Age Quote by Katherine Boo

“She looked at the kids, who did not see [them] because they were past the age of twenty-five...”

— Stephen King

“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

“You can't tell a seventeen-year-old anything. They think they're immortal. They don't listen. Seventeen-year-olds have to see it for themselves.”

— Jennifer Echols

“I stood before her asserting my age, but in truth not knowing where the years had gone or how they had led up to…

— David Dabydeen

“He was said to have the body of a twenty-five year old, although no one knew where he kept it.”

— Terry Pratchett

“She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her life trying…

— C.S. Lewis

“He said, ‘Is there a child?’ ‘I have told you that there is,’ said Jokaste. ‘I wasn’t talking to you,’ said Damen. The attending…

— C.S. Pacat

“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 had reached the age of seventeen, without having seen one amiable youth who could call forth her sensibility, without having inspired one real…

— Jane Austen

“Halfway through April Naoko turned twenty. She was seven months older than I was, my own birthday being in November. There was something strange…

— Haruki Murakami

“By then she was the only one of her seven siblings without a child and quickly approaching thirty (which is like forty when you…

— Helena Andrews

“If there was one thing she knew by then, by age twenty-two, it was that she had to get far away and stay away.…

— Nicole Mones