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• ...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.

  Richard Peck

  Running, Trouble, Turn The Other Cheek

  Richard Peck (2010). “A Season of Gifts”, p.25, Penguin

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• That wand’s more trouble than it’s worth,” said Harry. “And quite honestly,” he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, “I’ve had enough trouble for a lifetime.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Thinking, Waiting

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• The other problem in my life is Dimitri. He's the one who killed Natalie, and he's a total badass. He's also pretty good-looking. Okay-more than good-looking. He's hot-like, the kind of hot that makes you stop walking on the street and get hit by traffic. But, like I said, he's my instructor. And he's twenty-four. Both of those are reasons why I shouldn't have fallen for him. But, honestly, the most important reason is that he and I will be Lissa's guardian when she graduates. If he and I are checking each other out, then that means we aren't looking out for her.

  Richelle Mead

  Badass, Mean, Important

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.187, Penguin

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• Out of nowhere, Valek appeared before me, yelling in my ear, shaking my shoulders. Stupidly, belatedly, I realized he was the drunk. Who else but Valek could win a fight against four large men when armed only with a beer mug?

  Maria V. Snyder

  Fighting, Beer, Winning

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.91, Harlequin

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• He picked up the wrench and broke the guy’s wrist with it, one, and then the other wrist, two, and turned back and did the same to the guy who had held the hammer, three, four. The two men were somebody’s weapons, consciously deployed, and no soldier left an enemy’s abandoned ordnance on the field in working order. The doctor’s wife was watching from the cabin door, all kinds of terror in her face. "What?" Reacher asked her.

  Lee Child

  Men, Doctors, Doors

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal”, p.337, Delacorte Press

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• When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles. The other students in the class interrupt me: "We *know* all that!" "Oh," I say, "you *do*? Then no *wonder* I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Cat, Years, Class

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• And your life,' Katie said to Christy, 'is turning into a rather predictable romance. Girl meets boy. Boy is a dork for four years. Girl blossoms into a gorgeous woman. Boy finds his brain. Girl turns into starry-eyed mush head.

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Girl, Boys, Years

  Robin Jones Gunn (1996). “In Your Dreams”, Focus on the Family Pub

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• Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the problem: this strange belief that a tree has nothing to say until it is murdered, its flesh pulped, and then (human) people stain this flesh with words. I would take children outside and put them face to face with chipmunks, dragonflies, tadpoles, hummingbirds, stones, rivers, trees, crawdads. That said, if you're going to force me to give them a book, it would be The Wind In The Willows, which I hope would remind them to go outside.

  Derrick Jensen

  Children, Book, Wind

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• Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you.

  Yann Martel

  July, Names, Water

  Yann Martel (2015). “Life of Pi - CANCELED”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You need to know where to go,' Sanya said. 'Yes,' 'And you are going to consult four large pizzas for guidance.' 'Yes,' I said. ...'There is, I think, humour here which does not translate well from English into sanity.' 'That's pretty rich coming from the agnostic Knight of the Cross with a holy Sword who takes his orders from an archangel.' I said. - Harry Dresden & Sanya, Changes, Jim Butcher

  Jim Butcher

  Thinking, Knights, Order

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• This time is difficult. Wait for me. We will live it out vividly. Give me your small hand: we will rise and suffer, we will feel, we will rejoice. We are once more the pair who lived in bristling places, in harsh nests in the rock. This time is difficult. Wait for me with a basket, with a shovel, with your shoes and your clothes. Now we need each other, not only for the carnations' sake, not only to look for honey — we need our hands to wash with, to make fire.

  Pablo Neruda

  Eye, Fire, Small Hands

  "The Poetry of Pablo Neruda".

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• I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.

  Osamu Dazai

  People, Rose, Four Seasons

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.43, New Directions Publishing

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• Wearily she went to bed, wearily she arose in four or five hours' time. But with the morning came hope, and a brighter view of things.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Morning, Views, Bed

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1682, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Even four harnessed horses cannot bring imprudent words back into the mouth.

  Confucius

  Horse, Mouths

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• Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Feet, Newspapers, Given

  Chuck Klosterman (2009). “Eating the Dinosaur”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• Sure, he had a wife and fifty-four kids, but he looked like a college freshman. A yummy college freshman majoring in Oh-my-god-I-gotta-get-me-some-of-that.

  Kim Harrison

  Kids, College, Yummy

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• And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?" "Three hundred and sixty-four, of course." Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful, "I'd rather see that done on paper," he said.

  Lewis Carroll

  Three, Done, Paper

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.166, Penguin

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• In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Fall, Color, Years

  Mohsin Hamid (2008). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.27, Penguin UK

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• I had this whole plan when I graduated high school: I was going to go to college, date a few guys, and then meet THE guy at the end of my freshman year, maybe at the beginning of my sophomore year. We'd be engaged by graduation and married the next year. And then, after some traveling, we'd start our family. Four kids, three years apart. I wanted to be done by the time I was 35.

  Rainbow Rowell

  School, Kids, College

  Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.124, Hachette UK

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• In the beginning we were a group of nine. Three are gone, dead. There are six of us left. They are hunting us, and they won't stop until they've killed us all. I am Number Four. I know that I am next.

  Pittacus Lore

  Hunting, Numbers, Nine

  Pittacus Lore (2015). “I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Guard”, p.15, HarperCollins

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• For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll be excited and worried; I'll discover what it costs to be happy! But if you come at any od time, I'll never know when I should prepare my heart... There must be rites.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Heart, Three, Cost

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• The Mogadorian caught Number One in Malaysia, Number Two in England, And Number Three in Kenya. I am Number Four. I am next..." - I AM NUMBER FOUR

  Pittacus Lore

  Two, Numbers, Three

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• I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Expectations, Mind

  Charles Dickens (2012). “Great Expectations Thrift Study Edition”, p.236, Courier Corporation

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• Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.

  J. K. Rowling

  Three, Pages, Harry Potter Movie

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• The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss—you have gone and lost something else. But the body moves toward health. The mind, too, in steps. One step at a time. Ask a mother who has just lost a child, How many children do you have? "Four," she will say, "—three," and years later, "Three," she will say, "—four.

  Amy Hempel

  Mother, Children, Moving

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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