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“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.”

Book:Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile

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“He was conscious of a bliss that stole over him not infrequently now, had first stolen over him when he had first acquired this car, first bent over the bat-wing hood and seen the engine and drive-train, humble and useful like his own internal organs. It was a sense that at last what he knew of the world was sufficient to his being alive in it: that the world and what he knew of it were one. He called this feeling "growing up," and it did feel like growing, though in moments of mad elation he would wonder if what he was growing into weren't a Ford, or perhaps Ford: there was no other instrument, and no other man, so serenely purposeful and complete, August thought, so sufficient to the world and so self-sufficient: it would have been a destiny he could welcome.”

Growing Up Cars

Book:Little, Big

Source: Little, Big

“It's hard for a parent to accept that you can't protect your child from everything." "It's hard for a child to accept it too," says Elsa, and pats him on the cheek.”

Children Growing Up Parents

Book:My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

Source: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“It is true that we are the descendant of our circumstances, but is also true that we are the patrons of own improvement. Blaming the past without taking charge of the present is like driving a car cursing the rear-view mirror and shutting our eyes to the road ahead. - On Self Fulfillment”

Growing Up Self Improvement Self Awareness Self Motivation Being Responsible Self Realization Quotes Growth And Development Taking Charge Improvement Quotes Self Fulfilment

Book:Walking the Soul

Source: Walking the Soul

“It was simply closed to her for the time being, until she could find her way back to childhood.”

Growing Up Adult Going Back

Book:Every Heart a Doorway

Source: Every Heart a Doorway

“Parents are the most confused people - they urge us forwards into every next stage, but then hold us back if they transition becomes inconvenient. Grow up! Don't grow up so fast! What's the right speed? What's the right way?”

Growing Up

Book:I Am Out with Lanterns

Source: I Am Out with Lanterns

“The first place you live alone, away from your family, he said, is the first place you become a person, the first place you become yourself.”

Growing Up

Book:Severance

Source: Severance

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