311 quotes found
“When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking ...”
“Your own life starts the moment you're born. Before that, even.""I just, I feel like as long as I live with you, I won't... I'm not... It's like George Jefferson.""From the TV show?""Right. George ...”
“You'll never have to fend for yourself like that, Lincoln. You never have to be alone. Why would you want to?"He leaned back against his bedroom wall and slunk down until he was sitting on the cast...”
“I knew that I had reached the end of childhood once I realized that adults in my life didn't know anymore than I did.”
“The second hardest part about growing up is trying to figure out who you are. The hardest part comes after you've figured it out and the rest of the world wants to pull you in a different direction.”
“When they reached the top of the hill they turned and looked down at the valley. Moominhouse was just a blue dot, and the river a narrow ribbon of green: the swing they couldn't see at all. "We've ...”
“It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.”
“I guess thats what growing up is. Saying good-by to a lot of things. Sometimes it is easy and sometimes it isnt. But it is all right.”
“I know more about my father than I used to know: I know he wanted to be a pilot in the war but could not, because the work he did was considered essential to the war effort I know he grew up on a f...”
“But I cant manage to grow up and change shape. Im still tiny, and staying that way, perhaps because I know the secret that everyone pretends to be unaware of, perhaps because I know that deep down ...”
“Cry your guts out because nothing is sadder than an adult who forgets how to be a child.”
“Why can't a girl just want to know stuff and not do stuff?”
“Whats so beautiful about girls? I would implore.And the secret society of adults would reply with a smirk and wink as if I was merely a boy who couldnt possibly have the mental maturity to comprehe...”
“He's got all the pains of being lost and all the benefits of being told where to go. He wants it the other way around.”
“For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer reach them.”
“I journeyed alone for almost ten years before I found home. Adoptions are like very delicate gardening with transplants and grafts. Mine took hold, rooted, and bloomed, even though there were inevi...”
“I guess this means we're uck-fayed, don't it Mikee?”
“I'm working hard to have a good life.You don't need fancy things to feel good. You can hug a puppy. You can buy a can of paint and surround yourself with color. You can plant a flower and watch it ...”
“When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead"When you see millions of the mouthless deadAcross your dreams in pale battalions go,Say not soft things as other men have said,That you'll remember. For ...”
“She had a womans swagger at twelve-and-a-half. Hair: strawberry-blonde, and I vaguely recall a daisy in the crook of her ear. She was an inch taller than me, two with the ponytail; smooth cheeks an...”
