#ge

She was beautiful, but her youth, the very awkwardness of her age, prevented her from flaunting it. ↗

— Richard J. O'Brien

#beautiful #beauty #teen #youth #age

We made love like a half a minute. I brought the thirty seconds, and she provided the excuse as to why she didn’t have enough time to have sex with me.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#funny #humor #love #relationships #sex

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#doubting #doubts #effort #efforts #mankind

Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#authority #chastise #elders #generations #old

She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones. ↗

— Kim Edwards

#love #memory #age

I Didn't Ask to Be a Senior Citizen (I Was Drafted) ↗

— Doug Jensen

#humor #old-age #senior-citizen #age

Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't. ↗

— James Agee

#age

Nothing so ageing as giving into preconceived perceptions; the youth within one would not have given in to such stodginess. ↗

— allison malm

#age

As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep ↗

— Edith Wharton

#marriage #age

You asked what I wanted and I'm not going to lie to you. What I want most is the naked truth. I want to strip away every stubborn layer until you're bared to me. And then I'm going to show you how to love right. ↗

— Nadège Richards

#life #love #relationships #sex #truth