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Starting in September, we're playing a variation of Quick Quotes (which itself is based on the game Bring Your Own Book).

This is called Finish the Quote.

Each week we provide the beginning of a sentence, a quote from a book, and people are invited to finish that sentence with a fragment (or complete sentence) from another book. (It can be another book by the same author, but it cannot be from the same book.) The new sentence has to make linguistic sense, if not literal sense.

Our first prompt is:

"As she rode up to take a look, "
A Point of Honor by Dorothy J. Heydt

Someone would respond with this --

"the man in black retreated, stumbled, got his balance, continued moving away."
The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Completed new 'quote' -
As she rode up to take a look, the man in black retreated, stumbled, got his balance, continued moving away.

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We ask that you make all quotes HOL-appropriate and keep this in mind when choosing a book to use (though we understand that it's not always possible to pick one that's entirely g-rated).

Participation in this activity may contribute to your chances of snagging a Book Club award AND you will receive 10 Beans when you respond within the time limit (before the next prompt is posted).

If you have any suggestions for prompts, please send us an email at hol.bookclub @ gmail.com (removing the spaces) with the subject "Finish the Quote Suggestions".

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“Suddenly I realized, horrified, that Darry was crying

from The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

New Quote:
"As she rode up to take a look, suddenly I realized, horrified, that Darry was crying."

Romans screamed and scattered as a full-sized dragon charged through the forum---a beast even scarier than the bronze dragon figurehead on the Argo II.

The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan

Completed quote:
As she rode up to take a look, Romans screamed and scattered as a full-sized dragon charged through the forum---a beast even scarier than the bronze dragon figurehead on the Argo II.

New Quote: "Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her great surprise, they all THOUGHT in chorus (I hope you understand what THINKING IN CHORUS means—for I must confess that I don't), 'Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!" ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Completed Quote:

As she rode up to take a look, Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.'

Beans are sent for last week!

Our second Prompt for September is:

"He had provided, (rather generously he thought),"
from Expecting Someone Taller by Tom Holt

Finishing the quote:
"tassels, midnight blue shot with gold."
from The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley

Ending up with
He had provided, (rather generously he thought), tassels, midnight blue shot with gold.

garlands of fragrant springtime flowers that the king and queen would place at Aphrodite's feet

From Nobody's Princess by Esther Friesner

New Quote:

"He had provided, (rather generously he thought), garlands of fragrant springtime flowers that the king and queen would place at Aphrodite's feet."

New Quote: “My wonderful weapon, the Jigger-Rock Snatchem, will fling ‘em right back just as quick as we catch ‘em.” — Dr. Seuss, The Butter Battle Book

Completed Quote:

He had provided, (rather generously he thought), “My wonderful weapon, the Jigger-Rock Snatchem, will fling ‘em right back just as quick as we catch ‘em.”

Beans are sent for the second week!

Our third prompt for September is:

"In a hole in the ground there lived"
from The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien

Finishing the quote:
"a woman with a curly iced bun clamped to each ear."
from Going Postal by Terry Pratchett

Ending up with:
In a hole in the ground there lived a woman with a curly iced bun clamped to each ear.

a croaky old dame, half-hidden in the gloom of a doorway

from Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maquire

New Quote:

"In a hole in the ground there lived a croaky old dame, half-hidden in the gloom of a doorway."

New Quote: “A paper star that has been unfolded and refolded into a tiny unicorn but the unicorn remembers a time when it was a star and an earlier time when it was part of a book and sometimes the unicorn dreams of the time before it was a book when it was a tree and the time even longer before that when it was a different sort of star” — Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

Completed Quote:

In a hole in the ground there lived a paper star that has been unfolded and refolded into a tiny unicorn but the unicorn remembers a time when it was a star and an earlier time when it was part of a book and sometimes the unicorn dreams of the time before it was a book when it was a tree and the time even longer before that when it was a different sort of star.

Beans are sent to Emily and Sindor!

Our fourth prompt for September is:

"As they left the common room,"
from The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

Finishing the quote:
"Randall shook his head."
from The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag by Robert Heinlein

Ending up with:
As they left the common room, Randall shook his head.

'Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly.

From: The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

New quote:

"As they left the common room, 'Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly.

Minister Orth looked like she'd sooner lick a river toad.

From Master and Apprentice by Claudia Gray


"As they left the common room, Minister Orth looked like she'd sooner lick a river toad."

He was surprised to see only one person waiting for them: a woman.

- The Eye of Minds by James Dashner

New Quote:
"As they left the common room, he was surprised to see only one person waiting for them: a woman."

New Quote: 'The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. “You’ll find,” he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.' — Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

Completed Quote:

As they left the common room, the Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. “You’ll find,” he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort."

Beans are sent to Emily, Amy, Kora and Sindor!

Our last prompt for September is:

"Faris uttered a small sigh"
from A College of Magics by Caroline Stevermer

Finishing the quote:
", and they ran, using their arms as much as their legs to propel themselves through the graveyard, to the ghoul-gate by the lightning tree."
from The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Ending up with:
Faris uttered a small sigh, and they ran, using their arms as much as their legs to propel themselves through the graveyard, to the ghoul-gate by the lightning tree.

New Quote: ‘“That's my job. I'm not supposed to explain it, too, for heaven's sake. If you want explanations, talk to a griffin.”’— Patricia C. Wrede, Searching for Dragons

Completed Quote:

Faris uttered a small sigh “That’s my job. I'm not supposed to explain it, too, for heaven's sake. If you want explanations, talk to a griffin.”

"Probably not, but it's hard to say. Tricky stuff, magic."

- The Trials of Apollo: The Dark Prophecy by Rick Riordan

New Quote: "Faris uttered a small sigh, "Probably not, but it's hard to say. Tricky stuff, magic."

Without you, I doubt Percy could find his way out of a paper bag.

The House of Hades by Rick Riordan

Completed quote:
Faris uttered a small sigh, "Without you, I doubt Percy could find his way out of a paper bag."

Our first prompt for October is...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that....

-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Finished with

Everything is always better for a walk.

from Frogkisser! by Garth Nix, it turns into:

It is a truth universally acknowledged that everything is always better for a walk.