"You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them."
— John Green

"I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

"Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost."
— Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)

"I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one morning and says I can't bake any more bread.
You never bake bread, he wrote, and we were still joking.
Then it's like I woke up and baked bread, I said, and we were joking even then. I wondered will there come a time when we won't be joking? And what would it look like? And how would that feel?
When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calender that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from the chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table.
I spent my life learning to feel less.
Every day I felt less.
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."
— Jonathan Safran Foer

"Shut up or I'll kill you."
— Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto, Vol. 4)

"You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"Growing up is loosing some illusions, in order to acquire others."
— Virginia Woolf

"I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it.After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it."
— Louis Sachar (Holes)

"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. "
— John Updike

"One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. (Bone Crossed)"
— Patricia Briggs (Bone Crossed)

"Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes."
— Jeanette Winterson

"That shay was in possesion of handgranades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become."
— Scott Westerfeld (Specials)

"Sharpen your Claws against wrong doing, against human suffering. Have Ears like Owls, HEAR what your child isn't telling you. Have Eyes like a Hawk, so that you might SEE all that passes before you. Be Brave like a Bear and have the Courage of a Mother Lion to SAVE our young."
— Theresa L. Flores (The Sacred Bath: An American Teen's Story of Modern Day Slavery)

"I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem."
— Karen Joy Fowler (The Jane Austen Book Club)

"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know beacause I've done it thousands of times."
— Mark Twain

"People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, "If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it." They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could."
— Heather O'Neill (Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel)

"All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height."
— Casey Stengel

""Nicole can do anything that involves a ball and whistle.""
— Laurie Halse Anderson

"This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible."
— Michelle Tea

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
— Albert Einstein

"Maybe I could just James Bond my way down the cable if I draped the scarf over it, clinging to the ends as my body careened down it to safety-- Careened. What an ugly word that was"
— Katie MacAlister

"When you fall down get back up and do it again"
— corey moll

"You may have a dog that won't sit up, roll over or even cook breakfast, not because she's too stupid to learn how but because she's too smart to bother."
— Rick Horowitz

"He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting.

–--Manet to Monet, on Renoir---"
— Manet

"I've played down every feeling I've felt
And I bottled them up 'til the well ran over."
— Seether

"EVERY STORY HAS A END.BUT IN LIFE,EVERY END IS A NEW BEGINNING"
— DOKOTA FANNING

"'I am growing up,' she thought, taking her taper. 'I am losing my illusions, perhaps to acquire new ones."
— Virginia Woolf (Orlando)

"I, however, was raised neither as Catholic nor as Jew. I was both, and nothing: a jewholic-anonymous, a cathjew nut, a stewpot, a mongrel cur. I was--what's the word these days?--atomised. Yessir: a real Bombay mix. "
— Salman Rushdie (The Moor's Last Sigh)

""Now listen lads, I'm not happy with our tackling. We're hurting them but they keep getting up.""
— John B. Keane

"Everybody has good times, and everybody has bad times. But why should the bad times stop you from living the good ones!"
— Lauren Taylor

"never never never give up

never?

nop... never "
— ?????

"He sang like an angel, he was faithful to God and he waited honorably
for the wife he believed God chose for him. He made two daughters who
shone like mirrors in the direct sun; he blazed his path with a scythe
and his broad shoulders, and he was who he chose to be, which is the
hardest and bravest thing a man can do. He looked at us, his parents,
his sisters, his whole crooked family, and he flexed his jaw muscles,
packed up his truck, and drove away."
— Haven Kimmel

"EVERY STORY HAS A END.BUT IN LIFE,EVERY END IS A NEW BEGINNING"
— DOKOTA FANNING

"It happens when you least expect it: the sudden,painful sting that hurts deeply, because you thought you were in a safe place, with other women and immune to harm. This is female relational aggression (RA): the subtle art of emotional devastation that takes place at home, at work, or in community settings."
— Cheryl Dellasega, Ph.D.