Age Quote by Martine Leavitt

“She had been born to cradle other people's children, wear their hand-me-down clothing, eat their leftovers, live on borrowed happiness and grief, grow old…

— Isabel Allende

“Incessantly, it seemed, life plagued her with responsibilities, made her fall in love, ripped away any consolation she might find. Sisters and parents, brothers…

— Meg Rosoff

“She must always remember that: love ebbed and flowed, now rich and shining, now shabby and disconsolate. One must survive the bad in order…

— Irving Stone

She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.

— Dean Koontz

“Her features were exquisite perfection, carved by nature with obvious care and never altered by the harshness of life.”

— Lorraine Heath

She strived for perfection. She loved setting herself tasks, sometimes impossible ones, to prove to her heart that underneath every seemingly ugly thing there…

— Cecelia Ahern

“She died a few days later, and her death buried once and for all the intrigues between the Precious Wife, the Gracious Wife, and…

— Shan Sa

“Thankfully, God was faithful. Along with her loving and patient family, the Lord had comforted her, loved her, and brought her out of the…

— Sharon Gillenwater

“[About the main character approaching death in old age, observed by her husband . . .] He saw that she had already laid down…

— Michael D. O'Brien

“Her failure to demand her needs, losing all of her years, sacrificing herself on the altar of motherhood to a son who saved himself…

— Cherise Wolas

“Her experience had been of a kind to teach her, rightly or wrongly, that the doubtful honor of a brief transit through a sorry…

— Thomas Hardy

“His wife...always dressed in mourning for the children who died in infancy and squeezed breathless by the pressure of her corset, her religion, and…

— Isabel Allende