Cool quote about growing up

[dirtylibrarian]

"As of this writing i am sixty-one years old in chronology. But I am not an isolated, chronological numerical statistic. I am sixty-one, and I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five, and..and...and....If we lose any part of ourselves, we are thereby diminished. If I cannot be thirteen and sixty-one simultaneously, part of me has been taken away. For growing up never ends; we never get there. I am still in the process of growing up, but I will make no progress if I lose any of myself on the way."

- Madeleine L'Engle

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[dirtylibrarian.livejournal.com]

I believe it came from Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art, which I have not read...the quote was mentioned on a listserv I'm on, and I figured posting it here was as good a place as any to keep track of it.