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“You embrace death because life doesn’t exist without it.”

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“You grow, not because you do, but because you have to.”

Growing Up Getting Old Hard Life Adulting Becoming An Adult Having To

Author:Dominic Riccitello

“Julia recognizes it, that edge-of-adulthood progression: tightly wound and hyperconscious teenage preferences - dictated for centuries, inevitably, by a tasteless few - giving way to the awareness that you’re allowed to like some of the things that you’re not supposed to like, that doing so may distinguish you, and that someone else might also like the forbidden thing, or simply witness you liking it and love you for it. Her daughter is piecing together her own interior rule book; this seems as marvelous a development as her learning to crawl.”

Growing Up Teenagers

Author:Claire Lombardo

“The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine.”

God Growing Up Childhood Authority Thought Provoking Gods

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“I’m forty now, and the hilarious thing about being forty is this: I don’t know anything. Before you try to convince me otherwise or try to make me feel better, you should know that I know that YOU’RE forty and trying to reassure yourself that YOU know something. You don’t!”

Growing Up Adulthood

Book:Wow, No Thank You.: Essays

Source: Wow, No Thank You.: Essays

“What stopped you?" "Work. Adult things. A good career. A stable relationship. A home." [...] "I had to grow up someday.”

Growing Up Stop The Seven Year Slip

Book:The Seven Year Slip

Source: The Seven Year Slip

“Ever-whimsical Chicago, I thank you for seemingly ordinary places that, for those in the know, are anything but. For speakeasies hidden inside barber shops and that apartment on Belmont Avenue that sings with a thousand stories.”

Growing Up Travel Coming Of Age Chicago

Author:Kiran Mathew

“Volevo solo che andassero via. E volevo che rimanessero. Volevo poter di nuovo giocare come giocavo una volta. Volevo che tutto fosse di nuovo com'era una volta.”

Book:Skellig

Source: Skellig

“Perhaps she has already forgotten what it is to only get glimpses of independence. Those glimpses mean everything to me. Feeling adult is everything to me. It gives me a sense of self, which is important, I think. Recently I have really wanted to figure out who I am. There must be more to me than being Martin Buke's best friend or one of the girls or the Nolan's daughter. I'm just not sure what that is.”

Growing Up Finding Yourself Adulthood

Book:Sunburn

Source: Sunburn

“I’ll have to ask for their permission first,” the boy pointed out. “Permisssh tisssh.” “I beg your pardon?”

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Book:Harp and the Lyre: Exchange

Source: Harp and the Lyre: Exchange

“It’s a difficult thing, is it not?…choosing simplicity.”

Life Philosophy Choices Growing Up Simplicity Simple Life

Book:Harp and the Lyre: Exchange

Source: Harp and the Lyre: Exchange