Quote by Zadie Smith

“Overnight everyone has grown up. While she was becoming, everyone grew up and became.”

— Zadie Smith

“She knew this transition was not about becoming someone better, but about finally allowing herself to become who she'd always been.”

— Amy Rubin

“She realized now that her life wasn’t just about who she was, but about who she would become.”

— Robert Beatty

“Everyone was always becoming someone else”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“Everyone got older but forgot to grow up.”

— Cecil Castellucci

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

— Aporva Kala

“...She was becoming what she was destined to become...: her own person, her own independent and particular self.”

— Amanda Coplin

“Growing old seemed to be full of never-again moments.”

— Kaje Harper

“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

“She, too, could become someone else. Eventually. Or she'd told herself all these years.”

— Nicole Mones

“In growing older, we become our parents.”

— Julien Green

“What if, no matter what, we grow up to be the people we came from?”

— Shalanda Stanley