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“He was already thirty, but yet to have a sense of himself as an adult. It just felt to him like he had spent…

— Haruki Murakami

“He remembered how satisfied he had been as a youngster, and that with the little he had had - a dog, a stick, an…

— Bernard Malamud

“Growing old seemed to be full of never-again moments.”

— Kaje Harper

“Who had that young man been who had thought himself so old and worldly-wise? He was a stranger to me now.”

— Robin Hobb

“He'd been old, and I'd been little, but still, it seemed wrong that someone so comforting in his dailiness could simply stop existing.”

— Brenna Yovanoff

“I don’t feel old. I just feel like someone young who has something wrong with him.”

— Nadeem Aslam

“I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age: an almost childlike twenty-two, rather than that permanent middle-age that attaches itself…

— Mohsin Hamid

“One gets glimpses, even in our country, of that which is ageless--heavy thought in the face of an infant, and frolic childhood in that…

— C.S. Lewis

“He seemed even younger now, as though he were traveling backwards in time, in his mind, or merely becoming innocent, as if the dead,…

— Anne Rice

“He did not want to feel old. He did not want to feel the weight of his age hovering above him, mocking him out…

— William Sarabande

“Thirty-six years old and he knows less than when he started. With the difference that now he knows how little he'll always know.”

— John Updike

“He was forty-two years old, and he could see nothing before him that he wished to enjoy and little behind him that he cared…

— John Williams