#hood

When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don't want to know. ↗

— Ben Aaronovitch

#intergenerational-relations #life

Feeling young and old at the same time is the present." From FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY: 10 Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood ↗

— Suzanne Braun Levine

#life

Knowin' nothin' in life but to be legit ↗

— Dynamite Hack

#boyz-n-tha-hood #life

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand. ↗

— James T. Farrell

#life

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. ↗

— John le Carre

#become #cheat #childhood #detachment #ever

I try to cherish the moments I have, for I dread the day I get out of the tub and the wrinkles won't go away... ↗

— Gabe A. Lopez

#life #life

I watched her with the crab as she ignored all my admonitions that the poor crab just needed to be set free if he was to have any chance of surviving. And God showed up there on that beach to teach me a lesson. Nothing survives when it's being smothered. Life, real life, requires being free to move about in the great big ocean, not being cradled in little hot hands that will stifle independence and creativity. We can't keep our crabs (or our kids) in a bucket and expect them to go far in life. ↗

— Melanie Shankle

#letting-go #motherhood #life

A person can have a happy and fulfilling life without children. ↗

— Judy Blume

#children #life

I don't have any babies or ambition. I have it all! ↗

— Nan Little

#humor #parenthood #work-life-balance #life

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#laughter #love #oblivious #love