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“You yourself are unsure whether to remain frozen in time or to grow upward with the coming rain.”

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“We were girls, you see, not even women, just girls, most of us when we started. And the boys were just boys, not men, most of them. We’d only begun to live life, we knew little and understood less. We were unformed, incomplete. It’s funny how easy it is to see that now. If you’d called me a child three years ago when this started I’d have been furious. But looking back? We were children just getting ready to figure out what adulthood was all about.”

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Book:Silver Stars

Source: Silver Stars

“I cared about Ben, but I was never in love with him. I was in love with what it said about me that I had a boyfriend like Ben, and that's just different.”

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Book:Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

Source: Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

“It’s hard to describe, this feeling of seeing your kids spending time together like adults, meeting up again after being out there in the world like free agents. There’s something giddy and unreal about it. I knew that boy when he was afraid of strangers. I knew them both before they knew how to talk.”

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Book:Universal Harvester

Source: Universal Harvester

“Maybe that was what growing up was, understanding where the real magic lived in this world. Inside our very own hearts.”

Book:Flower Moon

Source: Flower Moon

“Not everybody gets to grow up. First you have to survive your childhood, and then begins the hard work of growing into it.”

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Book:Grief Cottage

Source: Grief Cottage

“Because some people never grow up, or not in a way that allows them to develop the courage of their convictions.”

Book:The Arms Maker of Berlin

Source: The Arms Maker of Berlin

“When you live in New York or any big city, it is easy to fail at growing up. The city is designed to keep you in a state of perpetual adolescence.”

Growing Up Big Cities

Author:John Hodgman

“...when it comes to defining adulthood, nothing has made me feel more grown-up than knowing that one of the two people in the world who loved me the most, without condition, was no longer in the world.”

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Author:Jean Hannah Edelstein

“Taking a lifetime to grow up.”

Book:Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure

Source: Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure

“From then on, I was terrified that I or one of my parents were going to die. My mother worried me the most. She was the force around which our world turned. Unlike our father, who spent his life in the clouds, my mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She was the judge in all of our arguments. One disapproving word from her was enough to send us off to hide in a corner, where we would cry and fantasize our own martyrdrom. And yet. One kiss could restore us to princedom. Without her, our lives would dissolve into chaos.”

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Book:The History of Love

Source: The History of Love