“She was only a year old, but elves grew up fast. Not like witches, who Jenks swore were not able to be on their own until they were thirty. Ahem.”
“Elves apparently had a short childhood. Not like witches, who seemed to take forever to grow up, according to Jenks.”
“As a child I had wanted to become an automobile, but then I grew up to be thirty years old.”
“He’s only two years younger, but that doesn’t mean I’m not old enough to be his father. I grew up fast. Ah, but that’s life, no?”
“But that was all teachers ever did, wasn’t it? They grew and grew and grew until they wondered if they were the only ones growing, and then they shrank and shrank and shrank… and all the while the children grew sharper.”
“What was the good of trying to keep your own (children) if when they grew up their days were like your own- changeovers and ugly painted dolls?”