Old saying Quote by Robert Jordan

“My grandmother had no time for old, no matter how her face crinkled or her days folded like an apron around her middle.”

— April Michelle Bratten

“You never wore that blue gown for a lover?' 'Absolutely not!' She felt a little indignant at the very idea. 'You think I have…

— Eloisa James

“She went along with whatever I did, but I wanted something less generous and more… dubiously consensual. Like cuffing a passed-out woman to my…

— Annabel Joseph

“Granny was quiet. She was either contemplating Dwayne’s story or trying to come up with one that would top his. I shivered as I…

— Robyn Peterman

“It’s amazing how much a frail old woman will confide in a visiting nurse.’ She laughed and shook her head. ‘Imagine pouring out your…

— Barry Brennessel

“We make everything we wear or use here, awake or asleep; so I have made this bed, and now I am lying in it.”

— Margaret Atwood

“She was a very old lady indeed, or at least she looked it. She leaned on a hawthorn stick, enveloped in garments she must…

— Diana Gabaldon

“...Mabel put on the boiled potatos, unmashed, the stewed tomatos, some inferior dried beef, and some bread that plainly said, 'Darling, I am growing…

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

“Years later when she was being eccentric, had shed her corset and let her arse spread unhindered by anything but her perpetual dressing gown.”

— Peter Carey

“Why do you have my dress?” I march over, yanking her other drawers open to see what other treasures were waiting to be discovered.…

— Minka Kent

“Believe me when I tell you that there is no lie quite so obvious as the one where you try to protest that you…

— nigel slater

“You wait 'til you're my age, and wake every morning to gaze on the vast tract of uncreased linen that is the other side…

— Sarah Waters