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“I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless.”

World Years Children Littles Enough Community Forever Wise Adults Twenties Excluded Odd Thomas

Book:Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever (Short Story)

Source: Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever (Short Story)

“If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.”

“When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from right across the table. But she missed. It wasn't my life she was after. It was more. She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.”

Giving Heart Children Done Wanted Mother Fall Jesus Lost Left Hurt Five Birth My Heart Twenties Tables Arguing Desert Knees Kitchen Fourth Hurt Me Pistols

Book:Jesus' Son: Stories

Source: Jesus' Son: Stories

“I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtains were drawn around the tiny alcove, and I was enveloped by an odd sense of peace, knowing that in twenty minutes, the halls were going to be crowded; music was going to be blaring; and I was going to go from being an only child to one of a hundred sisters, so I knew to savor the silence while it lasted.”

Children Silence Knowing Minutes Arms Hundred Red Window Twenties Glasses Tiny Odd Knees Halls Curtains Crowded Velvet Only Child

Book:Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You

Source: Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You

“The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are twenty thousand men, women and children in the bagnios of Algiers alone. I am not going to make it twenty thousand and one because your mother didn't allow you to keep rabbits, or whatever is at the root of your unshakable fixation." "I had weasels instead," said Philippa shortly. "Good God," said Lymond, looking at her. "That explains a lot.”

Men Children Said Christian Mother Thousand Sitting Europe Built Roots Twenties Slave Jew Coast Jungle Rabbits Palaces Men Women Good God Unshakable Fixation Weasels Moors Renegades

Author:Dorothy Dunnett

“The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. When you look closely, the twenty-four hour day is framed into a moment; the still-life of the jerky amphetamine world. That woman-a pieta. Those men, rough angels with an unknown message. The children holding hands, spanning time. And in every still-life, there is a story, the story that tells you everything you need to know.”

Knows Men World Needs Looks Children Stills Moments Stories Hands Lying Hours Dark Existence Four Messages Angel Twenties Narrative Rough Lit Framed Holding Hands Still Life Amphetamines

Book:Lighthousekeeping

Source: Lighthousekeeping

“Nellie Gomez awoke to a splitting headache. Worse, she was still hungry. "Where's my croissant?" she demanded of the person leaning over her. "Dear child," came a strangely familiar voice. "Don't 'dear child' me!" she snapped. The twenty-two-year-old punk rocker ran black-polished fingernails through black-and-orange-dyed hair, which did nothing to soothe the pounding behind her black-shaded eyes. "Give me my croissant or I'll–" It was then that she suddenly realized she was threatening the venerable Alistair Oh. "Alistair, what are you doing here?”

Source: The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 1: The Medusa Plot

“Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in the machine; Read while the dinner cooks; Tuck a child in the crook of your arm And reach for the library books. Hide the remote, Let the computer games cool, For one day your children will be off to school; Remedial? Gifted? You have the choice; Let them hear their first tales In the sound of your voice. Read in the morning; Read over noon; Read by the light of Goodnight Moon. Turn the pages together, Sitting close as you'll fit, Till a small voice beside you says, "Hey, don't quit.”

“It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.”

Thinking Children Like You Twenties Train Slips Time Passes Memphis

Book:Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels

Source: Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels

“Cure" is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so easy a thing as it sounds. There are questions like: How will this affect us in ten years? In twenty? What will it do to our children? Our children's children?”

Years Children Language Easy Sound Simple Ten Twenties Our Children Clean Cures English Language Simple Words Short Words

Book:Sever

Source: Sever

“I shouldn't care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn't you suffer? I do! Will you forget me? Will you be happy when I am in the earth? Will you say twenty years hence, "That's the grave of Catherine Earnshaw? I loved her long ago, and was wretched to lose her; but it is past. I've loved many others since: my children are dearer to me than she was; and, at death, I shall not rejoice that I am going to her: I shall be sorry that I must leave them!" Will you say so, Heathcliff?”

Years Children Long Care Earth Past Suffering Wish Loses Forget Twenties Sorry Graves My Children Rejoice Long Ago I Care Wretched Heathcliff Forget Me

Author:Emily Bronte

“Where was he, her Alexander, of once? Was he truly gone? The Alexander of the Summer Garden, of their first Lazarevo days, of the hat in his hands, white toothed, peaceful, laughing, languid, stunning Alexander, had he been left far behind? Well, Tatiana supposed that was only right. For Alexander believed his Tatiana of once was gone, too. The swimming child Tatiana of the Luga, of the Neva, of the River Kama. Perhaps on the surface they were still in their twenties, but their hearts were old.”

Firsts Wells Heart Children Stills Hands Left White Behinds Laughing Gone Summer Garden Rivers Twenties Surface Peaceful Hats Swimming Stunning Summer Garden

Author:Paullina Simons

“I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a boy, and I am certain I had been a disappointment to him. He did not ask for a child with a book, off in its own world. He wanted a son who did what he had done; swam and boxed and played rugby, and drove cars at speed with abandon and joy, but that was not what he wound up with.”

World Children Littles Made Book Done Wanted Joy Certain Asks Father Common Boys Car Son Twenties Disappointment Speed Wounds Abandon Rugby

Author:Neil Gaiman

“When I think about it like that, it feels like a burden. But that won't mean I'll be single for the rest of my life - I hope. I feel very settled with myself in my world. I don't feel as needy and desperate to prove things about myself. In my twenties I was very keen to achieve this and disprove this and that. Now I enjoy just being able to concentrate on my children and my work and myself.”

Thinking World Feels Mean Children Able Enjoy Achieve Prove Twenties Burden My Children Desperate Just Being Single Being Single Needy

Author:Jude Law

“It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted and old at the age of twenty... once saw a man in London, in Leicester Square, who had been crippled by immoderate indulgence in coffee; he was no longer in any pain, having grown accustomed to his condition, and had cut himself down to five or six cups a day.”

Men Children Littles Age Pain Wish Five Saws Cutting Conditions Duty Drink Six Machines Twenties London Coffee Cups Squares Accustomed Indulgence Crippled Papa Leicester

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.”

Men Years Kind Children War Hard Light Force Causes Worst Drug Twenties Wine Drinking Campaigns Beer Users Replaced Liquor Prohibition Drug Prohibition

Book:William Randolph Hearst: a portrait in his own words

Source: William Randolph Hearst: a portrait in his own words

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