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222 Sixteen quotes by 203 unique authors
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In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent and trademark infringement lawsuits. All…
— Daniel Suarez
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Sixteen moons, Sixteen years Sixteen of your deepest fears Sixteen times you dreamed my tears Falling, Falling through the years
— Kami Garcia
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By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.
— Cormac McCarthy
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Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people,…
— Henry Ford
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On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping Agents, in the…
— Philip Pullman
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Some like them hot,some like them cold. Some like them when they're not to darn old Some like them fat,some like them lean. Some like…
— Ring Lardner
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Phury lit a blunt and eyed the sixteen cans of Aqua Net that were lined up on Butch and V's coffee table. "What's doing with…
— J R Ward
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There are the stars--doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are…
— Thornton Wilder
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The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World. I'm sixteen now, so you can imagine that's…
— Libba Bray
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todays the first anniversary of the asteroid hitting the moon. A year ago i was sixteen years old, a sophomore in high school.
— Susan Beth Pfeffer
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Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see…
— Annie Ernaux
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I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.
— Joyce Johnson
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All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my greatest anxiety in…
— David Nicholls
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Of course, I thought I was badass at sixteen, too. Wait, I was badass at sixteen. Oh, yeah.
— Rachel Caine
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I have no words. Sixteen languages, but no words. -Vishous
— J R Ward
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Sometimes, I think Bill forgets that I am sixteen. But I am very happy that he does.
— Stephen Chbosky
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But you're almost eighteen. You're old enough. Everyone else is doing it. And next year someone is going to say to someone else 'but you're…
— Melina Marchetta
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Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.
— Cassandra Clare
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A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of…
— Jerry Spinelli
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Two weeks until your cure" she says finally. "Sixteen days" I say, but in my head I'm counting: Seven days. Seven days until I'm free…
— Lauren Oliver
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I was sixteen and equipped with the appropriate genitalia, so I cleared that hurdle nicely.
— David Levithan
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I tried to imagine how things could get much worse. The gods were in the Midwest fighting a huge monster that had almost defeated them…
— Rick Riordan
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All sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm winter…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Those eyes, they've got a history with mine. They were the first things I saw when I came to, after being hit in the skull…
— Jodi Picoult
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I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi, working…
— Kathryn Stockett
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