Quote by Hugh Howey

“Shame, when she was younger, had stopped her. Fear, as she grew older, trapped the truth within her.”

— Lorraine Heath

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

— D.H. Lawrence

“I stood before her asserting my age, but in truth not knowing where the years had gone or how they had led up to…

— David Dabydeen

“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

“This time, the anger in her voice wasn’t there, and the tears were beginning to overflow her lower lids, starting their slow tracks down…

— Mira Grant

“And if I,' said she, 'am young in years, I am old in sorrow;”

— Anne Brontë

“In college, twenty-nine had seemed impossibly old. By now, she'd thought, she'd be married and have kids. But as each year went by, she…

— Jennifer Close

“This crying...this wasn't like anything he'd seen her go through before. It was thirty years of grief, loneliness, and anger all scrunched together in…

— Laura Drewry

“At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.”

— Jean Rhys

“I nearly weep. All I had ever wanted was that my mother be glad to be alive in my presence. I am still certain…

— Vivian Gornick

“She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged”

— Virginia Woolf