“I've matured, maybe, but not grown up.”
“Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.”
“She looked like a grown-up, a calm, controlled grown-up, and she was glad for that one mercy. No one would be able to judge from her exterior that she was falling apart on the inside or that she didn't feel mature at all.”
“Relationships is not a game of amateurs is what people say..But they begin to foster between amateurs and become a reason to make them matured grown-ups!”
“Magda looks at me as if I've gone mad. Or I've grown up. It's kind of the same thing.”
“He gazed at me. "You've grown up honey." It felt good to hear it. I thought maybe he was right. Then it occurred to me that if I really had grown up I wouldn't want to be told.”