Grab the Nearest Book...

"These were not people bent on conquest."

The Better Man by Howard Weinstein (a Star Trek novel)

 

"Not forever", and at that the faerie girl smiled.


Stardust - Neil Gaiman

 

'Julia considers offering to do it for her, but desists, knowing how insulted Sam gets.'

Yep, that's about how boring that book is.

 

"The Candle Crown popped into my head out of nowhere." -Amy Brown Art Bool

 

Nevertheless, many people foolishly persist in expirementing with mushrooms containing nerve poisons, in search of hallucinongenic or intoxicating effects.

 

"Most accounts of the Aran Islands, including my own first attempt, give one the idea that these stones have been hurled up over cliffs from the bottom of the sea, whereas in fact thay have been stripped off the rim of the cliff and moved inland by small degrees."

Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage - Tim Robinson

 

"My dear little cousin," said he with all the gentleness of an excellent nature, "what can be the can be the matter?"
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen

 

May the forlorn find new hope

 

The branches and twigs of Darwin's great Tree may actually grow with a grace and orderliness that is simply too vast for us to be able to see.

from The Great American Desert by Jon Manchip White

 

According to L.P Matveyev (1977) sporting form can be judged effectively from sport results only when they are demonstrated with a certain frequency under comparable conditions and assessed by objective indices (measures).

From an English language translation of a smuggled cold-war era Soviet text on weightlifting "Managing the Training of Weightlifters" by Nikolai Petrovich Laputin and Valentin Grigoryevich Oleshko, published by Zdorov'ya publishers in Kiev, 1982