“To return to the city of one's birth always felt like retreat.”
Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the centre of your time, and not at a point on the circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish, rattling, and the noises and glares hit upon the little cell called your life, and shook it, and warped it.
If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man!”
Source: Jude the Obscure
“She had just enough madness to make her interesting”
Source: Love Her Wild
“The person you are at the beginning of a story is rarely who you are at the end of one.”
Source: When the Stars Wrote Back
“Young people anymore they seem to have a hard time growin up. I dont know why. Maybe it’s just that you dont grow up any faster than what you have to.”
Source: No Country for Old Men
“I half shrug and keep my voice level. "This is how we gain experience, both in this game and in life. We win some battles. We lose others. We learn and we keep moving."
"I hate that life has gotten so complicated."
I smile. "I'm not sure it was ever uncomplicated."
Maddy shrugs. "I don't know. It was, at least, less complicated. It feels like everything is falling to pieces. And I don't know who I am without this game. I don't know where I can find other safe places that let me be myself.”
Source: Even If We Break
“I'm no longer a child, and I don't need comfort.”
Source: The Wicked King
“As a kid in the ’90s, I fought goblins and demons. I learned new magic spells and traded in old gear for shiny weapons. Raised rebellions, traveled through time, and rode a whale into space. I became the Dragonmaster and the Hero of Light.
Didn’t we all?”
Source: Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West
“Is this what it means to become an adult? Giving up the beliefs which reassure us, which help us to survive?”
Source: In the Absence of Men
“She had resisted returning there [to Los Angeles, the city of her birth] because to return to one's home town felt like surrender.”
Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow