Quotes of: Young-people Keyword

Dwarf mothers didn’t handicap their young by teaching them to be polite. My neighbors were as short on manners as they were on stature.

Magic and Murder Among the Dwarves

Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

The Moonstone

Eventually, I’ll grow sick and perish. Die on the floor, a young girl—who even when in the presence of company, still feels the loneliness that looms over her heart.

Mundahlia

So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea.

Matilda

But a bond is a bond. And when you’re young and haven’t yet learned to live in your own solitude, even a destructive bond can seem better than none.

North of Boston

Fearful that they would be caught, the young lovers cast themselves into the sea with their stone, saying these words, "May we ever be united in love and hidden as long as this stone hides in deep waters.

Novel Hearts

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did--which was to hide.

Nobody Knows My Name

The marquis stared at Richard, openly amused. "What a refreshing mind you have, young man," he said. "There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?

Neverwhere

I suppose you’re young,’ she conceded, managing once again to make youth sound like impetigo

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A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.

Love in the Time of Cholera

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

Love in the Time of Cholera

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

Love in the Time of Cholera

I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs.

Life and Fate

For, if after fifty you don't live the aspirations of the young, go away. Who needs needs spectacled snails, salivating on the Soma of youth.

Life... Love... Kumbh...

For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

M: Writings '67-'72

We’re toasting the chlorophyll rising in our bodies, catching the energy from the universe. Nobody’s ever been young like we are right at this moment.

The Spectacular Now

Just like when you're young and in love, a seven-hour plane ride can seem like a lifetime.

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. ~ Peggy Toney Horton

Somewhere in Heaven My Mother Is Smiling

In the garden, the Captain of the Guard stared up at the young woman's balcony, watching as she waltzed alone, lost in her dreams. But he knew her thoughts weren't of him.

Throne of Glass