Quotes of: Year Keyword

Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house.

The Midnight Palace

He was rather clumsy and shy and looked as if he'd spent the last ten years of his life locked up in a library - hardly the kind of man any girl your age dreams of ...

The Midnight Palace

We live individual lives with the consciousness of death and awareness of the past. But the most important part of that sentence is the individual part. Let yourself be humbled by the experiences people have been having for thousands of years. And sp...

Minister Without Portfolio

I was surprised to feel the tears running down my cheeks. Was this part of the reason fate had brought Arabella and I together all those years ago? Or was fate finally providing a way for our love to live on?

My Wolf Protector

I work in a restaurant in an airport in Taiwan. I am eighteen years old and I don’t like my job because everyone gets on planes and leaves. And I want to leave too.

My Last Summer

Old men want to feel that the experience which has come with their years is valuable, that their advice is valuable, that they possess a sagacity that could be obtained only through experience— a sagacity that could be of use to young men if only y...

Master of the Senate

Fuck the pack. I gave them fifteen years of my life. I fought for them, bled for them, and the moment my back was turned, they attacked my wife. I owe them nothing.

Magic Slays

Recalling his mother’s endless drudgery, (Senator) Richard (Russell) Jr. was to say that he was ten years old before he saw his mother asleep; previously, he had “thought that mothers never had to sleep.

Master of the Senate

I once took a vow of silence that lasted almost two years. Then, on my second birthday, I relented and started talking.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

Punishing a person for the wrongs of another makes about as much sense as throwing up to enjoy the meal a second time.

Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

Friends are those crazy people who keep coming back, in spite of being exposed to the real you.

Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

My wife and I were together for two years. Those were the best two days of my life.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

They say to never look back. But sometimes I do. It’s gratifying to see how far I’ve come.

Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

I shouted the perfect words to scare him off. It was just the delivery (and only the delivery) that made me sound like a twelve-year-old girl with pee running down her leg. I felt dirty and stupid.

No Hope for Gomez!

Ordinary people who live their lives peacefully, whose days gently resemble each other, may happen one day to stop and wonder why and what for do they do the things they do and have been doing for so many years?

Nocturnal Musings

It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before,

Narration: Four Lectures by Gertrude Stein

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.

Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches

After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. I leave.

Nausea

I feel something familiar about this place. This house…” I dragged out a hand and gestured towards it with my thumb. “I dream about it. I’ve been dreaming about it for years. Being in it.” I had her attention. “With you.

Obsession

Oh, shimmer down, Hunter. You're too testy. How many times have I've told you that you need to chill out, take a vacay. Disney World is really fun this time of the year. you should check it out.

Obsession

The world believes it was built by love but reading Shah Jahan’s own words on the Taj, one could say it was grief that built the Taj Mahal and it was sorrow that saw it through sixteen years till completion.

The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries