Twenty Quotes

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I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtains were drawn around the tiny alcove, and… — Ally Carter
You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Where were all the women gamblers? It wasn't as if being a woman wasn't a huge risk all by itself. Twenty-eight percent of female homocide… — Jennifer Crusie
So, instead of panicking, I closed my eyes and spent the twenty minutes' drive with Edward. I imagined that I had stayed at the airport… — Stephenie Meyer
A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen-and-a-half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest. A bear must have his… — Walter Moers
Twenty-two astronauts were born in Ohio. What is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?" - Stephen Colbert to Congresswoman… — Stephen Colbert
by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a… — Jodi Picoult
Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty. — William Shakespeare
I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having… — Charles Dickens
Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy.… — Karen Armstrong
I feel like I'm playing some giant video game, or trying to solve a really complicated math equation. 'One girl is trying to avoid forty… — Lauren Oliver
It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or… — Patrick Rothfuss
But that mimosa grove-the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl with her… — Vladimir Nabokov
She'd read somewhere that normal, healthy men got up to twenty erections a day. Um...yep, Ares was definitely healthy. — Larissa Ione
Loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favor, but they quite clearly weren't.… — Nick Hornby
It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism. — Neil Gaiman
Vlad twisted his wrist, pinching his fingers together, spinning the bronze coin on the table. When it fell, he picked it up and did it… — Heather Brewer
Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return. — Anne Lamott
On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked him what his… — Jay-Z
I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee. — Jerome K. Jerome
How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you… — Jodi Picoult
I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Juliana?” the words were low and far—too calm for her husband, who had found that he rather enjoyed the full spectrum of emotion now that… — Sarah MacLean
…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to… — Louisa May Alcott

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