I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were…miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing...

Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it.

They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun.

İnsan bir zaman gelince galiba herkesin yaptıklarını yapıyor ve kendisinin çok da farklı olmadığını anlıyor. Herhalde büyümek böyle bir şey.

Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.

I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.

Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.

How do we deal with all the people we’ve been? What happens when we have to confront them?

In the boundaryless forests, there’re dancers of nude.Yet in the confines of pasture, there’s promise of food.On which is your side?Ô, but tarry and bide,ere you decide,in both do confide.

Margaux was older and wiser now and knew the waves couldn’t fix what was wrong in her life, but at least they might give her some temporary respite.

Stop using him, and start protecting him. I know he thinks he doesn’t need it, but sometimes he does. Sometimes we all do.

We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.

Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up.

I remember everything,’ Bette Midler flatly notes. ‘But you know how in life, you tend to hold grudges? Well, I don’t do that any more. Bad, bad stuff. I did as a young person, but...

What happened before the attack. I think you saw the future. Which is kind of freaky when – two months ago – you didn’t think you were going to have one.

A dragon looks like a girl when it is young.

Don’t you find it odd,” she continued, “that when you’re a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you’re older, somehow they act offended if you even try.

Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily sacrifice of heart over mind,the forever ongoing task of explaining this and that,and...

One can only hope that our horizons widen as we grow taller.

In his grief over the loss of a dog, a little boy stands for the first time on tiptoe, peering into the rueful morrow of manhood. After this most inconsolable of sorrows there is nothing...

I did not see Pirahã teenagers moping, sleeping in late, refusing to accept responsibility for their own actions, or trying out what they considered to be radically new approaches to life. They in fact are...

People always think something’s all true. I don’t give a damn, except that I get bored when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am, I really...

Weird how I can feel so frail and tiny sometimes, and other times so brave and bold and reckless and free, and . . . Does everybody feel the same? When people get grown-up, do...

Laughing at “Rapper’s Delight”‘s no revenge, and anyway it wasn’t your idea, and anyway it’s funny. Dean Street’s another story, a realm of knowledge unapplicable here.You’ve just about finished leaving Dean Street, and Aeroman, behind.If...

Most people made comments on how I was the strongest woman they knew.That was before the title wave of disaster hit my charmed life.

I thought I had found my true vocation and happiness, but in a strange way, they were just like my stepmother because they didn’t want me to grow up either. This is really important you...

That was part of the aspect to forming this group. These guys who played when they were growing up don’t have to give it up.

I never want you to deny anything about yourself because you have grown up thinking it’s unacceptable or inconvenient for the people around you.

I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.

It wasn’t brave because he wasn’t scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back again to get his glasses, when he knew the wasps were there, when he was really scared....

Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe in can be exposed as possessing laughable inconsistencies. And so they laugh. And...

Moving on should be a required high school classbecause Lynchburg is determined to make me forget.

They said growing up was watching your breasts grow, your waist widen and hairs sprout on your erogenous ones. You became aware of the warmness that spread in circles in your stomach when that fine...

At some point, you’re no longer growing up, you’re aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly.

Still Growing Up: Peter Gabriel Live & Unwrapped.

She’s growing up,” Sister Evangeline said.And I wanted to tell her no, I’m not. Everything is exactly the same.

Sometimes you really want to say “Duh,” but you can’t. It’s a part of growing up, I guess.

And the One will reveal the Bow of the Southern Star and conquer the enemy with courage and fine judgment. The sight of the One is true and the enemy cannot hide. Griffon will fly

I grew up in an era that was a golden age of the blockbuster, when something we might call a family film could have universal appeal. That’s something I want to see again. In terms...

When you think your life is falling apart, it’s usually falling together in disguise.

I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.

From the ages of 8-18, me and my family moved around a lot. Mostly we would just stretch, but occasionally one of us would actually get up to go to the fridge.

Hand, nobody told me about the weight. Why didn’t our parents tell us about the weight?—What weight?—The fucking weight, Hand. How does the woman Ingres live? The one from Marrakesh? If we’re vessels, and we...

Unfortunately the ‘warrior’ archetype accidentally dropped the soap in the shower and he has been getting boned senseless by the ‘soldier/lobbyist archetype’ ever since.

You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.

Milena’s eyes seemed to go hot and heavy. Praise made her heartsick; she was so unused to it, and needed it so badly.

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?

I think that’s a sign we’re growing up. We wanted to maintain a double-digit lead.

Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to...