Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever finishes growing. Or shouldn't. If you stop you might as well quit. What I have to tell you is that it never gets any easier. It goes right on being rough forever. But nothing that's easy is worth anything. You ought to have learned that by now. What happens as you keep on growing is that all of a sudden you realize that it's more exciting and beautiful than scary and awful. Madeleine LEngle
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Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever finishes growing.

Or shouldn't. If you stop you might as well quit. What I have to tell you is that it never gets any easier.

It goes right on being rough forever. But nothing that's easy is worth anything. You ought to have learned that by now.

What happens as you keep on growing is that all of a sudden you realize that it's more exciting and beautiful than scary and awful.

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