Of course I have had to use both sides and write over the music, but I wrote very lightly in pencil between the notes, because someone may want to play it again someday. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if Daedalus will help you, lad, but don’t judge someone until you’ve stood at his forge and worked with his hammer, eh?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Someone with spunk, someone who lets nothing stop her from reaching her dreams. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

What would someone do with a whole house to themselves? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He had gaps between his front teeth, and the squinty eyes of someone who had spent most of his life outdoors. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He’d begged off, but he wanted at least to tell someone about the strike and the extra fat check he had coming. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then someone else on the platform spoke up. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It requires a large number of people, 253 to be exact, to be 50 percent certain that someone in the group has March 19 as his or her birthday. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered how angry Dumbledore would be if someone younger than seventeen did find a way to get over the Age Line. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I thought someone must hear it, someone walking the cliffs late at night, some fisherman from Kerrith away beyond me in the bay, whose boat I could not see. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He needed some of his appetites filled, some posture of adulthood recognized, but mosdy he wanted someone to care about his hurt, to care very deeply. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Give her six months' severance and put her on the next flight back home. I'll send over someone less...distracting. Svetlana is older, a grandmother type, and utterly brilliant. Her goulash is to die for." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe someone had let him die on purpose. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Holding kids deemed menaces to society in a place that would be completely normal if not for the twelve-foot barbed-wire-topped fences seems like someone’s bad idea of a joke. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And I thought I had finally found someone to help me. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

But now I heard someone say, "Woman, who you say that is?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through Paula, Tracy met Luma, who mentioned that she was looking for a coordinator for her soccer program, someone who could handle team logistics like travel and scheduling and be in charge of tutoring. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She looked so much like someone playing the part of spoiled rich girl that Rishi wondered if she practiced it in the mirror to fit in better. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

What if I stare at someone too long? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was not until many months later that Mei Ching found someone who could read the writing on the back. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since I never intended to quit, it’s nice to have someone making all this effort to get me to do something I would have done anyway. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But then he presses his lips tight like someone’s zipped his mouth. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“That is normal enough for someone your age. If I may inquire?” she began delicately. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if at the beginning of the summer someone had said I’d be friends with my nemesis, I’d have said there was a greater chance that Earth would be swallowed by a black hole. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“How old are you, girl? Sixteen? Seventeen? Nations rise and fall. Markets are made and unmade. When power shifts, someone always suffers.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She could start over, surrender her old self, every single wrong decision she had made, and become someone else. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“You know,” I said, chewing the rather dry cookie and wondering what to wash it down with, “disliking someone— anyone, really—based on his or her looks is shallow.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I think people have better appetites when they eat with someone, even if they argue. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isabelle told Hugo about other movies she loved: comedies and cartoons and cowboy movies starring someone named Tom Mix. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

"You'll need someone to share your burdens. I assure you, my price would be modest." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"He took life very easily, it seemed to me; probably after being in prison for so long he didn't take it as seriously as someone else might have done." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We need someone to write a personal statement. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How does that work? What are the limitations? How would . . . that someone . . . find someone else at exactly the right time? How would he know she was in trouble?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Did someone move it to a new spot while I was inside the dentist's office? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“If she were going to kill someone else?” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

You, of all people, should know better than to say something like this when someone is so happy. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was food on the boat and blankets, and he knew where he was going, knew how to sail a boat, knew that he would be met by someone, and yet he was vaguely uneasy. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re destined to die holding that piece of firewood, watching it burn. But perhaps if you didn’t keep it yourself. Perhaps if you trusted someone enough to hold it for you...” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I’d have wanted someone to tell me what to do, to fix everything. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Art is just what I said because you’re supposed to say something, like you say “It’s okay” when someone dies, even though it’s obviously not, because someone is dead and they shouldn’t be. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I want to be punished for the rice I stole from them, for someone to hurt me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It got so bad that he had to be stroking her all the time or she’d start whining piteously until Osbert shouted from the other room Will someone make that dog shut up! How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silence falls, and someone is coughing softly beneath the floor. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want her to love someone all her life and then not love or want them at all. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe waved his arms, like he was dying to hug someone. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I can always tell if someone is looking at me. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

While they were forced to run up and down the sandy gridiron, Milton was reading a paragraph by someone named Carlyle and answering the questions that followed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I could see someone looking at me, quickly fading into a watery blur. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He was desperate to set out in search of someone or something in order to avenge poor Aeschere. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like someone had flicked the off switch the moment my eyes found that dang symbol. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

In El Barrio you always think that the fire engines are headed to someone else’s house. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was a stranger, someone who had found a way into the house and was now answering the phone. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I sensed that these things were yet to be delivered to someone. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could see people poised nervously, waiting as tensely as if Mr. Birkway was going to announce someone’s execution. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Has no one noticed that someone here is unusually quiet?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“He had a knife though. You don’t need a knife to give someone a beating.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Down there on the lawn, someone emerges from the spill of darkness under the willow, steps across the light, his long shadow attached sharply to his heels. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Meggie," whispered Mo. “Let's go over to the prisoners, shall we? Poor Elinor looks exhausted, and there's someone else I want to introduce to you." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And then we've run out of conversation again, and it’s so strange the way an ill-timed kiss can make someone feel like a stranger. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And Henry, that sounded more like a real name than a nickname, but Palmer couldn’t imagine Beans letting someone’s real name stand, so Henry must be someone else too. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Why would someone do something like that without asking for anything in return? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My mother looked at me as if I had suddenly grown horns, as though I had turned into someone who wasn’t her child at all. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Beside it someone had left a large and heavy leather- covered ball, a medicine ball. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When he...When the shooter was...unraveling after I rejected him, when I was scared that he might harm himself or me or someone else, I thought ‘people’ would handle it. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Especially in the mornings, when the odds of finding someone else up there were slim. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It ended like someone pouring water on our fire. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A ragged cheer rose up below as the captives below saw her fly past and realized that someone was making an escape. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I can barely get over the excitement, the thrill, of having someone walk beside me willingly, with a smile on their face, speaking to me as one friend might speak to another. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Buzz was in a communicative mood for someone who was SO MAD AT ME SHE COULDN'T SPEAK!! Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But half a block down, the bus made a noise like someone had punched it in the gut and knocked its wind out. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Clearly, someone had planted a bomb under the house and detonated it. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“If we’re really lucky. Then someone comes out. Fishing boat or a trader will spot it, even if the beach rats don’t.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Telemakhos’ frenzy struck someone as funny, and soon the whole room roared with laughter at him, so that all tension passed. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And weren’t they afraid someone would see them? Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The second night, someone banged on the door at like two in the morning. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

So even for someone who considers a fetus to be worth only one one-hundredth of a human being, the trade-off between higher abortion and lower crime is, by an economist’s reckoning, terribly inefficient. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He never once touched on the fact that Yakov had been an actual person, someone with history and dreams. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“What a pleasant surprise to meet someone so nice,” they all thought, “and especially here.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It was the crappiest piece of junk—and someone took it, too!” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

After four months, Elizebeth decided that “the only way to get rid of them was to go there for a little while until they found someone else.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Hear me out, please. This isn’t going to go on forever, I just need someone to listen.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But C.P. just glared at Clement’s outstretched black hand as if it was a piece of garbage someone was trying to force on him. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was like someone had crushed my chest in a vise, spinning the handle until every ounce of air and courage had been squeezed out of me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

"Take your hands off that woman!" someone called from the crowd. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Psycholinguists call these local ambiguities “garden paths,” from the expression “to lead someone up the garden path,” that is, to mislead him. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Mom looks exactly like Mom but Dad looks like another person entirely, someone who might actually have been raised by Grandma Sweetwine. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Reader, nothing is sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

When we first got together, I thought it might be weird to date a friend, someone who’d known me so long. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Now he looks like someone who will turn up, later, on a stamp. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after, the priest reported that he had received a secret message from Mollie: she was afraid that someone was trying to poison her. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

If someone spun me around a hundred times and drove me all over Brooklyn, then walked me blindfolded back into Holly’s house, I would know it. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

By the end of the week, someone had changed the note. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

But I had never, ever touched someone and felt like this: like I was holding electricity inside of me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Do you boys have someone in there with you? You know that’s against the rule. No room visits, period! And even more no room visits during lights-out!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Bren pretends he is dancing with someone, then twirls around and tries to dip himself. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I tried to crawl to safety in the bushes, but from out of nowhere there was someone standing on top of me with a gun. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Until someone taps me on the shoulder and tells me to check the bathroom downstairs. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Because you want someone cool to be with, for the lack of a better word. Not uptight. It makes for a better future.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe someone had seen her and brought her inside. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He understood English fairly well, except when someone tried to criticize him or tell him what to do. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, he was not someone with whom I could talk about my Central High experience. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gaping hole yawned where the nose should have been, and the bulging eyes gazed heavenward and to the left at something or someone off the edge of the canvas. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He felt like someone was §lowly squeezing the breath out of him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the only closed door in the hallway, someone is talking. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably he feared that someone would guess his purpose. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

They surrounded Mark and someone kicked him in the ribs; a woman let out a shrill cry and punched him in the stomach. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I think of how Chocolate looked for me, how good it felt to be wanted, to know that someone thought it wouldn’t be the same if I wasn’t there. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He did not want to be surprised by someone creeping upon him from behind. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Regardless of what I chose to do, I knew I was bound to disappoint someone. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t someone come and get you? Why didn’t the rest of New World come after you?” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

His immediate thought was that someone, surely, would check the compartments before the train departed again. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

And if someone pays you such a kindness as to make up a tale so you’ll enjoy a gingersnap, you go along with that story and enjoy every last bite. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Of course this aria would be written by someone with this name, the very utterance of which slays me—the trilled rr and knife-blade-between-the-teeth ss in his name. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She was certain that even timid, frightened slaves would run away if someone they could trust offered to guide them to the North. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's strange to miss someone I've never met, but I do. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“There’s someone who might still have a copy.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I flip through it to see that someone—Gram, probably—has underlined certain phrases and words and starred some of the poems. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“That’s someone who gets off on dead people. Latin’s dead, isn’t it?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Why had someone gone to the trouble of covering that dangerous hole? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

None of this is about replacing Will by attracting someone else. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He scurried over with three glasses of fruit juice before busding off to wrench a broken beer bottle out of someone’s hand. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

One of the kids got loose and asked someone walking by for a piece of salmon. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t feel safe having someone take care of you who I can’t trust, so I had to let her go.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been thinking about him ever since the first explosion, and then we found someone and they weren’t alive, and it made me think...” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Just as the pieces began to fall into place, and you could almost make out the image, someone came along and swiped it all onto the floor. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It seemed like every other minute someone was shouting out, “No, Loo, NO!” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And someone was powdering the back of my neck. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He said to Schmid, “It’s a pity,” while someone from the audience, angry at Fischer, yelled: “Send him back to the United States!” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My sisters and I couldn’t go anywhere without someone giving us the latest gossip, filling in the holes where someone else had left off. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He was exhorting someone to throw away a cigarette. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is how you wish a happy Nowruz to someone younger than you. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I clasped the money tightly in my hand, afraid someone would take it from me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Imre’s population griped about unnatural arts being practiced two miles away, but when an aqueduct collapsed or someone fell suddenly sick, they were quick to call on engineers and doctors trained at the University. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When you try rescuing someone and discover they can’t be reached, why would you ever throw that back in their face? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Perhaps as an afterthought someone came up with another meaning for the acronym: “Rights, Justice, Freedom.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Grace lost track of how long she sat on the floor and cried, but after a while, there was a knock at the door and someone saying, “Grade?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“They aren't family issues! And sometimes I just need someone to talk to. It's not like you ever listen to anything I say.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“No traps on the doorway, but...something is strange here. My underground sense is—is fuzzy, like someone is working against me, hiding what’s ahead of us.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She rolled over the block of sugar maple, a castoff from someone’s construction project, and it became her perch whenever she had a spare moment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She’d been so thrilled to find someone that looked like her on the otherwise unfriendly campus that she had played right into their hands. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

"We had Best see to drawing up those documents. Lord Varys, send for parchment and quill. And someone will need to wake Joffrey." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When Charlie is asleep a few hours later, I hear someone at the door. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“I heard someone threw up,” says a lanky guy in glasses. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Making it look like someone was sitting here. With the coat.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In a way, we all had to become someone. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The line about loving someone until the end of time is haunting. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The dashboard clock beside him said 7:25 a.m., and when he turned to face us, it was with an expression of determination I had never seen someone wear so early in the morning. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

If only she had someone to tell her what to do. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you should trust in that Lord of yours. I suspect He’s got a grand plan for someone like you.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You and Bobby Gene are my responsibility. Styx is someone else’s. We all care about him, but what he was doing was wrong. And the people responsible for him needed to know about it.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Because when someone is doing the best they can, you don’t tell them to suck it up. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have to try to be grateful, but it’s hard. This just feels so violating, and terrifying. I thought we were part of this community, and now to think that someone wanted to...” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

In normal circumstances, I’d prefer to shoot someone who uses the word marvelous, but it suits Milla down to the ground. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She was especially furious that someone had succeeded in making her jump and yell like that because she prided herself on her toughness. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

This is someone whose eyes claim mine and don’t release me; this is Tris. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Imagine your own hands joined, or your hand in someone else’s, because that is what hands are for, and what hearts are for: holding each other. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But how did you correct someone who brought you into the world and held a strap to you? P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The parties don’t end until someone gets shot or a bottle gets broken on someone’s face. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Break your swords. How long you think before someone swoops into your paradise and makes short work of you? No defenses.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It seemed to him, somehow, as if the suggestion came to him from outside, from someone or something in the room. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Jessie had been heading backstage to wish her good luck before she performed when she overheard Jefferson Jamison talking to someone. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Which is how I knew someone was standing outside. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

We kids felt relieved when she directed her cruelty at someone else because it meant we were safe—at least for a while. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I was going through all the families I knew, trying to think of someone who might want to take in an adorable imp. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those flowers must have taken someone a long time to stitch!” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A historian, someone who can explain its importance, its antiquity. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

It was starting to seem everything he did got someone hurt. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Like in the open ocean, saving someone’s life or something?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Wellington was therefore most likely to have been killed by someone known to him. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It reminds me of someone breaking bread and handing it out. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The one picture I had of her showed my mom and dad walking away from someone’s car. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They lived in one room and that was a garage and now they were letting someone view their situation and, even worse, be part of it? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

My mom never told me any of the details of the crime—only that the victim was someone Marcus knew in college. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Just having someone else see what I was going through helped in the sense that I knew I wasn’t crazy. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They would be given a private room, take baths; maybe someone would wash their clothes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Nearly a decade later, here I am again, still chasing someone faster, stronger, and better. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was easier to smoke joints and have someone deliver drinks than it was for me to deliver sentences. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“It would be nice if someone would cook for me once in a while.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

His legs kicked out and he rolled onto his side, thrashing back and forth as if someone else were trying to strangle him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It should be obvious that he was not right about this: no one, I trust, would want to read an account of slavery written by someone incapable of passing judgement. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to imagine that Sandy is poor, living in a neighborhood like this, but I guess you never know what the truth is, when someone wants to keep a secret. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

And now, for the first time since she can remember, she has someone looking out for her. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

How scared must someone be to actually go searching for death? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I happened to glance out my window, and I saw immediately that someone—the detective I guessed—had lowered the shade in Margo’s room. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It must have slipped from her belt as she ran, or someone had stolen it and she'd never noticed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know what the ultimate picture would be, but his next words almost felt like they were coming from someone else. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Then, just as the sun mercifully starts to set, I see someone emerge from the elevator and make her way toward me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I wondered why someone didn’t crank up the air-conditioning. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

This had the side effect that it would be possible for someone to go off in a rocket ship and return to earth before he set out. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't recognize Michah now as someone with whom I once shared intimate space. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was made out of white clay and it looked like someone had forgotten to paint it. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It feels like someone kicked me in the stomach, only a hundred times worse. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

How do you say hello to someone who has hearing aids? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Let’s turn back,” someone in our group suggested. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was glad to see that someone was fighting back. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I echo, trying to figure out what someone brought here might think about the experience. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s someone with good sense,” my father said patronizingly. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m outside of myself now, watching everything unfold, like an observer wrapped in someone else’s skin. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He’s been walking alone for a while, and it would be nice to have someone to talk to. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She heard someone say, “This woman is in shock” and felt someone slip a brandy into her hand. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cattail pond now had steel gray and rust brown pipes running up from it toward the groves, like someone had connected straws together in four crooked lines. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hollister’s in there, talking to someone. Do you think he might help us with the Black Cat clue?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“He’s beautiful. They’re all beautiful. They don’t look as though someone made them. They look born.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could have killed someone walking down below. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

On the way I see someone fall off the path on the Pit wall and, judging by his screams and the way he grabs at his leg, he broke something. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m asking for help from a friend to pay a debt, that’s all. Ten thousand dollars is nothing to someone like you.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe she should target someone and try to be their friend. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

An older girl was with them, someone from Naomi’s class named Tommie. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And man, as I headed to Jefferson that night, I was feeling good, so good it felt like someone had cranked the volume of life up to eleven. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was clear to us now that someone had spied on us during our school trip. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the midst of supper, at approximately seven-thirty, someone rang the bell at the front door. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She raced down the platform, looking for someone to stop the train. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“What if they were on their way to say bye to someone close to them and then—” Mateo claps. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” I say “I have to kill someone, all right? Is that all right with you?” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe someone hid it so recently he or she hadn’t had time to register it online, or maybe he or she even forgot. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There was no reason to think someone else would stop by and care that she was in here. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Sooner or later someone will bring up my weird eyes. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Each morning someone in the household would pour a bucketful of water over his lantern, and after several years a skin of living vegetation began to show on the stone. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat down at the kitchen table, feeling like someone had splashed cold water down her insides. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I wonder if Devon was trying to help someone like me when the bad guy with the bullet stopped him. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could possibly be matched up with someone whose sense of humor she’d also instantly get, whom she found just as easy to be around. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She had shared a bottle of soda pop with someone, and not even that person became ill. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of someone being so afraid that he had to sneak by made Chet feel like a warlord or warrior. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, he did tweet it. But he was quoting someone else.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I was returning to the temple one evening, hurrying so that I should be in good time for the meal, when I heard someone running after me, shouting something I could not understand. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a good poker face, unlike someone else I know,” I say, and nudge him with my shoulder. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Leave a prospect to too late in the evening and you were liable to discover someone else had pilfered the body first. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Though he disliked Crup, for instance – but not liking someone was different, it wasn't hating, and he had a way of dealing with Crup, now. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“If I got beat up, I would want someone helping me out—to beat them up,” she said. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even care that they had been transported in someone’s sweaty underwear. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“You’ll love someone else too, like a sensible boy, and forget all this trouble.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

A part of me hoped they would be successful and that someone wanted me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You need to see a doctor if someone in your family’s got a fever,” he warned. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then I was hoping to meet someone on the moon. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sleeping near someone who tried to kill us,” Bushra says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’s got to get himself together before he can get seriously involved with someone else. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking down at them, I had the unsettling impression they belonged to someone else. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You’re super determined. You convinced me, someone who couldn’t even play an instrument, to join the band. I’m pretty sure you can do anything.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

And she had someone to talk to who could guide her in the sport. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“What? That kids would talk about you for being different? Wait like 5 minutes and they’ll talk about someone else.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

And how can you say I love you to someone you love? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She felt as though someone had poured scalding water on her head. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Poor boy, he’s never known how it feels to make someone else happy, and I’m afraid I can’t teach him. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how long I’ve been there but someone says my name. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He suddenly got the distinct feeling that he was being watched by someone. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

There's always a temp agency or consulting firm that can farm out someone, but it's hit or miss with temp hires, who typically don't really care. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Some are desperate for someone to take them by the hand and make sense of what seems to them like an overwhelming process. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He didn’t like knowing that something else, someone else, held all the cards. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Tyrion could hear someone screaming from below, a thin, high voice hysterical with fear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That was, until she stepped onto the landing and remembered being right meant someone in the house was potentially a murderer. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I would. I mean, if someone needed a ride home, you know? What are you supposed to say?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Grace followed Maya’s gaze to see that yes, someone had in fact made a whale out of gum wrappers. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Only you would know if someone is lying,” he boomed out. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

For her, there’s something wrong with someone who doesn’t have cows. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get someone to teach me to make barrels or rope or meat pies. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

He and Leslie couldn’t include her in their activities, but that was hard to explain to someone like May Belle. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Ivy let herself have fun with it, the idea of dressing up for someone she liked. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And there was someone in the room—She had heard something—surely she had heard something... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Why would he sit up there in the cold, waiting for someone to find him? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s someone here who wants to see you!” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

That was because someone had to be the American dinosaurs and someone had to be the Nazi ones. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to talk to someone real about everything. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I really do hate oranges, though. I can’t even sit across from someone drinking orange juice.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

For a second, he thought about leaving it and letting it be someone else's responsibility. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell him that when someone drives almost to Canada to see you, you ignore those days. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

In which case, the reason it was opening now was probably because it sensed that someone was about to be dead. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"How would you respond if someone asked you to do something dangerous?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Ms. Wockley's frustration came from the fact that there was always someone spraying something in the hallway. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I never thought about how heavy it must have been and how lucky we were to have someone bring it to us every day. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Is anyone there? I thought I could hear someone in the background.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, he’s somewhat of an aberration. I’m pretty sure someone stole our nice, sweet boy and replaced him with…” He gestured at the door. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“You have to pick me up and take me to the hospital because someone set me on fire.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mark gripped his tightly, as if someone were going to try to take it from him right then and there, and nodded. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

With Teddy, I’d finally met someone who made me feel normal. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

People couldn’t be expected to trudge halfway across the city every time they wanted to communicate with someone. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I think maybe you try to be odd on purpose. I think you like that. It makes you you and not someone else.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I was frightened of Ucho, and to fear someone is to give him power over you, the power to silence your voice and cause you to hide your face from the world. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It looked like a bag of Skittles had melted and someone had made a suit out of it. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

After formal dances we go to someone’s house or to the St. Charles Restaurant, and after that we neck, though not for long because the time has usually run out. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was still dark when someone shook her awake. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I could only imagine the school as I was experiencing it now, as a kind of museum, a relic from someone else’s life. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“There’s no tactful way to ask that question! I guess I just never met someone like you.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The idea made him nervous, and he looked around, as if someone might’ve heard his thoughts. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“That kind of thing makes me furious enough to where I think I could actually kill someone,” Dri said. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If someone hadn’t called the school about two crazy kids out on the ice, I wouldn’t have come here.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

“How do you go about reporting someone who don’t take care of his dog right?” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cream-at-the-top-of-the-milkpail face of someone who will never work for anything; someone who picks up things lying on other people’s dressers and is not embarrassed when found out. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do miss them. They were good people. Not huggers or the types to go to pieces over loving someone. But good people.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Last fall, there were pink ribbons in the movie theaters and in all the stores, and someone told me it was for this type of cancer. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

As I watch them chat, the lunchroom starts to feel like someone’s cranked up the heat. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden it felt like someone had stuck a red-hot nail right into my left cheek. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Miss Trotter was all too happy to tell the history and to have someone to tell it to. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

That was when she felt someone push her out of the way, and Ben was there. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was the way someone apologised when they’d tried to do you a favour, but it hadn’t worked out. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

That strikes me as naive, for someone who once lived in my city and saw, at least on the screens, how many secrets we kept from one another. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

"I know every big sister. I've memorized everything about them. This was someone else. Someone I've never seen before. Her face was mutilated. Her name is Delphine. Can you help me find out about her?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t look like someone who has the Most Important Interview of His Life in a couple of hours. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Suppose,” Markman writes, “a child who already knows ‘apple’ and ‘red’ hears someone refer to an apple as ‘round.’ The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t just because I liked you. It was because I finally felt like I wasn’t alone. For the first time ever, someone was telling me they were the same as me.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“There is always someone to lean on,” he told her. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly someone was calling his name, the sound oddly distant. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She turned to someone who had come up more quietly in sneakers. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

My chest felt heavy, like someone had dropped a planet on me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“And the man’s body was missing its vital organs—like someone had split him open from neck to navel, and—I’m sorry, you look like you’re going to be ill. I shouldn’t have said anything.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Seven channels, if someone holds one end of the foil up in the air by the window, but that’s annoying. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He’d gotten his nickname because someone was always borrowing his hammer and he was always yelling at them to bring it back. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put my own ingenuity to work, coming up with a dozen names from my reading, because, of course, I don’t want to give the sons any real Dominican names and get someone in trouble. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas felt his heart tremble, hoped it wasn’t someone he knew. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Beneath it, a keyboard was set into the wall, angling out enough for someone to type on it with ease if standing. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They would flirt with me in the hallways or meet me after school, but they would ask Radine to the dances, or someone like Radine, someone they could safely be seen with. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, he’s trying to get out!” someone hollered. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Then he turned and ran, maybe to tell someone else the exciting news. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

For someone who actively dislikes bodily fluids, I throw up quite a lot. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’d look at those little black-and-white pictures, and suddenly an image of someone I’d seen around school would pop into my head. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He figured if someone snuck up to the house and looked in on him, he could pretty well startle whoever it was into a faint. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

If you want to see a teenage illegal immigrant's already fragile self-esteem hit rock bottom, just take them to get their passport photo at a location where they might run into someone from high school. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“This is only the third time in the past decade that you’ve left home, but someone named Edmon said it was important.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

His system was sturdy enough to survive a case of someone else’s malaria or influenza with scarcely any discomfort at all. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Aru was about to speak, but someone else got there first. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He came down for coffee in the mornings, in an old bathrobe of Francis’s, and sat in the kitchen windowsill looking moodily over the lawn as if he were waiting for someone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Far away—too far away for me to care—someone tuts with disapproval, but I ignore it as the splendor builds in my core. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“But the road is the same, isn’t it? It still goes to the same place,” someone asked. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I have shed myself, put on someone else’s truth, and filled this space with my voice, acting as Rose from Fences, Camae, the angel in The Mountaintop, and Lady in Blue from For Colored Girls. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

George put his hand up again, but again someone pushed it off. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the thought appears, it’s like someone hurled a huge rock at me and knocked me over. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Meggie thought they looked like birds hunching their heads down beneath their wings in case someone might knock them off. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Above his head, someone had written the words I am. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Streams of water ran down the sides, like someone was continually pouring liquid over the monster. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s unnerving, how he was someone else back at Neumos and now he’s himself again. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It seemed a lot easier to be in trouble when you could point to someone else and say, “Wait till you hear what they did, though.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

There is hardly room to step without landing on someone’s foot, a squawking chicken, or a pile of cow dung. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Once again, I’d failed to save someone who had needed my help. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I definitely felt attracted to some people, and I liked the idea of being with someone, but the actual mechanics of it didn’t much suit my talents. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ophie couldn’t help feeling, however, that it was desperately unfair, someone so kind and lovely being killed and everyone refusing to talk about her, forgetting her, even. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She told us that on the first day, someone leaned on the handle a moment to wipe their brow. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“They’ve stolen him away!” screamed someone else, and people all over the ward began screaming. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I didn't see how yelling at someone to calm down would actually get them to calm down. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I imagined him in his crate, crying against the bars, someone lifting him out only to chop off a finger. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Just ’cause someone isn’t quite as smart as you are don’t give you no right to look down on them.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

"I thought we agreed I didn't have to be someone I'm not," I say, suddenly defensive. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Shorty glances around, as if looking for someone to tell the good news. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even then he does not feel fully alone with her, half waiting for someone to knock on the door and tell them how to go about things. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“One of the initiates,” says someone behind me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“In the wake of the Tonist tragedy, conclave takes on a certain...resonance, don’t you think?” she heard someone say. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

At last the corridor nar rowed and became a wood-paneled hallway that seemed more like someone’s home than a palace, hung with portraits of huntresses dressed in green and brown. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped off the sidewalk into someone's yard. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

When she crawled back into her room at dawn, someone was waiting there. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Just let us know if you don’t want to do this any longer. We’ll find someone else.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I remember hearing the air brakes, and someone yelling “Mr. Hoodhood,” and the “Oh” that came out of my sister when I hit her just ahead of the sliding school bus. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then, as if she sensed that someone was watching, the lady turned slowly around and studied Hanako for a moment before turning away again. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Joaquin tried not to feel the carpet on his back, the way his hair tangled against it as he writhed on the floor, howling for something, for someone, that was always just out of reach. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In flip- flops, he pads to the door every fifteen minutes or so and summons someone for a return call. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m thinking someone’s patron might have been roughing it last night with a cheery little campfire ” Denna’s face fell. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“If someone is holding something you want, ask if you can have a turn. That’s the rule.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

So had I been; but in this hour, I became someone else. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“I felt angry because someone broke the play area rules,” Lily had said once, making a fist with her small hand to indicate her fury. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Suicide isn’t the only way you can lose someone to depression.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I told her she shouldn’t marry someone who scares her, that no one should, but the words left my lips stillborn. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Samar has the look of someone who has seen too much. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He set the book aside and said, “They’re hiding? Is someone hurt? Is something wrong?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

A fat candle glowed on a parlor windowsill of a house on a corner, set there to guide someone home. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he had curd on his fingers and there was someone at the door. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you can find someone else to sell the cans to?” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I jumped from my chair and wrung out the rag as though it were someone’s neck. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taken at its simplest, it is a clue which directly incriminates someone whose initial is H, and it was dropped there unwittingly by that person.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Billy, how do we know the prince ain't laid a trap for us in that message? He could have said one thing and wrote another. Where'll we find someone to read it off to us?" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Stand here, you mean? In my pajamas? What if someone walks by?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They sent Calypso someone she couldn’t help but love. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I’d still like to know how someone manages to get a sunburn on a day like this.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

For some reason, hearing the word at that moment, from someone else, knocked something loose in his mind and it clicked. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She’d found someone she could breathe easier around, and it hurt. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Many construction firms bid for the job, but in the end it was decided to give it to “someone from the community,” and that someone was Bart Skiotis. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Do you know how hard it is to see someone you love in such a dark place?” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Still, none of that was the same as hearing it from someone who had already gone through the process. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Hex overload. It’s what happens when someone uses too much evil magic. They start to look like an evil monstruo.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe he isn’t going to want to help someone so small and sad. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Most people applauded her wins, but there was always someone lurking in the wings who didn’t want to see her succeed. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It was the one he used when someone he didn’t know was coming to the door. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She had been desperate to hire someone quickly. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what to say to someone who wasn’t responding. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A few weeks ago, just days before Hannah took the pills, someone slipped an envelope through the vent of my locker. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“We have to speak with someone. And should something happen to me, I want this person we are going to see to be familiar with your face for future reference. Understand?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s not as much fun when you know someone had to invite you,” Madge says. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The alarm clock said just before five, and Meggie was going to turn over and go back to sleep when she suddenly sensed someone else in the room. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was so nice for someone to be unafraid of me. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I know I should probably hate him for leaving, but when I look at Dad, I don't see someone I'm capable of hating. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Lily had heard from someone that there were only a few colored kids there and nobody talked to them and they had to huddle together at lunchtime while people ignored them. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Once upon a time there was a banana and it grew. It grew until it was large, firm, yellow and fragrant. Then it fell to the ground and someone came upon it and ate it.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

That’s because you were talking and it’s rude to talk when someone else is talking. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Hampden, the house chairpeople were who you complained to if your storm windows didn’t work or someone was playing their stereo too loud. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They gather and consider far more information than is truly necessary because it makes them feel more confident—and with someone’s life in the balance, they need to feel more confident. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Besides, even if someone told you something that would happen in the future, what could you do about it? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In two small portraits, however, there is a black thumbprint on her forehead, as if someone had inked in bangs, as if someone had marked her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t go to sleep until four, but I was in someone else’s house, so I woke up early—at eight—with that crazy sleeping-at-someone-else’s-house energy. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Are you okay? Did someone do something to you?” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“You wouldn’t like it much anyway,” someone replied gently. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d wanted moral advice, someone to reconcile my calling as a wife and mother with the call I heard of something else. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When I did, the sun was already pouring through my window and someone was knocking on my door. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I stopped worrying about someone coming to take me somewhere else. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She heard someone call to another about weather concerns, a phrase she didn't understand. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Unless, of course, that caller is someone who needs no introduction. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

When she tried to speak in French, Bridge felt as if someone had sewn her mouth closed, which made her angry. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Everything mechanical. When you were young, every time someone asked you what you wanted to do when you were all grown up, you said you wanted to marry Pelé. What’s happened to that dream?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I’d learned a long time ago that asking someone else if they heard something was much safer than asking them if they saw it. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

A dark-clothed man hurried out on deck to greet her, and looked around as if he were expecting someone else as well. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could something so huge have happened to someone so small? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Soon someone would say, “Where’s the sun? It’s getting late. Let’s take the cows home.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she was good with computers, it was only as a hobby, and I doubt that a computer hobby would enable someone to fiddle with an Erudite simulation. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I doze, thinking of plums, walls, and “someone.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Before my brain explodes,” said Mrs. Eberhardt, “would someone please explain what this is all about?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a face he recognizes from campus, someone he’s crossed paths with in the corridors of buildings as he walks to and from class. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

From what he gathered, both Ms. Byrd and Mr. Miller agreed that he had to talk to someone before he returned to school, but that was as far as their agreement went. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

In prison, there’s no such thing as bailing someone out. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

And sure enough, someone is sprinting through the flames. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In Rachel's mind, every ill that befell her was the work of someone else. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Like I said, you can tell a whole lot about someone from the way cows are around him. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

“You said don’t drown—so I found someone to help me keep my promise.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

If someone wanted to distract Finn, food was always a good topic. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It’s supposed to be easier to like yourself when someone else likes you. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“And what if someone asks to come up to your apartment, just to see? What would you tell them, then, Hela?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I had to remain in the enclosure until someone finally came and chased away the kata-kata. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I dismounted from that car, she came running towards me, her arms out like a person seeing someone brought back from the dead. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a blister the size of a pencil eraser on it; someone must have burned him with a cigarette. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I looked into the design of their faces, hardly a one that was unlike someone I'd known down South. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why not wait by the front door for someone to let him in? A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

So peculiarly individual was its shape that at first glance the hat appeared to be on the head of someone standing immediately behind Luster. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d bet a thousand dollars that there were roaches on the floor of this shed, just waiting to crawl in someone’s ear. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

In the morning, someone would come to them. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though someone had said, “Whatever you do, don’t think about that stick bursting into flame!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Well, there’s always someone going in,” he said, “and you could ride in with them.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess it’s not that hard. There isn’t really anything to struggle with, when you love someone as much as I love you.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“Take it from someone who has gone through big changes, someone who’s experienced the loss of love,” Mom says. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They were to sit, hands folded, and not say a word unless someone asked them a question. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He turns and sprints back up to his apartment, and I follow, thinking about how turning someone else’s doorknob is such a small thing but also such a creepy thing. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Someone with a face erased; someone of no particular race or sex or age or weather. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When, as someone entered, he said good morning, or good day, he said it barely looking up, and with an indifference that fell just short of insolence. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Her furious oaths made Beetle truly fear she was a witch, for only someone who had truck with the devil could know such words. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to bang on the wall with my fist when I walk into her office or kick a chair across the kitchen before she even notices someone’s joined her in the room. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I thought I saw someone peek but the windows at this madman who was my father. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

His near-expulsion actually seemed to shake something loose in her brain; she was maybe more surprised than anyone that Ocean had voluntarily broken someone’s nose, and, suddenly, she was asking him questions. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It’s hard watching someone swallow their favorite food one last time. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I start to cry and scream like someone is stabbing me. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It will come in the most unexpected way, from the least likely person, someone I never would have suspected. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Burning down a house is about the most terrifying thing you can do to someone because it says you have no respect for human life, or anything.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Even the roof pulled itself up, like someone adjusting his suspenders. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Sort of like that. Can someone give us another example?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

And I was sorry that I had never felt this particular loneliness before— that I had never felt myself so far outside of someone else’s dream. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“He took his juice, so maybe he’s not coming back. Constance, will you stand guard? You know the code—if you hear someone coming, run in and warn us.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

All over he looks fragile, the model of someone grieving. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just someone I made up,” I say, pushing another wet squirrel tail of her hair off my neck. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Is the army going to protect us?” someone shouted out, but Doha couldn’t see who it was. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I never knew someone could know so much about regular old geese. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Sandra, if you ever fall for someone, let me know,” Tats says, leaning over the table to whisper. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Didn't you say we must hurry? And what were you doing with that knife? Not cutting someone open, I hope!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I wish someone would have told middle school Simon to please try to be awesome. Just try.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

If the stream of breath is broken before they tag someone, they’re out. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

"And why should he stop just when we do? Shasta, my boy, I do believe there's someone shadowing us at last." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I was burning out the infection in front of someone I cared about, and that made all the difference. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

But it feels like a feast for someone else. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to argue with someone I don’t even know anymore.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You make it sound like he’s your boyfriend and he kissed someone else.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

There is not a worse feeling in this world than the feeling that someone knows something about you that he has known for almost a whole summer and has kept to himself. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever I needed something—food, toilet paper, new gear—I ordered it online, and someone brought it right to my door. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It’d take someone a whole lot smarter than me to tell you why we love what we love. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It was still a struggle to carry the boy, but with someone else to help I was rejuvenated. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Listen! Here come some more cops!" someone called. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the background, Alice’s bed is unmade and covered with pillows, and someone’s purchased a round, shaggy carpet to cover the few feet of floor space. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“I needed to be reminded of things I had forgotten. I needed a reason to leave. It was years before I met someone who could do those things.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was hard to believe that someone like Kaori lived in such an ordinary house. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

One friend chalked it up to Bobby’s winner-take-all mentality, saying, “If someone offers him a million dollars, he thinks there is a lot more available, and he wants it all.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s afraid,” she realized, “or else he knows that someone wants to kill him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I can feel someone pulling her from my back. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Even by someone with a fancy title like ‘Lieutenant’. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2006-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever read your cards for someone who could not understand what they were dealing with, even though to you it was clear from only a short conversation and pictures on paper?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He started to laugh the way you’d imagine someone with a twisted criminal mind would laugh. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I thought, if someone like that ever loved me, it would set me on fire. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I say, more seriously, “The most ridiculous part is, in any other faction it would be brave of us to tell someone what happened. But here... in Dauntless ... bravery won’t do us any good.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow. They need to know if someone’s been asking questions about ’em.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She always had a chip on her shoulder about the operation, like someone was making her turn sixteen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Reread my paper on the Algemon-Gordon Effect and even though I know I wrote it, I keep feeling it was written by someone else. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you expect with someone like her coming around to tempt him? He’s only human!” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I tell someone what’s hurting me, and I cry almost the entire time. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I look around, worried someone will hear us. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Fingers tight on my lunch bag on the way to the cafeteria, I hear someone shout, “Amelia!” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He wondered how police would be able to prove what someone was doing on their phone—texting, talking, emailing, what?—without being intrusive into the motorist’s personal business. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Would it be better to go out into the city, especially if it is still daylight, and try to find someone? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Hey, it’s Red!” someone in the audience shouted, and everybody giggled. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her, “If I marry someone from my culture, that would be awesome. But if I marry someone from outside my culture, that would be awesome too.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Fittingly, it falls to me, as someone who so awkwardly carried the label, to question it now, its juxtaposition of terms—minority, student. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the playground I tell Malachy about the dog who died in the street because someone drove a ball into his mouth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Poppy’s words, “It’s nice when someone has your back,” popped into my head. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He didn’t glow, but he was surprisingly warm for someone so small. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

He just wanted someone to listen to him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As names are read, items are received with the excitement of someone winning a real contest, as if the booty were free and not paid for at three, four, or five times the store value. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The story contrasted those demands with the science showing that when someone was being responsive, it wasn’t the same thing as being effective. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

And then someone was introducing me to Oprah, explaining that I had spoken at the summit. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“This is what it’s like when someone changes and scares you. How do you like it?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

About how sometimes you needed someone to remind you of how powerful you were—then you would surprise even yourself. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She could tell him she had someone else, but she didn’t want to lie to him anymore. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Now say you have a black guy—not Justyce, but someone else—whose single parent’s income falls beneath the poverty line. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Harry had only just raised his wand when they heard someone speak — and it wasn’t Malfoy. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

In thin black marker, right on the sleeve, someone had drawn a picture. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Were they talking about someone working for the hedge fund? Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

How do you defend yourself against that when someone is using it to tease you? Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

You saw a small one of these trees through the iron gate leading to someone’s yard and you knew that soon that section of Brooklyn would get to be a tenement district. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to read more—not just chess journals—acquire more money, continue his religious studies, and possibly meet someone with whom he could fall in love. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“All she wanted to do was get into bed with someone. That’s the only thing she kept talking about all night long.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I walk around the house; I can’t settle, I feel as though someone else has been here while I was sleeping. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The general must have been an extremely powerful person to change someone from a god into a man. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was warning me so 1 could get out before someone insulted me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted a friend—someone who would play with him. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I’d give a couple of extra sticks when someone bought ten, which was five dollars’ worth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Accusing someone of being evil isn’t how you treat someone who wants to help. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He and his friends hadn’t done that in a long time, driving along in someone’s souped-up car and splattering whatever jigs were stupid enough to be standing out on the sidewalk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So someone had put the horse in the barn along with some feed. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But he needs someone else from home to know. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Very rarely someone comes to Wall knowing what they are looking for, and these people they will sometimes allow through. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

When you’re eleven and your brothers are ten, five and one, you don’t know what to do when you go to someone’s house even if she’s your mother’s sister. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We were all laughing and talking at once, and then Laura—typical of her—got up on her seat and did a hysterical impersonation of someone reaching out and getting electrocuted. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it meant running up to someone and slapping their neck. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t think I wanted anyone to see me, but it was nice. Like I had someone on my team, you know?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Hon, when someone’s a true friend, there’s no need to miss ’em.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Not now, at any rate. They can be infuriatingly patient if they know someone’s wounded.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Not only could I not prove I hadn’t stolen the car, I couldn’t prove I hadn’t murdered someone for it, either. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Let wood from the forests of Eyllwe defeat steel from Adarlan. Let the King’s Champion be someone who understands how the innocents suffer.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His hair, a brown-and-gray mash-up, was shortish and scruffy in a way that might seem hip on someone half his age but gave him the look of an affable academic. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

You've heard some of the fellas talking about someone rattling around in the woods at all hours. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Doubtless Lord Mormont would find someone more worthy of the blade. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I had never been ordered to befriend someone before. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

So the next morning someone notified the British authorities, who still controlled our country. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

For Trip to pay attention to a conversation that wasn’t about sports, let alone tune in on someone else’s feelings, was nothing short of unusual, and they all knew it. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Imagine you are someone with a dangerous job—let’s say a firefighter. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He felt it was good enough to be copied out by someone with a neater hand, so he gave it to the schoolmaster at Down. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When someone who didn’t know Sam called him “Chief” he would answer, “What, Mr. President?” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

If only I had someone who took my feelings seriously. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I have some free time this week. If you want someone to go book scavenging with.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

"This fight doesn't change that. You can't start kicking people every time someone thinks I'm weird or ugly. . . . Promise me you won't try. Promise me that you'll try not to care." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Inej saw that someone had made a low fire, and the sticky remnants of a block of melted paraffin were visible in its ashes. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Bull was fidgeting as he always did when someone stripped away an outer layer of himself and revealed something intensely personal. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Telemachus whispered to his friend, very softly for fear someone might hear, “Zeus’s hall in Olympus must be like this. It takes my breath away.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been hurt—had my hand stepped on, had the wind knocked out of me—and someone had to fill in for me. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And instead of just containing her thoughts and impressions, they are all written to someone. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

If the point of debate is to convince someone to see something in a new way, then it’s time for us to bring it. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

But, you know, an illegal, someone whose parents broke Population Law 3903. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I want someone to hear my story. Will you?” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he asked someone who was hanging around to give me a tour. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It felt almost as if someone were spinning a very fine web around the two of them, a web of secrets and lies closing in on them all the time. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Because if it wasn’t this story, it would have been some other story or some review of a movie or a review of a book that someone does not like. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“You left our cows with someone else? What kind of a son are you?” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

It does something to a person to be looked at like that—especially someone so accustomed to disgust. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His posture was that of someone waiting for something. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Is that coffee?” someone calls as Matt makes his way down the aisle of the bus. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Rockmouth just flicked his tail in a way that meant “Will someone please take me home now!” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I opened my eye and saw someone standing alongside my bed. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She had a splash of freckles across her nose, and her dark eyes vaguely reminded me of someone famous, but I couldn’t think who. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He hoped that it would be someone as capable as his previous apprentice. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We know someone with a lot of cows has worked hard, taken risks, brought his cows to where there is grass and water. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tad yelled, hoping there was someone around to hear him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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

“This is a very meaningful moment. I feel as if I’m saving someone.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn saw Chess’s face change, as if someone had flipped a switch. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

"Hello, there," I began, and when he turned toward the crowd and whistled I didn't know whether he was telling me to do the same or signalling to someone else. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

How to thank someone and say they were welcomed. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“They say they have no jobs, but they mean they have no jobs for a boy like me. Everyone there is someone’s cousin or brother or best friend’s son.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He believed that the extreme scarcity of just about everything in Haiti, from food to clean water to clothes to shelter, created significant jealousies of anyone who had more than someone else. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I became angry and regretted that I had told someone, a civilian, about my experience. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We all had something to prove to someone, even if it was just ourselves. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“She thinks someone sprayed insecticide in her apartment, Nia. She gets paranoid.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The grocer probably put back the pomegranates and the tea and the saffron, so that someone else could buy them. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

After I get through the lunch line, I’m looking for Brianna when I hear someone shouting my name. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Z could have refused Trepid’s request right off the bat, but he figured that Trepid would just find someone else to do his dirty work, and that would not be good. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Only if she wants to be cured. These are experimental, Tally. We can't give them to someone against her will. Not when we don’t know if they’ll work.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It’s as if someone unhooked my brain from my body. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I’m intrigued by the idea that someone else can come and take away your laundry. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I hear your wife’s frock never turned up in time,” said someone with a mottled face and a sailor’s pigtail, and he laughed, and dug Maxim in the ribs. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dylan is just the best and I would drop-kick someone for him. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Sometimes new recruits were punished for something they didn’t do well enough, or someone in their platoon didn’t do well enough: cleaning their boots, pitching a tent, performing in drill competitions. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“You mean you heard someone screaming? Are you sure?” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Like someone had tied up the person the same way you might tie a shoelace. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Who knows but that she tried to tell someone or everyone what she was like and could not, for lack of a common language. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She kept glancing back over her shoulder as she hopped the gutter and zigzagged up through our yard, like someone had been shooting at her from behind. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Why would someone plant trees in the middle of a forest?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Because that swastika means there could be someone in this school who hates me. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“If you were upset that someone called you a name, why didn’t you tell your teacher?” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“I shot someone at the Trial stadium today.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“If we don’t take their shoes, someone else will,” Kevin said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I’m on my way to pick up Ryan at the elementary school when I hear someone calling me. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

When the phone call comes in the middle of the night, it isn't to tell us someone has died. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“We should kill her,” she heard someone say from that emptiness. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Rain was pelting against the entrance and someone was hammering against the metal. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, we heard someone else coming into the room. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Helmuth tries to reason why reading a forbidden book might help someone else. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Sir,” he said, “we’d like to go through these gates, if you please, because we need to escape from someone who’s following us. Can you open them for us?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Maybe I should’ve joined band and played piano, gotten some recognition before working my way up to singing in the chorus, then maybe a duet with someone cool, and then maybe braving a solo. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As I began reading it, the style reminded me of someone whose work I am quite familiar with. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She turned away from the mic and looked to her left as if she was looking for someone to help her, but no one was there. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Suppose we miss or someone hears it and finds us?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right, we’re all in the same boat here,” someone else says. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It took a moment for me to realize someone was lying there. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I was looking for someone who could keep up on the weekends.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“And I stopped being someone I don’t like,” I say. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

"Leave Brooklyn? Boy, this is home. You leave home on your terms, not because someone ran you out. Got that?" When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

When you see someone waving her arms, the first thing you want to know is whether she is trying to attract attention, shoo away flies, or exercise her deltoids. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The next morning, we are woken early, shaken awake by someones meaty fist. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Just the idea of someone explaining everything made her slightly delirious with hope. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Here’s an apartment where someone lives, but they’ve boarded up their windows. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that as near as she could tell, someone who lived in that house painted the front door a different color several times a year. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I hated poetry until someone showed me how to appreciate it. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Each time someone arrives to eat dinner, he waves the red rag to guide the customer into a parking space, like a ground crew member ushering a jetliner to a gate. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“There’s someone under the bed!” the policeman in the bedroom shouted triumphantly. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the basement? Could there have been someone else down there?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They had died, Mr. Loomis guessed, of asphyxiation; they would have depended for air on a bottled oxygen-mix, and someone, somewhere in the underground maze, had wrecked the circulation pumps. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

If we didn’t open a shop or expand the coffeehouse, someone else would; and then it would be too late. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now I was terrified that someone would catch me putting it back. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I am always nearby, when someone wants to realize their Personal Legend,” the old king had told him. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the letters that represent zeros are in italics, so if someone knows what I’ve done, they could decode this. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It is an odd literary reference for Volpe to make, because the person who discovers this evidence of illicit, unmarried sex is someone outside the relationship, the mother. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

If my sister had to have a crush on someone, Sohrab was a good choice, even if he was way too old for her. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Mark joined him on the ground below the Berg, wary that someone might be watching from the ruined homes surrounding them or from the burnt woods beyond those. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Doha recognized her as someone who also worked in the administrative offices. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“That’s okay. I lose myself. It’s just my oddball way of accounting for someone I don’t really understand any more than you do.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

There are only three weeks left until someone wins the competition. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

At least if someone sees me with him, they won’t think I’m wandering alone. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

No. Let’s try to pick someone you like and we’ll work on a friendship with that person. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know what someone gets for loving me? They get to help me pay for all my care, and then they watch me die. How is that fair to anyone?” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The captain told someone to get a priority radio message off to the naval commander at Willemstad and then asked, "How did you get on that little island?" The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We killed time at the Apple store, waiting for someone in a blue shirt to acknowledge our presence while hordes of tiny, teething infidels ran screaming around us. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

This is the sort of advice you get from someone who is sitting at a keyboard when he gives it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting on the floor, Eva played with her set of colorful nesting dolls, removing one hollowed-out and brightly painted doll from inside the other, while everyone waited for someone to speak. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I yelled, way too loud, and someone laughed from below. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I also know how it feels for someone you love to get killed for no reason, and to want to trade all your memories of them for just a moment’s peace.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Also, kicking someone in the nuts and then running is a coward thing to do, but I guess there isn’t a country for I-rack, I-gloat. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure what comfort I could ever give to someone whose six-year-old had been gunned down at school. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When I feel someone standing over us, I open my eyelids just enough that I'm seeing the world through my eyelashes. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“These children have been traumatized, Bunch. They can barely tell us what happened yet. They need warm baths and clean beds and someone to stay with them through the night—many nights, maybe.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he thinks someone else will steal his idea of putting a disappearing mockingjay on a watch face. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was so beautiful that men from all over Ireland panted to marry her and her father wanted her to marry someone important. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But before he could become an expert, someone had to give him the opportunity to learn how to be an expert. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Out on the grounds, someone is splitting wood, and Werner listens to the ringing of the sledgehammer against the wedge and the quick, frightened breaths of the boys all around him. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He patted someone’s back and moved to the edge of the mob where I stood. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He left, telling Kathy that someone would come to fix it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I’m thinking of someone else daughter,” she says, but I know right away she’s lying. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They search the crowd and one by one approach someone in the group we’ve walked in with. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Her and someone else. The rest of us are, what, extra pieces?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Marjorie is sitting at the edge of the pool, laughing as someone tries to pull her in. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Is it true, what someone said, that it’s a million times easier to tell a stranger your deepest secret than a person who cares for you? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It was like welcoming someone with open arms, only to have him walk straight past into someone else’s. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t want to have the experience of someone beating up on me, though. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asks for someone to give the answer to the 2nd question, and Maddie raises her hand. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

To be so comfortable with myself that I could be comfortable with someone else, too. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Or someone who looked like a girl or a woman,” said Harry. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was like asking someone who’d just learned to swim to compete in the Olympics. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I felt like someone was pouring liquid fire onto my head. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Thanks,” I tell her, and I’m grateful to hear this from someone who knows. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Tears were leaking from her eyes, and as she stood there taking deep breaths, Mark thought he’d never seen someone look so incredibly sad. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Searching for a way out, I said, “Why do Granny’s white people all of a sudden want to see me? What’s so special about me? Why not someone else? George or Uncle Piet, for instance.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

On several occasions when I went with my father to the barbershop, he would have to take me home because he’d been summoned by someone in trouble to work with that team. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"You've heard it? Now, there's more to chopping someone's head off than giving them a healthy whack. A real master aims for the gap between the second and third cervical vertebrae. That's the sweet spot." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

No other signs that someone had been there. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were crowded around someone lying on the ground. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It occurs to me that my conscience stopped me from killing August at the very moment someone was attempting to carry out his orders to kill me. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The following morning, when Ito told us that the contratista had gotten Gabriel fired and sent back to Mexico, I felt like someone had kicked me in the stomach. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Open. Nice . . . Close again . . ." It felt exactly like having someone draw on your eye with a pencil. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I promised to read the typescript novel of someone’s absent son. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As he took his jacket out of the pouch, thinking to give it to someone in the street, the two stones fell to the floor. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's not a bad thing to stand up for someone." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“How about repairs to the school?” someone else called. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

What could be more exciting than going to a carnival to see freaks of nature and watch someone get hypnotized? Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He had been tear gassed before and told me it was like someone rubbing an onion on your eyeballs, and then pouring hot gasoline down your throat. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Boys from my graduating class are signing up and shipping out, and every week there’s a farewell potluck dinner in a church basement or the lobby of the Roxy or in someone’s home. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The worst crime you could commit as a Persian human is to not have hot tea, pastries, cucumbers, nuts, and a basket of fruit at the ready when someone enters your house. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Another reason I got it is that I thought writing in it might be like having someone to talk to, and if I read it back later it would be like someone talking to me. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She threw herself on the bed she kept parked in the corner and sulked for a while before picking up the chipped telephone and calling someone in her native land. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I think I might have a crush on someone. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"Otherwise, someone is sure to point you out." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, I realize that I’m mouthing off to one of the world’s most powerful people—to my idol, someone I’ve watched and read about and obsessed over for years, someone who had changed my life. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The gun was caught under someone’s twisting body—the Frenchman’s. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

Might she have been some distant kin of someone I haggled with on market days? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess it was the equivalent of a Playboy centerfold for someone. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Josh looks as if someone set fire to his face, and it remained blistered and full of pus. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Yet someone had called twice, asking for him by name. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A jar of peanut butter had crashed to the floor; someone had gotten a running start, jumped into it, and skied a brown, onefooted track to the stove. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t seem nearly as immersed in literature as he was, and we wondered if he might be happier with someone who shared his love of books. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

So when he sensed someone coming from the palace toward him, his head snapped up. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She behaved as if someone else had already told her, before we got there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When someone won’t let you in, eventually you stop knocking. Know what I mean?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He got someone on the phone and conversed in Arabic. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The street lamps were making the pavement glisten, and the light from the streetcars would glint off someone’s shiny hair, or off a smile or a silver bracelet. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

She was like something that was thrown aside after she became useless to someone cruel. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Girls loved to say that they wanted to hook up with “someone” when it was anyone but you. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

If Mr. Curtain knew the truth, by tomorrow Reynie might become someone else entirely—a mixture of mysterious pain and forgotten purposes, forgotten dreams. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I felt someone tickle me under my ribs. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

But both Charles and Emma liked having visitors; Emma still ran to the front door when she heard someone coming up the drive. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A blur of hurrying bodies streamed past me, leaving me feeling like a stone in a creek, and then I heard someone calling my name. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Who knows what happens to someone with a score that high? Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“The more you send the more chances someone along the way will steal the whole thing.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was just jumping down from the lowest branch when I heard something, like someone biting into an apple. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes me feel vulnerable and seen, and it gets me teary eyed, like when someone sings “Happy Birthday” to me—seriously, every year, it never fails. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t care whether someone’s a guerrilla or a gorilla, lives in a desert or a dessert, has a sweet tooth or a suite tooth. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I’m willing to bet that our little friend here hasn't had a bath in a good two weeks. I mean, Jesus Christ, someone should hang a deodorizer around this guy's neck." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Their smells were strong, musk and hay and dung, but it was as if someone had just carted the animals off, leaving the mess for someone else. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He held his head high, as though conscious of the perfection of his jawline, and when speaking to someone shorter than himself, lowered only his eyes, not his head. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Especially I do not like them to be hungry when other peoples give money to someones for painting their toes. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

“But while we’re on that topic, do you have parents? You have people you love? Maybe you deserve to feel what it’s like to lose someone important to you!” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You’re reacting to your mom and dad splitting up by trying to steal someone else’s best friend. Mine. I see right through you.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

‘It is screaming just like you would be screaming if someone was twisting your arm right off.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we want to communicate a strong emotion, if we want to convince someone that, say, we love them, we realize that we need to speak passionately and forthrightly. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to spring back to my feet, but someone knocks me down again, and a sharp pain makes my back twitch. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“And he’d be a great help, only my mother put him out to a miller, so until—” “Have you someone to look out for you in Lowell? A relative, or a friend?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had been following someone, wearing a full black beard and a rather horrendous pair of glasses. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Lulu turned and looked at Bernice and said, “There is a funeral on Friday. Hazel Elkhorn. I am playing the organ. I am sure that the Elkhorn family would like someone to sing.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

"I remember seeing the entrance on my way into the hospital. Maybe we should ask someone." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Anker’s was low-class enough so that the drinks were cheap, but high-class enough so that you didn’t have to worry about someone picking a fight or throwing up on you. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It is as though someone else I knew of had lived by hustling and crime. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never been someone’s best friend before. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Anemone smiled to have someone say something about her name that had nothing to do with a flower. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

But the scientists could not shed the suspicion that someone was throwing sand in the gears, and they thought they knew who: Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Like discovering someone very close to you has been leading a secret double life. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I take a step back, startled by someone who looks like a skinny, brown Santa. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’ll be good to be with someone like him, someone who seems worse off than me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

"She was supposed to be sailing alone,” I whispered, "there must have been someone with her then, all the time, and no one ever knew?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And he is right—the thought that my reckless behavior could force someone else out of a faction makes my chest ache from fear. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“My chickens grace me with feathers, and I wear them to remember that when I was born, someone saw me as a bird. That’s all, not much of a story.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A rattling: someone at the main gate of the graveyard was pulling and shaking it, rattling the old gates and the heavy padlock and chain that held them. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

They tell someone they have incurable cancer and then everyone prays and TA-DA! P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t the school still going to need someone in Mechanical Engineering, though? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like someone had written over the grocery store door, over each package of food, you are not welcome here. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But then someone asked CaptainOverpants if he could verify his claim and he said no, and then a bunch of people started jumping on him for fanning the flames of rumors. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Aaron thought that someone was re-creating the Jack the Ripper killings,” she said. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

If you’re someone who was sent to the Ethical Culture School, then you aren’t going to be intimidated by a row of Cambridge dons arrayed in judgment against you. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I had been taken there as a guest, and someone said the only blacks allowed there were the cooks. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting here waiting for something or someone to happen upon her wasn’t an option. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

On August 12, he dragged himself out of the bus to forage for berries, after posting a plea for assistance in the unlikely event that someone would stop by while he was away. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She can get a wheelchair, and someone can push her up the paths in the Pit, and there’s an elevator in the building up there.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Just sucks that he’s still in his cap and gown, surrounded by his classmates and their families, when someone does. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then, everyone came back to the living room, and Mami rolled her eyes at Tío Vic the way she did when she was on the phone with someone she didn't want to talk to. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The flat trolleys with the rubber wheels pass continually along the corridor, and always with someone stretched at full length upon them. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I met someone at school. His name is Jacob." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He ripped his face off the sticky ropes, and it felt like someone had yanked strips of adhesive tape off his skin. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She would’ve felt ridiculous bragging about someone who had no interest in her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Bridge felt quiet pour into the car through the open windows, along with the smell of a fire from someone’s backyard. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

If I die before deciding whether to press the button, will the sluggers abduct someone else and force them to choose, or will they let the world end? We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

There was a call box to ring individual apartments to ask someone to unlock the door for you. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Frankie tightened his grip on the metal bar as someone down the hall shouted, “Stop!” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Good lord, you look like someone’s arthritic grandfather.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I emerge back into the present to the shrieking of a woman chastising someone over the waste. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m not that special. I mean, there must be others who can do this, too,” Nathan said, hoping someone else could go in his place to the Third World. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I’m glad there’s someone else in this house who flies into the same rages as I do. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

As if someone had shaken pepper over fried eggs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, if I wanted someone to illustrate for me all the ways that this could go wrong, I’d just tell my parents.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Once, just before he went to bed, he found that someone had left a faucet dripping and that there was a bathtub full of hot water. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt as though someone had stuck a hot poker through my back, into my insides. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For us, it was like someone threatening to take away the sun, or charge a fee to look up at the sky. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Ainsley plows up the steps, looking for someone else to bulldoze with her cello case. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Something or someone was approaching fast, and there was no time to hide. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was someone else who might stand a chance. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“There isn’t any chance someone’s destroyed it since Kreacher had it?” asked Ron hopefully. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She looked around, as if afraid someone would overhear. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

You need someone to watch out for you as well. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He'd never have heard me from there and, even if he did, I'm up too high for someone his size to reach. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It is hoped that someone will recognize the tattoos and identify him so his family can be informed. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Every time someone looked at me, the look said I know. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The message gnawed away at the corners of our hearts: “You can kill black people. It’s okay, because even if someone is arrested, no one goes to jail for it.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the police car and wonder if someone broke into the vacant house. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It feels great to have someone ask me for help. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“And tomorrow someone will steal one of his,” said Johnny. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that I want is to become someone new. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Most commentators at the time agreed that affording police the power and discretion to protect themselves during an encounter with someone they believed to be dangerous is not “unreasonable” under the Fourth Amendment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She felt embarrassed and awkward, like she’d accidentally stepped on someone’s foot. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The bell tied to the bakery door jingles, and someone enters. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The newspaper, she would try the newspaper; surely someone was snowbound there. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this life, he carried a rolled-up newspaper in his thick hand like a bat he meant to use on someone. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he could not write, and many prisoners could not, I told him to find someone who could. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Over the roar of the engine, I told him I’d found a job but that I would drive the crane in the afternoons, until he could hire someone. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

If ever there was someone who had everything he wanted, my dad was him. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because he wanted to get married again, to someone else. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If someone told you every type of meat was going to be taken away from your diet except one, what would you keep?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

If Mrs. Janssen tries to find someone else, she could be putting herself in danger, and me, too. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe someone had run in while he was in the bathroom, we thought. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She said someone with my athletic potential shouldn’t be tryin’ to make his college career too complicated. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alyce thought if she needed a midwife, she would rather someone like Will than Jane Sharp, for all her spells and syrups. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My second wish was that the laughing man would be gone, or asleep, or at least distracted by someone or something else when we walked by. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then she returned to the car and asked the driver to send someone to bring flowers to her father’s tomb. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

What if I’d always known that there was someone else she liked more? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But then someone else slipped into the seat next to mine. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he shouted, “Ko ko ko!” which is what people in Kilanga shout in someone’s doorway when they come visiting, since generally there is no door to knock on. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I find I think of myself not as a writer so much as someone who provides a gateway, a tangential route for readers to reach the circus. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

If I have to talk to someone up close, I rest my chin in my hands, so my fingers cover them up. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

And I thought it would be someone I knew, like a teacher from school or one of the people who live in our street, but it wasn’t. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Though I do have to say it seems an odd talent for someone who just on general principles refuses to talk. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s like looking the other way when someone’s about to walk into a hole.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

After the deliveries the next Saturday, I decided to see if the Marysville Free Public Library had a back door, in case someone with a twisted criminal mind was waiting for me out front. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Finally Palmer assigned the decoration of the Woman’s Building to someone else, a designer named Candace Wheeler. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

At first Hanako thought it was someone else begging for food. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Feet shuffle and someone hollers out, “Who is it?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But far greater than that hope was the hope that Weep would be delivered, by someone, even if it was him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A certain someone who is calling and calling. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“You need to be sure of your facts before you come traipsing into someone’s house, accusing them of something like hiding Jews. Why would I hide Jews? I hate Jews!” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Comrade Pillai’s arms were crossed over his chest, and he clasped his own armpits possessively, as though someone had asked to borrow them and he had just refused. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If someone tried to—to attack him, he’d have been strong enough to fight back. And besides, he was fully clothed.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Byron had just told me that someone had dropped a bomb on Joey’s church, hadn’t he? The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept expecting someone to come after me. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Everyone else was doing someone like Shakespeare, Dante, or John Milton. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I heard creaking on the stairs in the old house and feared someone was coming to have a little talk with me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

There was an old crab apple tree there, just at the bank of the creek bed, from which someone long forgotten had hung a rope. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Trespassing on someone’s land was tantamount to breaking into his house. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I knelt and grabbed for my papers before someone could kick them away. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Already it seemed the expression of someone else. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

To clarify a remark someone made earlier, I confess that I am making up all the proper nouns. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Watching her, I wonder how that’d feel, to have to wait for someone to make a word before I could use it. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess it’s weird to think of him as the object of someone’s romantic interest.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I say my rosaries and beg for someone to love. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“People pay him to do things. Usually revenge stuff. You know, steal someone’s homework and paste it on the ceiling. Put dead fish in someone’s glove compartment. Stuff like that.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She really made him feel like someone special. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There they asked someone how to get to the president’s house and were directed to a cove a mile back down the river. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then someone said, “I’m willing to stand here. I can’t see any other way.” The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

That meant he was calling—or someone was calling from his phone. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Miss Spink looked around cautiously, looking over first one shoulder and then over the other, peering into the mists as though someone might be listening. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I ended up knocking on a bunch of random doors till someone answered. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that nobody showed signs of having been infected, the Elgon Masai could tell stories of how a family member, a child or a young wife, had died bleeding in someone’s arms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I want to ask you something, just out of curiosity. You heard anything about a man around here in the last few days, someone who says he has plague meds?" Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I felt like someone had pulled all my teeth out with a pair of rusty pliers. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Auggie turned five, someone gave him an astronaut helmet as a birthday present. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“So someone called you a name, and you called them one back.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

‘And always polite to everyone and very well dressed? Not like someone from this town—more like a Northerner or maybe a Jew?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then someone mounted the stair and came along the passage. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“You let them prey on us, and it was only after someone died that you felt compelled to say something.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Because otherwise the price would go up. It’s fun to bargain, although I’m not good at it. The market is so crowded. I drank pomegranate juice that someone squeezed right in front of us.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I woulda let it go this time, if someone else had taken the initiative, but it stands to reason. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was rather as if someone under surveillance kept turning up at particular locations but was never observed traveling between them. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Not only does he speak Goblinish like someone served up with a side of warts and claws, but he’ll know what he’s looking at. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“All the more reason to have someone you can trust there.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They always had needed someone to tell them when enough was enough. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Hailey does that BS move where you look at someone out the corner of your eye, but you don’t want them to know that you care enough to look, so you avert your eyes. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“If you ever need someone to vent to, I’m a good listener.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

How would I want someone to behave while I was talking? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But it was a relief to be with someone who was so uncomplicated, and easily pleased. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It feels strange not to talk to my mom about something, someone, who’s becoming so important to me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She watched his face as he looked outward at the silent avenue and at the ambulance that raced to carry someone to healing, or to death. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

How else was something that amazing ever going to happen to someone like me? How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

If you’re racist and you meet someone who doesn’t look like you, the fact that he can’t speak like you reinforces your racist preconceptions: He’s different, less intelligent. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, in the course of my work, someone would make a remark suggesting that perhaps the War on Drugs is a racist conspiracy to put blacks back in their place. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“It feels like someone’s hammering away back there,” she said. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“But it’s like I need that. I don’t want it up to me. I don’t care who it is, I just want someone to decide.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

By the time this winter had stiffened itself into a hateful knot that nothing could loosen, something did loosen it, or rather someone. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a kind of local celebrity in the way that a longtime educator can be—always recognized by someone at the supermarket—but he never sought or expected any wider acclaim. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She hears Madame Manec’s raspy breathing, and the deep sounding of the sea among the rocks, and the calls of someone down the beach echoing off the high walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Friends in Washington who will be stationed in Colombia have been looking for someone who can teach their children some Spanish. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Part of me wants to know more about you, but I don’t know what to ask you, what to ask someone in prison. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Or maybe I wanted someone to point a finger at me and say, “Hannah. Are you thinking about killing yourself? Please don’t do that, Hannah. Please?” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“I might have to live here until someone visits the island,” Nhamo decided. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reaches forward and shoves someone sitting in the row in front of us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was almost like he was tugging in a line, or at least motioning someone forward. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She felt like someone had released a steam trigger on the top of her head. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They are impatient to find out what will happen if someone is caught. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

While John watched, the Power struck someone, a man or woman; they cried out, a long, wordless crying, and, arms outstretched like wings, they began the Shout. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I’m banged up and bloody and someone seems to be hammering on my left temple from inside my skull. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Tag grooms it, so it must be available to groom someone else. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mainmast was gonna snap if someone didn’t take in that royal or cut it loose. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I bribed someone with one of your Ma’s gold necklaces to put our names on a list so we could leave.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, she kept looking at my reflection as if she were seeing someone who was not quite there yet. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he was someone’s relative who had just gotten out of the loony bin. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Say, gentlemen, this business is getting on my nerves. Murder and the snow and all, and nothing doing. Just hanging about and killing time. I’d like to get busy after someone or something.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time he met someone new, he managed to work it into the first few minutes of conversation. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But I pictured that one day someone would say there was a letter waiting for me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned forward, pretending someone had just told me the funniest joke in the world.Click. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She made a weird face, like someone was hurting her, and said, “Store-a-Lot.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, as if someone was shooting them inside my brain, all the massacres I had seen since the day I was touched by war began flashing in my head. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

This was the correct treatment, he said, for someone who suffered from chikanditua, or a stroke. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Papa has the right to hear it from us, before someone else tells him.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not like a sickly child, too small and slouched over in someone’s yard in black Oakland. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A faint breeze tinkled in the wind chimes on someone’s porch. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He wanted to send someone who had a mind “uncluttered by theories,” someone who would watch carefully and record accurately. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Graffiti over graffiti,” someone said from the back. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He sounded like someone trying to speak when his mouth is hill of food. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

This meant that it was someone who had the key to Mrs. Shears’s shed, or that she had left it unlocked, or that she had left her fork lying around in the garden. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Every now and then someone grew angry enough at Havermeyer to throw a punch at him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

A moment later, a ruby-red head stuck up out of the water, and what would probably have been fearsome teeth to someone else grinned widely at her. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Please don’t make me share my dumb poems with you. Reading someone’s poetry is like seeing them naked.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was nice to have someone to talk to besides my parents. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He’s always either doing something insane—BASE jumping in Malaysia, eating plantains with someone who might be Jay-Z, showing up to lunch wearing a studded, hot-pink Gucci jacket—or launching a new nonprofit. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

His father must be someone very important—a bishop or a lord. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Or when someone vomits, the smell makes you want to hurl? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Long ago someone broke off the inches nineteen through thirty-six and assigned these to Methuselah for the conduct of his affairs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His clothes are filthy, and the brim of his hat looks like someone has taken a bite out of it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Occasionally someone would stand up from his chair and begin to twitch and snap his fingers to the strange music, while his companions laughed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I felt almost as helpless as my parents lying in their isolation rooms and didn't know whether to punch someone or cry. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her cover blown, she pulled on street clothes that fit her from someone’s luggage. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The news came to these men, and their eyes squinted and their fingertips burned a little, and each one thought how the patron could not live forever and someone had to take his place. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today is my last chance to try to convince someone—or fate—to help me find a way to stay in America. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Woman operator in Bangalore apologizing for calling someone in America too early: “This is just a courtesy call, I’ll call back later in the evening. ..” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Is that how you treat someone who’s trying to be friend?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Imagine going about your day knowing someone’s carrying you in their mind. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The warden looks like someone has poked a pick in his side. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not used to someone giving me something just because they want to. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I gazed upon this urban hurly-burly like someone observing a city from a hot-air balloon. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I guess the spam bots don’t know when someone has died. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And as a verb, to like is to be fond of someone or something. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell she was upset, but someone who didn’t know her well might well have supposed she was being thoughtful. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between the two of us, someone’s always jawing. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right. To me that makes sense. When someone has much more than he can use, it’s very reasonable to expect he will not keep it all himself.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among our people no one is ever deliberately given the name of someone who has died. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you go to a school as large as ours, it’s impossible to know everyone, but even in a school as large as ours you definitely know someone who was friends with Rashad. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As he left the gym, someone stepped on the back of his sneaker, making him trip and fly into the hallway. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I nearly cry at the thought of someone poking at her body, but I push the tears down. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jonas had never even seen him, that he knew of; someone in a position of such importance lived and worked alone. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

If someone says to me, “Christopher, tell me what your mother was like,” I can Rewind to lots of different scenes and say what she was like in those scenes. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

From what I saw, most people thought this was a joke: honoring the scoreboard like this was a quirky little thing we East Shoalers did to cover up the fact that it had killed someone. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

In other words, on the most basic neurological level, for someone with autism, a face is just another object. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got to think out a way to explain it. It’s got to be the body of someone you don’t know. Someone you’ve never seen before.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a miracle that anyone would ever fall in love with someone else and—of all the people in the world—that person loves them back. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

A demigod would never think about dating someone who had the same godly parent. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I just knew that I was lonely, and I wanted to make it so that when I got with someone, I’d have some idea what to do. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I found that the true believers would look down at their shoes or wind their watches when someone mentioned the war. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Senora Garra’s attention went to the front door as someone else came inside. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Is it so memorable, in fact, that it can create change, that it can spur someone to action? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if someone had died, and they turned their gaze from the spirit that walked the earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, I saw someone—I assumed it was Ema—flashing the light on her cell phone. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“How did the Sixers know to look for the tomb on Ludus? Did someone tip them off?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Only someone who knew Phineas as well as I did could realize that he was not changing the subject. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment the bell rang as someone came through the front door. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if there was someone who waren’t enthusiastic ’bout his studies more than me it was Cooter Bixby, so for him to be this riled up maybe it was gonna be something after all! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

From high inside my head I could hear someone laughing. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the point where she was supposed to sound tough, like she was someone to be reckoned with, like she was the sort of person witches should listen to. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Probably because we were texting, and texting is way different from really talking to someone. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They were about someone called a chaper, a snatcher or kidnapper, who dragged men off to the army. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if he managed to tell someone, there would be Gebu to deal with. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It was like someone handing him a lemon meringue pie and telling him not to throw it. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Everyone goes to someone’s house, and they play a lot of music and dance. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“I do want someone to actually find it, since I’ll get a point when they do, and it’s no fun tracking a book that never moves.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And then the sound of the beach rocks clattering against each other warned us that someone was approaching. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The city seems utterly still, as though everyone is listening, waiting for someone to slip. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Okay, the pie can wait. If we go pick up the items on your list, will you let me schedule an appointment for you to meet with someone?” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"So your gift is understanding how someone feels?" Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Once again, they proved that justice doesn’t mean the bad guys go to jail, it just means someone pays for the crime. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was probably too small to scare away strangers, but surely he’d bark in warning if someone tried to sneak up on us when we went to sleep. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Something told Seven she had to talk to someone about it. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She had heard it only two or three times in her life, when the Fitzgibbons had left a window open and someone was playing inside. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s cool. Kinda nice to have someone else here. Merry Christmas, by the way.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“It’s so that we could have someone else’s bird for Thanksgiving, not one of yours. So you don’t have to watch us eating Ronald.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

This dream was never meant for someone like me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Well...I hope someone finds it,” he said resignedly. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Or maybe someone else killed her, some bad guy who followed her and stole her purse and emptied her current account. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Why is it so hard to have a disagreement with someone that doesn’t mean anything? Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She wanted to scream her terror, bring Zoya running, beg for someone to save her, but she wouldn’t risk the others’ lives. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

During field trips to the movies, young defectors often panic when lights go down, afraid that someone might kidnap them. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Every Sunday in summer someone fainted from heat, had to be carried out, but the mass went on. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he stood over the body, someone caught him from behind with an axe, but his helm turned the Mow, and his skull was left ringing when it might have been split. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Because someone wanted to build something that would last. Something solid.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And it doesn’t mean anything to think about someone who’s a friend, or almost a friend. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Was I just someone you banged to get over your dead boyfriend?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

In one plant, someone hung a sign on the break-room door claiming the space For White People Only.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s about...being noticed. Not being the kind of person who’s going to fade into the background, overlooked for someone else.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Enough to know that when someone gets caught staring, instinct says to look away. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Well, I couldn’t imagine getting to know someone like you,” Javier said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And we use fitted when we speak of someone whose clothes are, shall we say, under construction: Alice was fittedfor a new dress. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But someone on a horse was approaching, singing loudly. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“But getting into a fight isn’t the same thing as killing someone!” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I had spoken to someone at a funeral home that partnered with the hospital and confirmed yes, we would lay Arturo to rest there. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“I know what it’s like...when you can’t find the words,” she said, “but that was really nice of Tamika to help you out. It’s nice when someone has your back.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“That is up to someone else,” she said. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Make way!’’ someone shouted from the cross street. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“No, like, if someone calls you a coconut,” I said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe this happens to you every day, but I think it was the first time I could hardly wait to show something that I’d done to someone who would care besides my mother. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She wished the tsar would speak to someone else, but he kept talking to her. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Among other things, you . . . you are someone who is aware, when they are in a simulation, that what they are experiencing is not real,” she says. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It’s bad enough that someone has to put me on the toilet, but diapers? Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It’s the kind of smile you smile when you’re thinking someone over and trying to decide how you feel about them. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I dare someone to touch an eyeball,” Aden said. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He backed away and moved over to stage right, where someone had set up a table and a few microphones. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s every girl’s dream to be rescued from someone’s pet Pig-” “I’m serious.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My Mutter always lamented my lack of friends in Heidelberg, but here each day I am introduced to someone new. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The engine stopped, and Prosper heard someone cursing under his breath. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

There isn’t much else I can say when someone tells me they’re sorry that my brother passed away. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“It means we should think for ourselves. Decide if something is wrong just because someone says it’s so, or decide it’s right because that’s how we feel.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It happened so long ago, sometimes it feels like I’m just telling someone else’s story. Another person’s life that I've memorized.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Grandma never mentioned that it used to belong to someone else. But then again, Grandma didn’t talk about a lot of things.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Always chatty and in control, she is now the opposite, like someone has pulled her plug. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Because if I hadn’t been so afraid of everyone else, I might have told Hannah that someone cared. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

For the first time, someone is asking if I want the light on or off. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Now there's someone hiding behind those trees, a boy with a dark, heavy brow and glittering eyes, always laughing, living loud and bright and magnetic, always there with the tang of smoke on his lips. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Dr. Phil! He doesn’t say anything. I want to take her to someone else.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Men playing their dominoes are gone, and someone’s come and untied that dog from its chain. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get out of here,” someone shouted as the group hurried out the door. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he, Ned, was but a jeweler in someone else’s store, Holmes controlled a small empire—and had yet to turn thirty years old. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Just for the record,” said someone from the platform. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of not being alone—of having someone who sees me, same way I see the things that no one else can see, makes me feel like I’m real. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For days I wondered if indeed someone might be working the voodoo on me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says of course they are, and she says she’s very worried about sleeping in beds someone might have died in, especially if they had the consumption. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Like someone is going to come and find me. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It’s like someone sucked all the air from the room. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Then later, if someone asks you where you got the candy bar, you’ll say you bought it at the store. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

For someone who loved to keep a conversation going, Frankie certainly had a talent for ending one. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then out of the silence, a faint sound, from a distance, getting closer, like someone chuckling, privately, at a secret intimate joke. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think someone at your church might remember them?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Conversely, few single moments were more humbling than to have that black shirt taken away and given to someone else. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just weird to think that people could care about someone they don’t know.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was street nobility incarnated in someone who still believed in dreams. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Try to be friendlier to these women. Don’t interrupt when someone is giving you instructions.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"What if someone found a way to cure us?" he asked. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

What good would it do for me to go around sharing the same town with someone I hated? October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

If there’s someone acting strange down the block, looking drunk or dangerous, cross to the other side of the street, but don’t be obvious about it. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He asks me to give her respect and honor, but how can you respect and honor someone who doesn't return it? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I hope one day I can become someone important like Richard Riley,” I said to myself while he was walking away. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Natalie, you know every woman I help is someone in a dangerous situation,” Ms. Morales said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Yup. All kinds of things can be accomplished when someone’s looking the wrong way.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I catch myself thinking about that Spy Club sign, and how some kid might get excited that someone is actually coming. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I had heard too many stories about gangs looking for someone who they had to “deal” with. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Apparently you are afraid of someone who has some contact with reality, who can truthfully describe to you the offenses which you have committed to canvas.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was convinced that JP wouldn’t show up, that someone would come in to escort me to the headmasters office for what I’d done. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Three thousand miles is a long way to travel to hear someone say she's sorry. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I liked to pretend it was someone else saying it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like standing on a trampoline while someone else jumped on it. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“It did. And I’m on board. It’s about time someone shook up Dracula.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And someone was flinging people’s skulls out an upstairs window—more likely a turkey carcass or a ham bone. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Like the woman who said that she knew someone close to one of the superintendents of the Oakland school district, which opened an administrative avenue they had not considered. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The fact is, Ti Jean explains, that three-quarters of all Voodoo ceremonies are an effort to drive away illness, not to put a curse on someone. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It's like the bracelet tells the world that the person wearing it has someone who cares about them. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

She needed someone wise and sensible to help her sort things out. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even if that means getting involved in someone's obsessive-compulsive underwear disorder. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The fact that someone saw her was the beginning. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, you must always remember that the purpose of debate is to convince someone to see something in a new way.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

At one point, I could feel someone’s eyes burning into my back, so I turned around to sneak a peek at the Savanna table again. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

They saw someone who was selfish, who openly moped during the game and didn’t show the slightest concern for his fellow players. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed weird to Ivy, the idea that someone would want to discuss her drawings. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Can I simply look at someone and say, ‘This person is going to buy a car’?” asks Golomb. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

She was serene and purposeful as always when death turned his attention to someone who belonged to her, as she was when death breathed in her father’s wispy hair and blew the strands about. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we conversed with each other, we talked only about the war movies and how impressed we were with the way either the lieutenant, the corporal, or one of us had killed someone. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Not because I think he's right, but because it feels good to have someone tell me everything will be fine. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I think a friend is someone who helps you change for the better. And whether you see them once a day or once a year, if it’s a true friend, it doesn’t matter.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not surprised someone so boldly living his End Day had a funeral. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“There’s someone your daddy and I want you to meet.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

My face is so hot, it feels like someone smacked it with a ball. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

It was not unusual for someone passing through the neighborhood to coax away a valuable-looking dog. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cas hadn’t been sure she wanted to hear it, but it was hard to ignore someone’s final words, even if that someone had called you a coward. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I’ve just finished putting the glasses away when someone smacks me on the butt. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

It would be easy to see, resting on the bottom of the tank, but only if someone came looking for it. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It waren’t nothing but a old sock that someone had jammed stuffing up inside the toe part and then tied string tight ’round and ’round the neck to turn it into a head. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Even thinking about it was like thinking about someone else’s life, not my own. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She was what we called a tanorexic: someone who simply could not get enough. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Then, when that someone fell upon me with violent discipline, I could undo with a gaze: I know you, I know you. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They could hear the firefighters speaking gently to Natalie: “Young lady, can we call someone for you?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I made sure I was always in the company of someone else, never alone with that man. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"We tend to look the other way when it's in a residential neighborhood. But right here, on the town green, we have to enforce the law. Otherwise we'd have someone selling something every two feet." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Congo,” I said, relieved that someone was talking to me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And someone in her family had red hair too, I said. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

If someone had asked, she wouldn’t have been able to answer. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I am afraid that I have entrusted you with too much responsibility for someone of your age.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Of course I love him, but you can love someone and still have a not-so-great relationship with them. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Otherwise someone’s played a very clever trick on me.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Pass the hat!” someone hollered, and a cap went hand to hand. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

He heard a scuffling sound and his mom saying something softly to someone else. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I need someone to just tell me. How did you know you were?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Whoever heard of someone being told about a surprise before it happened? I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Someone was wailing and crying, but it wasn’t Lyra; someone else a long way off was shouting, a woman’s voice, incoherent with rage and helplessness. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“This face,” she said, “could belong to someone who can read. And has curls. And could have a lover before nightfall. And this is me, Beetle.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, can someone just explain what that skull thing was?” said Ron impatiently. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

If I see someone has a suspicious nose, have I not smelled the same bad things.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

This year must have been so much harder for her, someone so visibly Muslim. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

A few other general questions were tossed out, and Bobby answered them succinctly and with aplomb, until someone asked whether he was living in an apartment subsidized by the Church. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Almost every night someone or other came visiting under our mosquito nets or we visited them. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A prosecutor said that he was now someone “whose mind is at ease because he has relieved his tortured soul of a terrible secret and now seeks repentance and forgiveness.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

That was when, almost as if someone had pulled a string, my stomach and head stopped hurting. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Rishi paced outside, feeling like someone waiting on life changing news from the doctor. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I hear someone shout, “Death to the factions!” and others pick up the phrase, turning it into a chant, until it fills my ears, Death to the factions, death to the factions. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I knew what would happen to me if someone were to find me alive in the morning. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“This is some real strange stuff but I lost fifty cents over on Kennelworth yesterday and I bet my fifty cents got hooked up with someone else’s fifty cents and made this here buck.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When someone says, “I love you,” we look into that person’s eyes to judge his or her sincerity. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

And Colin thought: Because like say I tell someone about my feral hog hunt. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

That feeling, the heart-swallowing guilt, the sadness that took hold and never let itself be shaken free—how did you tell someone that? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Yes, indeed,” said Milo, who wondered for just a moment how it was possible for someone so agreeable to have a face with no features at all. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had heard people say that when someone dies, it leaves a hole in the world. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She noticed that every time someone plucked a peach from the tree, a peach from the fruit stand disappeared. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I want to date someone,” Daisy said. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Calloway’s body still dangled in the front of her mind; it felt like someone had put the image on a hot iron and branded it across her forehead. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Annette worked in Paris for the Duke and Duchess de Guiche, and it did not escape the Duke’s notice that someone extraordinary was polishing the pewter. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Death-Cast can only provide a date for when someone is going to die, but not the exact minute or how it’ll happen. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Dinwiddie needed someone rugged enough to plunge into the wilderness, yet wise enough to deal with those clever French. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Amari! Rumor has it someone’s getting a moonstone badge today. Is it you?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She felt it should be unlawful, allowing someone to conceal the name of a parent. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She says she feels like someone is timing her life. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Lewis, someone stole all the blood last night!” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“But there are so few books here. It’s just up to a good bit anyway. He’s found a footprint. It’s not his. That means someone else is on the island!” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

A lightened ring in the leather around the first four syllables where someone had made several attempts to erase the writing looked like a halo. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m pretty sure that when someone emails you asking to meet them, that’s a good sign.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Like someone has a fist around my heart, squeezing tight. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

When the nobles see that they cannot resist the populace, they begin to support someone from among themselves, and make him prince in order to be able to satisfy their appetites under his protection. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

It is a bad thing to put my sister and my brothers in a box and I wish I could say something to someone. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Embarrassment flooded her at the realization that someone had heard her make that sound and of how stupid she probably looked through the practice-room window while she played. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The letter would remain a mystery, its secrets hidden for ten more years, until someone came along who was brave enough—or perhaps foolish enough—to take up the challenge again. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Every time someone sort of looked her way, she eagerly tried to catch their eye by holding her hand up in a small wave. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then—he later wrote Theo—“they came to tell me that someone was asking after me.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“So y’all can just find someone else to get your extra credit from this summer.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mainly, I think the best times I have are playing cards or when I’ve dropped someone off and I’m heading back to town, maybe from the city or even further north. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Was he talking to me like someone in a book just to see how I would take it? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maya had never realized how much power there was in loving someone. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I fail to understand,” he said, “why it would take six months for someone to inform me of that simple fact.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the best talks I have ever had started with someone asking, “This might seem rude, but can I ask about your face/nose/scars/bumps?” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

But they couldn’t use the Doors without someone manning the controls for twelve long minutes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was horribly depressing—and not just because it was for someone who’d died tragically young and for no particular reason aside from some bad arterial luck. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

That he liked the way I always knew when someone needed help with fractions. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I had in mind someone who was actually alive when the Rattler was going about his business.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“And there’s no playing it cool with someone who put up a poster with your face to find you,” Dylan says. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Yes! I’m going to lock up all my Twix bars so someone doesn’t take them.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The next day, someone else on W had been beaten up—a reprisal, from the looks of it—and was taken to the ER. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In another room someone with a comb and a piece of toilet paper was trying to keep tune with the military music which was still issuing from the telescreen. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He needed someone who could collaborate with MTI to pare down the show, simplify some of the music and set, while still pulling off a production that would impress Mackintosh. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“But no one has the skill of telling time by the sky here. Maybe one day we’ll run into someone who does. Then we won’t have to rely on these things no more.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Her words are still too loud, and I worry that someone might overhear. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe that someone I don’t even know, who lives thousands of miles away, could have so much in common with me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

At Northcote, someone gets on and sits down in the seat next to me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t call me again unless it’s to say you’re participating in fixing your own problems. Why should I help someone who refuses to help themselves?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

As I bent down for the last handful I became aware that someone was watching me. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was surprised by all this—Mr. Quisling pulling her aside to talk, someone contacting the school about The Gold-Bug, someone claiming the book was his. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Every few seconds, someone coughed or whispered or flicked on a flashlight. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His heart hurt in his chest as if someone had taken it in a fist and squeezed. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I was aware of someone shouting, but it seemed very far away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Aloud, Rick said, “I’m going down by elevator with an android I’ve captured. And suddenly someone kills it, without warning.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

But Mom wanted to know how I’d feel if I was searching for my chickens and someone else had them. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

For example, if Mary said at the start of the evening that she wanted someone intelligent and sincere, that in no way means she’ll be attracted only to intelligent and sincere men. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It had been so long since I’d made simple conversation with someone that I felt strange and hesitant. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe the music will give her clues into someone who she’ll never see again. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Meryl Lee, let’s go somewhere together for Valentine’s Day? I turned around to look behind me, because someone else must have said what just popped out of my mouth. “What?” said Meryl Lee. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Hollows appeared under his eyes during those weeks, as if someone had suctioned the delicate flesh, leaving his eyes sunken in. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Harmless? Really? Well, you do seem rather gentle. And I heard someone say that you don’t eat any food at all, which makes no sense, but hopefully it means you won’t eat me?” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

As long as there is a chance that someone might be having a heart attack, why take even the smallest risk by ignoring her problem? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It’s not often you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest parts of someone. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It became hard for me to get through a school day without someone after me to join this or head up that—the debating society, the Junior High basketball team, or some other extracurricular activity. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran inside to the dance and ran around looking for someone who spoke Pedi to help me to convince her to come in. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Hannah wasn’t my first kiss, but the first kiss that mattered; the first kiss with someone who mattered. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

"Sara joon," my mom replied, "why would you even want to make things work with someone who says they don't love you?" Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“What would you have me say, Mr. Stonecrop? That my own boy shouldn’t find shelter for someone in need? That my own boy shouldn’t care for the outcast?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She appeared to be looking for someone, and the whole lunchroom had become very uncomfortable. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

She had all the knowledge then of a grown person, she’d enter into conversation with men and women as clever and full of tricks as someone of eighteen. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Basta pushed open the door, and there was someone behind him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“And I wish someone would dig an escape route out of here for me too,” she said, staring vacantly out the window. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I panic and think someone has switched my lock, which means I may never get my notebook. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“And he absolutely hates it when musicians suck up to him. Two span ago he threw someone out of here for trying to tip him.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As though someone had reached inside and turned off a switch. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also have to confess that I've been looking extra carefully at people's T-shirts at school to see if someone might be wearing an Elliott Smith shirt. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

It may be my imagination, but it still smells like blood in there, even though I scrubbed the floor until my hands were sore, and someone poured bleach on it this morning. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Don’t try. If it comes without your summoning it, it is because of need. Because someone needs your gift.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

How could I tell Fig, Sorry, we’re sending you away to live with someone else? Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Nor was it the first time he’d heard the sickening sound of the air leaving someone’s body. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The pictures made you feel as though you were peeking in at someone else’s private moment. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Shouldn’t they be worse than the regular germs you get when you shake someone’s hand? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The boy hunched his head down between his shoulders, like someone used to being beaten for every thoughtless remark. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

During the daytime we can’t make any noise that might be heard downstairs, and when someone else is there, like the cleaning lady, we have to be extra careful. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“The children were moved from here to Karteh-Seh after the rockets hit the old orphanage. Which is like saving someone from the lion’s cage and throwing them in the tiger’s.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

If someone tried just a little harder, maybe attempted to climb the towers, or use a magic raft…. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“You were going to marry someone,” he said quietly. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to rely on someone else to protect him, someone who could get hurt on his account. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There was no sign of anyone, but someone had turned the lamp off, and someone had set a glass of water at her bedside. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was trembling hard and feeling sick, because pressing at him was the knowledge that he’d killed someone, that he was a murderer. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see her talking to our waitress, who is definitely someone's great-grandmother. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He really needed to hear from someone who survived summer school with his ex-boyfriend, and he promised me he would sing even louder. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It sounds like it belongs to someone else. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Francie wondered whether someone had to die to make that clear to a child. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down, and right away someone tapped my shoulder. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Fascinating. Yeah, I know. You always look like someone’s sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly someone was sitting down next to me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I was surprised when I overheard someone calling me that. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Sabrina says, “I’ve asked each mentor to come prepared to share the things they wish someone had told them about dating when they were your age.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It is hard to describe loss to someone who has never experienced it, impossible to explain all the ways it changes you. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And when I was running, running to hide deep in the crowd up there, I saw someone I knew. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“If you came to a city intending to kill someone, do you really think that you would tell another person of your intentions?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

"If someone said I had magicked myself into a boar to kill Robert, likely they would believe that as well." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Groves needed to quickly gather a team of the best scientists in the country— and he needed to pick someone to lead it. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they arrived, the guitarist was already playing, and someone had thoughtfully provided him with a bucket of beer. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom always said you can never know exactly what someone is going through. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And a watch for someone on his way to Brazil. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the night, Jinjoo woke to the urgent sound of someone frantically knocking on their door. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Volpe told her she is someone who needs to find a quiet space, one within herself, and she has taken it to heart. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The only untoward incident he had was that someone once stepped on his newly polished shoes—on purpose, he said. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like I'm experiencing what it’s like to be someone else. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Afraid that someone would steal his own body after his execution, Holmes left instructions with his lawyers for how he was to be buried. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

This is what I thought, Mama—if Papa helped the man, someone would have to give us water. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Every waking minute that we are in the presence of someone, we come up with a constant stream of predictions and inferences about what that person is thinking and feeling. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I’m scared to death someone will come after me, but it’s too late to go back because I’m already running. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Izzy peered around her sister into the bathroom, as if someone else might be hiding there. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Or we move because someone transplants us to a new location. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Or better, someone who knew everything already and loved her for it. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was kind of weird how the room looked so abandoned, like someone had moved out everything but the heavy furniture. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Why didn't someone help me get out of the spot before I spoiled everything? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get to a side wall of the room and find the first evidence that someone has been here since everyone left. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was the perfect place for someone as shy as Sasha—a ready-made cadre of like-minded people. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And he said, “Go ahead,” and then someone else raised a hand and answered some question about some kind of differential equation. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was strange how quickly someone else's words could come out of your mouth. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

If someone had told me Ucho would be saying such words to me, I would have called this person a liar. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I smoke a little J when someone lights up and hands it around. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

From a bank of lockers further up, someone clicks a locker shut. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Like he knew the answer but wanted someone to convince him otherwise. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

For someone who talks about positivity so much, Mom is the most negative person I know. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Shortly afterward, Harriet had someone write a letter to Franklin B. Sanborn in Boston, asking for a bloomer dress because long skirts were a handicap on an expedition. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked a little embarrassed now—all the Aberzombies did, actually, Dimple noticed—like they didn’t know what to do with someone who was so obviously at home with his uncoolness. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She demanded that someone give us the correct change to call Mississippi, which two boys did in such a hurry you would think Mother was their commanding officer. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to trust someone, don’t we? Or else we’re just walking around in a wasteland, possibly starving to death.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He was conscious, but Thomas had never seen someone so exhausted. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I told them that if someone tells a lie, that person is not just a liar. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

People who were dropped on their heads always worry someone will steal their stout. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I need someone who will not make a mistake and tear their own arm off because they pushed the wrong button,” he rumbled. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to share my news with someone who would understand how special my relationship with Martin was. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Then someone who had just stepped out of the building walked over to us. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Please, could you take this to Tcheremchov and pass it along to someone?” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay, everything’s fine. More than fine. I’m great. There’s someone here.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“A story’s a good way of gettin’ someone on your side. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The tarry oil, which someone had bought from her village witch, fumed in black clouds. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the glass, Cordelia drifts past; then melts and reassembles, changing into someone else. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She went back the way she had come, wanting to be out of sight before someone noticed her and thought to put her to work. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As she bent down to get a dictionary, someone in the room sniffled. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He knew that finally, truly, at long last, someone was calling him home. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled out a big sheet of parchment that he must’ve shoved under the table when they heard someone at the door. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Somehow he managed to reach every ball that came anywhere near his territory, even though he was so short that he looked like someone’s tag-along kid brother. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I thought I heard someone crying. Are you okay?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I tried to look at Max, but he’d turned away, watching something or someone across the blacktop. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll organize the committee and turn it over to someone else,” I suggested. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something about not being able to talk always gave someone the giggles, but tonight it’s not hard to stay quiet, and for sure I don’t feel like giggling. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I worried that someone would want Luke and not me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossibly hard for them to expect people to just calmly abandon someone they loved so that he could be executed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They were talking excitedly in their near-silent whispers, they were pointing, they were urging someone forward. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe someone was reading her right now, and if she looked up, she would see their eyes staring down at her, following her every move. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Once Matthew Creighton, standing concealed among the trees, had heard Jethro explaining a new slingshot to someone very real to him. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The music, the language, the way you kids wear your clothes. I think it’s a good thing that someone is willing to protect him from hooligans like you and your friends.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I dunno. And could someone’s body move around, and do things, if their dæmon was dead?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Yes, something that was someone. I felt like a queen. Isn’t that funny? Isn’t it silly?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s almost like someone flicked a switch, because there were only a few stars here and there, and now there’s an endless supply—like a huge diamond exploded in the sky. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. I always wanted to be. Usually I was a squire or someone lowly.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

If someone asked all the kids in Eight B to close their eyes and list the twenty-five boys and girls in the class, that Owens kid wouldn’t have been on the list. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Everything appeared in simple black outlines, and it looked as if someone with a set of paints the size of a house and a brush as wide could stay happily occupied for years. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

And not only that, but she reminds me of someone. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She was pulling someone’s old wagon that had a $4 sign taped to it. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He certainly wouldn't be wandering around in broad daylight unless someone else had a hand in it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was Clarke who had said, 'They go on to someone else. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I thought that if someone really was beating him up, he would have killed them. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“James or Reggie or whoever he was. I wonder if he liked being someone else.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Before I knew of him, I had never even conceived of someone like him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ali lunges forward to grab someone in the dark. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe someone would have brought lunch to the empty room. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I mean tricks like...giving somebody bad luck or something like that. Or make someone scared of you.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I had the impression he was being loyal to someone. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

"I was inviting someone to steal from me, singing about my money." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Tired of denying my own needs because someone else needed something more. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When any kind of dispute arose, someone who was respected highly and who was not involved would sit on a rag with the disputers around him, which made the rag a courtroom. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere along the line someone decided that this activity is worthy of a tip, so you give the woman some change, though I’ve never known why. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t going to spoil it by trying to convince them she really was someone else. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve often imagined how nice it would be if someone were to confide everything to me. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The heroes of Flight 93 affected Will’s family in a different way than they might have affected someone else’s family. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Of standing helplessly by while danger circles someone I love. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Though I did think it was more likely someone in the circus proper. I should have known it was you.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“No,” he gasped, surfacing fast to be spilled back into reality like someone beached by the crash of a wave. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Sheed had been worried about whether a human trap would work on someone who wasn’t human, so he was really enthusiastic about Petey’s Giant Flypaper. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Like something someone facing a firing squad might say before they’re shot. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The mother did not know that the handsome, greying professor at her side knew her daughter at all; she thought he was just someone interested in her poetry. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I ask him, genuinely wondering what would possess someone with defective lungs to take a trip onto the roof in the dead of winter. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“I suppose if someone was to catch a spy they’d take him to the White House and pin medals on him.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he crossed his ankles on the table and mumbled that it was someone who believed in Karl Marxist. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Coins were contraband: you can sharpen the edges against a stone, slice open someone’s face in a fight. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

With a sigh, the domovoi leaned back into the kneading, and then someone knocked on the open door. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

‘They’ve found someone. Not far from the London Eye. Near the river. A young Asian boy.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isn’t she the one who always says to listen to the tone of someone’s words? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When it’s clear that I’m not going to argue with her, Erin says, “Don’t you worry that I’ll start dating someone else?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As part of the new attention being paid to me I had to report to someone at a city bureau for an interview. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I want to find someone who’s parking alone. Someone who really means business. I know the best spot in Ravenel County. Not many people know about it. Only the real lady-killers like myself.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pretend you're someone else, I told myself—someone charming and witty, someone whose voice works. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Another snap, this time louder, almost like someone had broken a stick over their knee. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Have you learned nothing from my demonstrations? The ship? Your commandos? Do I need to kill someone?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

But the blood would not wash off; many washings only turned the crystal water red; and someone cried: “Have you been to the river?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

When his student says, “But you liked it the last time,” the classroom lets out a collective “oooh,” and someone makes a catlike screech. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Could not someone have got out to her?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“When you come in someone else’s backyard, you got to show ’em some respect and let ’em know what you up to. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Henry still couldn’t get his lock to open, and he was getting more and more frustrated every time someone else popped one open. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I consider running but turn my head just a bit so I can see if the voice belongs to someone in a blue windbreaker. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We raced up the stairs to Rav Gershenson’s class and made it just a moment before he called on someone to read and explain. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was running at top speed when someone stuck out a foot and tripped me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, thanks. Just looking for someone,” he says. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

They were almost in their 20s but were going to school late because their fathers were forced to send someone. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be good to talk to someone else. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s a good thing someone told me about a little girl out here. Are you hungry?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The next morning she comes very early, but not early enough; for when she goes up to the bed, someone else is in it already. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or in a pleasure garden somewhere, with someone. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In our culture, if someone says you’re related, even if you don’t know the person, you respond with respect. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Like someone seeing what a chump you are and getting you a cold Coke anyway. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Be they Harvard or something else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone’s dream once, himself.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Tonight, I'm going alone. If I want someone following me wherever I go I'll get myself a dog.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It felt, I promise you, as though someone had laid a red-hot poker against my flesh and was pressing down on it hard. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

If ever these lines strayed from perfect, if someone should move his by scooting backward too vigorously, or trying to get just the right angle to pass a note, Mrs. Jacobs got very cranky. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

My call is answered as someone pulls me away by my elbows. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“You can’t get so disheartened when someone doesn't act the way you want them to. Even Mr. Darcy wasn't perfect. And just because someone makes you feel uncomfortable doesn't make them your mom.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He tried to tell himself that someone who knew what they were doing had shut it off. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was tucked away in the hollow, as if someone had hidden it there. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

When they got down to the last five or so someone yelled that the cops were coming and they all ran. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the sound, the pink circles on Lady Ashton’s cheeks visibly shrank and disappeared, as if someone had rubbed them out with an eraser. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“If someone says ‘hi,’ you say ‘hi’ back!” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She keeps saying stuff like, "Kevin, we know you know the answer, because you always know the answer, so wouldn't it be nice if someone else got a chance? For instance, your friend Maxwell?" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Noun: An extra shoe you keep in your pocket. In case someone steals one of yours while you’re asleep with your head under the mailbox.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

And when I got to the gate a man said to me, “I think someone’s looking for you, sonny.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lupita heard the sound of the front door closing behind someone. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The three shrill notes of someone demanding to be let in. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

In Rocinante there was a box of red Kleenex that someone had given me as a present. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a predictable routine and someone who knew how to cook. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Those kinds of—of pale imitations aren’t the same as truly bringing someone back to life.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Finny, I—” there was no controlling what I said, the words were instinctive, like the reactions of someone cornered. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it seems like I’m the only one who has to worry about someone in my family getting shot. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

When I returned next time, someone else was living in Archie’s house. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

It was evident that he did not want anyone to think he was surprised that someone would put on a space suit to go inside Kitum Cave. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just really wanted to talk to someone about it, but I couldn’t actually talk to Savanna and Ellie, you know?” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Then I say, “And I’m waiting for someone.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I can't risk someone coming around the corner and finding me here in tears. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

What do you do if someone attacks you from behind? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“What’s to become of someone who goes into the dungeon smiling, I ask 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

The foreman claimed he’d been awakened by a noise like someone climbing the fence. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wait until summer. Hot ain’t the word for it. My pa used to say that hell would be a holiday for someone from eastern Montana.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Usually I can tell as soon as I meet someone. Like, Amy’s mom there is a pineapple upside-down cake, and her dad is a sour cream coffee cake with a crumbly blueberry center.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I caught the words “a barrel falling over in the warehouse” and “someone fiddling with the door.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

If he stayed with me, he’d end up hurting someone, and I didn’t want him to spend the last days of Earth behind bars. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

My body felt heavy, and though someone had pulled off my sweater, my shirt was plastered to my skin with a thin sheen of sweat. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She thinks I’m trying to punish myself, but I figure it’s still just someone trying to sell something, and I’m not buying. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“He said he’ll give me another bottle if I bring him someone. Someone like you....” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I once heard someone say that everything looks like a nail to the man with a hammer in his hand. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She talked about going away. Running away with someone called David.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The walls looked as if someone had piled up a number of stones in a hurry, the roof had collapsed, and where there must once have been a door only a black hole now gaped. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Or did someone pull it out of her hand like a tooth? The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

If she wanted to hear someone playing at the organ, all she had to do was listen to that dreadful Lillian Woodward. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I wish I were someone else! he thought. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t remember much, but something told him he’d never disliked someone so strongly. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Alex himself didn’t take part because someone somewhere had decided he shouldn’t carry a gun. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

As Mr. Trepid drove away, the salesman called to someone in the back room. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then someone walked through her front door and Deborah yelled straight into the receiver, “Good morning! I got mailY’ She sounded panicked by the idea of it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But she looked like someone who spent her days outdoors. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Despite his personal pain and decay, this little old man listened the way they always wanted someone to listen. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Stoker points at him like he’s accusing someone in court. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the one thing none of us are supposed to bring up until someone’s ready. Heck, I bawled my eyes out the first few weeks.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know he isn’t the real Santa Claus, just someone dressed up like him. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I will never let someone else inject me again, not after letting Eric inject me with attack simulation serum after my final test. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

"They caught one," someone yelled from an upstairs window. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the man holds down the table with his arms, a waiter approaches against the wind with great and obvious difficulty, like someone wingwalking at 30,000 feet. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder how Gen would describe my face to someone else. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

"Amber Alert child spotted on Seventy-Fourth speaking to homeless man by someone living in the neighborhood. Any units in the vicinity, let's get out there and ask some questions." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A “repatriate” was someone returning to his native country, while an “expatriate” was someone withdrawing himself from his native country. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He waits for me to respond, eyes unblinking as he stares at me—he never used to look at someone so straight before. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

And it didn’t matter if he rebuffed or rejected a person, because someone else was sure to phone with yet another offer to play chess, see a movie, or eat a fish dinner. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But Pa suspects that it has something to do with someone named Pol Pot. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about all the horrible things that happened the last time someone told me not to worry, but nod, just the same. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“If you didn’t watch your things, someone would always be happy to relieve you of them.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Do you need to call someone? Are you all right? You shouldn’t even be walking, let alone running.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Why would someone do this to others after all the hell that happened to the world? The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Thankfully, someone had created some semblance of order before they arrived. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It sometimes happened that someone would ask permission to spend an evening with them in order to listen to the river. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

This tabloid story, supposedly leaked by someone in the police, about Megan’s involvement in the death of a child. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine killing someone to the tune of two Scottish nerds wearing glasses and flattop haircuts. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

A librarian is someone who lets you borrow books in a library. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, in my fantasies, I imagine there was someone who thought like this: We eat berries and roots. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

What a berdache is, basically, is someone who adopts a gender other than their biological one. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Or did that line mean blow the whistle in the colloquial sense, as in “to reveal a secret or alert someone to a crime”? Either way, it didn’t make any sense to me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Kote was kneeling on the hearth, building up the fire, when someone spoke behind him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s three in the morning, I’m playing the Proclaimers too loud for their own bloody good, and I’m pretty sure I have to go and kill someone. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He needed someone to talk to so as to avoid thinking about the possibility of war. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You haven’t cashed the check or returned the papers. I wanted to be nice about this, Rose. I can get someone to officially serve the papers, you know.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before I could say anything he’d pulled the receiver away from his head to shout at someone. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“So, she’s an independent thinker. Fine. But she should have had better sense than to drag someone else down with her.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He had evidently hoped that someone else, perhaps Swift, would draft this section for him. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I can imagine someone buying this script book and memorizing each of these potential responses. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, you don’t give advice unless someone asks?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t look tired or grouse about fussy customers or talk on the phone to remind someone politely to pay him for a job he’s done. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

During the next three weeks someone lay out in the yard with a gun at his hand every night. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only once in four hundred years did someone live in the room beneath the balcony, the one with the narrow cot. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Only the crackle of the fire fills the room for several moments as the guests look from one to the other, each waiting for someone to respond. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It’s as if someone has taken the real Astrid Jones and replaced her with one who is okay with intimacy in public places. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

In any case, Elizebeth’s boss was never going to allow her to travel overseas to work with someone else. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes later her eyes snap open as she’s awakened by the sound of screams ricocheting between cars, originating from God knows where—and then someone sprints past her window. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Stick that sucker in someone who’s been stung and it saves ’em. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Dill gazed out the window at the trees that lined both sides of the highway, the occasional handmade roadside cross, marking where someone had met their end, punctuating the unbroken wall of green. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

No black family lived above the tracks until 1968, and it took two painful years of searching to find someone willing to sell the first black family a home. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the ad catches someone’s fancy, that someone will e-mail you and perhaps arrange a date. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“When I help someone here, I feel like I’m giving food For some, the migrants’ gratitude is enough reason to give. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Thorn’s mother walked in moments later, wearing an all-black suit and pointy green heels and looking like someone out of a movie. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

And if you like someone a lot, is it really so evil to follow your heart? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

The pain reminded her that she was a dancer, that she was someone named Sosie. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A reputation twists into someone I don’t recognize. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

But I have enough canned and dried stuff to live on; and if he had seen the garden, all in rows and weeded, he would have known someone was here. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Pulling the curtain back from the glass peephole in the door, I took one last look to see whether or not someone was following me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grass around the grave behind Gram’s—the one belonging to Isabella Fortune, Gram’s teacher who died really young—has been tidied up recently, and someone’s planted a little rosebush by it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She knew that she was a child, of course, but there was something oddly comforting about someone addressing the situation directly. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

We were more concerned about lions than guns then, because someone had seen a lion. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to be buried and I knew of no relatives; someone had to see that he was placed in the ground. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Peace of mind, my brother. You can sleep tonight knowing your mess is someone else’s problem.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Get ’em, Mrs. Torrance!” someone from the crowd yelled, but when laughter broke the silence, she raised a hand. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Children must do what an adult says to do, whether it is a parent or someone else from the village. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have to meet with someone at seven.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“How long you think it take if someone tells you you can’t vote before it spreads?” asked one man who was misled. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It wasn't the first time I’d heard someone say that about me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Does that mean that a newspaper should try to stay away from a story that might bother someone? The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of spreading mercy, indiscriminately, or, to be more correct, spreading it on someone I really didn’t care about, enraptured me. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

To someone on the track, the two bounces would seem to take place about forty meters apart, because the train would have traveled that far down the track between the bounces. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Will someone—what is this underworld creature doing in my forest.'” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me, Skinny Delivery Boy. Yes, we could make a present of it to someone who, say, helped out in the performance.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“They say the poor boy still hasn't uttered a sound. I don't blame him. I can tell you, it's a horrible feeling suddenly landing in someone else's story.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“If someone looks into our windows, they could see the stuff here.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Over a limb of an-other, someone’s tennis shoes dangle with the laces knotted. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If anything, Sapo had always been around when I needed someone to watch my back. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get a move on before someone steals my regular seat. Fridays fill up faster than an Easter basket.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She swallowed and said, “Couldn’t someone get the Black Tortoise to go home now?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I remember roleplaying what you’re supposed to say if someone offers you a drink and you feel like you’re in over your head. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Better to have been shot in Baltimore, where there was the justice of the streets and someone might call the killer to account. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s amazing how someone could insult black people, gay people, and women all at the same time,” Brandon said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She popped another blackbeetle into her mouth and then another, like someone with a bag of chocolate-covered raisins. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Luckily, someone comes to tell us our table can go get food. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps it is a bad joke, someone who has a grudge against you,” my father the skeptic questioned. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it just seemed all he needed was someone to spend some time with him. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He can tell someone is approaching, but doesn’t know the difference between you or his father right now. Either way, he’s asking for food.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

What the classical music world realized was that what they had thought was a pure and powerful first impression—listening to someone play—was in fact hopelessly corrupted. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He was standing in the busy station, chatting with his dad, when he noticed someone watching him. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For someone who grew up knowing only one person, suddenly knowing hundreds of them was a little intimidating. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Then someone has scribbled at the end of the list: Don’t burn the turkey, Ma! American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She’d kept to herself for so long that it was hard to remember how to make conversation with someone her own age. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

But the harder Naheed prayed to Allah that her name would be coupled with someone, anyone, else, the more sure she was that Eliza’s name and hers would be on the list side by side. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

"Take off your trousers, you silly slob!" someone else shouted. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

"All they need is someone to set it off. All they need is a leader. You mean you don't have the nerve." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How small a thought it takes to fill someone’s whole life,” the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Or how I keep waiting for someone to find out I don’t belong here at all? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“What else? Didn’t you see anything? Was he cursing someone?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And the thought of Blue being someone other than Martin gives me this breathless, hopeful feeling. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I felt tired and foolish, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind and discover there was no one there. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think,” I whispered, my mouth dry, “they’re looking for someone.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Left one day and did not come back. Didn’t even leave a note. You would think someone who was constantly writing notes would leave one.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He could easily lapse into self-criticism, particularly if there was someone, especially a child, whose life he thought he could have saved in Cange. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

At first, my mom and I operate on our own schedules and in the evenings it’s like someone’s come in and divided the house with red tape. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“It’ll take ’em ages to count everyone, and we can say we just followed someone else and got lost.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Repeating a name or an indefinite noun can confuse readers by making them think that someone new has walked onto the stage. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Not like a sickly child, too small and slouched over in someone’s yard in black Oakland. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As I remember, it was important for someone to bring me a bucket in the morning when I was locked in those things,” he says, and yawns. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

As they went through the deck, they’d paused over the ones that mentioned someone named Luke. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

"Well, someone kicked him today. That was one mean bruise he had on his shin." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

All was going fine until Barack got a call from someone back in Illinois, letting him know that the senate was somewhat abruptly going back into session to finish work on the crime bill. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m tired of being around someone who blames the world for all his problems.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I’m trying not to look up, because I don’t want anyone’s eyes to meet mine, but if I don’t look up, someone might notice and wonder why I’m not looking up. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“Mila, that boy had no business grabbing your arm, but you should have used words, you know? You just can’t go around kicking kids in middle school! You could have seriously injured someone.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ignatius closed his shutters and turned off the light, listening to his mother speaking to someone. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a serious one, he said, but he’d need someone to help him for a while until he got his strength back. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Time don’t never go so slow as when you’re waiting on someone to bring you news. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

When I came out, someone down on V-north was waving his arm madly out of his bars. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, it works out that she’s not leaning against the locker next to mine, since someone’s decorated it up and down with valentine hearts. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Ever since, she’s ranted about thieves, double- and triple-checking to make sure our doors are locked, worrying that someone will steal the truck, clutching her purse against her chest in crowded markets. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a runaway and a thief and a liar, and if there was a word for someone who disrespects a monk in his own temple, he was that, too. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

My landing is too loud, and I throw myself flat on the overhang, breath held, waiting for someone to yell up at me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

At one in the morning I was surprised to hear the telephone ring, and someone picked up right away. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

You have to wear extremely ugly PE clothes that I am positive someone made just to make sure I would look extra bad. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Can’t you call Tyler and ask who they’ve got over there? How do we find our kids when we don’t know where they got took?” someone asked. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like someone trying to feed a vulture broken in the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

And now I was sitting next to someone just out of Vietnam, fresh from his job to kill or be killed. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Did someone really cut this out by hand?” the children kept asking. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His whisper sounded raspy, like someone getting over a sore throat. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

"We had to bang on the front door to get someone to open it up." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to get better! Thank you, friend. Now we need to find someone to weave a sash.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that it’s nice to have someone to go to weddings and parties with. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But I had the feeling that Mrs. Lovelace was someone who’d take the time to figure me out. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“You wait here. I’ll follow him. Keep low and stay quiet—someone will come back for you.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He turned to talk to someone about an old college friend, cutting me off completely, and I stood there dumbfounded. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke Spanish better than Arabic, and, if this boy was going to Al-Fayoum, there would be someone to talk to when there were no other important things to do. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So please tell me that someone has any gossip aside from all this serious stuff, because I have the best story about this guy in my Algebra II class.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But she stood up near the pulpit with Reverend Okonjo, Martin, Esperanza, and someone in a navy hoodie who had their back to Moss. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Reynie was waiting, hoping someone else would raise a hand for a change. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“They were turned to stone in glory!” someone yelled. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He was looking side to side and all ’round, seeming like he was ’bout to bolt if someone said, “Boo.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He suspected that a different defense attorney, maybe someone the Logan prosecutors knew better, might have taken a quick plea bargain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I was so relieved to see someone, anyone, that I didn’t question her sudden appearance. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

In fact, I work for someone inside the INS. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I think you should talk to someone. You can always talk to me, but I think you need a professional. I can try to find you a free program.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Which was fine—Maya wasn’t about to start telling someone what they should do with their body or whatever—but being next to someone that perfect made Maya just want to be messier, dirtier, louder. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It was a good forty miles from the Bridge to Bag End, but someone made the journey in a hurry. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I was standing behind the Object, looking like Cousin It, when someone put his hands over my eyes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She was about to sit down next to her mother on the old sofa surrounded by Mo's bookshelves when someone suddenly whispered her name. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sides, you shouldn’t be out there without no gun, someone with a firearm should go with you.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time, another lifetime ago, she’d been someone else, a girl with hopes and dreams and loves and wants. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“There’s a hospital there. I’m going to see someone.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m not trying to mess with you. It’s just that absolutely nothing about liking a person—or even disliking someone—is firmly logical all the way through.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I usually change the subject when someone talks about the future. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But someone is asking for big trouble,” said Mrs. Avery, looking more like a hawk every second. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Eliot, if I began to scream right now at the top of my lungs, would someone come?” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

A strapping Russian boy with the face of someone for whom no remaining thing on earth could be surprising. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Stared at the black tar, his chest like someone blowing up a balloon inside him, then letting the air out, then blowing it back up, then letting the air out. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

They started on the job but stopped when someone crashed a donkey cart into the bottom of the house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

At times, our stories halted all laughter as we noticed someone’s eyes filled with tears. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If someone had told him to “sit up like a big boy,” it would not have felt out of place. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, someone hoarsely called out the Poet’s name and in a single voice everyone replied, “Here! Now and forever!” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while the bailiff barks at someone in the seats who has been talking while court was in session. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“But under his own steam?” said Hermione eagerly, “or because someone made him?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And I said, "Why don’t you get someone else to do drugs with you, vato!" Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

People felt that she might cut herself or stick herself with a contaminated needle—or stick someone else. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be alone, or with someone I did not know, like the coast-guard. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Just someone I used to know,” I say lightly. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And if someone had a secret, I seemed to be the one to tell. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I liked knowing someone was right behind me, though. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

She’s always reading or sending a text, talking to someone, leaving a voice memo, or adding another to-do item to a to-do list on the to-do app she never closes. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

That meant that my dad was married to someone before he married my mom. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

It took a second for Herman E. Calloway to know someone was touching him. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Or maybe, like the soldier was going to do for our imaginary grandma, they sent someone to get us, but we were already gone. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“They talk about love and respect and family, but I don’t know any family that puts a tracking device on someone and then sends them out to be shot up and blown away.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She realized why he had been cleaning it: he could only clean it after he’d killed, because every time the Executioner came out, someone died. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I don't know how long they might sentence someone for refusing to disclose the details of an affair, but I imagine it wouldn't be more than a year or two. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And Elijah himself had a further, unnerving habit, which was to ricochet his questions and comments off someone else on their way to you. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“Actually,” Rashid said, “I was thinking we could call someone near a television.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they were reincarnated—their soul was reborn in someone else. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then later on, if I was with someone special, I’d have more chance of doing everything right. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, someone gently shook him awake. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem right that they thought singing and dancing would change Cecile into someone who cried for her long-lost daughters or fried pork chops and made banana pudding. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will need a book in Spanish and in English, Aunt Consuelo. I will pay for it if someone will buy it for me.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Many highland villages do have someone known as the “big-man,” the most influential man of the village. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Why should someone read my work when all the classic works were available and all of them were better than anything that I could ever produce? Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mattie had grown so mysterious to her, that he took the place of someone like the Holy Ghost—he was never seen but his presence was felt. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or was the old me always waiting to be someone else, too? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Any time I’m about to fight someone I yell ‘Simba Barracuda’ real tough like. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that someone had dared to make her mom miserable only made Aru angrier. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Some of them take their seats. 12TH JUROR: Well—I suppose someone has to—start it off again. 2ND JUROR: It’s getting late. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if she thinks the night is too warm, or she gave it away, or someone stole it? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

If they were out in their station wagon and he saw someone changing a tire by the side of the road, he would roll down his window. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Her voice shook but she managed to continue; obviously it meant a great deal to her to have someone to talk to. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

"Are you waiting for someone, my dear?" asked a pleasant-featured young woman, as the afternoon dragged on. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ma and Pa would think throwing money away was worst than taking it for doing someone a favour, so I didn’t have nothing to worry ’bout! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The note was either on its way to Michelle or to someone else entirely. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

And now he was shivering in a dark basement, afraid to come out, and mumbling about someone named Mary. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Some days he works twelve hours and comes back home looking like someone beat him with a bat. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

One minute I was walking alone—I was heading for the bomb crater—and the next minute someone was beside me. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Pie is good and if I don’t want it I can always trade a slice of pie with someone at my table for some cookies or cupcakes. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a low voice, someone said, “They know that if they stop they’ll freeze to death.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, but I don’t understand how a person can say they hate nature. It’s like saying you hate happiness or laughter. Or fun. I don’t get how someone could be so freaking vapid.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Another police officer watched a drunk man spit chewing tobacco in an older woman’s face; when someone complained to him, he said, “There would be nothing like this if you would stay at home.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

There I was, someone who’d learned to survive out in the open with the cattle back home, who’d learned to go without food and water all day—and I was helpless. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, tell me what you do want, Dad. A new watch or—” “Mare, I do not consider something you stole off someone’s wrist to be new.” Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

He also knew there was no way for someone as young as Wes to make that kind of money DJing. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It’s probably wrong, but I’m kind of glad to see that someone other than Jupiter has Breanna’s undivided attention. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I recall looking around at my fellow inmates, thinking: Would someone, anyone, just shout out the word tired? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“You don’t need thumbscrews or knives to torture someone if you can perform the Cruciatus Curse. That one was very popular once too. “Right. . . anyone know any others?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She never talks to me unless there’s someone else around to hear her hilarious insults. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“That way the stuff’ll not be in plain sight, in case someone else happens along.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Hassan’s father, Ali, used to catch us and get mad, or as mad as someone as gentle as Ali could ever get. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had to know someone besides himself was standing in the kitchen, and, just as obviously, he didn’t care. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not fair! What if someone wants to adopt him?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

In die hospital corridor, her husband moved ahead with the unsmiling determination of someone who knew what he was about. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

For instance, you can marry someone who’s an American citizen and receive a green card through your spouse. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Imagine if someone else’s brother were to come in . . . get into your bed. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Or if everyone around me was there because they could cause someone to hurt themselves that way, too. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I knew that someone, maybe several someones, had beat Dante so badly that he’d wound up in a hospital. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Now and then, someone kicked me violently from behind and I would wake up. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess it was easy being in relationships where I didn’t really have to think about all the tiny humiliations that come with being attracted to someone. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Soon she would take off her apron and turn into someone who didn’t give a hoot about your general welfare. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is always someone else coming down a school hallway. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe a someone we Koreans were becoming, the latest brand of an American. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day I came squealing and squalling into the world was the first time someone tried to kill me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

What I should do, they said, was check online every few hours and join if someone dropped. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Part of the shiny, future Twinkle dream or not, Neil wasn’t someone I wanted to be with. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They passed a metal trashdump where someone had once tried to burn bodies. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Something—or someone—had to make it happen. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sounded like someone else I’d just met for the first time. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Or are you just picking the weak ones so that if you lose, you’ll have someone to blame it on?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Most of us were simply wrapped too tightly in the grip of summit fever to engage in thoughtful reflection about the death of someone in our midst. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He’s waiting for someone, drinking wine but not eating. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I want to get a bigger apartment with someone...someone like you, maybe, and...I want to hide them.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I wonder if you ought to have someone in here with you,” he said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t even considered such a thing could be possible, seeing a movie with a friend, and now that someone had said it, it made her heart ache. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Erilea needed the King’s Champion to be someone who understood the suffering of the masses. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then someone told a Mullah Nasruddin joke and we were all laughing. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And there was a time when someone else knew and my mom didn’t. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It felt like someone had cracked open the Co-Co’s and spilled all the coconut water out of them. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Then, in the dream, someone grabbed her shoulders and spun her around. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

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

“Why don’t you pay someone else to pay someone to burn your kruge for you? That’s what the big players do.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then I found someone I thought might be interesting. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She then wrote the word on the blackboard in case someone else wanted to use it. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter that she really was scared, but she just didn’t want to be seen as that, someone who was maybe a coward. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

This is a hell of a way to leave someone—sitting alone in a restaurant—just staring straight ahead, not even a book to keep me company. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“AIDS. Princess Diana even came last year for a visit to show people you can’t catch it just from being near someone. My mum met her.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I need someone to tow my car and fix it.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I had the sense someone was watching me and laughing. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to teach him to pick on people,” Gilly said, “just how to take care of himself. He can’t come hiding behind your skirt every time someone looks at him crosseyed.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z