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"I tried the disarming maneuver."

The Lightning Thief.

...How about you?
 
Well, my nearest book is a textbook. Ahem.

"Einsten proposed that light consists of photos which are quanta of energy that behave like tiny particles."
 
"For example, Jamaica has a population of 2.7 million, a crude birth rate of 18 (per 1,000), a crude death rate of 6, and a natural increase rate of 1.2 percent per year (calculated as crude birth rate minus crude death rate)."

Human Geography textbook c:
 
"Other signs and symptoms of over dosage may include: Agitation, bluish skin color, breathing difficulty, delirium, dilated pupils, drowsiness, high fever, incoordination, little or no urine output, muscle rigidity, overactive reflexes, rapid heartbeat, restlessness, severe perspiration, shock, stupor twitching, or twisting movement, vomiting."
 
"I was glad Zoe had already left for school."

A book I am currently reading called "Sarah's Key"
 
(it's long, but its technically all one sentence)

"unslowly more who(and
here who there who)descend
-ing(mercifully)touch
deathful earth's any which

Weavingly now one by
wonder(on twilight)they
come until(over dull

all nouns)begins a whole
verbal adventure to

illimitably Grow"

From ee cummings, Selected Poems, edited by Richard S. Kennedy.

Not a textbook :)
 
"I hide myself within my flower, that wearing on your breast you, unsuspecting, wear me too, and angels know the rest."

- A treasury of Poetry for Young People
 
I did the whole page because it was small :D



Impulse - Ellen Hopkins

Grandma's Face Drains

You're not crazy,
Vanessa. You've had
some rough years,
is all. We'll get you
through this and
everything will be fine.


I want to ask her
if bleach got the
tub white, if Bryan
still has nightmares,
bubbling red with blood.
I want to ask if she
has visited Mama,
where no one wants
to go. Instead I say,
"you're right, Grandma.
We'll come through
fine." The I ask,
"Have you heard
from Daddy?"
 
In 1795, the weight of the half cent was reduced, so you find both heavy coins with lettered edges and lighter coins with plain edges in this year.
 
"But remember that bathroom door we switched out?"


Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Rodrick Rules.
 
Then he put a peaked blue cap on, and Velcroed a patch to the breast pocket of his jacket.

American Gods.
 
My nearest book is my geometry book, and page 111 is lesson 2-5: Proving Angles Congruent

Ahem... "There are many forms of proofs; a paragraph proof is written as sentences in a paragraph."
 
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