This is the first fall that I haven't gone to school. Maybe that's why I feel weird all the time.

I'll only tell you what matters. And the truth is, everything matters. Nothing is an accident, really.

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

We're growing up and I don't like it," said Tacy, as they say at Heinz's later, drinking coffee.

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?

I think I’m learningthat sometimes the bravest thing is not to face the world,but to turn away from it.

I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.

Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love.

At some point, you're no longer growing up, you're aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly.

She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city

In a desperate attempt to stay young forever we have achieved eternal childishness, rather than eternal youth.

Mamas are always crying about how one day they see you as a baby, and the next morning, they see you growed up.

It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents.

They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.