Quotes tagged ‘Growing Old Together’

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'I hope we'll get lucky enough to grow old together. You see them on the street, those couples who've been married so long you can't tell them apart. How'd that be?’ ‘I'd love to look like you,’ I said, 'I'd love to be you.'

— Paula McLain, amazon.com

We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone.

— Cecelia Ahern, amazon.com

I took her face in my hands and pulled her forehead against mine, and in that instant I felt our present and past selves in the room, the two of us in college choking back our emotions, a tsunami of love and longing and fear, as we slow-danced with our heads pressed together in a honky-tonk bar, pea…

— Mary Taugher, narrativemagazine.com

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