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“The most childish thing is to believe that you are an adult now...”
“She would never, ever understand the idea that a child, especially an infant, was of more value than an adult who had already gained all the skills needed to benefit the community. The death of pot...”
“Childhood is an exploratory period of calculated investigation. The nagging feeling that a childs life has not really began until he or she attains adulthood makes growing up both a whimsical and f...”
“Will the time ever come when I am not so completely dependent on thoughts I first had in childhood to furnish the feedstock for my comparisons and analogies and sense of the parallel rhythms of mic...”
“You see, I don't think age matters so much as people think. Parts of me are still 12 and I think other parts were already 50 when I was 12.”
“Adults were constantly auditioning, but for what?”
“They sealed this promise by hooking pinkies, the way they used to, long ago, when promises didn't hurt as much.”
“Eventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had become, mourning the man whom he had expected to be when he'd been a boy.”
“Nobody truly becomes an adult. The child we have been is always there, deep inside of us. As time passes, we think we're growing, but maturity is only an illusion; a hindrance to our free child soul.”
“Vivien thought how ugly adults could be, how weak. So used to getting what they wanted that they didn't know the first thing about being brave.”
“A preserved childhood is better than a repaired adulthood”
“If you cant find any fun during childhood, you naturally wont look for it as you grow up to maturity. You will grow hard, and look upon fun as foolish. Also, if you dont furnish fun for a child, do...”
“Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out.”
“...because you are not trying simply to complete a set of books or toys or Weetabix cards, you are trying to complete yourself, to get back to the whole person you were before, as a child, before t...”
“Being a child sucked. Being a teenager was worse. And being an adult seemed so far away that I had a better chance at swimming the length of the ocean than growing up.”
“I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversa...”
“Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one.”
“Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.”
“Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.”
“You love because you want to need someone the way you did when you were a child, and have them need you too. You eat well because the intensity of taste reminds you of a need satisfied, a pain reli...”
