#age

He thinks of the rotten parachute they played with as kids in Arcadia: they hurtle through life aging unimaginably fast, but each grasps a silken edge of memory that billows between them and softens the long fall. ↗

— Lauren Groff

#friendship #memories #age

You are beholden To the truth It is the way It is the path It is your destiny To be true Is to be ↗

— Karen Hackel

#life #living #new-age #soul #true

She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#youth #age

...have you ever thought you knew someone--I mean really knew someone--then realized that the person you thought you knew only existed in your overextended mind... ↗

— Stephanie Verni

#age

I imagine that she flushes, seeing him there, for she is at that age when even the most commonplace boys take on a sense of mystery. And this boy is not ordinary. He is wild and he has strange and fanciful perceptions. [p. 153] ↗

— Kim Edwards

#age

A body is a body, but only voices are capable of love ↗

— Ricardo Piglia

#love #voices #love

Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#age

So what did it matter where she came from? Who-or what-her parents were? Everyone's family was messed up in some way including my own. And she was still the same Ariane." - Zane, page 400 ↗

— Stacey Kade

#love #realization #age

The only color I judge people by is the color of their teeth. ↗

— Ziad K Abdelnour

#judgement #age

Only little boys and old men sneer at love. ↗

— Louis Auchincloss

#love #passion #sentimental #age