Sixteenth Birthday Quotes

• I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I flew solo all wrapped up in one.

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  Dalton Trumbo

  Time   School   Joy  

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• It's just that, right now, I want to hear you promise me that if we do run out of time and I go mad, like Miranda, it ends with me. The curse ends here, because our baby will be safe. You will make that happen. Isn't that so?" It took him a minute. "Yes," he said finnally. "It's so. Although, if we're just going to talk about the baby, I can think of an easier way to save her." Oh? What?" I'd just lock her up from her sixteenth birthday on." Lucy didn't laugh. "Don't think I haven't thought of that too, love. but here's the thing. That parents try that in all the fairy tales. It never works.

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  Nancy Werlin

  Running   Baby   Thinking  

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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)

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  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men   Zombie   Three  

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

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• On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.

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  Abby Sunderland

  Eye   October   Sixteenth Birthday  

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When you're a kid and you're in a classroom, anybody would die to be hanging out in London or having their sixteenth birthday in Japan.

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  Zac Farro

  Kids   Japan   London  

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• In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sports cars on their sixteenth birthdays. Teacher smile at them and grade them on the curve. They know the first names of the staff. They are the Pride of the Trojans. Oops – I mean Pride of the Blue Devils. In Universe #2, they throw parties wild enough to attract college students. They worship the stink of Eau de Jocque. They rent beach houses in Cancún during Spring Break and get group-rate abortions before prom.

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  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sports   Fashion   Beach  

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.30, Macmillan

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