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  1. Neil Gaiman _ Smoke and Mirrors: Short

    I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them.
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  2. Daphne du Maurier _ Rebecca

    She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe.
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  3. Tamora Pierce _ Bloodhound

    Wenna followed us out. "You've done him some good, Clary, I have to say! He's got color in his cheeks, and he's stepping along as if he was sixty again," she told Goodwin as she walked us to the gate. "You'll come back?""Of course," Goodwin said. "But thank Cooper for his improved spirits. Once he'd insulted her a few times, he was in the pink.
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  4. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Tehanu

    By the time I wrote this book I needed to look at heroics from outside and underneath, from the point of view of the people who are not included. The ones who can't do magic. The ones who don't have shining staffs or swords. Women, kids, the poor, the old, the powerless. Unheroes, ordinary people-my people. I didn't want to change Earthsea, but I needed to see what Earthsea looked like to us.
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  5. J. Courtney Sullivan _ Saints for All Occasions

    Old age had distilled her down to her essence.
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  6. John Scalzi _ Old Man's War

    The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another-it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.
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