Here’s THE GAME: Grab the book nearest you. Right now. • Turn to page 56. • Find the fifth sentence. • Reblog these instructions & post that sentence • Don’t dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST book.
Uncle Vernon looked as though he had something stuck in his throat; Aunt Petunia, however, was oddly flushed.
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (Chapter 3 - Will and Won’t) by J.K. Rowling
“3. Cultural incorporation also indicates assimilation without extinction because individuals retain patterns representative of both cultures.”
Handbook of Asian American Psychology
Instead of attempting to disguise and deny what was happening to them, or viewing it with hysterical fright, they generally felt one with the universe and therefore looked upon the actual dying process as merely another event in eternal existence.
-The psychedelic encyclopedia by Peter Stafford.
”But the owl lay motionless and pathetic as a toy on the floor of her cage” - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling.
“He might have spoken, but I did not hear; one hand was stetched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped, and rushed down stairs.”— “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley
“If pulse returns, check breathing.” (Idk if this actually counts as a book?) so:
“I wished merely to show that I admired you by inviting you to dine with me—”
A CPR instructional thing and then Penmarric by Susan Howatch.
They had interviewed her, of course, and she had told them that her brother’s death and the way he died would be her life’s tragedy.
—Spider Light by Sarah Rayne
Honest: “Quicker, even.” Sabriel, by Garth Nix. Ah, if only you’d also read the first four… And the whole series.
…Anyone