#adult

Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#blue-bloods #fiction #martin-kingsley #van-alen-legacy #young-adult

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

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

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#age #am #another #belief #disguise

I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood. ↗

— Freddy Adu

#bad #did #everything #glad #good

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

I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school, and I've retained a bit of that in my adulthood. ↗

— Lake Bell

#almost #always #bit #costumes #fashion

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

#does #faith #fashion #follow #latest