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* Creator/DonnaAndrews's ''Literature/MegLangslowMysteries'':
** With the name of the book in ''Some Like It Hawk'', as the name of a service that provides a hawk to chase away nuisance pigeons.
** The title of ''Owl Be Home For Christmas'' is used several times in the book as the title of one of the [[PunBasedTitle modified]] Christmas carols sung at the conference.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov: %%Second-level bullets are alphabetical
** ''Literature/BlackWidowers'': %%chronological order
*** "Literature/TheAcquisitiveChuckle": Either version of the title would work, but Anderson's description of Jackson's chuckle after closing the case lends some emotional weight to the title's meaning, especially with the focus on it being the ''acquisitive'' chuckle.
*** "Literature/GoLittleBook": Halsted [[ShoutOut quotes]] from Creator/RobertSouthey, "Go, little Book! from this my solitude/I cast thee on the waters-go thy way!"
*** "Literature/EarlySundayMorning": The original title, "The Biological Clock", appears when Drake grouses about how he isn't an early riser like Gonzalo.
*** "Literature/EarlySundayMorning": The new title, "Literature/EarlySundayMorning", appears when Gonzalo is grousing about being an early riser, even on Sundays.
*** "Literature/TheObviousFactor": The exact phrase doesn't occur, but Henry is referring to the ''most'' obvious factor to be eliminated. Mr Eldridge could be lying.
*** "Literature/TheCuriousOmission": The title is used as the DrivingQuestion of the work, Mr Atwood must discover "the curious omission" from ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'', because that's [[OnOneCondition the condition for collecting the ten thousand dollars that his recently deceased friend left him]].
*** "Literature/{{Northwestward}}": When Mr Wayne restates his butler's intentions, he refers to the northwestward direction. Cecil, however, had said "northwest", as in the airline company.
** "Literature/BlindAlley": In scene IV, the leader of the non-Humans uses the concept of a blind alley, one where you're closed off on three sides and the only way out is back the way you came, as an analogy for their current psychological condition. So they've decided to stop reproducing. A similar colloquialism is "dead end".
** "Literature/FirstLaw": The title is a reference to the [[ThreeLawsCompliant Three Laws of Robotics]], and Donovan cites it.
** ''Literature/FoundationSeries'':
*** "Literature/TheMayors": This story was originally published under the name "Bridle and Saddle". Mayor Hardin tells Prince Regent Wienis a BeastFable about a man, a horse, and a wolf. The wolf is an enemy of both the horse and the man, but to cooperate, the man asks if he can place a bridle and saddle on the horse. The bridle and saddle represent the ScamReligion that Mayor Hardin created, which has given Terminus control over the Four Kingdoms.
*** ''Literature/FoundationAndEmpire'': The Prologue provides basic [[TheVerse setting details]], including the primary conflict of the next story; the battle of Foundation (along the Periphery) and Empire (still in control of the centre, with three-quarters of the galactic population loyal to the emperor).
*** "Literature/SearchByTheMule": The climactic confrontation between the Mule and the First Speaker ends with the Mule seeing he's been outmaneuvered, and the First Speaker agreeing, citing the original title, "Now you see it".
** ''Literature/TheGodsThemselves'': The title of the book and the titles of each of the three parts are said by the first part's main character in one quote ("Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain," first said by the German playwright Creator/FriedrichSchiller).
** "Literature/GoodTaste" is a SubvertedTrope, ending with the main character, who is right, but exiled from his planet nonetheless, hearing form his mother that "what you did was in..." then the shuttle doors close, muffling out the last words of a common idiom, which would be completed with the story's title.
** "Literature/HellFire1956": In this [[FlashFiction short fiction]], the title is repeated several times, to emphasize [[AnAesop the aesop]] that an atomic bomb is MadeOfEvil.
** "Literature/ImInMarsportWithoutHilda": The title comes from a line spoken by Max to [[AGirlInEveryPort an old girlfriend]] he's trying to meet up with again for [[{{G Rated Sex}} hugging]] in [[ZeroGSpot 0.4 gravities]].
** "Literature/InAGoodCause": The title is part of a quote that becomes famous within this work.
---> "In a good cause, there are no failures; there are only delayed successes."
** "Literature/LetsGetTogether": The title is spoken by Security officer Breckenridge, while planning a science conference focused on figuring out how "We" can counter "Their" DeceptivelyHumanRobots. [[spoiler:It clues Lynn in on the fact that Breckenridge is [[TheMole working for "Them"]].]]
--->It was Breckenridge who, with cool efficiency, was handling the details of preparation. There had been a kind of confidence in the way he said, "Let's get together and we'll lick Them."\\
Let's get together. It came to Lynn so quietly that anyone watching Lynn at that moment might have seen his eyes blink slowly twice-but surely nothing more.
** "Literature/MySonThePhysicist": The title is said early in the story by the title character; she's looking for her son because he invited her to visit at his work that day.
--->The woman smiled. "I'm looking for my son, the physicist."\\
"Your son, the-"\\
"He's a communications engineer, really. Senior Physicist Gerard Cremona."
** "Literature/NobodyHereBut": Cliff uses the work's title when he's trying to convince Bill [[ManVersusMachine they need to destroy their computer]]. He fears that robots will completely replace humans.
--->"Bill, we've got to stop it, or someday someone will telephone the planet Earth and get the answer, 'Honest, boss, there's nobody here anywhere but us complicated thinking machines!'"
** ''Literature/RobotSeries'': %%US Robotics section is alphabetical, but Robot Trilogy section is chronological
*** "Literature/CatchThatRabbit": Powell reminds Donovan that the first step in cooking rabbit stew is catching the rabbit. This is an analogy, that they first must figure out [[AIIsACrapshoot what is going wrong]] before they can solve the problem.
*** "Literature/FeminineIntuition":
*** Madarian references the story's title when he proposes that the creative robot be marketed as "a feminine robot with intuition."
*** Towards the story's end, Susan Calvin says the title directly when Bogert is filling her in on the situation around the [[{{Fembot}} JN robot]].
----->She snorted at one point. "Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition."
*** "Literature/TheFourthLawOfRobotics": The bank-robbing robot and Donovan are discussing how the [[ThreeLawsCompliant Three Laws of Robotics]] means robots are [[ServantRace manufactured slaves]], and suddenly the robot reveals the Fourth Law has already been implemented, and it represents a [[SecondLawMyAss robot revolution]].
*** "Literature/LightVerse": Lardner uses [[PunBasedTitle the title as a pun]] as for the [[FictionalPainting light-sculptures]] that she displays at [[{{Socialite}} her parties]]. Humbly, she denies that her artworks are "{{poetry}} in light", instead they are merely a "light verse".
*** "Literature/MirrorImage": The title is used to refer to the way both Dr Humboldt and Dr Sabbat tell the same story, but with the names of each involved reversed.
*** "Literature/MotherEarth": The title refers to Earth's position as the homeland of humanity, the source of sapient life in the galaxy. Three times the title is used; twice the Outer Worlds are separating themselves from Earth as homeworld. The third use of "Mother Earth" is by an Earthman to say that it will lead a [[GalacticSuperpower Galactic Empire]].
*** ''Literature/TheCavesOfSteel'': The title is a nickname for Earth's enclosed, mostly underground metropolises, in which the entire population lives. Spacers speak of these Cities derogatorily.
*** ''Literature/TheNakedSun'': Multiple times, referring to Baley's fear of the outdoors. The sun, with the way it moves and unexpectedly goes behind clouds and comes out again, especially bothers him.
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** "{{Literature/Someday}}":
*** The Bard appears to break once the boys have left, [[BrokenRecord repeating the words]] "Someday--someday--someday--".
*** In the art drawn for ''Magazine/InfinityScienceFiction'' (and reused for the [[AudioAdaptation audiobook]] cover), the title is written [[BrokenRecord over and over]] again.
** "Literature/SpellMyNameWithAnS": Dr Sebatinsky doesn't really believe in the "prediction" made by [[FortuneTeller the numerologist]], but is satisfied with the results anyway. After telling people to spell his name with an 'S' for so long, he'd find it inconvenient to change back to being Dr Zebatinsky.
** "Literature/TheTercentenaryIncident": The title is used to downplay the AssassinationAttempt on President Winkler's life. It is called an ''[[InsistentTerminology incident]]'' to downplay the fact that someone appeared to have killed the President [[spoiler:and succeeded]].
** "{{Literature/Trends}}": The title is used to refer to the cyclical nature of culture and their irresistible force.
--->"Trends are things of centuries and millenniums, not years or decades. For five hundred years we have been moving towards science. You can't reverse that in thirty years." -- John Harman.
** "Literature/TheWateryPlace": Used several times, the title refers to [[VenusIsWet Venus being a watery planet]], but the human chosen by aliens for FirstContact misunderstands them, and believes it to refer to [[CityOfCanals Venice being a watery city]].
* Creator/IsaacAsimov and Creator/JanetAsimov's ''Literature/TheNorbyChronicles'':
** ''Literature/NorbyTheMixedUpRobot'': Norby is first called the "mixed-up robot" at the end of chapter four, when Jeff is describing how [[NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup ignorant, uncertain, confused, and unique]] he is.
** ''Literature/NorbysOtherSecret'': Admiral Yobo has made it clear that Norby's secret, [[SubspaceOrHyperspace hyperdrive]], is something that Space Command needs to learn, even if they have to [[TheyWouldCutYouUp take Norby apart to figure out the secret]]. Then he's informed about Norby' ''other'' secret; TimeTravel. Between a plain [[ArtificialGravity miniantigrav]] device and [[PowerIncontinence Norby's inability to control]] his time travel, the admiral agrees to make sure everyone leaves Norby alone.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov and Creator/RobertSilverberg's ''Literature/TheUglyLittleBoy1991'': The title's description of Timmie is first used when Nurse Fellowes realizes that everything that Stasis will be providing for Timmie is present only at her behest; Dr Hoskins, CEO of Stasis, has set things up so that she is the only one in charge of the neanderthal project, and supplies will be not be provided unless there is a demand from her. Even Timmie seems to have intuited this in the early moments of their first meeting.
* Creator/DaleBrown does this in some of his books. For example, ''Fatal Terrain'' [[LiteraryAllusionTitle draws its title from]] ''Literature/{{The Art of War|SunTzu}}'', which gets quoted not long in.
* Creator/TomClancy usually puts the title of his novels into the text, usually at a critical point in the story or at the climax.
* Creator/HarryHarrison's "Literature/TheFourthLawOfRobotics": The bank-robbing robot and Donovan are discussing how the [[ThreeLawsCompliant Three Laws of Robotics]] means robots are [[ServantRace manufactured slaves]], and suddenly the robot reveals the Fourth Law has already been implemented, and it represents a [[SecondLawMyAss robot revolution]].
* Both Creator/ChuckKlosterman novels have one.
** ''Downtown Owl'': "It's a down town, Owl."
** ''Literature/TheVisibleMan'': "For you, any person who can't be seen is invisible. But there are invisible people in plain sight, Victoria. Most of the world is invisible. I wanted to see the visible man."
* Creator/MercedesLackey's works:
** ''Literature/ReservedForTheCat'' ends with one.
** As does ''Take a Thief,'' one of the books of the Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar series.
* Creator/PGWodehouse does this a lot, perhaps because of his musical comedy training. (The musicals he wrote with Guy Bolton tended to drop the title in the last spoken line.)
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* ''Literature/{{Afrotistic}}'' becomes the name of the protagonist's Website/YouTube channel, because her friend Sophia told her, "You have a cute afro and you're autistic, you're afrotistic!"
* The title of ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront'' appears on the last page. [[ItWasHisSled It's the official report of combat status on the day the narrator dies.]]
* ''Literature/AlmostPerfect'': [[spoiler:In her final letter to Logan, Sage writes, "I deserve someone who loves me the way I am. You deserve someone you can love without hesitation. We both came so close. But almost perfect isn't the same thing as perfect, is it?]]
* ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'' has a paraphrase of its title about halfway through, at the climax to one of the many {{Author Filibuster}}s.
* Justine says "Literature/AreYouSeeingMe" to her autistic brother Perry to calm him down. [[spoiler:Perry says the same thing to Justine when she wakes up in the hospital after being injured in an earthquake.]]
* The title in ''Literature/AnArmyOfTheDead'' is mentioned a few times, one particular time as {{Foreshadowing}}.
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* In ''Literature/ABadCaseOfStripes'', the old woman says, "What we have hear is a ''bad'' case of stripes!".
* An indirect one at the end of ''Literature/ABadPlaceToBeAHero'':
-->'''Thessa:''' My friend Hanna used to say there's no bigger bastard than someone who thinks they're a hero.\\
'''Corlis:''' If that's true, there's no better place to be a hero than [[WretchedHive New Montres]].
* ''Literature/BeingBindy'': Liz tells Bindy, "Perhaps you should just concentrate on being Bindy, and ignore everything else."
* ''Literature/TheBlackArrow'': Since Nick Appleyard is killed by the titular outlaw band, the characters mention "the Black Arrow":
-->With that, Sir Daniel, turning his back to Dick, and quite at the farther end of the long table, began to write his letter, with his mouth on one side, for this business of the Black Arrow stuck sorely in his throat.
* The titles of most of the later ''Literature/TheBlackCompany'' books are dropped as ArcWords:
** ''Bleak Seasons'' is a phrase used in that book and the next one, ''Soldiers Live'', as a metaphor for anguish felt at loss of loved ones in wartime.
** ''She is the Darkness'' is repeated again and again by the wizard Smoke in regard to the series' most prominent female characters, referring to the current arc's BigBad goddess Kina, whom Smoke sees in every powerful woman.
** ''Water Sleeps'' comes from the graffiti that spread over the city of Taglios, itself shorthand for the expression, "Even water sleeps, but enemy never rests."
** ''Soldiers Live'' is short for "Soldiers live, and wonder why," a metaphor Croaker uses to explain his survivor's guilt over all the Company men and women he outlives.
* In Tom Holt's ''Literature/BlondeBombshell'', Lucy turns out to be a very literal example of the idiom: [[spoiler:she is the missing Mk. I bomb.]]
* In ''Literature/BothCanBeTrue'', Ash, who is genderfluid, writes a song that they hope will be "a light in the dark for anyone who feels like they have to be one thing or the other when both can be true."
* ''Literature/TheBoyWhoWasAsHardAsStone'' has a title drop at the very end, making it one of the second type.
* In ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'', John the Savage replies to Bernard's invitation for him to come and live in the "civilized" world by quoting Miranda's words from the final scene of Shakespeare's ''Tempest'', pausing when he comes to the title drop. He later recites the same words (and title drop) as an IronicEcho, after his disillusionment with the values of said "civilized" world.
* ''Literature/BrewstersMillions'': At some point in the original book, when Montgomery Brewster was quite close to receiving "Sedgwick's Millions", he said they'd soon become "Brewster's Millions".
* ''Literature/BringUpTheBodies'', the second book in a trilogy about Thomas Cromwell, is named after the phrase used in court to summon the guilty for their sentencing. It's spoken after the trial of the men Cromwell selected to accuse of adultery and treason with Anne Boleyn.
* ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'': Jerin Whistler, the oldest son in his family, is approaching the age of marriage, when he is to be sold for his brother's price, a custom very like a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_price bride price]]. His family strikes a deal to buy a shop with the money they get from him, and he's very conscious that he has to sell high so they don't have to renege on that deal and pay a penalty.
* ''Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Spine Tinglers'': ''What's A Little Fur Among Friends?'' is the title of a story. ''What's a little fur among friends?'' is part of a line of dialogue near its end.
* Bud often introduces himself to people as "Literature/BudNotBuddy."
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* Tally used to say "Literature/CanYouSeeMe" when she put on her tiger mask. In the present, she says it to Rupert the dog when she sees him in his new muzzle.
* Done in ''Literature/TheCasterChronicles'', by Macon, for the first book.
-->'''Macon:''' [Mortals] are such beautiful creatures.
* In Joseph Heller's ''Literature/CatchTwentyTwo'', the title (The Catch-22) is one of the main satirical points of the book, depicting a situation in which a favourable solution is made impossible by illogical rules.
* It takes some time for ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye'' to mention the proverbial catcher in the rye.
* ''Literature/TheChangeRoom'': The change room at the pool is where Eliza has sex with Shar the first time, sparking their affair, which is the main focus of the book.
* ''Literature/ChildeRolandToTheDarkTowerCame'''s last line is Roland announcing through blowing his slug-horn that ''"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came."''
* ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'': "There was a boy singing a Christmas carol at my door last night..."
* Every book of P.C. Hodgell's ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath'' series drops its title somewhere.
* In an interesting twist, Ted Dekker names the titles of the first three books of ''Literature/TheCircleSeries'' in the form of the last names of three serial killers in some later books. ''Showdown'' has Marsuvees '''Black''', ''Skin'' has Sterling '''Red''', and ''House'' has Barsidious '''White'''.
* A rather clever example in the original novel ''Literature/AClockworkOrange''; it's the title of one of Frank Alexander's manuscripts, and Alex, upon seeing it, remarks on what a stupid title it is. Later, after being "rehabilitated", he suddenly blurts it out.
* ''Literature/TheColorPurple'' does it towards the end of the book. It is somewhere in the middle of [[spoiler: a long list of small things to be grateful for and enjoy. This philosophical/religious discussion would be unremarkable without the title drop.]]
* In Creator/JohnCWright's ''[[Literature/CountToTheEschaton Count to a Trillion]]'', Blackie starts making plans at once for a far future danger, on the grounds that even if a man does not have the patience to count to a trillion, still the number exists.
* In Creator/RogerZelazny's ''Literature/CreaturesOfLightAndDarkness'', in the end, as Isis is preparing to withdraw from the Middle Worlds and let its creatures of light and darkness carry on as they would.
* ''Literature/TheCryingOfLot49'' plays with this. The title is the final line of text, and deliberately makes absolutely no sense until then. It turns out that [[spoiler: the 49th lot (property) at an auction is maybe relevant to the mystery, and Oedipa is waiting for that lot to be cried (sold).]] The book ends just before the crying starts, because Creator/ThomasPynchon likes doing that sort of thing, so [[NoEnding we never find out what happens]].
* Iain M. Banks does this at times in his [[Literature/TheCulture Culture]] series, probably most notably in ''Literature/UseOfWeapons'', and also in ''Look to Windward'' and ''Literature/{{Matter}}''.
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* ''Literature/DamnatioMemoriae'' by Laura Giebfried has the Latin teacher, Albertson, explain that "Damnatio Memoriae" means "condemnation of memory", which becomes ingrained in Enim's thoughts as an explanation as to why no one else seems to notice [[spoiler:the disappearances of numerous girls on the island.]]
* One passage in ''Literature/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavocIf'' contains one for the title of the ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' franchise, but it only works in Japanese: as a group of Monokumas shoot at [[spoiler:a fully turned Mukuro Ikusaba]], the narration explains she's able to '''parry the bullets'''[[note]]"Danganronpa" is parsed as "Bullet Refutal" in Japanese, with "refutal" in this case used to describe deflecting[[/note]] with ease.
* The ''Literature/DeadSouls'' by Creator/NikolaiGogol aren't souls in the religious sense, they're not immediately mentioned, and it takes even longer for us to learn what's the real purpose of the protagonist buying them up.
* Every version of Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheDeadZone'' has featured the phrase "the dead zone". However, oddly enough each version ascribes the phrase a different meaning. In the original novel it referred to parts of Johnny's brain which had died during his coma, which became important when he had a crucial vision of the future -- some elements of which he couldn't make out because they were in "the dead zone."
* Creator/GeneWolfe's story "The Death of Dr. Island". [[spoiler:It doubles as a RedHerring; the title doesn't mean what you think it does.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Dr. Island''': [...] by dying she made someone else, someone very important, well. Her prognosis was bad; she really wanted only death, and this was the death I chose for her.]] You could call it '''the death of Dr. Island''', a death that would help someone else.
* The short story ''Literature/DecisionOfFate'' has the title dropped several times.
* ''Literature/ADeepnessInTheSky'': "I have students who are sure most of the stars are just like our sun, only much much younger, and many with worlds just like ours. You want a deepness that endures, a deepness that Spiderkind can depend on? Pedure, there is a deepness in the sky, and it extends forever."
* Anthony Horowitz's ''Literature/DiamondBrothers'' books all have {{Pun}}s as their titles, and each one gets title dropped, from "I Know Who You Killed Last Wednesday" to "South by Southeast".
* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'':
** The back cover of ''Double Down'' contains the line "But is doubling down on movie-making a smart plan?"
** ''Wrecking Ball'': The titular wrecking ball is mentioned a few times.
* ''Literature/{{Digitesque}}'': In ''Zeroth Law'', the most fundamental law of the gods is "The zeroth law, in full, was defined as follows: Do not harm humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm."
* Painted on a wall near the end of ''[[Literature/DinkyHockerShootsSmack Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!]]'' [[spoiler:The food-addicted title character confesses to doing this in desperation for the attention of her neglectful mother.]]
* Most of ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' have title drops somewhere.
** Octarine, ''Literature/TheColourOfMagic''.
** "Get back to your cauldrons, Literature/WyrdSisters!"
** "Literature/GuardsGuards" is said twice by the BigBad.
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** "They must have witches here. Everywhere has witches. You've got to have Literature/WitchesAbroad. You find witches everywhere."
** ''Literature/LordsAndLadies'' is a term used to refer to TheFairFolk.
** 'May you live in Literature/InterestingTimes' is the closest thing the Agatean Empire has to a curse.
** ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' is the Disc's equivalent to Santa Claus.
** "This is Literature/TheLastContinent. It was made... later, and... differently."
** ''Literature/TheFifthElephant'' is an {{Uberwald}}ian expression, based on the legend that there were once five elements instead of four that held up the Disc, but one fell off and crashed into earth, creating the fat deposits that are in the center of the plot.
** "A lie can run around the world before Literature/TheTruth has got its boots on."
** "So easily does a Literature/ThiefOfTime repay his debts!"
** "Everyone knows about you, Lieutenant. You're the Literature/MonstrousRegiment, you are!"
* The title of ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' is referred to twice, both in ''Inferno'':
** Canto 16 ends with the narrator swearing by "my Comedy" that he tells the truth when he says that he saw the monster Geryon emerge from a waterfall.
** Canto 21 opens with the narrator mentioning that Dante and Virgil were discussing "things my Comedy is not concerned to sing," oddly dropping the title in a context explicitly irrelevant to the work.
* When Diane is pretending to speak for Rosie the dog, Ben says, "''Literature/DogsDontTalk'', Mom." Diane insists, "Rosie does."
* In Louis Sachar's ''Literature/DogsDontTellJokes'', the title is dropped [[ItMakesSenseInContext during an inspirational speech the main character gets from an imaginary eccentric old lady he made up to tell jokes about.]]
* ''Literature/DoraWilkSeries'': ''No Innocents At War'' has Bruno state the title after a short, but nasty fight:
-->'''Bruno''': There are no innocents at war, they're either with you or against you.
* ''Literature/{{Dragonvarld}}'': "Dragonvarld" it turns out is the name the dragons use for the world of the setting, which means 'dragon world'.
* ''Literature/TheDreamsideRoad'': The Dreamside Road is frequently named in-story. This is to be expected, as finding [[ArchaeologicalArmsRace the Dreamside Road]] is the main motivation of almost all of the major characters.
* ''Literature/DungeonEngineer'': The second chapter, "Arcanasynthesis":
--> [[spoiler:So it seems that the plants can survive and even thrive by utilizing ambient mana as an energy source… In place of photosynthesis]]. I dub this new discovery '''arcanasynthesis'''. That’s perhaps the first good name I’ve come up with in this life.
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* Played with in Paul Murray's novel ''Literature/AnEveningOfLongGoodbyes''. About halfway through the book, the narrator character decides to write a play based on the events happening around him. He says he has chosen the title: six words which perfectly capture the sad mood of the situation. The next chapter is the playscript itself, titled ''There's Bosnians In My Attic!'' The trope is played straight elsewhere, where "An Evening of Long Goodbyes" is the name of a racing greyhound.
* ''Literature/EveryonePoops'' ends with the line "All living things eat, so everyone poops!"
* "I wonder if no warning/or joke or anything/can distract her/from stealing/then selling/Literature/EveryShinyThing."
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* ''Literature/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas:'' Duke is imagining what the prosecution might say if the Lucy case came to trial:
--> … the drug cache in the possession of the defendants at the time of the arrest was enough to ''kill'' an entire platoon of United States Marines … and gentlemen, I use the word kill with all due respect for the '''fear and loathing''' I'm sure it provokes in every one of you …
* Used incessantly in ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'', Ana regularly drops variants of the title into her narrative, talking about herself as being so many shades of confused, a situation being many shades darker, and so on. She also refers to Christian Grey as "Fifty Shades", "her own personal Fifty Shades", etc.
* In ''Literature/FortunatelyTheMilk'', a man pops out to buy milk for his family's breakfast, and returns after an exceptionally long absence with a single carton of milk and a wild tale about how he was abducted by aliens on the way home and forced to go on an action-packed time travel adventure. At several points in his story, usually after something particularly active has happened, he adds in an aside that fortunately, the milk was safe in his pocket/because he'd kept a tight grip on it/etc.
* In ''Literature/TheFourteenthGoldfish'', Ellie says that [[spoiler:her grandfather was that goldfish to her]].
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* ''Literature/TheGateOfIvory'' is set on the planet of Ivory, but gets a more proper title drop when Theodora references the classic belief that false dreams come through the Gate of Ivory and true dreams from the Gate of Horn, and how she so often gets things backwards.
* In ''Literature/GoldenDawn'', Herald does this whilst trying to discover if the angel has another name after finding out how long her name really is "Midwinter Sunrise When The Sun's Rays Touch The Snow-covered Mountains And Reflect The Pale, Golden Light".
* In ''Literature/GoneWithTheWind'', Scarlett O'Hara uses the title phrase when she wonders to herself if her home on a plantation called "Tara" is still standing or if it is "gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia." (part 3, chapter 24).
* ''Literature/GoodbyeMrChips'' is about a teacher named Mr Chipping, known familiarly as "Chips". The title phrase appears at two significant points: the first time, as a familiar joke from his fiancée on the night before their wedding, and the second time, near the end of the story, from a new student who hasn't yet grasped that "Chips" is just a nickname. The second time is also significant as [[spoiler:the last time anyone says goodbye to him before he dies]].
* Done several times in ''Literature/GoTheFuckToSleep'', which is about a parent trying to get their child to, well, ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin go the fuck to sleep]]''.
* ''Literature/GoToSleepAJeffTheKillerRewrite'': "Go to sleep" remains as Jeff's murderous catchphrase, which he uses as a DeadlyEuphemism.
** Jeff's last words to Liu are a pleading "Please, go to sleep." after he stabs him to put him in a permanent resting place.
** The story concludes with the words "Go to sleep" in Jeff's answer to [[spoiler:Ben]] asking what to do with Randy.
---> '''Jeff:''' I say it's your turn to make him go to sleep.
* Chapter 25 of Steinbeck's ''Literature/TheGrapesOfWrath'' concludes thusly:
-->The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quicklime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people ''the grapes of wrath'' are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
* Mr. Jaggers says that Pip has "Literature/GreatExpectations" upon the second time they meet.
* ''Literature/TheGreatRingtailGarbageCaper'' serves as both the title of the book AND the name of the plan the local raccoons develop to get first dibs on Gull Island's garbage supply.
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* From the moment King Solomon starts referring to the ''Literature/HandOfMercy'', it's clear that Helen and Clem aren't just reassembling some old angel bones.
* ''Literature/HaniAndIshusGuideToFakeDating'': The story's title is given to a document Hani and Ishu draw up to help them fake a relationship, with a number of rules. Over time, they break them all.
* The protagonist of ''Literature/HeavyMetalAndYou'' by Christopher Krovatin drops the title as the only two things he has.
* ''Literature/HeIsYourBrother'': When Mike's mother tells him to look after his autistic little brother for the day, she says, "He ''is'' your brother."
* "As one of the survivors of the lone southern strongpoint would say later, the defense of Isabelle had been ''Literature/HellInAVerySmallPlace''."
* In ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' series, Hera/Juno does it while speaking with Jason about his destiny in the last chapter of ''The Lost Hero''.
* ''Literature/AHoleInTheFence'': When Basile tells he can get Grisón through the barrier bordering the Forbidden Zone, Grisón asks whether there is a hole in the fence.
-->'''Basile:''' ''"Normally yes, it would be impossible. But I have everything I need here."''\\
'''Grisón:''' ''"Are you going to make a hole in the fence?"''\\
'''Basile:''' ''""There's already a hole in the fence. I am one of the few that know about it."\\
'''Grisón:''' (murmuring) ''"A hole in the fence…"''
* Most of the ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'' novels are simply named with whatever rank or ship he's at during the story. ''Flying Colours'' is an exception. Having lost his ship in the previous book (and facing a mandatory court-martial, which could end in execution), Hornblower finds himself escaping back to England on a cutter that had been captured by the French and decides he will "fly his colours to the last." Once hailed by a British ship, he replies in a routine way that is nonetheless absurd: Captain Horatio Hornblower (presumed dead for a year), of His Majesty's cutter ''Witch of Endor'' (in French hands for a year).
* ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'' is the title of a book Navidson brings with him on a journey into the labyrinth. It also occurs in one of the supplementary appendices which are connected with the main narrative, as part of a poem.
* There's a belated, sort-of Title Drop in ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' trilogy: "hunger games" and "mockingjay" appear all throughout the trilogy, but in ''Mockingjay'', Katniss proclaims that "fire is catching". ''Catching Fire'' was the ''previous'' book.
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%%* The book ''Literature/IAmLegend'' has a title drop as the very last line.
* ''Literature/IAmTheCheese'': The title drop is the first person narrator's comment on the last line ("The cheese stands alone") of the IronicNurseryTune he has been humming to himself throughout the novel.
* ''Literature/IfIFallIfIDie'' become the title of [[ShowWithinAShow a movie Will makes]].
* At the very end of ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'', the protagonist drops the title, having been transformed into a creature incapable of ever killing himself.
* In Philip Friedman's trial novel, ''Literature/InadmissibleEvidence'', the main character tries to get some witness testimony admitted. After judge throws it out, and the trial is about to start, we get this nice little passage:
-->The morning papers gave him even less space, mostly playing the story as an implausible allegation properly kept out of court. They seemed more willing to show their bias in favor of [the defendant] now that the trial was about to begin. Only one treated [the witness's] story as seriously as Estrada thought it deserved. \\
The front page headline in ''Noticias Diarias'' said simply, PRUEBAS PROHIBITAS. Inadmissible Evidence.
* ''Literature/INeedAWee'': Twice, Alan yells the book title and it takes up the whole page.
* ''Literature/{{Inkmistress}}'': Asra describes herself as the "inkmistress" of the king in the story's second half.
* Creator/MarioVargasLlosa's novel ''Literature/InPraiseOfTheStepmother'' is title-dropped as the title of Alfonso's school paper about his stepmother Lucrecia.
* In both of Paul Robinson's books ''In the Matter of: The Gatekeeper: The Gate Contracts'' and ''In the Matter of: Literature/InstrumentOfGod'', each chapter's title comes from a line of dialogue used in that chapter.
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* ''Literature/JamesBond''
** While discussing their operation in ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie'', Bond's CIA buddy Felix Leiter notes that they have a convention which goes "live and let live". Bond then answers that his is "live and let die".
** In ''Literature/DiamondsAreForever'', Bond comes across a jewel store window which has a product that uses the title of the book as its marketing slogan.
** The title of the short story "Literature/ForYourEyesOnly" appears on a folder that is handed to Bond.
** Done in ''Literature/OnHerMajestysSecretService'' after Bond sends a message to M about Blofeld getting away.
--->Bond watched the message go, the end of another chapter of his duties, as Marc-Ange had put it, 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'.
** Title of ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' comes from Bond's attempt at haiku poetry.
--->You only live twice:\\
Once when you are born\\
And once when you look death in the face
** After blasting the rifle out of a Russian shooter's hands, the short story "[[Literature/OctopussyAndTheLivingDaylights The Living Daylights]]" ends with Bond proclaiming that he probably scared the living daylights out of her.
** The title of ''Literature/ForSpecialServices'' comes from an engraving in a gift that Bond receives from Felix Leiter at the end of the book.
** A (false) war criminal in ''Literature/TheManFromBarbarossa'' is referred to as such by the Judge Advocate General in his trial.
** When M tells Bond that he has ten days to find the truth behind the various assasinations in ''Literature/ZeroMinusTen'', Bond answers with "Zero minus ten. [[SarcasmMode Plenty of time. No pressure at all]]."
** The title of ''Literature/TheFactsOfDeath'' appears on a note left to M by her lover.
** In ''Literature/HighTimeToKill'', a villain beckons Bond to jump down to his death by telling him that "It's high time to kill, James. You first."
** Done by Le Gérant in ''Literature/NeverDreamOfDying'' as he and Bond fight in a dark cavern.
--->'''Le Gérant''': You know what they say... never dream of dying. It just might come true.
** Goro Yoshida in ''Literature/TheManWithTheRedTattoo'' is referred to as such twice in book's narrative.
** In ''Literature/CarteBlanche'', M mentions how Bond is used to "having carte blanche" to handle his missions as he sees fit.
** ''[[Literature/SoloJamesBond Solo]]'' has a few mentions of Bond "going solo" once he starts going after the novel's bad guys to get personal {{Revenge}}.
** In ''Literature/TriggerMortis'', the title of the book is the nickname to the failsafe feature that is used to blow up errant space rockets.
* ''Literature/JaneUnlimited'': The fourth story is titled "Jane, Unlimited". The "Unlimited" part [[spoiler:refers to the multiverse: a Limited universe tends to be restricted by strict rules, whereas in an Unlimited universe, just about anything can happen]].
* ''Literature/JenniferGovernment'' (though you can see it coming from the beginning of the chapter, lessening the impact).
* ''Literature/JustDavid'': In chapter 3, when Simeon Holly and his wife find David and ask for his last name and he answers he is "just David".
** In chapter 10, someone else asks for his last name and he answers with "just David" once again.
* ''Literature/JustJuliet'': At the very end, after they get back together, Lena reflects that she's got everything she needs, that is: Just Juliet.
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* All of Creator/DennisLehane's ''Literature/KenzieAndGennaroSeries'' novels feature this; the title of each book is dropped at some point either in character dialogue or through Patrick's narration.
* ''Literature/TheKharkanasTrilogy'':
** At the end of the first book, ''Forge of Darkness'', Caladan Brood claims that by the blood surrendered from both the goddess Mother Dark and her children, 'Darkness is forged'.
** In ''Forge of Darkness'' there are also two on one page for the third book, ''Walk in Shadow''. When Rise Herat contemplates the flooded city and likens Dorssan Ryl's bridges to 'where dwelt equity, hope and cherished lives', when he sees people being swept by water through the shadows of said bridges, the narration says: 'Such shadows could not be walked.' And later, when he imagines flinging himself from the Citadel's tower, his thoughts are:
--->'''Rise Herat:''' ''Of all the falls promised me by this vantage, I will take the river. Each and every time, I will take the river. And perhaps, one day, I will walk in shadows.''
* ''Literature/TheKillerAngels'' drops its title in response to the "What a piece of work is man...," quote from ''Literature/{{Hamlet}}''.
* Addie says, "My Grandpa always said, people like me in the past might not have been the most sociable. Or the chattiest. But while everyone else was around the fireplace gossiping, we were out finding electricity. That's what my autism is. It's ''Literature/AKindOfSpark''."
* ''Literature/TheKingkillerChronicle'': In both ''Literature/TheNameOfTheWind'' and ''Literature/TheWiseMansFear'', the titles are really well done things from the book.
* In ''Literature/KissOfTheSpiderWoman'' by Manuel Puig, Molina recreates movie plots to his cell mate Valentin to pass the time. The first one is about a panther-woman who kills every man who kisses her. Later in the book, after both prisoners start having an affair [[spoiler: and Molina is set free]], Molina asks Valentin why he hasn't kissed him yet. He answers jokingly that he was afraid he'll became a panther and kill him, like the panther-woman movie, to which Molina replies that he is not a panther-woman. Valentine then says to him: "You are the spider-woman, who catches the men in her web" and Molina says that he likes that. At the end of the book, [[spoiler: when Valentin starts having a death dream]], the title is dropped again reinforced with the image of the spider-woman when he is talking with [[spoiler: Marta]].
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%% * The book ''Literature/TheLandOfStories'', and the world of the same name.
* From Chapter 12 of ''Literature/TheLastBattle'':
--> "And then '''the last battle''' of the last king of Narnia began."
* "The unicorn made no reply, and Schmendrick said, "She is the last. She is ''Literature/TheLastUnicorn'' in the world."
* The first book in the ''Literature/LeftBehind'' series gives a title drop [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_placement in advance]], as the characters excitedly discuss the formation of a "Tribulation Force".
* "George understood writing Literature/LikeAFishUnderstandsATree. It cast a shadow over his life, he knew it was there, and he could do nothing about it."
* ''Literature/LiliesOfTheField'' has the protagonist quote scripture to try to get the stingy, English-deficient mother superior to pay him for his work.
* Livvie has written "Literature/LivvieOwenLivedHere," the only sentence she knows how to write, somewhere in [[ReallyMovesAround every house, apartment, or trailer she has ever lived in]].
* ''[[Literature/{{Wayfarers}} The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet]]'': the narration describes Hedra Ka as "a small, angry planet, surrounded by the warships of people who wanted to control it."
* In ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' by William Golding, [[spoiler: Simon speaks to a "pig's head on a stick" who is referred to by the narrator as "The lord of the flies"]].
* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'':
** Near the end of ''Return of the King'' Frodo reveals that he's written ''The Fall of the Lord of the Rings and the Return of the King''.
** When Frodo also first sees his friends after waking up in Rivendell, Pippin cheers for him and calls him "Frodo, Lord of the Ring!" Gandalf promptly scolds him.
* The ''Literature/LordPeterWimsey'' short story "The Article in Question" does it twice in ten pages, combining title drop with ChekhovsBoomerang. The title is dropped for the first time already in the preamble, where "the article in question" refers to a diamond necklace. The story proper deals with [[spoiler: two French jewel thieves. The article in question turns out to be the French definite article, which has [[BilingualBonus different form for male and female]]. One of the thieves, while impersonating a maid, slips up and uses the male form about himself, which leads to lord Peter solving the case.]]
* ''Literature/TheLotterysMoreOrLess'': At the end of the book, when [=PopCorn=] asks Sumac if she enjoyed their holidays, even a little bit, she replies [[spoiler:"More or less"]].
* In ''Literature/{{Loveless}}'', each chapter's title (except for the ones in the short story ''Hands Against Our Hearts'') appears somewhere in the chapter itself. There's also a TitleDropChapter which ends on this line:
--> '''Georgia's narration''': I didn't want to be loveless.
* "These were ''Literature/TheLovelyBones'' that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone."
* Shelena from ''Literature/LoyalEnemies'' drops the title of the book on its last pages, in a mocking fashion:
-->''What did you think, that we'd just tell each other something cliché, like "Goodbye, my loyal enemy, I'll miss you" (...)?''
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* ''Literature/TheMadnessSeason'' is the portion of the Tyr life cycle where the Raayat drones [[spoiler:gain a sense of individuality apart from the HiveMind as they prepare to mate with the queen.]]
* ''Literature/{{Magebreakers}}'': ''Literature/TheFlawInAllMagic'':
** Tane says that the flaw in all magic is the mage, or more specifically the mistakes in their writing that they didn't catch.
** At the end of the book, a gnome woman calls Tane and Kadka the Magebreakers. Even with the official story (which barely mentions them), rumors are spreading and they are gaining quite a reputation.
* ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'':
** Especially in the last book, ''Literature/TheCrippledGod'', there are many mentions of a ''Book of the Fallen'', but at one point both the series' and the book's titles are dropped in one sentence:
--->''In that Malazan Book of the Fallen, the historians will write of our suffering, and they will speak of it as the suffering of those who served the Crippled God.''
** The last book also includes excerpts from a poem titled ''The Malazan Book of the Fallen'' by Fisher kel Tath, a poet famed in-universe.
** In the same book, the Crippled God himself resolves in his thoughts to write down the sacrifices the Malazans made to [[spoiler:free him from his suffering]], entitling the work ''Malazan Book of the Fallen''.
** In the third book, ''Literature/MemoriesOfIce'', the phrase "memories of ice" is said by Tool during a discussion of the ancient war between the [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Jaghut]] and the [[DemBones T'lan Imass]]. The text is also peppered with it as a descriptive metaphor, indicating a sort of melancholia.
* ''Literature/MartyPants'':
** The title of the first book, "Do Not Open!" is the title of the folder where Mr. [=McPhee=] keeps his record, tests and answers, [[spoiler:and his novel]].
** The title of the second book, "Keep Your Paws Off!" is written on the front of Erica's diary.
* ''Literature/AMasterOfDjinn'': The book title is mentioned as being one of many honorifics which Al-Jahiz had.
* Max in ''The Angel Experiment'', when she tells Ella's mum her full name is ''Literature/MaximumRide''.
* Creator/KateWilhelm's "Literature/TheMileLongSpaceship": When Allan falls asleep, he travels ([[{{telepathy}} telepathically]]) to a starship that strives to explore all of known space (including other galaxies) to discover other forms of life. Of course, he thinks it's a dream, while the aliens are aware of his PsychicPowers; "the [[MileLongShip mile-long spaceship]] in his dream".
* At the end of "Literature/MimsyWereTheBorogoves", Dennis Paradine discovers a page from ''Literature/ThroughTheLookingGlass'' and recalls the verse on it, which includes the title of the story.
* In ''Literature/LesMiserables'':
-->Besides, there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, ''les misérables''; whose fault is it? And then, when the fall is furthest, is that not when charity should be greatest?
* In Teresa Frohock's ''Literature/MiserereAnAutumnTale'', one character says "''Miserere''" -- have mercy -- as a plea for mercy for himself, and another sends a letter instructing John that a lost sheep is returning, and concludes with it ''Miserere''.
* Binx Bolling from ''Literature/TheMoviegoer'' uses the phrase to describe people who are in on [[UsefulNotes/{{Existentialism}} "The Search"]].
* In ''Literature/MyDarkVanessa'', Strane shows Vanessa a passage from ''Literature/PaleFire'': "Come and be worshiped, come and be caressed/My dark Vanessa, crimson-barred, my blest…"
* ''Literature/MySistersKeeper''. While the title initially seems to refer to Anna's role as (involuntary) organ donour to her sister Kate, the actual title drop is done by Jesse, responding to a question about Anna's whereabouts with "[[Literature/TheBible Am I my sister's keeper?]]"
* ''Literature/MySwordhandIsSinging'' contains two title drops. '''The first:''' "No, Milosh. I am not hurt," he said. "I am dying. But my swordhand is singing. I will take the sword into the village, and put an end to it." '''And the second:''' "Yes, Father. My swordhand is singing.
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* The title drop in ''Literature/TheNameOfTheRose'' is intentionally opaque, showing up only in an untranslated Latin epitaph in the last line in the novel: ''Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.'' This translates roughly to "the ancient rose continues to exist through its name, yet its name is all that remains to us," a line that touches on several of the book's themes. Umberto Eco went on to say that, as a semiologist (a specialist in metaphors and symbols) he'd found that the Rose was the most used of symbols, to the point that it could be used as a symbol of almost *anything*. Meaning that it has become too charged with subtitles to actually mean anything any more. He deliberately chose the title to be the most portentous ever, but to not portent anything in particular. It is a semiotic joke, mister Moreau.
* "Literature/NavigatingEarly was as challenging as navigating mysterious and uncharted waters."
* ''Literature/TheNeapolitanNovels'': "You're my brilliant friend" near the end of the first book ("My Brilliant Friend" is the title of the first novel, and also how the entire series is generelly referred to). It's Lila who says that to Elena, while for most of the book Lila was implied to be the titular "brilliant friend" because of Elena's narration. That line reveals that both friends see each other this way.
* ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'': "The Neverending Story" is, of course, the name of the book Bastian is reading, but ''within'' the book the phrase is first used by Gmork:
-->"What are you creatures of Fantastica? Dreams, poetic inventions, characters in a neverending story."
* In ''Literature/NoOneNeededToKnow'', Heidi thinks of her nosy classmates, "I hadn't told any of them things about my home life because no one needed to know. It wasn't their business."
* Early on in Elizabeth Gaskell's ''Literature/NorthAndSouth'', Nicholas Higgins remarks, "And yet, yo' see, North and South has both met and made kind o' friends in this big smoky place".
* ''Literature/NumberTheStars'' has its title drop during the [[spoiler:fake]] funeral: Peter reads from Psalm 147, which describes God as "He Who numbers the stars one by one." The protagonist Annemarie looks out the window as he says this, wondering how this is possible considering how many stars she could see.
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* "Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to ''Literature/OneHundredYearsOfSolitude'' did not have a second opportunity on earth."
* ''Literature/OnlyRevolutions'', in both Sam and Hailey's stories, appears towards the end of the book, as both [[spoiler:are vowing [[UnstoppableRage to destroy everything]] because [[UnreliableNarrator the other one has died]].]]
* ''Literature/TheOrphanTrainAdventures'' book Circle of Love: Frances Kelly tells the Orphan Train children she ecsorts to Missouri that a family doesn't need to be the parents and the children born to them - it's "a circle of love", which means "love given and love returned".
* Creator/GregEgan's ''Literature/{{Orthogonal}}'' trilogy is full of title drops for both the trilogy and each book, with the exception of ''The Clockwork Rocket'' (the first book), which is never stated in those words.
** The ''Eternal Flame'' (the second book) is a hypothetical inexhaustible energy source that could be used to fuel a PerpetualMotionMachine.
** Any given object has an "arrow of time" (the third book, though the actual title is ''The Arrow'''s''' of Time''), a four-dimensional vector that describes its path through spacetime.
** The trilogy's title is dropped far more frequently than any of the individual book titles; ''Literature/{{Orthogonal}}'', which is basically a fancy word for "perpendicular", is constantly used to refer to situations where something is traveling orthogonally through spacetime with respect to something else -- "something else" usually being the [[DoomedHometown Doomed Home Planet]]. [[note]]In other words, if two space rocks have arrows of time that are perpendicular to each other (each one's movement through space is perceived as movement through time by the other, and vice versa), they are said to be orthogonal to each other.[[/note]] The phrase "orthogonal matter", which is this universe's equivalent to {{Antimatter}}, is by far the most frequently used title drop.
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* ''Literature/ThePaleKing'' is mentioned offhand in Chapter 18.
* ''Literature/TheParasolProtectorate'': From book 3, ''Blameless'':
-->'''Lord Maccon:''' It looks like you managed to build your own pack, anyway, my dear. A parasol protectorate, perhaps one might say.
* ''Literature/ThePendragonAdventure'' gets a lot of usage out of this trope, with the title usually relating to the turning point of the territory that has to be saved. It begins in the very first book, ''The Merchant of Death''. Eccentric tradesman Figgis reveals himself to be selling tak, a deadly explosive. The Milago people are constructing it into a bomb as part of LaResistance. Cue title drop.
* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': In ''The Last Olympian'', the final book, the goddess Hestia tells Percy that as the guardian of the hearth, she is the last Olympian.
* ''Literature/{{Phantastes}}'': From the first chapter's {{Epigraph}}:
--> "Phantastes from their fount all shapes deriving,\\
In new habiliments can quickly dight."\\
FLETCHER'S Purple Island
* ''Literature/ProphecyApprovedCompanion'': From the first sentences of the first chapter:
--> Qube was an official Prophecy Approved Companion to one of the three possible saviours of the world.
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* The ''Literature/QuantumGravity'' series has three. The first two, ''Keeping It Real'' and ''Selling Out'', come in the second book, in talking about what it means to be a demon: Keeping it real and ''never'' selling out. The title drop for the series as a whole finally makes sense of the [[WordSaladTitle series title]].
-->''The ghost glow was gone, but she had been Jone's ship and real enough before her capture by the Fleet's massive ''quantum gravity'', so she hadn't fallen apart yet[.]''
* In the first of Creator/JackChalker's ''Quintara Marathon'' trilogy, ''The Demons at the Rainbow Bridge'', one character says: "Three highly trained teams are about to set out on a racecourse blindfolded, where they will attempt to murder one another in their quest to catch creatures that will certainly eat the winners! Yes, indeed, beings of all races! Don't dare miss--The Quintara Marathon!" To which the character's telepathic parasite responds with ''Shut up, Jimmy!'' All the individual books also include a title drop.
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* In Creator/HarlanEllison's ''Literature/RepentHarlequinSaidTheTicktockman'', the Ticktockman indeed tells the Harlequin to repent from his prank-laden crusade against the ScheduleFanatic society which the Ticktockman [[ClocksOfControl manages]], but he's not having any of it.
-->'''Ticktockman:''' Repent, Harlequin!\\
'''Harlequin:''' Get stuffed!
* ''Literature/TheReynardCycle'': The titles of the series all refer directly to Reynard, and all of them get significantly dropped close to the end of each novel.
* ''Literature/TheRoosevelt'':
** In ''Carry the Ocean'', Jeremey texts Emmet, "sometimes I feel like is carrying a bucket of water but I'm trying to carry an ocean. its very hard. sometimes i would rather not carry my ocean, even if it meant I couldn't be alive."
** In ''Shelter the Sea'', Jeremey compares The Roosevelt Project to carrying everyone else's oceans. Emmet says, "We aren't carrying the oceans. We're helping them find places to be to carry them themselves more easily." Jeremey says, "We're trying to shelter the sea, then."
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* The events in the fantasy novel, ''Literature/{{Satyrday}}'' take place over the course of the week. Guess which day the climax falls on. No, really.
-->''Matthew (a satyr)'': I think today is Satyrday.
* ''Literature/AScannerDarkly'' has this line: ''"Does a passive infrared scanner...see into me-into us-clearly or darkly?"''
* ''Literature/SecondApocalypse'' series:
** The title of the first book, ''The Darkness that Comes Before'', is a phrase that comes up several times when Kellhus describes the Logos. It is all the involuntary forces outside of oneself that drive one's actions. Only a "self-moving soul" can avoid becoming a slave to the darkness that comes before action.
** The title of the first trilogy, ''Prince of Nothing'', is dropped by Cnaiür. He calls Kellhus "a prince of nothing" in ''The Darkness that Comes Before'', when the latter decides to pose as a prince from Atrithau, a place so far north nobody would know more than its name.
* ''Literature/ShadesChildren'': "Shade's Children" is mentioned as the name used for Shade's ChildSoldiers who live on the submarine with him.
* ''Literature/{{Sharpe}}'': The last two words of every book except the last two are the title, which often requires some slightly clumsy prose.
* The ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' novel ''Literature/AStudyInScarlet''. "I might not have gone but for you, and so have missed the finest study I ever came across: a study in scarlet, eh?"
* In ''Literature/ShockPoint'', Cassie's father Steve visits Peaceful Cove, the abusive reform school where she's being imprisoned. Father Gary calls the school "a shock point to force Cassie out of her comfort zone, to make her see what her choices have done to her and to you" to persuade Steve that Cassie's complaints of abuse are false.
* The ''Literature/SholanAlliance'': Lisanne Norman has managed to write the title of each book into the character dialogue or the character's thoughts.
** It is usually done word for word, but on at least one occasion, paraphrased.
** For {{Foreshadowing}}, book 7's title is dropped in book 6.
* The last five words of the novel ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' are "the silence of the lambs", in reference to an intense conversation Clarice had earlier on with Lecter about witnessing lambs being slaughtered as a child.
* In ''Literature/SkinOfTheSea'', Simi tells Kola, "When you peel back the skin of the sea, you never know what you will find."
* ''Literature/TheSlowRegardOfSilentThings'' features a title drop partway through the book.
* Title drops also occur in ''Literature/SoImASpiderSoWhat''. [[spoiler:In chapter 245 of the main story (WN version), the MC repeats the book title in her mind when being inquired about who she is.]]
* In the second chapter of ''Literature/SolarDefendersTheRoleOfAShield,'' Defender Venus sets a rather dark tone for the series when she explains to the newcomers about the Defenders, who are known to the public as the "Shield of Mankind." According to her, the role of a shield is [[ShapedLikeItself to shield people]] by taking hits for them, which it continues to do [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption until it eventually breaks and gets replaced with a new shield.]]
* The Avi book ''Literature/SometimesIThinkIHearMyName'' uses itself as the last line spoken.
* ''Literature/{{Somewhither}}'':
-->''Our world is mostly civilized these days, mostly tamed: but I knew there was wildness and weirdness out there. Where? Hither or thither or somewhere or '''somewhither''': In elfland or outer space or beyond the walls of the world.''
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', both with the series name and the individual books ''A Game of Thrones'', ''A Feast for Crows'' and ''A Dance with Dragons''. In the second book, Daenerys sees a vision of her dead brother Rhaegar in the House of the Undying, in which he says of his baby son Aegon "He is the Prince Who Was Promised, and his song is the song of ice and fire". Dany later discusses it with Ser Jorah, but they can't figure out what it means. [[note]] While the title has been briefly mentioned, as of book 4 it is still not known what it actually ''is'', though a popular theory has been pieced together from context and evidence. [[spoiler:Rhaegar Targaryen believed that "the song of ice and fire" was something to do with the Prince Who Was Promised. At first, he thought that the Prince was his son Aegon, but later concluded that he'd been mistaken. This is what led him to seduce Lyanna Stark (Targaryen = fire, Stark = ice), presumably in the hope of fathering a Stark/Targaryen child who would be the Prince Who Was Promised. Since the role of the Prince Who Was Promised is to fight the Others, the title song is the cyclical/prophetic saga of a hero battling against the Others to save mankind. Important detail about the Rhaegar and Lyanna theory: a lot of fans are convinced that not only did Rhaegar and Lyanna have a child together but that that child was Jon Snow.]] [[/note]]
** A short story describes the Pact of Ice and Fire- an alliance between the Starks and Targaryens.
** The title drop for ''A Game of Thrones'' most famously occurs in one of Ned's chapters in which he confronts Cersei, and is the first title drop in the live action adaption. Cersei famously counters with the phrase, "In the game of thrones, you win or you die." The phrase "game of thrones" is used several times afterwards throughout the rest of the series. The first title drop is by Ser Jorah, of all people, in response to Dany's claim that the common people are praying for Viserys's return to the throne. Interestingly, while all other title drop in the thousands-of-pages-long series indicates the importance of the situation, the very first one belittles the entire thing.
---> "The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends," Ser Jorah told her. "It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace." He gave a shrug. "They never are."
** In ''A Feast for Crows'' the title drop occurs in Asha's first chapter, although it's not a literal one: "We had one king, then five. Now all I see are crows, squabbling over the corpse of Westeros."
** In ''A Dance with Dragons'' one character says, "Not all men were meant to dance with dragons" [[spoiler: about Quentyn Martell after his death.]]
* Lucio says, "Considering the Arch-Enemy of mankind - if half the stories reported of him be true, he must be the most piteous and pitiable figure in the Universe! What would be the sorrows of a thousand million worlds, compared to Literature/TheSorrowsOfSatan?"
* In ''Literature/TheSouthernReachTrilogy'', the titles of the individual books are used in-story:
** "Annihilation" is one of the trigger phrases used by the psychologist to activate post-hypnotic suggestions in the expedition members. It's supposed to force the listener to [[DrivenToSuicide immediately commit suicide]].
** "Authority" is part of another code phrase, "consolidation of authority", which forces the listener to obey.
* ''Literature/SpiceAndWolf'' gets its title drop from an onlooker, with Lawrence meeting back up with [[LittleBitBeastly Holo]] after requesting the spice (pepper in this case) as payment from a business arrangement. The onlooker recites a fable about a devil eating a spice merchant related to him. In the English dub of the anime adaptation, it's a bit more obvious...
-->"They truly are spice and wolf!"
* In Creator/MichaelFlynn's ''Literature/SpiralArm'' series, ''On the Razor's Edge'' has several characters musing on life on the razor's edge -- a synonom for InHarmsWay.
* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
** An interesting variation: one of the books delivers a title drop for one of the films, when Admiral Pellaeon says: "Although you may win the occasional battle against us, Vorrik, ''[[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack the Empire will always strike back]].''"
** [[Creator/MattStover Matthew Stover]]'s novelization of ''Literature/RevengeOfTheSith'' tells us that "The Clone Wars have always been, in and of themselves, from their very inception, the revenge of the Sith. [...] By fighting at all, the Jedi lost."
** In ''Literature/LabyrinthOfEvil'', Yoda uses the titular phrase to describe the state of the Clone Wars.
* ''The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight'' by Jennifer Smith approaches the second variety of Title Drop, using it on the next-to-last page.
* ''Literature/StrangerAndStranger'' has its title dropped when Ainslee infers what Oren must think of her in chapter fifteen.
* ''Literature/StrangerThanFanfiction'': [[spoiler:Mo]]'s final line in the book[[spoiler:, and the final line in the book]].
-->[[spoiler:'''Mo]]:''' Definitely not, I don't care what Cash said on the first day in the car-everything that's happened to us this summer, well... it's all been ''stranger than fanfiction''.
* Creator/NeilGaiman's "Literature/AStudyInEmerald" has a title drop, when describing [[spoiler: the murder scene of an EldritchAbomination's son]].
* ''Literature/SwansBraidAndOtherTalesOfTerizan'':
** In "Swan's Braid" Swan's braid is an item she wears that Terizan tries to steal as a test. It's specifically her "life-braid", a good luck charm. It's called this before she tries multiple times.
** In "The Lions of Al'Kalamir" the lions of Al'Kalamir are mentioned several times. It's revealed they are the warring princes themselves.
* Happens in every single book of the ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' series, except for ''Soul of the Fire'' (a title which, incidentally, can't really refer to anything ''in'' the book. There is a fire spirit, but it's explicitly described as ''not'' having a soul). It gets slightly varied, as the ''Blood of the Fold'' of the third book were first mentioned in the second, and the last title, ''Confessor'', as it's the title of one of the main characters, had been in common usage in the books since the first one.
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* In-universe, ''Literature/TheTenetsOfFutilism'' is a book outlining the Futilistic cult authored by its leaders, which are the parents of one of the protagonists.
* The title of the series ''Literature/TerraIgnota'' is dropped by Vivien Ancelet at the beginning of book three, ''The Will to Battle''. Ancelet tells Ockham Saneer to plead ''terra ignota'' in the upcoming trial because what the O.S. did was, while morally questionable and murder by most Hive's laws, strictly speaking for the protection of the Humanist Hive. Pleading ''terra ignota'' means saying "I did the deed, but I do not myself know whether it was a crime. Arm thyself well for this trial, young polylaw; here at the law's wild borders there be dragons."
* ''Literature/ThatHideousStrength'' has this: "No power that is merely earthly," he continued at last, "will serve against the Hideous Strength."
* "They seemed to be staring at the dark, but ''Literature/TheirEyesWereWatchingGod''."
* In ''Literature/TheseWordsAreTrueAndFaithful'', the pastor quotes these words from the Book of Revelation during Saul Overton's funeral. Just about everything that the pastor says is anything but.
* Early on in ''Literature/TheyBothDieAtTheEnd'', Mateo, having learned that he will die within 24 hours, downloads the Last Friend app and gets in touch with Rufus, who is in the same situation. Mateo is wary of Rufus, but decides to spend his End Day with him, reasoning, "No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end."
* A great one happens in the short novel/novella ''Literature/TheyShootHorsesDontThey'', where the title is used in the last chapter as an explanation for why the main character shot his depressed girlfriend who couldn't kill herself--he had to put her out of her misery. (Don't worry, not a spoiler, it's the first thing in the book.)
* ''Literature/ThirdTimeLuckyAndOtherStoriesOfTheMostPowerfulWizardInTheWorld'': In "And Who Is Joah?" Magdelene replies with this question after Joah gives her name.
* ''Literature/TillWeHaveFaces'', by C.S. Lewis, waits until the final chapter to mention the title, making its meaning clear by context.
** The book's WorkingTitle was actually "Bareface" (the main character goes veiled through most of the book). [[ExecutiveMeddling His editor objected]] that people would think the book was a western. (Lewis observed that he didn't think that would hurt sales.) So the title was pulled from that line in the last chapter.
* Literature/TimeScout: The first and third books don't count, as the first, ''Time Scout'' names the profession that is the focus of the series and the third, ''Ripping Time'' names the period of time that is the focus of the last two books. The third, ''Wagers of Sin'' is only dropped in the description on the back cover. The last one, ''The House That Jack Built'' is dropped in the epilogue in a rather gratuitous fashion.
* ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'': Heard in a tale Atticus relates over dinner. If it weren't for the use of the title drop, his tale would seem unimportant at the time, but it turns out to be a metaphor for one of the major themes.
* Trans boy Bug thinks, "Trying to picture myself as a teenage girl is like staring at the sun, Literature/TooBrightToSee, and it hurts."
* ''Literature/TortallUniverse'': Most of the that are spoken in the text are nothing out of the ordinary, but some do have thematic significance.
** ''Literature/SongOfTheLioness'': The third book, ''The Woman Who Rides Like a Man'', is a title that the Bazhir give former SweetPollyOliver Alanna when she becomes their shaman. She takes exception and says that women and men aren't all that different--men just have more ego.
** ''Literature/ProtectorOfTheSmall'': The individual books have ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin titles, but throughout the quartet we see Kel helping and protecting various defenseless people or animals. In the final book, she's finally called "the Protector of the Small" by a seer who foretold her coming to Scanra to save refugee children. Kel finds it a bit of an EmbarrassingNickname.
** ''Literature/BekaCooper'': Every book is titled after a breed of dog, which the Provost's Guard is nicknamed after. Beka, the protagonist, ends up nicknamed as each of them — "Terrier" for not letting go of cases nobody expected to solve, "Bloodhound" for following the trail of counterfeit cash relentlessly, and finally "Mastiff" for hunting down the abducted prince and the traitors who plotted to kill him.
* ''Series/TheTribe: A New Dawn'' [[BookEnds begins and ends]] with different characters watching the sunrise.
* Stephenie Meyer's ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'' books do this in every single book, making the whole series' titles into an {{Anvilicious}} metaphor for Bella's life: i.e. When she meets Edward, her life descends into twilight; when he [[spoiler:leaves her]], her world becomes dark in New Moon; The Volturi/fear eclipse everything else in Eclipse; and Breaking Dawn is when everything is working out all right. In the Swedish editions the title drops are inevitable, since the Swedish title of every book in the series is a quote from said book. ''The Short Life of Bree Tanner'' is the only exception; it was translated without any changes.
** The title drop in Eclipse is more blatant. Bella calls Jacob her personal sun, balancing out the clouds of her depression, but says that she's choosing Edward. Jacob replies that he can handle the clouds, but that he can't fight an Eclipse.
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* In the companion book to the ''Literature/{{Uglies}}'' series, ''Bogus to Bubbly'', which explained many things that were left out of the series, WordOfGod states that the last word of each book was the name of the next book. Scott Westerfeld says that the first two were unintentional, though.
** The first two? There are only three books in the series, so the last words of the first two would be the only relevant ones. Unless you're including ''Extras''...
** More specifically, the last word of "Uglies" is "pretty", the last word of "Pretties" is "special", and the last word of "Specials" is "ugly". Considering Tally's CharacterDevelopment, these could be considered ArcWords. (The last word of "Extras" is "cake." Make of that what you will.)
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* ''Literature/{{Warbreaker}}'': The Returned are people who have died and have been resurrected, and are worshiped as gods by the Hallandrens. They are given names by the priests, which are supposed to be prophetic. Names include Lightsong the Bold, Blushweaver the Beautiful, and Peacegiver the Merciful. At the very end of the book, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Vasher]]'s first name was Warbreaker the Peaceful.
* Creator/DanAbnett carefully drops titles in most of his ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' novels. Notably, the ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' series and the ''Literature/{{Eisenhorn}}'' books.
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'':
** In the prologue for the fifth book of Power of Three, Rock makes a reference to "the power of three". In ''Sign of the Moon'', which isn't even in the Power of Three series, when Jayfeather realizes that Lion's Roar and Dove's Wing are past incarnations of Lionblaze and Dovewing, he says that the "Power of Three" (capitalized like a title) has begun.
** In Omen of the Stars, Yellowfang mentions "an Omen of the Stars" (also capitalized like a title) in the prologue of the very first book.
** There are no less than three echo related metaphors used in Fading Echoes.
** ''The Last Hope'' takes the cake. It gets dropped at least ''five times'' in the book, two of them from the prologue alone.
** In ''The Place of No Stars'', since the title of the book is the name of a location where a lot of the action takes place, the book's title comes up several times.
* ''Literature/WhatHappenedToLaniGarver'': After Lani's murder, Claire takes one of his childhood photos from his mom and puts it in her scrapbook. She writes, "What happened to Lani Garver?"
* Robert Jordan's ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' series takes each of its titles from the text of the book, usually from dialog between characters but occasionally from description; there is also quite often an excerpt from the Prophecies of the Dragon at the beginning or end of the book that does a title drop. The individual chapters within the books follow the same trend, though more loosely, often referring to an event or location which is not described in the exact phrasing as the chapter title. The ninth book, ''Winter's Heart'', is in many ways a crux to the entire series, and this is foreshadowed in that the title phrase appears somewhere in almost every book in the series.
* Hem shouts "[[Literature/WhoMovedMyCheese Who moved my cheese?]]" after there is no cheese left in Cheese Station C.
* The title question in Creator/AgathaChristie's ''Literature/WhyDidntTheyAskEvans'' is the last thing spoken by the murder victim. The significant title drop doesn't come until near the end, however, when the heroine finds herself asking the very same question.
* The Seymours' estate Wolf Hall is mentioned a few times towards the end of ''Literature/WolfHall'', its name being a metaphor for the Tudor court as a whole as well as an indication of what will happen in the sequel.
* In ''Literature/TheWorstThingAboutMySister'', Marty often says, "the worst thing about my sister is...".
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* ''Literature/YoungBond''
** The stolen documents that Bond and Precious chase after in ''Literature/HurricaneGold'' are referred to as such by El Huracán. In his words, hurricane gold was what Mayans called treasure that brought misfortune to anyone possessing it.
** In ''Literature/ByRoyalCommand'', Bond comes across two little girls in a predicament, as their shuttlecock flew into a tree. He helps them out, and later learns that they were actually the two daughters of [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor the Duke of York]], much to his associate Dandy O'Keefe's amusement, who quips how Bond is now "by Royal Command".
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* In ''Literature/ZeroHistory'' by Creator/WilliamGibson, Defence Criminal Investigative Service agent Winnie Tung Whittaker is telling Milgrim how little of a trail he has left over the years: "Zero history as far as Choice Point is concerned. Means you haven't even had a credit card for ten years."
* In ''Literature/{{Zomboy}}'', a video of [[UndeadChild Imre]] lifting and carrying a school bus into a parking lot was posted on the net. The video was titled "Zomboy Lifts Bus".
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