Sixteen Seventeen Quotes

#1. I read with the pure, exhilarating greed of readers sixteen, seventeen years old;

Annie Dillard

#2. Van Eck raised a brow. How old are you, girl? Sixteen? Seventeen? Nations rise and fall. Markets are made and unmade. When power shifts, someone always suffers.

Leigh Bardugo

#3. But then I think, no, I wouldn't give up twelve, thirteen, sixteen, seventeen with Peter for the world.

Jenny Han

#4. It can fuck you up, if you meet the most important person in your life when you're sixteen, seventeen. You imprint on them, and you never escape from it. That's what happened to me.

Elizabeth Hand

#5. Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics.

John P. Kotter

#6. Dad laughs. "You want to take a break? Go play with them?"
The problem is I'm sixteen, almost seventeen, and I don't want to play with them as much as I want to want to play with them. Maybe this feeling is what Noah's been running from.

Hannah Moskowitz

#7. Hannah rolled her eyes. 'I'm sixteen, almost seventeen, I have boobs, a whole bunch of hormones, and I find guys attractive. Deal with it.'

'Well, there goes my appetite.' Clark shoved his plate away, looking so despondent that I felt sorry for him.

Samantha Young

#8. When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.

Francis Ford Coppola

#9. It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.

Benjamin Disraeli

#10. How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

Alice Cooper

#11. 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

#12. Love should be pure. If you have love for someone you won't see bad points of the other person, never.

Nirmala Srivastava

#13. I am addicted to reading, I will never reach the end of my TBR list because it multiplies all by itself. It is not my fault, I was born this way.

Lani

#14. Whatever behavior modifications you require from me are a trivial price to pay for have you as my partner

Graeme Simsion

#15. What terrifies the Golds is simple, cruel, and as old as mankind itself. Civil war.

Pierce Brown

#16. I recognized him instantly even though the last time I saw him in person he was seventeen, naked, and asleep. I was sixteen, haphazardly dressed, and sneaking out his window.

Penny Reid

#17. The Lisbon girls were thirteen (Cecelia), and fourteen (Lux), and fifteen (Bonnie), and sixteen (Mary), and seventeen (Therese).

Jeffrey Eugenides

#18. I first started wearing fragrance when I was thirteen or fourteen, and the smell was candy-like. They were in very colorful bottles, like turquoise and pink. By the time I was sixteen or seventeen, it got more girly and more floral.

Blake Lively

#19. Sixteen-year-old guys smell like deodorant and fast food. Then you turn seventeen and you get fresh.

Hannah Moskowitz

#20. The garden was full of sorrow
Songbirds and unusual winds whistled a rhyme
Clouds caused to appear and cast down darkness
For this was the first day the sun didn't shine

John E. Wordslinger

#21. I also say "Boy" a lot. Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite young for my age sometimes. I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and some times I act like I'm about thirteen. It's really ironical, because I'm six foot two and a half and I have gray hair.

J.D. Salinger