Answers Quote by Rick Riordan

“Milly went to work on her piecrust. After she'd rolled out the bottom layer and then the top one, she moved on to the…

— Rebecca Rasmussen

“Elijah blinked in dazzling sunlight and took a deep breath. The sweet-pepper scent of meadow grass told him immediately where he was. Winded, he…

— Sharon Sant

“The men went into the barley fields at daybreak. All morning, they scythed the rippling grass with great howling strokes, and then they spread…

— Katherine Arden

“They shouldered their packs and took up their sticks, and walked round the corner to the west side of Bag End. 'Good-bye!' said Frodo,…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“That day of battle in the dusty heat We lay and heard the bullets swish and sing Like scythes amid the over-ripened wheat, And…

— John McCrae

“What are those big round things hanging off the trees?” I looked up. The big round things he was referring to was the parasitic…

— Heather Mar-Gerrison

“The people came out of their houses and smelled the hot stinging air and covered their noses from it. And the children came out…

— John Steinbeck

“Colonel da Silva was particularly upset. All the trouble he had taken to lead the crows astray had come to nothing. He felt he…

— Eva Ibbotson

“There were other things too, something resembling soggy cotton balls, and something else, like clumps of tangled hair, and all of that inhabited the…

— Mariam Petrosyan

“They'd all be buried together, and Haris imagined the seeds in the girl's pocket growing shoots that would swaddle them beneath the earth, the…

— Elliot Ackerman

Boo," I said. He reacted as all mutts react when I confront them. He leapt from his chair and dove for the nearest exit,…

— Kelley Armstrong

“All night the fighting had been furious, with no let-up. Fur and Freedom Fighters had battled against flaming shafts with their bare paws and…

— Brian Jacques