Alarm clock Quote by Jodi Picoult

Sometimes, she thought, life makes you grow up early. And some people never grow up at all.

— Matthew Thomas

As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.

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It was hard to reassure grown-ups when you weren't certain yourself what you were feeling and thinking—when thoughts dissolved before you could name them.

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— Virginia Woolf

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“I was traumatizing her. I could only hope that at three she was too young to retain any of this in memory, that in…

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I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up,…

— Gloria Steinem

No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best,…

— Jodi Picoult

I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being…

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Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

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And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least…

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