Adolescence is never graceful or beautiful. Our first steps are wobbly, full of stumbles and spills. Our first words are mispronounced and barely comprehendible. Our first kisses are sloppy and wet. The process of breaking sexual thresholds is far from sexy. It will be a long time until being a penetrator outgrows the feel of a grade school science experiment where I fill my paper mache volcano with vinegar and baking soda, giggling and high-fiving my lab partner once it explodes. Maggie Georgiana Young
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
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Unknown
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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Mark Twain
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.
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E.B. White
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.
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Fernando Pessoa
I've been embarrassing myself since about birth.
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Phil Lester
More Quotes By Maggie Georgiana Young
Every theory of love from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
