Seventeen Quotes - Page 5

• Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write; adults read as a means of getting off to sleep. I get letters saying 'I have read your book seventeen times.' If you're an adult novelist and you get that letter, you should be afraid. You're being stalked. Kids always read them seventeen times!

  Daniel Pinkwater

  Children, Book, Mean

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• When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine. But all that initial creation of the early drafts, I'd just as soon write it on the road in any extreme place. That's sort of ideal.

  Pam Houston

  Book, Home, Writing

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• I also don't like to make really big records, because I feel then that the songs don't get enough space to be themselves, so I would never want to make a record that's like seventeen songs.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Space, Records

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• I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen.

  Noel Redding

  Gone

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• Seventeen years after the Cold War, how can it be in the Unites States' national security interest for the President of Russia to have only a few minutes to decide whether to fire his nuclear weapons or lose them in response to what could be a false warning?

  Sam Nunn

  War, Fire, Russia

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• The goal of dream study is to increase one's contact with and access to the abilities of their subconscious mind. I became interested in dreams as an avenue to increase my knowledge of the subconscious mind, and increase my psychological and emotional effectiveness. I have been recording my dreams since I was seventeen.

  Charles McPhee

  Dream, Emotional, Effectiveness

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• I could have protested of course, who says I couldn't--I could have risen to my feet at any moment, walked up to them, and--no matter how difficult it would have been--made it abundantly clear that I was not seventeen but thirty. I could have--yet I couldn't because I didn't want to, the only thing I wanted was to prove that I was not an old-fashioned boy!

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Boys, Feet, Want

  Witold Gombrowicz (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.113, Yale University Press

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• At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Dream, Reality, Thinking

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.457, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Sir Richard sighed. "Rid yourself of the notion that I cherish any villainous designs upon your person," he said. "I imagine I might well be your father. How old are you?" "I am turned seventeen." "Well, I am nearly thirty," said Sir Richard. Miss Creed worked this out. "You couldn't possibly be my father!" "I am far too drunk to solve arithmetical problems. Let it suffice that I have not the slightest intention of making love to you.

  Georgette Heyer

  Father, Drunk, Design

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• Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me. But in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen. If I could keep today’s happiness I wouldn’t worry about tomorrow. 

  Ai Yazawa

  Worry, Today, Tomorrow

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• In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars.

  Alice Hoffman

  Senior, Stars, Real

  Alice Hoffman (2000). “Local Girls”, p.56, Penguin Group

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• I suppose he'll die soon. I'm expecting it, like you do for a dog that's seventeen. There's no way to know how I'll react. He'll have faced his own placid death and slipped without a sound inside himself. Mostly, I imagine I'll crouch there at the door, fall onto him, and cry hard into the stench of his fur. I'll wait for him to wake up, but he won't. I'll bury him. I'll carry him outside, feeling his warmth turn to cold as the horizon frays and falls down in my backyard. For now, though, he's okay. I can see him breathing. He just smells like he's dead.

  Markus Zusak

  Dog, Fall, Breathing

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.19, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you a butterfly and a caterpillar. Would you ever put the two of them together? That's me and my memories.

  Douglas Coupland

  Memories, Butterfly, Two

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• And now I am here, as alone as I've ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it's suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out.

  Gayle Forman

  Years, Life Is, If I Stay

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.79, Penguin

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• Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.

  S. E. Hinton

  People

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.86, Penguin

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• Then she yelled after the girl, 'No, we haven't seen any bald 'uns all days. But yesterday seventeen of 'em went by. Arm in arm!

  Astrid Lindgren

  Girl, Yesterday, Ems

  Astrid Lindgren (2015). “Pippi Longstocking”, p.34, Oxford University Press - Children

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• I don't like my shoes,' said Rose. 'I'm wearing my shoes and you don't see me complain.' 'You only hear a person complain,' said Rose. 'Not see.' How has Rose lived for seventeen years and no one has killed her, not once?

  Franny Billingsley

  Sister, Years, Shoes

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.101, A&C Black

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• My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hate, Home, Years

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.4, Scholastic Inc.

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• How old are you?” “Seventeen,” he answered promptly. “And how long have you been seventeen?” His lips twitched as he stared at the road. “A while,” he admitted at last.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Long, Lasts, Lips

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.124, Hachette UK

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• YOU have no room to laugh, that's all. I'm not doing any worse with Boovish than you did with English.' Get off of the car,' J.Lo huffed. 'I am an English superstar.' Uh-uh. There's no comparison. 'Gratuity' in written Boovish has seventeen different bubbles that all have to be the right size and in the right place. 'J.Lo' in written English only has three letters, and you still spelled it 'M-smiley face-pound sign.

  Adam Rex

  Laughing, Car, Rooms

  Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.178, A&C Black

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• He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, First Love, Years

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• She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.

  William Faulkner

  Surrender

  William Faulkner (1972). “Light in August”, Vintage

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• Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to what I knew. The one difference is that at seventeen I had no 'realism'.

  Yukio Mishima

  Thinking, Differences, Ignorant

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• Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.

  Craig Ferguson

  Money, Drinking, Heart

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• They’re ogling you, dude. Talking about your assets and the fact that you’re nauseatingly ripped, which I would have been had I not bit the dust at seventeen. I’m forever trapped in my tall, gangly phase. (Jesse)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dust, Talking, Forever

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.124, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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