Sixteen Quotes - Page 7

• But you're almost eighteen. You're old enough. Everyone else is doing it. And next year someone is going to say to someone else 'but you're only sixteen, everyone else is doing it' Or one day someone will tell your daughter that she's only thirteen and everyone else is doing it. I don't want to do it because everyone else is doing it.

  Melina Marchetta

  Daughter, Years, One Day

  Melina Marchetta (1992). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.253, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.

  Cassandra Clare

  Forever, Seems, Simon Lewis

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• Un bate de béisbol no podría haberme golpeado más fuerte que esa sonrisa. Tenía dieciséis años. En ese tiempo, ¿cuántos miles de sonrisas me habían dirigido? entonces, ¿por qué sentía ésta como la primera?

  Jerry Spinelli

  Baseball, Years, Bats

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.54, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• El mejor día de mi vida ocurrió cuando tenía cinco años y casi me muero en Disney World. Ahora tengo dieciséis, así que puedes imaginarte que eso me ha dejado con bastantes días de asco mayúsculo.

  Libba Bray

  World, Imagine, Died

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.1, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark side of things.” “Pessimistic … pessimistic …” She repeated the English to herself over and over, and then she looked up at me with a fierce glare. “I’m only sixteen,” she said, “and I don’t know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I’m pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, Dark, Adults

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• Sometimes, I think Bill forgets that I am sixteen. But I am very happy that he does.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Thinking, Doe, Bills

  Stephen Chbosky (2012). "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", p.165, Simon and Schuster.

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• I have no words. Sixteen languages, but no words. -Vishous

  J.R. Ward

  Language, Vishous

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• The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention - car parked on the side, maybe a cop, slow to speed limit, time to pass this sixteen-wheeler, turn signal, check rearview, crane neck to check blind spot and yes, okay, left lane.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Blind Spots, Car

  John Green (2006). “An Abundance of Katherines”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• It comes with being sixteen," Mom said. "You teenagers, you go into a cocoon when you turn fifteen and don't come out for years." "So they become butterflies when they finally come out?" my little sister Christina asked. "No," Mom said. "They're still caterpillars, only now they're big fat caterpillars that smell.

  Neal Shusterman

  Mom, Teenager, Butterfly

  Neal Shusterman (2006). "La Schwa estuvo aquí"

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• How that is so I don't know. How Mama and Daddy know me sixteen years and hate me, how a stranger meet me and love me. (131)

  Zafiro

  Hate, Years, Daddy

  Sapphire (1996). “Push: A Novel”, Vintage

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• Diana: "Ojalá fuera rica y pudiera pasarme todo el verano en un hotel, comiendo helado y ensalada de pollo". Ana: "¿Sabes una cosa, Diana? Nosotras somos ricas. Tenemos dieciséis años en nuestro haber, y las dos tenemos una imaginación maravillosa. Deberíamos ser tan felices como reinas". [Anne Shirley: "Mira eso. No podrías disfrutar más de su belleza aunque tuvieras cuerdas de diamantes.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Verano, Queens, Helados

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• I got signed with the songwriting deal when I was sixteen and they were really great - my publishers, who to this day are still my publishers and are like my musical family, my second family - they took me in and taught me what a good song is.

  Luces

  Song, Musical, Taught

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• Babe, you've destroyed a car, burned down two buildings, stapled a guy's nuts, and you have sixteen stitches in your leg. Take a night off. Have a glass of wine, watch some television, and go to bed early." -Ranger

  Janet Evanovich

  Wine, Night, Glasses

  Janet Evanovich (2009). “Lean Mean Thirteen”, p.183, Macmillan

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• Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Hate, Anger, Heart

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.80, Hamilton Books

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• I'll say this again: Her presence would be the best Mother's Day gift I could ever ask for. I know Kate Siegel a big bestselling author now, but I was sliced, no, ripped open from my boobs down to my baby cannon to bring her into this world, all but bathed in her puke for years, and acted as her own personal chauffeur for the first sixteen years of her life.

  Kate Siegel

  Madre, Bebé, Años

  "El loco día de la madre judía con Kate Siegel y Kim Friedman". Entrevista con Penny Mann, www.amazonbookreview.com. 18 de abril de 2016.

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• One day I saw a picture of the Buddha on a Buddhist magazine and he was sitting on the grass, and he was sitting on the grass, very peaceful, smiling, and I was impressed. Around me people were not like that, so I had the desire to be someone like him. I nourished that kind of desire until the age of sixteen, when I had the permission from my parents to go and ordain as a Buddhist monk.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, People, Parent

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2010.

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• It may take sixteen pounds of grain to make one pound of beef, but it also takes one hundred pounds of fish to make that one-pound of beef!

  Sharon Gannon

  Beef, May, Pounds

  "Sharon Gannon sobre el veganismo". jivamuktiyoga.com. 16 de noviembre de 2016.

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• Dealing with politically-engaged writers of color like Abdellatif Laâbi and Rashid Boudjedra - who ran away from school aged sixteen to fight against the French in the Algerian war - first requires convincing an editor to take a chance on them, which very few like to do these days.

  André Naffis-Sahely

  War, School, Fighting

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent and trademark infringement lawsuits. All so he could possess casual style. A style that, in logistical requirements, was comparable to fielding a nineteenth-century military brigade. But he looked good. Casual.

  Daniel Suárez

  Military, Men, Eight

  Daniel Suarez (2009). “Daemon”, p.410, Penguin

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• Sixteen moons, Sixteen years Sixteen of your deepest fears Sixteen times you dreamed my tears Falling, Falling through the years

  Kami García

  Fall, Moon, Years

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2010). “Sixteen Moons - Eine unsterbliche Liebe”, p.398, cbj Verlag

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• By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Book, Freethinker

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.220, Pan Macmillan

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• Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back sixteen years, to the days when Whitbury boasted of forty coaches per diem, instead of one railway, and set forth how in its southern suburb, there stood two pleasant house side by side, with their gardens sloping down to the Whit, and parted from each other only by the high brick fruit-wall, through which there used to be a door of communication; for the two occupiers were fast friends.

  Charles Kingsley

  Wall, Book, Communication

  Charles Kingsley (1860). “Two years ago ... Third edition”, p.18

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• Por supuesto, yo también pensaba que era un malote a los dieciséis. Espera, yo era rudo a los dieciséis. Sí, claro.

  Rachel Caine

  Badass, Waiting, Yeah

  Rachel Caine (2009). “The Dead Girls' Dance”, p.205, Allison & Busby

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• Todos los jóvenes se preocupan por cosas, es una parte natural e inevitable del crecimiento, y a los dieciséis años mi mayor ansiedad en la vida era que nunca volvería a conseguir algo tan bueno, o puro, o noble, o verdadero, como mis resultados de O-level.

  David Nicholls

  Growing Up, People, Worry

  David Nicholls (2004). “A Question of Attraction: A Novel”, p.8, Villard

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• I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

  Joyce Johnson

  Niñas, Niños, Edad

  Joyce Johnson (1999). “Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir”, p.58, Penguin

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