#adult

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#been #child #company #experience #i

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

Oh, God … you’re so beautiful,” I said in a weak voice, my head enchanted. He smiled at me and turned to the thin, elderly lady next to him whose skin seamed with wrinkles.“She must still have a fever,” Victor said, fighting a smile, which just made him even more breathtaking. ↗

— A.B.Whelan

#science-fiction-romance #young-adult-fantasy #young-adult-fiction #beauty

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

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood? ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#anyone #child #children #happens #i

Well, I never got into the young adult headspace. With 'Twilight,' they are pretty adult themes, aside from maybe the first one, but even that. They're very adult themes, actually, particularly as the characters age. I never wrote for young adults. I wrote for myself, as an audience. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#adult #age #aside #audience #be the first

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#child #christmas #did #i #prefer

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#between #consenting #consenting adults #curtail #department