#thirteen

I read old novels. The reason is simple: I prefer proper endings. Marriages and deaths, noble sacrifices and miraculous restorations, tragic separations and unhoped-for reunions, great falls and dreams fulfilled; these, in my view, constitute an ending worth the wait. They should come after adventures, perils, dangers and dilemmas, and wind everything up nice and neatly. Endings like this are to be found more commonly in old novels than new ones, so I read old novels. ↗

— Diane Sutterfield

#death

Justin, honey, you were my very first kiss. My very first hand to hold. But you were nothing more than an average guy. And I don't say that to be mean- I don't. There was just something about you that made me need to be your girlfriend to this day I don't know exactly what that was. But it was there.. and it was amazingly strong. -Thirteen Reasons Why ↗

— Jay Asher

#jay-asher #love #romance #teenagers #thirteen-reasons-why

When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it. ↗

— Jay Asher

#teen-suicide #thirteen-reasons-why #teen

Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace. ↗

— Henry Knox

#been #composed #each #ever #federal

I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

#battle #church #creek #disbanded #exception

We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent and in doing good to all men; indeed we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul - We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things. ↗

— Joseph Smith Jr.

#faith

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#california #course #graduate #i #i am

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#being #call #child #high-risk #home

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#along #biggest #biggest influence #bob #bob dylan

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#began #century #end #prose #romances