Another world Quote by Julie Berry

“His mind seemed older than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and happiness and regrets like a moon upon a younger earth.”

— James Joyce

“Who had that young man been who had thought himself so old and worldly-wise? He was a stranger to me now.”

— Robin Hobb

“He was dazed, the soft thoughts sinking slowly in. A son. Even a daughter. His child. Immortality. A chance to make good. Pass on…

— Helen Hodgman

“Of course I am thinking the Lord was once young and will never in fact be old. And who else could this be, who…

— Mary Oliver

“He had thought, no doubt, from the day he was born, much more than he had acted; except indeed that he remembered thoughts--a few…

— Henry James

“Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective amid so…

— Joseph Heller

“I lived in an enclave in which our oldest had seen twenty-five years. His face was withered, and his fingers shook when he attempted…

— Ann Aguirre

“In the end he said, I am Mercier, alone, ill, in the cold, the wet, old, half mad, no way on, no way back.…

— Samuel Beckett

“Scared by the thought , brooded awhile on his own past, groping in all the corners of memory, lest by chance some jack-in-the-box of…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I must be old, Pyotr thought to himself, if my son is being kind to me.”

— Katherine Arden

“He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to be suddenly…

— Chris Cleave

“While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time.”

— John Williams