Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.
Ethan HawkeTags: growing-up dreams childhood judgement adulthood follow-your-dreams ethan-hawke
Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.
Simon Van BooyTags: wisdom children childhood adulthood mystery
People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.
Chad HarbachTags: life adulthood actions meaninglessness consequences-life-lessons
I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around.
John GreenTags: growing-up adulthood
The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though he was twenty-three and she eighteen, each had so much of novelty to feel, and learn, that neither experienced nor evinced the sentiments of sober disenchanted maturity.
Emily BrontëTags: reading learning children relationships childhood adulthood maturity
Your first period may unequivocally announce puberty, but your first 9–5 doesn’t definitively mean you’ve grown up.
Mia FontaineHow can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?
Gabrielle HamiltonTags: humor growing-up family parents adulthood parents-and-children becoming-your-parents
As a man begins to understand the sacrifices he must make to live the life he dreams of, he often loses his courage for such a life.
Josie SiglerTags: growing-up courage adulthood fears
O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.
Leo RostenTags: adulthood fairy-tales
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.
Robert Charles WilsonTags: childhood adulthood lying deceit
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