Josephine Winslow Johnson Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: June 20, 1910 - February 27, 1990
Birthday: June 20
Death: February 27
Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to the reptiles again. Not the little wet naked frog they were born. But the tortoise. Cold eyes, sagging circles of skin, the nose becomes beak. The shell of sleep.
source: Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books
topic: Sleep, Eye, Circles, Sagging, Beaks, Cold Eyes
