Growing Up Pains Quotes

“Lord, but did he grow up nice.”
― Kelly Moran, Counterbalance

“Mike says the studio indulges Leo bc he's a magical starboy. He thinks Melanie puts up w/it bc it's a great credit bc everything Leo touches turns to gold. Maybe one day I'll turn to gold.”
― Nicole Schubert, Saoirse Berger's Bookish Lens In La La Land

“Without living, there will be no learning. Without learning, there will be no growth. Without growth, there will be no change. The only way you learn is by trying. You may make mistakes but you have to remember that doing so will lead to change. Be willing to learn from experiences, grow and live to become better not bitter.”
― Kemi Sogunle

“Being amongst rough lives and confusion does not make you less, it only makes your beauty shine out more clearly.”
― Sharon Sant, The Jackie Chan Fan Club

“The term "teenager" had not long been invented, and it never occured to him that the separateness he felt, which was both painful and delicious, could be shared by anyone else.”
― Ian McEwan

“There was something fundamentally embarrassing about being a young woman...[the] embarrassment of wanting to be more assured, more substantive, more whole, of moving to tap resources that simply weren't there.”
― Michelle Orange, This Is Running for Your Life: Essays

“Getting older is a question of coming to terms with the fact that you’ll never know the secrets; and the resulting equilibrium is what gives the illusion of actually knowing them.”
― Paul Shepheard, How To Like Everything: A Utopia

“I'll tell you something,' Arthur said. 'Until a certain age, everyone thinks their parents are heroes. Then they grow up a little, start to understand a little more of the world, and they realize their parents are just people. It destroys them, just a little bit. But it's part of becoming an adult. Everyone goes through it. You, on the other hand--your parents really are heroes, at least to everyone else. It's a bit remarkable, really. You never went through that disappointment of finding out your parents are just people.”
― Carrie Vaughn, After the Golden Age

“Wasn't it strange--when she was little and so far away from being grown-up that she couldn't even imagine she'd ever get there, she had tried to act grown-up; yet now, when the time seemed just around the corner of her life, she wanted to hold fast to the dear, familiar, childish things.”
― Loula Grace Erdman, The Good Land

“The more time you waste when you're young, the sadder you'll be in your nursing home”
― Daily Florence, Grace - A Funny Book For Women

“Nothing says humiliating like a bathing suit sanctioned by the State of Missouri, whos state slogan is, ironically, the "Show Me State.”
― Mora Brinkman, A Little Off. Always On. : A Memoir

“- But if I am going to fail, I say.
- If I am not going to end up in LA after all spending weekends with you and watching our dreams come true,
I don’t want to risk falling for you again just to say goodbye, I guess.”
― Robby Weber, If You Change Your Mind

“It made him wonder if all things taken from their home too soon lost some of their bloom.”
― Dan Groat, A Punctual Paymaster

“And it happens like that. Like when you first realise that there is no such thing as magic.”
― Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones

“My local library was whole shelves in the older children's section on vampires and demons — and not a single sensible psychic advice book.”
― Cassandra Eason, Everyday Psychic Defense: White Magic for Dark Moments

“If you're in survival mode you can keep problems buried, because the way you grew up, that wasn't okay. When you upend your life, you don't have to sit with how unfair it was. And whatever drama you come up with won't be worse than the anger and hurt you're carrying around, because that was the original hurt. That's the deepest cut.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep