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“His body had almost no hair and his naked little circumcised johnson was nearly as pale as the rest of him, white as a boy's - perhaps over time one's genitals emerge from the pots and bubbling vat...”
“The whole time I pretend I have mental telepathy. And with my mind only, Ill say or think? to the target, 'Dont do it. Dont go to that job you hate. Do something you love today. Ride a rollercoas...”
“The future isn't written in the stars. There are no guarantees. So claim your adulthood. Be intentional. Get to work. Pick your family. Do the math. Make your own certainty. Don't be defined by wha...”
“The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.”
“The adult were once young.The young have not yet attained adulthood.”
“Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the mo...”
“We are accustomed to repeating the clich, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can al...”
“How do you explain to a child who likes everyone in the world that adult life consists to a great extent of cutting people away?”
“Without them, ones status as an adult is never secure; a childless adult creates adulthood for himself , and as exhilarating as it often is, it is also a state of perpetual insecurity”
“Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death.”
“One of the things I dread about becoming an adult is that sooner or later you begin letting sentimentality get in the way of simple logic.”
“We were wiser as children if not for anything else but for our ability to always reflect. Reflection is a powerful tool to move forward into an enlightened stage of wisdom. Children reflect everyda...”
“Every child born into the world has a divine mission to fulfill.As the child grows into adulthood, he or she must act to fulfill the divine mission.”
“And why is it that so many years later it is so easy to distinguish the bullies from their prey? Adult bodies surrounding the children of long ago. The years have changed nothing.”
“Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same.”
“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You dont. I dont. People are much more complicated than that. Its true of everybody.'I said, 'Are you a monster? Like Ursula Monkton?'Lettie th...”
“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 novel...”
“Never tell a child that something its too hard”
“I want to know we're not pushing children toward the traditions of life, but instead cultivating them to grow in their own specific purposes, and make the dreams of their youth become realities as ...”
“A person can have a happy and fulfilling life without children.”
