Quotes of: Senior-year Keyword

A year ago he had been in America. Two years ago he had been straight. Tonight he was underground, with the remains of the bogey man, lit by the torches of the children who had killed him.

Necessary Errors

I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.

The Next Queen of Heaven

MOTHER TIME: The past is always with us, dear, for better or worse. It is what it is and you can't change it. All you can do is learn how to live with it in the present.

New Year's Thieve

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

All of the negativity and unsavory characters in this environment only serve to make the exceptions shine all the more brightly.

Life After Death: Eighteen Years on Death Row

Life may dawdle along in minutes but don't be deceived, for it will sprint by in years before you even notice.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

But these first needs of the heart are so imperious, these outpourings of amorous melancholy in young people are at once so sweet and so bitter, that they have often all the real marks of the passion.

Twenty Years After

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.

Twenty Years at Hull House

I gather we're old friends." "By my standards. I daresay you measure your friends by the years you have known them, but you're wrong. Friendship is not measured in years.

The Poisoned Crown

So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books

Our house was open to anyone who needed a little extra support or comfort or just a home-cooked meal.

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

If I grew an inch a day, in 365 days I’d be one year tall. I’d be over three basketball hoops high, but I’d still only be able to palm a Sunday once a year.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

If politicians lived to be only 30-years-old before dying, that’d still be 30 years too long.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be reckoning yet ... it may be sooner or it may be later, but it's a coming as sure as the Lord is just

Twelve Years a Slave

Are there any sleeping jobs, because I have a lot of experience. Years and years, actually. And with on the job training, I can show up to work tired.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I have been writing for about eleven years now. I went from elfish to elephantish, and in another eleven years, I hope to be Elford.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

I’ve been writing for about eleven years. I went from elfish to elephantish, and in another eleven years I hope to be Levin.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

... there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.

Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin

The revelation is this: don't wait for some revelation. We make our own luck.

The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

Brookfield High School. How may I direct your call? No, sir, this is not a waste- disposal unit, I'm afraid you have the wrong number.

The Year of Secret Assignments