Quote by Théophile Gautier

“ (...) You're very young." "No one's young anymore. Anyone who's survived this long is ancient." There's a smile pulling up one corner of his mouth.”

— Stephenie Meyer

“I stop to brace myself against the walls, which are painted with the fingerprints of family.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

“I am in the process of nailing Mr. Humphrey Griffin to the wall so thoroughly that future generations will mistake him for a tapestry,...”

— K.J. Charles

“I love getting older," I muse as I carefully begin to peel the layers away. "You're closer to death, but there are presents.”

— Abby McDonald

“I was young once, you know. Truth be told, I still am. Now, if I can convince my mirror.”

— Julie Lessman

“I was so young, I tell myself now. I was twenty-one, only recently farewelled by childhood, although at the time childhood seemed like ancient…

— Mary-Rose MacColl

“I'm glad that I am not young in so thoroughly finished a world.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I like that about art, that what you see is sometimes more about who you are than what's on the wall.”

— Cath Crowley

“You are still here stitched into the words on these walls.”

— Tamara Ireland Stone

“My reflection always gives me a shock. I never really believed I would age, and certainly not like this.”

— Emma Healey

“It's only now, looking back, that I see how you patched through my walls, and entered my life, in waves.”

— Velvet Goldmine

“There was a charm in being reborn into the world when one was old enough to appreciate it.”

— Thomm Quackenbush