When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still

"Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting."

Willa Cather, "Book 2, The Hired Girls: Chapter VIII" My Antonia