| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9f423b9 | It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me. | getting-old | Katherine Dunn | |
| 57f2c60 | There was a time when I quite liked what I saw in the looking-glass, but not anymore. Now I'm startled, and more than startled, by the visage that so abruptly appears there, never at all the one that I expect. I have been elbowed aside by a parody of myself, a sadly dishevelled figure in a Halloween mask made of sagging, pinkish- grey rubber that bears no more than a passing resemblance to the image of what I look like that I stubbornly retain in my head. | look-in-the-mirror getting-old reflections | John Banville | |
| 9388729 | "Your hair has always been amazing. I remember those fabulous chopsticks you used to wear." Anna wore a look of amused chagrin. "I'm afraid Mr. Greenleaf won't let me wear those anymore. I took a little tumble one night and almost harpooned the cat." This was very much the Anna she remembered: warm and self-mocking and complete present. And somehow that made it even harder to accept how frail she'd become since Mary Ann's last visit." | getting-old lgbtqia-characters hairstyle | Armistead Maupin |