Perspective Quote by Nick Joaquín

“Growing up wasn't so bad, as long as you did it with the right person.”

— Monica Alexander

“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

“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

“Not everybody gets to grow up. First you have to survive your childhood, and then begins the hard work of growing into it.”

— Gail Godwin

“I was grown up long before the grown ups were the grown ups.”

— Aporva Kala

“We were still children, for all that we thought we weren’t. We were in that in-between place, the twilight between childish things and grown-up…

— Christina Henry

“...There is no such thing as grown ups...”

— Neil Gaiman

“When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.”

— Charles Finch

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

— Chuck Klosterman

“part of growing to maturity, part of growing up, requires that we recognize and accept that we cannot have it all.”

— Matthew Kelly

“Things were different when I was growing up.”

— Anne Frank

“Both were rather precocious, and like many precocious young people they found it hard to grow up.”

— Haruki Murakami