Meme from some people

[green_queen]

Find the closest book.

* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST (okay, there are THREE BOOKS that are more or less equidistant from me, so I am picking...all three!)

Not love so much as eroticism was the enemy, inside marriage as well as outside it.

1984, George Orwell

The doctor had finished the suture and had handed something to the nurse.

The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith

Frodo went tramping all over the Shire with them; but more often he wandered by himself, and to the amazement of sensible folk he was sometimes seen far from his home walking in the hills and woods under the starlight.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, JRR Tolkien

Green Queen

Comments

[ladyminya.livejournal.com]

"A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad," I continued, "if you were a regular black; and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly. And now that we've done washing, and combing, and sulking - tell me whether you don't think yourself rather handsome? I'll tell you, I do. You're fit for a prince in disguise. Who knows, but your father was Emperor of China, and your mother an Indian queen, each of them able to buy up, with one week's income, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange together? And you were kidnapped by wicked sailors, and brought to England. Were I in your place, I would frame high notions of my birth; and the thoughts of what I was should give me courage and dignity to support the oppressions of a little farmer!"

Wuthering Heights - Emily Brönte.

I realise that wasn't exactly a sentence, but because it was dialogue I felt I should keep going. X3;;

[makkabee.livejournal.com]

"Hairy men, lazy and huge, looked up from where they lounged, in a pack, beside a heated pool of blue and gold tiles."

-- Michael Moorcock, Gloriana