“Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.”
“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”
“An overnight success is usally twenty years in the making!”
“It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.”
“Jonas, Tate’s teenaged son … looking like mini-Tate, giving me the understanding that in a few years, me and every woman over twenty-five years of age in Carnal would be moved to become a cougar.”
“Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.”