#adult

I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again. ↗

— Claire Danes

#again #been #experience #free #hadn

Fate was a reality, but it wasn’t a beautiful or angelic thing. It was a heart-wrenching nightmare. And we’d fallen blindly into it. We had no escape. It was happening, and it was up to me to guarantee our survival of it. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#beautiful #choice #destiny #fate #fiction

Have you ever noticed how pretty and beautiful words can be? How easy it is to say the things you think someone wants to hear. How you can affect a person's entire say with just a few measly sentences? ↗

— J. Sterling

#young-adult-fiction #beauty

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#adult life #always #cleveland #grew #i

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother? ↗

— Gabrielle Hamilton

#becoming-your-parents #family #growing-up #humor #parents