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Home Page » Categories » Growing up

I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.

Karen Handel
I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

Gale Norton
Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio - from the 'Growing Pains'/'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' era, because he was...

Eliza Coupe
It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio - from the 'Growing Pains'/'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' era, because he was superhot - and I carried a laminated photo of him in my wallet and said he was my boyfriend. But no one believed me.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

Liv Tyler
I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

What's so beautiful about girls? I would implore. And the secret society of adults would reply with a smirk and wink as if I was merely a boy who couldn't possibly have the mental maturity to...

Jake Vander - Ark The Accidental...
What's so beautiful about girls? I would implore. And the secret society of adults would reply with a smirk and wink as if I was merely a boy who couldn't possibly have the mental maturity to comprehend such grown-up concepts as love and bleeding vaginas; "You'll understand someday, James."

Because…sometimes I think you meet people and they make you better, even if you're not with them forever.

Kris Noel Lionhead
Because…sometimes I think you meet people and they make you better, even if you're not with them forever.

Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up.

Daniel Black Perfect Peace
Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up.

I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest. By eighth grade you start to figure out your limits.

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls
I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest. By eighth grade you start to figure out your limits.

I am convinced that most people do not grow up... We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and...

Maya Angelou Letter to My...

Each of Nora's children had arrived on this earth as him or herself, the more she knew them, the more she felt it to be true. They were so different from one another, and from her.

J. Courtney Sullivan Saints for All...

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.

J. Courtney Sullivan Saints for All...

I guess that's what growing up is. Saying good-by to a lot of things. Sometimes it is easy and sometimes it isn't. But it is all right.

Beverly Cleary (Author) The Luckiest...

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure, death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality even where we will not....

Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty...

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd...

Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty...

Where is the happiness, the sunshine, where are those thick skittles of wood which crashed and bounced so nicely, where is my bicycle with the low handlebars and the big gear? It seems there's a law...

Vladimir Nabokov Mary

They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.

George Eliot The Mill on the...

It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I was a child no longer now; innocence and childhood were forever lost, forever gone from...

William Faulkner The Reivers

We realized that the version of the world {our parents} rendered for us was not the world they really believed in, and that for all their caretaking and bitching about crabgrass they didn't give a...

Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin...

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

Jodi Picoult My Sister's...

The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter

Haruki Murakami Yesterday

you know what her punishment is for tormenting you way back when?" he said.I looked at him.He said, "her punishment is being her

Curtis Sittenfeld Sisterland

Laughing at "Rapper's Delight"'s no revenge, and anyway it wasn't your idea, and anyway it's . Dean Street's another story, a realm of knowledge unapplicable here.You've just about finished leaving...

Jonathan Lethem

I know who I want to be and I want you by my side as I become that person.

Katie McGarry Red at Night

It's a shame for a woman's history to be all about men-first boys, then other boys, then men, men, men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war...

Elizabeth Kostova The Swan Thieves

That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them

L.M. Montgomery Anne of Green...

I used to joke that we had prepared ourselves for a time like this by living with Mother. The problem with such a state of affairs was not that you did not get to do what you wanted---sometimes you...

Azar Nafisi Things I've Been...
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