Time alone Quote by Alice Sebold

But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time…

— Alice Sebold

“— and there, on the table under her bedroom window, lies the voice that has set her dreaming again. Fragments of a life lived…

— Anonymous

“I stood before her asserting my age, but in truth not knowing where the years had gone or how they had led up to…

— David Dabydeen

“Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.”

— Marcy DeMaree

“All the while, she understood that nothing could save her from the emptiness of the years that still had to be lived. Days passed,…

— Michelle de Kretser

“When a woman turns forty she is no longer young, but not yet old.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

“In college, twenty-nine had seemed impossibly old. By now, she'd thought, she'd be married and have kids. But as each year went by, she…

— Jennifer Close

“Her grandmother had said once that she felt it was only her body that was old. Inside she had always been the same young…

— Jostein Gaarder

“She was old; millions of years old, she felt. And at last, she could bear the burden of herself no more.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“even if I could go back in time to her as me, the age I am now she would never come into my arms…

— Marie Howe

“she glimpsed an aging man who had just lost everything and had no idea what he was supposed to be doing with the time…

— David Baldacci

“In a way, looking back, it seemed a long, long time since she had been eighteen, but in another way her memories were so…

— Helen Hooven Santmyer