Terry Pratchett Quote by Charles Stross

As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.

— Paul Auster

“A year or two younger than his eminently practical friend, Mr. Bounderby looked older; his seven or eight and forty might have had the…

— Charles Dickens

Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?

— Ann Landers

“When he did think—when his brain began the slow chugging of rusty gears—the only thoughts that came were unspeakable things like, what’s the worst…

— Jake Vander Ark

“He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to be suddenly…

— Chris Cleave

“Odd how the wrong stories pop into one's head at my age.”

— David Mitchell

“There was nothing to confront here at this beach: no monsters, no past, no future. Everyone left him alone, the ultimate desire of any…

— Drew Magary

“It then occurred to him that he had never had a better time. He felt fifty years younger. He also felt like a schoolboy…

— Nicholas Chong

“Like many men his age, he occupied a kind of limbo, not young enough to be the new face in the bars that everyone…

— Michael Thomas Ford

“I also happened to identify with Julien Sorel. Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further…

— Haruki Murakami

“As a boy, it occurred to me, all people over 40 had seemed to me just worn-out old wrecks, so old that there was…

— George Orwell

“I was a man fifteen years older than she, you understand. I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains…

— Michael Ondaatje