Betrayal Quote by Lydia Davis

“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

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

— Lauren Groff

“She appeared to be ageless the type that would continue, unchanging, until she was an old woman when she would suddenly become senile and…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“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

“She was old; millions of years old, she felt. And at last, she could bear the burden of herself no more.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“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 felt herself age suddenly, but also knew what she now desired: to reconcile and grow old in peace, and have the wit to…

— Orhan Pamuk

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

— Lorin Morgan-Richards

“The years stretched before her, a long and dusty way, yet if she could walk humbly along it she might find that life, unfolding…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“When a woman turns forty she is no longer young, but not yet old.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

“Shame, when she was younger, had stopped her. Fear, as she grew older, trapped the truth within her.”

— Lorraine Heath