Maureen Daly quotes

“Growing up is like taking down the sides of your house and letting strangers walk in.”
-- Maureen Daly

Source : Maureen Daly (1946). “Seventeenth summer”

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“Growing up crowds your mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel.”
-- Maureen Daly

Source : Maureen Daly (2009). “Seventeenth Summer”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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“It is odd how one can feel like someone else early in the morning - bigger, cleaner, so much more alive.”
-- Maureen Daly

Source : Maureen Daly (2010). “Seventeenth Summer”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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“Talking about your home town is like talking about your own mother.”
-- Maureen Daly

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“I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.”

“Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.”

“I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.”

“Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?”

“He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.”

“When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There's nothing stranger than the smell of someone else's house. The scent goes right to your stomach. Mary's house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace. For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.”

“We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world and conquers fear of death.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“Being on Ozzfest has been a great way for us to break out and show metal fans that we have a heavy side.”

“It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.”

“You do not need to fly to the other side of the planet to find wilderness and beauty.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. June 12, 2013.