She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it . - Gabriel García Márquez

The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.

The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.

Old people, with other old people, are not so old.