Seven Quotes - Page 12

• Ikkaku: Rescue her? How many of you are here? Seven? Maybe eight? Ichigo: Five people and a cat

  Tite Kubo

  Cat, Eight, People

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• Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of sediment. They'd find the black-and-white hairs of a dog we had when I was six, the acid-washed jeans my mother once wore, the seven blood-soaked pillowcases from the time I skinned my knee. All our family secrets rest in endless piles.

  Holly Black

  Mother, Dog, Cutting

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• ...the Magnificent Seven consisted of one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon, and a one-legged psychopath. When I envision us walking seven abreast through the halls of Cutter High, decked out in the sacred blue and gold, my heart swells.

  Chris Crutcher

  Educational, Heart, Men

  Chris Crutcher (2002). “Whale Talk”, Laurel Leaf

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• On our honeymoon we talked and talked. We stayed in a beachfront villa, and we drank rum and lemonade and talked so much that I never even noticed what color the sea was. Whenever I need to stop and remind myself how much I once loved Andrew, I only need to think about this. That the ocean covers seven tenths of the earth's surface, and yet my husband could make me not notice it.

  Chris Cleave

  Husband, Ocean, Thinking

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of widows and children, from prostitutes, family friends, travelers, and adulterous wives. Women said "I love you" without his ever speaking. "The more you love someone," he came to think, "the harder it is to tell them." It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say "I love you".

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Love You, Past

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• The wand ricocheted through the swarm, thumping six, seven, eight of the little monsters before returning to Carter’s hand. “Not bad,” I said. “Keep it up!

  Rick Riordan

  Eight, Hands, Monsters

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man seven different ways with her bare hands, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Boys, Men

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• Tell me something, Adron. Sometime you’ve never shared with anyone else. Not even Thia. (Livia) I’m the one who glued Zarina to the toilet seat when she was seven. (Adron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Toilet Seat, Toilets, Seats

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• No one would have ever guessed that seven of the world's most talented teenagers were coming to the Henley that day for an entirely different sort of lesson.

  Ally Carter

  Teenager, Different, World

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.159, Hachette UK

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• Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

  Frederick Buechner

  Kings, Fun, Pain

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 19, 2014

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• Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree. (The Two Towers)

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Stars, Sea

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.409, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Know what? (Wulf) If halflings live past twenty-seven. But then anything is possible. I say in a few months we should pop us some Orville Redenbacher’s, then sit back and enjoy the show. (Spawn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Past, Twenties, Months

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.206, Macmillan

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• BAIT GOAT There is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a distance where words attract. Set one out like a bait goat and wait and seven others will approach. But watch out: roving packs can pull your word away. You find your stake yanked and some rough bunch to thank.

  Kay Ryan

  Distance, Waiting, Bait

  Kay Ryan (2010). “The Best of It: New and Selected Poems”, p.5, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

  Jane Austen

  Time, Loneliness, Opportunity

  Sense and Sensibility vol. 2, ch. 12 (1811)

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• Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.

  Stephen King

  Numbers, Magic, Way

  Stephen King (2007). “It: Film tie-in edition of Stephen King’s IT”, p.827, Hachette UK

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• Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as a recluse. She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace. Unfortunately society was not very smart or understanding.

  Steig Larsson

  Smart, Long, People

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• What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears?

  Janet Fitch

  Names, Tears, Twenties

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• I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Never mind the Protestant work ethic of the dwarfs. Never mind the tedious housework-is-virtuous motif. Never mind the fact that Snow White is a vampire -- anyone who lies in a glass coffin without decaying and then comes to life again must be. The truth is that I was paralysed by the scene in which the evil queen drinks the magic potion and changes her shape. What power, what untold possibilities!

  Margaret Atwood

  Queens, Lying, Taken

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• Most children would rather preserve the fantasy of a loving connection with their fathers and mothers, at all costs, even if it costs them their self-esteem. When you're three or seven years old, it's less frightening to think of yourself as an unlovable, disappointing screwup than to recognize the fact that you're living with a monster.

  Keith Ablow

  Mother, Children, Father

  Keith Ablow (2015). “Compulsion”, p.299, Pan Macmillan

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• the fire seven times tried this; seven times tried that judgement is that did never choose amiss some there be that shadows kiss; such have but a shadows bliss, there be fool alive, i wis silverd o'er, and so was this Take what wife you will to bed I will ever be your head. So be gone; you are sped.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Fire, Wife

  William Shakespeare (1836). “Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice: der Kaufmann von Venedig ... mit untergelegtem kritischen commentare, einer einleitung und einem anhang, enthaltend”, p.60

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• At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

  Seth Godin

  Artist, Age, Four

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.32, Penguin

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• Tell me what game Steph Landry and I used to play in the big dirt pile they made while they were digging my family’s pool, back when we were both seven, or I’ll know you’re an alien replacement and you’ve got the real Steph up in your mother ship!” I glared at him. “G.I. Joe meets Spelunker Barbie,” I said. “And stop being so ridiculous. We have to go. We’re going to end up at a bad table for lunch.

  Meg Cabot

  Mother, Real, Games

  Meg Cabot (2008). “How to be Popular: ... when you're a social reject like me, Steph L.!”, p.97, Pan Macmillan

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• A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.

  Jane Austen

  Inspire, Twenties, Pausing

  Jane Austen (1811). “Sense and Sensibility:: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.87

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• seven times down eight times up like the Daruma doll

  Chris Bradford

  Don't Give Up, Eight, Never Giving Up

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• Child of lightning, beware the earth, The giants' revenge the seven shall birth, The forge and the dove shall break the cage, And death unleash through Hera's rage.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Revenge, Cages

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