#grownup

She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would have done if she had smiled at me like that now: whether I would have handed my mind or my heart or my identify to her for the asking, as my father did. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#grownups #pretty #beauty

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#grownups #now #running #running away #thought

Children want to do what grownups do. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#grownups #want

Election night is the easiest time to act like a grownup. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#easiest #election #grownup #like #night

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents. ↗

— Wendy Wasserstein

#being #big #children #curve #grownup

'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#companion #grownup #life

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old! ↗

— May Sarton

#capacity #compared #every #few #forget

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate. ↗

— Julien Green

#corners #dark #ever #fear #grownup

A grownup is a child with layers on. ↗

— Woody Harrelson

#grownup #layers

When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#adult #always #danger #day #die