The Friday 56: 11/19/10

The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda's Voice.  The rules are simple:

Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56.
*Find any sentence that grabs you.
*Post it.
*Link it here.

It's that simple.  So head on over to Freda's Voice and link up!

"Sure enough, after her little toast to me, "it" was suddenly the big white elephant in the big white marble room of the Astor Hall."  ~Don't Blink by James Patterson