#adult

I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it. ↗

— Joan Allen

#adult #i #i think #knew #place

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

— Martha Beck

#assume #children #feel #old #responsibilities

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#does #faith #fashion #follow #latest

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too. ↗

— David Duchovny

#dad #father #fear #had #kid

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#actor #adult #child #child actor #going

I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#being #beings #change #day #elders

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#forgives #gospel #murder #never #new

The werewolf Senate hadn't been happy with the idea of a human alpha, and there wasn't a day that went by that I didn't think about the fact that I had something most male Weres wanted very, very badly...Maddy. Lake. Lily, Katie, Sloane, Avie, Sophie... ↗

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#ya-urban-fantasy #young-adult-urban-fantasy #trials

For several moments, Mary couldn't hear anything over the violent pounding of her pulse. ↗

— Y.S. Lee

#excitement #thriller #young-adult-fiction #thriller

Being with Demetri wasn’t the absence of pain, it was the added presence of peace, making it easier and easier for that little part of my heart to heal again.--From Pull: A Seaside Novel ↗

— Rachel Van Dyken

#new-adult-romance #pull #tear-a-seaside-novel #contemporary