Random line anywhere.

[beaulolais]

"Your spirit was always beautiful to those who had the wisdom to see it", Zna-Yat the orc prince said to the ghost of his queen; "I'm glad I did."

Queen of the Orcs: Royal Destiny

- Morgan Howell  

[Lady Whispers]

"Then nothing is true here," Perloo cried, "except that Jolaine was dying." - Perloo the bold  

[Sita Harker]

"Thalia and I both skidded to a stop."
-The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)

 

[beaulolais]

"I had been warned, I had been lectured: Never, ever step on a dog's toes."

Volunteering On the Iditarod Trail  

[beaulolais]

"Some victims of a wood sprite never regained their wits after such an encounter, and the clan lord might spend the rest of his life in restraints, giggling and weeping, his hands manacled lest they creep yo his face and gouge his eyes out."

The Mask and the Sorceress

Dennis Jones  

[gemela_dos]

When Ari finally dismissed me, I aimed my battered body toward the castle.

Poison Study
-Maria V. Snyder  

[Lady Pole]

"But Trisha couldn't bear to wait: she wanted this blip in her life to be over and fast."

The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon
-Stephen King  

[beaulolais]

"all children are gay and innocent, and heartless."

Peter and Wendy, by Barrie

(i discovered that we have a first edition!)  

[Lady Pole]

"Let us hope that he is at home," said the lieutenant, "that we may take him with us when we report to Kraut at Nairobi.

Tarzan the Untamed
-Edgar Rice Burroughs  

[x--stevee--x]

" In seconds Billie and Strong were arrested "

Public Enemies  

[Sita Harker]

I was about mechanically to obey him, without further remonstrance; but as he helped me into the carriage, he looked at my face.
-Jane Eyre  

[Lady Whispers]

And he did something that made his eyes look crazier than usual. (Widdershins)  

[beaulolais]

The issue presented for review here is whether front pay constitutes an element of "compensatory damages" under 42 U.S.C. sec. 1981a and thus is subject to the statutory damages cap imposed by that section.

Pollard vs. E.I. DuPont Nemours &Co. 121 S Ct.n 1946 (2001)  

[x--stevee--x]

"After the bus he boarded got stuck in traffic, he jumped off and asked a taxi driver to take him to within a few blocks of his rooming house."

The Kennedy assassination : 24 hours later  

[beaulolais]

what surprised and offended me most about the low wage workplace was the extent to which one is required to surrender one's basic civil rights, and self respect.

"nickled and dimed"

barbara ehrenrreich