“There are only old people here.”
“Here," an old sugar worker told me, "the people have a great love for martyrs--but only after they're dead. Before, there's nothing but complaints.”
“…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.”
“They weren’t a centuries old hunter and a seventeen year old girl, sitting here at the edge of the world. They were just two people, Bonnie and Damon.”
“33 old people went into a nursing home, and only 34 people came out alive. One old woman died while giving birth to twins.”
“Chance words spoken in kindness often help amazingly; and that's what old people are here for -- else their experience is of little use.”