Okay, try this:

[Lynne]

There were hunters and horses and dogs and ladies.

Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

[Kerry]

I've just finished reading Roberta Taylor's autobiography, "Too Many Mothers," and it's still sitting on my coffee table.

The fifth sentence on page 23 reads:

"It was her big brother, Patrick, strolling along with four other navvies, filthy dirty and laughing their head off."

I loved that book. 

[optom3]

"On George Seewagen's recommendation,they enrolled me in the Eastern Lawn Tennis Association when I was nine"

From, you cannot be serious,John McEnroe.

I have already read it, but is still on the table and the book I am currently reading,Heath Ledger, Hollywoods Dark Star, by Brian Robb, has a photo on page 23, and a very lovely one it is too.

[Lumière]

" Pesah fed all the workers a midday meal:  the yardhand, four boys from the men's bath, the barber who did cupping with leeches for the men, three women who came everyday for the women's side and to help with the children, her friend Sadie who did the cupping for women and helped her with cooking, my mother and me. "



From the [amazing] period novel, "Beyond the Pale", by Elana Dykewomon.

[Lynne]

But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

(Dubliners, "Araby", by James Joyce)

[Dobie1018]

"As I walked down the aisle to introduce myself to the teacher and get my slip signed, I was watching him surreptitiously."
From the book, "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer. 

[Kerry]

"I felt I was a traitor."

Captain Corelli's Mandolin
by Louis de Bernieres

[Brown Eyes]

"It was a peaceful night, so still that he could occasionally hear the sound of the piano down at the Dry Bean saloon."

Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry

[Front-Ranger]

"So thin and frail, lost in his clothes."

                                  ~ All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy


<aside> Love your sig line, Brown Eyes!

[Dobie1018]

"Those sins would certainly include squandering his inheritance by mismanagement and extravagance, so that already by the 1530s he had been desperately in need of money and eager to profit from his religious Reformation."

The Children of Henry VIII
 by Alison Weir