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“What I didn't know until right this very minute was how growing up happens in little surges. We grow up in moments—when we encounter such stupidities in ourselves that our only choice is to grow past them or into them.”

Book:Behold the Bones

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“If we use child in a good sense (it has also legitimately a bad one) we must not allow that to push us into the sentimentality of only using adult or grown-up in a bad sense (it has also legitimately a good one). The process of growing older is not necessarily allied to growing wickeder, though the two do often happen together. Children are meant to grow up, and not to become Peter Pans. Not to lose innocence and wonder; but to proceed on the appointed journey: that journey upon which it is certainly not better to travel hopefully than to arrive, though we must travel hopefully if we are to arrive.”

Children Growing Up Childhood Adults Innocence Life Experience Adulthood Growing Older Maturation

Book:The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays

Source: The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays

“We knew it was only a moment. Our days of cool were numbered. Even when we were in it, right now was already gone. We didn’t know what it would be. Maybe a man. A baby. A death. What we knew was that soon, we’d pass thirty and get wrapped up in dull, adult things with no time or energy leftover to work at being cool. Just like that. Whoosh. Zoom. It’s over, and we’re here. From past to present.”

Life Change Growing Up Youth Aging Nostalgia Maturity Growing Old Time Passing Growing Older

Book:You Don't See Any of This

Source: You Don't See Any of This

“I want you to be better than me. Xue looked at our father. Xue said, What if you are the best man I know how to be?”

Growing Up Family Conflict

Book:The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father

Source: The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father

“I don't think I've changed at all,' said Emerald, knowing herself to be lying, but there was a mist between her and her childhood self, made up of grief and multiple small denials, and she did not care to try to look through it.”

Change Growing Up Denial Growing Older

Book:The Uninvited Guests

Source: The Uninvited Guests

“Sure, my father's cheesy performance had something to do with it, but that wasn't the only reason. I had grown up trapped in an environment over which I had no control, but now I had been given a choice. North Korea or South Korea? As horribly limiting as my options were, the choice was mine to make. I felt as if I was being treated like a human with rights for the first time in my life.”

Growing Up Choice Control

Book:Go

Source: Go

“And that's how I quit being a North Korean resident of Japan, busted out of the tiny confines of Korean school, and dove into the "wide world." That decision, it turned out, came with some.... challenges.”

Challenges Decision Growing Up

Book:Go

Source: Go

“Once a child is born, its main business is to grow – to learn all there is to learn and grow. It can only grow! Trees grow, vegetables grow, animals grow, and you must also grow.”

Inspirational Quotes Growing Up Development Growth Quotes

Book:Know What Matters

Source: Know What Matters

“When a boy leads a boy, he stays a boy. When a man leads a boy, he becomes a man.”

Growth Growing Up Man Manhood Boy

Author:Eric M. Watterson

“It is not natural for human beings to NOT grow to the next stage of life when they should.”

Success Growing Up Progress Self Improvement Maturity Growth Wisdom

Book:Know What Matters

Source: Know What Matters

“I never grew beyond that man; I just hid him away.”

Growing Up Adults Adulthood

Book:Oathbringer

Source: Oathbringer

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