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“It's the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important...People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose.”

Book:The Little Prince

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“You are young," said my father. "You won't get any younger even if you clean your teeth twice a day." "You'll get older," said my mother, "that's what happens." "Then what happens?" "You won't be able to find the treasure." "Will I be too old to look for it?" "No, but you'll be looking in the wrong place.”

Growing Up Youth Aging Treasure Adulthood

Book:The Powerbook

Source: The Powerbook

“It has started to snow. We all ran out when it began, and played at catching flakes as we used to when we were children. But it was cold, and our boots and gloves and cloaks were soon wet - you feel these things more when you are grown-up.”

Growing Up Winter Snow

Book:The Secret Diary of Lydia Bennet

Source: The Secret Diary of Lydia Bennet

“We're growing up," Betsy said aloud. She wasn't even sure she liked it. But it happened, and then it wasn't irrevocable. There was nothing you could do about it except try and see that you grew up into the kind of human being you wanted to be. "I'd like to be a fine one," Betsy thought quickly and urgently.”

Growing Up

Author:Maud Hart Lovelace

“In the book, you lost your powers. In the movie, you chose not to use them as much. I guess I did a little of both.”

Growing Up Adulthood Mara Wilson

Book:Where Am I Now?

Source: Where Am I Now?

“Perhaps they never die at all. I quite believe that myself, and it is a comfort, don't you think? That there is a place where no one ever grows old?”

Growing Up Comfort

Book:The Secret Horses of Briar Hill

Source: The Secret Horses of Briar Hill

“When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calendar that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from the chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

Happiness Growing Up Sadness

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“We are always growing up. I'm growing up as I type this. An eighty-seven-year-old woman is still technically growing up. So be as immature as you want. Right now, you are the youngest you you're ever going to be.”

Growing Up

Book:You Deserve a Drink: Boozy Misadventures and Tales of Debauchery

Source: You Deserve a Drink: Boozy Misadventures and Tales of Debauchery

“It's what you do when you grow up, apparently, face up to things you'd rather not and accept the fact that nobody is who you thought they were, maybe not even close.”

Growing Up

Book:Me, the Missing, and the Dead

Source: Me, the Missing, and the Dead

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