Ageing Quote by Barbara Pym

“A room in Holmhurst was the last thing she'd come to - better to lie down in the wood under the beech leaces and…

— Barbara Pym

“While she lay there with these old worn thoughts coming obediently into her mind, called there by habit and the familiar quiet of early…

— Stella Gibbons

“To her despair was added a philosophical dejection, the feeling of every thinker who, venturing an inquisitive finger beneath the velvet of a throne,…

— Maurice Renard

“She found a mossy hollow between the roots of a tree and, putting on her mackintosh, huddled down in her makeshift bed. She ate…

— William Boyd

“The awesome silence of the place crept up on her. The spruce and pines, all still laden with snow, spread their limbs in a…

— Graham Joyce

“There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind. These…

— Hugh Howey

“Part of her wanted simply to sit and stare out of the window, at the lawn, flaky with sodden leaves, and the branches with…

— A.S. Byatt

“Perhaps, and this is where my breath catches in my throat, perhaps she let herself fall. The day was hers to choose and perhaps…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

“She was glad she'd missed the river of corpses that must have filled the city streets during the initial phase of clean-up - wagon…

— Steven Erikson

“If she was on the porch when we passed, we would be raked by her wrathful gaze, subjected to ruthless interrogation regarding our behaviour,…

— Harper Lee

“Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame. Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands and legs,…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“But everyone remembered; what she loved was this, here, now, in front of her; the fat lady in the cab. Did it matter then,…

— Virginia Woolf