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“One of my earliest memories was of a maze of pale green walls. The corridors never ended, no matter which way I turned. I was running, my feet bare, my paper-thin gown flapping around skinny foal-l...”
“Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age.”
“When I was a child, I thought like a child.When I became adult, I seek a deeper understanding of life.”
“The adult age begins with the blessed single strand of a grey hair.”
“Age is only a number. Keep an active life.”
“Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. Its not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the cat escape. A liberated feline might purr on your la...”
“Do you ever wear leather?" the guy asks."What?""Leather. Do you like leather?""It doesn't exactly wipe me out.""I like to see boys in leather."I look at him cool. "Okay," I say, "what is it you wan...”
“Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”
“Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.”
“When you blame others, what you are really saying is what is inside of you cant be fixed, so you have no control of your own happiness. Therefore, you have made the conscience choice to give focus ...”
“But cocks arent supposed to lay eggs... Sahil said, trying to untangle himself. ...theyre supposed to fertilise them.”
“The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.”
“If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.”
“They were Siamese twins, joined at the groin by a traitorous piece of meat.”
“Ursula Monkton smiled, and the lightnings wreathed and writhed about her. She was power incarnate, standing in the crackling air. She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world w...”
“Dream like a child. Reason like an elder. Play like a youth. Work like an adult.”
“He didn't want just one morning with her, just one dawn breaking across the horizon. He wanted every dawn forever, every night, and the hours in between.”
“For eight years Ive waited for you to realize that. Ive waited for you to see yourself for who you really are. Youre Lily Marks, a beautiful, extremely clever woman whose capacity for compassion se...”
“As an adult I had mastered the art of looking without seeing and listening without hearing and eating without tasting and maybe even existing without living.”
“But while the urban tribe helps us survive, it does not help us thrive. The urban tribe may bring us soup when we are sick, but it is the people we hardly know - those who never make it into our tr...”
