Kim Harrison Quotes

When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone.

The difference between a human being ten years of age and one fifty years of age lies altogether in the matter of toys.

Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.

The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.

Getting into your 30s, you don't feel the same as in your early 20s.

I feel better now at 38 then I did when I was 17. But then, when I was 17 I did have the attitude of a 40 year-old.

I believe in elves and giants. I believe that fairy tales are nothing more than news reports of what once happened.

If you are 20 you don't have the same life experiences as at 25.

I know some good old gals in their 50s and 60s. All these women tell me, 'Forty to 50. Those are the hot times.' So far, you couldn't prove it by me. But hell, I'm only two years in.

Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would've wanted to play 10 years ago, I don't want to play now.

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.

I mean I’m 16 and 17 years wiser now. So if I could do it when I was 18 with a guy, I can certainly do it at 33 with a lady.

Years do not always make age.

I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.

A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old.

For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.

I notice that as I get rid of the protective covering of the middle years, I am more openly amused and incautious and less careful socially, and that all this makes for increasingly pleasant contacts with the world.

When you're 12, a 12-year-old girl is so out of your league, because they have no interest in you. You're like 10 years younger. You're 2 to them.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

How old are you? Twelve?" "Fourteen & three quarters." His eyes sparkled. "You're kind of little for fourteen and three quarters." "Am not," I replied indignantly. "I'm a sophomore this year. How old are you?" "Seventeen and two fifths." Hardy Cateses & Liberty Jones.

[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm.

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.