Grown Up


Gone Girl
The Help
Bossypants
The Girl on the Train
Water for Elephants
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Night Circus
The Kite Runner
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Yes Please
Pride and Prejudice
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Handmaid's Tale
I tore through The Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies in elementary school, my pretween brain vibrating with a mixture of titillation and pretension. Ahh, so many swears. Very grown-up, I would think. And Even on an island, I would know it is bad to murder a little boy with glasses, because I am a little boy with glasses..
Josh Gondelman, Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results

Halldór Laxness
The days were like grown-up people, the mornings always young.
Halldór Laxness

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