" I'm twenty-six," she said, as if it were bad news she had received only recently. "It isn't the age I feel like."
"What age do you feel like?"
"Nineteen -- like you."
But, to me, nineteen still felt old and somehow alien to who I was. It occurred to me that it might take more than a year -- maybe as many as seven years -- to learn to feel nineteen. "
― Elif Batuman , The Idiot
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"What age do you feel like?"
"Nineteen -- like you."
But, to me, nineteen still felt old and somehow alien to who I was. It occurred to me that it might take more than a year -- maybe as many as seven years -- to learn to feel nineteen." style="width:100%;margin:20px 0;"/>