I couldn't decide if he was four or nine or twelve. I had no idea of the specifics of children. He was too young to drive, but old enough to be able to turn doorknobs.
Maggie Stiefvater
Related To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS Not enough attention is paid to children who are too old to ride in booster seats but too young to d... JOSEPH O'DONNELL Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ... ORLANDO BLOOM He was thiryt-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. NICHOLAS SPARKS I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... NEIL GAIMAN Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally re... MARILYN MANSON I was 30 years old and I had four kids and I had to decide what happens if there's no more baseball?... DANNY ARDOIN The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. MARK WAHLBERG To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be... AL GOLDSTEIN I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young peo... BIRCH BAYH I had no idea this was going to be an accurate prediction, but amazingly enough instead of 10 [years... GORDON MOORE For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had thre... GUSTAVO DUDAMEL I didn't think he was in love with me and I had no idea what I felt for him, but he wanted me, and m... LEIGH BARDUGO He didn’t like the idea of leaving unfinished business behind. He had wanted definite answers abou... KEITH STEINBAUM I'm thankful enough or blessed enough to be able to say that Miles Davis was a friend when he wa... PRINCE Four months later, I was in a pool and I had no idea what I was doing. I had an idea, a dress, and a... LAURIE MCLEOD Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results ... JOSE MOURINHO I knew he had bought the ring but I had no idea he was going to ask me this morning. It was a comple... JULIE WILLIAMS Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown o... EPICURUS He wasn't so elderly after all, I saw: probably just a few years older than I. And yet I was never a... HANYA YANAGIHARA I was trying to work, but I noticed that people, if they had any inkling of the idea that I was sick... TERI GARR I had to be extremely strong to fight off Mr Hitchcock. He was so insistent and obsessive, but I was... TIPPI HEDREN If he had gone to the old school, he was by no means old-school. DAVID HALBERSTAM Please, help me. Young werewolves in love. I turned to walk into the house, moving carefully. <... JIM BUTCHER My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or fo... VALENTINO ROSSI When George spotted the pinup girl of his fondest fantasies across that cheesy bar, he had no idea w... KRISTEN CASEY And then there is the black cat. Who has no other name than the Black Cat and who turned up almost a... NEIL GAIMAN He worked on all kinds of things but he always had a light touch to whatever he did, he was never to... HAROLD SIMMONS He was in agony the whole time. I wasn't even aware of it, he just told me. I knew he had back probl... ED MCCOMISKEY He always wanted to beat up on the bigger kids; even when he was small, he'd always tag along. When ... LEE ANDERSON It’s too dangerous…I would never be able to forgive myself if something happened to him. I would... ASHLEY EARLEY The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced eve... GEORGETTE HEYER He was coming real fast. It was like he wouldn't stop or he couldn't stop or wouldn't stop. I don't ... SANDRA TAYLOR I've always thought he was unappreciated, ... It wasn't until he got to the Final Four in the Meadow... JIM CALHOUN Do you know what I remember? When [my father] read to me. Stupid things, dragons and heroes. He woul... AVELINE VALEN It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has... HAROLD MACMILLAN On one occasion, I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayari. I was eight or nine years old. How he... FIDEL CASTRO It's the best idea Larry ever had. Brings in lots of young kids. Best idea he's ever had. Except me,... CONNIE DERRY When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew ... GRAHAM GREENE He wanted to be loved for being just what he was. In this community of Yskalnari there was harmony, ... MICHAEL ENDE Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL He lost nine months of work, and in that time I was able to make all the connections I needed. BILL AUSTIN He was about to kiss me. I was sure of it. I had never been kissed before and had no idea what to do... HEIDI PELTIER I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go t... ALAN J. HEEGER Sean was a little snake-bit in the regular season. He had a lot of chances, but he only had four or ... CHRIS SCHULTZ He just went to bed and never woke up. That was a tough day... my brother's birthday, too. I was nin... STAFFAN KRONWALL I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it. GROUCHO MARX The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO His self-esteem wasn't high, and he was trying to reflect too much on the things he didn't do well. ... BOB HURLEY How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with ... LIV TYLER He will be able to get them if he lives long enough to do it. He was always a diplomat. JACK MILLER I thought he'd be a pretty good prospect. He had the heart and determination to learn. He was kind o... GEORGE LEON I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH It's as if he can no longer acknowledge the love he felt or the pain I am in. I have been dismissed.... EMMA FORREST [Everyone else had come to see Tiger. He was twenty-one years old, a multi-multi-millionaire, and al... TOM WATSON He was bright enough to be clever but too undisciplined to be intelligent. ALAN ROBERT NEAL The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it ha... JACKIE ROBINSON We've talked about it, ... If he wants to drive a sprint car when he's old enough, I'll do whatever ... DOUG JOHNSON Mr. Allen feels he is too old to die. We feel Josephine was too young to die. She was only 17. ROBERT ROCHA No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man. ISRAEL ZANGWILL He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had be... ANNE BRONTë I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON You can't just decide to be happy." "No, you can't. But you can sure as hell decide to be... LEV GROSSMAN I want to break his record in the mile but there's not too much pressure. I just want to be good at ... KALE LIECHTY Sammy and I have been really close since 1986, when he was 16 years old. He didn't make the Rookie L... RUDY JARAMILLO Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteri... MILAN KUNDERA To the rich man, Lazarus was part of the landscape. If ever he did notice him, it never struck him t... WILLIAM BARCLAY I don’t think my sister is old enough to have sex.” “V, she’s the same age you ar... J.R. WARD Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT By this time he had discovered that his neighbour was not very conversible; But whether her silence ... MATTHEW LEWIS He made three or four or five 15-, 16-footers. I was uncertain if he could make that consistently. .... DEAN KEENER No parliamentarian could tell his electors that he was too ill to be the leader of the party but was... GOUGH WHITLAM He was just in shock, didn't know which way to turn. He's a changed young man, forever. I don't thin... BOB LECKIE See, I was never a guy who had a whole heap of friends to belong to. Besides Greg Fienni, I never re... MARKUS ZUSAK I never ran with my dad. He was old-school. He had a whole different idea of training. He ran in ste... LAILA ALI After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney - until I'm old enoug... GARRETT CLAYTON ...He was a greater craftsman even than Isaac, and he knew it, and so, presently, did Isaac. ELIZABETH GOUDGE He had a lot of size, and he was able to move well. He had a good mixture of size and athletic abili... BRYAN STINESPRING
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Lifting my arm,... MAGGIE STIEFVATER If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER You two are too cute,” the counter girl said, setting two cups piled with whipped cream on the cou... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words. MAGGIE STIEFVATER What's happening here?" This last bit was hissed to Ronan and Noah. "Noah took a personal day.... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Noah had wandered down the aisle, but now he gleefully returned with a snow globe. He stood behind R... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sam: “You—you greatly overestimate my self-control.” Grace: “I’m not looking for self... MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the night, I've shrunk and everyone else on the island has grown. They're all nine feet tall and ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan didn't need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted. 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MAGGIE STIEFVATER I walk through the seasons and always the birds are singing and screaming and keening for love<... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Folded in my arms you're a butterfly in reverse you're giving up your wings and inheriting my c... MAGGIE STIEFVATER My parents had always been so careful with me, until the day they decided I needed to die. MAGGIE STIEFVATER To Grace, these were the things that mattered: my hands on her cheeks, my lips on her mouth. The fle... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Come on," Cole said. He looked back over his shoulder at Mr. Brisbane, who was looking at me with a ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Afterward, Isabel drove me home and I shut myself in the study with Rilke, and I read and I wanted.<... MAGGIE STIEFVATER He slouched back in his seat, looking tired, and leaned his face on his shoulder to look at me while... MAGGIE STIEFVATER She loved all the wolves behind her house, but she loved one of them most of all. And thi... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I won't let this be my good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper crane memories of me and Grace, and ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER One thousand ways to say good-bye One thousands ways to cry One thousand ways to hang your... MAGGIE STIEFVATER We had this big grill at his house, and I remember, one night he said, 'Sam, tonight you're feeding ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Lunch." I said. "Immediately. I'm going to wither away to absolutely nothing. Then you'll be racked ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER And then I opened my eyes and it was just Grace and me - nothing anywhere but Grace and me - she pre... MAGGIE STIEFVATER She kissed me harder, breath huffing into my mouth, and bit my lip. Oh, hell that was amazing. I gro... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sensitive," I tried. Sam translated: "Squishy." "Creative." "Danger... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Crashing into the trembling void Stretching my hand to you Losing myself to frigid regret<... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I settled on the floor and whispered to Sam, “I want you to listen to me, if you can.” I leaned ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER ..and me holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands MAGGIE STIEFVATER His lips tasted cool and sharp, peppermint, winter, but his hands, soft on the back of my neck, prom... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sam,' the girl said. 'Sam.' She was the past present and future. I wanted to answer , but I was... MAGGIE STIEFVATER right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like. MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sam laughed, a funny, self-deprecating laugh. "You did read a lot. And spent too much time just insi... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sam:"Okay, what words would you use then?" I leaned back in the seat, thinking, as Sam looked at me ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER How long?" His smile was amazingly sweet. "The longest." For ever?" MAGGIE STIEFVATER Hope hurt more than the cold. MAGGIE STIEFVATER Grace,” I said, very softly. “Say something.” Sam,” she said, and I crushed her to me. MAGGIE STIEFVATER As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I'd found heaven and grabbed it as tightly as I could, but it was unraveling, an insubstantial threa... MAGGIE STIEFVATER So, Grace, how's school?" I asked myself. Dad nodded, eyes on the baby koala now struggling in... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Books are more real when you read them outside. MAGGIE STIEFVATER What do you eat?" "Baby bunnies." She narrowed her eyes, so I grinned and said, "Adult bunnies... MAGGIE STIEFVATER It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are. MAGGIE STIEFVATER You're beautiful and sad," I said finally, not looking at him when I did. "Just like your eyes. You'... MAGGIE STIEFVATER It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die. MAGGIE STIEFVATER My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he me... MAGGIE STIEFVATER The world needs more love at first sight. MAGGIE STIEFVATER Where do you live?" Adam's mouth was very set. "A place made for leaving" "That's not re... MAGGIE STIEFVATER His feelings for Adam were an oil spill; he'd let them overflow and now there wasn't a damn place in... MAGGIE STIEFVATER In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awf... MAGGIE STIEFVATER This object that we hold in our hands, a book…that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go awa... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I’m going in,” Gansey said as Ronan sat down on the step beside Adam. As Gansey shut the door be... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Behind him, he heard Ronan say, "I like the way you losers thought Instagram before first aid. Fuck ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER As they moved through the old barn, Adam felt Ronan’s eyes glance off him and away, his disinteres... MAGGIE STIEFVATER He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer. MAGGIE STIEFVATER And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war. MAGGIE STIEFVATER While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night. MAGGIE STIEFVATER If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human. MAGGIE STIEFVATER The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse w... MAGGIE STIEFVATER He started to dance. And all at once, because Cole was dancing, I was dancing. And this Cole was eve... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once. MAGGIE STIEFVATER As they scuffled in the grass, Adam closed his eyes and leaned his head back. He could nearly scry j... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam described the circumstances surrounding his eye and his hand with the same level tone he would ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER They're saying that you and Sean Kendrick were burning up the cliffs." Tommy spins me again and grin... MAGGIE STIEFVATER When did you get so smart?" He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I... MAGGIE STIEFVATER What was a kiss without a kiss?" It was a tablecloth tugged from beneath a party service, ever... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey hurried on. "Let me introduce you. These are my friends: Ronan, Adam Parrish, and Jane." MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam understood, then, that Gansey and Blue’s awe changed this place. Ronan and Adam may have seen... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan, taking in Blue’s posture and Gansey below, observed, “If you spit, Blue, it would land ri... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Casually, out of the view of Ronan, making sure Adam was still sleeping, Gansey dangled his hand bet... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I like you better this way." For some reason, admitting this made her face go hot right away; she wa... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something." "You'd talk abo... MAGGIE STIEFVATER his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me w... MAGGIE STIEFVATER One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could st... MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beau... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I didn't say I would start a yard." "You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and yo... MAGGIE STIEFVATER She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A m... MAGGIE STIEFVATER That's a poor match, Sean Kendrick," says a voice at my elbow. It's the other sister from Fathom &am... MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many read... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boy... MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan. Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I found it." "People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers." "... MAGGIE STIEFVATER She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, th... MAGGIE STIEFVATER When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the t... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I think they're here because I thought they ought to be here," Gansey said. Blue replied sarcas... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done. MAGGIE STIEFVATER Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretende... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey's partying with his mother," Ronan said. He smelled like beer. "And Noah's fucking dead. But ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams. MAGGIE STIEFVATER You missed World Hist." "Did you get notes for me?" "No. I thought you were dead in a ditc... MAGGIE STIEFVATER From the passenger seat, Ronan began to swear at Adam. It was a long, involved swear, using every fo... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfa... MAGGIE STIEFVATER They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them. MAGGIE STIEFVATER When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away. MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan said, "I'm always straight." Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever to... MAGGIE STIEFVATER You are being self-pitying." "I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear." ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again." MAGGIE STIEFVATER She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Right,' he said. 'So it stands to reason there's something about the line that fortifies or protects... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Nothing had changed. Nothing. MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was true that Blue was just shy of five feet and it was also true that she hadn't eaten her green... MAGGIE STIEFVATER