— Doctor Who (Love and Monsters)

“When you’re a kid, they tell you it’s all… grow up, get a job, get married, get a house, have a kid, and that’s it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It’s so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.”

— Helen Mirren

“It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the excuse of youth, and it is time to become an adult – but you are not ready.”

— E.E. Cummings

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

THANK YOU.

We never really grow up

We never really 

grow up, we 

only learn how 

to act in public.

— Stevie Nicks

When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty. The world teaches you that the way you exist in it is disgusting — you watch boys cringe backward in your dorm room when you talk about your period, blue water pretending to be blood in a maxi pad commercial. It is little things, and it is constant. In a food court in a mall, after you go to the gynaecologist for the first time, you and your friend talk about how much it hurts, and over her shoulder you watch two boys your age turn to look at you and wrinkle their noses: the reality of your life is impolite to talk about. The world says that you don’t have a right to the space you occupy, any place with men in it is not yours, you and your body exist only as far as what men want to do with it. At fifteen, you find fifteen-year-old boys you have never met somehow believe you should bend your body to their will. At almost thirty, you find fifteen-year-old boys you have never met still somehow believe you should bend your body to their will. They are children. They are children.

— Unknown

“Before you can grow up, you must fall in love three times. Once, you must fall in love with your best friend, ruining your friendship forever. This will teach you who your true friends are, and the fine line between friendship and more. 

Once you must fall in love with someone you believe is perfect. You will learn that no one is perfect, and that you should never be treated as anything less than you deserve. 

And once, you must fall in love with someone that is exactly like you. This will teach you about who you are, and who you want to be. And when you’re through will all that, you learn that the people who care about you the most are the ones that you hurt, and the ones that hurt you are the ones that needed you the most. 

But most of all, you learn that love is only a concept and is not something that can be defined, it is different to each and every person on this earth, knowing that everyone only wants to be loved.”

— E.E. Cummings

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

Love your parents.

Love your parents. We are so busy

 growing up, we often forget they

 are also growing old.

I guess a big part of growing up is dealing with regret.

I guess a big part of growing up is dealing with regret. 

Swallowing your pride. There are some things in life you can't

 go back and change, no matter how much you want to.

have to do what's best for you

The hardest thing about growing up is that 

you have to do what's best for you. 

Even if it means breaking someone's heart,

including your own.

this is growing up, right?

this is growing up, right? feeling forgotten and alone? feeling like there's nothing left in the world, but having to get up a try another day? i guess i'll get used to it then, but i hope you know that i'm not the kind to give up. so, though it will be the hardest thing in the world, i will continue to get up and try. nothing will keep me down, nothing will come close.

Dr. Benjamin Spock

The main source of good discipline is growing up in a 

loving family, being loved and learning 

to love in return.

here's to this moment. this moment in your life when nothing at all is perfect, but everything feels so right.

you grow up so fast in high school. it's not something you wait for, it just kinda happens. one day you'll look back and be proud of who you've become, while at the same time, miss who you were.

you grow up so fast in high school.

you grow up so fast in high school. it's not something you wait for, it just kinda happens. one day you'll look back and be proud of who you've become, while at the same time, miss who you were.

LOVE your parents

When you grow up you start to appreciate the things you once took for granted.

LIKE NAP TIME


90’S CARTOONS


AND BASIC MATH

The problem is staying an artist

The hardest part of growing up is

The hardest part of growing up is letting go of what you are used to 

and moving on with something you're not.

What The Hunger Games is about and what the media thinks

What The Hunger Games is about: tyranny, revolution, courage, love, growing up, identity, poverty, hunger, class conflict, sacrifice
What the media thinks The Hunger Games is about: a steamy love triangle