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“I never left because a part of me will always be in that house...”

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“One longs and longs to be grown up, doesn't one?," she said, "I dreamed of being eighteen and having a Season and meeting handsome gentlemen even apart from Dominic and falling in love with them and marrying him and living happily ever after. But life is not nearly as that simple when one finally does grow up.”

Growing Up Eighteen

Book:The Devil's Web

Source: The Devil's Web

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.”

Poetry Morality

Author:Rumi

“I felt for the first time, maybe ever, how much harder it was to be the adults. And I wasn't sure I could do that when it was my turn.”

Book:Tempo Change

Source: Tempo Change

“Don't forget to speak scornfully of the Victorian Age; there will be time for meekness when you try to better it. Very soon you will be Victorian or that sort of thing yourselves; next session probably, when the freshman come up.”

Literature Growing Up Victorian Era

Book:Courage

Source: Courage

“That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like them.”

Growing Up Parents Maturity Scarlet Spotlight

Author:J.X. Burros

“Being a kid has always been about being watched.”

Kids Growing Up

Book:Scored

Source: Scored

“Milkers don’t spend half as long with their mothers." Eli spread his chore coat over Little Joe. "Not more than a few weeks. Sometimes one day. Maybe not even ... If you were a peeper, it’d be even worse. They don’t even get to see their mamas. They’re still jelly beans when they’re left alone to hatch.”

Nature Growing Up Separation Animals Farm Animals Author Sandra Neil Wallace Little Joe

Author:Sandra Neil Wallace

“„ ... denn das ist der Lauf der Dinge: Man wird dreizehn, man verwandelt sich in etwas Unmögliches, damit man sein eigener kranker Baum werden kann, ein freies uns glückliches Gewächs.”

Growth Growing Up Coming Of Age

Book:Rote Sonne

Source: Rote Sonne

“She had begun to find out who she is, and, having discovered this new world, to discover herself.”

Growing Up Awakening

Book:The Post-office Girl

Source: The Post-office Girl

“I am not my childhood.”

Book:Oryx And Crake

Source: Oryx And Crake