“Nothing special has happened today; no one can say she was more provoked than usual. It is only that every day one grows a little, every day something is different, so that in the heaping up of days suddenly a thing that was impossible has become possible. This is how a girl becomes a grown woman. Step by step until it is done.”
Source: The Power
“You don’t think monster girls and wicked boys deserve love?”
Source: How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.”
Source: The Complete Poems
“Some days later, I understood what he was trying to say, that getting grown means learning how to work that current: learning when to hold fast, when to drop anchor, when to let it sweep you up.”
Source: Sing, Unburied, Sing
“In a desperate attempt to stay young forever we have achieved eternal childishness, rather than eternal youth.”
Source: Leaving Neverland: Why Little Boys Shouldn't Run Big Corporations
“It’s kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there’s no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you’re no longer a kid but a “young adult,” and after that you’re a totally different person. Maybe even a less happy person. Maybe even a worse one.”
Source: Before I Fall
“When I was young, I used to wish I would fit in… I’m glad I didn’t get my wish.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“I just wanted to see if... we were okay," she said, feeling relief. "Just to make sure we can be friends. I don't want it to be weird, you know?" Friends? Different parts of Birdie died as she said it. It was like stars exploding and burning one by one. She wondered if this was part of getting older. Parts of your heart exploded and died.”
Source: The Secrets of Peaches
“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 me.”
Source: The Reivers
“He was an astronaut without a suit, but he was still breathing.”
Source: Highly Illogical Behavior