Quote by Jennifer E. Smith

“When you’re on the other side of it,” she says, “fifty-two years can seem like about fifty-two minutes. Just like when you’re young and…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“When you're on the other side of it," she says, "fifty-two years can seem like about fifty-two minutes." She tips her head back and…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“twenty-five years run around so quickly but thirty one years is a long time.”

— Gertrude Stein

“Sometimes twenty years seemed like an instant, and sometimes it seemed like a very long time indeed.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“For the first half of your life each minute feels like a year, but for the second half, each year feels like a minute.”

— Melanie Gideon

“I’m going to be where you are for the rest of our lives,” I said firmly. “If that’s a week or another forty years.”…

— Diana Gabaldon

“I'd wait forever for you, Tiny. If you don't believe it now, you will when you're still stuck with me fifty years from now.”

— Jen Frederick

“Other things my best friend said to me: That two years was but a short span.”

— Helen Oyeyemi

“a life can change in a tenth of a second. or sometimes it can take 70 years.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Half a century goes by in what seems like a year. Don't waste an hour in boredom, son, or wishing for tomorrow.”

— Dean Koontz

“Do you know? He says. "I feel I've known you for years, not ninety minutes.”

— David Mitchell

“He rubbed his head again. 'Five years is longer than it sounds. So much longer.”

— Octavia E. Butler