It's such a hopeful, almost utopian word, that word "phase." As if any minute, "we" would suffer some sort of Joad overload, come to "our" senses, and for heaven's sake, do something about our godforsaken shoes. But the book phase never ended. The book phase would bloom and grow into a whole series of seasonal affiliations including our communist phase, our beatnik phase, our vegetarian phase, and the three-year period known as Please Don't Talk to Me. Now that we are finishing up the third decade of the book phase, we ask ourselves if we have changed. Sure, we still dress in the bruise palette of gray, black, and blue, and we still haven't gotten around to piercing our ears. But we wear lipstick now, we own high-heeled shoes. Concessions have been made.

Sarah Vowell

Tag: growing-up phase



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Stephanie took another puff from her candy cigarette, reached into her purse, brought out the rest of the pack, and said, "Want one of these damned cigarettes?

K. Martin Beckner

Tag: humor growing-up cigarettes



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Because I was conceived and born and I grew up. I'm breathing and my heart is beating and as much as it hurts ― as much searing, monumental pain it causes me ― I have to exist.

Brenna Yovanoff

Tag: growing-up pain heart breathing existing



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I am what you made me, Father.

Jamie Ford

Tag: growing-up



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We got a saying around here about our corn, ‘it grows knee-high by the Fourth of July.

Richard Puz

Tag: growing-up growing living-life farming corn



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Why wait? So precious is this life—this gift—this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this.

Jennifer DeLucy

Tag: inspirational growing-up learning purpose change faith hope suffering self-awareness encouragement self-realization trials hard-times surviving finding-joy weathering-hard-times



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Occasionally, events in one's life become clearer through the prism of experience, a phrase which simply means that things tend to be clearer as time goes on. For instance, when a person is just born, they usually have no idea what curtains are and spend a great deal of their first months wondering why on earth Mommy and Daddy have hung large pieces of cloth over each window in the nursery. But as the person grows older, the idea of curtains becomes clearer through the prism of experience. The person will learn the word "curtains" and notice that they are actually quite handy for keeping a room dark when it is time to sleep, and for decorating an otherwise boring window area. Eventually, they will entirely accept the idea of curtains of their own, or venetian blinds, and it is all due to the prism of experience.

Lemony Snicket

Tag: life growing-up experience time change growth idea lemony-snicket a-series-of-unfortunate-events clear prism the-austere-academy curtains prism-of-experience



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That I always had space to run and that I had the opportunity to play with my imagination. I also loved that my mum drew and painted with me. I always remember that my parents loved me, and that is essential when you're a kid; they always showed me how proud they were of my achievements. It's also very important when parents put their kids' drawings on the refrigerator.

Taylor Swift

Tag: life growing-up happiness change childhood living fun achievements



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What if my boobs decide to grow WHILE I'm at school?

Renata Suerth

Tag: growing-up body-image humorous-quote



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The trouble is I'm not very good at trusting my own instincts. I've been wrong before. A lot."
"About what? You worry too much, about everything. You're to hard on yourself."
"I was wrong about Rory -"
"You were twenty-five, twenty-six! Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, its a mistake not to be.

Harriet Evans

Tag: growing-up love making-mistakes



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