My nearest book is a book about raising sheep.

Flushing increases the number of eggs released by the ewe at breeding.

Oh do you raise sheep, Honeybee? Or want to?

My nearest book is my son's. It's Zac Power: Overdrive.

'The first date on the list was next Wednesday'.

i don't raise them now, Copago. This is just a book that my kids used years ago when they were in 4-H and FFA. I had it on my desk because a friend asked me a question that I didn't know offhand and I looked it up for her.

ahh gotcha, i do have sheep which is why my antenna raised

"I slipped my fingers under the hatch and pulled."

Beyond the Horizon
Colin Angus

His boat is sinking in the Bering Sea while attempting to row across.
As you do.

"With a smile I joined him by the door as he thoughtfully looked me over."

Dick Francis, Decider

"The last thing I need is to be pulling around a three-hundred-pound gorilla with a chip on his shoulder so big it's a wonder he's not hunchbacked from it."

That's from Sherrilyn Kenyon's "Dream Chaser" so it's quite amazing it was 'printable' here lol, given the 'adult' nature of a lot of her books

"It is an honour to have him in the garden". Gerald Durrell 'Encounters with Animals' (Talking about the snail...)

From Terry Pratchett's "Wyrd Sisters".

"Something a bit less physical is generally the style of things," interrupted Granny, staring at Nanny Ogg.

"Along the way Peter had picked up just the skills he needed -- carriage building and metalworking."
from "Windmills, Bridges, & Old Machines: Discovering Our Industrial Past" by David Weitzman. (I'm sitting at my dad's desk.)

'He did not wish to be touched in a way that might let another possess him'

Fool's Fate - Robin Hobb

And another one, because I like to do this:

'He held up his meaty fist'

Before They Are Hanged - Joe Abercrombie

"Fracture to both legs, probably pelvis, possibly back: quadriplegic."

... from "The Maytrees", by Annie Dillard ~ and how interesting that that one sentence from that randomly asked-for page 61 is one of the most pivotal/thematic ones in the whole novel!

Well, I looked around and the nearest book was "The Big Book of Tell Me Why" by Arkady Leokum. On the cover it says it's answers to hundreds of questions children ask.

"It is quite possible that the kiss as a form of affection can be traced back to primitive times when a mother would fondle her child, just as a mother does today."

Of course the question was 'How did the custom of kissing start?'

From "The First Family" by Mike Dash:

"It was also frighteningly insecure."

The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe. I didn't know that she had a half sister...

"Audition" by Barbara Walters


But he was no normal, average American father.

From "The Husband" by Dean Koontz:

"It's just twice a year. Three times," Mitch said.

From "Founders" by Ray Raphael:

He then ordered Hillsborough to rescind his own letter.

The book, whose full title is "Founders: The People who Brought You a Nation," is not so dry as it sounds. It considers the first days of revolutionary foment in the present U.S. through the accounts of players other than such usual suspects as Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin. The sentence I included has to do with events of 1768.

I'm increasingly interested in history, perhaps because I have so much of my own behind me. *creak*

All it said was, "Sorry".
From Certain Prey by John Sanford

'Sophie's World' - Jostein Gaarder

'Did you say joker?'

I just found this book in a local bookshop which is closing down and got it for the bargain price of £2.00.
I would also like to recommend 'The Solitaire Mystery' by the same author.

"His hair was like splinters."

Zusak, The Book Thief

"One of them's got a broken nose and the other's walkin' funny."

Lula to Morelli in Janet Evanovich's "Finger Lickin' Fifteen".

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's autobiography Giant Steps:

5th Sentence, Page 61, right?

"The liberals had money but no power, and it wasn't their (butt) on the line, so how far could you trust them."

Funny, almost 50 years since the timeline of that quote - not much has changed!

"He lived in Europe the arorogant life of the newly sophisticated, his principal sophistications consisiting of speaking French and knowing how to check into a hotel room with a woman who was not his wife".

From "A Reliable Wife" by Robert Goolrick. (It's a really good book)

You're going to love this:

AGN Physics with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

"These results have important implications for quasar demographics deduced both from the SDSS and from surveys from X-ray to radio wavelengths."