Too early Quote by Mary Catherine Bateson

“I had been very grown-up when I was in primary school. But as I continued through secondary-school, I in fact became less grown-up. And…

— Hiroki Kawakami

“To be young was to be more closely rooted to the thing that forms you,”

— Rachel Kushner

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became…

— Julie Anne Long

“I didn't belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset,…

— Bette Midler

“Suddenly, it occurred to me that my feelings towards the little man were distinctly maternal. Good God, I thought, how utterly revolting, and I…

— Laurie R. King

“...she immediately became the person they believed her to be: a peculiar, impatient girl, attractive enough yet too old and odd for the village…

— Daphne Kalotay

“When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was…

— Eugene Ionesco

“I was also domineering, impatient, relentlessly verbal, and, as an only child, often baffled by the mores of other kids. I was not a…

— Ariel Levy

“Like most, I was a solitary boy at first, keeping to my books and weeping in the hedgerows whenever I could get away on…

— Alan Bradley

“We were just old enough to be warped by childhood and just young enough not to realize it.”

— Chuck Klosterman

“When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things . . .”

— Emma Chase

“Yet little by little, I was also becoming the girl who was learning to live with this, all of it, letting it weave together…

— Donna Freitas