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“He paused, looked thoughtfully at her over the cafe table. 'And do I seem unspeakably old?' She searched for an answer. 'Not old. Different. Like a book with more pages. Ones that I haven't read - and can't read.”

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Book:Consequences

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“He goes to the bathroom again. He seems to have reached the age where he needs to go even though he hasn't drunk anything since the last time, as if his body is inventing its own liquid, when you're approaching forty perhaps you start to melt internally.”

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Book:My Friends

Source: My Friends

“El día que asumas tus defectos y los quieras, los aceptes... Ese día serás feliz. Y no hay nada que te merezcas más que la felicidad.”

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Book:Estúpidamente encantador

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“It seemed that mere children were in love with each other nowadays.”

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Book:The Blythes Are Quoted

Source: The Blythes Are Quoted

“One artist said: when younger I was a planet with its own dense atmosphere. The descending rays of light broke into rainbows. Constant thunderstorms raged inside... Now I am extinct and dry and opened. I lack a certain childlike energy. I have a hot and cold side. But no rainbows.”

Age Rainbow Planet

Book:The Half-Finished Heaven

Source: The Half-Finished Heaven

“For Shanghai women old clothes are the shells they shed during their metamorphoses. Their age is shown through their clothing; but the heart lying beneath the garments sometimes forgets to grow up.”

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Book:The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai

Source: The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai

“Face creams have gotten worse with the years, because clearly aging is the cream’s fault.”

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Book:Yet Another New Land

Source: Yet Another New Land

“Golf is the only sport where you can't tell how good a player might be by glancing at their physical form. I've seen some real slobs shoot scores so low the number is almost their age.”

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Book:To be good at golf you must go full koala bear

Source: To be good at golf you must go full koala bear

“My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the young, whose excesses are confined to lecture halls and quadrangles, so much as I fear the old, whose tyrannies are legislative.”

Age Understanding Teaching Youth

Book:The Message

Source: The Message

“Florrie studies him. From her lower viewpoint, she sees his pores and wrinkles, and a thumbprint on one of his lenses. There is, too, a nick of a razor near his bottom lip- and it reminds her once more that this elderly gent is still a boy, in some ways, as she is still a girl, fashioning a trumpet out of a rolled-up newspaper or chasing Bobs down the garden. She’s still blowing out ten birthday candles. We don’t leave the children we were. We simply grow around them like a tree will, in the end, grow around a bicycle that’s been left against them.”

Book:The Night in Question

Source: The Night in Question

“We're too old to think we'll meet again.”

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Book:Less

Source: Less