“We'll grow old waiting.”

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

“I would prove to the men how mistaken they are in thinking that they no longerfall in love when they grow old--not knowing that they grow old when they stopfalling in love.”

“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”

“We'll turn to ashes in this house without men, but. we won't give this miserable town the pleasure of seeing us weep”

“Old people, with other old people, are not so old.”

“She returned many years later. So much time had passed that the smell of musk in the room had blended in with the smell of the dust, with the dry and tiny breath of the insects. I was alone in the house, sitting in the corner, waiting. And I had learned to make out the sound of rotting wood, the flutter of the air becoming old in the closed bedrooms. That was when she came.”