That's the downside of growing up. There's a lot of pretending involved. We frequently act like someone other than who we really are because we don't know or aren't comfortable with our true selves.
Generally speaking, I resolve to change my life on average maybe thirty to forty times a week, usually at about two a.m, drunk, ore early the next morning, hungover.
I never left because a part of me will always be in that house...
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
There is no night porter wandering about in King's. The authorities pay you the compliment, ugly gate-crasher, of treating you as a grown-up. And since we are not grown-up you and I, we will perform o...
Sometimes, when you were thinking about something, trying to understand it, it opened up in your head without you expecting it to, like it was a soft spongy light unfolding, and you understood, it mad...
It wasn't right that you could only understand your parents' pain once you'd experienced the things they had, and by then they were gone.
Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adoles...
But, really, are there any guys out there who aren’t jerks? I don’t even know any grown-up men who aren’t jerks.
Growing up, when I was younger, I didn't feel all that tough or smart or strong. As I got older, I was able to discover my own strength.
Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.
To become a man is to carry out your word because you gave your word. And your word is you as a man." - The Legacy Letters, by Carew Papritz
My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.
My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not...
That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have b...
I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
It struck her how sad it was that all of them had grown up on top of one another like small animals in a too-small cage, and now would simply scatter. And that would be the end of that. Everything tha...
Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.