I think adults must get sort of worn away over time, like rocks out at sea, but remain who they are, just slower and grayer with those funny vertical wrinkles in front of their ears. But the young are a different shape from one week to the next. To know us is to run alongside us, like someone trying to shout through the window of a moving train. Eve Chase
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A quote from the movie "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. This quote is a part of an important speech given by Miss Havisham to Pip, the main character. It illustrates that one day people change and then they soon forget and get back to their old selves.

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