her age QUOTES

1 " Phoebe asked me, " Tell me, what do you think of the afterlife?" I was a bit nonplussed. I had no idea what she thought, but I knew that the question must be of greater interest to someone of her age than to me. But our conversation had been completely honest, and before I could speak, honesty and tact had joined hands in my answer. " I have no faith at all," I said, " but sometimes I have hope." I rather think," she replied, " that total annihilation is the most comfortable position." I was shaken. The horse clopped on. The children laughed behind us.When I die," she said, " I don't expect to see any of my loved ones again. I'll just become a part of all this." She waved her hand at the surrounding countryside. " That's all right with me. "

2 " Betsy hadn't had sex, actual; sex-sex, full sex, in two hundred and fifty-three days. She decided on her thirty-seventh birthday that she wouldn't sleep with anyone unless it was in the context of a committed relationship which had some sort of future, and she was only gradually coming to the realization of what happens when a woman her age makes a decision like that: she never has sex again. "

― Sarah Dunn , Secrets to Happiness

3 " The smell of burning firewood and the molding of organic, earthy substances reminded her of jumping wildly into the enormous leaf piles of autumns past and she suddenly wished that it was appropriate for someone her age to do such a thing. "

4 " Before taking her into the library, my wife told me she was an old friend in a marriage crisis. A fatuous lie; at her age there are no crises left in marriage, only acceptance and extraction. (General Villiers) "

― Robert Ludlum , The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne, #1)

5 " She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names. "

― Trenton Lee Stewart , The Mysterious Benedict Society (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #1)

6 " Maturity of a woman is not in her age or size for age is just a number and size is figure. "

― Jaachynma N.E. Agu

7 " He was good looking, " sort of distinguished when he wants to be" , had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up all the romance that her age and environment led her to desire "

8 " Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated. "

― Alexandre Dumas

9 " When she told me her age I believed her - why not? she hasn't changed her story for five years. "

10 " She was born in the year of our Lord only knows. The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's. "

11 " I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. "

12 " India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities. "

13 " The design process usually starts as a fantasy, with ideas that I dream of and visualize. These ideas become a reality by bringing various ingredients together, from the lifestyle of my bride, her age and sex appeal, to the textures of the finest fabrics and embroideries that we produce in my family factories in India. "