Seventeen Quotes - Page 6

• When I was seventeen, I don't think I even knew what love was. But when it's right, it's right, and you just know it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Thinking, Knows

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from May 27, 2011

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• Man, first I’m shot, now I’m going to be a friggin’ zombie. At this rate, I’ll never live to have my first date or a driver’s license. Ah, gah! I’ve come too far to die a predestrian virgin. Bubba, you can’t let me die…I only have seventeen more months and three days to my sixteenth birthday! (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Zombie, Three

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.84, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The tears that kept Buttercup company the remainder of the day were not at all like those that had blinded her into the tree trunk. Those were noisy and hot; they pulsed. These were silent and steady and all they did was remind her that she wasn’t good enough. She was seventeen, and every male she’d ever known had crumbled at her feet and it meant nothing. The one time it really mattered, she wasn’t good enough.

  William Goldman

  Feet, Tree, Tears

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Wife, Forgiving, Peculiar

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.10, Hamilton Books

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• Sometimes things would be so much simpler if you could just pull out your gun and shoot the bad guy. Reason number seventeen why Indiana Jones is my hero.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Hero, Gun, Numbers

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• But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.

  Gayle Forman

  Falling In Love, Fall, Inconvenient

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• The driver got out smiling. He looked about seventeen or eighteen, and for a second, I had the uneasy feeling it was Luke, my old enemy. This guy had the same sandy hair and outdoorsy good looks. But it wasn't Luke. His smile was brighter and more playful. (Luke didn't do much more than scowl and sneer these days.) The Maserati driver wore jeans and loafers and a sleeveless T-shirt. "Wow" Thalia muttered. Apollo Is hot." "He's the sun god," I said. "That's not what I meant.

  Rick Riordan

  Hair, Jeans, Guy

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• When I was seventeen, my life changed forever . . .

  Nicholas Sparks

  Forever, Changed

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “A Walk To Remember”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.

  Francine Pascal

  Sweet, Sixteen, Good Things

  Francine Pascal (2014). “My First Love and Other Disasters: My First Love and Other Disasters; Love & Betrayal & Hold the Mayo; My Mother Was Never a Kid”, p.653, Simon and Schuster

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• Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside.

  David Levithan

  Lost, Found, Being True

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.12, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I've loved someone since I was seventeen but I can't have him and I can't give him up. So until I can do that no one else will stand a chance.

  Jennifer Worth

  Giving, Chance, Can Do

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• Boo, I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Liars, Believe

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.519, Hachette UK

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• Because she was seventeen, and still alive, against thousands of years' worth of odds.Because she knew enough to fear what the future would bring.

  Lauren Kate

  Odds, Years, Alive

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.564, Delacorte Press

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• For the first time in my life I actually feel sorry for Carol. I'm only seventeen years old, and I already know something she doesn't know: I know that life isn't life if you just float through it. I know that the whole point- the only point- is to find things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

  Lauren Oliver

  Sorry, Fighting, Years

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.265, Hachette UK

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• You’re seventeen. You’re supposed to be dealing with school and hormones and dim-witted parents. You’re supposed to be finding out who you are as a person.” “But I already know who I am,” Valkyrie said. “I’m a world-breaker.

  Derek Landy

  School, Who I Am, Parent

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• The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think- Ladies' Home JournalI'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four

  Fred Allen

  Girl, Home, Maturity

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• I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.

  Ava Gardner

  Years, White, Twelve

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• I've making videos since I was seventeen I was originally discollecting vintage hmmm... footages from different archives and setting moving pictures to classical music clips that meant a lot to me. Maybe there were places I have been where nice things have happened. I had a vision of making my life a work of art and I was looking for people who also felt that way.

  Lana Del Rey

  Art, Nice, Moving

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• Escape plan number seventeen," I told her. "Run away and open a juice stand in Fresno." "Why Fresno?" "Sounds like the kind of place people drink a lot of juice.

  Richelle Mead

  Running, Numbers, People

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• It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.

  Al McGuire

  Moving, Kids, Golf

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• What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair...Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Life, Love You, Years

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another atfifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.

  H. G. Wells

  Time, Men, Eight

  H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.6, Sparklesoup LLC

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• He would look so young. They were both so young. Tessa knew it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but they were racing a clock. The clock of Jem's life, before it wound down.

  Cassandra Clare

  Racing, Looks, Unusual

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.940, Simon and Schuster

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• Recent research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting and interjecting his own ideas.

  Gary Chapman

  Average, Language Of Love, Ideas

  Gary Chapman (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set”, p.41, Moody Publishers

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• I was in the fashion shows in Milan; I was seventeen, I was doing like 100 shows. People were asking, 'How does it feel to be the model of the moment?' It was hard for me to answer as myself. I barely spoke English.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Fashion, People, Doe

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