Source: iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us

“Jo era feliç, però feliç és una paraula adulta. No cal preguntar-li a un nen si és feliç, ja es veu. O ho són o no ho són. Els adults parlen de ser feliços perquè en general no ho són. Parlar-ne és com intentar atrapar el vent. És molt més fàcil deixar-lo que t’encalci. Quant a això, no estic d’acord amb els filòsofs. Parlen de coses apassionants però ho fan sense passió. No parleu mai de felicitat amb un filòsof.”

Happiness Growing Up

Book:The Passion

Source: The Passion

“Let her wake as when she close her eyes. That was all Jenny asked for. That was all she begged for on this March night that was perfectly equal to the day, unique in all the season. Let her be the same sweet girl, unburdened by gifts or sorrow.”

Growing Up Childhood March

Book:The Red Garden

Source: The Red Garden

“Growing up is a lot like that, I think. Convincing the world you’ve got it all figured out. Even when we know it’s a lie. We’re all still trying.”

Life Growing Up

Book:Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

Source: Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“Life was good back then, in the crappy, oppressive way life is good for fourteen year olds, which is to say, it completely sucked but seems pretty good in the obscuring glare of nostalgia.”

Growing Up

Book:Burn Collector: Collected Stories from One Through Nine

Source: Burn Collector: Collected Stories from One Through Nine

Quote by C.J. Tudor

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