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“Like almost all girls I don't know the date of my birth: my parents did not trouble to record the day and the time. I only know the year and the season, and I only know the season because my mother...”
“Birthday is a sacred-life celebration.”
“But I get it; it's a way to mark time. When your life's too busy, it forces you to check in with yourself. Or when it feels all the same all the time, maybe it can make you feel special.”
“People are so lonely, they spend their birthdays on the Internet, thanking people for wishing them a happy birthday, people who only know its their birthday because Facebook told them.”
“Hannah ran past, beaming. I remember that feeling--when you're a kid and it's your birthday and for one day everyone makes you feel like the most special person in the world.”
“Birthday Soup is good to eat, but not as good as Birthday Cake.”
“Natales grate numeras?(Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?)”
“Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after Christmas. "My parents just combine my birthday with Christmas, that's all," ...”
“I was born on the night of Samhain, when the barrier between the worlds is whisper-thin and when magic, old magic, sings its heady and sweet song to anyone who cares to hear it.”
“You hate birthdays yet pee your pants over presents. There is clearly something wrong with you," Garrett joked.”
“Unexpected gifts were better accepted when they were presented by total strangers, I had learnt.”
“I can't tell you his age but when he was born the wonder drug was Mercurochrome.”
“You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes just so you don't have to go along.”
“Enjoy how sweet how thoughtful how kind I'm being on your birthday. Because tomorrow it's back to the same old crap.”
“As one cat said to another: Birthdays are like fur balls - the more you have the more you gag.”
“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to a hundred.”
“She claims she just turned thirty but it must have been a U-turn!”
“She's not pushing forty she's dragging it.”
“My wife never lies about her age. She just tells everyone she's as old as I am. Then she lies about my age.”
“Looking fifty is great - if you're sixty.”
