“. . . for it was a new thing to see Meg blushing and talking about admiration, lovers, and things of that sort, and Jo felt as if during that fortnight her sister had grown up amazingly, and was drifting away from her into a world where she could not follow.”
Source: LITTLE WOMAN
“It is never pleasant to have our old shrines desecrated, even when we have outgrown them.”
Source: Anne of the Island
“I suppose we’ll get used to being grownup in time. There won’t be so many unexpected things about it by and by–though, after all, I fancy it’s the unexpected things that give spice to life.”
Source: Anne of the Island
“Many of us come to a time in our lives when the beliefs we grew up with collide with the reality of the world we find ourselves living in.”
Source: The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy
“Where do you refuse to grow up, wait for certainty of wisdom before choosing, hope for solutions to emerge fully formed, expect rescue, or wait for a guru to make sense of it all for you?”
Source: On This Journey We Call Our Life: Living the Questions
“Our basement has grown smaller over the years, the brick shrunken and faded, the ceiling lower than I remember. Or perhaps the realities of my life have grown too big and unwieldy for the walls to contain.”
“He's still looking at me quizzically when, sounding stone sober, he says, "Grayson, something needs to happen," and I say, "Huh?" And Tony says, "Because otherwise what if we just end up like everybody at the Hideout?" And I'm about to say huh again, because those people were far cooler than our classmates and also far cooler than us, but then I know what he means. He means, What if we become grown-ups waiting for a band that's never coming back?”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“...cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes.”
Source: Delirium
“Growing up spoiled a lot of things”
Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Seems like I'm the most dissatisfied person in the whole world. Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful!”
Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn