“age is a terrible theif”
“Fate,' I said, 'Is a theif.”
“Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.”
“Age is a terrible thief.”
“So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.”
“But that age … exerts on usAn almost terrible charm,Like the memory of things seenAnd a life lived in dreams.”