Quotes About Adulthood

When I was older, I could move to some place (like Australia or Kentucky) where the boys act more like human beings.

Mike and I ran through everything we thought Courtenay should know about being on her own in the big, bad world: who to trust, who not to trust, what to do if somebody wanted to give her candy, touch her, take her for a ride. And that was one of the big problems between Leigh and me. Leigh was incensed that I had started the Lost Game. She thought it would scare Courtenay and all Leigh wanted to do was protect her.

Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

I know, the little kids came with their mommies," Colleen said. "I'm glad we're old enough to come alone." She could still hear Colleen

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This is what daughters did. They left, and came home later with lives of their own.

The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.

Welcome to adulthood, she said. It sucks as much as high school.

Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all. ~Ruby, pg 38

You're always a kid around your parents… Unless they're acting like children. Then you don't get the chance.

Growing up means :propelling yourself forward into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time.

That year, a middle-aged acquaintance asked me what my favorite book was and I said On the Road. He smiled, said, That was my favorite book at sixteen. At the time , I thought he was patronizing me, that it was going to be my favorite book forever and ever, amen. But he was right. As an adult, I'm more of a Gatsby girl-more tragic, more sad, just as interested in what America costs as what it has to offer.

The only thing stopping this address from turning into a slacker parable is the absence of the word "dude.

Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.

Everybody lies to children, even their parents. The day a child realizes that is the day they start becoming an adult.

Daß die Kinder nicht wissen, warum sie wollen, darin sind alle hochgelehrten Schul- und Hofmeister einig; daß aber auch Erwachsene gleich Kindern auf diesem Erdboden herumtaumeln und wie jene nicht wissen, woher sie kommen und wohin sie gehen, ebensowenig nach wahren Zwecken handeln, ebenso durch Biskuit und Kuchen und Birkenreiser regiert werden: das will niemand gern glauben, und mich dünkt, man kann es mit Händen greifen.

Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left of the barely bearable raw immediacy of childhood, all the things solved that had puzzled me when I was small, all mysteries settled, all questions answered, and the moments dripping away, unnoticed almost, drip by golden drip, toward the final, almost unnoticed, quietus.

That you are a worldly adult,' she said. 'You have spent your whole life letting go of the innocent dreams that made your childhood so warm and hopeful and full of certainty. Dream by dream you let them go. We all do it, to shield ourselves from disappointment. It's easy to shed them. Not so easy to get them back.

What is the boy now, who has lost his ball,...I am not a little boy.

They were the clothes of a child, and he was a child no longer.

En cada adulto mora el niño que fue, y en cada niño espera el adulto que será.

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

It's as if there is no more room in their lives for parents.

It's been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges.