From Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess;

"Christ rightly calls himself the good shepherd, but the bishops carry metal croziers that would never disentangle a baaing prisoner of a thorn bush."

From People of the Sea by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear:

"Wounded animals always run downhill."

Finnikin of the Rock - Melina Marchetta.

Yellow painted eyes tracked him, while outstretched claw-like fingers traced an icy line along his arm whenever he brushed against the jagged rock.

My nearest book is my fathers' copy of "The Bluejackets' Manual.
"No transfer or exchange of uniform clothing may be made without the authority of the commanding officer."

Does this mean you have to track down the C.O. when you want to borrow clean socks?

Charly

"I am a man."

Greg Kuzma, What Poetry Is All About

"I sympathize with poor Desdemona when she had such a stream poured in her ear, even by a black man."

Bram Stoker, Dracula

Stu, I thought you'd enjoy that.

My closest book is a Dictionary (as I have just been creating a new quiz) and the fifth word on page 61 is bibliophile n. book-lover. [F] If that doesn't count then my actual closest book is 'The Forest House' by Marion Zimmer Bradley.

The fifth sentence on page 61 is:
Gently he turned her face towards him.

I have no idea who the people concerned are or anything about the story and probably never will. It is a book my brother is selling on ebay and is near the computer as he was taking a picture of it.

Sorry I didn't mean to do that much bolding I only meant to bold the word bibliophile which didn't work. I don't know what I did wrong

The nearest book was a washout, being the Eyewitness Travel guide to India. Page 61 was a map So second-nearest:

'For once, and in this particular case, the pre-conceived notion that one wave resembles another proved to be correct.'
- 'The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear', Walter Moers

From Your Heart Belongs to Me, by Dean Koontz: "He had no reason to distrust her."

From: Harry Potter and the Sorceress Stone.
Page 147, Line 23.
"I'll kill Fred, he was going on about a wrestling troll."

Even if you pinched this idea it was a very clever one, was fun to read the responses!

"A man's lay is further protected by a method of figuring which takes no account fo the whales actually captured during his term of service"

Robert Cushman Murphy, Logbook For Grace

The Three Investigators. Secret of the Terror castle.

pg.10, line 26.
"A haunted house?"Bob repeated, frowning. "How can you solve a haunted house?"

Not trying to be a smart Alec but...

"XML, Pocket Reference" [3rd Edition] by Simon St Laurent and Michael Fitzgerald, in the O'Reilly series.

I keep it in arms length all the time. Now this will get interesting [giggles]...

P 61, sentence 5:

Meanwhile, xxs:attribute group is limited to containing xs:attribute, xs:attributeGroup, or xs:anyAttribute.

LOL - I LOVE this thread. My nearest book is a sophisticated Silhouette Nocturne romance novel : Doranna Durgin, "Jaguar Night."

"He's really out of it," Anica said. "Maybe we should call 911."

I haven't read it yet, though. But that sentence intrigues me.

Y

"The formation of the Kenya National Party (KNP), supported by eight of the fourteen elected members and led by Muliro, Ngala, Moi and Towett, in July 1959 marked the first split in the ranks of African nationalists."

B.A. Ogot and W.R. Ochieng', Decolonization & Independence in Kenya, 1940-93

"He liked Baxter-really, he did."

From "Hate Crime" by: William Bernhardt

"Not like this."

From "Ex-Girlfriends United" - Matt Dunn

Cool thread idea.

From Four Past Midnight by Stephen King:

"Engle's Idea."

"Certainly not," said Zeno.
From "Circus Days Again" by Enid Blyton

"That is why he is standing like that"

from The Full Cupboard of Life, Alexander McCall Smith

"I was crossing it with a friend,more than a friend, a guide, and he was making me get down and look at them".

From Dispatches by Michael Herr.

Anne McCaffrey - Decision at Doona, ancient Ballantine paperback

Every Hrruban ear was flat against the skull.