#owing

Roseanne, Roseanne, if I called to you now, my own self calling to my own self, would you hear me? And if you could hear me, would you heed me? ↗

— Sebastian Barry

#growing-up #identity #youth #beauty

It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#endings #friendship #growing-up #life #change

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord. ↗

— J.I. Packer

#problems #business

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. ↗

— Ally Condie

#friendship #growing-up #change

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#growing-up #life #change

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change! ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#change #growing-up #island #marry #change

On occasion, it occurs to adults that they are allowed to do all the things that being a child prevented them from doing. But those desires change when you're not looking. There was a time when your favorite color transferred from purple to blue to whatever shade it is when you realize having a favorite color is a trite personality crutch, an unstable cultivation of quirk and a possible cry for help. You just don't notice the time of your own metamorphosis. Until you do. Every once in a while time dissolves and you remember what you liked as a kid. You jump on your hotel bed, order dessert first, decide to put every piece of jewelry you own on your body and leave the house. Why? Because you can. Because you're the boss. Because . . . Ooooh. Shiny. ↗

— Sloane Crosley

#growing-up #change

Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts ↗

— Rory Miller

#change #evolving #growing-up #personality #psychology

The only way for you to know that you can really make a change is by knowing the future. ↗

— Toba Beta

#future #knowing #present #change

Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something more than this empty shell. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#become #change #growing-up #independent #into-the-wild