They resumed walking. Alex felt an ache in his eyes and throat. "I don't know what happened to me, " he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." Bennie glanced at him, a middle-aged man with chaotic silver hair and thoughtful eyes. "You grew up, Alex, " he said, "just like the rest of us. Jennifer Egan
Dear God, " she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry..have too much to eat. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Let me...
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Betty Smith
I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up...
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Stephen Chbosky
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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Virginia Woolf
I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For...
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Taylor Swift
I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.
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Cassandra Clare
More Quotes By Jennifer Egan
It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?
Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins.
When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which, of course, is where we miss him most. The quarantine...
That's what death is, Danny thought: wanting to talk to someone and not being able to.
So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.
