Expectations Quote by Alexandra Bracken

“I'm not the same person I was before, and I am deathly afraid I will never be her again...”

— Jodi LaPalm

“You find yourself, but sometimes when you do you're not the same, you're different all you think is that you should have been more…

— Avalenna Harding

“ I wasn't the same person I was eight months ago, and that was okay with me. Sometimes change was good. Sometimes it was…

— Anonymous

“I'm still the same person, just a different version.”

— Germany Kent

“And I thought that maybe this was what it means to get old: to have someone much younger remind you of how you weren't…

— Brock Clarke

“She, too, could become someone else. Eventually. Or she'd told herself all these years.”

— Nicole Mones

“In a way, looking back, it seemed a long, long time since she had been eighteen, but in another way her memories were so…

— Helen Hooven Santmyer

“Tell me now, won't you ever wonder what it would have been like to be with someone else?”

— Rainbow Rowell

“At seventeen, I knew: my entire childhood had been just a prelude to this girl. I had never felt anything like it, and still…

— William Landay

“I act and react, and suddenly I wonder, ‘Where is the girl that I was last year? Two years ago? What would she think…

— Sylvia Plath

“Even though she looked the same, life had aged her, stolen her innocence, and replaced it with knowledge she’d never asked for.”

— Dinah Jefferies

“And then I had a thought, clear as day. I would never be somebody's favorite again. I would never be a kid again, not…

— Jenny Han