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“…and she reflected that thirty-five was a lot harder than twenty-five had been. She was pretty sure she was getting smarter, but she figured she was falling apart at the same rate. By the time she was seventy, she ought to be both brilliant and too decrepit to make any use of her hard-won knowledge.”
― Holly Lisle, Memory of Fire

“Stop catastrophising the finish line when you’re barely out of the blocks.”
― Jay Hogan, Foxed

“It was only in quiet moments like this that the sadness came through. Because that was the thing about Logan, under the sharp one-liners and incredulous glares, there was always a sadness that felt so deep, Ashley thought she could fall into it and never reach the bottom. It was a sadness Logan had sewn into her chest, that she’d fashioned into a piece of her personality.”
― Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

“Joe alone was the keeper of those memories, and so many more like them, Tess thought. It was a great responsibility, holding all that history inside one’s head. An important vigil. Maybe that was why newer experiences faded as one neared the end of a long life. The brain simply couldn’t hold the lifetime of memories it had stored, and the most precious took precedence over those that came after. Who cared what he had for lunch the day before? His mind was otherwise occupied.”
― Wendy Webb, The Stroke of Winter