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 Jeffrey Eugenides
A love story can never be about full possession. The happy marriage, the requited love, the desire that never dims--these are lucky eventualites but they aren't love stories. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least...
Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.
In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.
Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.
It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.
