Fifteen Years Old

People are afraid of

People are afraid of you, Arty. Girls are terrified of you. You’re a fifteen-year-old in a bespoke suit, and nobody died. Eoin Colfer

I will never be

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. Francis Bacon

Back in the late 1970’s, when I was fifteen years old, I spent every penny I then had in the bank to fly across the continent in a 747 jet to Brandon, Manitoba, deep in the Canadian prairies, to witness a total eclipse of the sun. Douglas Coupland

APD is primarily defined

APD is primarily defined as a lack of empathy,’ I said. I’d looked it up too, a few months ago. Empathy is what allows people to interpret emotion, the same way ears interpret sounds; without it you become emotionally deaf. ‘It means I don’t connect emotionally with other people. I wondered if he was going … Read more

Those rosy memories we

Those rosy memories we all share are actually memories from our favorite TV shows. We’ve confused our own childhoods with episodes of Ozzie and Harriet, Father Knows Best, and The Brady Bunch. In real life, Ozzie had a very visible mistress for years, Bud and Kitten on Father Knows Best grew up to become major … Read more

I’m a huge advocate

I’m a huge advocate of prayer. I’ve been praying since I was fifteen years old and the doctor told me I was going to be a mother and I was like what? I started praying that day that God would help me do what I needed to do to be a good mother and to … Read more

I’m still trying to

I’m still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me. Boz Scaggs

Old is always fifteen

Old is always fifteen years from now. Bill Cosby

They tell about a

They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans’ home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead. He did it perfectly, too, without a single stutter. Later he explained, “I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.” … Read more

The Operative tried to

The Operative tried to implement the Purusey breathing technique, which has been proven effective at fooling polygraphs. There is no conclusive evidence as to whether it is effective at masking the internal lie detectors of fifteen-year-old boys. Ally Carter