Bitter taste Quote by Rebecca Bradley

“So I'd grown up eating my words, and it wasn't until later that that I realized how many had gotten backed up inside me.…

— Lisa Ko

“She was a grown up now, and she discovered that being a grown up was not quite what she had suspected it would be…

— Stephen King

“There was something really great about being able to put something out into the world—a song, an introduction, even my voice—and let people make…

— Sarah Dessen

“I sprinted down the alley, not fast enough to avoid the cold water rolling down my back, with a childlike shriek. I caught his…

— Veronica Roth

“I sat parked for a while in the parent pickup lot, watching a bunch of little kids run relays up and down the field.…

— Jennifer Castle

“And what in earlier years would have brought animation to my face, arousing laughter and incessant chatter, now slips past me and my immobile…

— Nikolai Gogol

“Already my childhood seemed far away—a remote age, faded and bittersweet, like dried flowers. Did I regret its loss, did I want it back?…

— Margaret Atwood

“In some inexplicable way she’d been looking forward to it and all its attendant drama, because wasn’t there something nearly lovely—when you were young…

— Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

“I watched the kids walking past us on the sidewalk. They looked pretty much like any other kids. They were dressed for each other.…

— Robert B. Parker

“I found myself suddenly jealous of the time when things were simple, when days centered on creek walks and tetherball, and your biggest worry…

— Kathryn Williams

“All the things that seemed so exotic and exciting – cars, television, the fashions, the music, the buildings – were just surface. Under it…

— Dave Hutchinson

“I saw everything crumble around me, every single daydream of wandering through the grammar school cloisters citing poetry, of my parents wiping tears away…

— Meera Syal