Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "I picked the book off the library shelf in the 70s, as a kid, but never signed it out. I finally read it in the summer of 2022 after stumbling over a retrospective review"

• You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
• I will tell you the phrase, but you must never speak it out loud. If you do, you will surely die.
• Get over the self-absorbed "I'll never sell out" rhetoric
• My library books are late, but I don't care
• Books you haven't read in a while, but intend to read again
• I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
• Fall tried to come this week but Summer chased it out of town.
• After the flood all the colors came out
• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
• Books GhettoAardvark Should Read (category)
• If at all possible read this book with your eyes shut.
• There Is No Such Thing As Light/There Is No Such Thing As Darkness/This Shadow Is An Illusion/But Illusions Are Still Real/And I Still Must Step Out Of It
• Usually, if you've seen one bald man in a robe, you've seen 'em all, but most of them aren't burning alive from the inside out
• Footfall after footfall, out to the pingo
• The Tesla Coil made me cry, but I got a free lunch out of it.
• Books Hazelnut Read Because You Should Also (category)
• curiosity killed the cat, but it never hurt me
• If I ever have kids, I will kick the TV in and hurl it out the window
• I'll be happier when the rain stops. But I know I'd be miserable if it never rained again.
• Actually, I went to bed this morning, sometime, but we can gloss over that.
• The Book I Haven't Read
• Writing Effective Use Cases
• Where the floodwaters went after the flood was over
• read a book, you sexy orphan
• My fingers flow over a keyboard, but words jumble at my teeth
• I see it on the TV and I laugh out loud, but it's the way I feel right now.
• Books Glowing Fish Read in 2010 (category)
• We all love movies and books about us owning ourselves
• If someone punches you out of hatred, they're definitely a villain. But that doesn't mean that you're a hero.
• you never thought this would happen to you, but it did
• I told her I could read her mind, but she didn't believe me. I could tell.
• Over time, the metaphor becomes literal. Eventually, we will wish for the figurative meaning, but left with only the chilling reality.
• To think that there are kids today that have never used a joystick
• your chances of being killed by a frog are low BUT NEVER ZERO
• dictated but not read
• I have asked my library to ban a book
• You Never Wash Up After Yourself
• The kinds of friends that books could never be
• hollowed out book
• "The books with the simpler titles are usually harder to read"
• Writers Read Books the way Architects Look at Buildings
• sometimes, after an adventure, he likes to sit out there and think
• we read from the book as it is written
• He scribbled with black crayon all over my fairy tale books
• a kids book
• What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
• Into the Heart of the Whole :: Anderry Inne, But Not Out Again
• I've never seen a glacier up close, but I've touched your hand. It felt so cold.
• Little lights that don't blink off but fade out instead
• Cigarette butts wasted after nights of contemplation.
• But I Don't Want To Take Over The World
• She could hit four octaves above high-C, but she never performed in public
• We're not running out of electrons any time soon, but dreams are in short supply.
• We All Get Old, But We Never Grow Up
• I've been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
• If a system is given nothing but a steady supply of unconditional self-affirmation, it will never see an impetus to cure its ills
• you never felt her hot blood on your face but, hey, who's keeping track
• Meanwhile, the PILOT, who has been laughing hysterically through the entire sequence, finally loses it. He falls out of his chair and bangs his head against the panel, causing the ship to lose control and crash into a nearby planet
• There's a sign on the wall. But she wants to be sure. Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
• I can get away with murder, but I can't get you out of my head
• It's never too soon to start lying to your kids about drugs
• check it out of the library
• Most American kids have never separated tortillas
• The public library is NOT a day care center for your kids
• I try to write you a love song but it comes out a lament
• I call, but I never talk. I knock, but I never enter. I feel a bit insecure.
• After today, for two people, the world will never be the same
• I'd rather read a book
• Book of Signs
• After Mistaking the Motel 6 Sign for the Moon Behind the Maple Trees
• "Why is my mom three thousand miles away?": Life After The E2 End of Summer Denial of School Northwest Gathering
• New York Review of Books
• Books to read in the bath: Avoid waterdamage at all costs
• Books you loan out to expand friends' minds
• He scribbled with black crayon all over my fairy tale books.
• How books get into libraries
• Sitting in the library, listening to the rain, reading an interesting book and wanting to meet the man who just walked past
• book review
• The Autistic Spectrum
• The summer after high school
• read this book
• But the last half of the book is blank, and the author is gone.
• Pounded In The Butt By My Book "Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt"
• Questions you never asked, but now that I mention it, yeah, that's a good point
• This one goes out to you - not so much the people in the audience, but more the people in my mind
• Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
• I may dream in technicolor, but I trip the fuck out in old-school black and white
• Starving in the greenhouse
• She really does want to clap along, but at the same time she doesn't want to let the bird get out.
• executed but never exposed
• A Kid's Book
• Why a stolen car is never the same after it's recovered
• He comforted me when he thought I needed it, but never when I really did
• Your radical ideas about many things have already occurred to others but have never been articulated in a fashion so accessible to current generations
• we can give up, but the world never will
• forever falling, but never losing altitude
• always morning, but never breakfast
• I don't know about that fellow Rand, but I'd never trust a McNally.
• Eyes are the windows to the soul, but there are some windows that should never be opened
• words I've wanted to tell you but never seem to be able to
• I Think I'm a Pervert, But I'm Totally Over It
• I never wanted to burn any bridges. But I did want to light some fires.
• I may never be queen, but you will never break me
• I could never draw but they made me an artist
• It's Finally Over (user)
• Out of practice but my heart hurts so
• the ocean is never calm and still, but the depths are very different from the surface
• cancer kids hangin around out by the trains
• You'll never win anything with kids
• Things Never to say to your kids
• Working in a library is never as much fun as you think it might be.
• I'm a good teenage kid, not a rebel out to kill
• Maybe you were inherently complicated, maybe you've been complicated over the years, but know that you are complicated.
• Neutron-bomb landscape, lights gleaming but no sign of humanity
• Gods exist but will only talk to those who stay awake after bedtime under the covers.
• we lived entire summers after midnight
• Terminating a pregnancy due to Down Syndrome
• After all, the Bible says Jesus' first miraculous sign was to make 180 gallons of wine for a party!
• Phone books have never been this exciting!
• When I Read the Book
• out of the books
• The New York Times Book Review
• Movie reviews and book covers
• After Iraq, kids nervous seeing Dad
• masturbating right after working out
• If somebody wrote a book about your life, would anybody want to read it?
• reshelving books in a library
• 278 Books You Should Have Read By Now
• London Review of Books
• I dreamt of rejection and lost library books
• Book most owned by American libraries with the word "fuck" in the title
• Library books with really stupid notes in the margins
• read a book to kindergarteners
• British Book Award for Best Read of the Year
• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom About the book
• Books kthejoker Read In 2008 (category)
• Books to read before you give up on fantasy
• Books Senso Has Read (category)
• each book has us creating a fresh work as we read it into being
• The man behind the mask is looking for the book with the pages torn out
• After the Summer of Love
• him will I blot out of my book
• Books Hazelnut Read So You Don't Have To (category)
• I've read books so I know things that sound like they could be true
• Behr's reviews of movies, books, and music (category)
• a dozen books I should have read you
• Book Reviews (category)
• This book was stolen from the Harvard College Library. It was later recovered. The thief was sentenced to two years at hard labor.
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
• since then it's been a book you read in reverse
• vanished like a book from the library
• Books to read before you give up on sci-fi
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• It never rains but it pours
• I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
• It ought to be broad daylight, but the shadow that envelops the story shows no signs of brightening
• Forever blue, but never black
• All Over but the Shoutin'
• A little Clint Black never killed anybody, but it did evacuate the building.
• FINALLY: Morally Bankrupt but Rich on Beads (the New Orleans gathering aftermath node)
• Skim this life but never live
• You can take the mall out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the mall
• I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while
• I know I am but summer to your heart,
• Apple may have bought NeXT, but NeXT took over Apple
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• Junk mail never has to spell your name right, but important stuff does
• Books to read before you give up on crime fiction
• But you can't take the Jungle out of the Tiger
• I love you, but it's cold out here
• I didn't mean to write this, but this is how it came out
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
• Girls possess me but they're never mine.
• I don't know if these are good flowers or bad flowers, but I picked them for you
• Can I play with your breasts? Yes, but don't get out of the yard.
• Butterflies are passive aggressive and put their problems on the shelf, but they're beautiful
• I'm so goddamned cruel to you. But you'll never know
• I didn't read it but I want to get into the author's pants

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