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“She had the feeling, the tingling, lingering sense that something or someone life altering was just over the horizon. She had no idea what it was, but she wanted to rush headlong to bring it to her.”

Book:Autumnal Dancer

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“Or maybe memories are like karaoke - where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at you, that you didn't even know the lyrics to your all-time favourite song. Only afterwards, when someone else is up on stage humiliating themselves amid the clapping and laughing, do you realize that what you liked most about your favourite song was precisely your ignorance of its full meaning - and you read more into it than maybe existed in the first place. I think it's better not to know the lyrics to your life.”

Music Growing Up

Book:The Gum Thief

Source: The Gum Thief

“hat'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.”

Growing Up

Book:Anne of Green Gables

Source: Anne of Green Gables

“Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up.”

Understanding Growing Up

Book:A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

“And if I sit in that room at the top of the house and I think about my life and if I shut my eyes from time to time and imagine being warm in the summer and I hear the bees buzzing and for a moment I truly am Alice in Wonderland, do you have the heart to tell me I am not?”

Growing Up Childhood Drama Theater

Book:Peter and Alice

Source: Peter and Alice

“You’re a teenager. It’s all complicated.”

Growing Up Complicated Teenager

Book:There You'll Find Me

Source: There You'll Find Me

“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.”

Growing Up Maturity Womanhood

Book:The Power

Source: The Power

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

Love Stories Monsters Cardan Greenbriar Villains

Book:How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

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.”

Poetry Music

Book:The Complete Poems

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.”

Growing Up

Book:Sing, Unburied, Sing

Source: Sing, Unburied, Sing

“In a desperate attempt to stay young forever we have achieved eternal childishness, rather than eternal youth.”

Humor Growing Up Maturity Eternal Youth Never Growing Up

Book:Leaving Neverland: Why Little Boys Shouldn't Run Big Corporations

Source: Leaving Neverland: Why Little Boys Shouldn't Run Big Corporations

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