Growing up Quote by Matthew Thomas

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

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“There was something romantic about that, but living with him made his eccentricities curdle into pathologies.”

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“The kids who thought of snappy things on the spot never had to worry about being fat or smart or pussies. You had to…

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“Get up now.”

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You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.

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“miles an hour. You and your beakers, your clipboards, your briefcase. You and your boring stories”

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“The fact that they were there, that everything they owned wasn’t enough somehow, disturbed her, suggesting a bottomlessness to certain kinds of unhappiness. She”

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“You want much from life, and life will give you much, but there are things it won't give you, and victory today is one…

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“Even the hospital wasn’t safe enough for some of the Alzheimer’s patients”

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So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.

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“My third contention is that at times of extreme pain for the patient, euthanasia is the most humane alternative.”

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“There were places, she now saw, that contained more happiness than ordinary places did. Unless you knew that such places existed, you might be…

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“Then he quoted from a French Jesuit named Teilhard de Chardin: “He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings…

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I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.

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