A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies.

If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.

Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different

Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.

She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she was just a little girl after all.

He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.

I wish wearing flat-irons on our heads would keep us from growing up. But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats, - more's the pity!

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up

So her safe little world would never be safe again... She knew that the nurturing hand also held the knife, and that was very unsettling.

It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.

It’s hard to have done all one’s growing up since 33 — but that’s a damn sight better than not growing up at all.

I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.

I felt for the first time, maybe ever, how much harder it was to be the adults. And I wasn't sure I could do that when it was my turn.

You said you want to became Hokage. I have become the Kazekage. If you are willing to bear the name Kage, you have to do what you must do.

Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts