Transient Desires, Donna Leon
'Ah,' Brunetti exclaimed, forcing his voice into a deeper register, 'The voice of love responds, and my heart opens, brimming with the joy of...?'
'What is it, Guido?'
Murder in the Sentier, Cara Black
Every poem has an unwritten line. In this case, Aimee thought, a tragic one.
The small room didn't hold more than fifteen people. All men. And as much ethnic variety as bechamel sauce.
Romancing Mister Bridgerton, Julia Quinn
Penelope turned to her sister in disbelief. "Surely you're being a little melodramatic."
Felicity's overblown shrug was worthy of the stage. "Am I? Am I?"
The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan, x2
"Your mother is a queen among women," Poseidon said wistfully. "I had not met such a mortal woman in a thousand years. Still...I am sorry you were born, child. I have brought you a hero's fate, and a hero's fate is never happy. It is never anything but tragic."
Castle Shade, Laurie R King
The aftermath of terror is either collapse, or rage. Needless to say, I was in a proper fury by the time I had stormed along the road and up the castle drive, knife in hand and murder in heart.
Dragon Hoops, Gene Luen Yang
GENE'S SELF: Gene, comic books are essentially lies! Real life is never as cute or clean or clear as a cartoon! When you chose to tell this story as a comic, you chose to lie!
GENE: You may be right. But in this book, at least, I need the lie to serve the truth.
Outside Mullingar, John Patrick Shanley
TONY: The one reason you own that bit a land is hate and spite.
AOIFE: That's two reasons.
Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
And like that they sat for a long time, she dark and he pale, making an odd contrast amidst all the snowy-white sheets, and around them, like a vignette, the darkness of the house blurring the borders.
Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo A Anaya
I looked at the three of them standing there, and I felt that I was seeing them for the last time: Ultima in her wisdom, my mother in her dream, and my father in his rebellion.
To Sir Phillip, With Love, Julia Quinn
At the end of the day, he was going to find himself either dead or married, and he wasn't quite prepared to let the Bridgerton brothers take the matter to a vote.
Stargate SG-1: Exile, Sally Malcolm & Laura Harper
"I don't think I'm ready to look for silver linings yet, sir."
"I know," he said and his boots crunched in the ashy dirt as he turned away. "But let me know when you are."
Dead Midnight, Marcia Muller
Emotion, I thought, is fast and hot--and deadly to you. Obsession is slow and cold--and deadly to others.
Men on Boats, Jaclyn Backhaus
OLD SHADY. We've got your beans in this boat John Wesley.
POWELL. You better keep those safe or I'll decry you in my journal!
The Library of Lost and Found, Phaedra Patrick
Martha retracted her hand. Her blood cooled at the words, even you.
Mister Impossible, Maggie Stiefvater
People who are one thing have never known what to do with people who are more than one thing.
Mermaid, Carolyn Turgeon
This is how it works, she thought. When the world becomes something new, it seems always to have been that way.
Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo
"You're a flat beast," Hellie had once said to her. "Got a little viper lurking in there, ready to strike. A rattler probably." She'd said it with a grin, but she'd been right. All this winter weather and polite conversation had put the serpent to sleep, its heartbeat slowing as it grew lazy and still, like any cold-blooded thing.
Part of Your World, Liz Braswell
"She's...half...octopus?"
"No, she's half god," Ariel said impatiently. "And what's wrong with octopuses?"
Star Wars: The High Republic: The Rising Storm, Cavan Scott
She brought her Vector around and looked for another regret to add to her tally.
Kali's Wrath, Keith RA DeCandido
When either Daniel or Carter went off on an intellectual rant, O’Neill found it was better to always react with annoyance, regardless of whether or not he was actually annoyed, as showing that he thought any of it was cool would just encourage them to babble even more, and then nothing would ever get done.
The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitudes and latitudes. Just as, she supposed, it is hard to have a sense of vastness inside any one person.
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
'Until recently, I didn't think that humans could choose loneliness. That there were sometimes forces more powerful than the wish to avoid loneliness.'
Bewilderment, Richard Powers
The library was the best dungeon crawl imaginable: free loot for the finding, combined with the joy of leveling up.
Race to the Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse
I must have superspeed, too! Probably inherited from my monster-fighting ancestors. Clearly, this is the coolest moment ever.
The Lost Apothecary, Sarah Penner
Why did we go to such lengths to protect the fragile minds of children? We only robbed them of the truth--and the chance to grow numb to it before it arrived with a hard knock on the door.
Unbirthday, Liz Braswell
The air seemed sunsetty--the sun, however, was feeling tardy and hung in the sky high away from bedtime. The moon sulked on the eastern horizon and turned away from its sibling, who always seemed to hog the attention.
The Revolutionists, Lauren Gunderson
MARIANNE. She is risking everything for her art. So be nice to the playwright, because she holds fiction like you hold that blade and I know her weapon is sharper.
A Game of Thrones, George RR Martin, x5
In her mind's eye, all the doors were red.
Death Masks, Jim Butcher
Tigers with full stomachs wear smiles like Marcone's when they're watching baby deer play.
Never Enough, Judith Grisel
The relief following an intensely stressful experience, if you live through the event, may make it all worthwhile. Maybe this helps explain why people push themselves to exercise or go to graduate school.
Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron: Victory's Price, Alexander Freed
Syndulla had the expression of a woman who'd run a marathon to reach a funeral.
When He Was Wicked, Julia Quinn
She ran.
She ran to her bedroom, and then the next day she ran to her mother.
And then the day after that, she ran all the way to Scotland.
H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
And every afternoon I walked out onto the pitch with relief, because when the hawk was on my fist I knew who I was, and I was never angry with her, even if I wanted to sink to my knees and weep every time she tried to fly away.
Star Wars: The High Republic: A Test of Courage, Justina Ireland
The Jedi's stubbornness prickled at Avon in an annoying way, because it was something she could admire, if there were time.
Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao
I am exactly the kind of ice-blooded, rotten-hearted girl he fears I am. And I am fine with that.
May he stay unsettled.
American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures, America Ferrera, et al
I stood in the mountains of Honduras wondering what else there was to discover about the blood I carry, wondering who I might have been if my parents hadn't left, imagining the life they could've lived if Honduras was a country that held promise and opportunity for them and their children. For the first time I caught a glimpse of the unlived version of my life, and it wasn't as simple as I wanted it to be.
The Death of Jane Lawrence, Caitlin Starling
"A poorly designed ritual can lead a magician astray. A magician gets what she asked for, whether she meant to ask for it or not."
The Dark Archive, Genevieve Cogman
"Madam," Vale said, "I have grown used to attempts to murder me. I no longer view them with the concern I once did."
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