Quote “Growing might feel like breaking at first.”

“Please tell me you're just feeling tired
cause if it's more than that I feel that I might break”

Chris Carrabba (1975) American musician

Again I Go Unnoticed

“No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Victor Frankenstein in Ch. 4
Frankenstein (1818)
Context: No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs.

“Darling, would you like to grow a beard?'
'Would you like me to?'
'It might be fun. I'd like to see you with a beard.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

'All right. I'll grow one. I'll start now this minute. It's a good idea. It will give me something to do.'
Catherine and Henry discussing whether he should grow a beard, in Ch. 38
A Farewell to Arms (1929)

“For many kids, politics feel very distant. This might be the first time it hits home for a lot of kids.”

Eitan Bernath (2002) American entertainer and chef

Source: "TikTok Ban? Creators and Fans Are Big Mad" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/style/tiktok-ban-threat-trump.html, The New York Times (2 August 2020).