“The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.”

“I got almost eighteen years with you. The best eighteen years of my life.”

“This woman was eighteen years old. With eyes as old as stones.”

“THE CAUSE of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist." All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true.”

“Once upon a time there was an eighteen-year-old girl who dragged her butt out of bed and hauled it all the way to school on a sunny day in May.”

“I have a body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.”