For so long I'd thought about myself as a girl who'd walked away from her mother's life that it would be a long time before I would start to think about the other part of the bargain, how easily she'd let me go.
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
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