Just random books

[Dark Lady]

Find the closest book to your left. Open it to page 194. Share the fifth sentence on the page.

I'll start:

I looked up and saw a goon ugly enough to stop Big Ben dead in its clockwork.
~Night Shift, Stephen King

[Foster]

>"The Stalinist concept of the inevitability of an armed conflict with capitalism is officially dead."
*year Book Encyclopia, 1962

[Dark Lady]

I stepped to the unobstructed casement, withdrew the nail with some difficulty, and attempted to raise the sash.
~The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Edgar Allan Poe

[Foster]

>But it is being met up with counteroffensive measures.
Year Book 1963. Still Page 194.

Hmmm...

>"A great many breathed their last in the streets" He reported.
Year Book 1964, Page 198 (first page of text after page 194)

[gorgenmast]

Aww fuck... fuck fuck, yeah, fuck my little titties oooh fuck yeah, fuck em, fuck fuck fuck!
~Redtube

[Mariana Collie]

"The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt."
-Writing the Breakout Novel

OKAY

[BrobyDDark]

Fifty Shades of Gray, maybe fifth sentence of 194???

[Forett]

"Brushing her hair out of her face, she tucked it behind one round ear."
Brisinger.

[Foster]

"Keep cool and all will be well... Use what you have, where you are, right now." ~Ernest Thompson Seton, 1906

Into to Chapter 12, Pg 194, Survival prepardness, BSA Fieldbook, 3rd edition (1984, 1994 printing)

[Dark Lady]

Then an angel placed an illuminated Christmas tree on the table.
~Adolf Hitler Volume 1, John Toland

(Yay college reading)

[Foster]

Then, too, special scales not found on ordinary slide rules are adapted to the particulatr needs of those who must do calculations in special fields, such as those of electrical engineering and business.
-Isaac Asimov, on how to use a slide rule

[Luna_Maria]

"then trust me to know what I'm doing, and that I'm going to do right by you."
Flashpoint, Starcraft 2 series, Christie Golden

[SgtEasy]

"Stephan spoke no Inuit, and the Inuit spoke no Russian."

- Raise the Red Dawn, by comrade Bart Davis

[KawaiiKyouko]

>If you put down your foot and it only squelched in to the ankle, you counted yourself lucky

The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie

[Dark Lady]

"Bingo, Miss Lane, ace investigative skills, of course," she said with a smile.
~Mommy, Mommy, Henry Hack

[Selas Dia]

Significantly, the merger between the Conservatives and the Liberal Unionists was described as a 'sound investment' promoted by 'a body of keen businessman,' and when, in 1911, Arthur Steel-Maitland - a protège of Joseph Chamberlain - was appointed first party chairman, Walter Long protested to Balfour that, "It will, of course, be said that you are handing the party over to Birmingham."

The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy - David Cannadine

[Goldeagle1221]

The immobilization phase of decomposition can be thought of as a source-sink relationship between the litter-microbe complex (the sink) and external or exogenous nutrient availability (the source).

-Ecology of Freshwater and Estuarine Wetlands, Second Edition.

[Dinh AaronMk]

Machenschaften - pl. -machinations, wheeling and dealing.

[Dark Lady]

Andris snorted. "She's like a puppy, isn't she? Run along," he added to the other three girls.
~Runes book 1, Ednah Walters

[Stanifly]

The king was resplendent in his golden Shardplate - of course, Plate could make any man look regal.
~ The Stormlight Archive Book One: The Way of Kings Part One, Brandon Sanderson