And she [Ada] thought momentarily that she ought to worry about losing her beauty, about having become brown and stringy and rough. And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like a close relative, a sister or brother, with whom you shared a past. But a different person, a separate life. Charles Frazier
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This quote is from the novel, "The Grass is Singing," by the English author Margaret Forster. It was written in 1931 and is one of the most significant female coming-of-age novels in English literature. The novel tells the story of a young girl named Ada, who leaves her tiny English village for London. The book describes her life in the city, where she grows up and becomes an adult.

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