“I was never able to pray
but let me inscribe my name
in the book of waves.”
'I was never able to pray'
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To Anzud, in Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird, Ur III Period (21st century BCE). http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.2.2#

“I pray thee let me and my fellow have
A haire of the dog that bit us last night.”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: A heare of the dog that bote vs last night.

“I have never been able to resist a book about books.”
Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

To his nephew Lot, as quoted in Genesis 13:8 (KJV)
Bible
Context: Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.
Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

Source: Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore

“Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.”
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943).

“I have often prayed for you
like this
Let me have her”