“She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.”

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American author and activist 1944

Patricia Reilly Giff (1935) American children's writer

Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 11-20, p. 64

“I have heard that Glinda is a beautiful woman, who knows how to keep young in spite of the many years she has lived.”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)

“Should any other person or governing body be able to tell another person that he/she cannot save their own life, because it would be a violation of a law?”

Timothy McVeigh (1968–2001) American army soldier, security guard, terrorist

1990s, Letter to John J. LaFalce (1992)

“In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious. … The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali book Infidel

Source: Infidel (2007), Chapter 1: Bloodlines

“I want to know how many years I got.”

Orson Scott Card book Red Prophet

“Many,” said Ta-Kumsaw. “Or few. All that matters is what you do with however many years you have.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 17.