“I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.”
“Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.”
“If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon.”
“These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us?”
“Never outgrow your imagination.”
“We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.”