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“Everyone was always becoming someone else. Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old. How can a guy…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“I don’t think of myself as old. In my head I’m still the boy I was at seventeen. I just can’t do the things…

— Peter May

“I don’t feel old. I just feel like someone young who has something wrong with him.”

— Nadeem Aslam

“By spending years and years living entirely for yourself, thinking only about yourself, and having responsibility to no one but yourself, you end up…

— Danielle Crittenden

“It's funny, I don't feel any older than I did when I was twenty. But I know I am, because recently some twenty-year-old called…

— John Van Epp

“I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age: an almost childlike twenty-two, rather than that permanent middle-age that attaches itself…

— Mohsin Hamid

“I was right; just as soon as you take the first step toward getting to know someone your own age, everything you thought was…

— Matthew Quick

“You have lived all these years and you're still a grumpy teenage boy. That must take effort.”

— Carol Oates

“At seventeen, I knew: my entire childhood had been just a prelude to this girl. I had never felt anything like it, and still…

— William Landay

“I feel as though I have been having conversations like this all my life. None of us is young anymore, but what has just…

— Nick Hornby

“I was a normal eighteen-year-old: shuttered, self-conscious, untravelled and sneering; violently educated, socially crass, emotionally blurting.”

— Julian Barnes

“You're probably also wondering how in the hell I can possibly be twenty-five years old when just yesterday I was four. I know, it's…

— Tara Sivec