I knew that I did not want to go to that juvenile diversion program because I had an intuitive sense that it would turn me irrevocably into the kind of character that I was now...

Tell your children the most important things To Be when they grow up, is to be kind and compassionate, to be loving and grateful, and to be happy and at peace with who they are,...

We really don’t get to understand /why/ most of the time. It’s true.

But memories were fragile and not to be trusted. They were a weight that Faolin did not need to carry with him when he set out that morning. Things of the past, like the fragile...

My whole life, when I was growing up, not one race has ever accepted me, … So I never felt connected or attached to any race specifically. I had a very American upbringing, I feel...

Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.

How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who you are and what is motivating your life.

I want to understand the strings that are tied between me and certain other people and if they really can stretch through infinite time and space without ever breaking. Are soul mates real, and is...

At their core, Tiger Eyes, Forever…, and Sally J. Freeman are all books about teenage issues, but to an adult reader, the parents’ story lines seem to almost overshadow their daughters. I’m bringing an entirely...

The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our chilhood behind.

That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget.

Oh God, I’m miss­ing the gene which makes you grow up and buy a flat in Streatham and start visiting Homebase every weekend. Everyone’s moving on without me, into a world I don’t understand.

If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.

What if my boobs decide to grow WHILE I’m at school?

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray

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,...

Mam said I was growing up. I felt that I was dying.

It was a very ordinary day, the day I realised that my becoming is my life and my home and that I don’t have to do anything but trust the process, trust my story and...

I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions.

But for a long time, and probably far too long, I had a secret wish: the adolescently romantic idea that there was someone out there for me; someone I hadn’t met yet who would ask...

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...

Jeeter?” Grace whispered into her walkie-talkie. “Are you awake?” She waited.A few weeks ago, she and Jeeter had started chatting on their walkie-talkies late at night when she couldn’t sleep. He always answered her call...

One longs and longs to be grown up, doesn’t one?,” she said, “I dreamed of being eighteen and having a Season and meeting handsome gentlemen even apart from Dominic and falling in love with them...

My mother… she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

As a child there’s a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you safe, that your tutor makes a mistake, that the wrong...

Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.

I think it all basically breaks down to something like this: You have to look and feel great first. If you eat well, exercise and get enough sleep, you will have ample energy and the...

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.

Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.

Unfortunately, it has come to my attention that the modern world is sorely lacking in imagination. And grown-ups are the biggest culprits of all.

It’s much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody.

You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well?

She knew him in that way you can only know a person as a child. Like if you cracked away the adult shell, you’d find that child, happily sitting inside, smiling at you.

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility.

Remember, it’s still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you’d have nothing to look forward to.

Don’t be sorry. Be good. Be right. Be a hero.

When I was about nine, my siblings and I fell out of our moving van at an intersection. My dad didn’t notice for about five blocks. It was back before seat belts. It was also...

Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something more than this empty shell.

Only when you are grown up, perhaps only when you have children yourself, do you fully understand that your own parents had a full and intricate existence before you were born.

To say that I grew up without parents is a lie, because I haven’t grown up yet. Also, all six of my potential parental candidates are still alive.

My head is in another dimension. My feet are talking to their soles. My nose is detecting a hint of sweaty, overpumped poon. There’s a spider corpse perpetually hanging on the wall next to my...

From my window I watched the full moon—a moon that reminded me of Brett—become shadowed, little by little until there was only a deep blackness in the woods at night. I would sit there wakeful,...

It was a time before Facebook and Instagram and texting. I imagine it must be easier now, for college students. Home must not feel so far away anymore. But how do you cut the apron...

Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve And ponder the days…

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...

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you’re young. But I don’t think we make any fewer when we’re grown up

I’m not sure I’ll ever know the meaning of life or what comes for us after death, but I know it’s more than the hysteria people make it out to be. It’s about freeing your...