"It has always amused me that such a methody planet produces such fine vintages."Anne McCaffrey
Lyon's Pride
Taunted by Art Garfunkel's reading list, I decided to keep my own. Then I read Nick Hornby's The Polysyllabic Spree.
"It has always amused me that such a methody planet produces such fine vintages."Anne McCaffrey
My mouth is terribly dry.Kelly Luce
These, when he was able to focus on them, seemed even less convincing than the flashes of ice-blue velour and feral babies creeping silently through the dark.William Gibson
She was never there, or in the next place, or the next.William Gibson
"You want to try now, Case?"William Gibson
Men in couples or threes stood pensive or moved silently along the bulwarks at the waist.Joseph Conrad
I told him, knock it off, this wasn't funny.Maria Stoian
Up close she is nearly beautiful, young and somehow tender, but from further away or with a smaller or darker reproduction, you can see the skull in the set face of this emigrant, as though through hunger, exhaustion, fear, she is close to other borders than national ones.Rebecca Solnit
The Rowan lifted the explanation of this phenomena from Goswina's public mind: indent meant indentured, and on Capella groups of indentured persons would often indulge in unlawful activities once their worktime was over.Anne McCaffrey
Had she and her Rafi ever been sent so far from that Guildhouse of theirs before?Susan Schwartz
She looked in all directions but saw nothing except grass and darkness.J.M. Lee
And, from the first impression of Kiku's home, it was clear to Mu who that was.Lian Hearn
Kiku continued his experiments.Lian Hearn
Rice crops failed, beans withered on the stem, fruit did not ripen.Lian Hearn
"Please leave, lord."Lian Hearn
The Chinese mother will gasp in horror and ask what went wrong.Amy Chua
After that, Blossom got what she needed with hardly any trouble at all.William Sleator
"Whichever one of us draws the forfeit will ask our radiant one to...well...to do something quite extraordinary."Boris Akunin
"I don't think it is funny."Greg Rucka
"Here we are, and they are waiting for us."Arthur Conan Doyle
But nothing really made sense.Philippa Dowding
It pleased Mrs. Poulteney highly; and it slyly and permanentlyperhaps after all Sarah really was something of a skilled cardinalreminded the ogress, each time she took her throne, of her protégée's forgivable side.John Fowles
There are some obvious differences: Nietzsche was an academic philologist, while Moriarty taught mathematics.Samuel Rosenberg
Run cultivators, both of us.John Steinbeck
foully entreated his folk and lands. The word 'entreat', which conventionally has the meaning 'supplicate' or 'plead with', seems startlingly inapposite in this context.J.R.R. Tolkien, Ed. Verlyn Flieger
And here's another I'd win, that you're making me call them so you can sneak a drink before they come.Eugene O'Neill
She fled his mind and dissolved the summoning at speed.Lawrence M. Schoen
"Can you stuff this pill down her throat, skipper?" he begged.Poul Anderson
Our new editor makes sprucing up that profile a breeze!Michael Cho
"I don't believe any of this."Eric Orchard
"He saw the hidden rituals of the snakes."George O'Connor
"We've tried to keep it a hobby, but it's rather difficult."Tarun Shanker, Kelly Zekas
Now the upward pitch of the Tuscan mouth has nearly reached into a smile, so I ask Barlozzo about the communal oven in San Casciano.Marlena di Blasi
"I don't want you to think..."Jacqueline West
"Speak, Dan. About your Antonia. I'd make a song in honor of her memory, if you would like that."Poul Anderson
It was instantly vaporized.Dave Bara
"And then you were together five years in California, so that this business dates back not less than eleven years at the least?"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle