t marked as accurately then, for the common people anyway. It was just before Cromwell’s rule, though.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Coincidently, the baby was born and died on Sissy’s fifteenth birthday. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six months before my big sister is born, my uncle Odell is hit by a car while home in South Carolina on leave from the Navy. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

This, of course, was impossible, for he had met my mother in Iowa, not in California, If he’d stayed in California, he wouldn’t have met her and Lynn wouldn’t have been born. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

King Monomatapa lived at the beginning of time, long before even Grandmother was born. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Becoming a Runner just felt like something he was born to do. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I had not known of her son Tom or of his death as a twenty-year-old soldier in the very place where I was born. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I wonder if he resented me when I was born. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Call down to Cardan. Tell him he’s won. Then jump from the tower. After all, being born mortal is like being born already dead.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We are born knowing how to use language. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother told me she had read to me when I was in the womb before I was born. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In a few months the baby would be born, she would go back to her old life, and things would be as they had been. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Newspapers and coffee, on Sunday mornings, before she was born. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn't have been born in a prison. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

"No kidding. I was born and brought up in this town myself." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

And so, thanks to Uri, in a cellar beneath a barbershop somewhere in Warsaw, Poland, in autumn of the year nineteen thirty-nine, I was born, you might say. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Laia’s a person, Helene. Someone’s daughter or sister. If you or I had been born to different parents, we might be in her shoes instead of our own.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And after several exchanges Rosa’s told me that she has been in a wheelchair her whole life, that she can walk but only with arm crutches, and that she was born with cerebral palsy. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I know it’s hard, Strange, but it will pass. Some men are born for great things, and others to help great men do great things. There’s no shame in it.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When I was born, I remember two voices speaking. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

If Cap Anderson had never been born, the name announced to the whole school would have been mine. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Bach and Handel, the two musical giants of the eighteenth century, were born just eighty miles and four weeks apart and yet they never met. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“No, my grandma, she died from cancer right before Maya was born,” Grace said. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When Atticus was forty-two their son was born, and they named him Jeremy Atticus, for his father and his father’s father. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The only trouble was, this heifer Spot, as we called her, had been snaky wild from the day she was born. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

More generally, it’s essential to keep an open mind about how to diagram a sentence rather than assuming that everything you need to know about grammar was figured out before you were born. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“My mother only said my father died before I was born. In the Great Sickness.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“So you say you’ve been like this since the day you were born?” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Mama had to introduce me to them, because they had all died before I was born. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

When Shin was born, his older brother was away in primary school for ten hours a day. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It was a long, difficult labor for a fifth baby, and I was born at 12:35 p.m. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

But with zero, TT meant 61; 3,601 was written as T^T. Zero was born out of the need to give any given sequence of Babylonian digits a unique, permanent meaning. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Old systems of exploitation and oppression are passing away, and out of the womb of a frail world new systems of justice and equality are being born.... While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, there were no other pictures—had been no others, except for the accustomed scenes of Lothian, since they were born. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father knows important things, even if he isn’t “book smart” like my mother, who was a high school science teacher until Zack was born. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, if there’s anybody due for a bit of spaghetti humbling, it’s that Van Helsing gal. Kid was born with her nose turned up.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He certainly does not know the conditions under which I was born and had to live for eighteen years. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pregnant women walked a mile out of their way just to avoid Cleofes and thus ensure that their offspring would not be born missing a nose or a finger or some other priceless appendage. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t happen often—no teacher let it slide if they heard it—but school was school, and I was a kid with Middle Eastern heritage, even though I was born and raised in Portland. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

In the United States the great pioneer of rocketry was Robert Hutchings Goddard, who was born in Massachusetts in 1882—the same year my dad was bom. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

You're the one that was born near night, my father says. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

All of my legal documents said that I was born on September 22, 1980, but it turns out that date is entirely false. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The ones from before I was born have beards, but the ones now don’t, because it’s King George, the one at the back of the classroom. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Klaus, when Sunny was born, did not like her at all, but by the time she was six weeks old the two of them were thick as thieves. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

To explain that a bit, you have to know that Auggie Pullman is this kid at our school who was born with very severe facial issues. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

If she had lived, John thought, then he would never have been born; his father would never have come North and met his mother. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

That day in the storeroom, when he asked how his mother had looked before he was born, was the closest he’d ever come to mentioning the picture. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

After Harriot was born in 1856, Stanton wrote to Anthony that she was “very happy, that the terrible ordeal is passed & that the result is another daughter.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

One woman even filed a paternity suit falsely claiming that Walter was the father of her child, a child that was born less than eight months after Walter's release. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The first time is when they are born. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, a human being cannot be trained for these situations, he must be born for them. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Even Craig, who’d so avidly protected me since the day I was born, had gotten swept up in the excitement of a potential run. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby had heard that Mr. Ages was not truly a white mouse; that is, he had not been born with white fur, but had turned white from old age. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

For my brother Alex, who was born small, my mom spun a song that he was kindhearted and genuine and would grow up to become strapping and tall. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Sometime after their first son was born Carl bought his own boat. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Only occasionally did they go out after Ronny was born, and even more rarely did they entertain. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Michael, we have lived here since just after Jason was born, but we are townies. Oh, they're polite, for the most part. In front of us. But...” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

My people who had been on this land even before Gran was born. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The passengers looked out the windows at the place where the human species was born. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve been jumping out of trees since before you were born.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Already I had killed five of the pack, but there were many left, more than in the beginning, for some had been born in the meantime. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

About four months after Lill was born, when Mother went to bed early one night with a cold, we were sure a new brother or sister would be on hand in the morning. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

You were born knowing how to do this. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Cora, sleeping back in the cabin she was born in, that Mabel was born in. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Against nothing, Captain. It’s a good, quiet green town, a lot like the old- fashioned one I was born in. I like the looks of it.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora read the accounts of slaves who had been born in chains and learned their letters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I was born with the devil in me,” he wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

His father had been murdered before he was born, and his mother had died of a drug overdose when he was a year old. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The New Smokies learned the nooks and crannies of the ruins as if they’d been born there, until they could disappear in a heartbeat. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Dad died in a car accident a month before I was born, so we never met. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

So what do you do if you’re an athletic young Czech with the misfortune to have been born in the last part of the year? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I had known that since she was born. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Grandma was born in Belize City, Belize, where she also grew up. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And for somebody to be with joy that I was born. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some are seeds that are planted when you are born, placed there by your father and mother and their ancestors before them. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If that ain’t being born with the lucky eye, I don’t know what is.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

After I was born in Las Pasturas she persuaded my father to leave the llano and bring her family to the town of Guadalupe where she said there would be opportunity and school for us. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a sorrow was being born in her chest that was bigger than she was. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Ymir slept, and while it slept, it gave birth: a male and a female giant were born from beneath Ymir’s left arm, a six-headed giant born from its legs. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

That was the hospital where I was born and where I had had my tonsils removed when I was in fourth grade and where Nikki was now. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The immigrants could be saying that we were born on Gold Mountain and have advantages. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bebe had been in the country only two years by the time her baby was born, and in Cleveland for barely one. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But after August was born, my parents underwent genetic counseling. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“How can you remember about that? That’s when you were born, Mr. Dawson.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. She was born a week after Christian died.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You forget, Marguerite, that most women do bring children into the world. You and I were born of women,” Isabel says gently. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

By the time I was born, my father worked at ‘clean’ jobs. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just because you were born first doesn’t make you more important,” said Do. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She got baptized more than once and was all the time coming home proclaiming that she’d been born again. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I lament sorely that I was born to poverty,” he once told a friend. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Wait until a couple of weeks after her kid is born. Give them a show.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were in their early teens when he was born; they were thirty-five and thirty-six now. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Regina Wender Fischer, Bobby’s mother, was born in Switzerland and moved with her family to the United States when she was just two years old. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he had always been; maybe he was born a millionaire. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, "It's what I was born to do. It's my destiny." Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

A terrible panic that had no name came over her as she realized that many of the sweet babies in the world were born to come to something like this old man some day. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they were disfigured by wounds or simply because they had been born that way. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

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

Thus was born the idea of the creches. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before democracy, chattel slavery in America was born. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They echoed the words that had haunted him for four years: Those who are born in darkness always return. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He became an American citizen simply by being born in the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“What does a boy like you know about trouble? I was in trouble afore you were born. I been in trouble you don’t even got words for.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Many popular accounts note the coincidence that ‘the’ Isaac Newton was born in the same year, 1642, that Galileo died. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her knowledge was born of vast experience, the natural cunning of a survivor. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Liyana’s parents did not believe everyone was an automatic sinner when they were born. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Penelope had never heard of Sherlock Holmes, of course, for in a fictional sense he had not been born yet, but she was a clever girl and no stranger to logic herself. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

When Akira was only a baby, Mama had said, “He was born sad.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“If so, I was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. But now, I am an American.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When I was born, they felt a sense of helplessness. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Well, you know Campbell Junior was born little,” I began, thinking fast. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think I have the wits I was born with?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Billy was born in 1922 in Ilium, New York, the only child of a barber there. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told them that all men were born equal. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he asks, I speak to him in Spanish, the language that rolls off my tongue like I was born knowing it. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Some people never left the counties where they were born, he said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Amelia, the first of seven children, was born a year later. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why is it that some people are born into fantastic situations and others wait their whole lives for a break? Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we were born with all these knacks inbuilt, automated like ants, we would surely miss the variety. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are born to dream and make the things we dream about.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

According to most accounts, he was born in the sixth century BC on Samos, a Greek island off the coast of Turkey famed lor a temple to Hera and for really good wine. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They would not tell us children because we had been born among ghosts, were taught by ghosts, and were ourselves ghost-like. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to ask if being born in the South or living in Alabama made me a Confederate American, but I thought better of it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“My mother died while I was being born,” I explained. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I was glad that I was born nine months after my mother emigrated. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Wampanoag confederation, one of these quicksilver communities was Patuxet, where Tisquantum was born at the end of the sixteenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, When I was born, the doctor must have stamped “National Spokesperson for the Plight of Black People” on my forehead; a stamp visible only to my teachers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I am too old to work. I come back where I was born.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered what I would be doing if I had been born into a red family instead of a black one. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what to say, and I wasn’t about to tell him that all of the Zamborskas—including Dr. Zamborska’s mother and father—had been born in the United States. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought babies were only a lot of trouble after they were born. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My dad’s resented me since the day I was born, Percy,” she said. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

"People will assume you're bad if they find out you were born here, so don't be talking about it." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“It ain’t my fault,” she said, “that you was born a fool, and always done been a fool, and ain’t never going to change. I swear to my Father you’d try the patience of Job.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Her dress was void black, mixed with the colors of a space nebula, as if galaxies were being born in her bodice. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Crazy Horse was born somewhere along that creek,” the old man said. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

No kittens were growing inside, much less about to be born. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Ocean was trying to be nice, sure, but I knew that his sudden sympathetic heart was born only of awkward guilt, and that this was a road that would lead to nowhere. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You lived here since you were born?” she asked. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

"I was fifteen. Yes, New York. But we lived in London before that, and briefly in Ghana. And first in India, where I was born." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once when I had a little time from the railroad, Elzenia, my brother, Johnny, and me went up north along the Oklahoma border before the first of our children was born. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to my Baptist Sunday-school teachers, a child is denied entrance to heaven merely for being born in the Congo rather than, say, north Georgia, where she could attend church regularly. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It remained from before the Ruin, a time so far past that none of the people now living, none of their parents or grandparents, had been born. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly after Adams was born, her mother had died. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Other people will soon follow suit, and a fad will be born and thrive for a while despite its baselessness. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The norm is, people that are born with money have money, and people who weren’t don’t,” she said recently. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. . . . They are only changed by the way people treat them.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cope was born more directly into privilege–his father was a rich Philadelphia businessman–and was by far the more adventurous of the two. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Write it like I said,” ordered Sissy, “and write that I expect another baby to be born next week.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

So far as he was concerned, she might have been born in her severe, her sexless, long and shapeless habit, always black or gray. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Dogs are born knowing how to swim,” Benji said, assuming it was true. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I guess I just thought this was life—that some people are born happy and some aren’t. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We had shared this room since the day I was born. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Her youngest, Christopher, had been born shortly after the uncertain time at Robert Taylor and had been with her only off and on because of a custody fight between her and Christopher’s father. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

We have no medical records because we were born at home and have never seen a doctor or nurse. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But once a woman decides she will have her baby, a pressing question arises: what are parents supposed to do once a child is born? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Here I am born into the world in half the time. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Strong boy,” “Handsome just like his daddy,” folks been saying since the day I was born, but I never took a liking to the work Daddy did in the fields. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t stand each other by the time I was born. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

At first I think she is going to tell me something else I have to do, but instead she tells me about when her brother, Jake, was born. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Of course, Addie and I were actually “together” since before either of us can remember because our moms were best friends when we were born, so we became best friends, too. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

In such an alternate Earth, Leonardo and Einstein would, of course, never have been born. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the flat, albeit minuscule, had windows and a shared roof from which the boys could watch a new city, and a new nation, being born. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

There were probably more than five rabbits in the litter when Fiver was born, but his name, Hrairoo, means “Little Thousand”—i.e., the little one of a lot or, as they say of pigs, “the runt.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

To force traders to pay, North Korean security forces invented a new twist on labor camps of the sort that Shin was born in. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The days of Garland as a thriving commune were over long before I was born in 1994. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Roger,” she said, “do you know when these young men were born?” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Little Tilly was born and the mother flowed with milk again. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether they had been born free or in chains, they inhabited that moment as one: the moment when you aim yourself at the north star and decide to run. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But when the first daughter was born she expressed her unreserved determination to name her Renata after her mother. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It looked exactly like the cabin on the Brodas plantation where she was born. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

This from a man who knew exactly where he’d been born and when and to whom. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I was the one who had been born and raised at Garland; Rain grew up in San Francisco. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Once,” Ben answered in a lie that had been born out of a pure adolescent instinct. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today we all gain one year in age, no matter the date we were born. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Every cell is born of a previous cell, which was born of a previous cell. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

For if this child had been his instead of Nicolas’s, it would have been born healthy and intact, instead of exiting in bits and pieces in this sewer of a clinic. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

To that, Ma told him all babies are born red. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa on 15 February 1564—the same year that William Shakespeare was born and in the same month that Michelangelo died. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“And no one has died until now. No one has been born, either, not since the Murray twins. Though it is not for lack of trying, given the way some of the acrobats carry on.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Shadow tuned the radio to an oldies station, and listened to songs that were current before he was born. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Damm’ee, sir, and blast your eyes! When I catch you—and find you I shall—I shall make you rue the day you were born!” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I haven’t had a nap since Kindra was born in 1957, but with these hours—eight to three—I could have one every day if that was my idea of a fine time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When I was born, a lion was born. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am Dawn Girl. I, too, was born to Mud Clan. I am born for Corn Clan.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anyone learned the truth about her—where she'd been born, who her real mother was—her family would never recover. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Out of the chaos and confusion, the evenly spaced octave was born and we have lived with that huge shift in Western music ever since. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Four years later their daughter was born, and they named her Jean Louise for her mother and her mother’s mother. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They had both died in another accident, this one a plane crash, a few weeks after he had been born. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was like a Victrola record that had been playing ever since I was born. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Christina wanted Ferdinand’s horoscope to be cast, but she was not sure when he had been born and offered two alternative dates more than a year apart: 19 July 1548 and 30 July 1549. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She was in her mid-thirties and married to a psychotherapist when Isaac and Jonah were born. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She was born to great wealth in England. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps because they don’t have home towns, just places where they were born. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was born in a hundred small quarrels, the quarrels of women whose children must live and play together and fight each other like cats and dogs. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“I suppose she was born in Paris, too.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Once again he was excited about the completion of the St. Lawrence Seaway, and he stopped referring to me altogether because I hadn’t been born. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And Kalinda and I, maybe we’ve been alive too long too, and the only animals on this Earth who really understand life are the insects who are born and mate and die within seconds. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The baby, a boy, is born at five past five in the morning. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But out of the void, the universe was born, as was the infinite. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It’s like India—a new country is born, but my home is dying. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeka was as good as her mother, anyway, since it was Aunty Ifeka’s breasts that she and Kainene had sucked when their mother’s dried up soon after they were born. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Millions of worlds are born, evolve, and pass away into nebulous, unmeasured skies; and there is still eternity. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like he was born to be the man. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Jody sat quietly listening, and he seemed to hear Gitano’s gentle voice and its unanswerable, ‘‘But I was born here.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we run, she yips and wags her tail, which is really just a stump because someone cut it off when she was born. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

—When you were born, I wanted to give you something my father had tried, but failed, to give me—a name to be proud of. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah? I do, too. But I lost her when you were born, so let’s not talk about fair.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If the boy was born, Prince Dain would never be king.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He did not use one bit of the good sense he was born with. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Our local swamp was called Brenda Swamp, named after a girl who died there way back before I was born. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Paul, the second of six children—three boys and three girls—was born in 1959 in a struggling mill town. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I was born in Michael Reese Hospital on March 3, 1979, and lived in the Ida B. Wells all my life. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The resolution to the paradox—that a bad thing, dying, implies a good thing, having lived—is explained with parallel constructions: never going to die... never going to be born. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Americans are arguably more likely than they were thirty years ago to end up in the class into which they were born. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He had known about the bad heart even before Bob and Jane were born. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably not till the baby was born and the estate settled. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But Cradle’s chewing outs always seemed to me to be born more of exasperation than meanness. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may be that being born prematurely is simply hurtful to a child’s overall well-being. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I was born for Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But then I met her, and ... I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Everything. I’ve never heard any stories about her. She died before I was born.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Since it could not be proven that the Thunderhead had either, the Scythedom was born. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Samuel, of course, was born in the North, in New York, and grew up and was educated there. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s like with your brother. It’s just how he was born.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

It was true, I had been born here, but Thurmond had been my home for nearly as long as it hadn’t. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It’s strange that something she was born with, that’s of no choice of hers, is now the sole thing that defines her in the eyes of others. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“If that’s where the dragons were born, then there must still be magic there.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

My parents were young and struggling when my sisters and brother were born. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Not him personally—everyone like him, kids who were born after their parents had already had two babies. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I liked playing with Torito because he was always cheerful, and because he helped me forget about the report card I got in early June, a few days before he was born. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the second of his three children was born, his sister had a stern talk with him about getting a legitimate job so he could watch his kids grow up. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They reminded me of some of the houses in Tlaquepaque, the small town in Mexico where I was born. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

This is the world Nguyen Tat Thanh was born into in 1890. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“We will return and hunt them down, one by one, as we have done since time was born.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“I was born here. This is my home. This is my culture.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Papi said by the time the new baby is born we will have electricity.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Everyone is born with instincts,” Ms. Dale says. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And I was born in this house, the year after she died. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Ivy kept watching the clock while she ate, the hands moving closer and closer to 10:33, which was when she was born. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Actually...I was born to do so many things. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He died before the twins were born—on the operating table, while his gall-bladder was being removed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each was born in precisely the same place and within minutes of the other. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Farzana moved their things into the hut in the backyard, where he was born. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some days I felt as if I had been born into their family; other times I felt like a guest who had stayed too long. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. da Silva had been born in Brazil. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In early 2004, Governor Rod Blagojevich announced a plan to mail one book a month to every child in Illinois from the time they were born until they entered kindergarten. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I was born right where this suitcase is. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“My father? Only that he died before I was born. In the Great Mortality,” I reminded him. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was a shamanic outsider who was born to a virgin girl in a village far to the north. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Groves also liked the fact that Oppenheimer had been born in the United States. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Apatan was born in Manila, and he still went to visit once a year. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When rap was born, the early rap stars were not rapping about gangsta life, but “My Adidas” and good times in the ’hood in tunes like “Rapper’s Delight.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In other words, the very factors that drove millions of American women to have an abortion also seemed to predict that their children, had they been born, would have led unhappy and possibly criminal lives. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

If you were born in the 1820s you were too old: your mindset was shaped by the pre-Civil War paradigm. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

A bulky computer—one that looked like it was born in the late 1990s—randomly blinked on a rack. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“That would be your mother, I believe...Medusa’s two children were trapped inside her, unable to be born. When the original Perseus cut off Medusa’s head—” “Two children sprang out,” Annabeth remembered. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I was with my brother, the guy who'd been my hero since the day I was born. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“We were all babies once, right? This little guy doesn’t care what country you were born in or what religion you might practice or how much you weigh or who you might love.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

But with everything underwater, and all kinds of unpredictable swirls and currents likely to have been born in the darkness, who knew where he might end up? The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Three years later the rabbi married once again, and in 1929, two days before the stock market crash, Danny was born in the Brooklyn Memorial Hospital. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Not me crying right then, but me crying when I was being born. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

To have been born before 1911 is to have been demographically unlucky. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Kennedy was supremely frustrated, and out of this frustration was born a new strategy. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

They drove past the bakery where Mom had worked before Cleo was born. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Zeno was born around 490 BC, at the beginning of the Persian wars—a great conflict between East and West. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

For those of us who were born here, America is literally the only home we’ve ever known. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

And when he told her that airplanes had been in existence before he was born, and long before the Revolution, the fact struck her as totally uninteresting. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

No, I—" "You just a slave," sneered Major. "You was born a slave. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad sometimes joked that the hospital where I was born must have accidentally swapped babies because I look nothing like the rest of my family. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It will be exactly as long as the time that passed before she was born. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One January Thursday at two o'clock in the morning, Amaranta was born. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The SS-HJ division was composed of Hitler Youth who were born in 1926 and who met the strict SS requirements for height and physical fitness. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Mrs. Richardson’s mother, Caroline, was born in 1931, things were less rural but no less idyllic. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I like it this way,” I said, patting the tops of overgrown carrots, their orange heads pushing through the earth as if about to be born. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean Jupiter? You were there when he was born?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

For Bill Gates, the lucky break was being born at the right time and getting the gift of a computer terminal in junior high. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Or Baby Jesus, who was born in a barn and died on a cross, with nobody’s lips to kiss before he went. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It was a very moral family he was born into. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“After Caroline was born, your father and me, we were so afraid of this.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Or if you were born during a dry period, you could be named Drought. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She had been born and raised in a city six hundred miles away, a gloomy city where on ghostly nights the coaches of the viceroys still rattled through the cobbled streets. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was born with dark skin, but in my culture, light skin is considered a sign of beauty, so Mom wrote in my song that I would become fairer skinned. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Thus the International Brotherhood of Teamsters was born. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

And when Miss Celia burns the beans, I try and use some of that self-control my mama swore I was born without. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“No, I was born in Karachi. But I did live in Kabul for a number of years. Shar-e-Nau, near the Haji Yaghoub Mosque,” Faisal said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It had been that way since the very beginning of Garland in 1967, long before I was born. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

My parents had four children before me, and I should have been born, plain and simple. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She knew that a woman named Helena was there, watching the spirit leave her infant, who had been born too soon. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some three years before, he had been born—the strongest of a litter of five—in a burrow outside a cottage garden near Cole Henley. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is one thing to be born in the hood and know that you will never leave the hood. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Now, the village can’t move the day after a baby is born, so they had to call another meeting of the elders. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then about six thousand more had been born in the camps! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“And you would be forgotten. It would be as though you’d never been born.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Good evening!” he says with that perfectly modulated voice that announcers seem to be born with. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

"He knew everything when he started. The others can't ever learn what he was born with." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like that. They got deported back to Colombia. But I was born here and they didn’t want to take me away from my doctors. I’m a ‘ward of the state’ until I’m eighteen.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Nutmeg. It grows on Grenada, the island where I was born.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But Penny was born perfect and copper-bright, just like her name. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

As a child, I celebrated my birthday on September 22, but my parents eventually revealed to me that I was born on October 10. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She had no money for maternity care and diapers, so she continued working until the baby was born. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, dear. But my sister-in-law’s family was born in Germany,” said Mother. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

In five more weeks the child would be born. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I used to. Way back before you were born, my family lived at Garland. Rain would want you to be with someone who understands.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Parallel wording is a powerful trope, but after dying and being born, being here in my place and seeing the light of day, enough is enough. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

These babies were born into a country where, unless you belonged to the Ceaugescu clan or the Communist elite, life was miserable. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I was born here,” Gitano said in gentle rebuke. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked as though he had been born middle aged. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. O’Connell gives me telegrams to deliver to Mr. Harrington, the Englishman with the dead wife that was born and bred in Limerick. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When she immigrated to the United States with my parents before I was born, she enthusiastically embraced American New Age culture like a long-lost friend. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It’s hard for me not to believe that my friendship with Ellen wasn’t somehow fated long before we were born, back when Dolly was still a poor nobody in Tennessee. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Jam was born after the monsters, born and raised in Lucille, but like everyone else, she remembered. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The third of five children, she was born to a mother who was a cook and to a laborer father whom, though the parents had married, she didn’t meet until she was ten. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

On the day she was born, she was one year old. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Nature deemed that to be born was an automatic sentence to death, and then brought about that death with vicious consistency. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Here’s the first line: ‘I was born to the beast on December 12, 1946.’” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” said he, smiling—“and reason good. I was sixteen years old when you were born.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

I am angry to protect you, because that is what I was born to do. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Stella remembers every moment since she was born: every scent, every sunset, every slight, every victory. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The wife of the eldest son was faithful and she conceived and bore and conceived and bore regularly and faithfully, and each child as it was born had its slave. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

This is the natural job of a doe making a home for her litter before they are born, and then her buck helps her. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pulled up to the hospital where my brother had been born. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Robert Todd Lincoln was born on August 1, 1843, in Springfield, Illinois. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She looked like a dolphin, being born into the water, swimming away just seconds after birth. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It is from this basic step that most American Black dances are born. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father used to tease me about it, saying that when I was born he made my cradleboard out of the handle of a wooden spoon. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He aint wore out the name he was born with yet, is he. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was some bleeding inside her brain when she was born.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Thus the modern idea of the machine was born by giving a new meaning to the Latin term machina. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His watch and his two hundred dollars would be of no help out here, where all a man had was what he was born with, or had learned to use. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some reports say she was born frail and unable to fend off disease. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Scott Wasden was born on January 4, within three days of the absolute perfect birthday for an elite hockey player. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“An army is made of soldiers. These creatures were born to be weapons. They were born to serve the soldiers of Djel.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

After all, it was “painful” to imagine that one might be “not just right”— particularly if whatever was wrong was not your own fault but “maybe a thing you were born with.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the madwoman was born, her mother had sacrificed a baby to the Witch. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Did you know that when you were born you had a blue spot right above your little butt? A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I was born to five in exile, it appeared, and my one way home was by way of dying. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you seem used to better things. The rest of us were born in the dirt, and we know we’ll never get out of it.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hasn’t touched a drop since she was born. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The name of the tribe was Seneca, but since my parents did not discover their error until after I was born and they were, by then, used to my name, it remained Salamanca. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Only her brother, Warren, seemed to understand the hidden layer she saw in things, but then they had always had an understanding, since before he had been born. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

But I tried to take a broader view: The people who shot the bullets were part of a cycle of hate that they had been taught since they were born. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She thought back to Bithynios, trying to remember how many children had been born with something wrong with them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If they didn’t make it back in time, she would be voiceless until dark fell and a new hundred were born in her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But after Anna was born thirteen years ago, Mom insisted on hosting her first rice-tasting ceremony—something the family never did for me—here in our Harlem apartment. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For Kino and Juana this was the morning of mornings of their lives, comparable only to the day when the baby had been born. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I was born in 1982, they were kings of pastry. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Gistan and Stuck, we close, but not like it is with somebody knew you from when you was born and you got to manhood at the same time. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And in a few years you can almost disappear; while I, who was born in Grass Valley, went to school and several years to the University of California, have no chance of mixing.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And sometimes, late at night, Charlie would just start talking, telling me stories about how things were before I was born—memories of him and our older brother, Ty'ree, and my mama and daddy together. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Someday her family would leave the United States, the country her mother and she and her brother had been born in, and move overseas to the mixed-up country her father had been born in. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her son had been born that summer, and she did not want to be traveling in November with a four-month-old and her little girl. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Piscine was born a Hindu, lives a Hindu and will die a Hindu!” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thankfully, that’d happened two years and one month before I was born. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The young mouse knew that he had been born for this moment, his grip causing the tremor of the steel to run through his entire body. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Another farmer “raises hogs and for fully nine months after the broadcast of poisons, he could raise no young pigs. The litters were born dead or they died after birth.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I was born right here in California. My old man had a chicken ranch, ‘bout ten acres. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I was born, when there were lots of young children growing up in the community, all those diapers used to be fastened by squares of duct tape. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Robert Hooke was born on the stroke of noon on 18 July 1635, seven years before Galileo Galilei died. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“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

Thus was born “The Game of the Century,” as it was dubbed by Hans Kmoch. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

More players were born in January than in any other month, and by an overwhelming margin. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

We have become elders together, and yet I remember when she was born. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“You were unlucky to be born to us. What can you do? Things just turned out this way.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Hands stuffed in his back pockets, trying to be cool, Trevor shouts, “Who cares? 9/11 was before I was born.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I know I don’t have a birthday like humans,” Matt said, “but I was born. Or something like it.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was born in Bercy on the outskirts of Paris and trained in France, and while he knows a little poodle-English, he responds quickly only to commands in French. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caroline had been born in America, something that she very much took for granted. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

In July 1845, about nine months after Charles read Vestiges, George Darwin was born. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Uther naturally could not many her until she was out of mourning for the earl, the boy had been born too soon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because she was born that way,” Joy to the Heart said with pride. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

This lady, who had practically forgotten he was with her, was utterly delighted; thus the idea was born that ceramics was good for mongoloids. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s as if they’ve been born at the age of one year, or else are shriveled men. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother had been born in Vietnam from a father who was a black American soldier. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Instead of being born after nine months, I was born after six. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem like Mom had forgiven him—for what he did, for not being there when I was born. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She climbed into the bed she was born in, read three pages, and fell asleep with the light on. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“King Argaven’s child was born this morning, and died within the hour.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ten years before the flames, I was born in the mountains, a scenic land of jewel-green fields, bamboo trees, and forests inhabited by gorillas, elephants, and chimpanzees. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The first book was even dedicated to “My brilliant girls, without whom Harriet would never have been born.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It felt incredibly satisfying to blast out the words “I was born by the river...” in my biggest voice. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Jack was especially fond of Uncle Sigmund, his father’s younger brother, who was only seventeen when Jack was born. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

"You can be president, you were born here," the grandfather crooned. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But the question for our purposes is whether the broad pattern of world history would have been altered significantly if some genius inventor had not been born at a particular place and time. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We might all have to strip down to the way we were born, to keep ourselves from drowning. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“I think Abuelo tried to tell him before I was born, but Gael wasn’t trying to hear about it.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Before I was born, she worked as an office manager for a doctor in town. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He wondered how things might have turned out differently for him if he’d had more faith, a different name, or been born to different circumstances. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It would’ve been great if I’d been born at exactly 10:10 in the morning or at night, but I wasn’t. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He’d worked at a hatchery before I was born, but the work at that hatchery was seasonal, and once I was born, he needed to make more money. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We were born here, Mom. We were always soft.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The ancient pharaohs assigned surveyors to assess the damage and reset the boundary markers, and thus geometry was born. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Dad and Mother moved to another New York apartment on Riverside Drive, where Mary and Ernestine were born. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I may not have been born in that country, but I'm hiding in a truck right now because of what happened there. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I think shag carpeting was outdated even before I was born. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He had been one year old when Grace was born, and had gone into foster care a few days after her parents brought her home. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

By the time Dad was born, most of the money was lost to extravagance and bad luck, and soon the big family was broken up. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All men come into the world in the same way. We are born in pain, for it is written, ‘In pain shall ye bring forth children.’ The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Billions of people have been born and have died in its lifetime. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“His wife says not. He went once before, when their first child was born, and had no trouble. No Warning.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The anthem ends, and President Snow begins to speak, to remind us all of the Dark Days from which the Hunger Games were born. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Liszt’s fifth innovation was a product of the particular political geography into which he was born. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Danny’s block was heavily populated by the followers of his father, Russian Hasidic Jews in somber garb, whose habits and frames of reference were born on the soil of the land they had abandoned. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Two sons were born to them and all seemed well, even to Medea in her exile, lonely as exile must always be. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fresher than the day they were born — and fat as priests. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

I was born with water on the brain. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It must have been a terrible day for Papa when we were born. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Because they were born in New York, Peralta’s children are United States citizens, and their health care is generally covered by Medicaid. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Antain waited for their child to be born before he began his journey. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“You said so yourself just last night: I’m an Okojo. I was born to be a warrior. It’s in my blood, same as it’s in yours. It’s in our roots. Kutoka mzizi, remember?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He was convinced that babies started learning things from the very minute they were born, and that it was wrong to keep them in a nursery. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you are born poor here, it’s no lasting shame. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their mums were friends from before Conor and Lily were born, and Lily had been like a sister who lived in another house, especially when one mum or the other would babysit. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

These men had been born and raised in Chicago, and though they still spoke the old tongue, their accents were Americanized. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Grandpa Dan wasn’t in the camps, thank God. He was born in America, just like you. That’s because my family came over to this country in the early 1900s, second class. Not steerage.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s her journal, starting from the day you were born, Todd.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Like all CFers, I was born terminal. Our bodies make too much mucus, and that mucus likes to get into our lungs and cause infections, making our lung function de-teri-orate.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

And it’s not like my mother and father were born into wealth. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the year that evHéctor was born their fights grew more frequent and sputtered into our lives like water on a hot skillet. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“His name is Yassen Gregorovich. He was born in Russia, but he now works for many countries. Iraq has employed him. Also Serbia, Libya, and China.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

That had really surprised Papa, because he had always believed that there were special people—people born special, just like he was born to cook. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The hospital ward I was born in, classrooms, tents, churches, offices, hotels, museums, nursing homes, the room I'll die in. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

When the child was born he bound its feet together and had it exposed on a lonely mountain where it must soon die. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been born three months after her parents landed in America. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Anne, she is Jewish and was born in Poland and she didn’t meet Hitler’s standards of purity either. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She later conceded that she had no basis for such an opinion and that without an autopsy and tests there was no way she could know if a baby had been born alive. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“The Mist. It’s . . . well, it’s like this veil that hides the way things really are. Some mortals are born with the ability to see through it. Like you.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She had not even been born into Islam. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

There had always been something special about Boobie, even in the way he was born, on April 16, 1970, en route to St. Luke’s Hospital in Houston with a police escort. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We may be reasonably sure that he will never die, and there is already con-siderable uncertainty as to when he was born. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Her memories were clouded, jumbled together, confused; it had all happened too quickly, and there were so many years yet to go, and her grandchildren would be born and raised in cities faraway. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she left us after Fern was born. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

A little creek trickled aslant the faded markings and there were the delicate pictorial indications of lowly huts, in one of which Ching’s grandfather had been born. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

More accurately, 105 of them lost weight just after they were born. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

While translating and recalculating the tables, Dionysius did a little research on the side; he realized that he could figure out just when Jesus Christ was born. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I would’ve liked to try my hand at teaching. If I hadn’t been born like this.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I was born a week after New Year’s, on January 8, 1960. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Monday used to say I was born in the wrong decade. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was born with half my brain dried up like a prune, deprived of blood by an unfortunate fetal mishap. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m only half British. When we visit England, everyone calls us Yanks. But Americans hear my mom’s accent and assume I was born in England. Sometimes I feel like I don’t belong in either place.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“She was born the color she is now.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart was ripped out of me the night he was born so dont ask for sorrow now. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He may not have been born with guts, but he didn’t have to die without them. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was born in the cattle country near Mexico, and raised by a family that had run beef and then gone into cotton when the big Bureau of Reclamation dams completely transformed the plains country. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

What made him call Iran home, when he knew I was born and raised in Portland. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Though the riots happened two and a half years before I was born, some parts of the city are still damaged. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But when a girl is born, no one visits the parents, and women have only sympathy for the mother. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A couple years after I was born, my family left the mountains amid one of the many conflicts in the region and moved to a city in the valley below, Uvira. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s the town you were born in,” she said irritably. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“To be born into privilege,” she said, “is to be given the tools to replicate that privilege.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

If you were born in the late 1840s you missed it. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Before I was born, he was a missionary in India and that is how I got my first name. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was only after the baby was born that I learned of the birth. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I concluded that many friendships are born and maintained for purely geographical reasons. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Truly I am in a sacred cosmic womb, a place where everything is born, and it is my sweet luck to behold its living core. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her daughter-in-law’s pregnancy had caused the usual anxiety, of course, but Chapter Eleven had been born healthy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We don’t have to be taught to like sweet foods—we are born liking them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Most youngsters begin to make their own night nests when their baby brothers or sisters are born. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the Minotaur was born Minos did not kill him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I was born crookbacked, crippled, and fell, I will be cured at Saint Winifred’s well. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

It was yet to be born for that day. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It’s Rabbi Gold who planted the phantom cousins in my mind—the ones who never had a chance to be born. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Of course! I’ve seen all of the movies in the theater with my dad. I mean, except for the ones that came out before I was born.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You’re so ugly, when you were born the doctor smacked your face instead of your butt.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Why would I hate you for that? It’s not your fault. You didn’t ask to be born.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

This isle was Iffish, where his friend Vetch had been born. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Mother was an American by birth; Father is by naturalization. I was born on the high seas. That makes me American." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was born last year, a month early, after his long, bumpy upside-down ride in the Land Rover that moved our family from Kinshasa to the farm in Kimvula District. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So that means her mom was sixteen when Anna was born.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I had been born knowing how to hide what I felt. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

With her luck she had been born into the only nonkissing culture, just when it started feeling like a valuable activity. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

My father’s father was so old he couldn’t remember when he was born. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help how I looked or what had happened to me since I was born, but I sure as hell could control how I dealt with people teasing me about it. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Her breasts now drooped from having nursed their son for two years after he was born. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Only in larger populations can the disease shift from one local area to another, thereby persisting until enough babies have been born in the originally infected area that measles can return there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If I had been born in a much earlier age, no matter how great my dedication, I would not have understood what the stars and planets are. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When something big is wrong—like when the twins were born so small and couldn’t breathe on their own—she lights our Caridad del Cobre candle and says her prayers in her own words. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Three months before I was born, in the aftermath of one of our elaborate Sunday dinners, my grandmother Desdemona Stephanides ordered my brother to get her silkworm box. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mama said they went back and forth about my name, even in the delivery room before I was born. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

And I’d rather work for something than be born with a silver spoon in my mouth any day! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was too afraid of how girls who'd been born in America would judge me if I confessed that I wasn't supposed to be living in the country. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“A drug deal turned into a robbery, and he got shot in the head twice. Right in front of me. A few months before you were born, in fact. That’s why I named you Starr.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

As soon as their delightful baby daughter was born, they knew it was going to be the adventure of a lifetime. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Adam lay in the four-poster bed where the twins had been born. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I was a salesgirl once, before you were born,” she told Pearl. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My father and mother did. I was born afterward. I think it’s white. Anyway, I know one thing. We don’t want to go back. We don’t want to get caught.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I was born to lead men in the profession of mining coal. Maybe you were too.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Below her name is a quote from Maya Angelou: “I believe that every person is born with talent.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Yeah, he could definitely see her being born with lava in her veins. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Some you can see, misshapen and horrible, with huge heads or tiny bodies; some are born with no arms, no legs, some with three arms, some with tails or mouths in odd places. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were the stories of all the colored people she had ever known, the stories of black people yet to be born, the foundations of their triumphs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

All in preparation for the work they feel they were born for, missionary work in Africa. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We had Oscar since before I was born. He was like a brother to me. I know that sounds stupid.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Something I did? You said she got worse when she was three. That’s when I was born. Was it me?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She retired from teaching when I was born so that she could take care of me while Mom worked. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is a nuisance,” she said. “lt is the sea,” he said solemnly, “in which I was born.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he was born in Braintree, twelve miles south of Boston, in 1735, the son of a farmer and shoemaker, who sent Adams to Harvard in the hope he might become a minister. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The crowd believes I was born knowing how to make them beautiful. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t do anything but wait until you were born so I could kill you and be done with it.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was born in the year of the Tiger. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is my belief that Cathy Ames was born with the tendencies, or lack of them, which drove and forced her all of her life. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When her baby was born, a girl, the two midwives in attendance were so preoccupied with what was going on between her legs they never even noticed her smooth balloon of a stomach. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, Ionia was the place where science was born. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been born and raised in Honolulu but had spent four years of his childhood flying kites and catching crickets in Indonesia. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

No one could prove he was lying since he’d been born on the home-house floor and didn’t have a birth certificate or social security card. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, if we was different, you know, been born with money...It’s just...making good art and music ain’t really expected of us. That type of work is unexpected.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“When Kim was born I was out walking,” Pa said a few nights ago. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

About 80 percent of the population had been born elsewhere; about half had rolled into town during the previous five years. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Had he been born twenty years earlier, Jesse would have probably suffered the traditional geeks’ fate in school, then slunk home to read comics and watch some bad TV. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were still members there, though our attendance had dropped off significantly after the girls were born. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I had never met them before the moment I was born.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I have my old father and these three small mouths and another about to be born. We must go lest we forget our nature and eat each other as the wild dogs do.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She was born in Virginia in the 1880s, after federal troops had been withdrawn and a reign of violence and terror had begun, designed to deny any political or social rights for African Americans. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Hesiod lived near Helicon, one of the Muses’ mountains—the others were Pierus in Pieria, where they were born, Parnassus and, of course, Olympus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is how they got a high school education; had they been born two or three or four years earlier, they might never have gotten a full education. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The first time she had spent a night outside the cabin she’d been born in. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t been present when my other sisters had been born. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I was born to them at a time when they were living in a shantytown in Port-au-Prince and had nothing. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

We are dazed here because we still remember the hot cities in which we were born, where the first days of spring were laced with fear. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember it, because it was before I was born, but I wonder if perhaps that was a turning point. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I can’t recall which scythe began that odious campaign to glean only those who were born mortal, but it spread throughout each regional Scythedom, a viral idea in a post-viral time. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They were born at the right time with the right parents and the right ethnicity, which allowed them to practice takeover law for twenty years before the rest of the legal world caught on. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Unlucky from the day she was born, she now had a beautiful and well-loved partner. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was born in a lonely village called Ten Alders, high on the mountain at the head of the Northward Vale. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“But—” “Percy, the spiders getting away. Do you really want me to explain the exact details of how I was born?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

And what did you do when that person was born half a world away? Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“You have to show me proof that you were born in this country,” the man said. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He was buried in a cemetery near the ranch where he was born. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father’s remorse. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“This child was born of parents who can read and write,” she said simply. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He built the Mary Rose before I was born, and I seen the picture of him standing by the bow when she got launched for the first time. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The home of glorious smoke-blowing women had been born again, transformed into, of all things, a schoolhouse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I wished that I had been born into a different family. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She and Nico were stuck there for decades. They were born before the oath was made.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She has always called them the four girls for as long as they can remember, and the oldest remembers all the way back to the day the fourth girl was born. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

"What did I look like when I was born?" Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

"I want to know what you taste like. If being born with color changes the way you feel." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

God though he was she hated him, especially when the time came for her child to be born and he showed her no sign, gave her no aid. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day soon after Brian was born, we were short on cash, so Dad pawned Mom’s big diamond wedding ring, which her mother had paid for, and that upset Mom. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She started off as a reservations associate, then moved to gate agent after Charlie was born. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The date of my birth got even more confusing when my dad accidentally filled out an immigration document incorrectly and suddenly I was born on September 21. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Dragon was born from a painting, from paintbrushes and inkstones . . . and like an echo, Minli remembered Ma talking about the artist who had come to Fruitless Mountain many years ago. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It had given him a slight advantage the first year or two, a little more maturity than many of his groupmates who had been born in the later months of that year. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Guns had been outlawed for everyone but Government officials long before he was born. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was one thing to feel this way when my baby sister was born, but to still think it now? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

No one had ever asked about Peach since the day she had been born. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I was born to destroy Neptune. I can sense...” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Of the 30,000 people who live in the Links’ census tract, 75 percent were born outside Georgia. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

His mother had been born in that small Canadian town. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The principal reason that Bruno, who was born in 1548, came into conflict with the Church was because he was a follower of a movement known as Hermetism. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was to this hospital that his mother had gone when Roy, and Sarah, and Ruth were born. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Of Magdalene called Lena and First Corinthians, of his father trying to stop him dead before he was born. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

White Boy would just shrug and say, “It’s not my fault. I was born this way.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Anyone who’s so petty and pedantic at the age of fifty-four was born that way and is never going to change. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d like to hear a tale about an ordinary person for once. Not all of us are born princes.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She felt like she had been born to do this. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mary Lewis, who was born in 1861, was an allotted member of the tribe. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“What a beautiful day to be born in!” he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I got so tired of telling them the same boring story about being born without arms that I started making stuff up. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They multiplied, and by the time I was born there was a whole herd of wild horses on the mountain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Truth is, even though I was born and raised here, I’ll never be truly American to her. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z