Quote by Diane Setterfield

“She was about forty: In her youth She had been a Beauty; But her charms had been upon that large scale which can but…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“She was eighty-five, and her sleep was as thin as her skin.”

— Stephen King

“At seventy-one, when I met her, she was small and delicate and dangerous, like a cupcake full of razors.”

— Laurie Penny

“ Age is just a number unless it's eighty six.”

— Anonymous

“She appeared to be ageless the type that would continue, unchanging, until she was an old woman when she would suddenly become senile and…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“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 at seventy-four, with a limp from a hip replacement, Margaret could still enter a room and fill it like perfume.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

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

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

“She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“She was one of those women who are never handsome till they are old, and she had had the wisdom to embrace the beauty…

— George Eliot

“I was staring down thirty-five in a few months. While I might have thought forty was old when I was her age, I’d since…

— Marshall Thornton

“Wise as she was, she realized that people can postpone their rebellious phases until they're eighty-five years old, and she decided to keep an…

— Tove Jansson