#out

Marple closed her eyes and fell asleep. It felt good. She felt like a kid again. She’d waited a long time to feel like that. It felt like the universe was folding in on itself. It felt like origami birds being born. —from THE IMMORTALS ACT THEIR AGE ↗

— Eric Beeny

#age

It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside. ↗

— Colum McCann

#youth-age #age

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. One may almost doubt if the wisest [hu]man has learned anything of absolute value by living. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#ageing #learning #youth #age

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was? ↗

— Satchel Paige

#youth #age

I'm sorry you don't like coming back here," her mother often said, to cap whatever petty dust-up they'd had. How could Emily explain: it wasn't her mother or Kersey she'd disowned, but her earlier self, that strange, ungrateful girl who strove to be first at everything and threw tantrums when she failed. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#arguments #coming-home #daughters #family #fights

A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars. ↗

— Alan S. Kesselheim

#modern-life #outdoors #age

Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps. ↗

— Alan S. Kesselheim

#expedition #outdoors #age

Nature felt no change, and was ever young. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#helstone #maragaret #youth #age

Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades- except love. Love is forever and there after, even when we've fallen to our graves. ↗

— Lee Argus

#inspirational #lee-argus #life #love #qoutes-to-live-by

It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#angst #idealism #injustice #status-quo #youth