Quotes About Growth

At some point you'll have to get serious about life.

Best to leave quietly, and no reunions. Move on, and look to the future. Plenty more faces out there.

The early days of any relationship are punctuated with a series of firsts - first sight, first words, first laugh, first kiss, first nudity, etc., with these shared landmarks becoming more widely spaced and innocuous as days turn to years, until eventually you're left with first visit to a National Trust property or some such.

She no longer think that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.

Friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

When will you stop trying to educate me, I wonder? Never I hope.

She had got rid of his black bedsheets, the beer mats, secretly culled his underpants and there were fewer of his famous 'Summer Roasts', but even so, she was reaching the limits of how much it's possible to change a man.

Finally, she loved someone and felt fairly confident that she was loved in return. If someone asked Emma, as they sometimes did at parties, how she and her husband had met, she told them: 'We grew up together.

There is a point in the future where even the worst disaster starts to settle into an anecdote.

But like my dad used to say, the crucial thing about an education is the opportunity that it brings, the doors it opens, because otherwise knowledge, in and of itself, is a blind alley, especially from where I'm sitting.

No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

This, I thought, is why we have comfort zones, because they are comfortable. What can possibly be gained by leaving them?

the crucial thing about an education is the opportunity tat it brings, the doors it opens, because otherwise knowledge, in and of itself, is a blind alley

A él le habían pasado demasiadas cosas, y a ella demasiado pocas.

What she really needed he thought, ablaze with compassion, was someone to take her in hand and unlock her potential.

To take an analogy from botany, she imagined a child as an unopened flower; a parent had a responsability to provide light and water, but also to stand back and watch. 'He can do anything he wants', she said, 'as long as he's happy and cool.' In contrast, I saw no reason why the flower should not be bracketed to a bamboo stick, pruned, exposed to artificial light; if it made for a stronger, more resilient plant, why not? (pag. 337)

Dexter, te quiero mucho. Tanto, pero tanto... Y probablemente siempre te quiera . - Los labios de Emma le tocaron la mejilla-. Lo que pasa es que ya no me gustas. Lo siento.

Don't they appreciate how hard it is, staying decent, keeping your head on straight when so much is happening to you and your life is so full and eventfull?

As a matter of fact, I think there are more important things in life than "relationships".

It wasn't much of a plan, and already there had been mistakes.

Don't run before you ca walk.

Don't run before you can walk.

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.