There was always so much I didnt know, but not knowing was part of it all.
Laura knew then that she was not a little girl any more. Now she was alone; she must take care of herself. When you must do that, then you do it and you are grown up. Laura was not very big, but she w...
Love is growing up.
Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.
Aging is something! It always makes you remember yesterday!
One day ask your daughter the kind of mother she wants to be! One day ask your son the kind of father he wants to be! One day ask yourself the kind of parent you have been! And one day, ask yourself h...
She isn't like any of the girls I ever knew, or any of the girls I was myself.
The only pressure I agree to, is my conscious and not peer pressure.
It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.
Hello, my name is your potential. But you can call me impossible. I am the missed opportunities. I am the expectations you will never fulfill. I am always taunting you, regardless of how hard you try,...
He was thirteen that year, the age when children splinter off and abandon the old loves.
... I wrote about ... my childhood, when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and god was a rabbit.
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up
I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one morning and says I can't bake any more bread.You never bake bread, he wrote, and we were still joking....
Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it.
You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.
The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters an...
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