Tables Quotes - Page 39

• Poppy was now almost well. She still slept more than usual, but when she wasn't sleeping she tromped around the doctor's house pulling spoons off the table and spilling cups of water and crumpling pages of books. That is, she was almost her old self.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Book, Sleep, Doctors

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.211, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Mrs Bawden yanked me away from the table and dragged me across the food hall. I tried to twist away from her, but she had a grip like a python on steroids.

  Malorie Blackman

  Python, Twists, Noughts And Crosses

  Malorie Blackman (2009). “Naughts & Crosses”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• I have developed a rash on my body where the rough cloth rubs on my skin. I wanted to take a bath, thinking that the dirt on my skin made the rash worse, but the bathing tub has been turned upside down and is being used as an extra table in the kitchen and i cannot have it until spring, so I just spread goose grease on my rash. The dogs are following me everywhere.

  Karen Cushman

  Dog, Spring, Thinking

  Karen Cushman (2014). “Catherine, Called Birdy”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• He pulled my coat off my shoulders, looked at it with distaste, hung it on the back of one of the chairs pushed in under the kitchen table. "You are beautiful". No one had ever looked me in the eyes and said that. Eric to Sookie, Page 208.

  Charlaine Harris

  Beautiful, Eye, Kitchen

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.921, Penguin

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• Vlad twisted his wrist, pinching his fingers together, spinning the bronze coin on the table. When it fell, he picked it up and did it again, counting. Thirty-two times it had fallen Slayer Society up. Twenty-two times it was down.

  Heather Brewer

  Two, Together, Twenties

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• I sit at a table close to his desk. Ivy is in this class. She sits by the door. I keep staring at her, trying to make her look at me. That happens in movies - people can feel it when oother people stare at them and they just have to turn around and say something. Either Ivy has a great force field, or my lazer vision isn't very strong.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Strong, Force Fields, Doors

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• You don't... get it, boy... This isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon.

  Frank Miller

  Boys, Surgeons

  "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns". Comic book by Frank Miller, 1986.

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• Now-what’s our game plan?” Coach Hedge belched. He’d already had three espressos and a plate of doughnuts, along with two napkins and another flower from the vase on the table. He would’ve eaten the silverware, except Piper had slapped his hand. “Climb the mountain,” Hedge said. “Kill everything except Piper’s dad. Leave.” “Thank you General Eisenhower,” Jason grumbles.

  Rick Riordan

  Dad, Flower, Hands

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• In the early morning hours, Hannah read at the table by the dim light of dawn. She leaned in close to the pages, chin resting on her folded arms, eyes racing over the words, like chasing butterflies over the hills, to catch as many as she could before going to work. She wondered at how such tales of magic could be contained by mere paper and ink for her to read again and again.

  Matthew J. Kirby

  Morning, Butterfly, Eye

  Matthew J. Kirby (2012). “The Clockwork Three”, p.29, Scholastic Inc.

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• Elvis!" Min shoved herself off the couch to shoo him away. "Stay away from there. There's broken glass." "He did that on purpose," David said, outraged. "Yes, David, the cat is plotting against you." Min fished the base out of the water and glass shards and put it on the table. Then she went to get her wastebasket and began to put the glass pieces in it.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Cat, Glasses, Broken

  Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Bet Me”, p.251, Macmillan

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• One minute you could be getting a smoke in the alley on the Lower East Side with your friends, having drinks and dancing on tables in a popular nightclub. And the next minute, you could be dead.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Dancing, Next, Sides

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “Blue Bloods: Number 1 in series”, p.29, Hachette UK

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• The first thing I did when I got inside was turn on the kitchen light. Then I moved to the table, putting my dad's iPod on the speaker dock, and a Bob Dylan song came on, the notes familiar. I went into the living room, hitting the switch there, then down the hallway to my room, where I did the same. It was amazing what a little noise and brightness could do to a house and a life, how much the smallest bit of each could change everything. After all these years of just passing through, I was beginning to finally feel at home.

  Sarah Dessen

  Song, Dad, Home

  "What Happened To Goodbye". Book by Sarah Dessen, May 10, 2011.

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• I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on the shop and street I gazed My body of a sudden blazed; And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness, That I was blessed and could bless.

  William Butler Yeats

  Book, Blessed, Men

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• I just want to get on a table, dance on someone's tater tots, and wait for the hall monitor to drag me away

  Katherine Applegate

  Waiting, Want, Tots

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• She had of course, kept working. He liked to think she would have moved under the table to continue her task if a gun battle had broken out, but he wasn't sure.

  Eileen Wilks

  Gun, Thinking, Broken

  Eileen Wilks (2004). “Tempting Danger”, p.225, Penguin

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• I don't appreciate people who celebrate their dog's birthdays with "dog parties," and then invite their friends who don't even have dogs. I understand why people like dogs, and I think they definitely bring more to the table than cats or those godforsaken ferrets, but I don't think it's healthy for people to treat their dogs like they are real people.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Dog, Real

  Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear came over him- he could not feel. He could reason; he could read, Dante for example, quite easily…he could add up his bill; his brain was perfect; it must be the fault of the world then- that he could not feel.

  Virginia Woolf

  Perfect, Brain, Example

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.88, Broadview Press

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• This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.

  Jodi Picoult

  Realizing, My Sisters Keeper, Anna

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.869, Simon and Schuster

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• Hornergy' is Zen's term for the indomitable athletic edge powered by sexual restraint. The basketball, baseball and football teams haven't had a winning season in years. The table-tennis team, however, is undefeated.

  Megan McCafferty

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

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• Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business.

  Brian Jacques

  Three, Kicking, Looks

  Brian Jacques (2013). “Redwall”, p.160, Random House

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• I couldn't meet his gaze. I stared at the table just behind him--the mess of cards on it, the lantern giving off its quiet glow. "When you gave me your shirt to wear that night, I could feel you. I could feel your essence." The world went still. We were standing only inches from each other, not touching. Outside, I could hear the faint murmur of the wind blowing through the trees. "What did it feel like?" he asked in a low voice. "Like...coming home," I admitted.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Home, Night, Wind Blowing

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• Obviously a fake Kyp. You distract him. I'll shoot him under the table." Han (to Leia)

  Aaron Allston

  Fake, Leia

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• some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished. Everything went past without me.

  Jennifer Egan

  Morning, Past, Hair

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.65, Anchor

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• I buy wine according to the bottle design. After I get down the first glass it all tastes okay to me so I figure you go for something classy to look at on the table

  Janet Evanovich

  Wine, Glasses, Design

  Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg (2016). “Janet Evanovich 3-Book Variety Summer Bundle: The Heist, Wicked Business, Smokin' Seventeen”, p.635, Bantam

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• He tried to listen to the conversations going on at the table and he found that he could no longer concentrate on what anyone was saying and which was worse that he was not interested in any of what he was able to hear.

  Neil Gaiman

  Found, Conversation, Not Interested

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.198, Hachette UK

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