“I was a normal eighteen-year-old: shuttered, self-conscious, untravelled and sneering; violently educated, socially crass, emotionally blurting.”
“When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.”
“I have a body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.”
“This woman was eighteen years old. With eyes as old as stones.”
“They know the autumn's the peak season for harvesting, and that the crop is eighteen-year-olds.”
“A normally constituted truth lives, let us say, as a rule seventeen or eighteen, or at most twenty years—seldom longer.”