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Grown Ups QUOTES

Grown Ups QUOTES

1 " Adulthood, for all its opportunities, meant the simultaneous accumulation of loss. "

― Marian Keyes , Grown Ups

2 " Fight today’s war today. Leave tomorrow’s war until tomorrow. "

― Marian Keyes , Grown Ups

3 " Now and again, a frantic feeling seized her with sudden force. It would come on without warning, a type of panic, a sense that there was something she’d left undone, which would have catastrophic consequences if it wasn’t addressed. "

― Marian Keyes , Grown Ups

4 " They’d sing and eat cake and carry on around "

― Marian Keyes , Grown Ups

5 " When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability…To be alive is to be vulnerable’ Madeleine L’Engle "

― Marian Keyes , Grown Ups

6 " And what had this to do with eating too much and making herself sick? If what her counsellor Peggy said was true, she’d been doing that to change her mood. Now she had no way to alter her feelings, and she had to make sense of them again "

― Marian Keyes , Grown Ups

7 " shame "

― Marian Keyes , Grown Ups

8 " of the short journey passed in silence. "

― Marian Keyes , Grown Ups

9 " concussion "

― Marian Keyes , Grown Ups

10 " Adulthood, for all its opportunities, meant the simultaneous accumulation of loss. Momentarily the emptiness was unbearable. "

― Marian Keyes , Grown Ups

11 " They shared a hostel with other broken, displaced people, from the worst parts of the world. "

― Marian Keyes , Grown Ups

12 " Her outline kept slipping, like a wonky contact lens that wouldn’t sit on the iris. When other people were around, she could do the back-and-forth talk, but lately it felt like muscle memory, rather than genuine engagement. Now and again both her selves overlapped perfectly, clicked into place, and suddenly she was there, in the moment. Intense feelings would surge through her, both good and not-so-good, then her outline would detach again. She was living her life a short distance from herself. "

― Marian Keyes , Grown Ups

13 " play "

― Marian Keyes , Grown Ups

14 " polite "

― Marian Keyes , Grown Ups

15 " and Liam was a dead loss from day one, thinking he’d be "

― Marian Keyes , Grown Ups

16 " I’ll be fifty and, seriously, what’s the age when a person finally feels safe and secure? Because I really thought it would have happened by now. "

― Marian Keyes , Grown Ups