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“Obviously, it's a huge deal when your little girl starts to turn into a woman, but the change has a gentle fluidity, so it seems to happen like time-lapse photography of a flower blooming.”

Book:The Scent of You

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The Scent of You

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“Nostalgia is so certain: the sense of familiarity it instills makes us feel like we know ourselves, like we've lived. To get a sense that we have already journeyed through something -- survived it, experienced it -- id often so much easier and less messy than the task of currently living through something.”

Growing Up Survival Nostalgia

Book:Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

Source: Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

“Kako u svoju odraslost nosimo premalo od onog što je u nama najbolje! Naša sadašnja ostvarivost probijanja određenih granica, kako na fizičkom, tako i na osjećajnom planu ni po čem se ne može mjeriti s vrijednošću načina na koji smo to činili i postizali kad smo bili djeca.”

Growing Up

Book:Istina o sreći

Source: Istina o sreći

“At what point does the narcissism and cruelty of childhood stop being adorable and start being a possible symptom of a mental disorder? I cannot answer this question. I don't understand Lori, despite four decades of attempts. Seeking to understand Lori is a black hole that sucks up everything around it. I'm tired of that. It meant that through much of my life in my family, I didn't get to have a story. This led me to an obsession with trying to think about the people, places, and things we don't think about.”

Growing Up Narcissism Dysfunctional Families

Book:My Life as a Goddess: A Memoir through (Un) Popular Culture

Source: My Life as a Goddess: A Memoir through (Un) Popular Culture

“She stops, stares deep into my eyes. I wonder if this is where I kiss her, because that is how the story goes, right: first we stare at each other’s eyes, then we kiss, then we marry, than we have kids and then we die, unless we were dead all along, in which case no grand finale for us, oh no. Iva flicks my left brow. Ouch. Don’t suppose I ought to marry a flicker.”

Love Growing Up Girlfriend Coming Of Age Teen Fiction Teenage Love Rite Of Passage Magic Realism

Author:Olga Bogdan, Helena: The Small Town Throwdown

“We are all children, aren’t we. The difference between the man and the children is only the toys. As you grow up you start to have more things to think, more things to worry about and you lose it. So it is important when you have the opportunity to have the place to go back a little bit like a child, so you can recycle your mind a little bit. Just slow down and enjoy life, like children do. They do not think about tomorrow, they do not think about next year or next month, they think about right now. They just see a game and they try to play that game right now. It doesn’t matter an hour ahead, they do not think an hour ahead, so they enjoy completely life and its full potential.”

Life Inspirational Growing Up

Book:The Life of Senna

Source: The Life of Senna

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