Flesh and blood Quote by Dexter Palmer

“But there were also times when she cried out in the darkness biting her lips - cried out against the substance of her age:…

— Mervyn Peake

“She had learnt a painful lesson, she thought – that as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those…

— Anne Rice

“...Age gave her the peace, at least, to live inside that moment like a poet - to not sacrifice the beauty to the anxiety…

— Shannon Hale

“Time: her heart wretched. What a useless thing, her mind growled. Only humans would be so arrogant and so stupid as to count down…

— Hunter Wilde

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

— D.H. Lawrence

“This is a bright place, filled with frightened people, and fast hard things that hurt and wound. No matter. I swore I would remain…

— Neil Gaiman

“She was beholden to no man, held her tongue for none, she would stand before the gods themselves and inform them of what they…

— A. H. Septimius

“Still, he could see by the way she carried herself that she'd truly come of age and was at peace with the world. That…

— Steven A. McKay

“She was sweetness and light, gentleness and goodness, and the burning and searing goal of all his earthly hunts and fascinations.”

— Sylvain Reynard

“It never took her long to darken any conversation, as from birth she was inclined to see misery in each and every story, and…

— Elif Shafak

“Oh, I remember, I remember all those moments! And I want to add, too, that when such young creatures, such sweet young creatures want…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“She needed to hear the reminder, the reminder that there was more to this life than her heart. Even if it could never be…

— Umm Zakiyyah