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...
most of us, as we undergo the growing up process, do not get what we want or even what we should. We get what we have, and no more, and we find out how to make what we have work for us.
Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!
From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of educ...
Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we become tough, less sensitive.
Wow you've grown!" Yeah, that tends to happen...
I never left because a part of me will always be in that house...
That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like them.
It's easy to grow old if you haven't grown up
...when it comes to defining adulthood, nothing has made me feel more grown-up than knowing that one of the two people in the world who loved me the most, without condition, was no longer in the world...
Like it or not, a caterpillar must first live as a chrysalis before becoming a butterfly. Maybe I remember those days because I am going through a chrysalis stage.
I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.
We're growing up," Betsy said aloud. She wasn't even sure she liked it. But it happened, and then it wasn't irrevocable. There was nothing you could do about it except try and see that you grew up int...
I was sixteen, and I honestly believed that I was due a love story.
Maybe in the future when life sees that we are ready for love we will meet up or stumble upon each other and it will ignite the light inside of us that we are craving right now.
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