Something Wicked This Way Comes Youth Quotes

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Quote #10

Perhaps the boys slowed. They never knew. Perhaps Charles Halloway quickened his pace. He could not say.

But, running even with the boys, the middle-aged man reached out.

Will slapped, Jim slapped, Dad slapped the semaphore signal base at the same instant. (54.147)

Charles Halloway achieves his dream of youthfulness exactly when he truly accepts his age and his mortality – and is able to laugh in its face.