Getting old Quote by Jostein Gaarder

“Her grandmother had said once that she felt it was only her body that was old. Inside she had always been the same young…

— 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

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

— Lorin Morgan-Richards

“Yet my confusion must be this: though her body is old, her capacity for betrayal is still young and fresh.”

— Lydia Davis

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

— Lauren Groff

“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

“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

“She looked old, felt young, was neither.”

— Joseph Fink

“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

“Yes, she was now a young woman but she would for ever be his little girl.”

— Angela Marsons

“Being young was her thing, and she was the best at it. But every year, more and more girls came out of nowhere and…

— B.J. Novak