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“Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.”
“The vision that accompanied me on my drive was a girl, a lady actually. We had the same hair but she didn't look like me. She was in a camel coat and ankle boots. A dress under the coat was belted ...”
“Oh, monsters are scared', said Lettie. 'And as for grown-ups...' She stopped talking, rubbed her freckled nose with a finger. Then, 'I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look ...”
“Each year, more responsibility and freedom (they are companions) must be given to the child so that the final release in early adulthood is merely a small, final release of authority.”
“Unfortunately, some family members are so psychotic that no matter how hard you try to forge a healthy relationship, nothing will help. Now that you're an adult, take refuge in the fact that some t...”
“How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?”
“And though our roots belong to the same tree, our branches have grown in different directions.”
“We are all entitled to our own share of mistakes and learning experiences in life. No one should take them away from us. Not even our parents.”
“I guess there's a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are.I guess that's what turning eighteen means.Time to own it.”
“Adulthood is a wonderful thing and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts. I believe the soul in Paradise must enjoy something nearer to a perpetual vigorous adulthood than to any other...”
“The man was a bully. A bully who'd elevated himself to a high-level position, but a bully just the same. No amount of flattery would change how I saw him.”
“In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professors: God, nature, and life.”
“You cant just be. You have to become.”
“Ive spent awhile trying to figure out where Im going and the only thing Ive come to realize is it doesnt matter where, its how I get there.”
“As a man begins to understand the sacrifices he must make to live the life he dreams of, he often loses his courage for such a life.”
“I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religi...”
“Now, why did Kitty, who was the falsest thing on earth, who was in tune with every kind of falsity, by merely suffering somehow remind us of reality? Why did her tears reveal to me what I had learn...”
“In the same way, teenagers imagine dying young because death is more imaginable than the person that all the decisions and burdens of adulthood may make of you.”
“The monsters were never under our bed, but in the forest our future.”
“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
