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Neil Gaiman _ The Ocean at the End of the
I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. The truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.'...We sat there, side by side, on the old wooden bench, not saying anything. I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies, like children books hidden in the middle of dull, long books. The kind with no pictures or conversations.
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Neil Gaiman
Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?"Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.
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Neil Gaiman _ The Tragical Comedy or Comical
Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.
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David Eddings _ Crystal Gorge
Do you ever plan to grow up, Veltan?" he asked."Not if I can avoid it, no.
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Lauren Bacall _ By Myself and Then Some
Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Idiot
I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them."
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Enid Blyton _ The Naughtiest Girl Again
I think people make their own faces, as they grow.
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L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of Green Gables
It must be lovely to be grown up, Marilla, when just being treated as if you were is so nice...Well, anyway, when I grow up, I'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were, too, and I'll never laugh when they use big words.
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L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of the Island
You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of the Island
That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
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Roddy Doyle _ Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
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 made sense forever…
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Laurie Halse Anderson _ Wintergirls
The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are bot failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better.
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