An ordinary man can enjoy breakfasting on juice and rye bread.
But when you are underfed, scorned, miserable or just plain bored, you don’t want to eat dull wholesome food.
You want something a little more colourful, exciting, tastier, meatier and juicier.
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Miles: Well, things are kind of complicated right now. When you’re
a grown-up, you’ll understand.
Jonah: I don’t want to be a grown-up.
Miles: Why not?
Jonah: Because grown-ups always say that things are complicated.
Stichwörter: grown-ups adults complicating-matters
A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.
Criss JamiStichwörter: devil children rebels controversy adults revolutionary savior troublemaker
Courage was no that hard to come by for children. No matter the hardships they faced, given a little love and encouragement, their spirits rebounded and thrived.
Adults were different. Their habits and experiences made them inflexible, welding their routines into place, cementing their joys and hurts to create expectations of life that were not in line with the new realities. All around her, Cass saw the dazed expressions and the blank weariness.
Stichwörter: children courage adults post-apocalyptic adaptability
Couples stray,” said Edgar. “Part of the breaking-in process.”
“Not breaking in, breaking.” Nicola differed sharply. “You can glue people together again. But then your relationship’s like any other repaired object, with cracks, blobs of epoxy, a little askew. It’s never the same. I can see you haven’t a notion what I’m on about, so you’ll have to take my word for it.”
“Christ, you’re a babe in the woods.” Edgar stopped slicing tomatoes. “You got it ass-backward. A marriage perched like porcelain on the mantelpiece is doomed. Sooner or later grown-ups treat each other like shit. You gotta be able to kick the thing around, less like china than an old shoe—bam, under the bed, or walk it through some puddles. No love’s gonna last it if can’t take abuse.
Stichwörter: love adults lionel-shriver
Magda looks at me as if I've gone mad. Or I've grown up. It's kind of the same thing.
Victoria SchwabStichwörter: growing-up madness adulthood mad adults
On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.
Hendrik Willem van LoonStichwörter: humor ignorance adulthood maturity republicans adults republican trump mature republican-party-united-states cave-man caveman cave-men cavemen
The problem with parents is that they're adults.
Benjamin Alire SáenzHe preferred smart questions to smart answers.
Yōko OgawaStichwörter: questions children adults
What you did was enough," I said. "We didn't need a superhero. Just an adult who acted to help us when I asked.
Nancy WerlinStichwörter: adults superheroes
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