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“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

“Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.”

Years Two Lying Dies Knowing Hundred Twenties Safety Deceit Sheep Fence Cages Twenty Two Knowing The Truth

Book:Shadowfever: Fever Series

Source: Shadowfever: Fever Series

“Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.”

“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.”

Source: Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

“I think I missed my window." "What window?" "My get-a-life window. I think I was supposed to figure all this stuff out somewhere between twenty-two and twenty-six, and now it's too late.”

Thinking Two Stuff Figures Six Late Window Twenties Too Late Twenty Two

Author:Rainbow Rowell

“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)

“She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her social worker said I had to tell her. I had to tell her she would die, so I told her she was going to heaven. She asked if I would be there, and I said that I would not, not yet. But eventually, she said, and I promised that yes, of course, very soon. And I told her that in the meantime we had great family up there that would take care of her. And she asked me when I would be there, and I told her soon. Twenty-two years ago.”

“The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle that twenty-two million Black people have not risen up against their oppressors in which they would have been justified by all moral criteria and even by the democratic traditions.”

“To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.”

Men Two Watches Paper Balls Paid Twenties Woods Soccer Kicks Ink Violin Soccer Player Twenty Two Soccer Football Motivational Soccer Soccer Is My Life Soccer Ball

Author:J. B. Priestley

“When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can't lie like that anymore.”

Knows I Can Two Lying Hurt Easier Harder Twenties Girlfriend Cheating Cheat Twenty Two

Author:Matt Dillon

“The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.”

Years Mean Two Ends Twenties Two Years Twenty One Twenty Two Just Realized

Author:Nastassja Kinski

“If you want to live a long time, don't fool with nothing old but money, nothing big but a bank roll, nothing black but a Cadillac, nothing over twenty-two years, nothing that weighs over 130. If you do, you're in trouble. 'Cause when you're getting old and your cells gettin' low, you'll need a Delco battery to boost ya.”

Ifs Want Needs Years Long Two Bigs Causes Black Trouble Fool Long Time Lows Twenties Cells Two Years Getting Old Boost Batteries Twenty Two Cadillacs

Author:Satchel Paige

“22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.”

Two America Millions Twenties African American Ballots Twenty Two

Author:Malcolm X