Growing Up Quotes
One must always be aware, to notice—even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.
If your life is a blank page, that only means you have room to write your story. You have the power to tell that story the way you want to.
He was surrounded by people who loved him, yet he had never felt lonelier.
We have to get you a haircut sometime today. You're starting to look like a sulky rock star." "Well, I am a rock star, " he said, deadpan
Dragos reached for his coffee cup. "You are always going to be one of my highest priorities.
I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.
When you think your life is falling apart, it's usually falling together in disguise.
I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them.
When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.
If you look for endings you can always find one, but I truly felt as if I had used up the last of my youth, if youth is that finite stage of life when it all feels expeditionary, inexact.
the much-sought prize of eternal youthIs just arrested growth.
You become a man when, in having children, you not only physically look after and protect them but also protect them with all the love and learning you have to give.
If a fight looks like a lot of fun, you should be suspicious. 'If you ain't scared of standing up for what's right, you ain't standing up for much.
I mean, I really liked him to the point where being around him was sort of wonderful and painful all at the same time, you know?
Please your mother: just lie around upstairs and smoke some pot. Be a revolutionary.
She kissed me on the cheek, and my mom sang Theresa’s name from the open front door. She loves Theresa. I think she loves me more when I’m with her.
I could feel his hand on my waist, his arms around me, feel the rise and fall of his chest next to mine as I held my breath, and wished the sun would drop out of the sky.
Dude, ” he said instead, “I’m flattered as hell.” And then he kicked my foot, lightly, twice. He was smiling.He couldn’t see the chasm that had opened behind my ribs.
I've always wanted to wake up one day in a world where I liked the right people, and they lied me in return. I worry it'll never happen.
I do like the way people behave toward me and Theresa when we’re together-everyone’s voice changes to music, and we get all sorts of smiles.
You can't make me be nice.You can't make me be good.You can't make me be
They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun.
Eventually, however, the denial turned into emptiness and my childhood ended.
Do you ever plan to grow up, Veltan?” he asked.“Not if I can avoid it, no.
They sealed this promise by hooking pinkies, the way they used to, long ago, when promises didn't hurt as much.
The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our chilhood behind.
Mam said I was growing up. I felt that I was dying.
He was thirteen that year, the age when children splinter off and abandon the old loves.
She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she was just a little girl after all.
If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.
She knew him in that way you can only know a person as a child. Like if you cracked away the adult shell, you'd find that child, happily sitting inside, smiling at you.
Being a child sucked. Being a teenager was worse. And being an adult seemed so far away that I had a better chance at swimming the length of the ocean than growing up.
I lost something magical in the process of growing up – my disillusionment.
... I wrote about ... my childhood, when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and god was a rabbit.
And that is the last lesson of childhood: You spend all your years fighting against the injustice of big folk and their big rules until you are ready to rule yourself.
If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.
Life has a funny way of turning you into the one thing you don't want to be.
One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.
Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up.Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice.
He was an astronaut without a suit, but he was still breathing.
It was strange walking through the empty apartment. My battered purple room was gone, Brittany’s bruised blue was gone. Two coats covered everything. It was like none of it had ever happened.
hat's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.
The truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing but does only and wholly what he must do.