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A review by clarkness
Your Duck Is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg
4.0
On getting older:
"The worst thing is, you're just not a part of the world any longer. When you're young, everyone is holding hands, all of your friends, even the people you don't like, everyone in the world. But at a certain point, when you get older, you float a little off the surface of the earth. Everyone is rising up off the surface of the earth. Everyone is farther away from one another. You can't hold hands any longer. You stretch out your hand, but you can't reach anyone else's. And when you look down, you see that what you thought was the world, is just a wrapping around the world, a loose, disintegrating wrapper with a faded picture of the world on it. The world is where young people live."
"The worst thing is, you're just not a part of the world any longer. When you're young, everyone is holding hands, all of your friends, even the people you don't like, everyone in the world. But at a certain point, when you get older, you float a little off the surface of the earth. Everyone is rising up off the surface of the earth. Everyone is farther away from one another. You can't hold hands any longer. You stretch out your hand, but you can't reach anyone else's. And when you look down, you see that what you thought was the world, is just a wrapping around the world, a loose, disintegrating wrapper with a faded picture of the world on it. The world is where young people live."