40th birthday Quote by Evan S. Connell

“It was Time, whirling her along, spinning, spinning, until it finally stopped, and she looked around, blinking, and she was thirty-two.”

— Hala Alyan

“She was thirty-two, but drew blank on various periods of her life. In her own peculiar turn of phrase, they were like holes in…

— Fuminori Nakamura

But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time…

— Alice Sebold

She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed so far…

— Cecelia Ahern

“My mother's footsteps Were so quiet I barely heard her leave”

— John Green

She was thirty-five, and she did not look a minute younger.

— Cherie Priest

“And when the governess had left, he would slip out of his own room and peer at her door until her light was extinguished…

— Sherry Thomas

“But that any other eyes should see the residue of her thirty-three years, the deposit of each day’s living mixed with something more secret…

— Virginia Woolf

“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

“By the time she was fifteen, the age she was the day of the shipwreck, opinions by the dozen landed in each hollow track…

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

“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

“Reluctantly, and with much hesitation, did she then begin what might perhaps, at the end of half an hour, be termed, by the courtesy…

— Jane Austen