Growing Awareness Quotes

All my family is average-sized, apart from me. I didn't really think about my size until I got older, a few years before high school. It had never really fazed me that much.

That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the center of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish, rattling, and the noises and glares hit upon the little cell called your life, and shook it, and warped it.

I've been part of running a label since I was a kid, so I understand how it works. But the more and more I learn about it, the less and less interested I am in it.

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.

I think this country is growing up a little bit.

I feel acutely aware of how young I am. In a way that is good. It's productive. It makes me realise that I should be growing as a writer and a person.

My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.

Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.