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Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone… two thinkers, you become confused… ten thinkers, you’ll begin developing your own voice… two or three hundred thinkers, you become wise and develop your voice.”

Two Three Voice Wise Ten Hundred Developing Confused Thinker

Author:Timothy Keller

“I've got about ten things to say to you right now. But at least nine of them would make me sound like a psycho.” In spite of the seriousness of the situation, I nearly smiled. “What’s the tenth thing?” I asked his shirtfront. He paused, considering it. “Never mind,” he grumbled. “That one would make me sound like a psycho, too.”

Mind Sound Situation Right Now Ten Nine Spite Considering Seriousness Psycho Jack Travis

Book:The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy

Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy

“Imagine ten or tweleve orange chairs arrainged in a circle, with the happy woen from the flyer sitting at opposite ends. Only problem was, from day one, they weren't happy. Someone, whoever made that flyer, must have digitally turned their frowns upside down. They wrote about death. About the evilness of men. About the destruction of-and I quote- "the greenish, bluish orb with wisps of white." Seriously, that's how they descibed it. They went on to call Earth a knocked-up gaseous alien needing an abortion.”

Men Made Ends Problem Earth White Imagine Ten Sitting Destruction Opposites Circles Aliens Abortion Chairs Orange Upside Down Wisps Orbs Flyers Evilness Knocked Up

Author:Jay Asher

“I take pleasure in the little things. Double cheeseburgers, those are good, the sky ten minutes before it rains,the moment your laugh turns into a cackle. And I sit here, and smoke my Camel straights, and I ride my own melt.”

Littles Moments Turns My Own Pleasure Laughing Sky Minutes Ten Rain Smoke Little Things Camels Cheeseburger

Author:Ethan Hawke

“Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A. and see maybe ten thousand square miles of shopping malls, and you don't have maybe just the weentsiest inkling that something, somewhere has gone very very cuckoo?”

Thinking Way Mean Might Gone Thousand Ten Negative Miles Realistic Squares Shopping Malls Cuckoos

Author:Douglas Coupland

“Well I'm not dancing," Will said through gritted teeth. "I don't know how." Oh yes you are," Alyss told him. "Let's hope you're a fast learner." He glanced at her and saw no prospect of escape. "Well,at least I won't be the only one," he said. "Halt will be terrible too." But nobody in the assembly knew tat for the past ten days, Halt had been taking dance lessons from Lady Sandra.”

Knows Wells Said Past Know How Saws Terrible Lessons Ten Dancing Teeth Assembly Halt Learners

Author:John Flanagan

“Amen,' I exclaim, accidentally spitting out a Raisinet. I pick up the chocolate with a Kleenex and stuff it in my purse. Ten bucks says a month from now I'll have forgotten about it and will finally have said heart attack when I assume a rat shat in there.”

Heart Said Stuff Months Ten Picks Assuming Forgotten Chocolate Rats Bucks Purses Amen Heart Attack Kleenex

Book:Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest To Discover if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, Or Why Pi e is Not The Answer

Source: Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest To Discover if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, Or Why Pi e is Not The Answer

“You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her.”

Thinking May Wife Mines Ten Married

Book:Devil's Cub

Source: Devil's Cub

“I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. Death as a consequence of lying with a god wasn't something I had considered, but it did not surprise me. A mortal man's strength had its limits. He spent himself and slept. He could be a good lover, but even his best skills were only guesswork - for every caress that sent a woman's head into the clouds, he might try ten that brought her back to earth.”

Men Trying Might Earth Lying Half Lovers Succeed Ten Skills Limits Consequence Surprise Lips Clouds Mortals Remembered Throat Caress Surprise Me Guesswork Good Lovers

Author:N.K. Jemisin

“The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his ‘English prep’ and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all.”

Thinking Years Mind Facts Sides Boys Conditions Theory Depends Ten Ethics Notion Forgotten Theology Assumption Unconscious Stakes Controversy Textbooks Preps

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.”

Ifs Years Wells Fighting Mankind Thousand Ten Excuse Thousand Years No Excuses Years Of Experience

Author:T. E. Lawrence

“Another ten points from Gryffindor,” said Snape. “I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room.”

Said Rooms Half Boys Ten Inches Sophisticated Weasley Expect Nothing Snape Gryffindor

Author:J. K. Rowling

“When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?”

Men World Today Boys Sun Land Battle Thousand Ten Sitting Rose Warrior Native American Bulls Native Land

Author:Sitting Bull

“That depends on the man. I like breasts myself. A nice rack goes a long way in getting me to do just about anything. Even stupid things. (Phobos) You are so offensive! (Delphine) Oh, please, I’m ten thousand years old. You’re lucky I’m not more chauvinistic than I am. Babe, I’ve come a long way. (Phobos)”

Men Way Years Long Nice Stupid Depends Please Thousand Lucky Ten Breasts Offensive Thousand Years Long Way Babe Stupid Things Old You Racks

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Yeah, well, I’ll be glad to birth it if it means I can name him something normal. (Zarek) Yeah, yeah. This from a man who whines like a two-year-old when he stubs his toe. I’d like to see you survive ten hours of childbirth. (Astrid)”

Ifs Men Years Wells Mean I Can Two Names Hours Birth Ten Normal Yeah Glad Two Years Toes Childbirth Two Year Olds

Book:Dream Warrior

Source: Dream Warrior

“You asked my opinion and I gave it. Of course you have to remember that if I’d been on the island with Gilligan, he’d have been killed ten minutes into the first episode. Where I come from, incompetence and stupidity are reasons for justifiable homicide. (Varyk)”

Ifs Firsts Has Beens Reason Remember Courses Opinion Minutes Ten Stupidity Islands Episodes Incompetence Homicide

Book:The Dark-Hunters

Source: The Dark-Hunters

“January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive.”

People Writing Firsts Wells Littles Has Beens I Can Book Light Inspiration Hours Silence Alive Reader Lucky Solitude Ten Eight Relax Surround Candle Muse January Lucky Day

Author:Isabel Allende

“Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.”

Men Sides Ten Loyalty Your Side One Woman

Book:The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'

“I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that’s kind of a gift to the author. The gift of close, undivided attention. To who else do we listen so closely for eight straight hours? And when readers give that gift to me, I’m grateful for it.”

Thinking Giving Kind Book Whole Hours Attention Reader Ten Six Grateful Eight Undivided Attention

Author:Po Bronson

“I'm telling you, you did what you believed you had to do through all of this. Not what was easiest or best for you. You did what you did, and you're owning it. And I don't know ten men who would be brave enough to do that.”

Knows Men Enough Would Be Ten Brave Be Brave Owning It

Author:Tami Hoag

“The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a city sky. The rush of city waters, beneath the city streets. The passionate passing of the night's last El.”

Lasts Night Water Cities Sky Streets Thousand Ten Train Passionate Track Passing Passings Wire All Night City Streets

Author:Nelson Algren

“Hall of Love has ten thousand swords. Don't be afraid to use one.”

Use Thousand Ten Halls

Author:Rumi

“Not half as much as I’d miss me if you killed me. (He blinked like a girl and leaned against Ash’s shoulder.) Please don’t hurt me, Ash. Please. I don’t want to die while I’m still a virgin. At least let me get laid before you kill me – which according to my mom I can’t do until I’m married and I can’t do that until I finish college. So you have to wait a good ten years before you snuff me. Deal? (Nick)”

Source: Infinity: Chronicles of Nick

“I do know how to operate a computer. (Joe) Yeah, right. What was it you said just ten minutes ago? Get this damned thing off my desk before I shoot it? Now make the call, Mr. Hunt-and-Peck. (Tee)”

Knows Said Know How Minutes Ten Computer Yeah Desks Hunts Tees

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of them seem to me written by a stranger: I simply do not recognize myself in them. There was a person who wrote them, and it was I. I experienced them, but it was in another life, from which I just woke up, as if from someone else's dream.”

Ifs Writing Years Persons Sometimes Dream Seems Written Ten Ordinary Years Ago Stranger Fifteen Drawers Another Life

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“And what good is it to me that you're here now? Where where you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this?”

Years Ten Years Ago Twenties Dare

Book:The Last Unicorn

Source: The Last Unicorn

“As I get considerably beyond the biblical allotment of three score years and ten, I feel with increasing intensity that I can express my gratitude for still being around on the oxygen-side of the earth's crust only by not standing pat on what I have hitherto known and loved. While oxygen lasts, there are still new things to love, especially if compassion is a form of love.”

Source: Young Men and Fire: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition

“He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.”

Wealth Poor Poverty Ten Goods

Book:The pilgrim's progress, from this world to that which is to come: delivered under the similitude of a dream: In three parts. Wherein are set forth the manner of his setting out; ... together with his happy arrival at the celestial city

Source: The pilgrim's progress, from this world to that which is to come: delivered under the similitude of a dream: In three parts. Wherein are set forth the manner of his setting out; ... together with his happy arrival at the celestial city

“You have ten minutes. Tops. (Carlos) I have been knocked overboard, shot at, kidnapped, handcuffed, terrified, and held prisoner. I will not be told how long to take in the loo. (Gabrielle)”

Long Has Beens Minutes Ten Shots Prisoner Terrified Kidnapped Overboard

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.”