“She has built her whole life on the foundation of beauty: each chiseled plane, each sloping dimple, each soft curve as crucial as keystones in the cathedral of her body.”
Source: Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales
“NW" is full of split selves, people alienated from the very things they thought defined them. Their nostalgia -- for old movies, old songs, buses they don't ride anymore -- is less a salve than a form of pain.”
“Son front, quoique peu ridé, semble porter le sceau d'une myriade d'années. Ses cheveux gris sont des archives du passé et ses yeux, plus gris encore, sont des sibylles de l'avenir.”
Source: Histoires extraordinaires
“At a certain age [...] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn't already been so smart.”
Source: The Hard Way: Stories of Danger, Survival, and the Soul of Adventure
“...all she wanted was a button she could push to pause her age, just for a little while, a few years, while she got used to the idea.”
Source: Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures
“What about young age? You will be miserable all through your 15 years to reach that goal of $10 million. After 50
years, even if you pay a million to get back a week of your time at 35, you will never get that. Your beer will taste very different when you are at 50 from how it tasted at 30.”
Source: A Maverick Heart: Between Love and Life
“Death was constant, unprejudiced to age, race, or creed.”
Source: The Sin Collector: Thomas
“A successful man is like a bottle of wine, just gets better with age.”
“I keep hoping that the Wizard will be toppled in my lifetime, and this aim seems to be at odds with happiness.”
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“You are mortal. You age, you die. If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?”
Source: City of Ashes