Old age Quote by Dubravka Ugrešić

“If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that now she could eat dessert without eating her vegetables.”

— Lisa Alther

“Every step she took seemed to show her a new danger. Talking to strangers could kill her. Failing to remember table etiquette could kill…

— Frances Hardinge

“Suddenly, as they walked with their buckets, it was not the child in each face that she sought, but the Wonder that had raised…

— Enid Bagnold

“This one walked with soft feet like she'd drifted in from the next world and no one had the good sense to send her…

— Leigh Bardugo

“And from that instant I did not have to take another step; the ground moved forward under my feet in that garden where for…

— Marcel Proust

“The most she knew about gardens was the Bakers’ own backyard, which contained one large mulberry tree and a rosebush, plus the window boxes…

— Diana Wynne Jones

“If there was one thing she knew by then, by age twenty-two, it was that she had to get far away and stay away.…

— Nicole Mones

“I was hers in ways that those with loyalties of convenience cannot fathom. I loved her beyond words and clothes, and yes beyond even…

— Sonja Livingston

“It gave her a sudden sense that it was now her turn to grow old, to find the world changing, sliding away from the…

— John Lanchester

“The years of her life tumbled out onto the floor like marbles that she would never be able to gather up again in one…

— Cathie Pelletier

“TELLING TIME Before she was old, she took canoe trips in the rain and buried her passions deep within nature poems. Ten years before…

— Carol Baldwin

“She walked, and with each step she let another inch of the long furl of her expectations go. The place itself was like a…

— Ellen Airgood