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Kitten, four hours of sleep while holding you is far more beneficial to me than eight hours of endless tossing and turning because you're not there. -Bones from This Side of the Grave

Jeaniene Frost

Sleep, Four, Sides

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Obviously it takes eight brains to come to one decision in this crowd. Good thing they have one another.

Mari Mancusi

Decision, Brain, Crowds

Mari Mancusi (2007). “Girls That Growl”, p.24, Penguin

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Let tears gather in your eyes. You haven’t tears enough for what you’ve done to me. Six more mortal years, seven, eight…I might have had that shape!’ Her pointed finger flew at Madeleine, whose hands had risen to her face, whose eyes were clouded over. Her moan was almost Claudia’s name. But Claudia did not hear her. ‘Yes, that shape, I might have known what it was to walk at your side.

Anne Rice

Eye, Years, Your Side

Anne Rice (1976). “Interview with the Vampire: A Novel”

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As Alaska zipped through something obvious about linear equations, stoner/baller Hank Walsten said, "Wait, wait. I don't get it." "That's because you have eight functioning brain cells." "Studies show that Marijuana is better for your health than those cigarettes," Hank said. Alaska swallowed a mouthful of fries, took a drag on her cigarette, and blew a smoke at Hank. "I may die young," she said. "But at least I'll die smart. Now, back to tangents.

John Green

Smart, Marijuana, Cells

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.46, Penguin

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The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that to me, there had only ever been one boy.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Crush, Boys, Fifty

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It had not seemed to matter that Rose was only eight years old. "More than eight," said Rose. "Nearly nine." "Darling Rose, even almost nearly nine-year-old's don't fall in love," said forgetful Caddy. Caddy tried very hard to comfort Rose when Tom had left. It was not an easy job. It was like trying to comfort a small, unhappy tiger. "Who said anything about falling in love?" growled Rose crossly. "Falling! Falling is by accident! I didn't fall in anything!" "Oh. Right. Sorry, Posy Rose." "And I am definitely not in love!

Hilary McKay

Falling In Love, Jobs, Sorry

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While looking at a website for liposuction, I learned that it was a six-to eight-week recovery period, the clincher being that, during that time, I would under no circumstances be able to use street drugs. Obviously I had to think of a more realistic approach.

Chelsea Handler

Funny, Recovery, Humor

Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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He was the firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton eight times over. He had a dynastic responsibility to be fruitful and multiply.

Julia Quinn

Responsibility

Julia Quinn (2009). “The Viscount Who Loved Me”, p.36, Harper Collins

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Wait, wait. I don't get it.' 'That is because you only have eight functioning brain cells.

John Green

Cells, Waiting, Brain

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How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.

Jodi Picoult

Years, Twenties, Young

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse

Charles Bukowski

Ninety, Hundred, Fairs

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How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” “I don’t know. How many?” “Eight.” “Why?” “Oh, stop overanalyzing it.

Dennis Lehane

Doe, Psychiatrist, Screws

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It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.

John le Carre

Should Have, Solitude, Age

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Whatever the reason, first place was always Solo, always, always, always, and second place was usually Chewbacca, because if you weren't the one saving the galaxy, you might as well be eight feet tall and covered with hair.

Charles Yu

Hair, Feet, Saving

Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.30, Vintage

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In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recongize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman of twenty-eight - perhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased to vouchsafe to any woman.

Kate Chopin

Soul, Twenties, World

Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.33

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Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.

Robert A. Heinlein

Race, Government, Democracy

"Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein, (p. 232), 1991.

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I've spent twenty-eight years doing what everyone around me expected me to do...being what everyone around me has expected me to be. And it's horrid to be someone else's vision of yourself.

Sarah MacLean

Years, Vision, Twenties

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Of course the fall semester didn’t start for another eight weeks or so. There was always a chance we were both being overly optimistic in thinking I’d be alive when it rolled around.

Jenna Black

Fall, Optimistic, Thinking

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Cassidy's heart tried to leap out through his taught skin and hop into his wet hands. But outwardly it was all very calm, very serene, just as always, and it seemed to last a tiny forever, just like that, a snapshot of them all on the curved parabola of a starting line, eight giant hearts attached to eight pairs of bellows-like lungs mounted on eight pairs of supercharged stilts. They were poised on the edge of some howling vortex they had run 10,000 miles to get to. Now they had to run one more

John L. Parker Jr.

Running, Heart, Hands

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Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business.

Stephen King

Ninety Eight, People, Goes On

Stephen King (2008). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats—I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-centuries have been used up that way. I could show you figures.

Robert A. Heinlein

Cat, Men, Doors

Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

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Incidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many things are like that. Everyone just assumes they're true, because people are basically lazy and incurious, which incidentally is one of those words that sounds like it wouldn't be a word but is.

John Green

Real, Glasses, People

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.68, Penguin

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Oh, the boots were on the other eight feet now.

Jonathan Stroud

Feet, Boots

Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion

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I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.

Libba Bray

Hate, High Heels, Hours

Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.36, Scholastic Inc.

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Listen, you might want to pack a few of your things together before going to bed. The former bishop of Turkey will be coming tonight along with six to eight black men. They might put some candy in your shoes, they might stuff you into a sack and take you to Spain, or they might just pretend to kick you. We don't know for sure, but we want you to be prepared." This was the reward for living in the Netherlands. As a child you get to hear this story, and as an adult you get to turn around and repeat it.

David Sedaris

Children, Men, Turkeys

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