Growing up Quote by J.X. Burros

“A fourteen-year-old boy made me realize I wasn’t whole. His mom made me realize I wanted to be.”

— Scarlett Cole

“I hated those moments when you realized your parents were getting older.”

— Karina Halle

“Some of the things I hated my parents for when I was younger are the same things I love my parents for now that…

— Steve Maraboli

“i hated how my parents would talk about me like i wasnt watching.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

“It was nice when you could look up to your parent, even as an adult, and think, This is who I fucking want to…

— John Scalzi

“Maybe I was crazy to consider it, but I’d always hoped that if I were a good enough girl, if I did everything right,…

— Tahereh Mafi

“But one of the cruelties of teenagehood is that you’ll never know what your parents were really like at your age, and they’ll never…

— Una LaMarche

“It took me a while after I lost my parents to realize it’s not something you ever ‘get over.’ You learn to live with…

— Marie Force

“You weren’t always born to the right parents. And parents didn’t necessarily get the kids they were meant to raise.”

— Judy Blume

“I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adolescence. The last thing…

— Tucker Elliot

“At first i thought you were one of the human students, when you'd told me about your parents i thought they'd killed your real…

— Claudia Gray

“I mean , I never even had to really come out to my parents. They always knew, and it was always okay. Or not…

— Julie Buxbaum