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“It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.”

Should Age Three Bits Solitude Should Have Eight Forty Unfair

Author:John le Carre

“Any messages for me?" Usually I got one or two, but mostly people who wanted my help preferred to talk in person. "Yes. Hold on." She pulled out a handful of pink tickets and recited from memory, without checking the paper. "Seven forty-two a.m., Mr. Gasparian: I curse you. I curse your arms so they wither and die and fall off your body. I curse your eyeballs to explode. I curse your feet to swell until blue. I curse your spine to crack. I curse you. I curse you. I curse you.”

People Persons Two Helping Body Wanted Dies Fall Memories Feet Arms Paper Messages Blue Seven Your Body Curse Forty Cracks Tickets Handful Spine Eyeballs

Book:Magic Bleeds

Source: Magic Bleeds

“The instances of honesty that one comes across in this world are just as amazing as the instances of dishonesty. After forty-five years of mixing with one's kind, one ought to have acquired the habit of being able to know something about one's fellow beings. But one doesn't”

Knows World Years Kind Able Five Honesty This World Ought Habit Fellows Instance Five Years Forty Dishonesty Mixing

Book:The Good Soldier

Source: The Good Soldier

“What Turning Forty Means to Me I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn't used to have to do that. But now I do.”

Needs Mean Home Used Women Forty Pants Bossypants

Book:Bossypants

Source: Bossypants

“Unfortunately, the Best Lord had condemned both vehicles as unsafe and instead I now leased a Pack Jeep I called Hector. Equipped with dual engines, Hector worked during magic or tech. He didn't go very fast, especially during magic, but so far he hadn't stalled on me either. As long as our high-speed chases stayed under forty-five miles an hour, we would be all set.”

Long Would Be Hours Lord Five Magic Speed Miles Forty Engines Vehicle Packs Unsafe High Speed Hector Jeeps

Author:Ilona Andrews

“You got to understand the god thing. It’s not magic. It’s about being you, but the you that people believe in. It’s about being the concentrated, magnified, essence of you. It’s about becoming thunder, or the power of a running horse, or wisdom. You take all the belief and become bigger, cooler, more than human. You crystallize.” He paused. “And then one day they forget about you, and they don’t believe in you, and they don’t sacrifice, and they don’t care, and the next thing you know you’re running a three-card monte game on the corner of Broadway and Forty-third.”

“He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.”

Should Years Church Gone Forty

Book:The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“Kit, you're forty. You look thirty. You act...well, never mind. You're carrying on like you think you're seventy”

Thinking Mind Wells Looks Like You Thirty Forty Seventies Carrying On

Author:Josh Lanyon

“The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin's-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys forty-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. We know that they have put to use their full mental and physical powers. Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective.”

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply.”

Knows Littles Made Said Saws Four One Day Sunset Forty One Love So Sad

Book:The Little Prince:

Source: The Little Prince:

“It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.”

Thinking Men Years Ideas Seems Ought Seven Curiosity Forty Seven Years Cabinets

Book:Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated

Source: Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated

“The universe is one being. Everything and everyone is interconnected through an invisible web of stories. Whether we are aware of it or not, we are all in a silent conversation. Do no harm. Practise compassion. And do not gossip behind anyone's back - not even seemingly innocent remark! The words that come out of our mouth do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time. One man's pain will hurt us all. One man's joy will make everyone smile.”

“You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working.”

Sometimes Age Certain Realizing Six Forty Fifteen Adopted Cliche

Author:Matt Haig

“Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables with rags in their hands, crushed humans in crushed uniforms, sluggish, unshaven, in their thirties or forties or fifties but still "boys." But that is your fate if you do your job well - with honesty, dedication, and sincerity, the way Gandhi would have done it, no doubt.”

Ifs Men Way Humans Wells Looks Stills Done Hands Jobs Boys Doubt Fate Honesty Tables Tea No Doubt Shops Forty Sincerity Dedication Uniforms Spiders Crushed Rags Crawling Sluggish

Book:The White Tiger: A Novel

Source: The White Tiger: A Novel

“One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.”

Knows Sun Four One Day Setting Settings Sunset Forty One Love Sun Setting

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“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 procreate,back in the day when girls got pregnant at twelve, were pregnant or nursing for the next twenty years, and were dead of the plague by forty.”

Men Way Years Long Enough Together Girl Next Fantasy Evolution Men And Women Twenties Myth Forty Twelve Pregnant Plague Nursing Hormones Back In The Day Were Pregnant Maybe Love

Book:Fly Away Home

Source: Fly Away Home

“And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy.”

People America Asks Wealth Poor Millions Economy Economic One Day Forty Poor People Distribution Economic Systems Distribution Of Wealth

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“There is a time in our lives, usually in mid-life, when a woman has to make a decision - possibly the most important psychic decision of her future life - and that is, whether to be bitter or not. Women often come to this in their late thirties or early forties. They are at the point where they are full up to their ears with everything and they've "had it" and "the last straw has broken the camel's back" and they're "pissed off and pooped out." Their dreams of their twenties may be lying in a crumple. There may be broken hearts, broken marriages, broken promises.”

“He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother”

Years Kind Two Self Bigs Faces Sides Dark Struggle Taken Tears Brother Victory Finished Enormous Noses Breasts Forty Stubborn Misunderstanding Exile Gin Moustache

Author:George Orwell

“Sorry, boyfriends everywhere—you’re doomed to sit through an hour and forty-seven minutes of syrupy drivel. The payoff? Between my face, Tadd’s abs and Quinton’s biceps, your girl will be ready for takeoff as soon as the credits roll. You’re welcome.”

Faces Girl Hours Minutes Ready Seven Sorry Credit Welcome Forty Doomed Payoff Drivel Biceps You Re Welcome Takeoff

Book:Between the Lines: The Complete Series

Source: Between the Lines: The Complete Series

“Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.”

Author:Elif Safak

“The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time.”

Space Mouths Infinite Dues Forty Infinite Space Due Time

Author:Elif Safak

“One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.”

People Persons Motivation Passion Football Passionate Enthusiasm Forty My Passion Live With Passion Love Passion Passion And Success Passion For What You Do Enthusiasm Passion Life And Passion

Author:E. M. Forster

“Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.”

Book Remember Doors Twenties Thirty Fifty Forty Bores Right Time Bookshops Bores You

Author:Doris Lessing

“In real life, shouldn't a wedding be an awesome party you throw with your great pal, in the presence of a bunch of your other friends? A great day, for sure, but not the beginning and certainly not the end of your friendship with a person you can't wait to talk about gardening with the for the next forty years.”

Years Persons Real Ends Next Waiting Party Real Life Bunch Forty Gardening Great Day Pals

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

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

“and they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but drive away in opposite directions. Within a mile Ennis felt like someone was pulling his guts out hand over hand a yard at a time. He stopped at the side of the road and, in the whirling new snow, tried to puke but nothing came up. He felt about as bad as he ever had and it took a long time for the feeling to wear off.”

Long Feelings Hands Felt Sides Feet Long Time Opposites Distance Miles Shoulders Snow Guts Forty Pulling Yards Puke

Book:Brokeback Mountain

Source: Brokeback Mountain

“A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime: above your head They close like giant wings, and you are dead.”

Years Stars Five Minutes Fine Thousand Equal Years Ago Infinite Wings Giants Sand Forty Thousand Years Five Minutes Impermanence

Book:Pale fire

Source: Pale fire

“I really think I shall commence chapter forty-four," he said, patting his hands together. "I shall commence, I think, with a slight exaggeration and go on from there into an outright lie. Constance, my dear?" "Yes, Uncle Julian?" "I am going to say that my wife was a beautiful woman.”

Thinking Said Hands Together Beautiful Lying Four Wife Goes On Dear My Wife Forty Chapters Uncles Beautiful Women Exaggeration Hands Together

Book:We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“You ought to be ashamed of yourself, running around, not married, staying out all night. Ashamed!" "Ashamed!" my grandmother echoed. Good to know they still agreed on things after forty-three years of marriage.”

Knows Years Stills Running Night Three Ought Married Ashamed Staying Grandmother Forty Three Years My Grandmother All Night Years Of Marriage

Book:Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel

Source: Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel

“It took me a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy.”

Girl Boys Minutes Forty Get Over Sleeves Mint Girl Scout

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others are still treated as second-class citizens. Yes, things have changed but we have still not achieved equality among all humans. And nonhuman animals continue to be chattel property without any inherent value.”

“My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didn't get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, we've run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the bottom line.”

“If this keeps up, we’re going to own Melengar,” Hadrian mentioned. “What’s this we stuff?” Royce asked. “You’re retired, remember?” “Oh? So you’ll be leading the Nationalist advance, will you?” “Sixty-forty?” Royce proposed.”

Ifs Remember Stuff Forty Sixty Retired Hadrian

Author:Michael J. Sullivan

“And if I say to you that I am glad of everything we have done together, and sorry that we will not be here together in forty years, laughing at a faded photo of you impersonating a lion, it having withered well, you less so, as we stand fabulously old, in a city that understands what spirit it takes to be old, to be beautiful, to be much looked at, to be itself, to be never quite caught, to have a past, to be content, to have seen much, to have remained, to have continued...”

Ifs Years Wells Done Together Past Beautiful Spirit Cities Laughing Sorry Caught Glad Forty Lions Faded Withered

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I've got a gig," Jim said. I sat up in my bed, wide-awake. A gig was good- I needed the money. "Half." "Third." "Half." "Thirty-five percent." Jim's voice hardened. "Half." The phone went silent as my former Guild partner mulled it over. "Okay, forty." I hung up.(...) The phone rang. I let it ring twice before I picked it up. "Fine." Jim's voice had a hint of a snarl in it. "Half.”

Said Voice Half Five Fine Needed Bed Percent Okay Thirds Silent Phones Wide Partners Rings Former Awake Thirty Sat Forty Hung Gigs Hints Hardened Wide Awake Guilds

Author:Ilona Andrews

“There are many things in this world that are an outrage, to be sure, but death at our current life expectancy doesn’t strike me as one of them. Maybe I sound like some Victorian who felt that forty years ought to be enough for any man, but one of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.”

“You get some sleep, Abigail," Townsend told her. "I'll keep watch." "That's very gracious of you, but being that we're on an airplane..." Even after the plane took off, they kept debating security perimeters and protocols. I'm pretty sure they argued for forty-five minutes about where the best place for cappuccino was near the Colosseum.”

Sleep Watches Five Minutes Security Planes Forty Airplane Five Minutes Gracious Best Place Protocol Abigail Perimeter Cappuccino Colosseum

Book:Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time

Source: Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time

“There are so many different fifteens. And eighteens. And forty-twos, for that matter. Mature fifteens and young fifteens and wise fifteens and lost fifteens. And angry fifteens.”

Different Matter Young Lost Wise Angry Forty Mature

Author:Deb Caletti

“I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren't true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world-and they couldn't keep a lie for three weeks. You're telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible.”

“They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new one hundred.”

Grief Jokes Hundred Thirty Forty

Author:Melina Marchetta

“Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense. Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.”

“She ran her gaze over his chest with frank appreciation. Then he shivered, realizing he hadn't really considered the weather. It was forty-five degrees max, but Chloe was giving him a go-on gesture with her hand. "All I have left is my pants," he said. "Yes, please." "It's cold, Chloe." She tilted her head. "Are you worried about shrinkage?" Well, he was now. -Chloe and Sawyer”

Giving Wells Said Hands Left Realizing Five Goes On Cold Please Degrees Appreciation Weather Worried Ran Forty Chests Pants Gestures Frank Max Chloe Sawyer Shrinkage

Author:Jill Shalvis

“They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for the end.”

“That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.”

Grows Easier Twenties Forgiving Forty How To Forgive

Book:The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more

Source: The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more

“He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.”

Needs Said Book My Own Attention Cost Forty Personal Relationships Thursday Next

Author:Jasper Fforde

“I looked at the campers, all of them grim and determined. I tried not to feel like this was the last time I'd ever see them all together. 'You're the greatest heroes of this millennium,' I told them. 'It doesn't matter how many monsters come at you. Fight bravely, and we will win.' I raised Riptide and shouted, 'FOR OLYMPUS!' They shouted in response, and our forty voices echoed off the buildings of Midtown.”

Feels Matter Together Lasts Fighting Winning Voice Building Hero Response Raised Determined Monsters Forty Last Time Grim Millennium Olympus We Will Win Campers Riptide

Book:Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian

Source: Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian

“Ringo: 'I do get emotional when I think back about those times. My make-up is emotional. I'm an emotional human being. I'm very sensitive and it took me till I was forty-eight to realize that was the problem! We were honest with each other and we were honest about the music. The music was positive. It was positive in love. They did write - we all wrote - about other things, but the basic Beatles message was Love.”

Thinking Writing Humans Problem Realizing Human Beings Honest Emotional Messages Eight Sensitive Forty Ringo Forty Eight

Author:Ringo Starr

“Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?”

Men May Country Young Glad Spots Forty Wilderness Maps Blank Pioneers Be Young Land Conservation

Book:A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

“I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion.”

Ifs Feels Today Hours Emotion Too Much Happened Rain Skins Tired Eight Forty Coats Numb I'm Tired Umbrella Forty Eight

Book:The Martian Chronicles

Source: The Martian Chronicles

“Who would you die for? Who would you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you?”

Knows Needs Dies Morning Five Wake Up Forty Need You

Author:John Green