Quotes About Growth

There are moments in every girl's life that are bigger than we know at the time. When you look back, you say, that was one of those life-changing, fork-in-the-road moments and I didn't even see it coming. I had no idea.

People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they're not. - Lara Jean

There´s no way to protect yourself against heartbreak. That's just a part of life.

It's crazy, how similar we are. Here's both of us, working through our stuff, trying to make something positive out of something really bad.

She told me to try not to go to college with a boyfriend. She said she didn"t want me to be the girl crying on the phone with her boyfriend and saying no to things instead of yes

You'll just do what you did before he was your boyfriend," Alicia says. "You'll go about your day, and you will miss him at first, but over time it will ease. It will lessen." She reaches out, touches her papery hand to my cheek. A smile plays at her lips. "All you need is time, and you, little one, have all the time in the world.

I suppose you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on

Growing up really is bittersweet.

Josh and I started out so easy, so fun, and now we're like strangers. I'll never have that person back, who I knew better than anyone and who knew me so well.

Please, Peter. I know her well and so do you. Well, I did know her well. But I don't think people change at the core. They are who they are.

It occurred to me that I was going to have to make the most of this summer, really make it count, in case there wasn't another one quite like it. I was getting older too. Things couldn't stay the same forever.

Things can't stay the same forever, Annemarie. People change; they grow up. That's the way it's supposed to happen.

I think you should fall in love at least twice in high school.

It's good for you to try new things

It feels strange to have spent so much time wishing for something, for someone, and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.

The non-dating type? What kind of type is that? A little mushroom who sits at home in a semidark room growing moss?

After she left, after that summer, things were the same and they weren't. She and I were still friends, but not best friends, not like we used to be. But we were still friends. She'd know me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away part of yourself.

I wish that things could go back to the way they were between us. That you could be you and I could be me, and we'd have fun with each other, and it would be a really sweet first romance that I'll remember my whole life.

People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they're not. There's no telling how long you will have them near.

I suppose you cannot hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.

Disappointment is good for kids; it prepares them for the real world, where it's not all about them and their feelings.

started out so easy, so fun, and now we're like strangers. I'll never have that person back, who I knew better than anyone and who knew me so well.

Stormy, can you believe we were ever so young?

you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on