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• When you say ‘old friend,’ are we talking, like...since the Ice Age?” “No. Of course not.” “Oh.” “It’s only been about four hundred years.” “Ah. Yes. Only four hundred.” A wry expression spread over his face. “Being with you is a continual experiment in perspective. Among other things.

  Richelle Mead

  Expression, Talking, Years

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• You’ve no idea...my tongue has been known to let blood on four continents. (Geary)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Blood, Ideas, Tongue

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• So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four walls of wherever we are. For creative sanity, I must believe that if I just do the next right thing, a path will unfold for me.

  Julia Cameron

  Wall, Believe, Artist

  Julia Cameron (2009). “Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance”, p.82, Penguin

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• She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air.

  Raymond Chandler

  Air, Theatre, Paws

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Big Sleep: A Novel”, p.5, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,” etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home.

  Paul Theroux

  Mother, Morning, Home

  "Fiction in the Age of E-Books". The Atlantic Interview, www.theatlantic.com. 2010.

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• We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments. Don't get me wrong; I liked J.Lo fine. I've made that bed. But I'm not sure there's a person in the world I could be with twenty-four hours a day for three weeks without getting a little snippy. If I ever meet such a person, I'm marrying them.

  Adam Rex

  Stupid, Arizona, Bed

  Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.302, A&C Black

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• If they invent a four legged chicken," Will said, "Horace will think he's gone to Heaven.

  John Flanagan

  Thinking, Heaven, Gone

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• The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood this told you that high school wasn't the actual world, that it was more like a temporary alternate reality you were forced to believe in for four years. A video game you played, where you could never get to the next level no matter how hard you tried.

  Deb Caletti

  Believe, School, Reality

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Six Rules of Maybe”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked trees which promised cooling; they flung themselves into the shade to taste their lip sweat and contemplate the wildness that had come upon them so suddenly

  Toni Morrison

  Squares, Sweat, Creating

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Sula”, p.57, Random House

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• You look so out of your element. (Savitar) I am out of my element. Much like you in a Seattle Goth club. (Acheron) I’m never out of my element, Atlantean. And it must be dire indeed to get you in shorties, and on a board. One day I’m actually going to get you to say ‘Rad four-mill steamer, dude! (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  One Day, Boards, Rad

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Acheron”, p.363, Hachette UK

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• that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me

  Alexandre Dumas

  Challenges, Three, Months

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• If they can’t survive alone for four days once a year, they deserve to die. (Acheron) That’s harsh, for you. (Dante) Harsh? Tell you what, you take my phone and skim through the three thousand phone calls I get every day and night and see how harsh I am. I truly hate modern technology and phones in particular. I haven’t had a full four hours of sleep in over fifty years. ‘Ash, I broke a toenail, help me. Ash, my head hurts, what should I do?’ (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Hate, Sleep

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• Explaining that I'm faced with a choice between being with the love of my life, or saving four lives that were never meant to end.

  Alyson Noel

  Love Of My Life, Choices, Saving

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.357, Pan Macmillan

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• And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

  Albert Camus

  Doors, Stranger, Unhappiness

  Albert Camus (2013). “Algerian Chronicles”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• Ornon said, "I have seen him jump across atriums four stories above the ground, a distance that would make your blood freeze, and I heard him once confess that he sometimes thinks the distance is beyond him. He always jumps, Your Majesty. The Thieves are not trained in self-preservation. I beg you would take my advice.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Distance, Thinking, Self

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• Now you get off that Pegasus and come down here and start acting your age!" "Honey, he's four thousand years old," Veronica said.

  Michael Buckley

  Years, Age, Acting

  Michael Buckley (2011). “The Sisters Grimm: Book Seven: The Everafter War”, p.187, Abrams

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• I start to crack at four hundred to one.

  Suzanne Collins

  Cracks, Hundred, Ripred

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• I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.

  David Foster Wallace

  Philosophy, Use, Pages

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• I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Relationship, Summer, Heart

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.170, Everyman's Library

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• Hmmm, I bet you’d be really cute with hornays. Not that you’re not cute right now, but you’re a bit young. You’re only what? Four in human years? Oh wait, that’s wrong, isn’t it? You ninety? (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cute, Years, Waiting

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.173, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The Simi gots some barbecue sauce in her bag. It kind of looks like blood if you squint at it the right way. And it don’t coagulate between your teeth like blood or give you them funky burps, not to mention it tastes a lot better too. Especially over that type A stuff. Bleh! I’d rather eat my shoes. But that O-flavored blood…yum! (She straightened and held one finger up in a gesture that strangely reminded him of Smokey the Bear.) And just remember, kids, three out of four demons all prefer barbecue sauce over hemoglobin. (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kids, Blood, Shoes

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.195, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Those eerie diamond eyes shifted over to her and she stilled, as if he's willed her to do so. There was a moment of silence. And then in a rough voice the man whose life she saved spoke four words that changed everything...changed her life, changed her destiny: "She. Comes. With. Me.

  J.R. Ward

  Eye, Destiny, Men

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.114, Penguin

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• Don't let him upset you," Niko told the four softly. "He's old and he's frightened." "You're as old as him, and you aren't scared of us," Briar pointed out. Niko glared at him. "Thank you so much," he retorted waspishly.

  Tamora Pierce

  Upset, Scared, Frightened

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “Daja's Book”, p.52, Scholastic Inc.

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• Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus, nam'd of lamentation loud/ Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon/ Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage./ Far off from these a slow and silent stream,/ Lethe the River of Oblivion rolls/ Her wat'ry Labyrinth whereof who drinks,/ Forthwith his former state and being forgets,/ Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.

  John Milton

  Pain, Hate, Grief

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 02”

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• Zombies will try to scale any surface no matter how unfeasable or even impossible. In all but the easiest situations, these attempts have met with failure. Even in the case of ladders, when simple hand-over-hand coordination is required, only one in four zombies will succeed.

  Max Brooks

  Simple, Hands, Zombie

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.14, Broadway Books

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