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“I am thirty years old and living in postscript already, not on the edge but over it, a happenstance life on a tranquil margin. It is a gatecrasher’s quiet. I cannot explain what a thrill it is just to be here.”

Book:Wild Geese

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Wild Geese

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“I'm 26," she said, as if it were bad news she had received only recently. "It isn't the age I feel like." "What age do you feel like?" "Nineteen, like you." But to me, 19 still felt old and somehow alien to who I was. It occurred to me that it might take more than a year, maybe as many as seven years, to learn to feel 19.”

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Book:The Idiot

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“There was something stately about her, at the age of twenty-eight. She was mature and dignified. She looked like the kind of person who knew exactly who she was.”

Love Age Woman

Book:The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“You're only who you think you are until you aren't anymore. And it isn't up to you. It's up to time. Life is timing. The test of time. We all have to take it, and none of us pass. No matter how hard you study. Perfect attendance. All that homework. Extracurricular activities. You're still getting an F, just like everyone else. Finite. Failed. Fucked.”

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Book:The Hollywood Spiral

Source: The Hollywood Spiral

“I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest, My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning. The world shall find this miracle in me, That fire can burn when all the matter’s spent; Then what my faith hath been thyself shall see, And that thou wast unkind thou mayst repent.”

Love Age Old Age

Book:Delia: Elizabethan Sonnet Cycle

Source: Delia: Elizabethan Sonnet Cycle

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