Age Quote by Arthur C. Clarke

She had been the quiet, rather plain girl, with a surprisingly sharp tongue if she was put out, lovely eyes and pretty hair and…

— Betty Neels

There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl was a greater mystery…

— Charles Dickens

Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison.…

— Yasunari Kawabata

“In this unity there was happiness, but it is not far from happiness to suspicion, and the girl was full of suspicions. For instance,…

— Milan Kundera

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

— Johan Huizinga

“Finding these events set down in the history book did not change her mind in the least, all the textbook did was collect together…

— José Saramago

The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted…

— Kate Chopin

Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and…

— John Barth

Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for…

— Ann Brashares

“With so many willing, complex women in the world, he had little respect for men who fixated on girlishness. Innocence was, by definition, an…

— Meredith Duran

Nothing in the past is as important as the future.

— Gary Rossington

She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget…

— Rick Riordan