Old Woman Quotes

“The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today ...”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Midnight Palace

“Er," Oliver said. "He talks even less than the one Lily married," the crone remarked to Walter. "Though when the mood strikes him, he asks just as many questions as Galem." "I'm sorry," Oliver said weakly. The old woman nodded. "You are forgiven," she pronounced in a queenly tones.”
― Jessica Day George, Princess of the Silver Woods

“Can you be sure?"
"I haven't spent the last fifteen hundred years learning how to knit my own socks, boy!" The crone looked like she might box Heinrich's ears, if she could reach them.”
― Jessica Day George, Princess of the Silver Woods

“When I grow up I want to be an old woman.”
― Michelle Shocked

“I remember mistaking an old woman for a trout stream in Vermont, and I had to beg her pardon.”
― Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

“Jenny lacked any sense of property - she was constantly apologising to Yevgenia and asking for her permission to open the small upper window in order to let in her elderly tabby cat. Her main interests and worries centered around this cat and how to protect it from her neighbors... She fed her own rations to the cat, whom she called 'my dear, silver child' The cat adored her; he was a rough sullen beast, but would become suddenly animated and affectionate when he saw her.”
― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate

“I continued to stare at the empty seat because my sensation of a vibrant presence there was unrelieved. And in my staring I perceived that the fabric of the seat, the inner webbing of swirling fibers, had composed a pattern in the image of a face—an old woman's face with an expression of avid malignance—floating amidst wild shocks of twisting hair.”
― Thomas Ligotti, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

“I’ve always liked numbers. I like how you can just keep stacking them up, one on top of the other, until they fill any space, any moment. I told my friends this one day, and Lindsay said I was going to be the kind of old woman who memorizes phone books and keeps flattened cereal boxes and newspapers piled from floor to ceiling in her house, looking for messages from space in the bar codes.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“Live in a young girl's bedroom, but eat from an old woman's kitchen.”
― Mantaranjot Mangat, Plotless

“It's a relief to leave unnecessary things. But do the necessary things have to be so heavy?”
― Hiromi Goto, Shadow Life

“The first god, the Cailleach, was very old. In fact, one of her other names was the Old Woman of Scotland, although most humans never saw her in that form. Instead, those with the Sight merely felt her invisible presence in a wild storm or a rushing waterfall or even in the melted snow that pools in fresh-plowed spring fields. The Cailleach was a goddess of creation. She made trees bud. Grass thicken. Calves grow inside cows. Fruit ripen on the vine. Her work was the ancient business of making and renewing.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Bravely

“wastes away like an old woman who was once a stunning beauty before shutting down completely.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

“It makes no sense to say that something lives at the bottom of a bottomless lake. If it’s bottomless, there is no bottom to be lived on.”
― Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse