“At last he said, "Did you come out of the big mountains?" Gitano shook his head slowly. "No, I walked down the Salinas Valley." The afternoon thought would not let Joey go. "Did you ever go into the big mountains back there?" The old dark eyes grew fixed, and their light turned inward on the years that were living in Gitano's head.”
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“So now we are young still but a better sort of young.”
“Mamma says she is quite certain that "how old is too old?" is not a question known to the Lord.”
“Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age.”
“Prettiness fades after a few years, but elegance only increases with age.”