Quotes of: Junior-year Keyword

Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.

Fahrenheit 451

-just on the verge of becoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'd reached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdom of the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh.

Flowers in the Attic

About eighty percent of the food on shelves of supermarkets today didn't exist 100 years ago.

Feed Your Brain, Lose Your Belly: Experience Dynamic Weight Loss with the Brain-Belly Connection

Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.

The Fountainhead

We live in deeds not years In thoughts not breaths In feelings not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.

Festus: A Poem

Thank you. For being willing to talk. For not turning me in. For... being you.' 'I'm pretty good at being me,' I said. 'I've had all these years to practice--I hardly ever get it wrong these days.

Firefight

People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding lime juice to scalloped potatoes try to understand there must be a reason for this.

The Fran Lebowitz Reader

As I grabbed my cocoa, chocolate ran down my hand. "This makes me feel like a five-year-old," I said, licking it off. "If I ordered a sandwich at this place, do you think they'd cut the crusts off?

Freefall

I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

The Fault in Our Stars

For years I'd been trying to forget..., locking it up and burying it deep in my memory. The journey... had shattered that, bringing it all back - but now that I'd faced it, I found to my surprise that the fear had been worse than the reality.

Fated

I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality.

The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis

Because I have no actual sisters, it is my friends from Ames who’ve exposed me to every facet of womanhood.

The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship

Seth: "I write of love in my novels, write of it well, if my critics and fans are to be believed, but in all of my years at that typewriter, I never found the combination of words that would convey how I felt about you. You were my everything.

Ghostwriter

As I drove out the wrought iron gates I had entered, I noticed for the first time how intricate and beautiful they were. They were forged by hand so many years ago and had stood the test of time.

Gina and Mike

He had heard many of his customers talking about 'repetitive strain injury' over the years and he was sure that, if he was capable, he too would suffer this - especially with the industrial tooling he carried around everywhere that he went.

Grim Reaping

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

The standard clauses of the American dream only included two weeks of vacation a year.

The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time

Revenge is like politics, one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst.

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it." "But it'd be there.

From Here to Eternity

Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you

At Home on Ladybug Farm

If everything else were still the same, he'd have felt Zee's absence like a gaping hole. But if he could continue to reconfigure his entire life, there would be no missing place where Zee had been.

The Hundred-Year House