“He's a woman.He's a grown womanHe's a old woman.”
“He had grown fond of the old proprietress, Mrs. Matalov, who had been a magician's assistant back in the 1930s, and who now, even at ninety-three, had the stoic dignity of a beautiful woman who was about to be cut in half.”
“She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.”
“He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.”
“A man is only as old as the woman he feels.”
“There are times when I swear that boy is as mature as an old man, and other times when he hasn’t got the sense of a three-year-old babe. (Mavis)Good Lord, Mavis. He is a grown man after all! (Alice)”