#adult

The only wand you'll ever need is a better-feeling thought. ↗

— C.G. Rousing

#fantasy-fiction #fantasy-series #fantasy-young-adult #fiction #fiction-novel

Sometimes,’ he starts, ‘the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing you were never meant to have them. ↗

— Rebecca Serle

#ya #young-adult #young-adult-romance #relationship

It occurred to Raule that all children were monsters in the world and were instinctively aware of it. They were reminded of their anomalous nature by adults, whom they failed to resemble, and with whose habitations and tools their bodies were at odds. This was surely why the little girl played with the sequins so solemnly and with such intense concentration. She was doing nothing less than conjuring, out of pattern and colour, a world that conformed to her desires and obeyed her will. The boy, on the other hand, showed with the whole attitude of his being that he knew there was only the one world and he would kill it if he could. ↗

— K.J. Bishop

#children #conjuring #emilia-vargey #jacope-vargey #monsters

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood. ↗

— Adam Phillips

#childhood #religion #religion

Animals do not respect their master's brother, but they do respect their brothers as masters. ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy #fantasy-fiction #fiction #respect #young-adult

You realise that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you,” he said. ↗

— John Green

#romantic #young-adult #romantic

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played. ↗

— June Allyson

#dramatic #dramatic role #ever #first #i

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#become #catch #cold #discover #grow

I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#animation #first #had #having #i

Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young. ↗

— Martha Beck

#assume #children #feel #old #responsibilities