Coming of age Quote by Delphine de Vigan

“You're trapped both ways. You do as you are told and you do things that you think will make you big, but all the…

— Helen Dunmore

“When I was young, I think so big; but when I grow up I think smaller.”

— Rangsey Heng (ផលព្រឹក្ស

“Some of us have been hiding, shrinking, betraying ourselves, faking the funk, and playing small for so long that we believe that we are…

— Abiola Abrams

“Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the…

— Dave Eggers

“When we are young we cannot know what it is like to bigger grow but why do grown-ups great and tall so soon forget…

— Marta Moran Bishop

“I couldn’t be anything. I could barely manage to hold out my shape in the world.”

— Jo Walton

“I wish you were small again, so I could hold you in my arms and comfort you. But you are grown, and you know…

— Patricia A. McKillip

“Most of us, most of our lives, are asked to live small. Most of us quit trying very young to live the bigness we…

— Janisse Ray

“It does not matter if I am Small, one day I will be Big and Tall,”

— Anonymous Guest

“Let go of your small self and become your true self.”

— Kazuaki Tanahashi

“...'it's not that you are too small, my little chick,but rather that the world is too big.”

— Melanie Benjamin

“Don't allow others to make you feel small. You came to this world to grow and to explore and touch the miracles and marvels…

— Bryant McGill