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Coming of age Quote by Jo Walton

“The worst of anything she could do to me would be to make me like her. That's why I ran away.” quote by Jo Walton — Download Open image

““The worst of anything she could do to me would be to make me like her. That's why I ran away.””

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I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

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Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's…

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“I figured it out this afternoon, when they let me take a walk around the grounds, that these cows are stupid. Bovine. I knew…

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“You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books. It makes…

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You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

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Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My…

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You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real…

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“The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any…

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It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook.

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“My ideal relationship with a book is that I will read it for the first time entirely unspoiled. I won’t know anything whatsoever about…

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“Anyway, while most people can't see fairies anyway because they don't believe in them, seeing them isn't a bad thing. Some of the most…

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“Aujourd’hui, rien. That’s what Louis XVI wrote in his diary on the day of the storming of the Bastille.”

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It's really hard coming of age in today's society, where society wants you to make the decision of what you want to do with…

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“I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves…

Jennifer Elisabeth

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“It is hard to be true to yourself because it is hard to be yourself.”

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“Everything changes, sweetheart. The universe loves to happen.”

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Sloppy Firsts perfectly captures the turbulent roller-coaster ride that is being a teenager. This is an (at times) intimate, painfully honest peek at a…

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“I am made of a thousand ghosts. Only you can shoot me down.”

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“There comes a time in a girl’s life where she finds her heart broken, what matters is not the boy who broke it but…

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I love coming of age stories that have struggle.

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Michael Schultz's 'Cooley High' is a classic. Oftentimes, we don't get to see films about coming of age, especially for young African Americans.

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“Sometimes, when you were thinking about something, trying to understand it, it opened up in your head without you expecting it to, like it…

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“From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.” ~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive”

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“It seems like our town has closed down these days leading up to the funeral. Old people still sit on their porches and talk,…

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