"I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have."

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And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.

— Jeffrey Eugenides