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“Years are not important, my dear.”
“Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.”
“Years before, she had dreamed of writing stories as a way to escape. She could revise her life and become someone else. She could be somewhere else. In her imagination she could change everything, herself, her mother, her past. But the idea of revising her life also frightened her, as if by imagination alone she were condemning what she did not like about herself or others. Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter
“Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance.”
Source: The Light Between Oceans: A Novel
“Years can go by where no one says anything or those who do don't say enough--so you just have to stand up and decide, enough already, and be the one to break the silence. Then those who have felt that way all along will follow.”
Source: Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It
“Years come n go as we age,
Green is the youth, the fresh,
With time the green beckons
shade of gold, the golden era,
Alas! Nothing lasts forever,
Brown is the end for the leaf,
So is life for even the mighty,
That what begins has to end,
Gratifying what ends, begins
again for a new life, old love.
Generation to generation, Amen!”
“Years do not always make age.”
Source: The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).
“Years do not make sages; they only make old men.”
“Years earlier, in a video about world history, I’d speculated about what might happen “if some superbug shows up tomorrow and it travels all these global trade routes.” In 2019, I’d said on a podcast, “We all must prepare ourselves for the global pandemic we all know is coming.” And yet, I did nothing to prepare. The future, even in its inevitabilities, always feels vague and nebulous to me—until it doesn’t.”
Source: The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“Years from now, I’ll be sitting in my wheelchair in the brightest spot in Amsterdam Park, next to the old wooden swings, catching a bit of sun. Next to me, on the new bench that some future mayor will have put there, will be my caregiver who came from a faraway country. She’ll know very little Hebrew, and at my old age, I’ll also remember only a few words—in Hebrew or at all.
By then, my memory will have crumbled like an old biscuit left in a coat pocket since last winter, and every time my caregiver calls me “Papi,“ I’ll think she really is my daughter. Those moments in which the past is erased and replaced by an invented history will be my most meaningful ones. They will be what keeps me alive.”
“Years from now I'll look back and remember today as the day I met him. I'll look back and remember the exact moment my life began to include him. I will remember it forever.”
“Years from now, when I will look back at this moment, I will remember all these songs, and he will too. They will be our songs.”
Source: That’ll Be Our Song
“Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.”
“Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.”
Source: The Glass Castle: A Memoir
“Years from now, when cinephiles are asked to name the movies' golden age, they'll say it was when Cate Blanchett was in them.”
“Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.”
“Years from now, years and years, one of those ships will bring me back, me and my nine Brazilian brats. Because yes, they must see this, these lights, the river -- I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.”
“Years go by Will I still be waiting For somebody else to understand Years go by If I'm stripped of my beauty And the orange clouds Raining in head Years go by Will I choke on my tears Till finally there is nothing left One more casualty You know we're too easy Easy Easy”
“Years go, dreams go, and youth goes too, The world's heart breaks beneath its wars,All things are changed, save in the east,The faithful beauty of the stars.”
Source: Flame and Shadow
“Years gone by still alive. Thank God for his divine deliverance from shooting incidence.”
“Years has passed and my eager heart stands.
Until we meet again love is an uncertainty that I'll pass.
I had all but one to give, this heart of mine that is yours still.”
“Years have gone but the pain is the same
I have passed my days by the sound of your name
Well they say that you're gone and that I should move on
I wonder how do they know, baby?
Death is a wall but it can't be the end
You were my protector and my best friend
In The Wind”
“Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.”
“Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.”
“Years have passed since my life met,
the weather at sail beneath its soul.
Like nature I tread the ever changing,
my heart and mind open to all I face.
[A Writer’s Company]”
Source: Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall
“Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.”
Source: A selection of his poems
“Years in making are years of mocking.”
Source: Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
“Years in themselves mean nothing. How we live them means everything.”
Source: My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences
“Years later, after other experiences with dogs, I wondered if their species were shaped and charmed to serve as four-legged guides able to assist in leading humanity back to our first—and lost—home. By the example of their joy and humility, by wanting nothing more than food and play and love, by the deep satisfaction that they take from those humble things, they belie all creeds of power and fame. Although they have the teeth to tear, it is by swish of tail and yearning eyes that they most easily get what they want.”
Source: Innocence
“Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at the lies arranged in their thousands row on row. He picked up one of the books and thumbed through the heavy bloated pages. He'd not have thought the value of the smallest thing predicated on a world to come. It surprised him. That the space which these things occupied was itself an expectation.”
Source: The Road
“Years later I realised he left sex out when he came to Maslow’s list of physiological needs. I don’t blame him.”
Source: Fever A Novel
“Years later, I remember the waxy taste of the yellow paint, the papery taste of splintered wood, the sharp metallic of the graphite.”
Source: The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
“Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.”
Source: Townie: A Memoir
“Years later it occurred to me that the reason I hadn’t been able to take my eyes off her was not just her body, but the way she held herself and moved.”
Source: The Reader
“Years later Magnus would return to London and Camille Belcourt's side, and find it not all that he had dreamed. Years later another desperate Herondale boy with blue, blue eyes would come to his door, shaking with the cold of the rain and his own wretchedness, and this one Magnus would be able to help.”
Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
“Years later, she remembered her zombie days.... No name turned the key to her prison.... So in the land of the dead the men sang to her. The sound faded across the rows of plants. The dusty mechanism of her arms rose and fell.... At last they tried a new tune whose tune carried across the gray field. Hair as black as coal in the mine, little Liza Jane / Eyes so large and big and fine, little Liza Jane. You are beautiful. We need you. You cannot go where you are trying to go. Come back to us.... You plant a patch of cotton, I'll plant a patch of cane / I'm gonna make molasses, to sweeten Liza Jane... Sobs began to heave out of her mouth... Oh Lisa, poor gal, Oh Liza Jane / Oh Liza poor gal, she died on the trail. Liza, the sang. Lucy raised her head. Tears flowed down her face and she opened her mouth: 'I got happy,' Lucy Thompson remembered eighty years after her resurrection, 'and sang with the rest.'" - The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism”
“Years later we were watching 90210 [with my sister].”
“Years later, when he thought Caren was old enough to understand, to accept his version of an apology, he would say he felt he owed something to the people with whom he had set down roots. Family is fate, he'd said; but it's also a choice.”
Source: The Cutting Season
“Years later, when Julia was famous she would often receive letters from people who asked not simply how they might learn to cook. They already knew the answer: The owned her cookbooks, but they were yearning to know how they might become passionate about it. She always answered the same thing: Go to France and eat.”
Source: Julia Child Rules: Lessons On Savoring Life
“Years later, I figured out why he (Ivan Karp) was such a successful art dealer-this may sound strange, but I believe it was because art was his second love. He seemed to love literature more, and he put the serious side of his nature into that...Some people are even better at their second love than their first, maybe because when they care too much, it freezes them, but knowing there's something they'd rather be doing gives them a certain freedom.”
“Years later, I found myself running
a network television division and then a
movie studio and now an entire entertainment
company. But, much of the success I've achieved
can be traced to the direct and metaphorical
lessons I learned in building those campfires.
I can hardly think of an aspect of my life
that wasn't positively affected by my camping
experience.”
“Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff.”
“Years later, my wife, Ilusion, woke me up to the realization that you can't just "dump" your whole species simply because you've had a few bad encounters with some of its members. ... Intimacy's a greater goal to seek. ...That true knowledge of intimacy within our own species will allow us to pass it along to interspecies relations.”
“Years later, when I asked my father, I said 'Pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers?' he said, son, you plum wore me out.”
“Years later, you can hear a song, and it brings you back right to that moment, what was happening at that time, whether it was a relationship or a difficult time, or maybe a great time in your life, and you had that album you were listening to. Twenty years later, you can put on that song you fell in love to or your heart was broken to, and you hear that song and it brings you right back there. I think music is the most powerful tool we have.”
“Years may pass but they'd still remain each other's first love with complex strings attached”
Source: Destined Desires: A Tale of Two Souls
“Years might pass and they might change, both of them, but she was sure she would still know her own child, just as she would know herself, no matter how long it had been. She was certain of this. She would spend months, years, the rest of her life looking for her daughter, searching the face of every young woman she meet for as long as it took, searching for a spark of familiarity in the faces of strangers.”
Source: Little Fires Everywhere
“Years now without coffee, without alcohol, without tobacco.
...Luckily, there is anxiety, which usefully replaces the strongest stimulants.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it.”