Random Book Quotes
On the Book Club Forum we have a thread called “Random Quotes: page 123, paragraph 5, next 3 lines”, which got me to thinking what a great idea for my blog……So, for each book I read I shall post a random quote (3 lines), along with the page, & paragraph number & obviously from which book & who the author is.
#14) ” “No Sir, I will need to ask your servents some questions, Sir. For the latest census they have introduced a long questionnaire. All kinds of wierd things, such as which TV programmes you watch, which foods you eat, which cities you have visited, and even,” he sniggers, “how often you have sex.” ” – Q & A by Vikras Swarup – page 124, 3rd paragraph, the next 3 sentences
# 13) “Of all the Tibetans I have met in my year here, Lhamo is the most caring. When she delivers a baby, she does everything a doctor should, but she also treats the mother like a sister, buttoning her jacket, tucking a scarf around her neck, telling her husband to look after her, rearranging the cloth the baby is wrapped in. She is the same with everyone: warm, affectionate, fussy even, like family.” – A year in Tibet by Sun Shuyun - page 166, paragraph 4, the next 3 sentences
# 12) ” “Did you do something bad in work? I know that everyone says you’re an important man and that the Fury has big things in mind for you, but he’d hardly send you to a place like this if you hadn’t done something that he wanted to punish you for.” Father laughed, which upset Bruno even more; there was nothing that made him more angry than when a grown-up laughed at him for not knowing something, especially when he was trying to find out the answer by askiing questions. ” – The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne – page 50, 3rd paragraph, next 3 sentences
# 11) “That night they came for us. The day itself wound down uneventfully after I went back from seeing Derek. Drew asked me how it went, but I couldn’t bring myself to talk about it.” - Too Close to Home by Linwood Barclay – page 280, first 3 lines
#10) “They arrived to find a disturbing tableau. A sector car was at the mouth of the alley between two blocks of row houses. In front of it was a black Acura TSX.” – Play Dead by Richard Montanari – page 249, paragraph 2, next 3 lines
#9) “Rory went to his former bedroom and opened the bottom drawer of a chest where Dora kept some of his old clothes. He rifled through them until he found what he wanted. He pulled out a pair of faded jeans he hadn’t worn for several years and a white t-shirt.” – A Lifetime Burning by Linda Gillard – page 143, paragraph 5(ish), next 3 lines
# 8.) “O’Neil said, ‘Susan Pemberton. Lived in Monterey. Single, thirty-nine.’ ” – The Sleeping Doll by Jeffery Deaver – page 206, 3rd chapter, next 3 lines
# 7) “I saw the watcher immediately. He was leaning n a pillar in the centre of the Penn Station concourse, inert, with the kind of complete physical immobility that comes from being settled in for a long period of duty. He was stock-still, and the world was moving busily past him, like a river flows around a rock.” – Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child – page 129, first 3 lines
#6) “Her peevish abdomen woke her. Fi opened her eyes to find, on either side of her, the girl and the grandmother immobile, almost leaden, as though sunk in the kind of heavy slumber that follows a night of insomnia. If they hadn’t been so deeply asleep, she thought her raucous stomach might have awakened them.” – The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton – page 177, first 3 lines
#5) “I remembered the dreadful clumsiness of those first years of trying; the first horrible attempts at laughter, always at the wrong time and always sounding so very inhuman. Even speaking to the others naturally, easily, about the right thingsand with the right manufactured feelings. Slowly, painfully, akwardly learning, watching how the others did these things so effortlessly and feeling the added pain of being outside that graceful ease of expression.” – Dexter by Design by Jeff Lindsay – page 139, paragraph 2, next 3 lines
#4) ” “Have you ever been to this museum?” ” No”, she said, drawing the word out into three contemptuous syllables as only a ten-year-old girl can. “Well it might surprise you”, I said, “You might actually learn something.” “ Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay – page 137
#3) “I risked moving enough to peer down below me as I lay full-length on the narrow wall. It was hard to make out exactly what was directly underneath, other than that it was vegetation. I figured I was going drop into some rose bushes, but that was just going to have to be their fate.” Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris – page 280, paragraph 4
#2) ” “Hey bitch, I told you to leave town,” Scotty said. His words’ ugliness twisted his face. The three were suppressing so much excitement they were litterally shifting from foot to foot, shoulders moving restlessly.” Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris – page 113, 3rd paragraph
#1) “But they had their victim, alive, at a particular place and a particular time. From here they would begin a canvass of the immediate area, as well as determine the SEPTA route that stopped across the street. The laundry was a good ten blocks from Kristina Jako’s new house, so there was no way she would have walked that distance in the cold.” – Broken Angels by Richard Montanari – page 123, paragraph 5
