# Quote — Samuel R. Delany, Neveryona

> As one grows older, one lives more and more off the little signs of whatever community one moves through day to day and less and less off the gifts that fall out of individual relationships. If one does not prepare for this change in youth, than age becomes a bitter time. This is not to disparage the beauty of one’s relationships with lover or friend. It is only to acknowledge what, for so many in the city, is a sad truth. Community can, however awkwardly, replace individual relationships. But individual relationships only grow poisonous and resentful if there is no community to support them.

- Author: [Samuel R. Delany](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany.md)
- Book: [Neveryona](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/neveryona.md)
- Page: 147
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany#Nevery%C3%B3na_(1983)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/neveryona/as-one-grows

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> Myself, I suspect it’s a kind of madness: the madness that makes one repeat whatever one is trained to repeat.

p. 367 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/neveryona/myself-i-suspect.md)

> For better or for worse, she found herself putting aside fear in favor of curiosity.

p. 163 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/neveryona/for-better-or-for.md)

> To be a bandit is better than to be a slave!

p. 86 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/neveryona/to-be-a-bandit.md)