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“You don’t think monster girls and wicked boys deserve love?”

Book:How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

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How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

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Holly Black

Holly Black, born on November 10, 1971, is a renowned fantasy fiction writer from the United States. Her works are known for their unique imagination and profound emotional depth, which have won her a large fan base. more

“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.”

Life Growing Up

Book:Before I Fall

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.”

Life Inspirational Young Growing Up Fitting In

Book:Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

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.”

Growing Up

Book:The Secrets of Peaches

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.”

Growing Up Awakening

Book:The Reivers

Source: The Reivers

“He was an astronaut without a suit, but he was still breathing.”

Life Inspirational Growing Up

Book:Highly Illogical Behavior

Source: Highly Illogical Behavior

“The truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing but does only and wholly what he must do.”

Growing Up

Book:A Wizard of Earthsea

Source: A Wizard of Earthsea

“On occasion, it occurs to adults that they are allowed to do all the things that being a child prevented them from doing. But those desires change when you're not looking. There was a time when your favorite color transferred from purple to blue to whatever shade it is when you realize having a favorite color is a trite personality crutch, an unstable cultivation of quirk and a possible cry for help. You just don't notice the time of your own metamorphosis. Until you do. Every once in a while time dissolves and you remember what you liked as a kid. You jump on your hotel bed, order dessert first, decide to put every piece of jewelry you own on your body and leave the house. Why? Because you can. Because you're the boss. Because . . . Ooooh. Shiny.”

Growing Up Adulthood

Book:How Did You Get This Number: Essays

Source: How Did You Get This Number: Essays

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