Sentences with Apostrophes: Possession or Contraction

If Jesus ever comes back to earth again, I'm thinking, he'll come as a dog, because there isn't anything as humble or patient or loving or loyal as the dog I have in my arms right now. -- Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Claire)

He laughed aloud, and his solemn Quaker face turned handsome, with dark eyes like Charity's. --North by Night by Katherine Ayres (Carlos Javier)

You know, Jacob, if it weren't for the fact that we're natural enemies and that you're also trying to steal away the reason for my existence, I might actually like you. --Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Asne)

I hurried away, the doctor's words echoing in my mind. Brain, lungs, kidneys. . . -- Dunk by David Lubar (Luis)

As the officer said, "It's not every day you see a 1961 Red Edsel that screams Arrest me!"-- America's Dumbest Criminals by Daniel Butler (Dylan)

But at times like this, she was a stranger to me, someone bigger and closer to God's divine word. -- Steal Away ...to freedom by Jennifer Armstrong (Sooji)

I was frankly astonished by Gran's words. -- Steal Away ...to freedom by Jennifer Armstrong (Ricky)

Sir, from what Sancho said about that place, why wouldn't he?" --Numbering All the Bones by Ann Rinaldi (Antoine)

Lizer, Monday, Betty's Tim, and the others had melted away, quiet as owls. Steal Away ...to Freedom by Jennifer Armstrong (Andrea)

I'm lying there on my side, about to close my eyes, when suddenly this horrible face with red eyes and green lips pops right up beside me, not five inches from my own and bobs up and down -- a floating head. --Shiloh Season by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Salvador)

Meggie had to laugh -- although she couldn't tell by Dusfinger's face if he was joking or meant it seriously -- Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (Alejandra)

Don't get mouthy girl, or I'll haul you over to Captain Wirz at the prison.-- Numbering All the Bones by Ann Rinaldi (Mabel)

There were many walking the road, some with older folks, some alone, and they all looked hungry and I couldn't see them without thinking of Tyler and little Delie but we just didn't have enough. -- Sarny by Gary Paulsen (Daniela)

"It's way on the other side of town, isn't it?" Piano Lessons Can Be Murder by R.L. Stine (Victor)

I couldn't bring myself to throw them away meaning what they meant and at the first gray dawn, sun just starting to help the lamp, Lucy she found it. -- Sarny by Gary Paulsen (Laura)

Rich guys like Tyler's dad, they don't fish for money, they fish for the fun of it, and because it gives them an excuse to own a big expensive boat and wear a long-billed fisherman's cap. -- The Young Man and the Sea by Rodman Philbrick (Daniel)

All God's creatures need such times of rest, as it girds them for the coming spring and for whatever journeys the warming weather will bring. -- North by Night by Katherine Ayres (Catalina)