Write down the 4th Sentence on the 23rd page of the book beside your hand

She began to go slowly upstairs, with her hand on the bannisters, as if she had left a party, where now this friend that had flashed back her, her voice; had shut the door and gone out and stood alone, a single figure against the appalling night, or rather, to be accurate, against the stare of this matter-of-fact June morning; soft with the glow of rose petals for some, she knew, and felt it, as she paused by the open staircase window which let in blinds flapping, dogs barking, let in, she thought, feeling herself suddenly shrivelled, aged, breastless, the grinding, blowing, flowering of the day, out of doors, out of the window, out of her body and brain which now failed, since Lady Bruton, whose lunch parties were said to be extraordinarily amusing, had not asked her.

Once, in Texas, I kicked a habit on weed, a pint of paregoric and a few Louis Armstrong records.

(Junky - Burroughs)

"Dementors here?"

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix -- JK Rowling, which I've been seriously neglecting in favor of my computer and must read twenty chapters of in order to finish the series by the premiere.

Des femmes de son âge, mariées, divorcées, plus jeunes.

"Laisse-moi seule."

(Trans. - "Leave me alone.")

He would be the very Mawworm of bachelors who pretended not to expect it. -Middlemarch by George Eliot

"So here I am against my will, and yours, I know that; for no one loves the bearer of bad news."
Antigone, Sophocles

the elderly couple pass by,glance at them and notice nothing wrong.

The WINNER STANDS ALONE by Panlo Coelho .

But I won't say anything.

-demian by hesse

'Love me as well as ever, was my sister's.'

Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady, Samuel Richardson.

I got there in the end :D and like it too.

I didn't say anything.

"You're English ain't better than what any other refugee talks."

"Rosa" in Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl

After all, I spend so much time there, all of this raising another question, namely: who will be the first person to see me dead?

"Nineteen fifty-three, the year of the double helix, will come to be seen not only as the end of mystical and obscurantist views of life; Darwinians will see it as the year their subject went finally digital." ~ River Out Of Eden

"From this point of view, if there is a field of historical studies (as I believe) and not merely a group of several fields, it can be nothing less than the whole body of questions about human cultural development, about human culture in its continuity over time; and here we cannot rule out a potential need to develop relatively dateless generalizations, for instance about what may be possible in cultural change, such generalizations are not simply derivable from any other discipline as such, yet they are necessary for studying what is timelessly important about the dated and placed events of human culture."

The Venture of Islam, Conscience and History in a World Civilization. Volume 1, The Classical Age of Islam. By Marshall G.S. Hodgson

Uncle Siegfried had a peculiar sense of humor.

Good Bye To All That

"One would guess (but has the subject actually been investigated?) that even so essentially traditionalist an activity as popular institutional religion has found little difficulty in accepting it."

~ On History

And in his tyme swich a conquerour

But it is love for which I seek you now! What misery!

The Metamorphoses of Ovid

"Arrived now at adolescence I burned for all the satisfactions of hell, and I sank to the animal in a succession of dark lusts: my beauty consumed away, and I stank in Thine eyes, yet was pleasing in my own and anxious to please the eyes of men."

The Confessions of St. Augustine

The drunk just stood there.

"Nope," Metzger said.

"What do you know about this Lasker?" Shpringer says.

"Thou lookest tired and hungry: thou'st been treated ill. Come with me."

The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain

On these occasions our two little ones always read for us, and they were regularly served after we had done.

"Each movement is designed to scientifically oxygenate, then stretch, then strengthen, and then restretch a particular muscle group."

'The Pilates Pregnancy'
by Mari Winsor with Mark Laska

"We always hope calamity will not overtake us in this lifetime, rather like children trying to avoid difficult lessons."

Gatherer of Clouds by Sean Russell

"The widow rushed to prepare for battle."
Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges

Moreover, if N is relatively prime to 10 (that is, is not divisible by 2 or 5), then some multiple of N consists entirely of 1s.

The USSR Olympiad Problem Book
D.O. Shklarsky, N.N. Chentzov and I.M. Yaglom

"Sick minds identified the notion of a Terra planet with that of another world and this 'Other World' got confused not only with the 'Next World' but with the Real World in us and beyond us."

Ada or Ardor - Nabokov.

"Well, what the hell, he can shake hands can't he?"

From "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey.

A breeze flaunting ever so warmly down the Mall through the thin trees, past the bronze heroes, lifted some flag flying in the British breast of Mr. Bowley and he raised his hat as the car turned into the Mall and held it high as the car approached and let the poor mothers of Pimlico press close to him, and stood very upright.

"You could say that." Richard Adams "Watership Down"

"There's no past, present or future outside our own mind."

Against the South wall of the room there was a couch of mother-of-pearl, on which the girls spread an embroidered coverlet and helped the priest to lie down. (From the story A Taoist Priest in the book Taoist Tales edited by Raymond Van Over) The fifth sentence of page 23 is even better though: The priest then pulled the older girl down to share his pillow, and bade the younger one to stand by the couch and scratch him.

"A wagtail, like a blue-gray wind, quickstepped across the sand."

"Sounds" from The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

"Why, Richard often wondered, did his mother hate him so?"

From "Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer" by Philip Carlo

"The Warning on Inner Hatch mentioned food, water, and air; and yet surely these were not necessities for the fiends of Hell."

From "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter M. Miller Jr.

Can't you tell them I'm alright, Mr. Gilbert?

"De bes' way is to res' easy en let de ole man take his own way." Huck Finn, Mark Twain