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“You and I both know that love is for children,'' he said. ''We're adults. Compatibility is for adults.''''Compatibility is for my Bluetooth and my car,'' Teresa replied. ''Only they get along just ...”
“Their faith in him is at once touching and alarming -- their trust that they are safe simply because he's with them, as if an adult presence warded of all possible threat, emanated an unbreachable ...”
“Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependance for reverence.”
“Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why.”
“He preferred smart questions to smart answers.”
“Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say 'tell the truth,' and when you do, they don't believe you. What's the point?”
“Maybe this is how it happened first for everyone —adults promising us their own failed future.”
“Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up”
“When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into their tears, which they spread liberally about for the w...”
“Some people discard their childhood like an old hat. They forget about it like a phone number that's no longer valid. They used to be kids, then they became adults - but what are they now?Only thos...”
“I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them.”
“We are not sure what we will become, only what we want to and don’t want to. We often become what we never thought we could, then we become fine with that.”
“The problem with parents is that they're adults.”
“[E]verywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again so they can...”
“Adults are just making things up as they go along. And when they’re scared, adults have no more answers than us kids”
