#adult

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid. ↗

— Stephen Hopkins

#being #editing #emotional #emotional life #i

I don't wish I started later, but I was never a child star. I was in school every year and had normal friends and I loved it and here I am, so I can't say that I wish I hadn't done it. I used to say, 'No, I didn't miss any of my childhood,' but it is a very adult place to be, a movie set. Like, it's a little weird. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#am #any #child #childhood #done

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#both #choices #entitled #holding #left

O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#fairy-tales #life

We could do it, you know." "What?" "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#love #survival #ya #young-adult #life

It seemed to me that Mr. Forrester would approve of a woman who could follow him in conversation and not be baffled by ledgers and currency conversions. I had grossly overestimated him. ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#family-saga #gothic-romance #historical-fiction #strong-heroine #suspense

What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#age #blown #child #up

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

— Martha Beck

#average #child #day #laughs #more

I didn’t have to look at him to know I’d just lost everything I’d ever wanted because I felt it. I felt the loss seep into bone and tissue. I felt it settle between the cracks in my heart and the empty holes in my soul. ↗

— Julie Bale

#julie-bale #new-adult #new-adult-romance #romance #beauty

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity. ↗

— Olympia Brown

#ancient #christ #christianity #down #errors