“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
“Tiger Lily's words echo in her head—He made me into the worst thing he could imagine, being grown up.
Wendy brushes at her cheeks, furious with herself. She should be focused on Tiger Lily, but all she can picture is Peter's face as he stood at the end of Jane's bed, seeing her daughter and not her. No wonder Peter couldn't see her. She has become everything he hates.
She looks at Tiger Lily again. Is that what Peter thinks growing up means? Becoming a shell with the ghost of the child you once were trapped inside?”
Source: Wendy, Darling
“I sigh, realizing that the boy I'm talking about is a different iteration of myself from a separate past life, removed from who I am here. All the previous me's have been chunked off, lopped into little figurines in a Dickens-style display that represent old hurts. Oh, how I want to take a bat to the table and smash them all to smithereens.”
Source: You're a Mean One, Matthew Prince
“Al tempo non lo sapevo, che eravamo scuciti entrambi, rattoppati in modi diversi per resistere alla vita quanto bastava. Eravamo troppo giovani per realizzare che nel nostro disegno era stato cancellato qualcosa di fondamentale e che i nostri corpi cadevano male sulle nostre anime, mettendo in risalto ogni difetto. Lui, nella solidità della sua forma, conteneva a stento venti in tempesta; io avevo ossa sporgenti pronte a bucarmi la pelle e riversare fuori il dentro: la tristezza, l’indefinito, il bisogno.”
Source: Il corpo che indosso