“On her fifteenth anniversary, she lined up her thirty six dolls and beheaded them with a single swing, proudly announcing the end of her childhood.”
Source: Codex Hyperboreanus
“Was there, then, no strength in growing up? No solace in being an adult? No sanctuary in life? No fleshly citadel strong enough to withstand the scrabbling assault of midnights? Doubts flushed him. Ice cream lived again in his throat, stomach, spine and limbs; he was instantly cold as a wind out of December gone.”
Source: Dandelion Wine
“We learn how to disguise our differentness as we grow up. [She] doesn't know how to do that yet.”
Source: The Shipping News
“Wherever young people are growing up, they deserve to know what went into the making of their world. They have a right to be free to enjoy the richness that history and culture have bequeathed them.”
Source: The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction – A Neuroscience Guide for Parents on Brain Development and Family Bonds
“And why just then, why that moment was the moment in which she understood quite suddenly her own death, she couldn't say. Simply, she saw how he would miss her.”
Source: The Guest Book
“The truth is that all of us have multiple identities -- if only because all of us were children once, then teenagers, and are these things no longer, yet are them still.”
Source: Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile
“It is unfortunate that the mistakes of the parents are so easy to spot, while those of the children are yet to be committed.”
Source: Codex Hyperboreanus
“Being a parent is one long process of daring yourself to let go. Sometimes worry and love and control, all get jumbled up until you can't see the difference.”
Source: The Night Olivia Fell
“Wyrzekłszy się wszystkich przestępstw wieku dziecięcego, rozporządzał teraz dużą ilością wolnego czasu i nauczył się kierować siły na życie wewnętrzne.”
Source: Wesele w Atomicach
“And Evie was the grown-up now. She was in the line of grown-ups behind the child.”
Source: The Guest Book