"‘I’m sorry, Mr. Cole, this has nothing to do with you.’ "
– The Monkey’s Raincoat, by Robert Crais
“This is a damned peculiar way to travel,” remarked Commodore William Abernathy in a sour tone.
Restless Lightning by Richard Baker
“Michael sat down on the bed that used to be his and watched his great-great-aunt, Aunt Dew, rocking in the rocking chair.”
The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
“Elijah Baley found himself in the shade of the tree and muttered to himself, ‘I knew it. I’m sweating.’”
The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov (1983)
“The drome first came to me in the mirror when I was six.”
There There by Tommy Orange (2018)
“Drome” refers to fetal alcohol syndrome, which changed the narrator in ways he doesn’t fully understand or like.
“Truth to tell, I have absolutely no memory of my first day in kindergarten at Lincoln School in Sterling, Illinois.”
School Days, edited by Clancy Strock.
“The girl couldn’t stop doing her homework, and it was killing her.”
Autonomous, by Annalee Newitz
“I was standing on my head in the middle of my office when the door opened and the best looking woman I’d seen in three weeks walked in.”
– Stalking the Angel, by Robert Crais
"If we don’t allow presidential impeachment, warned Benjamin Franklin, then the only recourse for abuse of power will be assassination. "
–To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment, by Laurence Tribe & Joshua Matz
“We will have achieved much for the scientific study of aesthetics when we come, not merely to a logical understanding, but also to the certain and immediate apprehension of the fact that the further development of art is bound up with the duality of the Apollonian and the Dionysian, just as reproduction similarly depends upon the duality of the sexes, their continuing strife and only periodically occurring reconciliation.”
***The Birth of Tragedy ***
=>Friedrich Nietzsche
“In extent, the kingdom to which Edward returned in 1042 after nearly thirty years of exile differed more from the realm inherited by his grandfather, Edgar, than from the England we know today.”
1066: The Story of a Year, by Denis Butler
If there was a single moment it all began, it was that of Muhammad’s death.
After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split by Lesley Hazleton
Blowtorches, whipping siphons, and syringes?
Modernist Cuisine - At home by Nathan Myhrvold with Maxime Bilet
“To one side of the Explorator Four flared a dim and aging star, Carinae 4269.”
City of the Chasch by Jack Vance (1968)
“With its two fighting claws held forward like a wrestler’s arms the big pandinus scorpion emerged with a dry rustle from the finger-sized hole under the rock.”
*Diamonds are Forever *by Ian Fleming (1956)
“The half-drunk glass of lemonade in her hand grew warm as Arabella watched the other guests from a small alcove nearly completely shrouded by a voluminous potted palm.”
The Clockwork Witch, by Michelle D. Sonnier
“Some have claimed that we are damaged angels; others, that we are improved apes.”
A Second Browser’s Dictionary, by John Ciardi
I’m reading two books at the moment.
“Jasnah Kholin pretended to enjoy the party, giving no indication that she intended to have one of the guests killed.”
Words of Radiance, the second book in The Stormlight Archive, by Brandon Sanderson.
“Irene passed the mop across the stone floor in smooth, careful strokes, idly admiring the gleam of wet flagstones in the lantern-light.”
The Invisible Libray, by Genevieve Cogman.
Can’t resist adding this to this thread. (I swear, I’m sober! Your opinion may vary.)
“From prehistoric times, humans have watched the flight of birds, and longed to imitate them, but lacked the power to do so.”
From (take a guess first):
Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge (2016 edition) by Federal Aviation Administration.
“‘Oh God, make him pull over,’” I said as the car slung around yet another curve in almost total darkness."
At the Water’s Edge by Sara Gruen (2015)