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• Jules says there are three things that make you a grown-up: an eight-piece set of matching dishes; gin, vodka and whiskey in the house; and making your bed every morning. I disagree with her. I think you're officially a grown-up when you've got another half. When you don't have to live in fear of other couples. When you don't have to feel you're not good enough.

  Jane Green

  Morning, Couple, Thinking

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• I was on HPD--Heathcliff Protection Duty--in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the ProCaths tried everything. I personally saved him from assassination eight times.

  Jasper Fforde

  Believe, Years, Two

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• History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.

  Jasper Fforde

  Wall, Color, Trying

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• You sounded like Dolly parton on helium." (After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'"Eight Days A Week.)

  Simon Cowell

  Country, Idols, Week

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• Most uncomfortable! Did we lose anyone? Head count! Lee Ark, Leetu, and Brunstetter. Three. Should we count the meech egg? No, I think not. Don't drop it, Brunstetter. I'm to take it home and raise it. Ridiculous. Being a parent at my age. Where were we? Oh, yes, three. One o'rant, two kimens, two minor dragons. Eight. A librarian and a diplomat. Ten.

  Donita K. Paul

  Home, Thinking, Dragons

  Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonSpell: A Novel”, p.304, WaterBrook

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• Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge.

  Junot Diaz

  Bridges, Play, Two

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• Number eight, the silver one, belongs to Artemis. She vowed to be a maiden forever. So of course, no kids. The cabin is, you know, honorary. If she didn't have one, she'd be mad.

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Numbers, Mad

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Kings, Heart, Missing Him

  Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.75, Macmillan

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• George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us we'd make one marvelous man. He asks nothing better than to be in my company or that of my wicked, divine friends, and I'm vastly tickled by the compliment. He's virgin, about eight foot tall, and built by the same firm that did Stonehenge

  John le Carre

  Men, Feet, Wicked

  "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying school masters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years. Above all -- we were wet.

  Frank McCourt

  Mother, Bullying, Father

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Doobie always wanted to see the badge. It was shiny, and he was eight.

  Eoin Colfer

  Badges, Wanted

  Eoin Colfer (2007). “Half Moon Investigations”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Chapter One. The Bride." He held up the book then. "I'm reading it to you for relax." He practically shoved the book in my face. "By S. Morgenstern. Great Florinese writer. The Princess Bride. He too came to America. S. Morgenstern. Dead now in New York. The English is his own. He spoke eight tongues." Here my father put down the book and held up all his fingers. "Eight. Once in Florin City...

  William Goldman

  New York, Father, Book

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.15, A&C Black

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• This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this.

  Betty Smith

  Sleep, People, Wire

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.

  Derrick Jensen

  Important, Needs, World

  Derrick Jensen (2011). “Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization”, p.6, Seven Stories Press

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• A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes you one.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Would Be, Favors, Want

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• I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.

  Meg Cabot

  Long, Gone, Six

  Meg Cabot (2011). “Vanished: When Lightning Strikes & Code Name Cassandra”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Two, Twenties, Dozen

  Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.

  Alfred Bester

  Two, Three, Four

  Alfred Bester (1996). “The Demolished Man”, Vintage

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• So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.

  Harper Lee

  Children, Character, Animal

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, 1962.

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• A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most. Almost sixteen years on Earth, and I've already had eight good ones here. I expect to have eight more before all's good said and done. Nearly thirty-two years total, and that's not too shabby

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Years, Two, Quality

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• The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world.

  Diane Setterfield

  Morning, Book, Blue

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• If they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he he, too, had no reason to get excited and could, if he hurried, actually be at the station by eight o'clock.

  Franz Kafka

  Responsibility, Calm, Excited

  Franz Kafka (1972). “The Metamorphosis”

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• She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois priss, rebel, runaway, dope-fiend San Francisco hippie; or all the people she would later be: mother, nurse, religious fanatic, prematurely old woman. Vivienne was a human onion, and when I came home at twenty eight years old on the day the monster died, I was afraid that the Baptist freak she had peeled down to was her true, acrid, tear-inducing core.

  Lauren Groff

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

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• So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal and Bridget Jones put together, which was probably about how much I weighed.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Years, Here I Am, Drunk

  Jennifer Weiner (2013). “Good Men: An eShort Story”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.

  Walker Percy

  Suicide, Morning, Past

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book”, p.53, Open Road Media

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