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“We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleeing from ourselves. From our lives. We were eighteen years old, and we had just begun to love the world and to love being in it; but we had to shoot at it. The first shell to land went straight for our hearts. We've been cut off from real action, from getting on, from progress. We don't believe in those things any more; we believe in the war.”

“What is he aching to do? What are we all aching to do? What do we want?” She didn’t know. She yawned. She was sleepy. It was too much. Nobody could tell. Nobody would ever tell. It was all over. She was eighteen and most lovely, and lost.”

Knows Want Lost Too Much Lovely Eighteen Sleepy

Book:On the Road: The Original Scroll: The Original Scroll

Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: The Original Scroll

“In high school, I had fun in my academic clubs, watching movies with my girlfriends, learning Latin, having long, protracted, unrequited crushes on older guys who didn’t know me, and yes, hanging out with my family. I liked hanging out with my family! Later, when you’re grown up, you realize you never get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that’s it.”

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)

“I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with the publication of my new novel, Tarzan and the Lost Empire, there are 31 books on my list.”

Knows Writing Years Stills Book Stories Lost Novel Technique Lists Empires Eighteen Publication Story Writing

Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs

“After eighteen years of being utterly ordinary, I finally found that I can shine" -Bella Swan <3”

Years I Can Found Ordinary Shining Eighteen Swans Bella Swan

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“I think he came to die with me," I say. I clamp my hand over my mouth to stifle a sob. If I can keep breathing, I can stop crying. I didn't need or want him to die with me. I wanted to keep him safe. What an idiot, I think, but my heart isn't in it. "That's ridiculous," he says. "That doesn't make any sense. He's eighteen; he'll find another girlfriend once you're dead. And he's stupid if he doesn't know that." Tears run down my cheeks, hot at first and then cold. I close my eyes. "If you think that's what it's about..." I swallow another sob. "...you're the stupid one.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Needs Firsts Heart I Can Hands Eye Running Wanted Dies Stupid Cry Tears Cold My Heart Safe Mouths Hot Ridiculous Breathing Idiot Girlfriend Cheeks Eighteen Want Him

Author:Veronica Roth

“Does she still love you?" "I don't think so," Magnus said dryly. "She wasn't very pleasant the last time I saw her. Of course, that could be because I've got an eighteen year-old boyfriend with a stamina rune and she doesn't." Alec sputtered. "As the person being objectified, I ... object to that description of me.”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves and curlicues of ash blonde and gold. Her eyes were bright, big, clear, wet and shining, the colour of her cheeks was real, breaking close to the surface from the strong young pump of her heart. Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood -- she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.”

Heart Stills Real Body Bigs Eye Lasts Young Strong Clear Childhood Hair Fine Gold Shining Wave Edges Surface Colour Cheeks Wet Ashes Her Eyes Shields Dew Foreheads Eighteen Blonde Pumps

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all.”

Happens Summer Eighteen

Book:The Hours: A Novel

Source: The Hours: A Novel

“Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.”

Way Different Age Young Found Terrible Conviction Different Ways Eighteen Classmates

Book:Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)

Source: Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)

“When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.”

Age Emotion High School Violent Eighteen

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“The driver got out smiling. He looked about seventeen or eighteen, and for a second, I had the uneasy feeling it was Luke, my old enemy. This guy had the same sandy hair and outdoorsy good looks. But it wasn't Luke. His smile was brighter and more playful. (Luke didn't do much more than scowl and sneer these days.) The Maserati driver wore jeans and loafers and a sleeveless T-shirt. "Wow" Thalia muttered. Apollo Is hot." "He's the sun god," I said. "That's not what I meant.”

“So, you wouldn't marry me." "Ridiculous question. I'm eighteen!" "Oh, it's an age thing?" He frowned. "You don't mean wild oats, do you? We're not going to have some stupid break so you can experience other---" Zuzana put a hand over his mouth. "Gross. Don't even say it.”

Mean Hands Age Break Stupid Mouths Ridiculous Gross Eighteen Marry Me Oats

Author:Laini Taylor

“And this is the truth. Because I may be only eighteen, but it already seems pretty obvious that the world is divided into two groups: the doers and the watchers. The people things happen to and the rest of us, who just sort of plod on with things. The Lulus and the Allysons. It never occurred to me that by pretending to be Lulu, I might slip into that other column, even for just a day.”

People World May Two Seems Might Happens Groups Obvious Things Happen Divided Pretending Slips Columns Eighteen Doers Watchers

Book:Just One Day

Source: Just One Day

“He would look so young. They were both so young. Tessa knew it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but they were racing a clock. The clock of Jem's life, before it wound down.”

Looks Young Wounds Clock Racing Unusual Eighteen Seventeen Jem

Book:The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“Other pirates leaped over the railing. One, two... seven... thirteen. A baker’s dozen. Wait, fifteen. Eighteen... Twenty-one. The odds weren’t in our favor. “Maybe they just came over to borrow a cup of sugar,” I said. Andrea barked a short laugh. Curran put his hand on my shoulder. “That’s a lot of sugar. Must be a big cake.”

Said Two Hands Bigs Waiting Laughing Twenties Seven Favors Shoulders Cups Cake Sugar Dozen Odds Fifteen Pirate Eighteen Twenty One Thirteen Bakers Andrea Short Laugh

Book:Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel

Source: Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel

“New Rule: If you can force a woman to look at a sonogram—to see what will happen if she has an abortion—you also have to let her see a crying baby, a bratty five-year-old, and a surly teenager to see what will happen if she doesn’t. And you have to tell her it costs $204,000 to raise it until it turns eighteen, in 2028, where it will be a slave to the Chinese, in a radioactive world with no animals, fish, or plants.”

Source: The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

“Gansey had no idea how old Blue was. He knew she'd just finished eleventh grade. Maybe she was sixteen. Maybe she was eighteen. Maybe she was twenty-two and just very short and remedial.”

Two Ideas Twenties Blue Finished No Idea Grades Eighteen Sixteen Gansey Twenty Two

Book:The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)

Source: The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)

“I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.”

Ifs Thinking Men Persons Use Evil Half Minutes Humility Ten Eighteen Don't Trust

Author:Norman Mailer

“Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing.”

Writing Science Hours Four Hard Work Exercise Twenties Spending Amusement Newton Eighteen Nineteen Incessantly

Book:A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

Source: A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

“Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But watch out if you are in a lifeboat and there are others who are younger, bigger, or smarter.”

“Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.”

Years Two Jesus Christ Months Thirty Two Years Preparing Public Life Eighteen

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“I say that they can be solved; there is no problem that cannot be, but faith is necessary. Think of the faith I had to have eighteen years ago, a single man on a lonely path. Yet I have come to leadership of the German people... Life is hard for many, but it is hardest if you are unhappy and have no faith. Have faith. Nothing can make me change my own belief.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Years Hard Problem Life Is Belief Nations My Own Path Years Ago Lonely Unhappy Hardest Have Faith No Problem Eighteen Life Is Hard Single Man Lonely Path

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Don't worry about your caddie. He may be an irritating little wretch, but for eighteen holes he is your caddie.”

May Littles Worry Golf Holes Eighteen Irritating Caddies

Book:The Mystery of Golf

Source: The Mystery of Golf

“Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.”

Years Play Teach Golf Holes Desks Foe Eighteen Nineteen

Author:Grantland Rice

“I do smoke, but I don't go through all this trouble just because I want to make my drug of choice legal. It's about personal freedom. We should have the right in this country to do what we want, if we don't hurt anybody. Seventy-two million people in this country have smoked pot. Eighteen to 20 million in the last year. These people should not be treated as criminals.”

“The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was handed me a few days since by Senator Sumner. Please tell these little people I am very glad their young hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy, and that, while I have not the power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember that God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do it.”

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man”

Men Age Seven Thirty Appropriate Eighteen Funny Relationship

Author:Aristotle

“I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her.”

Law Mother Havens Months Motherhood In-laws Eighteen Mother In Law

Author:Ken Dodd

“But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?”

Source: The autobiography of Mark Twain: including chapters now published for the first time

“Hence the Bible has no record of his years of preparation; the record is very abrupt. Something about his childhood is said, very fragmentary. And only once is he mentioned: when he was twelve years of age and he started arguing with the priests in the temple - that's all. Then there is a gap of eighteen years... nothing is mentioned.”

Years Said Age Jesus Christ Records Childhood Jesus Christ Arguing Preparation Temples Priests Gaps Twelve Eighteen

Author:Rajneesh

“She explained that the bullet had entered through the side of my left eye where there was a scar, traveled eighteen inches down to my left shoulder and stopped there. It could have taken out my eye or gone into my brain. It was a miracle I was alive.”

Eye Left Sides Powerful Brain Gone Taken Alive Miracle Shoulders Scar Inches Bullets Traveled Eighteen Left Eye

Author:Malala Yousafzai

“I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds.”

Trying Humor Funny Fiction Criticism Critics Seconds Passages Recalls Engaging Eighteen

Author:S. J. Perelman

“It was daylight and I drove everyone home - I was driving a Mini with John and Cynthia and Pattie in it. I seem to remember we were doing eighteen miles an hour and I was really concentrating - because some of the time I just felt normal and then, before I knew where I was, it was all crazy again. Anyway, we got home safe and sound, and somewhere down the line John and Cynthia got home. I went to bed and lay there for, like, three years.”

Years Home Seems Remember Three Felt Sound Hours Lines Crazy Drug Bed Safe Normal Lays Driving Miles Three Years Eighteen Daylight Concentrating Cynthia Safe And Sound

Author:George Harrison

“A man who went to the 'footie' match on Saturday afternoon and played eighteen holes of golf was really doing his duty by the nation.”

Men Nations Sports Duty Golf Holes Afternoon Saturday Inspirational Sports Eighteen Saturday Afternoon

Author:Donald Horne

“Over the past eighteen years I have acted as a scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force on the subject of unidentified flying objects - UFO's. As a consequence of my work on the voluminous air force files and, to a greater extent, of personal investigation of many puzzling cases and interviews with witnesses of good repute, I have long been aware that the subject of UFO's could not be dismissed as mere nonsense.”

Years Long Past Force Cases Greater Air Subjects Objects Consequence Mere Flying Witness Interviews Nonsense Investigation Files Ufo Eighteen Over The Past Air Force Consultants Puzzling

Author:J. Allen Hynek

“Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.”

Mind Common Prejudice Common Sense Statistics Eighteen Relativity Intriguing Deposits Mind Opening Opening Your Mind

Author:Albert Einstein

“I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.”

Years Born Months Dad Bars Just One My Sister Eighteen Exam Bar Exam

Book:Beauty, Disrupted: The Carre Otis Story

Source: Beauty, Disrupted: The Carre Otis Story

“When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from His age, and from every thing around Him, than a Plato would be rising up in some wild tribe in Oregon, assuming thus a position at the head of the world and maintaining it, for eighteen centuries, by the pure self-evidence of His life and doctrine.”

Source: The Character of Jesus

“By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.”

Humans Enough Age Joy Century Reflection Heartache Eighteen

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen months, or risk being left in the dust.”

Bigs Individual Left Force Risk Months Customers Dust Data Complexity Thought Provoking Spells Provoking Eighteen Marketers

Author:Ginni Rometty

“An age where you feel like you could love anyone, where you put everything on the line for the smallest of things. Eighteen. Adults say that it's an age where we laugh if a leaf tumbles by. But back then, we were more serious than any adult, more intense, and had our strength tested. 1997. That was how our eighteen was beginning.”

Ifs Feels Age Lines Laughing Serious Like You Drama Adults Intense Smallest Leafs Tested Eighteen

Author:Ryu Si-won

“There was too much noise. Sirens from police cars and ambulances. Shouts from the crowd on the street eighteen floors below. Traffic from other streets and all of the noises of San Francisco. Mostly, though, there were the voices. Whispering to him. Reminding him of the dark things he had done - all of the little things he had forgotten, all of the big things he had tried to forget. Mostly they reminded him of his biggest secret, a betrayal of trust and friendship long ago. He squeezed his eyes shut as if that could somehow keep the voices away.”

“You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult the day they turn eighteen. Some people grow up sooner, many grow up later. Some never really do. But just remember that some people in this world are older versions of those same kids we cry for.”

“There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.”

Men Fool Neighborhood Eighteen Nineteen

Author:Bessie Smith

“We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.”

World Pieces Fronts Love Life Eighteen

Book:Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front

“It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.”

Art Self Reality Together Film Hours Movement Pops Abstract Distinction Concrete Eighteen Transcendent Pop Art Self Contained

Book:Retrospectives and Conclusions

Source: Retrospectives and Conclusions

“In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high school, college, or university without ever having cared for, or even held, a baby; without ever having looked after someone who was old, ill, or lonely; or without ever having comforted or assisted another human being who really needed help... No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations, and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.”

“And they say She's in the class A Team Stuck in her daydream Been that way since eighteen, but lately, Her face seems Slowly sinking, wasting Crumbling like pastries And they scream The worst things in life come free to us Cos we're just under the upperhand Go mad for a couple grams And she don't want to go outside tonight And in a pipe she flies to the Motherland Or sells love to another man It's too cold outside For angels to fly Angels to fly”

“Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...”

Half Breathing Eighteen Climax Contemptuous Faust Mephistopheles

Author:Thomas Harris