Philosophical Quote by Rick Yancey

“younger than she should have been, older than any child should ever need to be.”

— Seanan McGuire

“I didn't understand most of what he was saying. I should have had to understand what he was saying. I was still so young.…

— Elizabeth Smart

“He seemed even younger now, as though he were traveling backwards in time, in his mind, or merely becoming innocent, as if the dead,…

— Anne Rice

“should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah,…

— Khaled Hosseini

“I'd have given anything to turn back the last ten years of my life - and that wasn't something someone my age should have…

— Courtney Allison Moulton

“Don't be afraid to hear me. Don't shrink from anything I say. I am like one who died young: all my life might have…

— Charles Dickens

“Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one’s self, like a fingernail.”

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Robin Hobb

“It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I…

— William Faulkner

“I didn't listen to her because she was my mother & wouldn't know anything until I was much older.”

— Brian Andreas

“They hanged my mother. I watched her body swing from the lower branches of a silk cotton tree. She had committed a crime for…

— Maryse Condé

“My time was growing short. I could feel it. And I could see it in the sad, worn faces of those I passed by.…

— Loren Niva