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“Do you know, we're right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the season. Just above us, the light shines golden on daffodils full of rainwine and heartgrass and a terrible, wicked, sad girl I can't get back to. I don't even know if I want to. Do I want to be her again? Or do I want to be free? I come here to think about that. To be near her and consider it. I think I shall never be free. I think I traded my freedom for a better story. It was a better story, even if the ending needed work.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want I Can Stories Light Past Girl Needed Terrible Opposites Seasons Shining Golden Wicked Get Back Prime Do You Know Springtime Parish Daffodil

Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“I think there's nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime.”

Thinking Play Past Athlete Prime Pro Athlete

Author:Lynn Samuels

“And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last.”

Running Lasts Past Winning Forget Race Youth Failure One Day Quiet Brilliant Prime Pace Steady Lifelong Glare

Book:Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.”

World Firsts Stills Past Dies Strong Fate Worst Victim Leaving Deeds Curse Hopeless Prime

Book:Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott

Source: Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott

“Barriers are continually being made out of... new values which have overturned the barriers of the past. Thus one sees that it is not basically the new value that is of prime importance, but rather the spirit that is revealed in this value, as well as the freedom necessary for this revelation.”

Wells Made Past Spirit Values Importance Revelations Barriers Prime

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean.”

Past House Week Transformation Ministers Remarkable Prime Prime Minister Beans

Author:Vince Cable

“Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?”

Men Should Long War Past Remember Imagination Prime Love And War

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past--the whole life of a civilization--but also a major share ofthe Jewish future.... [ellipsis in source] It was not only the intellect of a people in its prime that was excised, but the treasure of a people in its potential.”

People Whole Past Lost Share Source Civilization Majors Intellect Whole Life Treasure Prime Holocaust

Author:Cynthia Ozick