Home / Quotes / Quote by J.X. Burros

Quote by J.X. Burros

“That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like them.”

Quote by J.X. Burros

Author

Browse famous quotes and profile details for J.X. Burros. more

You May Also Like

“Being a kid has always been about being watched.”

Kids Growing Up

Book:Scored

Source: Scored

“Milkers don’t spend half as long with their mothers." Eli spread his chore coat over Little Joe. "Not more than a few weeks. Sometimes one day. Maybe not even ... If you were a peeper, it’d be even worse. They don’t even get to see their mamas. They’re still jelly beans when they’re left alone to hatch.”

Nature Growing Up Separation Animals Farm Animals Author Sandra Neil Wallace Little Joe

Author:Sandra Neil Wallace

“„ ... denn das ist der Lauf der Dinge: Man wird dreizehn, man verwandelt sich in etwas Unmögliches, damit man sein eigener kranker Baum werden kann, ein freies uns glückliches Gewächs.”

Growth Growing Up Coming Of Age

Book:Rote Sonne

Source: Rote Sonne

“She had begun to find out who she is, and, having discovered this new world, to discover herself.”

Growing Up Awakening

Book:The Post-office Girl

Source: The Post-office Girl

“I am not my childhood.”

Book:Oryx And Crake

Source: Oryx And Crake

“I hadn’t thought of myself as a kid for a long time, but I guess I never really knew what I was. When you drop out of high school and go about things the way KC and I did, you’re not really following the normal milestones, you know? Like what everyone expects of you. Graduate middle school and high school and have a couple of friends and have at least one girlfriend and maybe have sex at sixteen and it’s really awkward and then you go to college, get a career, get married. Accident or otherwise, it didn’t matter. At least with these milestones, you know if you’re doing something right. Without those, how do you know if you’re making it? You know, things can look pretty bright before they burn out. Though, I guess there are plenty of people who may say KC and I never lit up. We were just embers, fighting against wind, trying to keep lit against the elements.”

Growing Up Future Burn Out

Book:Bodymore Zero

Source: Bodymore Zero

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.”

Book:A Poetry Handbook

Source: A Poetry Handbook

“Some people grow up with issues because they did not have their parents around growing up, many others have issues because their parents were around growing up”

Growing Up Issues Self Realization Parents Moving On Scars Healing The Past

Author:Quetzal

“They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun.”

Growing Up Childhood

Book:Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill

Source: Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill

“Her childhood had been magical, hours spent in ecstatic loneliness in the apple orchard, dreaming of foreign lands and wild adventures. Everything was new, down to bird song and grass blades. By the time she had reached adulthood, the town around her was like a grandmother who had used up all her stories and now simply rocked on the porch. The same flowers, the same streets, year after year. She longed for someone more exotic. A prince. A pirate.”

Growing Up Childhood

Book:Blue Asylum

Source: Blue Asylum