I'm sorry you don't like coming back here," her mother often said, to cap whatever petty dust-up they'd had. How could Emily explain: it wasn't her mother or Kersey she'd disowned, but her earlier self, that strange, ungrateful girl who strove to be first at everything and threw tantrums when she failed.

Stewart O'Nan

Tags: growing-up family home youth relationships mothers aging daughters arguments fights coming-home



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I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.

Charlotte Eriksson

Tags: life growing-up love living learning-by-doing becoming heartbreak character-building



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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

Tags: growing-up writing change alone on-the-road independent become into-the-wild songwriter



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I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.

Charlotte Eriksson

Tags: life growing-up learning self-knowledge expectations self-development knowing-who-you-are find-your-passion find-yourself



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All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality.

Charlotte Eriksson

Tags: life art growing-up reality life-and-living artist writer songwriter



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You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.

Charlotte Eriksson

Tags: life growing-up poetry solitude journey change living growth self-knowledge london self-development leaving life-story spiritual-growth musician changing travelling songwriter sweden the-great-perhaps



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I want my life to be the greatest story.
My very existence will be the greatest poem.
Watch me burn.
Love always, Charlotte

Charlotte Eriksson

Tags: life goals growing-up love existence poetry inspiration solitude journey last-words dreams story motivation writer london leaving life-story travelling become the-great-perhaps



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It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents.

Sara Zarr

Tags: growing-up high-school



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We can't go back, Alexa", he said. " We can't go back once we've started growing up, and the world can't be made simple again.

Patrick Carman

Tags: growing-up simple can-t-go-back



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As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living.

Patrick Carman

Tags: past growing-up difficult living memorable exciting



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