Quotes About Experience

It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here.

was the first boy I ever slept with. His name

someone, and had never dated anyone his age.

How much of a "story" would

Have you ever been to Chicago?" he asked

from California. San Francisco. And had

E il principe notò subito che la persona che tornava a casa era completamente diversa da quella che era partita. Adesso sua figlia era una donna, non più una ragazzina. Aveva amato e vissuto e lavorato, ed era cresciuta. E la bellezza dell'Africa le si era insinuata nell'anima.

This was real life, not a book. And in real life, people met, nothing happened, and you went home.

It was one thing to be depressed in your twenties or thirties, when the aspect of youth gave it an undeniable poignancy, a certain tattered charm; it was another thing entirely to be depressed in middle age, when you were supposed to have come to terms with life's failings, as well as your own.

hopeless endurance test, every day is still an adventure of its kind.

What one finds in Jewish storytelling, though, is something really different: a kind of realism that comes from humility, from the knowledge that one cannot be true to the human experience while pretending to make sense of the world.

Most of the other visitors were chained to their audio guides, looking only at what their little headsets told them was worth seeing.

I'm positive I wouldn't consider having sex with Guy if I hadn't already had sex beforehand. I always knew I wanted my first time to be with someone I loved and who loved me, which it was . . . but shouldn't I want that for every time? I disagree with what Amy said about how once you go all the way, you can't go back to "everything but." But now that I have done it, it doesn't seem nearly as big a deal to do it again.

Back in high school, I never understood how Amy could enjoy getting with guys just for the short haul. In a way, though, making out like this is more enjoyable because there's no pressure for me to not do or say anything stupid. What's the worst that can happen if I do? So I'm freer to focus on what I'm feeling, not what he feels about me.

Once you've ridden the roller coaster, the Ferris wheel's kinda restricting.

For me, at least, feeling something, even something bad, is better than feeling nothing.

I wonder how many more penises I'll have inside me in my lifetime.

Things don't go away. They become you.

I don't think anyone ever remembers what they were really like as kids. Adults think they do, but they don't. Photos and videos don't capture the real you, or bring back to life the person you used to be. You have to return to the past to do that.

The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you.

please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish. You most certainly were. You are cruel, Evanna.

It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.

Childhood is the purest state. The pure of heart never leave it behind. Their life merely takes them on a cirtuitous route away from, and then back to it.

It was an age of tragic mistakes.