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“Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”
“I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.”
“Your "scared" and my "scared" are two different things.''What's that supposed to mean?' she asked.'As you get older, you don't recover from things so easy.''As you get older, you also get tired?''Y...”
“The Babies we were are buried, and their shadows are plodding on.”
“At some point, you're no longer growing up, you're aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly.”
“Life is brief, young maiden, fall in love; before the crimson bloom fades from your lips, before the tides of passion cool within your hips, for those of you who know no tomorrow. (Gondola no Uta)”
“If we are lucky enough, as I am, to be from time to time in quite close contact with young people, they can sometimes make it easier to hang on to this notion when they function, as every person do...”
“I'm sorry you don't like coming back here," her mother often said, to cap whatever petty dust-up they'd had. How could Emily explain: it wasn't her mother or Kersey she'd disowned, but her earlier ...”
“You dont have to spend much time with the elderly or those with terminal illness to see how often medicine fails the people it is supposed to help. The waning days of our lives are given over to tr...”
“I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.”
“Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.”
“He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief.”
“With age, gone are the forevers of youth. Gone is the willingness to procrastinate, delay, to play the waiting game. Now each day is a treasure beyond compare . . . because there are so few such di...”
“Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.”
“Youth is as easily wasted as a fine wine consumed by a drunken man. There is no poetry in aging, and Javert lived out the process in its most hideous iteration.”
“Just then, a little hopped-up Japanese car zips up next to us. Its bright yellow with loud, high-pitched exhaust pipes and a big air spoiler on the back. I look over at the driver to see whos makin...”
“There was nothing about youth that was fair: the young hadn't done anything to deserve it, and the old hadn't done anything to drive it away.”
“The young have little use for the concept of rebirth, yet the older they get the more appealing the concept becomes.”
“Youth is an unrecoverable asset. Unless you are a hydra, lucky you.”
“Our first youth is of no value; for we are never conscious of it, until after it is gone. But sometimes--always, I suspect, unless one is exceedingly unfortunate--there comes a sense of second yout...”
