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I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to surround yourself with people who are better than you, and I was now living that mantra.
Kimberly Novosel
Roseanne, Roseanne, if I called to you now, my own self calling to my own self, would you hear me? And if you could hear me, would you heed me?
Sebastian Barry
I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.
Stephen Chbosky
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.
Tana French
That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.
Nick Hornby
It's easy to grow old if you haven't grown up
John Hively
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 subway...let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.
C. JoyBell C.
girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those in the know assured me that they were beautiful.
Jake Vander Ark
She told herself that she longed greatly to go back to those dear merry days when life was seen through a rosy mist of hope and illusion, and possessed an indefinable something that had passed away forever. Where was it now--the glory and the dream?
L.M. Montgomery
It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.
Jodi Picoult
Life has a funny way of turning you into the one thing you don't want to be.
Jonathan Levine
I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.
Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.
Neil Gaiman
Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up
Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray
Cassandra Clare
Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.
John Green
Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.
Stephen King
I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.
I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
Victor Hugo
Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.
Ernest Hemingway
