1. "add"
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John Grisham, Sycamore Row
2. "Add up the bastard! shouted Nobby enthusiastically. Total, Nobby, said Colon. You mean ‘total."
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Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
3. "The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are."
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Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
4. "[...] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit."
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Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities: Vol. 1
5. "The whole younger generation looks to me like a sum that doesn’t add up.’ Lavinia"
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Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life
6. "Little failures add up... till disappointed, they give up. Somewhere in their heart, they know they've lost. Just. Like. You."
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Kouhei Kadono, Boogiepop Dual: Loser's Circus
7. "A tip from Lubitsch: 'Let the audience add up two plus two and they'll love you forever."
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Charlotte Chandler, Nobody's Perfect: A Personal Biography of Billy Wilder
8. "This was one of the little ways in which he said sorry. They were meant to add up each day."
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Zadie Smith, On Beauty
9. "It feels like I am wasting time. I mean, that's always the case. My life doesn't add up to anything."
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David Levithan, Every Day
10. "Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life."
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Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape