#growing

I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow. ↗

— Magnus Magnusson

#both #edinburgh #glasgow #got #growing

What’s so beautiful about girls?” I would implore. And the secret society of adults would reply with a smirk and wink as if I was merely a boy who couldn’t possibly have the mental maturity to comprehend such grown-up concepts as love and bleeding vaginas; “You’ll understand someday, James. ↗

— Jake Vander Ark

#growing-up #puberty #puppy-love #the-perfect-girl #age

He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love. ↗

— Alan Hollinghurst

#happy #insecure #insecurity #line-of-beauty #love

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in. ↗

— Jacqueline McKenzie

#am #any #creep #doing #doubt

That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings. ↗

— Alice Munro

#get #growing #happy #i #i think

Some days you go bear hunting and you get eaten. Some days you come home with a nice rug to roll around on, and bear steaks. What they don't tell you as a kid is that sometimes you get the rug and steaks, but you also get some nice scars to go with them. As a child you don't understand that you can win, but that's it's not always worth the price. Once you understand and accept that possibility you become a real grown up, and the world becomes a much more serious place. Not less fun, but once you realize what can go wrong, it's a lot scarier to go hunting "bears". ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#facebook #growing-up #lessons-learned #life #life

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music. ↗

— Kelly Osbourne

#done #growing #growing up #i #lot

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#bet #faster #growing #i #java

She has given me a way out. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#creativity #growing-up #mothers-and-daughters #art

When I was growing up, my mother, who had been through a lot of terrible things in life, taught me that when life is tough your instinct is to close your heart. But if you can accept what happened and reach out to someone, there will always be someone less fortunate, or someone that can bring a solution and help your life. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#always #been #bring #close #fortunate