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Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school. — Kurt Vonnegut
To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you… — Fulton J. Sheen
If you're trying to be miserable, it's important you don't have any goals. No school goals, personal goals, family goals. Your only objective each day… — John Bytheway
I'm alive inside. A bird is my heart. Mama and Daddy is not win. I'm winning. I'm drinking hot chocolate in the Village wif girls--all… — Sapphire
Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing… — Neal Stephenson
I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between… — William Shakespeare
Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years… — S E Hinton
I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers… — Lucille Clifton
A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a… — Jonathan Stroud
It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with… — Mary Roach
It's only life. We all get through it. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their… — Dean Koontz
A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most. Almost sixteen years… — Gabrielle Zevin
Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening… — Daniel Woodrell
It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world… — William Ralph Inge
No dates until you're sixteen. And no boyfriends, either.' I'm not quite sure how to tell Mom, but it looks like I don't just have… — Cara Lockwood
To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book — William Saroyan
Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate. — Margaret Mitchell
Babe, you've destroyed a car, burned down two buildings, stapled a guy's nuts, and you have sixteen stitches in your leg. Take a night off.… — Janet Evanovich
I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark… — Haruki Murakami
being sixteen in the pants I died full of questions — Anne Sexton
Diana: "I wish I were rich, and I could spend the whole summer at a hotel, eating ice cream and chicken salad." Anne: "You know… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
How old are you Johnny" she asked. Sixteen." And what's that-a boy or a man?" He laughed. "A boy in time of peace and a… — Esther Forbes
How that is so I don't know. How Mama and Daddy know me sixteen years and hate me, how a stranger meet me and love… — Sapphire
It comes with being sixteen," Mom said. "You teenagers, you go into a cocoon when you turn fifteen and don't come out for years." "So… — Neal Shusterman
The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention - car parked on the side, maybe a cop, slow to… — John Green

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