#ge

Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today ↗

— Gillian Hovell

#britain #bronze-age #dark-ages #history #hovell

Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower? ↗

— George Orwell

#age

Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after. ↗

— Steven L. Peck

#eternity #existence #love #age

Parker, I'm old," She said matter-of-factly. "I get away with these things." She continued to wave and smile wildly. "People treat me like an idiot so I'm allowed to act like one from time to time. It's one of the perks. ↗

— Abby Slovin

#humor #old-age #age

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age.Nothing does --- except wrinkles.It's true,some wines improves with age.But only if the grapes were good in the first place ↗

— Abigail Van Buren

#age

Shaga: How would you like to die, little man? Tyrion: In my bed, at the age of eighty with a belly full of wine and a woman's mouth around my cock. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#game-of-thrones #geogre-r-r-martin #age

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads? ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#age

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty. ↗

— Megan Chance

#old #women #youth #age

Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter? ↗

— Julian Barnes

#ageing #colour #excitement #perspective #youth

Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me? ↗

— Annie Ernaux

#childhood #age