You're looking good

"He arrived a bit early for his appointment with Marshal Lagana. 'You're looking good,' said the marshal, eyeing him. Montalbano got worried. Often of late that statement didn't sound right to him. If someone tells you you're looking good, it means they were expecting you not to look so good. And why were they thinking that? Because you've reached an age where the worst could happen overnight. To take one example: Up to a certain point in life, if you slip and fall, you get right up, because nothing's happened to you. Then the moment comes when you slip and fall and you can't get up anymore, because you've broken your femur. What's happened? What's happened is you've crossed the invisible boundary between one age of life and the next."

(Andrea Camilleri, in The Paper Moon)