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• [Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.” “Maybe later,” I murmur, still distracted by the day’s previous events. “So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested.” “Huh?” I say.

  Jodi Picoult

  Weekend, Talking, Lunch

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• In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time." "They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires." "Then there are those who think their bodies don't exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at seven o'clock in the morning. They eat their lunch at noon and their supper at six. They arrive at their appointments on time, precisely by the clock.

  Alan Lightman

  Morning, Thinking, Two

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• You think you can say a few words and end us? There is no end, Eva." he flattened me into the side of the car. I was pinned by six feet, two inches of violently aroused male.

  Sylvia Day

  Thinking, Two, Feet

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• So, tell me,” he whispers. “How fast did you climb those fourteen stories?” Thomas makes a disapproving sound in his throat, but I break into a grin. Storm’s past. Metias loves me again. “Six minutes,” I whisper back to my brother. “And forty-four seconds. How do you like that?” “That must be some sort of record. Not that, you know, you’re supposed to do it.

  Marie Lu

  Brother, Past, Storm

  Beth Revis, Jessica Spotswood, Marie Lu, Ally Condie, Andrea Cremer (2012). “Breathless Reads Sampler”, p.74, Penguin

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• People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sorry, Journey, Rocks

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.21, Random House

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• Poor Martin. Geek or no, committing his soul to eternal damnation was a helluva price to pay for six minutes.

  Richelle Mead

  Soul, Damnation, Pay

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.14, Zebra Books

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• Six foot six he stood on the ground He weighed two hundred and thirty-five pounds But I saw that giant of a man brought down To his knees by love

  Johnny Cash

  Men, Two, Feet

  Song: A Thing Called Love, Album: A Thing Called Love

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• There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all are fragile things made of just twenty-six letters arranged and re-arranged to form tales and imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.

  Neil Gaiman

  Moving, Night, Strangers And Friends

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• I told you I try not to live in the past and nothing could change the fact that my mum was gone. But I’m a liar. The truth was, I’d had one dream ever since I was six: to see my mum again. To actually get to know her, talk to her, go shopping, do anything. Just be with her once so I could have a better memory to hold on to.

  Rick Riordan

  Dream, Memories, Liars

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.85, Penguin UK

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• All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on make-believe? They're only happy in their imaginary worlds, because that's where they're in charge - where they're God. Did you know that Hemingway's mother dressed him as a girl until he was six years old?" I was not offended by Claudia's glib psychological theory. Like many glib psychological theories, it struck me as fundamentally correct.

  Philip Sington

  Girl, Mother, Believe

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• She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the life I shall lead for the next six months. Oh, I could dance and sing for joy that the spring is here! What a ressurection of beauty there is in my garden, and of brightest hope in my heart.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Spring, Heart, Winter

  Elizabeth Von Arnim (2006). “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”, p.156, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• One minute you're closer to someone than anyone in the whole world, next minute they need only to say the words 'time apart', 'serious talk' or 'maybe you...' and you're never going to see them again and will have to spend the next six months having imaginary conversations in which they beg to come back, and bursting into tears at the sight of their toothbrush.

  Helen Fielding

  Sight, Tears, Needs

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• I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)

  Ray Bradbury

  Mean, Math, Men

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• If you let go of me now,” I whispered, stretching against him, “it could be another six hundred years before you find me again. Are you willing to take that risk?

  Anne Fortier

  Letting Go, Years, Risk

  Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.372, Ballantine Books

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• I've read something that Bill Gates said about six months ago. He said, ‘I worked really, really hard in my 20s.’ And I know what he means, because I worked really, really hard in my 20s too. Literally, you know, 7 days a week, a lot of hours every day. And it actually is a wonderful thing to do, because you can get a lot done. But you can't do it forever, and you don't want to do it forever, and you have to come up with ways of figuring out what the most important things are and working with other people even more.

  Steve Jobs

  Mean, People, Forever

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• When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I was nearly new. When I was Three I was hardly me. When I was Four, I was not much more. When I was Five, I was just alive. But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever, So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.

  A. A. Milne

  Clever, Thinking, Two

  A. A. Milne (1999). “Pooh to Grow on”, E P Dutton

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• You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening. When women find the right person, on the other hand, they just... disappear for six months, then resurface, eyes shiny, and usually about six pounds heavier.

  Caitlin Moran

  Eye, Men, Hands

  Caitlin Moran (2011). “How To Be a Woman”, p.153, Random House

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• Everybody dies. There’s nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God. (Although there’s no question a belief in God would come in handy. It would be great to think there’s a plan, and that everything happens for a reason. I don’t happen to believe that. And every time one of my friends says to me, “Everything happens for a reason,” I would like to smack her.)

  Nora Ephron

  Believe, Thinking, Everything Happens For A Reason

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• I screamed until my voice dried up in my throat. We all did. All of us in Ward Six, all of us forgotten, left to rot.

  Lauren Oliver

  Voice, Forgotten, Throat

  Lauren Oliver (2016). “Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex”, p.119, Hachette UK

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• I stared at the creased map on my wall, the thin green line connecting all the places I had read about. There they were, all the cities of my imaginary future, held together with tape and marker and pins. In six months, a lot had changed. There was no thin green line that could lead me to my future anymore. Just a girl.

  Kami Garcia

  Girl, Wall, Cities

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2013). “Beautiful Creatures: The Complete Series”, p.332, Penguin UK

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• You may be right. I think it was round about Christmas when I got my Welsh dragon tattoo.” At that, Tessa had to try very hard not to blush. “How did that happen?” Will made an airy gesture with his hand. “I was drunk…” “Nonsense. You were never really drunk.” “On the contrary—in order to learn how to pretend to be inebriated, once must become inebriated at least once, as a reference point. Six-Fingered Nigel had been at the mulled cider—“ “You can’t mean there’s truly a Six-Fingered Nigel?

  Cassandra Clare

  Tattoo, Mean, Thinking

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• As I walked back to civilization, I realized that for the first time in the six months I had known Curran, we had managed to have a conversation and part ways without wanting to kill each other. I found that fact deeply troubling.

  Ilona Andrews

  Civilization, Six Months, Way

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.49, Penguin

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• I'll not deny I am impressed by your mastery of six warrens, Quick Ben. In retrospect, you should have held back on at least half of what you command." The man made to rise. "But, Bauchelain," the wizard replied, "I did.

  Steven Erikson

  Men, Should Have, Mastery

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• In the oh-my-God-this-has-to-be-Christmas silence that followed, he struggled to reorder the last six months, to catch up with this reality they'd somehow missed. He wanted her. She wanted him. Was it true?

  J.R. Ward

  Reality, Silence, Six Months

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Revealed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.99, Penguin

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• Sean, as always, gets by on one word while everyone else needs five or six.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Needs, Five, One Word

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