“I wanted my children to grow up where I grew up, to have proper roots in a culture as old and magnificent as Britain’s; to be citizens, with everything that implies, of a real country...”
“I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.”
“Old was NOT one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up!!”
“As a child I had wanted to become an automobile, but then I grew up to be thirty years old.”
“When I grow up I want to be an old woman.”
“We grew up together but we won't grow old together.”