elderly

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
ed08759	Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.	elderly old-people seniors	Robert A. Heinlein
19a43d9	"Wenna followed us out. "You've done him some good, Clary, I have to say! He's got color in his cheeks, and he's stepping along as if he was sixty again," she told Goodwin as she walked us to the gate. "You'll come back?" "Of course," Goodwin said. "But thank Cooper for his improved spirits. Once he'd insulted her a few times, he was in the pink."	grumpy-old-man visit elderly	Tamora Pierce
573c41d	She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe.	youth elderly	Daphne du Maurier
2996e16	The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another--it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.	elderly seniors old	John Scalzi
9073311	I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them.	mirage elderly desert	Neil Gaiman
3e67f29	By the time I wrote this book I needed to look at heroics from outside and underneath, from the point of view of the people who are not included. The ones who can't do magic. The ones who don't have shining staffs or swords. Women, kids, the poor, the old, the powerless. Unheroes, ordinary people--my people. I didn't want to change Earthsea, but I needed to see what Earthsea looked like to us.	heroes feminism heroism women heroics elderly	Ursula K. Le Guin
233a9e8	Old age had distilled her down to her essence.	humanity life-lessons life wisdom essence elderly old-people womanhood old-age	J. Courtney Sullivan

Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.

Robert A. Heinlein

19a43d9

"Wenna followed us out. "You've done him some good, Clary, I have to say! He's got color in his cheeks, and he's stepping along as if he was sixty again," she told Goodwin as she walked us to the gate. "You'll come back?" "Of course," Goodwin said. "But thank Cooper for his improved spirits. Once he'd insulted her a few times, he was in the pink."

grumpy-old-man visit elderly

Tamora Pierce

573c41d

She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe.

youth elderly

Daphne du Maurier

2996e16

The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another--it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.

elderly seniors old

John Scalzi

9073311

I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them.

mirage elderly desert

Neil Gaiman

3e67f29

By the time I wrote this book I needed to look at heroics from outside and underneath, from the point of view of the people who are not included. The ones who can't do magic. The ones who don't have shining staffs or swords. Women, kids, the poor, the old, the powerless. Unheroes, ordinary people--my people. I didn't want to change Earthsea, but I needed to see what Earthsea looked like to us.

heroes feminism heroism women heroics elderly

Ursula K. Le Guin

233a9e8

Old age had distilled her down to her essence.

humanity life-lessons life wisdom essence elderly old-people womanhood old-age

J. Courtney Sullivan