"We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not..."
- Hunter S. Thompson
"My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her."
- Jodi Picoult
"Did you know I always thought you were braver than me? Did you ever guess that that was why I was so afraid? It wasn't that I only loved some of you. But I wondered if you could ever love more than so..."
- Jodi Lynn Anderson
"I haven’t been very impressed lately.By people,or places,or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind."
- Charlotte Eriksson
"I am not a broken heart. I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything,at any time,and I am not your fault."
"Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragg..."
- Betty Smith
"I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going t..."
- Stephen Chbosky
"Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray"
- Cassandra Clare
"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."
- Virginia Woolf
"I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the s..."
- C. JoyBell C.