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* Three completely different songs by Sting feature the following lyric: "Do I have to tell the story of a thousand rainy days since we first met,/It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet."(First used in the Police's "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic", then again in their "Oh My God" from ''Synchronicity''; and finally in "Seven Days" off Sting's "Ten Summoner's Tales''.)

* * The band {{Savatage}} has used a pair of recurring verses, "I never wanted to know, never wanted to see-" and "I am the way, I am the light-" in between three songs, "When the Crowds are Gone", "Believe", and "Alone You Breathe".

* There's [[http://holdsteady.wikia.com/ a whole wiki]] devoted to keeping track of all the cross-references and recurring images in The Hold Steady's lyrics. Various characters get "high as hell" and/or "born again," tend to be in search of a "saviour," and praise drugs with a "five-second delivery;" all kinds of things are described as "hot [and] soft;"
the title of their first album, ''Almost Killed Me'', appears in half a dozen songs, and even the name of the band comes up on a few occasions ("It's hard to hold it steady when half your friends are dead already.") Lampshaded in "The Cattle and The Creeping Things": "Hard drugs are for bartenders -- I think I might have mentioned that before."

** And despite being written instead of spoken, the Aeneid keeps in Homer's tradition with "Pious Aeneas" "Savage Juno" "mixed with a great heap" (the last one is alliteration in Latin)

** He also seems to like characters who developed phobias after nearly drowning as children.

* Christopher Moore has a few phrases which crop up often in his books. "Heinous fuckery (or alternately, "Henious fuckery most foul")" is used often, along with extremely... explicit descriptions of women's bodies.[[/folder]]
* Louisa May Alcott loves the phrase "like a true man/woman" and the words manly, womanly, and mien.

* Children's author Edward Eager will frequently have a character make a statement, followed by evidence of that satement happening "just to prove it."

--->''{{Transformers}}: Stormbringer #2'', by... well, [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready take a guess]].

* Ever since he started TheDarkTower, StephenKing keeps putting references to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka_(Dark_Tower) "ka"]] in a lot of his books.

* Edward Eager will frequently have a character make a statement, then show evidence of that satement happening "just to prove it."
** He also seems to be fond of annoyingly childish adults, who will always want to play make-believe type games involving "a dear little fairy" with the various protagonist children.

* Three completely different songs by Sting feature the following lyric: "Do I have to tell the story of a thousand rainy days since we first met,/It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet."(First used in the Police's "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic", then again in their "Oh My God" from SYNCHRONICITY; and finally in "Seven Days" off Sting's TEN SUMMONER'S TALES.)

* The fandom would have you believe [[Nasuverse Kinoko Nasu's]] H-writing involves a lot of food metaphors, specifically seafood, specifically mollusks.

* Some version of 'Character X didn't think he'd ever forget it, especially around 3am on windy nights'.