Fifty-years Quote by Umberto Eco

“There's no spring in his step. No smile on his face. There's just a grim determination, grown strong over the years due to the…

— Shawn P. McCarthy

“He'd been coiled like a snake for years and the tension had gone slack and when he was ready to spring the spring wasn't…

— Tim O'Brien

“For he was not strong enough to receive the impact of unfamiliar things without a little talk to break their fall.”

— Eudora Welty

“He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to be suddenly…

— Chris Cleave

“It shocked me to realize that he suddenly seemed old -- so frail that the slightest push would have sent him tumbling. The body…

— Yōko Ogawa

“The old agility was still present and the passion was undeniable, but it was the wobbling of the gut, the puffing of the cheeks…

— Jamie Holoran

“against the hard surface, as if he were weightless.”

— Jeff Gunzel

“He had wanted more than he could physically give, and so his walk had become a battle against himself, and he had failed.”

— Rachel Joyce

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

— D.H. Lawrence

“... he had never once been frightened of a living one before. They were too fragile, too easily broken and dismantled: They had bones…

— Lauren Oliver

“He couldn't be more than twenty-five, but he obviously lived enough to have things to regret. He looked like he'd taken a long fall…

— Jonathan Lethem

“He'd been old, and I'd been little, but still, it seemed wrong that someone so comforting in his dailiness could simply stop existing.”

— Brenna Yovanoff