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Carter pulled out several lengths of brown twine, a small ebony cat statue, and a thick roll of paper. No, not paper. Papyrus. I remember…
— Rick Riordan
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I didn't particularly feel like being arrested, so I argued with the soldiers a bit. Several of them died during the argument - those things…
— David Eddings
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Don’t you like them? (Nykyrian) Did you see the price? (Kiara) I’m more than capable of supplying you with several wardrobes from here. (Nykyrian) But–…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you are descended from…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving…
— Mercedes Lackey
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I've been waiting for you forever." "Forever' as in several hundred years, or forever as in since my lesson began?
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Patch was dressed in the usual: black shirt, black jeans and a thin silver necklace that flashed against his dark complexion. His sleeves were pushed…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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There is a moment after death when things can go one of several ways, when souls can mingle and reunite-or be forever parted. Fate throws…
— Nancy Holder
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This exchange marked the beginning of Mr. Malfoy's long campaign to have me removed from my post as headmaster of Hogwarts, and of mine to…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Some friends of theirs had rented their house for several months to an interior decorator. When they returned, they discovered that their entire library had…
— Anne Fadiman
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Several sets of arms would embrace me. But in the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves…
— Suzanne Collins
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Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.
— Brandon Sanderson
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What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration.…
— Isaac Newton
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Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and…
— John le Carre
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Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation,…
— Arnold Bennett
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For the past several years, I have gone to sleep every night in this same little pocket, the most uneventful piece of time I could…
— Charles Yu
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Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces…
— Oscar Wilde
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a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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This was a nightmare scenario for any bodyguard: stuck in the middle of a transparent tube, several miles underwater, with a murdering band of fugitives…
— Eoin Colfer
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Hermione, will you please —†“Don’t you tell me what to do, Harry Potter!†she screeched. “Don’t you dare! Give it back now! And YOU! 
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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