Quotes About Adulthood

ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water and air, have a species named after me, and ruin my life.

A door to an alternate self. This self was another Alice, not the childhood Alice: capable, free in the world, independent.

No one except your husband knows of the cautiousness at the heart of your life. Your adulthood has been a progressive retreat from curiosity and wonder, an endless series of delays and procrastinations. You wanted to be so much, once, but life kept on getting in the way... You settled. Shunned creativity, flight, risk, never had the courage to give a dream, any dream, a go.

Neoteny, the choice not to metamorphose. If it was good for the axolotl, then it was good for Consuelo.

And what is adolescence if not a great height from which we are all expected to jump?

When we grow up, we lose the talent for loving without restrictions.

Some people grow up at 15, some at 38. It is more painful at 38.

Beni babama çok benzetirlerdi. Ona benzedi?im için adam olamad?m, serseri oldum art?k eve çamurlu ayakkab?lar?mla girece?im,

Sende çocukça bir büyüklük var

I vowed to never, ever talk or reason like an adult.

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.

Y qué debería estar haciendo yo? ¿Qué puedo hacer? En menos de un año voy a tener dieciocho y seré adulta, una adulta sin más expectativas que la vida en nuestro barrio que se está desintegrando.

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you

The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie!

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

We speak of grown-ups being "tall," but a child is "long.

Nafai knew the rule: when a man acts like a child, he's boyish, and everyone's delighted; when a boy acts the same way, he's childish, and everyone tells him to be a man.

It made me miserable that I was rapidly becoming an adult and that I was unable to do anything about it.

Nobody in the world understood our suffering. In time, when we became adults, we might look back on this pain and loneliness as a funny thing, perfectly ordinary, but—but how were we expected to get by, to get through this interminable period of time until that point when we were adults? There was no one to teach us how. Was there nothing to do but leave us alone, like we had the measles? But people died from the measles, or went blind. You couldn't just leave them alone.

People's youthful quirks can harden into adult pathologies. What's adorable at 20 can be worrisome at 30 and dangerous at 40.

There are stages of becoming a grown-up. First, you definitely aren't one. Then you pretend to be one. Then you're sure that there are no grown -ups; that they're mythological and don't really exist. And then finally, maybe one day in your forties, you just are one.

There are no grown-ups. Everyone is winging it; some just do it more confidently.

I had grown up with very little parental input, so I learned to be über-responsible, self-reliant, and self-sufficient. As a result, I never wanted to seem

I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.