#adult

The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times. ↗

— Martha Beck

#average #child #day #laughs #more

But he was here. In my bed. His body warm and hard and feeling so much like home that I ached. ↗

— Julie Bale

#new-adult-contemporary-romance #the-stillness-of-you #beauty

But love is this really powerful thing that everyone's got if they'd just learn how to accept it. I mean, come on. If it's something we all have to give, and if it's something we all want, doesn't that mean there's exactly enough to go around? ↗

— Philip Beard

#realistic-fiction #young-adult #death

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself. ↗

— David Walliams

#books #children #demanding #i #just

I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#child #eat #i #i love #love

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

Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#babies #baby #barren #damages #damaging

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#fertility #functions #important #management #most

Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible. ↗

— John Grigg

#autobiography #common #hardly #less #now