I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.

We got a saying around here about our corn, ‘it grows knee-high by the Fourth of July.

And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way.

Since when do you look out for me? You really have grown up.""Had to happen sometime," I say.

I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…

Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.

When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.

The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighte

Witty sayings don’t grow on bumpers the way babies do. I was raised by a single rush hour.

How do we deal with all the people we’ve been? What happens when we have to confront them?

Magda looks at me as if I've gone mad. Or I've grown up. It's kind of the same thing.

I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.

Perhaps I just wanted to know what it was that I wanted. Maybe that is all that growing up means.

When I was young, I used to wish I would fit in… I’m glad I didn’t get my wish.

Sometimes you really want to say "Duh," but you can't. It's a part of growing up, I guess.