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“It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be.”

Spirit Turns Three Thirds Nine Thirty Fifty Usual Conform Valentine Valentine's Day Eighteen Kismet

Book:How They Met and Other Stories

Source: How They Met and Other Stories

“I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.”

Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic

“Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.”

Ifs Thinking Chance Five Minutes Masters Outcomes Thirty Republic Villain Strokes Five Minutes Serials Ozymandias

Author:Alan Moore

“For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady glow of its fire still shines on the hearth-stones of countless homes.”

Has Beens Stills Home Fire Pieces Stones Court Shining Thirty Silver Steady Shine On

Book:A White Bird Flying

Source: A White Bird Flying

“Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool whose only purpose was to make holes in human beings.”

Humans Made Purpose Human Beings Mouths Tools Sticks Eight Holes Thirty Chemicals Pillow Loaded Caliber Revolver Thirty Eight

Book:Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!

Source: Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!

“When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties, something strange starts to happen. It is a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm--you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you are not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Ends Happens Age Three Courses Wonder Know How Five Strange Months Twenties Aging Mere Seven Decades Instant Thirty Bothered Hesitation Old You Hiccups

Author:Sara Gruen

“He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.”

Inspirational Years Stills Realizing Known Learning Twenties Breaths Remembered Thirty Another Year Still Hoping

Book:Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5

Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5

“All this to say: I am forty-three years old. I may yet live another forty. What do I do with those years? How do I fill them without Lexy? When I come to tell the story of my life, there will be a line, creased and blurred and soft with age, where she stops. If I win the lottery, if I father a child, if I lose the use of my legs, it will be after she has finished knowing me. "When I get to Heaven", my grandmother used to say, widowed at thirty-nine, "your grandfather won't even recognize me.”

Source: The Dogs of Babel

“Haji Ali taught me the most important lesson I've ever learned in my life...We Americans think you have to accomplish everything quickly. We're the country of thirty-minute power lunches and two-minute football drills. Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.”

“You know if you walked around the world, your hat would travel thirty-one feet farther than your shoes?”

Ifs Knows World Feet Shoes Around The World Thirty Hats

Author:David Wong

“If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace”

Ifs Two Religion Liberty Cutting Land Libertarian Thirty Throat Libertarianism Two Religions

Book:The Portable Voltaire

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway, critics claimed, was a genius. Was it his genius that drove him to work hard, or was it hard work that resulted in works of genius?”

Has Beens Said Hard Hard Work Genius Scene Critics Thirty Forty

Book:How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling

Source: How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling

“Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.”

Knows Years Form Born Walks Six Thirty

Author:Virginia Woolf

“Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?”

Years Age Five Happened Asking Thirty Five Years Seventies Five Year Olds

Author:Ann Landers

“It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less a moth eaten man who grinds an organ - and once he was an organ-grinder! The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory.”

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very little”

Want Littles Careers Possession Thirty Satisfying Fabulous Hairdos

Book:Austenland: A Novel

Source: Austenland: A Novel

“No. We breathe. We pulse. We regenerate. Our hearts beat. Our minds create. Our souls ingest. 37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.”

Mind Wells Heart Soul Done Used Waiting Beats Lifetime Seven Breathe Thirty Seconds Pulse Well Done Heart Beat

Author:Suzanne Weyn

“After perhaps thirty meters, just as a soldier turned around, the girl was felled. Hands were clamped upon her from behind and the boy next door brought her down. He forced her knees to the road and suffered the penalty. He collected her punches as if they were presents. Her bony hands and elbows were accepted with nothing but a few short moans. He accumulated the loud, clumsy specks of saliva and tears as if they were lovely to his face, and more important, he was able to hold her down.”

Ifs Important Hands Able Faces Girl Next Behinds Boys Doors Tears Soldier Accepted Lovely Loud Knees Thirty Penalties Meter Elbows Clumsy Specks Saliva

Author:Markus Zusak

“Dr. Ambrose himself told Mark Nechtr...that the problem with young people, starting sometime in about the 1960s, is that they tend to live too intensely inside their own social moment, and thus tend to see all existence past age thirty or so as somehow postcoital. It's then that they'll relax, settle back, sad animals, to watch- and learn, as Ambrose himself said he learned from hard artistic and academic experience- that life instead of being rated a hard R, or even a soft R, actually rarely even makes it into distribution. Tends to be too slow.”

People Said Hard Moments Problem Age Past Young Social Animal Existence Watches Mark Starting Artistic Settling Thirty Relax Academic Drs Distribution 1960s

Author:David Foster Wallace

“I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.”

Years Said Hard Running Strong Wind Hair Promise Letting Go Six Twenties Forgiving Fingers Blow Thirty New Year Sixteen Forgive Me Old Year Hard To Let Go

Book:An ordinary woman

Source: An ordinary woman

“Squint your eyes and look closer I'm not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors and then some And I'm beyond your peripheral vision So you might want to turn your head Cause someday you might find you're starving and eating all of the words you said.”

Want Looks Said Two Might Eye Turns Girl Causes Vision Ambition Eating Thirty Someday Flavor Starving Posters Peripheral Vision

Author:Ani DiFranco

“Do we look like thrill-seekers? Wasn't it enough that we had to put up that sign reading NO HABLA ESPANOL and acknowledge the existence of thirty percent of the population, even in the negative?”

Looks Enough Reading Existence Percent Negative Population Acknowledge Thirty Thrill Seekers Thrill Seekers

Book:The Lust Lizard Of Melancholy Cove: Book 2: Pine Cove Series

Source: The Lust Lizard Of Melancholy Cove: Book 2: Pine Cove Series

“They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him the happiest man in the whole world and the most wretched, and after a few years she died, and then, when he was thirty, he died, too. But by that time Catullus had invented the love poem.”

Men World Years Made Whole Died Whole World Thirty Wretched Love Poems Untrue Happiest Man

Author:Tom Stoppard

“A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, not twenty-five, and who can spend every one of them free of the shackles of that defect of body and mind known as femininity.”

Knows Mind Humans Body Age Dies Waiting Human Beings Known Five Months Personality Female Twenties Posts Thirty Twelve Defects Femininity Mind And Body Twenty Five Shackles Ovaries

Author:Florence King

“Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary to negotiate new agreements that would be even more mutual and beneficial, until eventually the Native Americans were able to perceive the vast mutual benefits of living in rock-strewn sectors of South Dakota.”

Source: Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States

“We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same people are marooned on the same desert island for thirty seasons and never age or escape. They just wear more makeup. In a creepy way, those shows are maybe too authentic.”

People Way Shows Age Television Seasons Stuck Desert Islands Thirty Makeup Trapped Creepy Television Shows Time Capsules

Book:Choke

Source: Choke

“Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.”

Ifs Knows World Stills Home Wonder Clear Five Cost Fishes Around The World Thirty Coming Home Nuts Cents Sandwiches Jamie Tuna Tuna Fish

Book:From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Source: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

“This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle - broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man, I surely would ... ... but I'm a man of thirty - of twenty again. The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again.”

Men Should Moving Born Broken Mass Rain Twenties Thirty Muscles Chests Agony Baptism Born Again Older Man

Author:Frank Miller

“Hey, times are tough, and thirty gold coins can do a lot of good. But I guess you wouldn't know about needing money, since you grew up like a little princ..." (Rapunzel glares) "Prin... soner. I mean, prisoner! A prisoner in a tower, such a shame, that.”

Knows Mean Littles Can Do Grew Grew Up Tough Gold Shame Hey Thirty Prisoner Towers Coins Glare Rapunzel Gold Coins

Author:Shannon Hale

“You've used up all your school sick days," he said, persuing my file. "You've requested to leave school one hundred and thirty days out of the one hudred and forty days of school so far." So thirty-one might be the magic number?" Principal Reed and Raven”

Said Might School Used Numbers Magic Hundred Sick Thirty Forty Principal Files Reeds Ravens Sick Days

Author:Ellen Schreiber

“believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup. New experiences just don't register in the same way or with the same impact. I could be shooting heroin with the Princess of Wales, naked in a crashing jet, and the experience still couldn't compare to the time the cops chased us after we threw the Taylors' patio furniture into their pool in eleventh grade.”

Way Believe Stills Important Water Memories Impact Naked Cups Shooting Compare Thirty Grades Pool Princess Cop Furniture Jet Register Heroin Wales New Experiences

Author:Douglas Coupland

“Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.”

Love Years Courses Flames Thirty Ashes

Book:The Leopard

Source: The Leopard

“The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion dollars a year - used to sell us those products, has overwhelmed the force of tradition and left us where we now find ourselves: relying on science and journalism and government and marketing to help us decide what to eat.”

Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-La. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of miles away, because I wanted to see the ocean and my father said that it was about time the four of us made that journey. I remember asking, 'What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?' and my father said, 'Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand,' and that was the last thing he ever said.”

Made Said Two Wanted Lasts Remember Dies Father Differences Four Happened Tree Journey Minutes Ocean Hundred Asking Miles Thirty Tunnels Miles Away Prettiest Canopy Breezy Jellicoe Road Shangri

Book:Jellicoe Road

Source: Jellicoe Road

“It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.”

Men Needs Years Littles Soul States Reason Mother Animal Childhood Century Pure Eternity Twenties Structure Maturity Instant Thirty Vegetables Womb Early Childhood

Book:The Portable Voltaire

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care.”

Moments Seems Care Worst Crowds Performing Thirty Over It Throat Seconds Coughing Worst Moments

Author:Chris Brown

“There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.”

Ifs Writing Years Humans Important Ideas Dies Left Brain Forever Five Genius Spring Remains Bottom Communicate Thirty Five Years Volume Earnest Explaining Human Thought

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most. Almost sixteen years on Earth, and I've already had eight good ones here. I expect to have eight more before all's good said and done. Nearly thirty-two years total, and that's not too shabby”

Years Said Two Done Earth Hours Quality Minutes All Things Eight Thirty Two Years Length Sixteen Said And Done Shabby

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“We almost made it to thirty seconds without an insult. I think we set a new record.”

Thinking Made God Records Made It Thirty Insult Seconds

Book:Acheron

Source: Acheron

“I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.”

Years Looks Made Said Mother Thirty Italian Thirty Years Thirty Years Old

Book:The Portable Jack Kerouac

Source: The Portable Jack Kerouac

“Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”

Knows Men Age Time Cases Loneliness Hair Promise Decades Lists Enthusiasm Thirty Feeling Lonely Single Man 30th Birthday Great Gatsby American Dream

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“After that we tried thirty-nine times to stand together on the tube until we finally did. It was fun. I liked the falling part, and holding hangs. Relationships were so easy when all you had to work on was standing up together.”

Together Fall Fun Easy Standing Nine Thirty Tubes

Book:A Complicated Kindness: A Novel

Source: A Complicated Kindness: A Novel

“I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not afraid to eat a lobster alone as they take on their shoulders the monumental weight of thirty years”

People Ifs Years May Teach Weight Shoulders Thirty Sinner Not Afraid Madmen Thirty Years Lobster

Author:James A. Baldwin

“So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal and Bridget Jones put together, which was probably about how much I weighed.”

Years Together Worst Twenties Eight Fats Drunk Thirty Horizon Allies Cliche Here I Am Unloved Looming Bridget Jones Ally Mcbeal

Book:Good Men: An eShort Story

Source: Good Men: An eShort Story

“...for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.”

Walks Miles Thirty Redeeming Love

Author:Francine Rivers

“The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had no idea how far away the sea was. Only men could do things like that. "Half a mile." "Fifty yards." Giving directions, that sort of thing. I could look at a woman and say "Thirty-six C." Or "Let's try it in the next size up." But I had no idea how far away Tim's sea was except that I wouldn't want to walk to it in high heels.”

Men Want Giving Trying Looks Ideas Next Bits Walks Half Sea Fields Six Hundred Window Size Miles No Idea Thirty Fifty Far Away Heels Yards High Heels Giving Directions

Author:Marian Keyes

“They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew.”

Social Religious Justice Cry Arms Mets Social Justice Jew Israel Thirty Good Work Endearment Yiddish

Book:Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.”

Writing Stills Interest Ability Novel Hollywood Thirty

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“All the green in the planted world consists of these whole, rounded chloroplasts wending their ways in water. If you analyze a molecule of chlorophyll itself, what you get is one hundred thirty-six atoms of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen arranged in an exact and complex relationship around a central ring. At the ring's center is a single atom of magnesium. Now: If you remove the atom of magnesium and in its exact place put an atom of iron, you get a molecule of hemoglobin. The iron atom combines with all the other atoms to make red blood, the streaming red dots in the goldfish's tail.”

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“I could have protested of course, who says I couldn't--I could have risen to my feet at any moment, walked up to them, and--no matter how difficult it would have been--made it abundantly clear that I was not seventeen but thirty. I could have--yet I couldn't because I didn't want to, the only thing I wanted was to prove that I was not an old-fashioned boy!”

Want Has Beens Made Matter Moments Wanted Courses Difficult Boys Clear Feet Prove Made It Thirty Old Fashioned Risen Seventeen

Book:Ferdydurke

Source: Ferdydurke