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“It was fun, wasn't it?' The way he said that. Like he knew we would never play that game again. We were too old now. We'd lost something and we both knew it.”

Book:Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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“I am not coming to the Shire. You must settle its affairs yourselves; that is what you have been trained for. Do you not yet understand? My time is over: it is no longer my task to set things to rights, nor to help folk to do so. And as for you, my dear friends, you will need no help. You are grown up now. Grown indeed very high; among the great you are, and I have no longer any fear at all for any of you.”

Growing Up Gandalf Hobbit

Book:The Return of the King

Source: The Return of the King

“repeat after me: you owe no one your forgiveness. - except maybe yourself.”

Inspiration Poetry

Book:The Princess Saves Herself in This One

Source: The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“We are all locked in rooms in different ways, and part of growing up is finding different kinds of keys, and meeting the people who will help free you.”

Growing Up

Book:The Butterfly Lampshade

Source: The Butterfly Lampshade

“You know,' Astrid said, as Ara climbed off the window ledge, 'sometimes it’s a good thing. When you don’t know it’s the last time.”

Growing Up Science Fiction Leaving Last Time

Book:Do You Dream of Terra-Two?

Source: Do You Dream of Terra-Two?

“Abby Rivers was a certified grown-up because she'd finally cried at a movie.”

Humor Growing Up Childhood

Book:My Best Friend's Exorcism

Source: My Best Friend's Exorcism

“Then the day came when we stopped playing. We'd gone a couple of months without our usual games, but a few days into the school holidays I got my dolls out and tried to start up again. And it had all gone. The magic didn't work any more. I could barely even remember how we'd done it, but I tried to recapture the mood, the storylines, the way the dolls had moved and thought and spoken. But now it was like reading a meaningless book.”

Growing Up

Book:Tomorrow, When the War Began

Source: Tomorrow, When the War Began

“A hallmark of female adolescence is the realization that you are being commodified. You then are developing a sense of self within a cultural framework that values you primarily as an object.”

Women Growing Up Female Adolescence Patriarchy Objectification

Book:Spectacle: Discover a Vibrant Life through the Lens of Curiosity

Source: Spectacle: Discover a Vibrant Life through the Lens of Curiosity

“Least thing we can do is to wake up in the morning and protect the good things that were. The past deserves it.”

Growing Up Honor Memory Old Age Adolescence Growing Old Missing Someone The Goodbye Song Honoring The Past Remembering People

Book:The Goodbye Song

Source: The Goodbye Song

“But when you grew up, all that changed. You no longer lay awake in your bed, sure something was crouching in the closet or scratching at the window ... but when something did happen, something beyond rational explanation, the circuits overloaded. The axons and dendrites got hot. You started to jitter and jive, you started to shake rattle and roll, your imagination started to hop and bop and do the funky chicken all over your nerves. You couldn’t just incorporate what had happened into your life experience. It didn’t digest. Your mind kept coming back to it, pawing it lightly like a kitten with a ball of string ... until eventually, of course, you either went crazy or got to a place where it was impossible for you to function.”

Growing Up Childhood Adulthood

Book:It

Source: It

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