Friday 56

The Friday 56 is a bookish meme sponsored by Freda's Voice. It's really easy to participate.

*Grab a book, any book.

*Turn to page 56.

*Find any sentence that grabs you.

*Post it.

*Link it up at Freda's site.

Here's mine from "The Lamp of God" in The New Adventures of Ellery Queen by Ellery Queen (a book of short stories, so this is from the first story in the collection):

"Mr. Queen, please! Take me away tomorrow. I mean it."