“No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst. So how do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?”

Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer

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“When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.”

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