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but all I could think was in New York that kid would have been stuck in a straitjacket practically from birth and dangled over a… — Meg Rosoff
You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super… — Haruki Murakami
People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the… — Robert Frost
It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day,… — John Green
what's the matter?" he asked "nothing" "what do you want me to do for you?" "i want you to be old. ten years older. twenty… — Milan Kundera
Inside him, twenty years dissolved and mixed into one complex, swirling whole. Everything that had accumulated over the years-- all he had seen, all the… — Haruki Murakami
Tengo could hardly believe it-- that in this frantic, labyrinth-like world, two people's hearts-- a boy's and a girl's-- could be connected, unchanged, even though… — Haruki Murakami
George P. A. Healy; "I knew no one in France, I was utterly ignorant of the language, I did not know what I should do… — David McCullough
And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in… — Dorothy Dunnett
He spoke in telegram-as if every word he used cost five bucks, and he only had a twenty in his wallet. — Suzanne Brockmann
This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has… — Anton Chekhov
Unreal. I'm feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record. — Barry Lyga
Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies… — Karen Marie Moning
You have twenty-four hours, horseguy, to kill your betrayer any way you see fit and to take your revenge. Make them count. Oh, and know… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Pulling out his daggers, he kept them in his sleeves, just in case he happened upon someone who wouldn’t understand why a tall, dark-haired man… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough for them to… — Jennifer Weiner
Even in my revenge fantasy where all I do is exercise, I can still do only twenty-five pull-ups. Pull-ups are tough, no joke. — Mindy Kaling
I don’t see any police cars.” “They probably had to park a couple blocks over. Anyway, as I was saying, I noticed illegal substances in… — Becca Fitzpatrick
No, really,' I said. 'I think she's great. And I honestly like her about twenty more times now than I did when we were dating.… — David Levithan
The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he said. "The hierarchical… — Walter Isaacson
I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the… — Walter Isaacson
If I might make a suggestion,” said Will. “About twenty paces behind us, in the Council room, is Benedict. If you’d like to go back… — Cassandra Clare
Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder.… — Julian Barnes
Why should I wish to see God better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,… — Walt Whitman
Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now… — Charles Kingsley

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