Quote by Susan Cooper

“For he had acquired a lore in his youth which taught him ever to avoid the aged when merry plans were afoot; for the…

— Lord Dunsany

“...the very old men [...] believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the…

— William Faulkner

“Of course I am thinking the Lord was once young and will never in fact be old. And who else could this be, who…

— Mary Oliver

“In this way he continued until he was fourteen years of age, when his extraordinary destiny took him by the hand, and led him,…

— Arabian Nights

“He was in a fairy kingdom where everything was possible. He looked up at the sky. And the sky was a fairy realm like…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I felt both puny and pretentious, trying to write in the grandeur of that natural world where everything was older than time and I…

— Martha Gellhorn

“Talk was a commonplace that did not belong to this enchanted time and place. A big moon was rising over the Cove. The wind…

— L.M. Montgomery

“When he had first come to the village,it was the future that loomed huge.So much to plan.So much to learn. Then it was the…

— Margaret Craven

“I have crossed over, and that childhood is as far away and strange as something that happened to someone else in a land beyond…

— Kermit Roosevelt III

“He fills my head with tales from the ancient forests, tales so old that the trees themselves call them legends. It is as if…

— Maryrose Wood

“He who had been a boy very credulous of life was no longer greatly interested in the possible and improbable adventures of each new…

— Sinclair Lewis

“The last two days I’ve been on long bus rides, driven through the countryside on the back of a motorbike, and crossed rivers on…

— Tucker Elliot