"He's getting older," Charles said darkly. "Shall I hit him with my walker or my oxygen tank?"
4
"When your in pain you slowly killing your self but when your happy you are repairing the pain that slowly killing you"
4
"My father helped you with that. . that thing you do?” “Yes. Your father helped me with that peacemaking thing I do that keeps you happily killing for a living."
3
"I have to say, old friend, you were supposed to help train her, not drop her off a cliff."
4
"Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help."
4
"I will tell you what we shall do: if ever you need to rescue Catherine, or you Berkley, Maximus, I will help you, and you will do as much for me. Then we do not need to worry, I do not suppose anyone could stop all three of us, at least not before we can escape"
4
"REFUSALWhen you refuseto tell your weightand age,people knowyou're fat and old."
4
"Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight."
4
"I'm over the hill for come-on lines. On a quiet day, I can hear my liver rotting. For exercise, I fall down. ~ Clete"
4
"I call the Change of Life "Orchids" because menopause is such an ugly word. It's got men in it for goddsakes."
3
"There isn't a thing I can't do now that I didn't do when I was twenty-one...which gives you an idea of how pathetic I was when I was twenty-one. (That's a lie, but I might as well tell you something right here at the beginning of the book. Anytime I can get a laugh I'm not going to let the truth interfere with it.)"
3
"It's not cold in here, you're just dying."
3
"Past age fifty-five, I experienced the advancement of exquisite fabric choices, paint distinctions that were celestial in scope, yet so many other man-made objects, such as people, became drab, redundant and boring."
3
"Wow. Look at the lines in your face, Missy. It's like your bitterness just dug in and stayed."
4
"I was young once and slender and pretty and I made the most of it. It's somebody else's turn now."
3
"As she drove the familiar route to the school, she considered her magnificent new age. Forty. She could still feel "forty" the way it felt when she was fifteen. Such a colorless age. Marooned in the middle of your life. Nothing would matter all that much when you were forty. You wouldn't have real feelings when you were forty, because you'd be safely cushioned by your frumpy forty"
3
"So why aren’t more marketing companies targeting our age group? Why are there so many youth-oriented programs and advertisements on television today? Why are we being ignored? Don’t companies realize they are missing a huge market?Now granted, a visit to the local mall will show you there are a lot of teenagers hanging out there these days. But are they shopping? Are they spending money? No. They’re “hanging.” Contrary to what our skin might be doing, we members of the over-forty crowd don’t “hang.” We shop, and not just window shop either. We’re serious buyers. When we pick up an item and turn it over to see the price, we often carry it right on over to the checkout counter and pay for it. Why? Because we know the energy involved with picking up items. We don’t do it unless we’re committed."
3
"Longevity is highly over rated."
4
"As you get older you strip away the things you don't have time for, and then you are left with only the things you have time for. Your life gets skinnier and skinnier until you wonder why you go on. You go on because there are things that must get done. You become no longer a person so much as a place, an unfunny place where things come to get done."
4
"To a man and woman, all of her elderly patients had been surprised to be old - which Avery privately regarded as a serious failure to pay attention."
3
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