"When you were young, you thought time was……" — J R Ward
"When you were young, you thought time was a burden, something to be discharged as fast as possible so you could be grown-up. But it was such a bait-n-switch – when you were an adult, you came to realize that minutes and hours were the single most precious thing you had."
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461 Quotes by J R Ward
J R Ward has 461 quotes on this site.
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I’m on the benevolent side of antisocial. I don’t mind people, but I’d prefer not to have a lot of…
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I'm not hurt. I'm pissed off and sexually frustrated.
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Souls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these annoying, holier-than-thou bits dangling like…
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You know, you sound like birds when you do that chuckle thing. It's nice. Over to the left, Vishous put…
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Blay said yet again, that old, familiar voice cutting through all of those years of rejection and judgment, giving him…
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If sex were food, Rhage would have been morbidly obese.
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I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you…
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Besides, you think I'm not used to hurting? For me, it's home sweet home, my brother.
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Yo, cop. We're heading for Screamer's. You wanna come?" Butch looked up at the doorway. Vishous was in the hall…
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You've won the evolutionary lottery: You're a vampire. Let's go to Disneyland!
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I'm going to talk to her." "And how's that going to go? You're just going to walk up to her…
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Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a…
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More Adult Quotes
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I…
— Drew Barrymore
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard…
— Roseanne Barr
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When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably…
— Drew Barrymore
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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids…
— Mario Batali
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
— Martha Beck
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
— Martha Beck
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
— Martha Beck
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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