Old enough Quote by Frances Hardinge Download Open image ““Somehow, without noticing, Mosca had become old enough to hear about such things.”” — Frances Hardinge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Old enough
“Again Mosca felt she was up in the rafters, watching the mice. Little mouse, witless with fear. Running the wrong way. And here she… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“They were a bit shaken, and sometimes a little dispirited. But at least they never lived to know that everything they’d believed in was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He'd observed over the centuries that what made people old was when they could no longer keep up with change. It's the beginning of… — Alma Katsu Copy Share Image
“Over time, we became less sure we were something the other wanted to hold on to.” — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“We age as the rest of the world watches, she thought, but somehow we’re the last to know.” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“I wonder if this is how it feels to grow old. Knowing that time is still passing but you’re no longer a part of… — Ryan Galloway Copy Share Image
“You only realized how old you had gotten when in the presence of the people you used to know. When you saw how old… — J Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“They lived with the intensity of two people aware that change would come. And when it came, it would come quickly; so there were… — Robert Ludlum Copy Share Image
“Things look dim to old folks: they'd need have some young eyes about 'em, to let 'em know the world's the same as it… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“One never bothers to think about growing old as one is growing older. Then suddenly it is there, looming in your face.” — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
“It is dangerous to lock oneself away and lose track of what is happening outside.” — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“Clent, however, suppressed any sense of pity without the slightest difficulty. His brain was busy with the icy clockwork of calculation. If only this… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“I swam across the torrent of my madness, and pulled myself upon the shore of a new and better sanity.” — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“Before her escort could react, she sprinted out from their little pool of lantern-light into the darkness, her feet pounding the soft, treacherous clods… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“She was not undamaged, however, and she knew it. No food or drink had passed her lips, but she had drunk deep of the… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“All her life, Neverfell had suffered the dull, embarrassed ache of the knowledge that she was always the maddest person in the room. Funnily… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“Well, if you are to help me with my work, you had better get used to stories without endings. True stories seldom have endings.” — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“And you may comfort yourself with the thought that you have been the caltrop under her satin shoe every step of the way. You… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“The little pedlar, it seemed, fancied that he had the tools to fix the wheel. The footmen were glad to hear this, and agreed… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“For a second, she could almost see Caverna as the Kleptomancer did, a murky, monstrous beauty, smiling her fine-fanged smile as she prepared to… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“Has it ever occurred to you that maybe you’re sane? That you’ve always been sane? That perhaps you’re the sanest person in the city?"… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“Thank you," she whispered. "I promise I will not interfere in Court business again." "Oh yes, you will." Zouelle looked up to see her… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“You say halfer as if it's a terrible thing," he said. "But everyone I've ever known has been a halfer; if old enough t-to… — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
[Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar ] were… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“All cultures in human history have believed in God and an afterlife in eternity. There is an interesting story told about the parents of… — Grant R. Jeffrey Copy Share Image
“One of the great jokes of life is that by the time you're old enough to recognize how little you know, all you can… — Virginia DeBerry Donna Grant Copy Share Image
The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to keep from… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I looked at my mom and her life, and I thought, 'I don't want that.' I don't think my mom wanted it, either. I… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
The hardest thing is deciding what I should tell you and what not to. Well, anyway, I've got a while yet before you're old… — Sarah Connor Copy Share Image
“And then, the last words Raspail ever said: 'I wonder why my parents didn't kill me before I was old enough to fool them.'… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
There was a period in my late 30s where work slowed down for me, as it does for a lot of women. You're no… — Barbara Crampton Copy Share Image
“I would like to make arrangements with you--to take her as my wife. Not right away, of course. When she grows old enough.” The… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image