[One Sip of a Book] "Turning Thirty-One Does Not Mean Life Is Over"

Some sentences encapsulate the entire content of a book, while others instantly reach the reader's heart, creating a connection with the book. We present such meaningful sentences excerpted from books. - Editor's note

What if we gathered and read sentences from books that depict life from age 0 to 100? Joshua Fraeger, the author who compiled this book, pondered deeply about age and time and decided to realize this idea by compiling it into one volume. His criterion for selecting sentences was “a sentence that clearly mentions a certain age and evokes something related to it (with insight).” This project, started at age thirty-eight, was completed when he turned forty-four.

11 I vaguely remember my blood screaming, shouting, running, and swirling when I was eleven.

John Steinbeck (1902?1968), East of Eden

21 Now I have the authority of a twenty-one-year-old adult. But perhaps this is just something people have imposed on me as a burden.

Charles Dickens (1812?1870), David Copperfield

31 Turning thirty-one does not mean life is over.

Leo Tolstoy (1828?1910), War and Peace

66 At sixty-six, I rebel and resist more than I did at sixteen.

Henry Miller (1891?1980), Alfred Perles, quoted in Art and Anger

93 I am none other than ninety-three years old... There is not much time left. I really must hurry.

William Faulkner (1897?1962), Flags in the Cemetery

Every Age Shines | Compiled by Joshua Fraeger | Translated by Kim Nam-ju | Illustrated by Milton Glaser | Minumsa | 240 pages | 19,000 KRW