Grab the book nearest to you. Flip to page 71. Write the sentence that begins 4 lines down.
“Heart chambers fill during diastole (relaxation of the heart) and pump blood out during systole (contraction of the heart).” — Physiology textbook (Novels, what novels? I don’t have novels around me. I drown in science textbooks.)“‘Would Sark hesitate to stop at murder in such a case?’” The Currents of Space by Isaac Asimov.
‘May I have that paper, Eileen?’
Red Dragon, Thomas Harris
“She was soon after afflicted with a most palpable urge to vomit, and politely cupped her hands lest the sight of her sick distress the present party.”
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith.
“She still has the brightest smile and the darkest eyes and that wonderful scent of freshly washed skin… and everything about her still turns your body inside out… and she’s still going to the zoo with you on Tuesday…”
- Candy by Kevin Brooks
’He was about to follow Ron and Hermione inside when the Lockhart’s hand shot out.’
”The little prince gazed at him for a long time.” The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery.
“The mutton bird is clearly the most commercially important of Australian sea birds.”
“And now that she is vanished to her rest, and I have meditated for another hour or two, I shall summon courage to go also, in spite of aching laziness of head and limbs.”
-Wuthering Heights
“She answered the door at once; in fact, she was on her way out- white satin dancing pumps and quantities of perfume announced gala intentions.”
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote
“The Four Shamrocks were Webster Brothers, Conroy, and Thompson, and each was a broth of a bhoy.”
American Vaudeville: Its Life and Times
Other patients appear with an unexplained illness characterized by nonspecific signs and symptoms and no immediate history of ingestion. (Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach)
…orly? good to know.
“It was a black-market rug from Istanbul via Hungary, and Pfefferberg had been given the job of finding it by Ingrid, who had moved out for the duration of Emilie’s visit.
Schindlers List - Thomas Keneally
She began to think, was Nature beautiful or cruel; and then she asked herself what this beauty was; whether it was in things themselves, or only in herself; so she went on to the nature of reality, which led her to truth, which in its turn led to Love, Friendship, Poetry (as in the days on the high mound at home); which meditations, since she could impart no word of them, made her long, as she had never longed before, for pen and ink.
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
