“This was something he'd done a great deal of when he was very young, so young the memory was washed to sepia with age.”
“He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.”
“You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.”
“I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.”
“Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.”
“He'd once explained that when he was a boy his very proper parents had forbidden him and his brothers to curse in the house so 'feather buckets' was the young boys coded way of saying 'f*ck it”