There are so many of you, and you are still just the way I thought I'd grow up, with all that was enviably grown-up about you: the lace tops with modesty inserts, and the spangles as if for nights out, the stiff hair, the cardigans grown over with a fungus of secondary sexual characteristics--bristling with embroidery and drooping with labial frills. Joanna Walsh
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In the last scene of the movie, The Shining , a man has a nightmare, where he sees himself as a child growing up with all the characteristics of an adult. I have been writing for this site since 2008 and I hope you enjoyed these quotes!

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  1. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
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