“When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund”

“I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.”

“The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.”

“I think people understand things different when they get older. It’s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I’m just understanding things different. Better.”

“For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.”

“Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if it is dying it will return to life, what with a little sun and the usual encouragement. Sometimes I think: I am older than this tree, older than this bench, older than the rain. And yet. I'm not older than the rain. It's been falling for years and after I go it will keep on falling.”