Growing Up Too Fast Quotes

“Eventually, however, the denial turned into emptiness and my childhood ended.”
― Floyd C. Forsberg, The Toughest Prison of All

“Ed," I said, "I really fucked up this time"
"Nah," she reassured me, "you just got a little more growing up to do."
"I don't know if i can do it," I told her.
My friend laughed. "You got no choice.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“Then you clean it up! I’m sick of cleaning it and having you come in and mess it up again,’ Hud would say. ‘I’m not your maid.’
‘You are, though,’ Jay would say. ‘Just like I’m the fluff and fold around here.’
Jay was in charge of the laundry. He handled his sisters’ underwear and bathing suits with chopsticks, unwilling to touch them whether they were clean or dirty. But Jay quickly became a wiz at stain removal, each mark a puzzle to solve. He threw himself into searching the right combination of liquids that would unlock the dirt from Kit’s soccer shorts. He found the golden ticket by asking an older woman in the laundry aisle what she did to get out grass stains. Turned out it was Fels-Naptha. Worked like a charm.
‘Look at this, motherfucker!’ Jay called out to the rest of the house one day from the garage. ‘Good as fucking new!’
Kit peeked her head in to see her white shorts bright as the sun, unblemished.
‘Wow,’ she said. ‘Maybe you can open Riva’s Laundry.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Or maybe. Maybe. Maybe I'm just a lost, confused kid, scared of what's happening to me, to my family, to the world, and I hate school and I have no friends, and I spend my days sleeping with my iPod cranked up as loud as it'll go, trying not to go completely crazy, and with all that time alone I'm looking shit up on the Internet, looking up the same stuff over and over, and I memorize it all because I'm wicked smart, because I have to fill my head with something other than the ghosts.”
― Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts

“I knew exactly how to behave in the presence of adults, what made their eyes light up: speak intelligently, be polite, listen when spoken to, ask meaningful questions... When I became a teenager, I'd overhear adults laugh and say to my mom, "She's thirteen going on thirty, isn't she?" That felt like winning the lottery, to be told I wasn't like other kids. I was more like an adult. I was extraordinary.”
― Megan Farison, Dissonance