"Somewhere slightly before or after the close of our second decade, we reach a momentous milestone--childhood's end. We have left asafe place and can't go home again. We have moved into a world where life isn't fair, where life is rarely what it should be."

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Source : Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

Judith Viorst

#Growing Up Quotes #Home Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“I will never forget my first game for England at the World Cup, It was against Turkey... no I mean Tunisia.”
“historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.”
“Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.”
“We are the generation that came of age in an ageless society.”
“True loyalty is proven not proclaimed.”
“A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.”
“I wanted to make a record that people could put on year after year after year, and it would never feel dated.”
“As a school boy I played with a plastic grenade, it was grey and with caps, it was loaded. In the dirt we would cry and dramatically die, as it flew through the air and exploded.”

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