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“You can't make me be nice. You can't make me be good. You can't make me believe. But your example, your kindness, your patience and love will affect me perhaps enough that eventually I may choose to do those things.”

Book:Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

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“Strangely enough, when you get older the things you didn't understand when you were a child start to make sense. "When this happened, I should have done that." "When that happened, I should have said this." those types of things. You start to understand rather than regret. It may be closer to repentance. So it may be that I do want to repent and erase the ignorant self from my childhood.”

Growing Up

Book:Fruits Basket, Vol. 4

Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 4

“For me- and for everybody else, probably- this is my first experience growing old, and the emotions I'm having, too, are all first-time feelings. If it were something I'd experienced before, then I'd be able to understand it more clearly, but this is the first time, so I can't. For now all I can do is put off making any detailed judgments and accept things as they are. Just like I accept the sky, the clouds, and the river. And there's also something kind of comical about it all, something you don't want to discard completely.”

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Book:What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“That was the problem, wasn't it? You left home. But you never did become an adult. Not really. You just fucked up in different and more complicated ways.”

Growing Up Adulthood

Book:A Spot of Bother

Source: A Spot of Bother

“Ah man. I remember the days of lying to my mother about a boy. Once I had a boy hidden in the closet and of course Mom wouldn't leave, so I finally had to pretend to get sick to my stomach just to get her out of the room long enough for him to climb out the window and down the tree. He fell, broke his leg. Ah, to be young again.”

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Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“You can believe what you've been told. You can imagine in vivid detail the things explained to you. You may even feel emotions assumed to accompany the related experience. But you absolutely cannot know something with any real degree of understanding until you've personally walked the road yourself.”

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Book:Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“I liked being with the books: they reminded me of how many ways of thinking existed outside my own - how small and fleeting my pulse was when set alongside those ageing spines.”

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Book:The Sea Change

Source: The Sea Change

“But I can’t manage to grow up and change shape. I’m still tiny, and staying that way, perhaps because I know the secret that everyone pretends to be unaware of, perhaps because I know that deep down we’re all tiny.”

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Book:No and Me

Source: No and Me

“There’s no magic ruler by which we’re all judged and weighed, not in this life. If you wait for someone to tell you it’s time to grow up, you’ll wait forever. Some people, quite happily, do just that. They don’t do anything until they’re forced to by circumstance”

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Book:Love Lessons

Source: Love Lessons

“Milena's eyes seemed to go hot and heavy. Praise made her heartsick; she was so unused to it, and needed it so badly.”

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Book:The Child Garden

Source: The Child Garden

“When Uncle W. G. held out his hand to take my money, I dropped the dead mouse in his hand.”

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Book:Cold Turkey at Nine: The Memoir of a Problem Child

Source: Cold Turkey at Nine: The Memoir of a Problem Child

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