Born and raised Quote by David Sedaris

“Perhaps what people said was true, that any man who lived long enough would eventually realize that the way in which he was cursed…

— Alice Hoffman

“I am all for curses and superstition, but there's a point at which they start getting in the way. That point had arrived.”

— Tahir Shah

“I've never understood how something could be considered a curse that requires me to spend every moment with you, and that grants me the…

— Jamie McGuire

“It seems you can't be gifted, without being cursed.”

— Brandon Gene Petit

“Sometimes I feel as if I'm cursed. A slow, hungry curse that has worked its way across my entire life, stripping me of everything…

— Morgan Rhodes

“Was this, too, part of growing up? Was it facing the bad things you’d done as well as the good, and knowing all your…

— Christina Henry

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”

— Margaret Mead

“But then unrequited love and smart were innately at odds.”

— Beverley Kendall

“I would sooner say, or hear it said of me, that I was so typical a child of my age, that in my perversity,…

— Oscar Wilde

“I was born, and then I was quietly resentful of that fact for a few years...but then I went to a library and it…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.”

— John Green

“You know, if you're going to be a smart ass, you should start by being smart. Otherwise, you're really just an ass.”

— Christine Zolendz