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• The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Storm, Dieting, Six Months

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• Give me a hot coal glowing bright red, Give me an ember sizzling with heat, These are the jewels made from my beak. We fly between the flames and never get singed We plunge through the smoke and never cringe. The secrets of fire, its strange winds, its rages, We know it all as it rampages Through forests, through canyons, Up hillsides and down. We track it. We'll find it. Take coals by the pound. We'll yarp in the heart of the hottest flame Then bring back its coals an make them tame. For we are the colliers brave and beyond all We are the owls of the colliering chaw!

  Kathryn Lasky

  Heart, Fire, Glowing

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• They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.

  A. A. Milne

  Writing, Way, Wanted

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.29, Egmont UK

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• 'I wish I had only offered you a sovereign instead of ten pounds. Give me back nine pounds, Jane; I’ve a use for it.' 'And so have I, sir,' I returned, putting my hands and my purse behind me. 'I could not spare the money on any account.' 'Little niggard!' said he, 'refusing me a pecuniary request! Give me five pounds, Jane.' 'Not five shillings, sir; nor five pence.' 'Just let me look at the cash.' 'No, sir; you are not to be trusted.'

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hands, Giving, Wish

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• When she left for a third time and returned with a giant box, I started to get irate. "What is this?" I demanded, taking it from her. It felt like it had bricks in it. "Grandmother needs you to carry some things," Paul told me. "Yes," I said through gritted teeth. "I sort of figured that out fifty pounds ago.

  Richelle Mead

  Grandmother, Teeth, Giants

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.663, Penguin

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• Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you're in a gang. But I've survived ten years of Catholic school, and I will cut you off at your knees without a blink. Do you understand?

  James Patterson

  Couple, School, Cutting

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• A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were dull with anger disguised as apathy. If she kept on her current path, she'd grow into the type of person who fed her kids Doritos for breakfast and purchased angry bumper stickers with lots of exclamation points. But right now, she was just another in a long line of pissed-off small-town girls with a shitty outlook.

  Dennis Lehane

  Girl, Kids, Eye

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• Katniss: 'What about you? Ive seen you in the market. You can lift hundred pound bags of flour'. I snap at him Tell him that. Thats not nothing. Peeta: Yes and Im sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.

  Suzanne Collins

  Katniss, People, Bags

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• Don't worry, now that I know about your little ego problem, I'll do my best to look all gushy when you pound you chest.

  Christine Feehan

  Ego Problem, Worry, Littles

  Christine Feehan (2003). “Shadow Game”, p.257, Penguin

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• The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds... I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

  Brennan Manning

  Christian, Ice Cream, Self

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• Body armor. Four thousand pounds of body armor. And missile-proof glass? Nice. What had happened to good old-fashioned bulletproof?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Nice, Glasses, Armor

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!

  Lewis Carroll

  Language, Thousand

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.

  Victor Hugo

  Rocks, Agony, Desire

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.112, Wildside Press LLC

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• But I can think of nothing on earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night, which, for me, was ten to fifteen pounds of candy, a riot of colored wrappers and hopeful fonts,snub-nosed chocolate bars and SweeTARTS, the seductive rattle of Jujyfruits and Good & Plenty and lollipopsticks all akimbo, the foli ends of mini LifeSavers packs twinkling like dimes, and a thick sugary perfume rising up from the pillowcase.

  Steve Almond

  Beautiful, Halloween, Night

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: a journey through the chocolate underbelly of America”

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• ...I'd have cheerfully thrown Her Majesty and her hundred pounds of baggage to the curb, but that wasn't mature. ~Cat on Annette

  Jeaniene Frost

  Majesty, Baggage, Mature

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• I’ll be real discreet,” Tank said. As discreet as a six-foot-six, no-neck guy weighing three hundred and fifty pounds, all dressed in black SWAT clothes, with a Glock holstered at his side could be.

  Janet Evanovich

  Real, Feet, Clothes

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• Vee is my un-twin. She's green-eyed, milky blond, and a few pounds over curvy. I'm a smoky-eyed brunette with volumes of curly hair that holds its own against even the best flatiron. And I'm all legs, like a bar stool. But there is an invisible thread the ties us together; both of us swear that tie began long before birth. Both of us swear it will continue to hold for the rest of our lives.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Curly Hair, Ties, Long

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• You are beyond frustrating," she grumbled. "Why can't you do what I ask you to do without issuing a million questions first?" "I could say the same of you." "I don't--Argh." She raised a fist at him. "So maybe I do ask a lot of questions. So what. Anyone in my position would do the same. Besides, I'm a girl and that's my job. You're a boy. You're supposed to pound your chest with your fists and grunt, then do everything in your power to please me." "Hardly. The man you just described is more likely to knock you over the head with a club and drag you away by the hair." -Annabelle and Zacharel

  Gena Showalter

  Girl, Jobs, Boys

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• Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.

  James Rollins

  Mother, Baby, Guarding

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• Maybe everyone else thinks your aversion to food is cute- but not me. I've watched you watch Jill. Here's some tough love: you will never, ever have her body. Ever. It's impossible. She's Moroi. You're human. That's biology. You have a great one, one that most humans would kill for- and you'd look even better if you put on a little weight. Five pounds would be a good start. Hide the ribs. Get a bigger bra size

  Richelle Mead

  Cute, Love You, Thinking

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• The kakapo is an extremely fat bird. A good-sized adult will weigh about six or seven pounds, and its wings are just about good for waggling a bit if it thinks it's about to trip over something - but flying is out of the question. Sadly, however, it seems that not only has the kakapo forgotten how to fly, but it has forgotten that it has forgotten how to fly. Apparently a seriously worried kakapo will sometimes run up a tree and jump out of it, whereupon it flies like a brick and lands in a graceless heap on the ground.

  Douglas Adams

  Running, Thinking, Land

  "Last Chance to See". Book by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine (Chapter 4 "Heartbeats in the Night"), 1990.

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• I touched the combination lock. I concentrated so hard I felt like I was dead-lifting five hundred pounds. My pulse quickening. A line of sweat trickled down my nose. Finally I felt gears turning. Metal groaned, tumblers clicked, and the bolts popped back. Carefully avoiding the handle, I pried open the door with my fingertips and extracted an unbroken vial of green liquid. Hal exhaled. Thalia kissed me on the cheek, which she probably shouldn't haven't done while I was holding a tube of deadly poison. "You are so good," she said. Did that make the risk worth? Yeah, pretty much.

  Rick Riordan

  Doors, Sweat, Risk

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• It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Real, Brain

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.91, Random House

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• The weight of the dead was heavier than the pounds of the body.

  J.R. Ward

  Weight, Body

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Lover Avenged: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.14, Penguin

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• The rain comes down harder as I write. It sheets off the roof in torrents. I wish it would pound against me. Pound the life from my body. The flesh from my bones. The pain from my heart.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Pain, Rain, Writing

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.202, Bloomsbury Publishing

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