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“On this day the girl feels so much love pouring out of her mother that she is certain her mother has the power to save her. Soon she will come to understand she can't be saved.”

Book:Poor Deer

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Poor Deer

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“Già certi attimi erano impercettibilmente meno soavi, come una musica tenera e lieta che, a poco a poco, ci rattrista e ci stanca. Una cortina d’ombra, adesso, velava certi giorni. Erano passati ormai i momenti di pura gioia. Stavano raggiungendo l’istante in cui felicità e tristezza si fondono in un’oscura convergenza e d’ora in avanti saranno mescolate l’una all’altra come due fiumi che hanno fatto confluire i loro corsi.”

Growing Up Adulthood

Book:Due

Source: Due

“My mother pursed her lips. “I’m telling you that … you’re getting too old for me to tell you what to do.”

Growing Up Sally Jackson

Book:The Titan’s Curse

Source: The Titan’s Curse

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”

Poetry

Book:The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

“Somewhere inside the child, a woman bided her time, waiting to emerge. It impressed her as very clever of God to hide adults inside children.”

Growing Up

Book:The Promise of Jenny Jones

Source: The Promise of Jenny Jones

“The greatest journeys didn’t arrive on smooth breezes. They swept in on gales that brought crashing thunder and torrents of barbwire rain.”

Growing Up Trauma Facing Reality Paranormal Urban Fantasy

Book:Falls the Breath

Source: Falls the Breath

“Her face, made pastel by the light of her computer monitor, reflected in the window. She failed to recognize the girl, thought seeing her now was like a dream belonging to someone else, and that she had been asleep all her life. She didn’t want to see herself, looked beyond the image to the ancient oak tree in the yard. Massive with a crook in the center that looked like a twisted smile, it reached for her with branches that curled like a stranger’s hands.”

Growing Up Traumatic Experiences Paranormal Urban Fiction

Book:Falls the Breath

Source: Falls the Breath

“Adulthood Illnesses" If only adulthood illnesses were like those in childhood: they are cured with a kiss from mom, a hot bowl of soup, a warm cup of milk, and one tablespoon of honey, even if adulterated... [Original poem published in Arabic on November 14, 2023 at ahewar.org]”

Love Growing Up Childhood Illness Motherhood Old Age Wishes Arabic Poetry Diseases

Author:Louis Yako

“In the adult world to which I suddenly realized we all belonged, I supposed a triangle would be substituted for the outline of a heart. Well, after all, what was a triangle but a heart with the grace taken out of it?”

Growing Up Hearts Triangles

Book:And Now Tomorrow

Source: And Now Tomorrow

“The weight of youth is light, yes, but life generally grows heavier into adulthood. This, embedded as deep as the most human social construct, reaches even territories of natural law: we call it 'responsibility' - or the harmony kept afloat by able grown-ups carrying their own weight.”

Responsibility Growing Up Youth Independence Maturity Adulthood Life Is Hard Take Care Of Yourself Growing Pains Carry Your Own Weight

Author:Criss Jami

“Growing up, any sort of fireworks were strictly prohibited by mom (and the law?). That said, the Fourth of July was a bit of an insane clusterf- of lights, bangs and danger.”

Growing Up Danger Mom Insane Fireworks Lights Fourth Of July Bang Cluster

Author:Aesop Rock

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