He was thirteen that year, the age when children splinter off and abandon the old loves.
– Mark Costello
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- Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years. – Graeme Greene
- To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. – Timothy Snyder
- Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people. – Victor Hugo
- Why do you suppose I’m here?- I asked him. Angel. A thirteen-year-old departed gangbanger. -œJust ’cause you’re supposed to be, I guess. – Darynda Jones
- It was just over a year ago. Twelve months, nine days and six hours ago, actually. But thirteen months ago everything was…perfect. – Sarah Ockler
- Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened. – Osamu Dazai
- For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice. – TS Eliot
- Sages tell us that the Torah tells us that until the age of thirteen, all of boy’s sins are ascribed to his father. – Shalom Auslander
- Original sin is a very commercial idea,- said Duyckinck. -œHow do you think the Bible stays in print year after year? – Mark Beauregard
- Then, sometime during the fourth year, the omens will abandon you, because you’ve stopped listening to them. – Paulo Coelho
- He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake. – Augustine of Hippo
- Hating yourself is like hating what God loves. God loves you, so love yourself and love what God loves. – Israelmore Ayivor
- The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave. – Ayn Rand
- Middle age is when your age starts to show through your middle-¦ and trust me, MIss, your age doesn’t show in the slightest.#dean – Shayla Orick
- The age of reason may have had its golden age, but the age of emotion endures forever. – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it. – Bernard Levin
- I feel there’s a funny little hole in me that wasn’t there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach. – Louise Fitzhugh
- The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available. – Theodor W Adorno
- Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans … are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit. – Anthony Bourdain
- A splinter of pride got in under my breast-bone and lodged there. – Lia Mills
- The idea was a splinter in my mind. Always there, always stinging,even when I wasn’t conscious of it. Even when I wasn’t thinking about it. – Michelle Hodkin
- For every guy who loves being a dad, there’s another who realizes too late that he’s created something his wife loves more than him. – Mark R Brand
- Love your children-”and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them. – Billy Graham
- Many men have children, but not many children have ‘Fathers’. Age releases to you reproductive skills. Fatherhood requires LEADERSHIP skills – Fela Durotoye
- I’ve had quite enough danger for a while I think. I might have some more when I’m thirteen, but definitely not before then… – Joshua Donellan
- We were of thirteen minds, like a tree, in which there is one Red-tail and eleven squirrel parts. – Cameron Conaway
- I was about thirteen when I started letting boys feel me up. – Rebbecca Ray
- I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life. – SA Tawks
- I can’t get her pregnant! I’m just thirteen. You have to be a man to get a girl pregnant. – Scylar Tyberius
- I confessed I did not have an opinion; I was only thirteen, and this was my very first dismemberment. – Rick Yancey
- Mirad had asked for peace for his birthday.Imagine, a boy of thirteen who asks for peace as a birthday present.When I heard that I cried. – Ad De Bont
- The universe is more than thirteen billion years old. What is the value of a single kiss compared to that? – Shaun David Hutchinson
- …love at thirteen is nothing like love at eighteen. – Judy Blume
- I had stopped doing anything for myself. I no longer felt like an individual because for thirteen years, I was one-half of a -œwe. – Brandi Glanville
- It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization. – Catherynne M Valente
- Fifty year old wealthy man resents twenty five year old middle class man, without recalling that 25 years back even he was a poor man. – Amit Kalantri
- By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today’s time to do so. – Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
- Early to bed and early to risemakes a year healthy wealthy and wise. to get better future wish U Happy New Year !!! – Baset
- I always said I acted like a twelve-year old, so I decided to write like a twelve-year old. – Terri Bertha
- Don`t you worry Roald Dahl, The 6-year old me loved you but the 16-year old me worships you. – Vaishnavi Hajari