#age

Por que en las epocas oscuras se escribe con tinta invisible? Why in the darkest ages do they write with invisible ink? ↗

— Pablo Neruda

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Hearts know nothing of time-not age or length of acquaintance. They know only what they need. ↗

— Jayne Rylon

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...our familiar features rinsed in weird adulthood. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

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Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#fear #jodi-picoult #lone-wolf #wisdom #age

I was a lot braver when I was eight. ↗

— Claire Cook

#bravery #age

I'm thirty,", i said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honour". ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#humor #age

Why would a vampire create a younger vampire if there was a possibility the young one might end up destroying the old one?' Stephin stared. 'If you can explain to me how this is different from parenting in general I might know how to answer that. ↗

— Adam Rex

#vampires #age

Are we always to be wanting what isn't: the greenest grass accord and principle motherhood and career? Yet our age lies to us like an asp, whispering. "Both. ↗

— Barbara Crooker

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As he talked, I watched Emma and wondered what is to become of her. She is of an age to be married but she spends her time with people who are so much older than she, that she is never likely to meet a husband. And if she does, I do not know if she will wish to marry. She is too comfortable where she is. Her father is easy to please and she can do as she likes with the household. A husband will have his own views, and Emma is not likely to take to that way of living. ↗

— Amanda Grange

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The ages live in history through their anachronisms. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humor #wilde #age