WILD HEART

Episode 3

Cassidy POV

“I do what he says and I close my eyes and open my mouth and the next thing I know he's got his twenty-eight-year-old tongue in my thirteen-year-old mouth and all I can think is that I don't think the hero is supposed to be doing this.”

― Andrea Portes, Hick

“MISUNDERSTANDING" arises only when you see the things with Closed Eyes”

― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life "Life is what you make it"

“Innumerable surveys have made it quite clear that when a respectable elderly man makes up to a giggling young lady, it is not the giggling young lady so accosted that is offended by the action, but rather the granite-faced dowager, standing unnoticed by her side, who is. It is she who makes derogatory remarks concerning dirty old men, and is quite likely to attack him with an umbrella.”

― Isaac Asimov, 

“In fact, once when I imprinted on a young lady’s lips a chaste and fatherly kiss for about five minutes, I stopped and said, sorrowfully, “Wouldn’t you rather be kissed by a twenty-one-year-old boy?”

She frowned and said, “Of course not. If you’d ever been kissed by a twenty-one-year-old boy you’d know better than to ask.”

Remember that. In any direct competition, the old man is bound to win and the young man knows it.”

― Isaac Asimov, 

“She started dialing his cell, then hung up and tried the landline -- maybe Margaret was a better bet to pick up; their parents' generation still felt morally obligated to answer phones.”

― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“NO KISS FORGOTTEN; it resides in the memory as in the flesh, and so Katya many times felt the press of Marcus Kidder’s warm mouth on hers in the days and especially in the nights following. And her heartbeat quickened in protest: How could you! Kiss him! That old man! Kiss him! Let him put his arms around you ad kiss you and kiss him back! The old man’s mouth and Katya Spivak’s mouth! How could you.”

― Joyce Carol Oates, A Fair Maiden

“Very few people are aware of the fact that in the beginning the proud and glorious phrase “dirty old man” was actually meant as derision.

The very phrase, originated as it was by young men, is a standing testimonial to the ignorance of the same young men. s*x is dirty—if you do it right. Young men don’t know how to do it right, so they stay clean. Some old men never learn how and they stay clean, too.

But unless you have the ambition to retreat into dull hopelessness, don’t you do it. Don’t be bashful with ladies while young and retreat altogether as you grow older. Grow bolder with the years: advance, advance.

Be a dirty old man and be proud of it.”

― Isaac Asimov

“When we’re young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren’t that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young, erode. We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I’ve never much minded this myself.

But there are exceptions to the rule. For some people, the time differentials established in youth never really disappear: the elder remains the elder, even when both are dribbling greybeards. For some people, a gap of, say, five months means that one will perversely always think of himself – herself – as wiser and more knowledgeable than the other, whatever the evidence to the contrary. Or perhaps I should say because of the evidence to the contrary. Because it is perfectly clear to any objective observer that the balance has shifted to the marginally younger person, the other one maintains the assumption of superiority all the more rigorously. All the more neurotically.”

― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

No one in the world is really over 28. I wish I had known that when I thought I was 40.”

― Neil A. Hogan

“No one made sense of the love they shared. They didn't get the hang of it either. But together, the clocks of winter stopped.. And autumn's fallen leaves turned, swiftly, scarlet.”

― Malak El Halabi

“People asked if I was his daughter. They ask all the time. Hoping, accusing. We never say yes, and we never say no.”

― Kirsteen Reed

“He chuckles. “So you’re saying you were influenced by teenage vampires and kids on adventures without their parents?” he asks with a shrug. “That’s pretty much what I’ve been influenced by as well.”

“Yeah, but come on, this one has Kiefer Sutherland in it when he was super hot,” I tell him. “Before he started looking like his dad.”

“Kiefer Sutherland has a dad?” Cal asks me and I groan, because I know where this is going from the impish tone in his voice. “He must be even older than you.” I notice his smirk and I nudge him playfully.

“Asshole,” I hiss. “Put the damn DVD into the machine and let’s watch it, then you can decide who was the hotter vampire: Kiefer Sutherland or Robert Pattinson.

“Don’t forget David Boreanaz,” he reminds me. “He was a hot vampire too.”

― Dawn Sister, See You Smile

“In recent years a smaller share of young adults has been employed than at any time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking such trends in 1948. So it's not surprising that this generation of youthful protesters has a different focus for their grievances: the economy, stupid. But notice the targets they've chosen to demonize. It's all about class, not age. It's 1% versus 99%, not young versus old. Occupy Wall Street, not Occupy Leisure World.”

― Pew Research Center, The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown

“Kiedy jesteśmy młodzi, każdy powyżej trzydziestki wygląda na człowieka w średnim wieku, każdy po pięćdziesiątce na starca. I czas dowodzi, wraz ze swoim upływem, że nie myliliśmy się tak bardzo. Te drobne różnice wieku — tak istotne i olbrzymie, kiedy jesteśmy młodzi — ulegają erozji. Koniec końców wszyscy zaczynamy należeć do tej samej kategorii, kategorii niemłodych. Sam nigdy się tym specjalnie nie przejmowałem.

Są jednak wyjątki od tej reguły. W przypadku niektórych ludzi różnice czasu ustalone w młodości nigdy tak naprawdę nie znikają: starsi pozostają dla nich starszymi, nawet gdy jedni i drudzy są zaślinionymi stetryczałymi osobnikami. W przypadku niektórych ludzi różnica, powiedzmy, pięciu miesięcy oznacza, że będą się uważali za mądrzejszych i obdarzonych większą wiedzą niż ci drudzy, bez względu na dowody świadczące o czymś wprost przeciwnym. A może powinienem powiedzieć „z racji” dowodów świadczących o czymś wprost przeciwnym. „Z racji" tego, że — jak jest absolutnie jasne dla obiektywnego obserwatora — gdy szala przechyla się na korzyść marginalnie młodszej osoby, ta druga tym bardziej rygorystycznie podtrzymuje przekonanie o swojej wyższości. Tym bardziej neurotycznie.”

― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“Anyway, it's like when Kate Hudson was hooking up with that Jonas brother. It was kind of weird at first and then we all got used to it and nobody gave it a second thought. If anything, people applauded her because she's not afraid to go after what she wants. And she really wanted that cute little Jonas brother.”

― Winter Renshaw, Reckless

“Il nous faut encore expliquer quels liens unissaient Tristana, car tel était le nom de la jolie jeune fille, au grand don Lope, seigneur et maître de ce groupe, qui ne constituait pas à proprement parler une famille. Dans le voisinage, et parmi les rares personnes qui débarquaient un moment chez don Lope pour faire une visite ou pour espionner, il y avait des versions pour tous les goûts. On voyait l’emporter tour à tour, sur ce point capital, telle ou telle opinion ; durant un laps de temps de deux ou trois moi on tient pour vérité d’Evangile que cette demoiselle était la nièce de notre personnage, et il se trouva que des voisins qui l’avaient entendu dire « papa », comme les poupées qui parlent.”

― Benito Pérez Galdós, Tristana

“It was simply that Morgan was right for Theo in ways he couldn’t begin to explain. From little things such as Morgan already knowing so much about Theo—like the fact that he had no siblings—and accepting the way that Ben was still a very important part of his life, all the way through to arguing about absolutely f*****g everything, Morgan was just right for him. It wouldn’t have mattered if he’d been twenty-one or sixty-one instead of twenty-eight. He was perfect for Theo.”

― Con Riley, After Ben

“Age is irrelevant when it comes to adult male/female relationships, it is all about power levels”

― Robert Black

“There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection. There was a sense of justice in my father’s upright mind, which rendered it necessary that he should approve highly to love strongly. Perhaps during former years he had suffered from the late-discovered unworthiness of one beloved, and so was disposed to set a greater value on tried worth. There was a show of gratitude and worship in his attachment to my mother, differing wholly from the doting fondness of age, for it was inspired by reverence for her virtues, and a desire to be the means of, in some degree, recompensing her for the sorrows she had endured, but which gave inexpressible grace to his behaviour to her. Everything was made to yield to her wishes and her convenience. He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener, from every rougher wind, and to surround her with all that could tend to excite pleasurable emotion in her soft and benevolent mind.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

“The pristine vision of childhood restores freshness to even the most time-worn scenes, and in Laura’s company I recovered some of the delights I had experienced years ago when my son was a little boy.”

― Romain Gary, Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable

“— When a man close to sixty decides to break with a young woman whom he loves, and who loves him, what would you call it?

— Damned stupidity, sir.

— Yes, damned stupidity; in other words, ‘good sense’.”

― Romain Gary, Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable

“She remained stiff against him. “It’s a nasty little piece that speculates on the unions of older women and younger men. There is a mocking paragraph on how wise a man like you must be to reap the benefits of an older woman’s ‘grateful enthusiasm.’ It’s a completely dreadful article, and it makes me sound like a lust-crazed old crone who has managed to ensnare a young man for stud service. Now, tell me at once if there is any truth in it!”

One would have wished for immediate denial.”

― Lisa Kleypas, Suddenly You