#growing-up

"By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions."

"If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge."

"I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…"

"I don't want to be a man,"said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead.""Well,"said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job."

"He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all."

"I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders."

"Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that."

"Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it."