Quotes About Growth

Había cambiado. Y, sin embargo, me seguía afectando de la misma forma. Me sentía como si estuviese en lo alto de una montaña rusa, justo antes de lanzarme por la primera pendiente.

Yo también estaba creciendo. Las cosas no podían seguir igual para siempre.

Sometimes I don't think about her at all, and then...and then sometimes I'll have a thought like, I wonder what she would think of me now? She only knew me as a little girl, and now I'm a teenager, and I wonder, if she saw me on the street, would she recognize me?

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

I think that time might be different for young people.

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

It's the imperfections that make things beautiful" ? Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

One day soon you'll be in the world, and you'll have so many options you won't know what to do with them. Everyone will fall in love with you, because you're so beautiful and so charming, and you'll look back on high school as such a tiny blip.

And that's how it goes with people you see a lot. They mend, almost on their own.

We were still figuring out how to be in each other's lives without being everything to each other.

Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers. Like I don't really begin living until June, until I'm at that beach, in that house.

I once had that exact same thought about Josh, and look at me now: It's like a million years have gone by and he's just a memory to me.

Ours was the kind of friendship that makes sense as a kid but not so much now that we're older. I suppose you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.

A veces desearía que nos hubiéramos conocido a los veintisiete años. Los veintisiete parecen una buena edad para conocer a la persona con la que vas a pasar el resto de tu vida. A los veintisiete aún eres joven, pero con algo de suerte ya estás bien encaminado para convertirte en la persona que quieres ser.

maybe it's good to exist in a place of unsureness for a while.

The point is, you shouldn't compare relationships, okay?" Never mind the fact that I've been doing that constantly in my head.

Life is long if you let it be.

When you start liking pain things start to get interesting.

Sometimes change was good. Sometimes it was even exactly what you needed.

It wasn't like I was expecting Senior year to be some amazing experience. If anything, I was prepared for it to be pretty much a letdown. Everyone would be looking ahead to college and getting sick of seeing the same faces we've been looking at for the last three years.

He was Pinocchio to my Gepetto.

I wasn't the same person I was eight months ago, and that was okay with me. Sometimes change was good. Sometimes it was even exactly what you needed.

A few days later, I yelled at him for losing his new lunch box, and he turned to me and said, Are you sure you're my mother? Sometimes you don't seem like a good enough person. He was just a kid, so I let it go. And now, years later, I probably only think of it, I don't know, once or twice a day.

Would you like to be a doctor when you grow up?" I ask her. She looks at me oddly. "I'm already a doctor," she says.