TV was entertainment of the last resort. There was nothing on during the day in the summer other than game shows and soap operas. Besides, a TV-watching child was considered available for chores: take...
Everything changed when I learned to honour my body instead of fighting it. When I learned to take care of it, like a precious castle to protect this weary heart. To stop harming it, punishing it for...
We grow apart because we grow in different stages and not all of our stages align.
The whole idea of it makes me feel Like I’m coming down with something, Something worse than any stomach acheOr the headaches I get from reading in bad light –A kind of measles of the spiritA mumps of...
Seniority has nothing to do with intellectuality, your individuality wins the majority or minority, simply because you maintained the status quo of your peculiarity.
I'm not perfect and the older I get the more I realise that.
The people they had been last summer, the person she had been--Dicey guessed she'd never be afraid again, not the way she had been all summer. She had taken care of them all, sometimes well, sometimes...
My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.
At some point, you're no longer growing up, you're aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly.
The groove is so mysterious. We're born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupi...
I am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital.
I learned that adults were not soaring gods, but rather back-yard birds with broken wingtips.When you are thirteen, about to free-fall into the real world, discovering the broken wingtips is terrifyin...
The things you let go will someday teach you how to fly.
I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do.
When you choose to forgive the same people over and over again you do so because you don't want to believe your time loving them was wasted. Bad relationships over time can become investments, that ar...
I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the s...
I lost my innocence very young and it had nothing to do with sex.
I tried on different versions of myself. I was so many different girls...
The trick is growing up without growing old.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.