Random Book Quotes: Redux

Found on KSpot's Blog. Decided to do this again, because it is fun.

Instructions:

1. Grab the nearest book. * 
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences on your blog along with these instructions

* 'nearest' means you can't rummage around for a 'cool' or 'intellectual' book.  Really, whatever your hand falls on first.  Let's hope it's not porn.


The nearest book to me is Poison by Sara Poole:

And then it was over; the attackers were gone. There was only the damp cobblestones hard and sharp under me, the stink of the street, and the cool breeze on my bared skin. That and the old woman looking at me from the terrace of an apartment above a shop from which everyone else had fled at the first sign of trouble.