Quote by Jostein Gaarder

“She felt that it was only her body that was getting old. Inside she had always been the same young girl.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“Her body was growing old, but inside she still kept intact the adolescent she once was.”

— Isabel Allende

“now? When she looked at herself she saw her outside changing, growing older, while inside she still felt young. Aging was a strange thing—made…

— Debbie Macomber

“She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was…

— Margaret Atwood

“Though my body gets older, I still commune with the child inside.”

— Lorin Morgan-Richards

“Her old body against his old body, unbeautiful in aging. But together, they were still beautiful, somehow.”

— Lauren Groff

“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

“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

“I know people look at me and see an old woman, but in my mind I am still a young girl.”

— Betty Barrett my grandmother

“My grandmother had no time for old, no matter how her face crinkled or her days folded like an apron around her middle.”

— April Michelle Bratten

“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

“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