26 quotes found
“Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity.”
“Glory went to look in on her father. He lay on his right side, his face composed, intent on sleep. His hair had been brushed into a soft white cloud, like harmless aspiration, like a mist given off...”
“A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.”
“When I’d RSVPed for tonight, I hadn’t expected to be the youngest by three-plus decades. To be honest, I hadn’t expected anything. I didn’t have the mental capacity. The excitement over my first ho...”
“There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatre...”
“In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.”
