It’s amazing how young twelve is, when you’re thirteen. (OYCSM)
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It’s amazing how young twelve is, when you’re thirteen. (OYCSM)
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Sometimes I reckon it would be better if there was a Fountain of Growing Up. (NOC)
'I thought you always said kids spent far too much time running around and getting into mischief these days?’
‘Ah. Yes. Well, that’s juvenile delinquency,’ said Gurder sternly. ‘It's quite different from our youthful high spirits.' (Wings) 'Mrs. Tilly, I think you wrote a lovely well-spelled and grammatical letter to us suggesting that everyone under the age of eighteen should be flogged once a week to stop them being so noisy?’
‘Once a day, Mr de Worde,’ said Mrs. Tilly. ‘That’ll teach ‘em to go around being young!' (TT) He was vaguely aware that childhood was a tricky business, especially toward the end. There was all the business with pimples and bits of your body having a mind of their own. (SM)
It's a terrible thing to be nearly sixteen and the wrong species. (GG)
'I was saying,’ he said loudly, ‘that we didn’t know the meaning of the word “sex” when we were young.’
‘That’s true. That’s very true,’ said Poons. He stared reflectively at the flames. ‘Did we ever, mm, find out, do you remember?' (MP) 'The trouble with being this old, you know, is that being young is so far away from me now that it seems sometimes that it happened to someone else.' (W)
... inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. (MP)
'I didn’t have white hair in those days,’ said Granny.
‘Everything was a different colour in those days.’ ‘That’s true.’ ‘It didn’t rain so much in the summer time.’ ‘The sunsets were redder.’ ‘There were more old people. The world was full of them,’ said the wizard. ‘Yes, I know. And now it’s full of young people. Funny, really. I mean, you’d expect it to be the other way round.' (ER) |
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