Rachel Keller Quotes

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

People forget that when you're 16, you're probably more serious than you'll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

When I was 20 I was like, 'I'm not a teenager anymore. I got this.' But when I look back I'm like, 'Oh no. Oh no. You did not.'

I think the teenage sides of myself have informed my adult self.

You mature, you learn things.

Whoever can weep over himself for one hour is greater than the one who is able to teach the whole world; whoever recognizes the depth of his own frailty is greater than the one who sees visions of angels.

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

Just because I was 30 doesn't mean I was grown. God, I was such an idiot. I was an absolute idiot at 30. And I grew up.

Now you see how you are, the wisdom mixed in with all the scars.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

I just remember that pivotal moment when you're a young adult, and you realize that these authority figures are human beings, too, and they're figuring out their lives just as you are, and they're flawed.

I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.