#adult

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around. ↗

— David Eagleman

#adult life #approach #around #essentially #i

Living this life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived, you get to hang out at shows and drink and you're able to not really face reality and adulthood the way most of my friends are. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#adulthood #drink #face #face reality #friends

It's easy to remember, because dating rhymes with mating, and they're almost the same [...] So your mom thinks we're ma-- Uh, dating? ↗

— Anna Banks

#humorous #ya #young-adult #dating

I want to know we're not pushing children toward the traditions of life, but instead cultivating them to grow in their own specific purposes, and make the dreams of their youth become realities as they age. ↗

— Ashley Ormon

#children #dreams-coming-true #goals #goals-in-life #success

He saw the rules of life clearly for the first time and they were simple: it was a game where Death was the only winner. ↗

— Sharon Sant

#fantasy #science-fiction #young-adult #death

The ice cold fear I’d felt, not knowing if Wyatt was alive, pressed into the wall with other girls and surrounded by guys who were unspeakably brave, hit my body again in a wave. This was trauma—the gift that keeps on giving. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#glass-girl #grief #gun-violence #love #meg-kavanagh

Creativity is the catalyst to the future. ↗

— Ann Marie Frohoff

#coming-of-age #music #music-lyrics #romance #teen

Who’s driving the boat?” Over the motor, I heard girls screaming at us the instant before we crashed. ↗

— Jennifer Echols

#humour #young-adult-fiction #young-adult-romance #funny

Butes also told Phyllis that her virginity had also been offered to Helios & that the fate of the terrible Typhon now hung on the Battle of the Virgins, or rather, of their virginities, hers & Atalanta`s. And it appeared that, as it stood, Typhon would lose, in view of the difference in age of the two virgins.[MMT] ↗

— Nicholas Chong

#age

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#child #half #more #sense #speaks