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“Manhood had come to him, both in character and demeanour, not as it comes to most young lads, an eagerly-desired and presumptuously-asserted claim, but as a rightful inheritance, to be received humbly, and worn simply and naturally.”

Book:John Halifax, Gentleman

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“You never could tell when someone would stop growing old in Neverland. For Tik Tok, it had been after wrinkles had walked long deep tracks across his face, but for many people, it was much younger. Some people said it occurred when the most important thing that would ever happen to you triggered something inside that stopped you from moving forward.”

Age Growing Up Neverland

Book:Tiger Lily

Source: Tiger Lily

“The older I get the more mixed up life seems. When you're little, it's all so plain. It's all laid out like a game ready to play. You think you know exactly how it's going to go. But things happen...”

Life Growing Up Betsy Tacy

Book:Betsy and Joe

Source: Betsy and Joe

“They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.”

Growing Up Youth Adulthood

Book:The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss

“I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls to be careful and ”the world is an ugly place and not everyone wants you well”. But I was not afraid and I wished for adrenaline to make my veins pulsate in that way that puts them more on the outside of my skin than inside. After the first night with you I never walked alone at night again because suddenly I had something to lose. Something to save.”

World Love Poetry Night Girl Dark Growing Up Society Youth Mom Walking Losing Empty Scared Saving Worried Prose Not Afraid Midnight Break Up Afraid Lose Wandering Prose Poetry At Night

Author:Charlotte Eriksson

“You don't grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good traits and acknowledge that you have a few faults.”

Growing Up Faults Traits Betsy Tacy

Book:Betsy and Joe

Source: Betsy and Joe

“My son, my son. When I had my son I would explain all that to him when he was starry enough to like understand. But then I knew he would not understand or would not want to understand at all and would do all the veshches I had done, yes perhaps even killing some poor starry forella surrounded with mewing kots and koshkas, and I would not be able to really stop him. And nor would he be able to stop his own son, brothers. And so it would itty on to like the end of the world...”

Reality Growing Up Discipline Teens Generational Curse

Book:A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

“One of the greatest tragedies of growing up is the discovery that your parents- and your teachers, and your sports heroes, and your favorite actors, singers, YouTube sensations- are fallible. Adults don't know all, and what they do know, they often won't tell you- because they've got their own agendas, or because they want to shield you from the hard truths "for your own good." Adults lie, they betray, they screw up in every way possible...”

Life Growing Up Childhood Adults

Book:Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

Source: Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

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