#adult

Maybe love, unfathomable love, was too much for people, so they had traded it for something easier. ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#marriage #teen-fiction #young-adult #love

You think he’s perfect and he’s safe and, in your head, he can do anything... but he can’t save you, Sara... and I can’t save you either. ↗

— Emme Rollins

#love #loving #new-adult #new-adult-romance #romance

Overestimate the small. ↗

— T. William Watts

#inspiration #small #inspirational

My mom was sitting at the kitchen table. She’d set her coffee down, making a noise that made me look her way. I’d begun to notice her less and less often, like her colors were fading and blending in with walls. She was shrinking. Or maybe her sphere of influence in the family was shrinking. My dad glanced at her, too, and then wrote something on a napkin. He slid it across the counter to me—Don’t worry. Come home in one piece. Have fun and act like a sixteen-year-old for a change. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#family #glass-girl #grief #laura-anderson-kurk #love

Everything changes except human behavior and its consequences. ↗

— Stephanie M. Sellers

#horses #lumbee-indians #mustangs #non-fiction #north-carolina

The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else. ↗

— Jodie Sweetin

#become #competition #else #fierce #i

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master. ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#first #given #machines #master #shoes

God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do. ↗

— Jim Bakker

#fault #forgiveness #full #god #i

Well,Sir," she began,"I am twenty-one years old & still a virgin. I have never experienced sexual intercourse. My hymen is not broken.Old men say that a virgin`s Nectar is good for them. I understand that you want to buy. I want to sell."[MMT] ↗

— Nicholas Chong

#men

He had come to America, haven of peace and liberty, and it, too, was joining the slaughter, fighting for the big capitalists. There was no peace for men, only murder, cruelty, brutality. ↗

— James T. Farrell

#world-war-i #young-adults #men