#adult

You Just scared me half to death," I said. "You should be thrilled you're halfway there. ↗

— Rae Hachton

#gothic-romance #marcus-marble #pretty-in-black #rae-hachton #young-adult-series

My little sister, Prim, curled up on her side, cocooned in my mother’s body, their cheeks pressed together. In sleep, my mother looks younger, still worn but not so beaten-down. Prim’s face is as fresh as a raindrop, as lovely as the primrose for which she was named. My mother was very beautiful once, too. Or so they tell me. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#beauty

With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#adult #appeared #audience #audiences #cinemas

I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch. ↗

— Burt Ward

#children #decide #having #i #like

But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it continues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood. ↗

— Bernice Weissbourd

#changed #children #constant #continues #expanded

The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#blood #bone #bone marrow #cell #cell research

I don't carry a purse when I fly because I have my Hello Kitty carry-on. I'm the biggest adult supporter. ↗

— Venus Williams

#because #biggest #carry #fly #hello

I hope to have a career like Jodie Foster, going from child to adult actress. ↗

— Evan Rachel Wood

#adult #career #child #foster #going

As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct. ↗

— Alfre Woodard

#adult #after #artist #better #christian

Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#adult #being #buy #candy #i