I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.
—Mitch Hedberg
For too long, I've been telling myself that I could spend all this time with you and flirt with you and not have it mean anything. It does mean something. You mean something to me.
—Claudia Gray in Stargazer
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
—Robert Anton Wilson
The death of a friendship was usually slow and insidious, like the wearing away of a hillside after years of too much rain. A handful of misunderstandings, a season of miscommunication, the passing of time, and where once stood two women with a dozen years of memories and tears and conversation and laughter—where once stood two women closer than sisters—now stood two strangers.
—Karen Kingsbury in Even Now
The years teach much which the days never know.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Sometimes I miss the old me.
—Ann Aguirre in Aftermath
History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.
—Leonard Louis Levinson
We'd met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise; in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.
—Nicholas Sparks in Dear John
Time is not your friend. It doesn't care if you live fast or die slow, if you are or if you aren't. It was here before you arrived and it will go on after you leave. Time doesn't care who wins or who loses, if your life span is full or empty, honorable or shameful. Time is indifferent.
—Laura Wiess in Leftovers
It was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past.
—Adi Alsaid in Let's Get Lost
They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
—Robert A. Heinlein
Every moment that passes and I am stuck in this room is a moment that I am not working toward accomplishing my quest. Waiting is not acting. And not acting is akin to failing. How can I wait anymore?
—Bree Despain in The Shadow Prince
Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.
—Sarah Dessen in The Moon & More