Helpless Quote by Lilith Saintcrow

“I tried to do that very difficult thing, imagine old people young again and invested with the graces of youth. But”

— Charles Dickens

“It was frightening, though, how little time you got. You only became yourself when you were twenty-three or twenty-four. A few years later, you…

— Roddy Doyle

“He pulled me toward him, and all I could do was stand there with arms at my sides and head against his chest. Broken,…

— Jodi LaPalm

“I didn’t know what being young had to do with it. It seemed to me that older people could do foolish things just as…

— Catherine M. Wilson

“The life I'd had was disappearing. Every adult who had ever held me as a baby was dead and no one would ever carry…

— Sarah Schmidt

“It's tough out there, boy, and as long as there are people, there's gonna be somebody trying to take what you got and trying…

— Mildred D. Taylor

“and wasn't it an awful dangerous thing, a text message, because once you pressed that little send button, that was it. Like pulling a…

— Donal Ryan

“That's the thing about people you loved. They disappeared on you. I didn't know much at the ripe old age of fifteen and a…

— Jerry Stahl

“It was not like everyone had said. Not like being needed, or needing; not desperate; it did not whisper that I'd come to harm.…

— Deborah Garrison

“It shocked me to realize that he suddenly seemed old -- so frail that the slightest push would have sent him tumbling. The body…

— Yōko Ogawa

“Now I am a grown woman. No one knows me more than I want them to. It was self preservation. If everyone knew so…

— N. Torres

“I called no one, and no one called me. I was suffocating with loneliness. The pain was almost physical. I felt like tearing myself…

— Cat Clarke