“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?”
“Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once to get over the fear of doing it. Twice to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.”
“I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.”
“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. You are connected to your child and to all those who touch your lives. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action”
“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.”