The end explanation that he had “given her up” so as to save his soul, and that he had now returned horn a sense of dramatic magnanimity, was not the true one. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lived out the remainder of his life in Azkaban, lamenting the loss of Marvolo’s last heirloom, and is buried beside the prison, alongside the other poor souls who have expired within its walls.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“And if you die with a mortal sin on your soul?” he asked, and his voice was cold. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You hev hedged Ma’s question, Cousin Wilse. What about the right and wrong of one man ownin’ the body— and sometimes it looks as if the soul, too—of another man?” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter—often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter—in the eye. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“But you must, for the sake of your soul,” she said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music seeps into my soul, lyrics transporting me to a place far beyond the moment. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The captain of the Meadowlark led his crew in a prayer for the souls of their slain shipmates. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Ah, ah, black spot on your soul,” Lloyd said and shook his finger at her. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, okay. But I'm not just some former ugly girl who sold her soul to date hotties and go to the finest keg parties the Greater Gutshot Area has to offer.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The brutal afternoon workouts left him exhausted and sore but feeling cleansed, as if someone had scrubbed out his soul with a stiff wire brush. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But during that terrible first week of his life I was racked with the miseries of a weak, sore body and a lost soul. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To Weldon I owe the chief awakening of my life,” he recalled, “but this is the personal, private obligation of my own soul.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it was a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A peculiar’s sole is the door to his soul,” he said. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It didn’t make any sense how they could share the same soul and be completely different. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In a letter to his wife, Lazear cautioned her that “nothing must be said as yet, not even a hint. I have not mentioned it to a soul.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Fears the thought of being burdened with the “soul” of anything. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“We entered into the Hitler Youth with body and soul,” said Inge Scholl, the oldest. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“In a way, I think he sent a message through Thanatos. My name wasn’t on that list of escaped souls. It should have been.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Greater encouragement came from Rowan Gaither, whose businessman’s soul was stirred by a device he thought might have great commercial possibilities. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Or to one of Dadi’s “soul bearers from beyond the veil.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

If words could be a dagger to the soul, these would be the ones. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“To speak truth, St. John, my heart rather warms to the poor little soul. I wish we may be able to benefit her permanently.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

They are his contact with the supplies that keep life going; they hold the beauty that his soul longs for; they hold the unattainable that he can only dream and wish for. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father said, “They are living in darkness. Broken in body and soul, and don’t even see how they could be healed.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lord, avert their eyes from me, I whispered in my soul. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ikwa and I, old souls, watched the beginning of the love affair from our perch in the tree. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Eyes are the windows to the soul, Mr. Walters says. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was their property, heart and soul, body and blood; what they did claimed every atom of him, sleeping and waking; it colored life and dictated the terms of death. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I love his feet And I love his dear eyes in which the vulnerability and beauty of his soul can be plainly read. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the confusing switchover: Jupiter has no problem baring her soul to me now, but it’s always from across the room. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

With strange souls like us, who must have opposite hearts from you, treachery is more sweetly served by our dearest than by archstrangers we never see. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve heard it said that a man’s soul may be observed behind the eyes.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It should be, actually! But my point is that whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched,” said Hermione. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Powerful enough to start feeding Miss Weasley a few of my secrets, to start pouring a little of my soul back into her...” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

And it is also well with my own soul. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Her soul’s going to heaven, for sure. With mine.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

As best anyone could tell, the owner also was a forgiving soul. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Will you take my soul for ransom, then?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A humble and a contrite heart proved to have benefits over and beyond cleansing the soul of sin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“So the part of his soul that was in me...” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I’m really surprised he told me that and I decide to never tell another soul about it. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

She thanked them both for sharing such fabulous secrets and promised she would never tell those secrets to another soul—not without their permission. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Cora made a canvass of the village: Not a soul. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She squinched up her soul as small as she could and pushed it to one side, so that it was hidden. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

But mountains did as much for a soul as the ocean, and they were more mystical and more alive, and more accessible, too. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go without food and drink and wherever I find a quiet place I cry and beg God and theVirgin Mary to have mercy on the soul of Theresa Carmody. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And I had a feeling I knew what soul he wanted to exchange—someone who had cheated death. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Every last soul in the Hideout right now is cooler than anyone in the Group of Friends. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Though he’d never been religious, he realized now that he’d always believed in the soul, in a force of personality that survived death. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And a few fed-up souls began to push back against efforts of whites in nearby neighborhoods to lock them out. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her soul returned fully to her and nestled happily inside her skin, for this moment not travelling in the past where her children were nor to America to be with my father. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

No longer holding back, she fell for William, body and soul. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

If my soul had gone out of my body, I’d have left the rolling of the ship, the stench in the closed-up ’tween deck, the rats that sometimes scuttle over my face in the night. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

But after the underwater thunder, what came was not souls but fish.They came rolling to the surface with mouths opened wide by that shocking boom. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His soul settled comfortably back into his body. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I see. I think it’s best that I assigned you a story to write over the summer and not a poem. Still, I know a good rhyme can calm the soul.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

There were demands for separate dormitory facilities, clubhouses, separate cafeteria tables, even for soul- food menus. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me he knew about the souls passing through me at the moment of death. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“All the salve in the world can’t cure what gets broken in somebody’s soul.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

This is his theory: the owl we held as a temporary captive memorized our floor plan so it could find its way back through a window and consume her soul. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next, a sign, taped haphazardly to an upcoming light pole, promises souls saved and a free waffle at some church in Harlem. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was far bigger than any room Id ever seen before, large enough to contain more than a hundred souls. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently the preacher had taken in a wandering soul now and again, and Gideon had been one of them. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And as long as there’s work, they will not have to lie next to the lifeless soul of a man whose scent still lingers in another woman’s bed. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It was insane, pathetic, almost criminal for a man pushing forty to feel so inept, so ashamed of his body, his heart, his work ethics, his Tinkertoy soul. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens and the dreams of impoverished children. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Hey, Milt, you better start putting some soul food on the menu.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

You see me as an artist in a way no one else has, and I think it’s because you have an artist’s soul too.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her windpipe bulges as her soul squeezes out of her heart. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The truth is, I feel a million miles from another living soul. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be ridiculous! You think they were looking for—” “Their souls. And they found them.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“You tell him I will hound him even after death! If there is any justice in the Underworld, my soul will haunt him for eternity!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

His soul writhed with boredom, but for once he had had no impulse to shirk his evening at the Center. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Not a soul, my dear. The house is empty half the day, so come and drum away as much as you like, and I shall be obliged to you.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a matter in part of posture and breathing, but even more so of soul. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He never looked up, but his voice shot through the church and straight on into my dirty soul. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

And all that time on my own, alien and isolate, without a soul I could trust. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He said that's how he and my mother knew that Jazz would be an old soul. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I guess the history books has got to be rewrit; it’s took forty-three year, two month, and a day or two for the Finger of God to steal its twentieth soul.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

It could make you think he was examining an X-ray of your soul or, if you were irritated with him, that he imagined he was examining one. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Katie was having a prayer said for the repose of Johnny’s soul. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was no love in my own heart, nothing but loathing for the foul Thing which had taken Lucy’s shape without her soul. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He felt that even in speaking in that way he would be indicating how hopeless he felt, thereby disrobing his soul to more shame. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even from a distance, their eyes conveyed the strength of their souls. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve told you more about myself and my feelings than I’ve ever told a living soul, so why shouldn’t that include sex? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It seems I only know myself, anymore, by your attendance in my soul. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t believe in souls, but his soul was on his face. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

And so she passes over the crowded parking lot, but not before saying a silent prayer for the souls below. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I won’t tell a soul if you were involved,” I said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

To Strasser, someone who was Japanese simply could not play with any soul or fidelity music that was composed by a European. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Ready to sell my soul for a dry mohair sweater and a can of Final Net hairspray. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your eyes show the strength of your soul,” answered the alchemist. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two souls of heroes advanced together, scrutinizing these. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The town seemed as dead, for not a soul did I see; I rejoiced that it was so, for I wanted no witness of poor Lucy’s condition. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I need nothing but the Lord who nourishes my soul in the bread of the Eucharist,” she says. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

What a consternation of soul was mine that dreary afternoon! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“This is Chicago. Jerome’s soul is already gone.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Don’t you know better than to tie yourself to some other living soul? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

That’s what she wanted to give me: a piece of her soul. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And like with listening, the subtle skim of a soul could be drowned out by a nearer, louder presence. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He meant personally to save more souls than had perished on the road from Bataan, I think, and all other paths ever walked by the blight of mankind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Ky soul shall roam restlessly until that one is found. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gloom and depression that constantly tormented my soul deepened. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And she had ignored, too, the cement in her soul. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Hector’s spear gave him a mortal wound and his soul fled from his body down to the house of Hades. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brief prayers were muttered for Martin’s soul, and then people began trading theories. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

My sketchbook is a collection of imprints from my soul. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“And I know that if you yawn and don’t cover your mouth, your soul can jump out.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

There are thirty-six other deserting souls on this little boat with me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Is that how long the souls have to burn?” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rebel passed the first few cottages, so snug and inviting to his comfort-loving soul—smoke rising in the still evening air, and the reassuring smell and sounds of humans everywhere. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So long as he wears the gem he is bound to me, blood and soul,” the red priestess said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My soul is full of longing all right. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bless my soul,” whispered the old bartender, “Harry Potter ... what an honor.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He believed that the prevailing religions of his time were evil and that neither immortal souls nor immortal gods exist: “Nothing exists, but atoms and the void.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I love you, Marlena. I love you with my heart and soul, and I want to be with you.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

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

He called himself a Uranist and believed that he had a female soul in a male body. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I can’t hold on to my soul with this broken body. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Well, so I didn’t have a soul to go fishing with but T.R. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He would have to bury his daughter in unholy ground, and without the saving grace of the mass her soul was doomed to perdition. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Allen—who’s wearing a gray suit—shakes Coach’s hand very formally and says, “Thank you again for what you said at the funeral. You’re a poet, a good friend, and a kind soul.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe that was what some people called the soul. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You deserve to be laughed at for such foolish thoughts! I spoke from my soul; you speak only from selfishness.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Red Team was commanded by a man who looked at a long-haired, unkempt, seat-of-the pants commodities trader yelling and pushing and making a thousand instant decisions an hour and saw in him a soul mate. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

They were laughter on hot city nights hot milk on cold city mornings, good food and good times fancy dancing and soul music. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The very mention of his uncle caused Hamlet to leap to his feet “Claudius! I could send his soul to hell!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Anyway, he’s too busy trying to save my Jewish soul to think about betraying my secrets. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soul was the body that fed the tobacco, and the spirit was the blood that watered the cotton, and these created the first fruits of the American garden. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Poor soul—she was in quite a taking. You see, she’d opened the door of the next compartment by mistake.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They threw out the body on the way. And you, do you carry this evil blot on your soul as well?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The priests assembled the tenants and the visitors in the little schoolhouse to read through the forgotten gospels and say a mass for the eternal rest of the soul of Pedro Garcia. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They already had the gift, and their souls were readier for such things than the souls of others. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, look at you, brave soul,” the woman said, her voice low and smooth. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

His soul overflowed with ardent affections, and his friendship was of that devoted and wondrous nature that the worldly-minded teach us to look for only in the imagination. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t want to? Of course you wants to! What could be finer? I don’t think there’s a soul in the universe doesn’t want to be just like us.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

When we parted my soul was uplifted, my hope for the future renewed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

On second thought, I would rather have had my soul lamprey-sucked from my skull. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

If a soul can reside in a fistful of embryo, why not in a fistful of white matter? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“You’re acting like some farmer who thinks I’m trying to buy his soul. It’s just a little blood so I can keep tabs on you. It’s like collateral.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And so it is of human life the goal to seek, forever seek, the kindred soul. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he remembered his father and his mother, and all the arms stretched out to hold him back, to save him from this city where, they said, his soul would find perdition. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Not another soul in town even had pockets. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do not tell this to another soul, on pain of death. Do you swear?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have souls like humans do. He can torture me until I die, but he won’t get me forever. I’ll just be reincarnated as a flower or something. It’s the best way.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve seen how the guides read the signs of the desert, and how the soul of the caravan speaks to the soul of the desert.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I worked with the sorceress Circe for many years. I know a returned soul when I see one. When did you die, Hazel—Nineteen twenty? Nineteen thirty?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His students’ engagement in theater taps into their souls and spirits. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

If you died with a venial sin on your soul you could not enter heaven until the sin was absolved by prayers or rosaries or masses from your family on earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some of us appreciate how he devoted his heart and soul to the school.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“But don’t you want to save your soul?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Lord done saved that boy’s soul on his birthday!” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Then Hector’s soul flew forth from his body and was gone to Hades, bewailing his fate, leaving vigor and youth behind. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Willie said something like he didn’t know what the world was coming to, and Momma prayed, “God rest his soul, poor man.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without you, my soul dies, though my body lives. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no right to be jealous, of course, since I was committed heart and soul to Dorothy. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Something in Werner’s soul shuts its scaly eyes, and the little professor raises his pistol and fires it into the sky. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then I grabbed a pillow from the couch and screamed into it loud enough for old Mrs. Burgess to hear, rest her soul. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

There was a shared divinity-ness in their souls that was just as good as blood. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My thoughts would compel utterance; and there, with no audience but the Almighty, I would pour out my soul’s complaint, in my rude way, with an apostrophe to the moving multitude of ships:— Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But,” I asked, “how are we to get the life without getting the soul also?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Ever the soul of obedience, Tyrion rose to depart with the rest, but his father gave him a look. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Single- handedly he turned it from genteel, ignorable after-dinner entertainment into an all-encompassing emotional experience, a way of perceiving life as a mighty struggle, the cry of the soul, the voice of conscience. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If you stayed long enough, some of it probably seeped into your soul. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We may reveal the essence of our soul, but that's not necessarily a good thing. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he saw even a single soul prowling the shore, he would light out. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Running away was a transgression so large that the punishment enveloped every generous soul on her brief tour of freedom. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It is the soul of Lupito, they cried in fear, doomed to wander the river at night because the waters washed his soul away! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Therese sees the infant, she smiles and her eyes shine like bright lamps revealing her very soul. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They thrum inside me at a comfortable pitch, plucking strings of my soul in places I haven’t tried to reach in a long time. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tiendita holds a collection of most beautifully disorganized items, both necessaries and “splurges for the soul,” as Abue puts it. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their souls would go to the Underworld, and Alcyoneus would not rise—at least not yet. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Above all, he learned from it how to listen, to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinions. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had to try even harder, put our heart and soul into it, to get ourselves over. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Right. Before yesterday I wasn’t even certain I believed in a ‘second soul.’ Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But when it came to my filmmaking, something that made up three-quarters of my soul, she wasn’t there. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then he started asking God to look out for Brew’s soul. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The park had snack huts, picnic tables, and a lake with a swimming area, but all were shut and there wasn’t a soul about. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

For a second or so more, he was still her own dear soul. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if she were a beach witch, and could throw bones and see right into his soul, to all his hunger and greed. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I carry the smell of the camp on my skin and in my soul. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“If I have a soul, I’ll go with you,” promised Matt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Which they totally are. It’s like, can I please just get a cup of coffee without having to kneel before Lucifer and pledge my eternal soul?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“There’s only one rule. You do everything I say, or I’ll let her soul go. How does that sound?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

At school, she lets me out at the carport where all the freshmen and every other car-less soul hangs out. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Vapostori don’t baptize animals. I can pray for your soul, however.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your might. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“But clearly not everyone has a soul,” said Poet, raising his walking stick to the woman. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A black paramilitary beret with black glasses and a little fledgling soul patch. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

So many of those souls were lost and wretched, Billy believed, because they could not see as well as his little green friends on Tralfamadore. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vision of a communal world had sunk down into his soul and it would never leave him until life left him. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wandered back into the yard, sick to my soul. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I should have liked to dine on her soul. It’s got no taste on its own, the peculiar soul,” he said, addressing us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Why art thou sad, my soul, and why dost thou disquiet me, chanted the priest in his deep rich voice. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spirit and soul are the body and brain, which are destructible—that is precisely why they are so precious. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Aru had the strangest impulse to reach into herself as if she might pluck out her own soul. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Still not sure whether he has a soul, though. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But there was no ship’s deck to escape to, no glittering ocean to thrill my soul, no breeze to cool my face, no one to talk to. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

This helped convince Pythagoras that all souls—including those of animals—transmigrated to other bodies after death. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She called in her soul to come and see. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Yet in 1995, a few brave souls challenged the implementation of Georgia’s “two strikes and you’re out” sentencing scheme, which imposes life imprisonment for a second drug offense. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They are fripperies to the soul of man. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Like the world is crumbling and their souls are being crushed.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He was doing nothing less now, he thought, than prescribing corrective lenses for Earthling souls. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the men on the bridge walked the earth with the terrible burden of dark mortal sin on their souls, and hell was the only reward. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not a traitor to your country. Much worse. A traitor to your soul.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I’ve stayed silent for nearly a decade, never telling a soul. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Swear that you will tell no living soul what I am about to reveal to you.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He dreads the consequence—the burden of a soul. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then why had something snapped like a broken warp thread inside Lyddie’s soul? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

And that in that Emerald City we will find what it is Ob needs to finally rest his soul. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

The white stenographer looked at me with wide eyes and I felt drenched in shame, naked to my soul. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In West Helena we could have a home of our own, a condition that now loomed desirable after a few months of Granny’s anxiety about the state of our souls. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children appeared before her like antagonists who had overcome her, who had ovemowered and sought to drag her into the soul’s slavery for the rest of her days. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph needed to know what his limits were, and his impulses, what evil and what good he had it in his soul and hands to fashion. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

My prison is my own mind, where dark thoughts and sorrows shackle my soul. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Many of them clasped my hand and told me good-bye and bid me to pray for their souls and their families at home. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They were the despised and rejected, the wretched and the spat upon, the earth’s offscouring; and he was in their company, and they would swallow up his soul. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Both souls will be consigned to the Fields of Asphodel. I’m sorry, Hazel Levesque. You could have been a hero.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But even if he never told a soul, how was I to face him again? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex made the sign of the cross and said a quick silent prayer for the newly dead souls. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Wolves wouldn’t find them interesting. Tell me what you’ve been watching on TV. We aren’t allowed TV unless a show improves our souls.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the strangest thing, how happiness came out of nowhere and inflated your soul. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Still, both of these young people were culpable and must look to themselves now, examine their souls, consider this a matter of conscience. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She would have been horrified to the depths of her kindly, well-ordered soul if she had known the truth. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes—something between Mom's and Dad's—are staring past the lens and straight into Jamie's soul. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The Posse will go to your house and tell your mother your immortal soul is in danger. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“But before he went loopy he was the life and soul of the party,” said Fred. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She was a tranquil soul who entertained herself, studied hard, played with her dolls, and showed not the slightest inclination for her mother’s spiritualism or her father’s fits of rage. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

So not a soul except Mama saw me bring the zinc tubs out of the shed room. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I’m not going to tell a soul what happened. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The world soul cannot die, even in one contained part of it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She asked if he was breathing, and I asked Mom, and she said no, and the whole time this totally incongruous soul song was crooning tinnily through his earbuds. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Laughing to myself, I take a manila envelope that I stole from the nurses’ station, slide the drawing inside, and scrawl on the outside: “Inside, you’ll find my heart and soul. Be kind.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

There was no need to go there, for not a soul was in the house, but the gesture came to Hannah’s daughter naturally. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Yeah, Indra might have made her soul, but where was her real father? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Calvin says, “Well, for thousands of years, humans have believed that birds will guide souls to the place of the dead.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Perhaps my soul, now as calloused as my hands, could have borne such a wedding. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice carried the voices of a hundred thousand souls in it; a whole history of resistance and rage moved with her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

God only knows how long I sat there in my chair, staring out the window at the desert, until my soul gradually returned to my body. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some poor lost soul had arrived on these terrible shores before me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“From that moment on,” said Alfons, “I belonged to Adolf Hitler, body and soul.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But in a story I can steal her soul. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the performance of all the necessary rites, the family remained aware that Jimmy Zizmo’s soul wasn’t at rest. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

An Hispanic-American writer tells me, ‘I will never give up my family language; I would as soon give up my soul.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or attack me for giving the order that took their souls. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A friend on the bench is a friend indeed,’ what my father used to say, rest his soul. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Where are thy men of might—thy grand in soul? New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

As quick as lightning he read Govinda’s soul, read the anxiety, the resignation. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you die with a venial sin on your soul, where do you go?” he asked. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soul must then recite a counting rhyme to tally his fingers, satisfying the ferryman. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But now at last, sweet fantasy has found root in your blessed soul! Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I urge—I implore!—every man, woman, and child who has music in his soul not to miss one of his illustrious—nay, his glorious— concerts! The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Tou know me, I’m just a soul whose intentions are good.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Or they were chips from imaginary skeletons; lost virgin souls; pieces of pretty, insensitive ice; their loveliness an untouchable joke. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His soul has crawled back into its trench. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“You see how the Devil tricks people into losing their souls?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

In time, both of them would know hunger: Jaime out of solidarity with the poor, and Nicolas to purify his soul. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think she would have pled with him not to steal the souls of those who would take his place. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something about this made Raymie’s soul even smaller and her toes even stiffer. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no, oh no! I want no souls. Life is all I want.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Let’s say the rosary for the intention of a safe journey and the salvation of your father’s endangered soul,” she said to her children behind her. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even human beings had not only an immaterial mind but a material sensitive soul, capable of a physical presence after death. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Those few black souls lucky enough to get work from Swift and the other meatpackers were good union men, treated as members of the butcher brotherhood. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When Olga died, Lorena’s mom asked for a picture of her so she could pray for her soul, but I thought it was too bizarre, so I pretended I forgot. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But she is suffering greatly, and as she’s my servant, my soul would bear the burden of her misfortune. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But his soul glowed with some fundamental kindness, didn’t it? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The service did my heart and I hope my soul some good. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we slowly drive through the encampment, some of those lost souls emerge from their tents and watch us go by. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Courageous, ma foi! The brave soul. The soul that dares and defies.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

I buy the cheapest sack of porridge meal I can find at the market, and a little hope pierces my soul like sun through clouds. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“To the right-about—every soul!” cried the master; “away with your congratulations! Who wants them? Not I!—they are fifteen years too late!” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Wait, I might be able to save your soul. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I will guide you, my lord. Ask him if it is true about an exchange of souls. He will tell you.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Miss Betty sent me to the corner for the rest of the hour to pray for my own soul while kneeling on grains of uncooked rice. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too bad we didn’t believe in competition—all that emphasis on trophies and medals, the shiny symbols of an empty soul. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

A gentle soul, already long and spidery of limb and uneven of tooth, this boy was introduced to me in the evening in some embarrassment. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“The specific connection that summons them is ethereal, a bond of blood, bone, and soul.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Inigo raised his right hand high—“I swear on the soul of Domingo Montoya you will reach the top alive!” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“My ghost told me you could help. He said you could guide us to the soul we need.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Urn, well, I painted the slave ship lost at sea to show that the souls of some of the Ibo are still not at rest.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Dear God! the spirit cries out, my soul will live forever! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she did not know whether his soul had safely traveled to the other side. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She learns everything I teach her as if she already knows it, said the mother, but this knowledge does not really enter her soul. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In our mutual sincerity we might be able to show a road to the salvation of America’s veiy soul. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Through prayer. I pray to the Lord for my half sister’s wicked soul.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

With every voice in his body, heart, and soul screaming No! he said, “Yes.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

You never know—Shorty’s soul could be looking down at us now, doing a story about him. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had sucked his soul out through his mouth. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And so when the burden of being nothing lifts from one’s thoughts the idea of the immortality of the soul is like a light in a blinding storm. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the cremation the scattering of Hari’s ashes over the Ganges would set his soul free by returning his body to fire, water, and earth. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You? Why would I want you? Bianca’s soul is worth a thousand of yours! Now, can you help me, Geryon, or not?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

My mother told me she ate their souls, and that their soulless bodies have wandered the earth ever since. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Mahler was born into a Bohemian corner of the Austrian Empire, into a German-speaking Jewish community of about a thousand souls whose existence was entirely wiped from the map during the Holocaust. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

What wondrous love is this, oh my soul? Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Rulers helped to mediate between supernatural forces in the air above and the watery place below where souls went after life. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He looked at me sort of pityingly, and I wondered if he was about to join the prayer campaign for my soul. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the books she read, every stream might be a river god, every tree a dryad in disguise, every old woman a powerful fairy, every pebble an enchanted soul. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were so many times when I felt shame, and all the hope drained from my soul as I watched the adults in my family kowtow to white people. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie sat numb, longing for that doll with all her soul. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I suspect that voice has played deep in my soul, sounding a lyre, to recall my ‘betrayal,’ my movement away from our family’s intimate past. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for every person like me that Hitler brought in, he pushed some poor soul, like Emilia, out.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“We sent out a detail,” Tom said cheerily, yawning, “and found some poor departed souls down there and they were carrying coffee for which they had no more use, so we took it.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snowfall is never known there, neither long frost of winter, nor torrential rain, but only mild and lulling airs from Ocean bearing refreshment for the souls of men— the West Wind always blowing. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know a soul when I got to New York. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Only the soul, obsessed with the journey it had made, and had still to make, pursued its mysterious and dreadful end; and carried, heavy with weeping and bitterness, the heart along. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Introduced was a careful sentence to bring della Porta’s discussion of the soul in line with Christian teaching, and all references to the world soul, the anima mundi, were now carefully turned into quotations. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Now I had two angry souls to appease with half-truths. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says, “You were in deep there. You were feeling like the aurochs, heart and soul. Your spirits must be matched, Mason. He’s your symbol.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Edmund is such a simple soul. I never thought I’d be surprised at anything he did or said, but he and I had a very odd conversation the other day.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

This consolation was denied to the Mexica, who were agonizingly uncertain about what happened to the soul. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Refugees, weary souls displaced from their homes, would throng toward the port, desperate to flee the Communists. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was also possible that the sun wasn’t doing this at all, but a certain intensity, a soul ray, from my eyes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There was a stone fireplace built into the shelter wall, and some kindly soul had left a pile of twigs and small logs by the side. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

In this clinic, Rojas had already cared for an interminable procession of unlucky souls. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His soul must be too primitive to understand those things, he thought. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to tell you this, Dad, but since we’re baring our souls to each other, I feel I ought to tell you he’s also a pacifist. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the blind man raised his head, and it seemed to the young man as if the unseeing eyes were staring right into his soul. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Which was maybe—Raymie wasn’t sure—the sound a soul made when it shriveled. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I guess it’s true what that book of yours says—the soul knows no time. These past few weeks will last forever for me.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It was this same gesture of privacy the nuns would teach me to use, especially after Communion when I thanked God for coming into my soul. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jimmy said, “When she was living, Bud, God rest her soul, what’d your momma look like?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

When Glenn Burke played for the Dodgers, he was the heart and soul of their clubhouse, but he must’ve been scared all the time. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

But he seemed mighty pleased, and didn’t object when she said, “Mr. B., don’t go back to the store wearing that same tobacco-stained shirt, or you won’t fool a soul.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

By the small-pox, and other malignant disorders which have raged on board the fleet for many months past, it is clear they have lost, since their arrival at Gwin’s Island, near five hundred souls. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But she could no longer harm Ruth, and she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, in four blocks he sees only one soul, a woman outside what was, the day before, the movie- house. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She was a hundred different souls vibrating within a single living body. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Each and every fan, those who have willingly traveled the 530 miles, those listening at home over the radio, can feeVit in his soul. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes you can glimpse a person's soul in just a flicker of expression, and Sarai glimpsed Ruby's then: the longing that was the core of her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I felt the cold pierce my bones, cut off the circulation in my hands, and seep into my soul. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s interesting—not man and beast, not black and white, but pleasant things. My wife told me of an old old man who said, ‘I remember a time when Negroes had no souls. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sunday’s church service seemed specially important so everybody could pray for the souls of the men who were going to die on Tuesday. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he hadn’t risked his immortal soul by killing himself. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

But Reverend Hunt came and laid his hands on my brow to keep my soul from leaving, and prayed for me to recover. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

If anything went wrong, if Blackie escaped or hurt a soul, White’s career would be over. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A chilly emptiness in the water reflected the terrible emptiness in his soul. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“May his soul rest in peace,” Papa said, crossing himself. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at my Daniel when he was four years old, and I said to myself, How will I teach this mind what it is to have a soul? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I believed, and still do, that our bodies are our selves, that my soul is the voltage conducted through neurons and nerves, and that my spirit is my flesh. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

We are the sum of our own soul strength, not of the judgments imposed on us by others. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

When a person dies, the Atman is released from the body and soon enters another being; the soul transmigrates and the person is reincarnated. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She looked as though her soul had gone dormant, like a tree in winter. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

At twenty-two, Nicholas is a burdened soul who saw too much too soon. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Maybe souls can split or something.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even the Reverend Buckland, as pious a soul as the nineteenth century produced, noted that nowhere did the Bible suggest that God made Heaven and Earth on the first day, but merely "in the beginning." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Like a TV sound track, that flute music wells up inside me, the indi'gena music, the music I hate and love with all my soul. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their faces shone with the delight of their souls. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hundred million souls reached their long shadowy fingers up from the depths of the sea. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

We must keep quiet and not visit with each other, but think only of our immortal souls. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each renter was, in some ways, another dependent, another soul to worry about, to provide with shelter, a solid roof, air-conditioning, clean water. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She was using my fingernails to indict my soul. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were saying something about your art. How art bares the soul of the artist.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A beautiful soul like Caesar could be anything he wanted here, all of them could be: own a spread, be a schoolteacher, fight for colored rights. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It’s like it takes a part of you, a part of your soul or something, when you talk on those things. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was throwing her soul into the world, uncertain she’d ever get it back. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

If you learn only one thing about me, it's that I think I have a filmmaker's soul. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But when the tent folded up, I found I had Nathan Price in my life instead, a handsome young red-haired preacher who fell upon my unclaimed soul like a dog on a bone. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mother tried to return Gertrude’s money to me, I made her keep it as payment for my salvation, for it was she who kept my body and my soul together. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Accordingly, he dealt out some hefty blows and hard falls to make the more timid souls angry enough to retaliate. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It not only offered an escape from society but also was an ideal stage for the Romantic individual to exercise the cult that he frequently made of his own soul. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra imagined she could see Will’s soul flowing back along the blade to his hand, and up his arm to his heart. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the winter of 1807, thirteen like-minded souls in London got together at the Freemasons Tavern at Long Acre, in Covent Garden, to form a dining club to be called the Geological Society. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself, the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

So her soul crawled out from its hiding place. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

No one with a soul could live in such a place. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He was the one who kept a record of everything a soul had ever done, both good and bad. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They think the soul is sick, not the body. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Maddie used to be able to see right into my soul. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She stretches me in a magical way to open my mind, my soul. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You know you mess with my soul, don’t you?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Lowering his voice, he said, “Now, Will Tweedy, you ain’t to tell a soul bout all this.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“The plays of William Shakespeare,” said Mrs. Baker, “which can never be boring to the true soul. Open it to The Merchant of Venice.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I consider them actual, physical pieces of my soul. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My best friend in school, who attended a different church, had already “surrendered his life to the Lord,” and he was very anxious about my soul’s salvation. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“Her soul,” he said, and his voice had never been rougher—so raw it was practically bloody. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A blade was supposed to reap my souL As a general rule, I preferred not to have my soul reaped. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The line from the great prophecy echoed in my head: A hero’s soul, cursed blade shall reap. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

John looked down the line of these armies of darkness, army upon army, and his soul whispered: Who are these? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Further back, there were times when we wondered with all our souls what the world was, what love was, what we were ourselves. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Juniper, like I tried to tell you . . . even if Grover died, he would reincarnate into something else in nature. I can’t sense things like that, only mortal souls.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Us. Me, you, your mom, your dad. Here we are, all of us good enough people. All of us living our lives, not hurtin’ a soul. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Bernabe was waiting to see if an apple-shaped, pearl-colored, white winged soul was going to blurt out of the corpse’s gaping mouth. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hitler had only succeeded in destroying the Jewish body, he shouted in Yiddish, but the Revisionists were trying to destroy the Jewish soul. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“They say the eyes are the windows to the soul, you know. I can see Grandpa in those eyes.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

This business of saving souls had no ethics; every human relationship was shamelessly exploited. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps there are no souls hidden in here, she thought. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Not a soul had spoken to him that night. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was a cryptic message to the human race that came out of the primate soul. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glory to God and Jesus, too, For all these souls got safe. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She offended him because she was so brazen in her sins, that was all; and he prayed for her soul, which would one day find itself naked and speechless before the judgment bar of Christ. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The children appeared before her like antagonists who had overcome her; who had overpowered and sought to drag her into the soul’s slavery for the rest of her days. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Childs soul is in danger, she said.Tommy put his head down and grumbled. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He asked for nothing else from her, only this acknowledgment of who he was, how his soul was shaped. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He hesitated, and when he refused it was obviously about as easy for him as tearing out his own soul. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“She stole our hearts, and she stole our souls, and she took our fives away, and she left us here, and she forgot about us in the dark.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“But you don’t intend to try till the proper moment? Bless my soul, what unearthly prudence! He’s a good fellow, Amy, but not the man I fancied you’d like.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the souls of its citizens he worried about. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Was there any kind of filth with which he had not besmirched himself, any sin and folly which he had not committed, any stain upon his soul for which he alone had not been responsible? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The food revived Lyra, and presently the chill at her soul began to melt. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

These good souls worked with people whose legs were swollen to the size of tree trunks, whose numb limbs had become as twisted as jungle vines. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trouble with Adams was not that storms seemed to follow him, but rather that he carried them inside his soul wherever he went. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“It was only for a minute. I had never focused on one person before. It was like seeing into the man’s soul.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Society was practically crying out for people who poured their heart and soul into work that was bigger than them. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I learned, however, from his wife, who seemed a decent, poor soul, that he was only the assistant to Smollet, who of the two mates was the responsible person. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then, having waited for her to ask me that, I opened the floodgates of my soul and told her everything; I didn’t hold back anything and didn’t stop for a second from beginning to end. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was that really what mattered to him right now—the condition of Ruth May’s soul? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so it was, with her soul intact, that Ethyne now returned to the Tower, still linking arms with Mae. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Fear of the judgment seized my soul,” she wrote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I dig for flesh and bone and maybe, if there is one, for a soul. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The man touched his hat, took his bag, put on his coat and departed; not a soul took the slightest notice of the whole transaction. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“When a bee flies, a soul will rise,” he said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s always quiet for a few minutes, then, all of a sudden, lets out a moan that makes your soul turn inside out. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They ignore me, or hurry past, because maybe they can see the steel spike of terror piercing my skull, driving all the way down into my soul. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Ready or not, I peer into your soul and dive deep, splash-landing in a pool of pain as salty and familiar as the tears on my cheek. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if I might lay my hands on his head and pray, and keep his soul from leaving his body the way he did for me many months ago. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Milo was appealing to Yossarian from the bottom of his soul. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Every time she heard anything to do with magic, her consciousness and her spark and her very soul seemed to simply disappear. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Of course she is,” Alex said, praying that the Most Holy Mother’s arms were big enough to embrace the millions of souls, dead and gone, crying for her mercy. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Each child has its own entreaties to body and soul. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I must reach the body for the key, so I raised the lid, and laid it back against the wall; and then I saw something which filled my very soul with horror. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Often she concentrated all night on raising it, until her mind and soul were exhausted, but she didn’t notice any difference. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Why, Colonel, bless your soul, there aint a devious bone in Robert Lee’s body, don’t you know that?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you didn’t have a mother around, then who taught you how to dress like you do? And where on earth did you learn about gospel and soul music? Aren’t Portuguese people Catholic or something?” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“It is the cleanliness of your immortal soul that should concern you now, not such vanities of the flesh.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s a great shock to souls gently reared in places of moderate clime, hope, and dread. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Borkowski, who lived across the street from Raymie and who was very, very old, said that most people wasted their souls. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

As the headsman looked at her, his pale colorless eyes seemed to strip the clothes away from her, and then the skin, leaving her soul naked before him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Shebeens gave life and soul to township drinking. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the secrets she made her childhood best friends pinkie swear to never tell another soul. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Do not keep me from sharing all with you. Evil I share with you is not evil to me. And hear me. Men great of soul can bear the blows of heaven and not flinch.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is enough magic in starlight to content a baby and fill its belly, and in large enough quantities, starlight can awaken the best in that baby’s heart and soul and mind. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And if his mind didn’t come back to him, I was wondering whose soul he was gonna grab next! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

No whispered prayers for their wild souls would make it right. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Today he meant it down to his soul. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But when I spoke to Arthur in Spanish and Miss Scalapino heard me, she said “NO!” with body and soul. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Make the pain sting and settle right into the deepest parts of her soul. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“My goodness, Tandy Angel! The spitting image of your mother, God rest her soul. We have so much to talk about. Please, come right in.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you tell a soul. Not even her parents. Let me deal with it. Swear to me.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

In a low voice he said, “I have never seen a soul as hardened as yours. The criminals who have come before me have always wept at the sight of this image of suffering.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears? Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Poor dear soul!” said this lady, with an abruptness of manner quite my sister’s. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Part of his soul is right next to me, stored safe and sound inside Mango. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It burned there like a flame and her soul melted with sweet pain, and her face went now white, now red. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Nolan, time has passed since your husband—God rest his soul....” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She laughed and rolled her eyes, and he wished he could make her see it—the way he saw her, the dazzling beauty that was her glittering soul. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Hope and light and motion, her soul whispered. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Alex knew he should pray for Harvey’s soul, but the only prayer he could utter was “Please God, let me find some food.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He appeared to be still a teenager but carried an old soul and a frighteningly serious demeanor. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Because his soul is trapped in his body. Once you close his eyes, it can fly up to Heaven.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Was he perhaps not quite the truth-loving brave soul Mr. Benedict and everyone else thought him to be? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

While they both waited for their big breaks, they worked in a soul food restaurant. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her voice had become sharp with overtones of bleakness as her soul congealed and she ceased to move, as the instinctive, omnipresent film of great weight, of an almost absolute inertia, settled over her. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Not a soul out here with me at the moment, though. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Another wasted chance running like poisoned water under Africa, curling our souls into fists. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I retreat from the church before I can further damage my soul. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

There’s your son, Michael, parading around the world in his new suit which I paid for while I myself have barely a crust to keep body and soul together. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The young dog belonged, in every sense of the word, heart and soul to their father, who had trained him since puppyhood for hunting. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the sudden disappearance, then returning without a single soul...There was something brewing, a cauldron that the king had journeyed to stir. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I’m free for the afternoon, I don’t know a soul, so I start playing a game about how can I approach this girl so she won’t laugh out loud. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I feel spring awakening, I feel it in my entire body and soul. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Non-Catholics had souls too, of course, and somehow could get to heaven. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an impossibly complex and gruesome plan, likely beyond the powers of anyone to execute, but his description is noteworthy for what it revealed, without his intention, about his astigmatic soul. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Pluto’s dark suit shimmered, as if the souls trapped in the fabric were getting agitated. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Then surely you can sing no less than they, for you have a soul.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was a fine soul, and he’s—well, he’s a retired lawyer. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They could occupy the entirety of the space, free from the signs constricting their physical movements and the double consciousness that throttled their souls. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Panic digs its broken fingernails into my soul. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Cap wandered the halls like a lost soul in search of the fictional geography lab. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

But he was never able to believe that human beings had no divine genesis, and he always believed that humans possessed a soul. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It pierced Antain every day, a great needle in his soul. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The abrasive Atlantic winds and the salt of the sea would eventually cleanse my soul. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Last week the imam had talked for more than an hour about Allah’s love for cleanliness and purity of both body and soul. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Czerny seemed to be recharging her soul by running through a list of mundane errands. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Go on, she said, the flames will cleanse your souls. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Four they are, and four traits we seek: Courage to face their darkest fears Cuming to outwit their foes Strength of arms and mind and heart Loyalty to break the soul. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He looked around, said a prayer for the souls of the dead, picked up the blood-spattered leather satchels, and finally walked over to the donkey. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“There it is! Your story. Your soul. Now paint it.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She knew through what fires the soul must crawl, and with what weeping one passed over. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The spark is God, it is the soul; the rest is ugliness and evil, a shell. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The next day—spodess souls—we walked as a class up the aisle of the church, the girls in white dresses and veils like small brides, the boys in white pants and white shirts. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tapped his finger on the word soul and paused. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I was so proud of that flower and didn’t have a soul to show it to except Rosaleen. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday’s and today’s school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He studied theoretical physics and threw himself body and soul into work on entropy, a process at the heart of thermodynamics, which seemed to hold much promise for an ambitious young man.* A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was a discernible lessening in Aunt Addie’s hostility; perhaps she had come to the conclusion that my lost soul was more valuable than petty pride. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like the whistling of a piccolo many times magnified—shrill and shriller till it keened with the terror of a lost soul and filled the room with the piercingness of itself. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Dad said I shouldn’t throw rocks at jackdaws, they might be somebody’s soul. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

So far they had not met a soul on the road. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

To her, beings from other planets belonged in the same category as souls, and therefore she could not fathom her mother’s passionate interest in identifying them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because we both knew this: that on the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ashamed of my intrusion in the closet of her soul, I leave the food upon her bed and silently depart. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“The bit of soul in that diary was possessing Ginny, wasn’t it? How does that work, then?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The street that a minute before had been filled with banners and noise was now a silent graveyard full of restless souls fighting to reconcile their sudden deaths. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Iofur was not content with his armor, he wanted another soul as well. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Because of course”—Madame cut in suddenly—“your art will reveal your inner selves! That’s it, isn’t it? Because your art will display your souls!” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Seanie always had a way of obsessing about things like they were the greatest trespasses ever committed against his pitiful soul. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

‘Hang that William Williams again. When his eyes bulge out, they seem to look at my very soul.’ The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Their triumphs and failures, the soul they carried, the injustices they strove to change. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Was there a bird for the souls of people like me? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Olinski said, "That is either the most honest or the most dishonest answer I have ever heard. I must notify the bus driver that I'll be driving you four souls home." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No. Not a soul in this whole wide world, Mr. Britten,” Peggy wailed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t think. Just draw. Fifteen seconds. Ready? Draw your soul. Go.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He wept one whole afternoon in Úrsula’s lap and she would have sold her soul in order to comfort him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He described the interior as bare except for a small wood stove and a bed—a good place for a soul to think and heal. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The brown swirling waters lapped at my feet, and the monotonous chirping of the grillos as they sang in the trees mixed into a music which I felt in the roots of my soul. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far from any influence that might whisper unwanted thoughts and feelings to her too-weak soul, she was safe from the change. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it was always there, simmering inside, waiting to be recognized, waiting to join the distilled hum of a hundred million other souls that plays somewhere just beyond our reach. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Their happy chatter, cold compresses, spiritual counsel, and personal charm restored the bruised bodies and grieving souls of both mother and daughter. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t seem to mind the corpses so much as the souls unsaved. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our duty, and Isabel’s particular care, is to restore you to soundness of body and soul.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Their gaze would have sucked my soul out of me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Finally he blurts out, startling me, “The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything...” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

"I could never do that. Heaven shall take my soul, but Norway shall keep my bones." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Africa has a million souls” is what Father told him. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then,” Dadi continued, “with each interaction with another soul, we begin to change.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The dream receded and left him there, in his bed, alone—stranded in the merciless intransigence of reality, and it was as bleak a truth to his soul as the nothingness of the Elmuthaleth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Her soul was getting bigger and bigger and bigger. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The Dutch, whose economy was based on private profit, nevertheless understood that the unrestrained pursuit of profit posed a threat to the nation’s soul. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Saint Augustine hath writ that this is the very type and emblem of us mortal beings: the shining soul that must drag around the corpse of the body and its vile decadencies. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

More than half a century has passed, but I can still remember the exact moment when Rosa the Beautiful entered my life like a distracted angel who stole my soul as she went by. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had witnessed the sort of atrocities during the war that threaten to steal a man’s soul. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

As Tom listened, a preacher read Nichols’s final statement: “Sheriff White has been very accommodating to me indeed. I feel prepared to meet death. My soul is at peace with all mankind.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The area felt tainted...like at any second a hundred haints just as evil as Cotton would arise out of the wood and yank our souls to somewhere painful. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s a wonderful tonic for a suffering soul.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But it was a cold mind, Reuven, almost cruel, untouched by his soul. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I asked Minerva what it means to her, having a soul. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said Fred, “as a wise old soul once told me, ‘true courage means you’re scared but you go ahead and do what needs to be done anyway.’” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And how can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

By the time I get home I feel like my soul has been shattered into a million pieces. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Stoker does air quotes around soul mate. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had not seen or talked to another soul in thirty-six days. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was listening to some old soul song, and it was coming out of his earbuds loud, his body on its side. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Once there, there was no turning back; once there, the soul remembered, though the heart sometimes forgot. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

But it’s all for the good of their souls!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

God and the Blessed Virgin and the saints help a poor ignorant soul trying to do his duty.... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

My soul shall roam restlessly until that one is found. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feed the belly and the soul will come. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One other thing I do not understand . . . this talk of a last soul joining their cause. That does not bode well.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was said that, to pass into the next life, one of the gods’ animal familiars—represented by the figurines before them—carried each soul to the god of death, Fedu. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“His High Holiness will be most pleased. Only through confession and true repentance may our immortal souls be saved.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her soul needed Dreamer’s Weep, and she needed him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Souls or no souls, these people are ill. This is no place to bicker.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t mentioned to a soul anything about the Sales Register business, but I suppose Ruth wasn’t to know that. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was his silence, his long pause while he digested this information, that filled the hallway and my heart and soul with such a great whooshing pressure that I couldn’t breathe. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A lot of her friends were Pentecostals whose parents held that Mom and Dad were disgracefully irresponsible and took it upon themselves to save Maureen’s soul. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Oh God! my soul groaned and I thought that it would burst and I would die huddled against the evil house. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soul, Descartes claimed, is unique to rational human beings; animals have no soul and no capacity to reason. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I knew my father could taste those Kentucky Wonder beans as surely as any pure soul can taste heaven. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I suppose you don’t believe all that guff about souls and ghosts and everything, do you?’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Today: It is clear that some people are without either a heart or a soul. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Grandma said, Take him then to James Cagney and see if that will save his Presbyterian North of Ireland American soul. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The two of them sat in Jack’s parlor and talked into the night while Jack cooked big plates of soul food, macaroni and cheese, sweet potato pies, and biscuits for us. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They understood that they must act as God’s decoys, saving the souls of the boys for Jesus and binding the bodies of the boys in marriage. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

She had the blood—or at least the soul—of a hero. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Never one where Chekhov’s talent is matched, nuance for nuance, idiosyncrasy for idiosyncrasy, by every soul onstage. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it seemed like the truth was a bandy-legged soul who dashed from one side of the world to the other and I could never find him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She felt her soul form itself into a small, frightened ball. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore paused for a moment, marshaling his thoughts, and then said, “Four years ago, I received what I considered certain proof that Voldemort had split his soul.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We loved every minute of it, all of us except for our long-suffering Nanny, who would bury her face in her hands and call aloud upon the Lord to save her soul. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lived for each other, body and soul. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He introduced himself as Jamison, though every soul in the park was aware of his identity. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was like a curtain had been lowered in front of me, covering my soul. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I saw it with my own eyes, may his soul find sanctuary.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the beginning I knew no Kikongo beyond the practical words she taught me, so I was spared knowing how she cursed our mortal souls as evenhandedly as she nourished our bodies. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the time Turner held him up and wondered at how light he was, so light it hardly seemed his body could heft his soul. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Anyhow, Baba Joseph says the important thing is the soul.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For he desired in his soul, with fear and trembling, all the glories that his mother prayed he should find. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

There was very little electrical activity in his brain, but now and then the flatlines gave a spooky twitch, as if something continued to struggle inside the boy, some destroyed fragment of his soul. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I first heard of this monastery I laughed out loud, but now the image of dot-com moguls scrubbing for the good of their souls presents itself as a psychic flotation device. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The queen was really a simple soul and always, her whole life, had done nothing except state the overly obvious. 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 judge was an elderly conservative whom C.P. recognized immediately as a kindred soul. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Which is when Scoob told me some things about his grandma—may her soul rest in peace, as the grownups say—that I never would’ve expected. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Juana, in her woman’s soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it’s an older white guy attacking “this wicked city” for its heretically inadequate contribution of souls to the revival—which costs money, you know, this tent didn’t just put itself up. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guessed I'd resolved the soul and sin thing by lapsing from my heavy-duty Catholic background, giving up my immortal soul for a blues kind of soul. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It was nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we cried. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a worthy song, and it could stir the embrasures and battlements of a strong man’s soul. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know Grandpa’s soul isn’t wandering the woods like the ghosts I sometimes think I glimpse between the trees. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I keep a tight lid on my temper but let my voice become as loud and ringing as my soul wants it to be. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Francie now owned the doll but had yet another lie on her soul. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Stand inside his soul and see the world through his eyes. You will know the pain he feels because of his ignorance, and you will not laugh.’ The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, Murder, taking a life, stealing a soul, the one thing you can never repay or apologize for. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

My soul has gotten deeper since I started writing in you. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t mean to hurt you, Ritie. I didn’t mean it. But don’t you tell . . . Remember, don’t you tell a soul.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said the dead body was sacred, it having been a house for the mind and soul, and as such it deserved proper respect. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He himself was the soul of moderation, particularly as Trengove seemed to lose control. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was because of this continuous stream of undocumented human souls that, a few months after our arrival, my mother warned me about the perils of a favourite habit of mine: begging for food. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody but my mother has ever loved me, and if she doesn’t love me anymore, I have not a soul on this Earth that cares anything about me. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And in her soul, the madwoman felt a thousand birds—birds of paper, birds of feathers, birds of hearts and minds and flesh—leap into the sky and soar over the dreaming trees. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“What a price to pay for a soul.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

His business interests now dominated the county, and he had become a powerful local advocate for law and order—for the protection of what he called “God-fearing souls.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Thereafter Bellerophon, hated of the gods, wandered alone, devouring his own soul and avoiding the paths of men until he died. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light was meant to guide Tali’s soul to the land of the dead. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

"You burned the maegi in their house of dust and sent their souls to hell." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was a coherence to the work, as if it had been painted by the same soul, if not the same hand. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I love poetry, actually. I really admire poets who can bare their souls on the page, you know?” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And he carried her in his heart; he prayed for her and exhorted her, while there was yet time to bring her soul to God. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Well, as a matter of fact, I asked that Swedish creature—a pleasant soul—if it was bolted, and she said it was.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then flash to the people behind the football field fence so desperate for water that they would sell their souls for a thimbleful. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And, would you believe it, there wasn’t a soul there.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am the soul of verity,” I repeated. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a soul anywhere to help us. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can shield them with your body and soul, trying to absorb that awful rain, but they’ll still move toward him. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suffering had finally succeeded in penetrating to my very soul and established within my consciousness a certain fear of living. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We should do this again. Laughing like this is good for the soul,” my uncle said, still laughing a little. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In dark and silver dreams I had seen him falling from the sky, each night closer to the earth, his soul a star. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forbid a man something and he craves it like his soul’s salvation, all the more so when that something is the source of incomparable riches. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“We can’t. This room has a dark, broken soul. It would be like eating in an Egyptian tomb.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The poor soul’s body will enjoy the relief even if his mind cannot appreciate it. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“You’re welcome, boy. They gave you things for your body. I gave you something for your soul.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was my chance to get my compass back without risking loss of limb or soul. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It would’ve been a nice place to spend a Saturday morning except for the sulfurous smell and the cries of tortured souls in the distance. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’ll have a chance at true freedom—of body and of soul. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Sleep on, thy graceful soul, till Christ calls you to come forth into His bright heaven.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has tried every test he can think of without involving another soul. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

This, Aru guessed, must be where souls were fitted for new bodies and new lives. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The souls of the unburied might not pass the river that encircles the kingdom of death, but must wander in desolation, with no abiding-place, no rest ever for their weariness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yet our priests fast, and inflict on themselves severe punishments, and we are taught to bear our sorrows in silence, and all this is so that the soul may be cleansed.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sound gushes forth from somewhere deep, their toes or their souls. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if they believed their own mortal souls would be in peril if they did not give us the benefit of worship on Sunday. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you let the fate of your soul hang upon pride and vanity?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a re lapsed saint, who had fallen into the Pelagian heresy of Celestius, and he believed that the soul was capable of its own salvation. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Daniel she enters the lions’ den, but lacking Daniel’s pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so we set out to find Heritage together, weaving through the lost souls in the night. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The monks understood that the Mexica already had a church—a false church intended to snare their souls for the devil, but a church nonetheless. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It is said that he believes the soul is as important as the mind, if not more so. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But I am also concerned for their dignity, for the health of their souls, and must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Scythehood is humanity’s highest calling, and to achieve it should cut one’s soul to the very core, so that no scythe will ever forget the cost of the ring they bear. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And not to spit you out, either, but only to belch up your empty1 soul.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He felt it was good for your soul to have buzzards and coyotes and snakes around. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was a lost soul, and we connected because I was a bit lost too at the time. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

For what has a man profited, if he has gained the whole world and lost his soul? The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Often they were exaggerated, or blatant lies, but it was a way of bringing body and soul back together, or a way of making new bodies for the souls to inhabit. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our interest arises no doubt from the remnant of a primitive belief that an image captures not merely the likeness but also the soul of a sitter. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hard enough standing on your own two feet, but when you also have to remain true to your character and soul, it’s harder still. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He had spoken peace and confidence into their troubled souls, had set a star before them and we were passing on to other scenes, still carrying the message. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The souls whispered songs about their lives and deaths, a swirl of loves lost and remembrances, hymns and murder ballads. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The bishop looked just like Father Baraga, the priest who walked miles in his snowshoes to baptize, stealing souls from the other mission and also from the manitous. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

In the shadows, the solid black wool seemed to shift and boil, forming images of faces in agony, as if lost souls were trying to escape from the folds of his clothes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I'm not sure if Bram knows that handing me his iPod is like handing me the window to his soul. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Then, when he reaches his destination, it may seem to him the most extraordinary of coincidences, the greatest piece of luck: “Bless my soul, what have we here!” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heavy burden I have borne so long now lifts from my soul. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I can’t let my soul die to the point where I lose my art. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Every confused and tortured soul I knew wanted that clarity. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He burbled, “He’s going to look in your soul and see what you done, sinner...” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As he approached the fiery grey apparition, he was fairly sure it was a garden-variety wraith - a lost soul who had died in pain. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Her heart was beating, and her soul was right up beside her heart. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

In the other, he held the noose he used to rope the souls of the dead. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Just talk to her. What about don’t matter much to me. Speak to her soul, distract her from the pain.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

McGarrity was a man with a great sin on his soul. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some passages I had the strong feeling that the writer was directing her disapproval at me, which is why I finally want to bare my soul to you and defend myself against this attack. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Every time she says that, I nod and remember the words from one of my favorite Emily Dickinson poems: “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers I That perches in the soul.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Pixie ears, pixie eyes, swelling cream T-shirt, licorice miniskirt, leggings that looked sprayed onto her perfect legs, and toffee hair I'd given my soul to bury myself in. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It is written on the waters of the river that you shall lose your souls to hell if you enter! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But today he only saw one of the river’s secrets, one that gripped his soul. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now we will see about your soul,” he said softly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He looked like an impoverished old man, one of those sad wandering souls who travel the provinces hawking their wares from door to door. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It lifted her soul and gave her more to believe in than what was in front of her. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

One learns of the pain of others by suffering one’s own pain, he would say, by turning inside oneself, by finding one’s own soul. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. He tried to convince me once that pictures steal part of your soul. He saw it on some documentary or something,” I said. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

At the auction block they tallied the souls purchased at each auction, and on the plantations the overseers preserved the names of workers in rows of tight cursive. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He looked up and locked eyes with me, and I guess he thought I looked like a kindred soul he could talk to. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I feel in my soul only a weariness at the continual braying of their vanity, their outrage at small sufferings when greater are to hand. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, God bless your soul,” cackles Camel, who is now propped up in the corner. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Star, tell this to nobody, not a single soul. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He half expected Poppet to be there waiting for him, but there is not a soul in sight. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A ritual that seeks to feed my mind and would starve my somewhat metaphorical soul. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked for a week and hardly saw a soul. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Your parents were so proud when you were accepted to Kabul University. Especially your father, may Allah bless his soul.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I saw all the way down to her withered soul. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I suspect that beneath your offensively and vulgarly effeminate facade there maybe a soul of sorts. Have you read widely in Boethius?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now, on top of these insoluble things, her mother had only hours before probed into the pit of her soul and discovered her deep uncertainty. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Think of the demands that could be made of me in that office. And think of what could happen to people. I don’t need that on my soul. I’ll persevere like everyone else.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

All of her, heart and soul, was spread out before this creature, and he examined every last detail of her life. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The sirens droned on, a soprano counterpoint to the bombs’ relentless bass, their pitch so eerily human it sounded like every soul in London had taken to their rooftops to cry out collective despair. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Our Blessed Mother had been taken up into heaven, body and soul. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra drifted somewhere in the middle of all those souls—a flash of living flesh amidst so much death. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The words of their souls were the syllables of popular songs. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yep. It’s about the most we’ve seen of him since summer,” Mom says, giving me a sidelong glance with her eyebrow arched, her version of a soul- searching stare. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look at our camp. We can’t even stop fighting each other. And I’m supposed to get my stupid soul reaped.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

If God would save their souls, surely, surely He would save Jacob’s, too. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Daddy, rest his soul, had always said, “Forewarned is forearmed.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I am supposed to commit to recovery like a nun pledging body and soul in a convent. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Only the love of God could establish order in this chaos; to Him the soul must turn to be delivered. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Nico loads up an old-school soul sample, which means he was paying attention on the bus when I said what I listen to. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

There was no doubt in my mind that if any soul on this earth could get us into Central High, this great man, Mr. Thurgood Marshall, was the one. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he remembered the assembly hall, and Lesage, reading aloud to them, 'Whereupon the soul flew from the body.' I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I wanted to take her back to the street where I had found her, but Fd already disturbed her rest and had taken on her soul as my own personal responsibility. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

For the rest of her days, his mother had a mass said once a month for the repose of his soul which she knew wandered about in Purgatory. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Truly I thought I couldn’t possibly have anything left of my soul to sell to him, but we have managed to strike another bargain. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“When you dance, it’s your heart and soul speaking. You don’t need to think. If you saw the Spirit Bear, you go first.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“One touch, and the blade will sever your soul from your body.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I take it on faith that computers, although lacking souls, are possessed of a kind of intelligence. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt her soul whoosh away into nothingness. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

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

What was in their souls, that they would pistol-whip an old woman if she tried to stop them from taking her grandson? It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

There is no peace for me while this pain presses upon my soul. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

El Patron sold those people’s souls to the Devil! The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For certain the pumpkin flowers do their work, but I believe it is the love of Serafina and the many good souls of this dusty village and God that makes me once more whole. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

"The orchestra would be incomplete without the viola. It is the soul of the orchestra. You may not always be able to discern its sound, but you always know when it is missing." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her back was to the gallery, and the flow of the mesarthium made no sound, but she felt it in the muting of the souls on the ends of her tethers. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Part of him had given up, and the part that still believed stood apart from the broken half of his soul, incredulous. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Slowly the soul sickness of the rich crept over him. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hassan asked while Colin was trying to think whether a worthwhile soul in all of human history had ever read a single copy of Celebrity Living. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I am trying to be brave, but every time I think of that pretty baby dead in a box like it doesn’t have a soul at all, I just start to cry. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew it would be pointless to reason with you. The ymbrynes have been feeding you lies and propaganda for a hundred years. Better, I think, to take your souls and start again fresh.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I remained still and silent, but the creature within me growled its way deeper and deeper into my soul. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I liked to think I had an old soul. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Would he suck out my soul and incinerate me? Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A critical mass is reached, and now your soul collapses in upon itself. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The cities are large and memorably crowded in India, but when you leave them you travel through vast stretches of country where hardly a soul is to be seen. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That diary sort of died when I stabbed it,” said Harry, remembering ink pouring like blood from the punctured pages, and the screams of the piece of Voldemort’s soul as it vanished. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

This in spite of the fact that I’m fairly short and can’t make a basket to save my soul. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

I remembered what a sea demon had once said about Kronos’s scythe: Cartful, fool One touch, and the blade will sever your soul from your body. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Or was it, perhaps, only the echo of a thousand headlines that had already screamed their violence into the deepest corners of her soul? 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When souls came weeping to the altar he scarce dared to rejoice, remembering that soul who had not bowed, whose blood, it might be, would be required of him at judgment. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

My mind, my heart, my soul in the clouds. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why do you plague me about souls? Haven’t I got enough to worry, and pain, and distract me already, without thinking of souls!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

How say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I think I’d have to barter my soul for such an acquisition.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I want to breathe in the salt air and let the water wash the dust off my body and rinse the fear from my soul. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“You know, I’m ninety-eight percent sure the queen would’ve knighted that guy had he not died so young, may his soul rest in peace.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Ah, how his tears ran down, how they blessed his soul!—as he felt himself, out of the darkness, and the fire, and the terrors of death, rising upward to meet the saints. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Making that choice would crack a person’s soul right down the middle. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

She learns everything I teach her as if she already knows it, said the mother, but this knowledge does not really enter her soul The mother seemed puzzled and afraid. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I haven't been accepted anywhere, and I feel like my soul has been turned to ash. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But I think I'd have to barter my soul for such an acquisition. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Bless my soul! Did you ever hear of anything to match it? Why does Palomides think she has fallen for him. “ The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have only the Count to speak with, and he!—I fear I am myself the only living soul within the place. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

With the exception of the poor soul still working on Lucinda’s banner, all the black men slip through the canvas and out of sight. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

In one story, Death tells a disciple about the soul: “Concealed in the heart of all beings is the Atman, the Spirit, the Self,” he says. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Next time the kestrel sees a mouse, his own soul cries out Kee in imitation. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t ever forget your history,” she sang, “or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When his eyes met mine again, I felt the truth of what the philosophers say, that love enters through the eyes and strikes the soul. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But he did not tell a soul, just as he never talked about his pain, because it was a matter of pride. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They understood that the soul of a scythe needed to remain pure. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Where was your concern when you were stealing those peculiars’ souls?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I know about souls,” he says gravely. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Before they turned, Lizzie felt her grandfather ebb as though his soul were passing out of him, the way the last waves of a falling tide pass into still air and are gone. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She has a friend as well, a girl with sharp eyes and a stubborn soul. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The freedom to call my soul my own. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He cannot see my eyes burn into his soul. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reverend has been impatient to win the souls of the natives for Christ. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“They believe that objects have souls. The more love you put into one, the more beautiful it becomes.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Already I was heavy-hearted in my soul for the flush commodes and machine-washed clothes and other simple things in life I have took for granite. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the incense at church my soul rose toward the dome of my skull—and then broke through. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It begins with Michael letting go of all the air in his lungs to lay open his soul and sing one word: “When.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“A very special place,” Caul said, “where not a drop of your peculiar souls will go to waste.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Murder of the soul was a terrible, unnatural crime, hideous to think about. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“God have mercy on his soul,” someone else said. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He explained when we were smaller that when things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, the reverend looked deep into my father’s eyes, as if scraping the bottom of his soul. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I guess this old temple of the soul has had it,” he began with his usual sly grin. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re history partners—it doesn’t mean you have to bare your soul. Okay?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He remembered that day in church when he prayed from the soul and listened and knew in that moment that there was no one there, no one to listen. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

All stone and dark wood, it had held up for the most part, though it now had a faded, sad look, as if losing its former occupants had stolen its soul away. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A soul mate, maybe, but not in the romantic sense. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

That’s who the minders are like—the adults of Omelas, the ones who smile and go about their day and revel in the false illusion of freedom while their souls are withered, desolate things. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I have no answer to that, but still I cast my voice out into the void, hoping to reach something beyond distance and deeper than the depths of my own soul. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

We headed on south toward the bridge that would take us across the river and as far away from Cletus’s capitol as any soul could be. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

With a one-hour program to write, rehearse, and perform every seven days, Welles and Houseman were under—in Houseman’s words—“conditions of soul- and health-destroying pressure.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Partly on his interest being focussed on what he calls ‘the soul,’ which he persists in regarding as an entity independent of the physical environment, whereas, as I tried to point out to him ...” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never sleeps faceup because she believes the devil will take her soul. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

But history strongly suggests that the ultimate goal for the church and the European rulers was about more than winning souls to Christianity. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It shrouds mortals in misery as their souls pass into the Underworld. It is the very breath of Tartarus, of death, of despair!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They are waving their hands and saying, “Carry on! Carry on! It is well with our souls.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Charles, kind and slightly ethereal soul that he was, was something of an enigma but Camilla was the real mystery, the safe I could never crack. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

With her eyes on the floor, she told me, “‘Rosamund, when you die, they bury you, but your soul flies to the stars.’” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

So Ginny poured out her soul to me, and her soul happened to be exactly what I wanted. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

His dream was in his mind and in his soul. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I can’t explain my love for classic soul and Motown to my cousin. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

His body, his mind, his soul were all exhausted and he fell across Derek, asleep or unconscious, fell with his legs still in the water. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Twinkle, Chandrashekhar has informed me that all is not well within your soul.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They welled up out of a dry unhappy place in her, the barren back-forty of a soul hurt by the savagery of the world to its ugly women. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t mean to,” I say again, but my voice and my body and my soul are deflated. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

To anyone who met him, he appeared to be just another poor soul crushed by the din and filth of Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I know people used to believe photographs would steal their souls, which makes sense to me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It’s times like this I pray that souls can find each other after death. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Perhaps that is what went on, not in Henry’s mind but in his soul. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat holding it in her hand, while the music penetrated her whole being like an effulgence, wanning and brightening the dark places of her soul. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face might be totally different, but the same soul was in there—the same intelligence and all the sadness. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Powerful angels, safe in heaven! they smile when sordid souls triumph, and feeble ones weep over their destruction. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She called Antonina cruel and said she had “no woman’s soul.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He also said that this was not just a human gift, that everything on the face of the earth had a soul, whether mineral, vegetable, or animal—or even just a simple thought. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Franz looked back into her hazel eyes, and Hyacinth knew in her soul that he understood the importance of this moment. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

As soon as they ate the cake, they could all feel it: Jimmy Zizmo’s soul was leaving the earth and entering heaven, where it couldn’t bother them anymore. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Two souls cannot coexist within the same body, Meir had told me, and maybe he was right. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

"O Vizier," said the Tisroc, "is it certain that no living soul knows of this council we three have held here to-night?" The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He himself was a firm believer in the value of a good thrashing to vanquish the weaknesses of the soul and was famous for his unrestrained oratory. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought their souls back into their bodies. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Anatole said the Congo people don’t like owls because an owl flies around at night and eats up the souls of dead people. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn't see any soul rise out of his mouth or nose, though they were looking hard. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

We are entitled to feel at home in Boyle’s universe, even if it is a mechanical apparatus; it is not clear that an immortal, immaterial soul has any business feeling at home in Descartes’ universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She was unafraid to plunge into parties where she didn’t know a soul. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And I had to make certain his soul would be the soul of a tzaddik no matter what he did with his life.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

St. Augustine—who in his Confessions writes, “I came to the fields and spacious palaces of memory”—gave memory the honor of being one of the three faculties of the soul. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Before the delicious and abundant sorrows of the Protectorate had fed her soul until it was indolent and sated and gloriously fat. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“He bears his soul, he admits his guilt, and he tries to use that to persuade others to do right. “Reggie has had a tremendous impact on people’s thinking about distracted driving.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The royal entourage was always a gorgeous spectacle, but that wasn’t what stopped Lazlo’s feet as abruptly as though his soul had flown on ahead of his body and left it stranded. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She would have given her soul to him if he had asked her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will always be alone! Your body and soul will shrivel up and you’ll die like a dog!” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was proud, sardonic, harsh to inferiority of every description: in my secret soul I knew that his great kindness to me was balanced by unjust severity to many others. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I can never tell another soul that I miss home, that I want to go back to the way things were. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were, in fact, quite a few souls of the Phippsburg faithful who did not come on that Lord’s Day. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

People say that eyes are windows to the soul. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then I asked: “Why did you have to prove a thing like that, Miss Emily? Did someone think we didn’t have souls?” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kneels beneath the cell window, closes his eyes, and prays for the soul of his neighbor. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He liked the idea of caring for his body at the same time he cared for his soul. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let the handle up to see what was left of this poor soul but before I could check, someone yelled out, “One, two, one two three!” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She seemed more human, but still somehow wrong, like they’d gotten the souls mixed up and put the wrong one back inside her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

And then what of his soul, which would one day come to die and stand naked before the judgment bar? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

We entrust into thy hands, most merciful Father, The soul of this our child departed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Muselmanners had given up, and there was no life in their expression, no spark of a soul. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

And is it so hard to believe that souls might also travel those paths? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Scraps, sir. The mistress normally feeds them to the pigs, but she’s a good soul and told me to bring them for the prisoners,” I lied. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you take full responsibility? You could lay this guilt on your mother’s soul. That would be reasonable. You were destined for great things. Your mother diverted your path. See what you might have been....” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Are we going to a soul music concert? Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

For once he had no words to instruct our minds and improve our souls, no parable that would turn Ruth May’s death by snakebite into a lesson on the Glory of God. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today’s moving target was not an Me-109 or a pheasant but an empty tin on a stick, waved about by a very brave soul at the other end of the garden. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I’m too hungry to worry about my tainted soul. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The way she’s looking at me now makes me feel like my soul is getting sucked into her dark eyes, black hole-style. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Graduates never spoke to a soul when they left—apparently they were too high and mighty even to say good-bye to old friends. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Dark Lord wants Potter’s life, not his soul. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Did you meet your soul mate? That always happens on the first day of school, right?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I am not my own, he thought, but belong body and soul to every parishioner in Phippsburg who might have a word to say about me to my father. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“We was all praying, little brother,” said Elisha, with a smile, “but yes, I was right over you the whole time. Look like the Lord had put you like a burden on my soul.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It killed our souls and tried to take away our lives. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Or then again, Bernabe figured a painted cattleguard might be said to share a common soul with a shapely woman who wore falsies. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So now I’m no longer the girl who sees colors, and I’m no longer the girl whose grandfather’s soul is in her cat. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

For part two of the survey, it was your turn to describe what you were looking for in a soul mate. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Who knows if he even has a soul left thanks to you?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

In odd contrast to this idea of him, he was also the solemn guide of the dead, the Divine Herald who led the souls down to their last home. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is that we become as him; that we henceforward become foul things of the night like him—without heart or conscience, preying on the bodies and the souls of those we love best. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Allah does not burden a soul beyond that it can bear.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Camilla brightened when Miss Pocket met with this rebuff; and she murmured, as she plaintively contemplated Miss Havisham, “Poor dear soul! Certainly not to be expected to look well, poor thing. The idea!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I searched inside my soul and knew I had no regrets. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Then Death is real, John’s soul said, and Death will have his moment. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Odysseus caught her hand and muttered, “Dear nurse, you know. But not a word to another soul.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I seemed to penetrate very near a Mighty Spirit; and my soul rushed out in gratitude at His feet. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It’s my soul, and it feels like it’s been shattered to pieces so many times I don’t know how to fix it anymore. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But as Raymie stood in Ida Nee’s backyard, next to Louisiana and Beverly, it did not feel like her soul was shriveling at all. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Not a single soul was standing at the edge of the field to greet us—no villagers, not even Mother or my sisters. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, so long as people tried to possess things separately from each other, even honour and souls, there would be wars for ever. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doma was a gentle soul, never comfortable but at home with friends and kin around her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hearing the sounds, the pulse of Claire, the world of my beginnings, the time when there was no doubt I had a soul. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Their minds were concentrated on the coming meeting, soul to soul, with God. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart built a barrier that sealed off my hope, my happiness, and my very soul, just like the wall the church had built to seal off the restroom where the four girls perished. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was just another sad, lost, lonely soul, wasting his life on a glorified videogame. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I slip the telegram under the door and cycle back down to the Franciscan church to beg for the repose of Theresa’s soul. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The coal company owned them body and soul. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

My questions lead to more questions, most urgently how becoming the leader of an Empire I loathe can possibly result in my attaining “true freedom—of body and of soul.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Music is the tongue of souls. Is there anything you can do?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The little girl held the thread of Sarai’s soul, and so she as good as held the thread to his—and to his power, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want any souls!” he said in a feeble, apologetic way. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Though difficult to read at first, it depicts Christ at the Last Judgment, when every soul is weighed. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one remaining water feature in the park—a fountain in Tomorrowland—had become a Mecca for lost souls, who drank the chlorinated water until it was gone. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

This is an opportunity not only to stretch one’s legs, but to stretch one’s soul also. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were of her—a dimension of her mind or soul that took form only as they emerged. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

You punished an innocent soul by leaving her in her solitude. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But then who was the Jack that loved and buried Sophie; was he just another version in the schema, or the true soul, or could he have been both? Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If there was one soul in King's Landing who was truly desperate to keep Robert Baratheon alive, it was me." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Watching Louisiana, Raymie felt her soul lifting up inside of her, even though the entire world was dark and sad and lit only by a single lightbulb. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Minerva says a soul is like a deep longing in you that you can never fill up, but you try. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or is the original soul then banished to bounce from body to body—basically, are the roles reversed? Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The soul was lost, unsafe, unsure, suffering—why couldn’t there be a god who would never punish his people, a god who would be forgiving all of the time? Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds, thousands of ghost boys standing, ever still, looking up, through the window into our souls. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

In that moment, Lizzie’s granddaddy lifted up his voice, quavery but loud, and soon every soul on the shore was singing. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“You who”—grunt—“saved my”—gasp— “soul one”—inhalation—“day”—humph. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would look after her soul, leaving supplies on her grave. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is Brahman, the world soul, the sustaining frame upon which is woven, warp and weft, the cloth of being, with all its decorative elements of space and time. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was locked in Life on the Slave Ship after the museum had closed, ever between ports and waiting for the wind while hundreds of kidnapped souls screamed belowdecks. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Each new question, each new catechism chapter, each new story seemed to open up a thousand facets concerning the salvation of my soul. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Also it doesn’t do much to put my soul to rest.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

"It won't fool a soul, that note. How could you have written it? Everyone in the castle knows you can't so much as sign your own name." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they were reincarnated—their soul was reborn in someone else. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I wish those kind souls wouldn’t be so protective. I know plenty who’d be willing to take the chance of being ‘disillusioned,’ ” the proprietor laughed. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the services progressed night after night, my mother tried to persuade me to join, to save my soul at last, to become a member of a responsible community church. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

After death, the souls of the Orthodox do not wing their way directly to heaven. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Before heading to the theater, we got dinner at a fancy soul food restaurant where I had the best cornbread I’ve ever tasted. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

There is, his soul cried out again, no bottom to the darkness! Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“This pearl has become my soul,” said Kino. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vengeance ought to be spoken through gritted teeth, spittle flying, the cords of one’s soul so entangled in it that you can’t let it go, even if you try. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I was buried, crushed, under the soul of the goddess. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The owls, only hungry like everyone else, looking for souls to eat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He done blessed me already, Reverend. He blessed me when He saved your soul and sent you out to preach His gospel.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She knew that these classes were enhancing her students’ reading levels, their understanding of the world, their souls. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He’s never taken them up before and he prays to God to cleanse his soul and to give him the faith, if this is to be the hour. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

A soul tune was blasting out of an eight-track tape player, and all the black women packed between the peeling wooden benches were singing and dancing to the music. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Though they didn’t carry the same weight as a coach in the coach’s box, they soothed my soul and buoyed my spirits to no end. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I am half a man, with half a body, half a heart, half a mind, half a soul. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She had another terrible thought: Where had Mrs. Borkowski’s soul gone? Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He took her body and left her soul. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was important for a person to act carefully, for every action, Hatsue explained, had consequences for the soul’s future. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Brevity is the soul of wit, and of many other virtues in writing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then the old soul in her kicked in. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

And I tried to listen again, because the prosecutor started talking about my soul. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

But I assure you, my invention is destined to bring peace to thousands—perhaps even millions—of troubled souls. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Rows of wretched souls sat hunched on wooden benches. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I didn't know a single soul in my community who had a bomb shelter. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s a way of cleansing our souls while we’re cleaning house,” she said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The hero’s soul, cursed blade shall reap. Maybe we could find this cursed blade and destroy it. Sounds like Kronos's scythe, right?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And your father, with his bizarre silence—which I still couldn’t understand, no matter how often I thought about it—is torturing your soul. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The candle they had lit for Pol’s soul did nothing to push back the dark. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Leaning against the wall, you slide down in a heap and your soul fills with tears. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Goddard was in his head—even deeper; in his soul—and Rowan didn’t know how to cast him out. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

There was a church organ playing music and filling up my soul. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The pastor's voice is ice water on my soul, and the wave of fear I've been fighting to hold back threatens to drown me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It is as active as any mind, as any soul. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Oh, turn now and come back, look back and see the smoke and turn for me But it kept moving away until he could not hear it even in his imagination, in his soul. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then the soul of Zimbabwe would be dead. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

His soul is prob-ably still out there somewhere—floating in the darkness, looking for hope, hoping for forgiveness, and terribly, terribly frightened. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Van Helsing seemed to throw his whole soul into the effort; at last, in obedience to his will she made reply:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Rain taught me that when people are negative, they’re trying to put duct tape on their own damaged souls. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

String theory has further spawned something called "M theory," which incorporates surfaces known as membranes–or simply "branes" to the hipper souls of the world of physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She had picked up his handkerchief and she was looking at him ... right, directly into his soul. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until later, when I was full- grown and Hrothgar was an old, old man, that I settled my soul on destroying him—slowly and cruelly. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I simply can’t feel religion,” I told him in lieu of telling him that I did not think I had the kind of soul he thought I had. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t believe in soul mates, but there’s an understanding between us that I just haven’t felt before, or at least, not for a long time. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A man’s body can bear a beating, but if his soul is damaged...” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

His tone was light, but his blue eyes pierced Snape as they had frequently pierced Harry, as though the soul they discussed was visible to him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The Scalp Ceremony lay to rest the Japanese souls in the green humid jungles, and it satisfied the female giant who fed on the dreams of warriors. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was firmly convinced that he was the reincarnated soul of Euphorbus, a Trojan hero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“And my wife—’tis a year since she’s been gone, God rest her soul.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion, is the individuality of each human soul,” Stanton said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

So as the water nibbled away at our land, the war nibbled away at our souls. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My only two friends tried to rid me of the grief in my soul, They had lunch with me, played golf with me, challenged me to games of dominoes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Madam had carved her letters into my soul, burned the mark into my skin. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we’ve all ended up giving up body and soul to Africa, one way or another. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“However, we should not congratulate ourselves too heartily. You destroyed the diary and I the ring, but if we are right in our theory of a seven-part soul, four Horcruxes remain.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“He’s going to look in your soul and see what you done, sinner, He’s going to look in your soul and see what you done.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But if you died with a mortal sin on your soul you could never enter heaven. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was an ancient philosopher,” Nick teased, “who believed that men’s souls were round like apples, the color of pearls, and had little white wings.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Tribune argued that the only greater gathering was the massing of Xerxes’ army of over five million souls in the fifth century B.C. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Even though Voxy never knew a soul who perished, his eyes are filled with tears. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The fight and the darkness had kissed each other, and were married now, forever, in the life and the vision of John’s soul. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Poor as he is, he didn’t forget a servant or a child in the house, and not a soul here, from the French laundrywoman to Miss Norton forgot him. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, he destroyed it. Your soul is whole, and completely your own, Harry.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Newton was an obsessive character who threw himself body and soul into whatever project was at hand. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Cain’s access to the Otherworlds, to the In-Between, to whatever all that nonsense was, had given him the ability to see into her mind, her memories, her soul. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

‘I don’t mean in the face or in any kind of looks. I was speaking about the shape and color of your souls.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There's enough fire in that girl's soul for two people. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, so you were thinking the same thing? No matter. I never really look past my eyes. That way I always feel pretty. Windows of the soul, you know.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor will I be his freight—some homeless fugitive that Luke Stevens must bend down his lofty Quaker soul to rescue. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

While we were waiting for the preacher, she took out her rosary and prayed for Erma’s soul, which she feared was in jeopardy since, as she saw it, Erma had committed suicide. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once she insisted that the devil had taken the form of a hoop snake with its tail in its mouth, and had rolled after her down the mountain, hissing that it would claim her soul. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

That is the soul when it commits mortal sins. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You do not understand, Hazel Levesque. I devour magic. I destroy the voice and the soul. You cannot oppose me.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The drone of the grillos and the sigh of the wind in the trees whispered the call of the soul of the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She offers me freedom, not realizing that even chained, even facing execution, my soul is already free. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The windows of the reading room were bright and blank; bookshelves, empty carrels, not a soul. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise your name. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“When people die, it’s just the body that dies. The soul goes up to the sky.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

That my soul was a piece of his. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

All of my heart and soul was in it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

After four or five days in which we had seen scarcely a soul, suddenly we were inundated with company. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

If she gives her body to me, she is welcome to my soul, small and stunted though it is. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They owned leather jackets, had girlfriends, and talked about things like Malcolm X and “soul power.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Peradventure,” said a voice in the darkness, “if you could win your mamma and your papa back from the beldam, you could also win free our souls.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Several bold souls said “Hi” and waved back. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“What a pile of baloney. Just because they lost their abilities, you think their second souls were removed?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“You have to prepare yourself first,” Nico said, “or the river will destroy you. It will burn away your body and soul.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“So bears can make their own souls...” she said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then he said, ‘Lee, you didn’t do this terrible thing, did you? If you did, now is the time to purge your soul.’ In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the black wave of the Permian players moved out into the middle of the held, eight thousand other souls who had filled the home side rose to give a standing ovation. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the soul that must be saved, because the soul endures. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d sing about far-off places and about days gone by, about silly things like peach cobbler and the devil trying to steal their soul. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Afterward, I will add your soul to my armor, where it will slowly dissolve, over and over, in eternal agony. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“And the souls of the children behind the mirror.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

‘What do you mean, the wound touches his soul?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Cal was as close to his own soul as it is possible to get. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the sweetness of his tongue and the tenderness of his soul. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was set on keeping my arms and legs dancing to her tune and my soul bound in her chains. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The priest spoke in Spanish, and she was able to light a candle at the altar for Papá’s soul, as she was certain Mamá was doing this morning in Ensenada. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The thing’s very touch was a sickness of the soul. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I also had to swear that when his soul was sleeping I would never try to wake it, for the shock might make it go to sleep forever. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could see the grandmother-shaped impression on her own soul, but when she tried to get a sense of where her grandmother was now, it was blurred somehow. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

There were tears streaming down his cheeks as he sang, louder and louder: Glory to God and Jesus, too, One more soul got safe. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took a silent, long breath, and with a prayer for her soul, she signed. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

"In this house that their father bought. Please let the prayers begin for his soul." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I can hardly bear to listen in the kitchen, since beautiful music stirs me to the very depths of my soul. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean by the courageous soul?” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

That great shuttles of souls might fly about, faded but audible if you listen closely enough? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Minerva says keeping a diary is also a way to reflect and reflection deepens one’s soul. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They scurried down two blocks without seeing a soul, turned the corner, and a moment later ducked into the alley that led to Egypt. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘My soul! Is that old mule still alive? He must be fully eighteen years old.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The fire in my face burned on and on, deep through my flesh, scaring my soul. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa breathed out, this slow, heavy thing loosed from the bottom of his soul. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She meant to think of them; that determination had driven into her soul like a death wound—but not tonight Tomorrow would be time to think of everything. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Forgiven! God bless you that you have given my dear one her soul again, and me peace.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Despite her faults, Judy was a kindly soul, and she was so bossy and talkative that I felt oddly safe with her. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I count ten souls who live in the hut. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It was suffering, and at the bottom of everything, like dregs in a cup, there was no deeper truth in the soul of Weep than that. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

These editorials linked C.P. to the world of racial politics and gave him hope that the battle for the soul of the South—and for his own soul—was not yet lost. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In this enraptured state, the soul journeys to other worlds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then I lie down on the horse blanket and drift into a dream about Marlena that will probably cost me my soul. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Under that, a bright orange flier for DOA Recording Studios, offering commissions for heroes’ souls. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I know well in my heart and in my soul,” he said to his wife Andromache, “the day shall come when holy Troy will be laid low and Priam and Priam’s people.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then the flock of gulls appeared again overhead, calling and calling, as if searching for lost souls. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The sound of the king’s music made Despereaux’s soul grow large and light inside of him. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

At least they don’t know I’m also the girl whose grandfather’s soul lives in her cat. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Your father, like you, was a tortured soul, Rahim Khan had written. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“And see the world in endless sleep, The hero’s soul, cursed blade shall reap.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Graceful and loving Mother, hear our prayers,” he whispered, hoping she could hear him over the din of lost souls. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“They need sunlight and water, and their souls need to—need to—” “Be weeded,” finished Chacho. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A strong castle, and well garrisoned, but His Grace shall have it, if I must kill every living soul within to make it so." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The sun took pity on these bewildered souls, gave them maize to eat, and distributed them across the surface of the earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few years back, Dalton’s mom had left him for a loser with nice pecs and a soul patch, who she subsequently kicked to the curb a year later. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The girl climbs into the swing and pendulums back and forth, pumping her legs, and watching her opens some valve in Werner’s soul. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The hawk was my hope, and the rabbit was my soul.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He looked deep into my soul with those liquid brown eyes of his. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The faces of tormented souls shifted in the fabric. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Half of me will never trust another living soul again. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

This afternoon, he had stood on the castle wall, and that had happened to Hooper, the soul had flown from his body. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

If anything broke down or needed fixing, he’d sigh and talk about the house like it was some old soul he’d been knowing over the years. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t stop imagining being strapped to a table while a cabal of evil doctors removed my soul. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Maeterlinck and Marais wrote best-selling books on the presumed soul that must exist somewhere in the nests of ants and termites. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

First the Lord’s Prayer, which was more serious than “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray to God my soul to keep.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

For a time, she made daily visits to the slums as part of a frenzied charitable activity, which gave her chronic bronchitis and brought no peace to her tormented soul. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You, young man, have the soul of a blacksmith,” the master of alchemy told him in a cold rage. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Fencing was no small sacrifice for my family, so I promised myself to put my entire heart and soul into my efforts. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

What he says is a trespass: people don’t talk about bodies unless they’re discussing illnesses, or about souls except in church, or about passion unless they mean sex. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I told Leah that means the new soul of Africa, and he’s gone to jail and Jesus is real mad about it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spirits of dog heaven, I offer the soul of Roger's yellow dog. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I felt myself struggling to awake to some call of my instincts; nay, my very soul was struggling, and my half-remembered sensibilities were striving to answer the call. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul’s summer day. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stories of phantoms and tortured souls had always freaked her out. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I may have just signed away my soul, but...yes. Or as happy as I can be.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know a soul in Chicago and made it there on his own. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wherefore I beseech thee, Sir Lancelot, to return again unto this realm and see my tomb, and pray some prayer more or less for my soul. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord. Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?” Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to believe that in this wide beauty there roamed three souls trapped to do evil. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For his drifting soul was anchored in the love of God; in the rock that endured forever. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Loading up my heart with prayer, I aimed it at the lost soul before me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, little by little, souls were drifting away from the island, their own tethers snapped. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Not a soul in Maryland knew yet that Abraham Lincoln had been shot. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were both exhausted and were beginning to feel the effects of the sleepless night in their bones and in their soul. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"She has a big dinner party and he won't know a soul there." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

If I succumbed to it, the hatred’s roots would choke me; its thorns would embed in my soul, until it truly became mine. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him, arising from the smoke of the sacrifices, emanating from the verses of the Rig-Veda, trickling through from the teachings of the old Brahmins. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

These souls cannot rest or be reincarnated back to earth. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw them smile, laugh—it was nothing; the light of the candles had as much soul in it as their smile; the tinkle of the bell as much significance as their laugh. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The cruelty of it was a knife to her soul. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The air around her was empty where hundreds of shadowy souls had frenzied just seconds earlier. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, Jefferson was the one who needed to do some soul searching. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

For just a buck, you get the name and number of your one true soul mate. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Thursday afternoons were usually a big peach day, with women getting ready for Sunday cobblers, but not a soul stopped. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped to see its soul trapped inside its head. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

"So did countless other researchers, scientists, and engineers. Everyone poured their souls into construction while I waged a constant political battle to maintain funding. "In the end, we built a beautiful probe. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon we were entering a countryside of green fields and high hedges with not a soul in sight. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Benighted, contentious, passionate, ignorant souls, countryfolk of a poor land, their generosity gave a noble ending to that hard journey. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The depths had been icy and dark, but now a bright sun spoke to our souls. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father would have been proud of me, God rest his soul.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the house with the door with the soul with the tomb that doesn’t spell doom. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He tried to pray for their souls, but the words had lost all meaning. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I’d failed to appreciate the grip climbing had on my soul, however, or the purpose it lent to my otherwise rudderless life. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

But each time it is only one of the men groaning in his sleep, or the retching of one of the poor souls who has not yet gotten over the seasickness. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

We resided in Stromford Village, with its one hundred and fifty souls. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody was against him, and he was sick to his soul that Colonel Korn was not with him in this moment of crisis to help him decide what to do about the prayer meetings. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But there is one more dead soul he has to thank. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And John did not drop his eyes, but seemed to want to stare forever into the bottom of Gabriel’s soul. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

What he had forced himself to do to ensure the future freedom of his people: killing children, and, with them, his own soul. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I feel my whole soul light up when she says this. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The fabric of his black wool suit writhed with imprisoned souls. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He reminded his children that it was his duty as a Catholic father to ensure that their souls did not rust during their year away from Catholic schools. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the prospect of integration planted a new fear in the souls of Christine and fellow members of the Brown v. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He seemed distraught, as if the pain of the whole world had settled in his soul. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

But instead you took the sweet route, so everyone would like you and not a soul would hate you. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

When he told me I had a chance at freedom of body and soul, he knew he’d force me to pick between keeping my soul and losing it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

You can hear them— an encompassing, overwhelming cacophony of radios, of heavy gates slamming, of shouts and whistles and running footsteps— but, oddly, at first you can’t see a single incarcerated soul. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She feels no obligation to have good thoughts on behalf of her mortal soul in the hereafter, or even the here and now. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

No wonder Emery is always telling me Francis is her soul’s muse. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Can you make a one hundred percent foolproof app that helps people find their soul mate?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

And where was Lupito’s soul winging to, or was it washing down the river to the fertile valley of my uncles’ farms? Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t seem like die type of person who knows anything about soul food. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

If there is no laughter, the soul dies. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they help to wash the soul clean Come on, I’ll take you home. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I suspect we had a similar intensity, a similar heedlessness, a similar agitation of the soul. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about God and immortal souls and eternity. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have the boy now. Our brothers gnaw at his soul Soon he will be mad and ripe. Then we shall feast.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The doubt in his voice let me know that I knew something he didn’t, because my soul traveled all the time, and it appeared that his never did. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was the sort of gaze that reached into the tight strings of the soul and plucked, like the strings of a harp. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The river would be jam-packed with purified souls. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you call yourself an artist! What pretensions, Madame! The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pictures of slim, happy people jogging and a glistening mountain spring that makes my soul yearn to be in the picture. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

This was something else: poison in the dark, a knife thrust to the soul. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Of course I have a soul. Everyone has a soul.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“That smell... like snuffed-out souls. Thanatos is free, eh? Bah! It doesn’t matter. Gaea still controls the Doors of Death. Now, why have you brought me here, son of Mars?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There were rumors of cells in the basement where the souls of dead prisoners, prisoners who had died in jail, howled all night. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He served strong, hot black coffee in thick cups and these visiting teachers blessed his good soul. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later he explained that when a person is beating you you should scream as loud as possible; maybe the whipper will become embarrassed or else some sympathetic soul might come to your rescue. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair shone like oiled oakwood, and her gray eyes seemed to hide her soul. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

For a second, the smile, the one engraved on Gilly’s soul, flashed out. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

They were such nice people, that was the truth, Mami said, they gave you hope that maybe at the bottom Americans were kind souls. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

What’s more, I knew that feeling to be my newfound soul, a soul that lived in freedom. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“If you could capture the animus, the soul in another form . . . Well, you’ve told me about your automatons, Uncle. Bulls, eagles, dragons, horses of bronze. Why not a bronze form for a man?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“You knew we were leaving the country. You knew it all the time and you didn’t tell a soul. Why is that?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Instead, I shove my anger down, burying it deep, letting it temper my soul. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

My soul began to swoop as it had all those years ago at the county fair when I’d had my first ride in Barnie Buchanan’s biplane. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

At one o’clock Jan will come for half an hour to check on us poor forsaken souls, like a zookeeper. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Poor little soul,” said Mistress Owens, taking the boy from her, and cradling him in her capable, if insubstantial arms. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

After eight months, the blackouts seemed to be getting worse, as if her soul were attempting to live in two different time periods at once. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But that is gone; and we must so work, that other poor souls perish not, whilst we can save. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It’s a conversation I don’t know how to have without baring my entire soul. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

This must have been music to the soul of Galileo when he read Gilbert’s words. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I wonder,” I said reflectively, “what an elephant’s soul is like!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

We returned to our places, shame in our souls but fear gnawing at us nevertheless. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you fall bravely in war the Valkyries, beautiful battle-maidens who collect the souls of the noble dead, will take you and bring you to the hall known as Valhalla. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Most souls in town except Turner and his mother, that is. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Their souls are swollen with excitement, just waiting to erupt. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Another way of protecting yourself is to pray your soul clean each night at the foot of your bed, and I’d done that, too. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I was pregnant and couldn’t tell a soul. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lord, may our dinner be filling to our minds, bodies, and souls,” Hilda said, which sounded to me less like a blessing and more like wishful thinking. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Young people today. One of them thought it would be good sport to fire the house of a poor old woman who has never harmed a soul. Well, he learned his lesson soon enough." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Only he knew whether the prayers were for the president's soul or for his own life. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But in their hearts and souls, they dwell in the geek nation. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I took the deserted side steps down to the street two at a time, without meeting another soul. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Two and a half years. God rest his soul.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll turn you into butter on a summer day. I’ll turn you into a poet with the soul of a priest. I’ll fill you with lemon custard and push you out a window.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I don't have a soul, so I don't believe in soul mates. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he restores my soul. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It seared my heart and soul when we had to go back to Little Rock again. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He did not meet another soul until he turned into the passage leading to the Gryffindor common room. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

If the wicked ones had harmed his mummy, then even his ba was dead, for a man’s soul could not live if his former body were destroyed. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

There’s a van pulling away from South’s pub leaving crates of beer and lemonade outside and there isn’t a soul on the street. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I was weak in body and in soul. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

At that hour of the morning there was not a soul on the wooden platform, its roof eaten away by inclement weather and ants. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the souls of demons get to be reincarnated? Like us.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Plus, it soothes my soul to think I’m doing some good when I end a shambler, sending them on to their well-deserved immortal rest. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Settlers arrived—mostly wayward souls and eccentrics who had meandered off the Oregon Trail. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

My time to be at ease, and let the soul seep back into this soldier. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Not a single living soul she would lay claim to. And even if she did, she didn’t have a fortune to leave.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

But I guess if a bird is going to eat up the dead children’s souls, that is a worry. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

By their reckoning, the music and dancing, the food and punch, all unfolding on the green in the flickering lantern light, were a tonic for the battered soul. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But apparently the machine had a purer soul than any human. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I was too grateful for that one word that allowed me at last to leave the island and begin to build myself as a soul, separate from the long, long shadow of my twin. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day another desperate soul might use that route. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Just because Arjuna was an amazing warrior and we have the same soul doesn’t actually mean that I’m a great warrior, too, you know.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing like living as a refugee in one’s own country to turn a generous soul into a hard little fist. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There she endured her agonals and committed her soul to Christ. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby was the soul of honour, and protested with all its might. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

No, Pastor Ted was thinking mega-overhaul—mind, body, soul—deliverance, repentance, immersion. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A more popular tool of eugenics was forced sterilization, employed on a raft of lost souls who, through misbehavior or misfortune, fell into the hands of state governments. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t tell her the whole prophecy—about the soul reaping and the end of my days. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Bless my soul! ” cried the Head of the Fire Department, going red in the face. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was looking at her like she’d stepped out of the pages of his comics, a living, breathing soul mate to Aditya, that wild, curly haired girl come to life. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I remember reading about Pythagoras around this time, and finding some of his ideas curiously appealing—wearing white garments, for instance, or abstaining from foods which have a soul. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even though he was the second-ranking member of the Adams administration, he was, as the Federalist leadership in the House described him, “the very life and soul of the opposition.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“They have many souls living there, far more than here. Too many to count. But I assure you they are Christians.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by ghosts as she had always been, Sarai had wondered what it was like at the last, and how much power a soul had, to leave the body or stay. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It had probably beat up its fair share of demons and also punished a bunch of souls. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

John’s terrified soul inquired—What is it?—to no purpose, receiving no answer. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The writing was calligraphic, the paper white, the ink as black as Hecate's soul. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then there began to flood John’s soul the waters of despair. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The lapping of the water was like the tide of time sounding on my soul. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What? You think I don’t know soul music? I grew up on this stuff, honey!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I know. I had to tell him in order to get in to see you. But I know he won’t tell a soul under any circumstances.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Bright candy skulls, family picnics on the graves, a plate set for each individual guest, a candle for the soul. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I reckon,” Florence said, “your soul is praising God this morning.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And I suspect that your congregation—indeed, every soul in Phippsburg—will be watching what you do with it.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Welcome to the future, Holmesy. It’s not about hacking computers anymore; it’s about hacking human souls. The file is in your email.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I had been a part of the tapping of something in the black secret soul. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It kills your soul, slowly, bit by bit. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It has been eating away at my soul. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I breathe him in and I wait to feel different, to feel lighter, to feel better or worse now that there is another living soul who knows. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turner wished with a desire greater than anything he had ever desired that he might understand what it was in the eye of the whale that shivered his soul. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Melancholy held me hostage and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Look down on a poor soul in worse than mortal peril; and in mercy pity those to whom she is dear!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

But there would be no limit to what our Lord would want of Patria Mercedes, body and soul and all the etceteras besides. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You ready for some soul cleansing?” she yelled, opening the door. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Keep them safe and help them to vie- tory, she prayed, and bring peace to the souls of the slain and comfort to those they leave behind. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

White sails cut across water and the souls of great heroes basked on the beaches in perpetual bliss. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

No sooner had Remedios the Beauty ascended to heaven in body and soul than the inconsiderate Fernanda was going about mumbling to herself because her sheets had been carried off. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She liked how she talked about people’s souls. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I might have been a stranger starving to death, and there wasn't a soul in sight to ask which way to town even. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He only approached Slughorn to find out what would happen if you split your soul into seven,” said Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Daddy walked into that empty bedroom of his, soul black as night, and locked his door. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Usually I was picking up stones to have ready for stray rabbits that crossed our path, but today my thoughts kept my soul in a shroud. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No such thing as a soul,” I say. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“If I had a soul, I’d probably wind up in hell anyway.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for Toronto, he says, it has no gaiety or soul. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their inscriptions always either advised the passerby to Pray for the soul of Zopilote Devine, or to Pray for the dear departed soul of the Miracle Valley Recreation Area. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked at each other a long time—two souls rolling on the sea under the silvery moon, peering into each other’s eyes. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Selfishness, she cried to herself— selfish to abandon another soul so as to save your own. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wherever his soul is now, he must hate me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Werner feels as though he and Neumann Two are the only souls awake in the world. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The look he leveled at me over his glasses would have turned a weaker soul to stone. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

If anyone touched her, she would do her best to send his soul to Hell. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Great, booming, helpless laughter from the bottom of his soul. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

That is to say, he had a dream—a guiding and abiding one, so much a part of him it was like a second soul inside his skin. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

For a decade after graduating from college he probed his soul for signs of a divine calling while earning his keep as a country schoolteacher and then apprentice lawyer. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Crying is good for the soul,” said Ruby softly. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was then I saw that the walls and ceilings were covered with images of holy souls. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

In that land, there was no snowfall nor much winter nor any storm of rain; but from Ocean the West Wind sang soft and thrillingly to refresh the souls of men. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And my mom said, “Then we’d go to heaven telling people about the truth and saving their souls.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Would you mind letting me ...” “Poison to soul as well as body.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mind, her soul, would always wear freedom’s clothes. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hoped so, because here, being a minister’s son mattered a whole lot, and pretending that it didn’t matter to him was starting to peck at his soul. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

All I could hear was the violin, and it was as if Juliek’s soul had become his bow. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poison had eaten holes through her soul and made room for vermin to nest inside her. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My soul is a witness for my Lord. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I watched his soul fold up on itself like a closing door. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Her soul, her heart, her life was now Muslim. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He looks right into my freaking soul as usual. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Death tapped . the screen a few times, and all Frank could think was: Please don’t let there be an app for reaping souls. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It sounded as if he were speaking through a chorus of the dead, using all the unfortunate souls who’d been buried behind the dome’s stelae. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"We was so scared for you, Alfred. Prayed all night, prayed to God and to your sweet momma, rest her soul, got right down on—" "It's okay, Aunt Pearl, I'm okay." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I give it up I shall lose my soul. Go thou also with God.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You cannot command us, child of war. Your own life is fragile. Your soul could burn at any moment. ” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They were sent off to boot camp, where they didn’t know another soul. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He spent nearly four months in the bush all told, and during that period he didn’t encounter another living soul. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

How say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rowan could feel himself growing numb—and while it might have been a good thing for his beleaguered sanity, it was not a good thing for his soul. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He had spoken one word that touched the very soul of me, but I could not talk to him, could not let him know that I was starving myself to save money to go north. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You know they say the eyes are the windows of the soul?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It’s got my favorite songs from the sixties through the nineties, including Motown classics, soul, and R&B. I listen to it on shuffle and never get tired of it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Now came the soul of Antikleia, dead, my mother, daughter of Autolykos, dead now, though living still when I took ship for holy Troy. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Later you will understand. But for now, we would like to express our gratitude for realizing that Julian was the necessary soul." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, we inevitably turn to God; for this religious sentiment is of its nature so pure, so delightful to the soul that experiences it, that it makes up to us for all our other losses.’ Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded, and he asked me what that place might resemble; and in my answer I described a paradise of dogs; upon which he inquired whether dogs have a soul, and this, too, I answered. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I stare at him, beseeching the aliens or Clark Gable or whoever’s in charge of soul abductions to bring back my brother. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“But there’s no helping other people’s souls. We can only try to help the people trapped inside the rubble.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would you rather be put up at the Ritz with free room service and unlimited access to a doctor or be homeless without a soul to care for you? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yep, my mind and soul and heart had a quick meeting and voted to shut down for a few repairs. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

She gave me her smile of infinite kindness and understanding, the smile I had seen her aim at so many other needy souls, and in that moment I hated her. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

But there was not a soul in sight. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I wondered how heavy last night’s sin lay on his soul. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I faded into time’s dateless night, I would say to the doctor, “The moving finger writes and having writ, moves on . . .” and my soul would escape gracefully. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And not a soul around me knows it or cares. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Methuselah I cowered beside my cage, and though my soul hankered after the mountain, I found, like Methuselah, I had no wings. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure was I of His efficiency to save what He had made: convinced I grew that neither earth should perish, nor one of the souls it treasured. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The nuns sigh with contentment as they do when their bellies are full of wholesome food and their souls sated with prayer. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“It’s about creativity. Putting your soul on the paper. You’re good at that.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Concentrating, prayerful, I waited for my soul to leave my body. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The closer he got to the end, the more he saw it as a mere shell, a container of the soul. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As usual, I prayed for the well-being of my mother’s and my father’s souls. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Once he had sworn never to leave the ocean, convinced that his soul craved sand and the green expanse stretching all the way to his ancestral home in Europ>e. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four souls perched on a wide, flat rock. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it was her soul that cracked each time the tone broke. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He still belonged to Hitler, body and soul. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every time Gran’s gaze drifted in that direction—a yard covered in half-clothed dolls, every sports ball imaginable, and patches of trampled grass—she mumbled a prayer to save their souls, or maybe her mood. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

By the time a loose shingle undid him, Donald had conveyed a dozen souls to the Free States. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was his soul’s mahalath, remaking the monster as he had in his dream. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In fact, if you think of everybody with a body, soul, and brain as a human, then I was the opposite of human. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I put my hands together, making a pleading motion and hoping the desperation pouring out of my soul will convince her otherwise. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“I call this really friendly of you—bless my soul, I do! To come up to me since I couldn’t come down to you—eh?” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Then, even though the sky directly above was clear and sprinkled with the glittering souls of infant children who had died, a wind sprang up and rippled across the grass, carrying rain. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

To hope is to grieve his absence and acknowledge the emptiness in my soul without him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I first made varsity, one of the upperclassmen put it like this: Coach Ellerly blows a whistle like the devil calling souls down to hell. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds and hundreds of souls filled the air. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

For this was no ordinary howling, but an anguished cry from the very soul of one—or more- otherwise mute beings! The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He has been chewing over this idea that I can “buy” time in exchange for bits of my soul, and he wondered if I likened myself to Faust. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I told of the war-like births witnessed by Jason and by Cadmus, the one crop of souls arriving at truce, the other so involved in its savagery that none was left alive. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Up close, it was plain the burden of so many souls had exacted its toll. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Love that sets forth the soul like springtime and ripens it like summer. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He screamed as the spirits swarmed through him, burrowing into the most intimate reaches of his soul. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

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

Sometimes when Charles looked at her he thought that in his dear Annie he would have a kind soul tending him in his old age. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This evening he dreaded it with all his soul. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I mean, this was going to essentially be a message from my soul, on display for all the silk feathered hats to gawk at. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The sermon slouched along as sermons will when every single soul in the building is wishing that the ushers would start passing around cool glasses of lemonade. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Pollard, a more adventurous soul, probably lived a little closer to the pulse of Tijuana. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stared back at Beverly and started trying to rearrange her soul, working to make it invisible. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He would say, “I have Jewish hands, Jewish bones, Jewish stories, and a Jewish soul. But I’m not officially observant of—the religious practices of the Jewish people. Got it?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Soon my mind was saturated, my being enervated, yet my soul continued to live and hope for better days. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He finally acknowledged that what he carried in his arms was not Sarai but only a husk, empty now of the mind and soul that had touched his in their dreaming. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Laney was put in charge of soothing Jessie’s wounded soul by feeding her cheese croissants while Isa, Hyacinth, and Oliver gathered cleaning supplies and a garbage bag and went upstairs. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Every night, when the married couple retired to their rooms, she was overwhelmed by a peculiar hatred she could not explain, which filled her soul with regret. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then from a remote part of his soul, from the past of his tired life, he heard a sound. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go on, now. Wish for something. It’s good for the soul.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

A warhom sounded in the far distance, a deep mournful note that chilled the soul. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then he drew his sword as well, and followed the others through a gated archway that the Tonists always left open for lost souls seeking tonal solace. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But he resolved to avoid the one misstep that might send his soul down to perdition. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Huh, I thought you voted for Eisenhower. I thought Jefferson was one of the great souls of the Democratic Party or something.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Surely in America a whole segment of decent souls could not stand by and allow such massive crimes to be committed. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tve been working like a machine, and feeling like a lost soul. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next day they hiked to all the lakes, fished a little more, lazed about in the warm misty weather, and, strangely, encountered not another soul. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The eyes are the windows to the soul,” I counter. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Those pure black eyes seemed to pull at Hazel, as if trying to extract her soul. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Great sacrifice, great rewards!” he said then, letting both hands fall heavily from the shoulders, and with all my soul I coveted the delicious weight of goodness he cradled in those palms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still pretty much oblivious to the gathering storm, but very much aware of his own troubles, Herbie Goldfarb decided an escape into love might be just what the doctor ordered for his floundering soul. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still...she didn’t know if his soul had found peace in the Underworld, or if he’d been reborn, or if he’d been washed into Tartarus because of his crimes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Other studies suggest that threads in the eye can indicate personality tendencies, and that maybe eyes are a kind of window to the soul after all. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It is far better for the profits of our purse to be taken from us than to be robbed of the riches of our minds and souls. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I wondered who she was, poor unclaimed soul, washed up by the wind and tide. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But once you are able to separate yourself from the whims of the flesh and embrace the silence and nothingness of your soul, you will be liberated. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“My soul to the devil he did so. He preached that Galahad had aye expelled the seven knights without a slaughter, and mentioned that the Holy Grail was nae for bloodshed.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without looking up from her business, she said, “‘Rosamund, when you die, they bury you, but your soul flies to the stars. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The only thing Gaea needed was a willing sacrifice—a soul to be consumed for Alcyoneus to awaken. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Black music adds soul and rhythm to my world. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Your Atman will fly from the web of human desire and join the collective consciousness—the infinite soul that suffuses the universe, at once everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Seeing that Harry and Ron looked thoroughly confused, Hermione hurried on, “Look, if I picked up a sword right now, Ron, and ran you through with it, I wouldn’t damage your soul at all.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

My hands and feet were melting into the water, my soul was being ripped from my body. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deep within, I feel something like the touch of a finger’s tip against my soul, rekindling hope there. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Just as the bear had said: the armor was his soul. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Summer or winter, snow or shine, be was running or galloping after boars and harts, and all the time his soul was somewhere else. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alba knew that her grandmother was the soul of the big house on the comer. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As though we could have fathomed the intricacies of the Nazi web: the reinvention of language, the animalization of human souls. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

While I saw birds aplenty, heard them too—wood pigeons, cuckoos, thrushes—I wondered if England had no human souls. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was a cry of rage and pain, and it made my soul sick. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems that once Voldemort had succeeded in sealing a piece of his soul inside it, he did not want to wear it anymore. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

My soul wandered over the dark plain until it came to a cluster of adobe huts. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tendai saw, in a distant, shadowy way, the country of Zimbabwe with its millions of souls. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Arul looked at the sky and moaned about how he didn’t want our souls to burn in hell until the end of eternity. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He’s gone, and he took what was left of Grandpa’s soul with him. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

My dad uses his favorite term of endearment for my mom—my soul, my life—and pats the air with his palm down, a quieting gesture. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He would sell a piece of his soul for a drink of cold water. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But Mama told him we wished to mourn privately, that they could go to offer Masses for the repose of Papas soul. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His wife, poor ailing soul, done passed on, and he thinking about coming North.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Every other night for the next two weeks, I tell Mother I’m off to feed the hungry at the Canton Presbyterian Church, where we, fortunately, know not a soul. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And I love his dear eyes in which the vulnerability and beauty of his soul can be plainly read. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it came to saving her own soul, she wanted to be careful that there were no mistakes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

For only an instant he glimpsed, at the center of the man’s weak-willed soul, a great kindness. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The difference between carnal desire and the love for someone's soul. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It’s as if my soul wants to let go of it, to climb into that space where Kasim is lingering. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"You have no soul. No poetry of the spirit." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Who stood with all those other souls who took runaways into their homes, fed them, carried them north on their backs, died for them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Or, “Mister, I can shimmy a ball down a line so pretty, there isn’t a soul on God’s green earth that can even get near it.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I wanted to move like Dean, but I wanted Sal's heart and soul. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

That it was a tender mercy, that it had brought souls to God. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My soul is a puddle at my feet. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And Siddhartha’s soul returned, died, decayed, turned into dust, experienced the troubled course of the life cycle. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

To her, they were “those courageous souls who made the fight that we might all be free.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Charles means a lot to me. He’s my youngest. He’s sensitive, quiet. A creative soul. He wouldn’t do nothing to hurt anyone. No one deserves this, but least of all Charles. So please.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

She thought she already knew the answer—an ibbur was the soul of a Jewish person, after all—but she asked anyway. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I was a ghost tied to the ground, not a living soul. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her grandfather’s face had been frozen into an open-mouthed mask of terror, like one of those poor souls who glimpses Medusa and turns to stone. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“It will be a great weight off your soul,” said Septa Scolera. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The four directions of the llano met in me, and the white sun shone on my soul. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Sourmelina’s belief that the soul didn’t enter the body until a child started speaking. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Tony wears the permanent scars of war on his face, just as I wear the scars on my soul. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

If I have a soul, I’ll go with you, promised Matt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for me and Grandpa, I don’t think a soul cared that Love Simpson wasn’t in the party. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“To hell with you and your souls!” he shouted. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“But even if we wreck the thing it lives in,” said Ron, “why can’t the bit of soul in it just go and live in something else?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Unless we have to, we won’t tell a soul,” he said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

You have locked me in, the madwoman thought, a tiny spark of hope igniting in her soul. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

As she confided in her diary, the breakup of her previous engagement had left her “mangled and torn and castigated and macerated in soul.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He listened again, holding his breath, but he heard no one, and saw not a soul from Nones to Vespers, when the bells began to ring again. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

But the atmosphere, plus the food, made the place one of Harlem’s soul spots. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The days resembled the nights, and the nights left in our souls the dregs of their darkness. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Are there less fortunate souls in heaven who work in a celestial basketball factory so that I can play? The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He gave his whole soul to love; he allowed himself to believe that his feelings for Hatsue had been somehow preordained. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed like their great birth pains shrank their hearts and their souls. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You are old enough to look into your own soul for the answers,’ I told him. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

While his father was involved body and soul with his water pipe, the willful first-born, who had always been too big for his age, had become a monumental adolescent. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I only know that my soul floated with the holiness of prayer into the sky of dreams. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as my soul drifted alone and forsaken above the clouds, my body would be cold by morning. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I knew why some souls went to Limbo after the death of the body, and others went for a time to Purgatory, and why others went to heaven or hell—‘forever and ever.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, thanks to her commercial vision, which had led her to create a different atmosphere in every available corner, the Hotel Christopher Columbus had become the paradise of lost souls and furtive lovers. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elouise, the daughter of the Baptist minister, recited “Invictus,” and I could have cried at the impertinence of “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to contemplate the divine ideas of liberty and self-sacrifice of which these sights were the monuments and the remembrancers. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

The persecuted laugh, and the black slave sings to his outraged soul beneath the whip. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was true that race was not embroidered in the fabric of her history; it had not been etched on her soul. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Looking into that huge mass of faces was like looking into the ugliest depths of the human soul. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The very air felt alive with possibility, charged with souls and magic. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Ignorance and tribalism claimed him so wholly—mind, body and soul—that he was baffled why the world, his wife, his children, were seemingly turned against him. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I joined a soul band, Black Ice, on the other side of town, playing any instrument I could round up—sax, flute, and bass, all borrowed. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not married,” he said softly, “because I can’t stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know a soul still in the city, she realized. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I was reminded of the scene from Daeonica where Tarsus sells his soul. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It only took a few incautious words and fearful whispers to convince them that the Devil had found their village and was looking for souls to lead into sin. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a sound like an anguished whisper, nearly a thousand people knelt to pray briefly for the soul of a man only a dozen of them had known. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learn that they are also called Igbos, and that they believed that after their death, the gods would return their souls to Africa. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Or the idea that eyes are the windows to the soul? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Where do they come from? Where do they go after they’ve done their bloody deeds? Are they men who sold their souls? Demons? Spirits? No one knows.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“And he won’t let me get dressed. He says pajamas are good for the soul. Isn’t that so dumb?” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

But my fear was too great, my conscience too precocious to allow me to relinquish control of my well-guarded soul. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He puts words to the prayers I cannot speak: “Please take James’s soul into heaven with You, because he was just an innocent child.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

They still have all that, but it’s like Volpe has issued them passports into the rest of their souls. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The Last Friend app is designed for lonely Deckers and for any good soul who wants to keep a Decker company in their final hours. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I swear on the grave of my parents; may my mother’s soul forever sizzle in torment if I am lying.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It had spirit, it had what they called soul. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He taught me to look into myself, to find my own strength, to walk around inside myself in company with my soul. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But she feels this in her heart and soul and with every searing and burning step: A crime must have a punishment, and this is part of hers. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“My Peggy, God rest her soul, left this world one year past. She died of the fever. About the age of you gals, she was.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drink was yours, and you could give it up: but your lover’s soul was not your own: it was not at your disposal; you had a duty towards it. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

You would even rob them of their souls if you could get at them.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same sort of voice God uses, perhaps, when He calls souls to Him. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Of all the dark, obstructive, enigmatic souls I had met in this bleak city, his was the darkest. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

To which the child Lazlo replied, with fire in his soul, “And none of us became children to be orphans.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The crowd surrounding the Commons had swelled to include the entire army and every soul in the city except for Madam and Becky. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the core of my soul is the desire to punch him. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Which makes me wonder if the wights have been tinkering with nature,” said Millard, “vis-a-vis the transference of peculiar souls.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps the evil he kept summoning seeped into his soul and twisted him into something he was not.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He stared at me a long moment with his shadowed eyes, as if trying to see into my soul. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

On the second day a band of visitors arrived in a carriage, august souls from Atlanta and Savannah. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I cannot see the serpent, but I know it’s there, swimming just deep enough to hide from my eyes, but not from my soul. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

There is no refreshment more gratifying to the soul than the sight of Nature in her summer finery, before the heat is at its most intense. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her father’s soul had a long road to travel. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“The fly, my dear sir, has one striking feature; its wings are typical of the aërial powers of the psychic faculties. The ancients did well when they typified the soul as a butterfly!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

According to her mother, the Witch ate sorrow, or souls, or volcanoes, or babies, or brave little wizards. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was as if she had the Tibetan gift of placing her skinny adolescent frame in her client’s hands and transporting her soul to some distant place. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his engineer’s soul, Brobeck could not help but be offended by the Rad Lab’s slapdash operation and maintenance standards. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When I get these flashbacks, I feel like someone scooped my soul out and trampled it on the dirty ground. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As they went on they came to the solemn place in which Minos, Europa’s son, the inflexible judge of the dead, was passing the final sentence on the souls before him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Trout keeps body and soul together as a circulation man for the Ilium Gazette, manages newspaper delivery boys, bullies and flatters and cheats little kids. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Most souls go that way, but there’s a smaller path, harder to find. The Door of Orpheus.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I take you from my comrades because you are to be with me. You and I... are two halves of the same soul,” he said to Otto. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it is the soul of a person that writes poetry.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said Slughorn uncomfortably, “you must understand that the soul is supposed to remain intact and whole. Splitting it is an act of violation, it is against nature.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But the terror they instilled in me had possession over my body and soul. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s a place where souls are cleaned so they can go to heaven!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You poor lost soul,” the Head Sister said. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Her soul must have crawled with horror, for how can you fly in something that does not exist? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few brave souls had risen with the dawn. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jude and me have one soul between us that we have to share: a tree with its leaves on fire. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Opera was the soul of the Italian people as well as its chief off- duty pastime. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I see. Anything else? Confession is good for the soul, you know.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Jefferson-Madison collaboration, Madison was not just responsible for handling the messy particulars; he was also accountable for shielding his chief from the political ambitions throbbing away in his own soul. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I have been holding on to it, barely resisting using it, even though I would sell my soul for another minute with Astoria. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t realize there are earthquakes and tsunamis and volcanic eruptions destroying my brain and my heart and my soul. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A standard argument was that a Christian needed moral certainty of the truths of their faith, since the fate of their soul was at stake. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Because I can see people’s souls sometimes when I draw them, I know the following: Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there’s hardly any room in her for organs. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

As gusts of wind drove the chill deeper into his body, rain kept falling, penetrating his will, seeping into his consciousness, and flooding his soul. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Just a few tired souls holding up a doorway here and there. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

His sad, dark eyes seeming to look into her very soul. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have an old understanding, your people and mine. We aren’t so different. Outcasts and wanderers all—souls clinging to the margins of the world.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He had killed the sheriff and so he had died with a mortal sin on his soul. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even from the edge of the valley, Annabeth could feel its power tugging at her soul. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Ever since I told him my sister died, he looks as if he’s trying to stare into my soul or something. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I told her he’s a great guy, a caring and supportive soul who had spurred me to reunite with my family. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But we can change the way we make and get our food so that it becomes food again—something that feeds our bodies and our souls. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“She ate the souls of those who had been wicked in life. Plus, there are superpowers to consider. She was immortal and could be in two places at one time.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“One or two lonely souls,” the guard said. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I would be valiant, open-handed, frank, and pure of heart, courteous — the soul of chivalry. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Flee, while there’s still air in your lungs and blood in your veins and warmth in your heart. Flee while you still have your mind and your soul.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

If a soul could leave a body, she thought, this is the sound it would make: like the screech of a nail being pulled from old wood. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he asked if Johnny had shown his cup to any living soul sometime before August twenty-third. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could a brand-new student, who didn’t know a soul in the place, get himself elected president? Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He had only to possess his soul in patience and wait before the Lord. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I felt my soul had been permanently scarred. I lived in fear of hurting someone around me, especially my family.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, green joyous rush inside my mouth, my head, my stomach, my toes, my soul—the best meal of my life. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lancelot put up his sword and went back from the knight, as if he were going back from his own soul. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then came the soul of Agamemnon, son of Atreus, in black pain forever, surrounded by men-at-arms who perished with him in Aigisthos’ hall. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the feelings that make me sad, I lock those away, deep down inside, in a safe that I drop into a dark well in my soul. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

But then I saw Willie sliding on his belly down the way and into the Eez-On-In, the little soul food place. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But who knows what a soul feels like? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“They are kindhearted and generous souls whose every breath is an Inspiration to Us All. They’re so strong! We admire them so!” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I read Maman's letter again, tracing my fingers along her words: This mirror reflects the soul. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“The rest of them know what they are. No one ever needs to go searching for the heart of Norway. Or looks for the soul of Mozambique. They know what they are.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it is a soul you are after now, is it?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

When humans died, their souls clung invisibly to their bodies for as long as they could—a day or two—and then they lost their grip and were claimed by the natural pull of evanescence. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He didn’t wait for an answer, but as quickly went back to speaking to his soul. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

All morning—from his strip-frisk outside the protective-custody unit to his handcuffing—he had been the soul of civility, and at the hearing he was no different. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As slow as the drifting wind, it passed over Torrance, where its only audience was a scattering of drowsy souls, among them the boy in his pajamas behind the house on Gramercy Avenue. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

That night, I listened with care to his breathing as he slept; and I thought on final words, and that he did not believe he had a soul that would survive his decease. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

His eyes narrowed, like he was shooting beams of light out of them directly into her soul. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Then her soul sat on her lips, and language flowed, from what source I cannot tell. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You alone know whether it will harm your soul to help an old man avoid pain and humiliation,” said Dumbledore. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The silence seeped from their heads to their soles and into their souls. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of years ago Miss Thomas’s little boy Jimmy got caught up in some kinda whirlpool there and they didn’t find the poor soul’s body for three days.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their souls are taken from the battlefields by Valkyries, the warrior-women charged by Odin with the task of bringing the souls of the noble dead, battle-slain, to their ultimate reward. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Even in her sickened distress, Lena Feldt could see that Mrs. Coulter had more force in her soul than anyone she had ever seen. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So my soul looks like me and your soul looks like you?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

In October 1850, three hundred scared and angry souls, most of them black but joined by some whites, poured into Quinn Chapel to determine what was to be done. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"You are my friends. We share a common disinheritance, and it's said that confession is good for the soul. Have I your permission?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She counted herself lucky that Gallup was a gentler soul who treated her kindly. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The words rang in his head: An innocent soul. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“But you have similarities. Meryl Lee showed me your drawing. It was wonderful. Anyone can see that you have the soul of an architect.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

His attitude seemed to me almost obscene, the attitude of someone who discovers a sexual secret of yours and promises not to tell a soul if you will describe it in detail to him. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

For in the entire kingdom of England there could have been no poorer Christian souls than my mother and I. I had few friends and none I completely trusted. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Last year, my principal told me I was an “old soul.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But what Kaz Czarnecki intuited, and what the years would bear out, was this: Mary Jackson had the soul of an engineer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s sinful not to pray for their souls, isn’t it, Alex.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The engineer would not judge her; their secret enterprise was a fraternity of odd souls. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“All this time, I never told a single soul.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

To repair a man’s soul and deepest heart—to reverse an irreversible trade—might be far, far more than Matty could possibly undertake. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

And you, woman, if you go to the Quakers you’ll lose your immortal soul and the souls of your children. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

His rat soul longed inexplicably for it; he began to think that light was the only thing that gave life meaning, and he despaired that there was so little of it to be had. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Does your ‘family’ love you, love you very much, love you with all their heart and soul, Millie?” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your soul could live hundreds—maybe even thousands—of lives before you got out of the loop of life and death by achieving enlightenment. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I wondered: Was this only about closing the blinds on your own soul so they couldn’t see in? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gaps weren’t in the town, the gaps were in him, the gaps were in his eyes and in his brain and in his soul—he wasn’t built right. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“When a body is left alone after death, in a state of desecration, the soul becomes corrupted,” he said, as though I hadn’t even spoken. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The wind screamed like a Super Bowl crowd or a hundred thousand souls let loose from purgatory. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could it possibly be enough light to guide Tab’s soul to the other side? Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The nuns expected us to ask for purity of soul, or a holy life. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t. The space around it must be open, so that Tali’s soul can travel freely.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Turner concluded: “‘It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.’” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

My immortal soul wants to take the whole blessed world in! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look at the way you’ve captured this little girl. You can almost see right down into her soul.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She knew how to coax milk and gather eggs and bake bread and fashion inventions and build contraptions and grow plants and press cheese and simmer a stew to nourish the mind and the soul. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

In a lifetime of living with misery and pain, his soul had not hardened; if anything it was increasingly vulnerable to pity. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was more like her soul was her whole body. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Then he cut them off at the eyes, “the windows of the soul,” rendering them even more enigmatic. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not for your life!” he said; “not for your living soul and hers!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Ration card restrictions, abysmal puddings, the deteriorating quality of fingernail varnish—these are crimes they feel in their souls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Granny’s dearest wish is to reenter a convent and pray for Knife’s soul before it’s too late. She really loves him.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It's soul food, eternal nourishment—served, as it is, alongside bitterness. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It’s not something I think about all that much, and now I have two more dead men on my soul. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Maybe. But wouldn’t it be dangerous for him to make another one? Didn’t Hermione say he had pushed his soul to the limit already?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

After a minute Luke answered politely, “A struggle between good and evil for the soul of Nell. I suppose I will have to be God, however.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were like soul mates, he says, like twins or something, they had a whole lot in common. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It feels as if they can see right through me to my weak, cowardly soul. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I got through that day without telling a soul. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether people agree or disagree - and I know there's not one soul in this room now who'd agree with everything I say - at least I'll get them thinking. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mikey said if there was a sin it would be on his soul and he wasn’t a proper Catholic anyway so it didn’t matter. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then it was gone, and its evil was left imprinted on my soul. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mind, my soul, is greater than anything that can bind me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind my impassive face my soul curled up into a ball, waiting until the unpleasantness was over. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Except the desire shredding me up inside was so painful, it could only be a part of my heart and soul. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

At the time not a soul in sleeping Holcomb heard them—four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The education of his family’s souls is never far from my father’s thoughts. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later Yen taught us, ‘After life, the rational soul ascends the dragon; the sentient soul descends the dragon. So in the world there can be no ghosts. This thing must have been a Fox Spirit.’ The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to pray an Act of Contrition for his departing soul, like I prayed for Lupito. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Only God can help you now, boy. You’d better get your soul right!” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

And in the process, he’d murdered my aunt, along with several of my neighbors, including sweet old Mrs. Gilmore, who had never hurt a soul. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

If our souls could go to eternal glory, our hardworking motherbodies surely deserved more. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was back in the Ministry of Love, with everything forgiven, his soul white as snow. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In the fall, a few brave souls sneak into the woods to harvest apples. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He would have said Ronan is a good soul, and I would have to agree. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

His worshipers believed that his death and resurrection showed that the soul lives on forever after the body dies. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When her soul had shaken loose from her body she’d had nothing to hold on to it with; no arms to reach with or hands to grip with. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think he needed to hear that his words were literally feeding my soul at that moment. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

My view of the world is not merely that of a black man but that of a black man with something of a Jewish soul. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could taste their rage at Wick’s abominations, distinguish each soul’s flickering memories as they buzzed through the air. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The rat’s soul was set afire, and because of this, he journeyed upstairs, seeking the light. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

There were those who would have seen us stumble backward into hatred and vitriol and prejudice, who wanted to reignite old embers of division within our country’s very soul. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

That people were walking around as if there were no such thing in the world as poor souls in my predicament. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the game, I rush home to prepare for Aibileen’s that night, relieved there’s not a soul in the house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I knew that eternity lasted forever, and a soul because of one mistake could spend that eternity in hell. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just starting to rain when I got there, with not a soul in sight, but I parked the car and walked around the graveyard anyway. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d never seen the likes of this, but they’d leave their mark on this new land, as surely as those famous souls at Jamestown, making it theirs through unstoppable racial logic. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Coraline raised the stone to her eye and she scanned the room through it, looking for something that glowed or glinted, a telltale sign that somewhere in this room was another hidden soul. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He would not be cremated, so his soul would not be freed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

‘You are Aspirants. Your footsteps echo in the sand and the stars. To own souls such as yours is a great honor. You will serve me well.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When it filled up, some brave soul would carry it outside, dig a hole, and empty it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell it to Evan. He says they can steal your breath. Or your soul or something.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She stayed by my side all along the way, a small, silent shadow who aroused an unknown tenderness in my soul. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My soul had been invaded—and devoured—by a black flame. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I ain’t done much studying on the Bible, but I believe it do say somewhere in there that all human beings has souls. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

A popular song across the country in the late 1950’s was Tennessee Ernie Ford’s “Sixteen Tons,” where he sang about a miner owing his soul to the company store. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

After a pause he added, “But I don’t want their souls buzzing round me, all the same.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Don’t go to school, I’m a businessman—girl, I mean. I go to wait on my great-aunt, and a dear, cross old soul she is, too,” answered Jo. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s not a soul around to see you. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

She kept saying that till I got bored as hell, and I said to her, "Why don't you go on over and give him a big soul kiss, if you know him? He'll enjoy it." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“You eat little children who haven’t even had time to earn their souls.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I could feel my soul stirring when he spoke. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Meir’s words echoed in my head: The body cannot sustain two souls. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Your father wants me to be his Champion? What—don’t tell me that he’s managed to eliminate every noble soul out there! Surely there’s one chivalrous knight, one lord of steadfast heart and courage.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was as if the world had fallen silent because the boy’s soul had. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Healed in both body and soul, Pedro Tercero Garcia made his way to the capital with a bundle of clothes and a few coins the priest had taken from the poor box. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I firmly believe that people’s souls can splinter off when they die. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“It means a person’s soul will be reborn into the next life if bees are around.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Good Jesus, Whose loving heart was ever troubled by the sorrows of others, look with pity on the soul of our dear one in Purgatory. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what a soul was but I didn’t ask him because I didn’t care. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We crossed lines in sand drawn through palmetto scrub, lines down the middle of highways, soup-kitchen lines, lines of worry, souls lined up awaiting the burning tongue of salvation. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu took tiny portions, pleased she had snacked on some nuts before they left; she did not like soul food. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He pursed his lips and shook his head sadly, as if he pitied the poor souls who were unwilling to push their bodies to the limit in search of the feral pig. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

A goalie, even in youth soccer, needs to be aggressive and sometimes reckless, but Eldin and Mafoday were both gentle, happy souls. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Partly. We know the wights have been interested in the second soul for years now.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

"My father is the soul of avarice, and my sweet sister Cersei lusts for power with every waking breath. I, however, am innocent as a little lamb. Shall I bleat for you?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They could take away your memories, or burn your body and soul to ashes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“The burial service followed swiftly, for many suspected you sought your death, and hence your soul was cursed.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Your soul stays the same but everything else is different.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You who saved my soul. One day. Look, sweet Jesus. Look down, on these your suffering children—” The church begged, “Look down, Lord.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The impersonal operator of the machine could, by wearing a special optical helmet, gaze into the soul of the person whom he was pumping out. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But it’s the other way round with a Horcrux. The fragment of soul inside it depends on its container, its enchanted body, for survival. It can’t exist without it.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Yes. You know what a friend is, Reuven? A Greek philosopher said that two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z