“You can hide things from the world, but you can never hide things from time.”
“Selfish. Growing into yourself is nothing but that.”
“How often do you get to learn that lesson? That sometimes you just lose?”
“I m in my 30s and I don t know what that means. I can’t relate to that.”
“He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.”
“Today she’s walking down the driveway to get on the school bus. Tomorrow she’s going off to college. Don’t blink.”
“There is magic everywhere around you, but most people are too busy being grownup to notice it.”
“To my abuser, you suck...that s sad...but you didn t break me. I forgive and release you from my memories. Be gone!”
“I don’t know how to be any version of me, much less a new and improved me.”
“Two years is a long time. I walked a long way.”
“life is like a blacksmith, it beats you down until you are tempered and sharp enough to slice through any opposition.”
“Choices were so easy when I was a child. Good guy versus bad guy, and the good guys always won. But I m no longer a child.”
“If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility.”
“glass will cut you every day, and sometimes you will crawl through hell to feel the sun.”
“I ll only tell you what matters. And the truth is, everything matters. Nothing is an accident, really.”
“You can be more than you are. That s the part that sneaks up on you, I think. That s what growing up is...becoming a greater version of yourself.”
“It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I was a child no longer now; innocence and childhood were forever lost, forever gone from me.”