Heart Quote by Jenny Downham

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

— D.H. Lawrence

“She said that one day they would be very old, that the world would be a different place, but it would always be their…

— Simon Van Booy

“She had a nostalgia for a life she had never lived.”

— Nancy Lemann

“Even though she looked the same, life had aged her, stolen her innocence, and replaced it with knowledge she’d never asked for.”

— Dinah Jefferies

“In a way, looking back, it seemed a long, long time since she had been eighteen, but in another way her memories were so…

— Helen Hooven Santmyer

“she glimpsed an aging man who had just lost everything and had no idea what he was supposed to be doing with the time…

— David Baldacci

“Still, he could see by the way she carried herself that she'd truly come of age and was at peace with the world. That…

— Steven A. McKay

“She wouldn't look back, didn't want closure. She'd imagine for the rest of her years that somehow a part of her just went on…

— Kathy Dunnehoff

“She felt herself age suddenly, but also knew what she now desired: to reconcile and grow old in peace, and have the wit to…

— Orhan Pamuk

“It occurred to her then that there was a reason age stripped you of all the things you enjoyed or took for granted. It…

— Laura McHugh

“Her life was her own now and if there was happiness to be found, it was up to her to seek it. She couldn't,…

— Debbie Macomber

“The young are not curious about their elders, they just accept them for what they are. But I wish now I could go back…

— Peter May