The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.

He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.

The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.

One must always be aware, to notice—even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

He who hasn't experienced a full depression alone and over a long period of time--he is a child.

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .

If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.

I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray

Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up.

He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.

Maybe I've moved to the dark side, but it's clean and nice and we never run out of toilet paper.

Growing up doesn't mean that you are older than someone, it means that you are no longer an amateur.

Boredom is a powerful reason, and the prospect of fun is a powerful draw - especially when you are young.