“The maester smiled...Hush now, child, I'm much older than you. I can....die as I please.”

“We'll need to make a litter to carry him," said Osha."No use," said Luwin. "I'm dying, woman.""You can't," said Rickon angrily. "No you can't." Beside him, Shaggydog bared his teeth and growled.The maester smiled. "Hush now, child, I'm much older than you. I can . . . die as I please.”

“Dimitri: "Rose, I'm seven years older than you. In ten years, that won't mean so much, but for now, it's huge. I'm an adult. You're a child.”Rose: "You didn't seem to think I was a child when you were all over me.”- Rose Hathaway & Dimitri Belikov (Vampire Academy)”

“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.”

“Ah, but I was so much older thenI’m younger than that now”

“I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.From the back pages”