Quote by Tove Jansson

“Fourteen hundred and thirty-one.” I blinked. “What's that?” “The year I was born, which is not, as you'll note, yesterday .”

— Jeaniene Frost

“Well, she’s told me very little about you,’ her grandmother replied because she’d survived a war, one stillbirth, a daughter who’d got knocked up…

— Sarra Manning

“finally turned away. My aunt stood watching from the back door, frail and hunched. “Tell me the rest,” I said, and she did, her…

— Kate Quinn

“God, I was just six years older than you are now. That’s terrifying.” She raised her shoulder, nudging my head. “Please don’t make me…

— Rachel Hawkins

“From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to know. Forty-one people at the mall…

— Dean Koontz

“There’s no men like that nowadays. This is a degenerate age, Miss Shirley.” “Homer said the same thing eight hundred years, B.C.,” smiled Anne.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“In college, twenty-nine had seemed impossibly old. By now, she'd thought, she'd be married and have kids. But as each year went by, she…

— Jennifer Close

“Age was just a number, right? So what if hers happened to be in the quadruple digits?”

— Bethany Lovell

“She was old; millions of years old, she felt.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“She was old; millions of years old, she felt. And at last, she could bear the burden of herself no more.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“How old are you, anyway?' she asked, squinting at him. There was a pause. At last he said, 'Why do you want to know?'…

— Natalie Babbitt

“She blow em clean over. She suck the grits off the candle and start eating. After while, she smile up at me, say, "How…

— Kathryn Stockett