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Robby gave her a skeptical look. "Ye're an angel of death. No offense, but I would call that a wee bit of harm."
"We're called Deliverers, actually. And we're not supposed to take someone before their time."
"How does that work?" Gregori lifted his camera, focusing on her. "I mean do you just go down a line, saying, 'Eenie meenie mynie moe, sorry, dude you gotta go'?
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Kerrelyn Sparks (Vampire Mine (Love at Stake, #10))
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I went to the four levers. None of them were marked. There was only one way to figure out which one was the right one. I had to call upon all my Traveler experience and special powers to figure it out. It's called...Eenie, meenie, miney...mo!"
-Bobby Pendragon
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D.J. MacHale
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Trust is a fragile thingβhard to earn, easy to lose.
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M.J. Arlidge (Eeny Meeny (Helen Grace, #1))
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There are countless moments in the average life when you have to decide whether to open yourself up or bury yourself deep. In love, at work, among your family, with friends, there are moments when you have to decide whether you are ready to reveal your true self.
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M.J. Arlidge (Eeny Meeny (Helen Grace, #1))
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Amy would never shoot anyone, least of all Sam. Sheβd never even held a gun before. This wasnβt America.
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M.J. Arlidge (Eeny Meeny (Helen Grace, #1))
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Eenie, meenie, minie, moe, catch a killer by the toe. If his lawyerβs Haller, let him go. Eenie, meenie, minie, moe. Hey bro.
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Michael Connelly (The Brass Verdict (The Lincoln Lawyer, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #19))
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There aren't any rules to running away from your problems. No checklist of things to cross off. No instructions. Eeny, meeny, pick a path and go. That's how my dad does it anyway because apparently there's no age limit to running away, either. He wakes up one day, packs the car with everything we own, and we hit the road. Watch all the pretty colors go by until he finds a town harmless enough to hide in. But his problems always find us. Sometimes quicker than others. Sometimes one month and sometimes six. There's no rule when it comes to that, either. Not about how long it takes for the problems to catch up with us. Just that they willβthat much is a given. And then it's time to run again to a new town, a new home, and a new school for me.
But if there aren't any rules, I wonder why it feels the same every time. Feels like I leave behind a little bit of who I was in each house we've left empty. Scattering pieces of me in towns all over the place. A trail of crumbs dotting the map from everywhere we've left to everywhere we go. And they don't make any pictures when I connect dots. They are random like the stars littering the sky at night.
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Brian James (Zombie Blondes)
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Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe.Β May these shots reveal the Hoe.βΒ Taron immediately clanks the glasses and tips the tequila into his mouth.
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Hilary Storm (In a Heartbeat (Rebel Walking, #1))
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Eenie, meenie, minie, moβ is based on a counting system that predates the Roman occupation of Britain, that may even be pre-Celtic. If so, it is a rare surviving link with the very distant past. It not only gives us a fragmentary image of how children were being amused at the time Stonehenge was built, but tells us something about how their elders counted and thought and ordered their speech.
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Bill Bryson (Made in America)
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Men were supposed to be dissociative about sex. Able to turn off their emotions and think with their dick. But Mark had never been like that.
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M.J. Arlidge (Eeny Meeny (Helen Grace, #1))
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Eenie, meenie, minie, moβ is based on a counting system that predates the Roman occupation of Britain, that may even be pre-Celtic.
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Bill Bryson (Made in America)
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How long does it take to die of starvation? Too long.
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M.J. Arlidge (Eeny Meeny (Helen Grace, #1))
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Eeny, meeny,Β miny,Β moe
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Katrina Kahler (The New Girl: Book 2 - A Whole New Dilemma: Books for Girls)
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Daniel had known Zephyr since she was seven. He used to sit in the living room while she and Trixie performed the cheerleading moves they'd made up during an afternoon of play or lip-synched to the radio, or presented tumbling routines. He could practically still hear them doing a hand-clapping game: "The spades go eeny-meeny pop zoombini.
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Jodi Picoult (The Tenth Circle)
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For every one actor who makes it to fame there are fifty thousand more who did exactly the same things, yet didn't make it. Most of the actors I went with to Juilliard Rhode Island College, Circle in the Square Theatre, the Arts Recognition Talent Search competition are not in the business anymore. I think I can name six, and many, you wouldn't even know. It doesn't speak to their talent, it speaks to the nature of the business. Trust me when I say most were beautiful and talented, and some has incredible agents. It's an eenie, meenie, miny, mo game of luck, relationships, chance, how long you've been out there, and sometimes talent.
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Viola Davis (Finding Me)
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U.S. Presedent Barack Sadam Husene Obame sit in the darkened Oval Ofice at 2 a.m. wearing hes traditienel Kenyan roabe.
He take one last bite of the Chicago style deep dish pizza that he has flown to him every day on the Amerecan tax payer's dime and wipe the grease off his mouth with the U.S. consititutien.
He get up and walk to desk, where he keeps the Kenyan black magic crystle ball. Its black glow iluminate his face.
"Eeny, meeny, miney, mo β which basic U.S. freedoms are next to go?" he say aloud to no one and every one at the same time.
Then he flash that trade mark Bary Obame million doller grin as a crack of lightning sound in the distence.
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Seinfeld 2000 (The Apple Store)
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And at the risk of sounding like Andy Rooney on Sixty Minutes, have you ever wondered why we say fiddle-faddle and not faddle- fiddle? Why is it ping-pong and pitter-patter rather than pong-ping and patter-pitter? Why dribs and drabs, rather than vice versa? Why can't a kitchen be span and spic? Whence riff-raff, mish-mash, flim-flam, chit-chat, tit for tat, knick-knack, zig-zag, sing-song, ding-dong, King Kong, criss-cross, shilly-shally, see-saw, hee-haw, flip-flop, hippity-hop, tick-tock, tic-tac-toe, eeny-meeny-miney-moe, bric-a-brac, clickety-clack, hickory-dickory-dock, kit and kaboodle, and bibbity-bobbity-boo? The answer is that the vowels for which the tongue is high and in the front always come before the vowels for which the tongue is low and in the back.
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Steven Pinker (The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language)
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When I was younger and hard-hearted, with hot, hostile artistic ambitions I yearned to charge at the aloof, faceless βthemsβ of our world until they said Uncle, I believed the scariest words ever spoken to be βThe apple never falls far from the tree.β That whole concept inspired clinging fears in the wee hours, and a halting miserable shyness in the presence of those who seemed to be the anointed. If I fell not far from the tree, was I then fated to be, not, say, a college prof of English, but inmate 2679785? A parolee who spends seventeen years on the night shift with Custodial Services at KU Med Center in K.C., instead of a Prize-Winning Novelist with a saltbox on the Cape? An unwholesome artsy freak, and not an esteemed citizen whose voting privileges have never been revoked? I went through those pitiful, hangdog years being ashamed of my roots and origins, referring to home as βour place in the country,β and to my father as a βself-made man.β I hung my head and eenie-meenie-minie-moed when confronted at dinner tables by too many forks. I tried to give the impression that slapping an uppity snotnose silly was not the sort of act contained in my portfolio. It
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There are some pubs where you go to woo your lover. There are others where you go to stand on the tables and sing. And there are others where you go to drink yourself to death.
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M.J. Arlidge (Eeny Meeny (Helen Grace, #1))
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We always question ourselves more than we question others and most of her colleagues and occasional lovers seemed to buy the image of a tough, committed career copper who could not be shocked, frightened or intimidated.
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M.J. Arlidge (Eeny Meeny (Helen Grace, #1))
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At this point the room erupted β question after question raining down on Helen. It was a sustained assault but Helen had no choice but to weather it, however damaging or provocative the questions were. She needed the public to be vigilant, so she needed the press onside. It was a bitter pill to swallow but the situation was critical now. Sometimes in life you have to feed the hand that bites you.
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M.J. Arlidge (Eeny Meeny (Helen Grace, #1))
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Trust is a fragile thing β hard to earn, easy to lose. Iβm not sure of anything any more.
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M.J. Arlidge (Eeny Meeny (Helen Grace, #1))
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Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, catch a tiger by the toe. If he hollers, let him go, eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
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Katrina Kahler (Witch School, Books 2-6)
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And when it came time to make my decision, I used a special technique from my past life. I did eeny-meeny-miny-moe. I mean, no matter who I chose, he was just gonna up and leave anyway. Why be selective, right?
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Mamecyoro (The Princess of Convenient Plot Devices, (Light Novel) Vol. 1)
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Eeny, meeny, miny, moe,
Catch an ogre by the toe,
When he hollers, make him pay,
For his awful, wicked ways.
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Gerry Swallow (Blue in the Face: A Story of Risk, Rhyme, and Rebellion)
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M.J. Arlidge (Eeny Meeny (Helen Grace, #1))
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Eenie meenie minie moe. Catch a retard by the toe. Make him holler blow by blow. Eenie meenie minie moe.
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Gregg Andrew Hurwitz (The Tower)
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As the wind whipped her body, she realized that today she was feeling decidedly unusual.
She was happy.
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M.J. Arlidge (Eeny Meeny (Helen Grace, #1))
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Life was so much simpler when going βeeny-meeny-miney-moβ made decisions, and mistakes were corrected by simply shouting βovers.β The rest of your life lay in front of you, rolled out like a red carpet. And you and your friends would live forever.
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Judith Marshall (Husbands May Come and Go but Friends Are Forever)
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Glancing around for his friends eenie, meenie, miney, and mo, they were nowhere to be found and he was left stranded with this lane picking dilemma, so he grimaced and picked the first lane offered.
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J.S. Mason (A Dragon, A Pig, and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar...and other Rambunctious Bites)
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The game is overβtime to catch my prey. I call out ahead, taunting her. βYou canβt outrun me, little doe. You have nowhere to hide. You. Are. Mine.β βNo!β I laugh at her slurred speech, watching as she slows, the sedative finally winning. βWhen she hollers, make her moan. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
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Lyra Blake (A Night With The Demon: A Dark Desires Novelette)
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I chuckle to myself, an idea coming to mind. βEeny, meeny, miny, moe! Catch a frightened little doe!
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Lyra Blake (A Night With The Demon: A Dark Desires Novelette)
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Eeny, meeny, miny, moe,β he calls out melodically, setting my senses on edge. βCatch a frightened little doe.
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Lyra Blake (A Night With The Demon: A Dark Desires Novelette)
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La confiance est une chose fragile : difficile Γ gagner, facile Γ perdre.
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M.J. Arlidge (Eeny Meeny (Helen Grace, #1))
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Eeny?β said Salazar. βIs that from Eeny, meeny, miny, moe?β βReally, Harry?β said Kelly in amusement. βYou think Iβd name it after Eeny, meeny, miny, moe?
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Douglas E. Richards (A Pivot In Time (Alien Artifact, #2))
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The Brightston home was an imposing Victorian semi in affluent Eastleigh.
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M.J. Arlidge (Eeny Meeny (Helen Grace, #1))
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Eenie meenie minie mo, caught you cheating with that hoe, you tryed to lie right to my face, think again you been replaced!!
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Barry Strow (TEXT FAILS: Super Funny Messages and Autocorrect Fails. Smiles with Funniest Mishaps Ever on Smartphones! VOL 4)