We live through evolution ourselves, each of us, progressing through different apprehensions of the world, at each age forgetting the last age, every previous mind erased. We no longer see the same world at all.
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 David Vann
Even now, I still believe metamorphosis is the greatest beauty.
History...to stand in a place and know that this where you come from for a dozen generations or maybe a hundred generations or maybe more. To know there was a great city two thousand years ago in this place, and that your ancestors helped build...
As if each of us might somehow have a blueprint. As if somewhere there's the shape of my life, and I had the chance to choose a few variations, but not far from the pattern.
What would the world be like if men never ruled again?
A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again?
