Sighed Quote by standbyme (AO3

“you were growing up?”

— Steve Siebold

“We were young once.”

— Roxane Gay

“I suppose that there's quite a difference between growing old and growing up.”

— Emory Sharplin

“I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." ... "You grew up, Alex.”

— Jennifer Egan

“What did you want to be when you grew up?' I ask, just to keep the conversation going. 'Alive.' He shrugs. Well, that's... something.”

— Rebecca Yarros

“We had been younger. Yup, you can grow a lot in the blink of an eye.”

— Liz Thebart

“We grew up, he thought. We didn’t think it would happen, not then, not to us. But it did, and if I go in…

— Stephen King

“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

“Things were different when I was growing up.”

— Anne Frank

“This little girl's grown up by now," she said. Almost. Not quite. I wish you all a long and happy life.”

— Alice Sebold

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

— Aporva Kala

“We became friends, I suppose, because we lived close to each other and it suited us and because when you are young friendships go…

— Aminatta Forna