You All Grow Up and Leave Me Quotes

“I hate being left out of conversations about me. Somewhere inside them lies the truth about who I am, but I’m not allowed
to hear it”
― Piper Weiss, You All Grow Up And Leave Me

“the condition of being nowhere until you are
identified as somewhere, made me think this next: All that keeps you from disappearing is another person who sees you. What
happens when they look away?”
― Piper Weiss, You All Grow Up And Leave Me

“No, I don’t need to see it,” I say, and I wish saying the words would make it true. I’m a sniffing dog, hungry for scraps. I would leap on the table and eat off the dinner plate if I wasn’t so tamed by the consequence of shame.”
― Piper Weiss, You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession

“This is the secret adults don’t want us to know: They are just children with sex. It is not at all like the movies where they move slowly in the shadows between satin sheets. When we are not around, they gorge on candy and comics and dirty jokes, just as we do, only more so. There is nothing mature about their desires. Their mouths are rimmed in chocolate. They writhe in whipped cream. They fuck like Willy Wonka.”
― Piper Weiss, You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession