#owing

As for the fact that Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle apeared to be going their different ways when they were usually inseparable, these things happened as people got older--Ron and Hermione, Harry reflected sadly, were living proof. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#reflection

I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been. ↗

— Edwin Starr

#came #could #cultivate #dreamt #england

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#self-indulgence #wallowing #melancholy

One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. (Bone Crossed) ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#bones

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. ↗

— Voltaire

#consciousness #dissolution #eternal #infinity #knowing

You’re a teenager. It’s all complicated. ↗

— Jenny B. Jones

#growing-up #teenager #teenagers

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#believing #cynic #gone #knowing #nothing

Her stare fixed me. Without rancour and without regret; without triumph and without evil; as Desdemona once looked back on Venice. On the incomprehension, the baffled rage of Venice. I had taken myself to be in some way the traitor Iago punished, in an unwritten sixth act. Chained in hell. But I was also Venice; the state left behind; the thing journeyed from. ↗

— John Fowles

#distance #othello #outgrowing-others #personal-growth #reference-to-shakespeare

She had the feeling, the tingling, lingering sense that something or someone life altering was just over the horizon. She had no idea what it was, but she wanted to rush headlong to bring it to her. ↗

— Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

#growing-up #hurry #life

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

— Sara Zarr

#high-school #life