“Oh, what is that bird?''It is a wheatear. We have seen between two and three hundred since we set out, and I have told you their name twice, nay, three times.”

“You’d be surprised what people will accept once you insist two or three times running that they have seen what you tell them they have seen.”

“A man like that is someone to go out with—once—twice—three times when the devil is in you. But live with? Have a child by?”

“The Red God takes what is his, lovely girl. And only death may pay for life. You saved me and the two I was with. You stole three deaths from the Red God. We have to give them back. Speak three names and the man will do the rest. Three lives I will give you - no more, no less, and we're done.”

“...I have seen enough for two lifetimes. Maybe three, but I was very drunk at the time. -Marjorie Liu, The Tangleroot Palace”

“Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.”