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“Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.”

Writing Character Age Young Periods Spots Features Adulthood Fleeting Arcs Chasms Where You Stand Fleeting Time

Author:Ann Brashares

“As most doctors will tell you, cleansing is ridiculous. You know what's been around longer than that state-of-the-art juicer? Your kidneys. And your liver. Still, the cleanse has recalibrated my definition of a splurge.”

Knows Art Stills States Doctors Definitions Ridiculous Imperfect Adulthood Liver Refreshing Cleansing Kidneys

Author:Sloane Crosley

“Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure.”

Want Kind Moments Yeah Dancing Crush Imperfect Adulthood Exes Salad Forks Unrequited Refreshing Ex Boyfriend Spleen

Author:Sloane Crosley

“You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself. I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.”

Thinking Way Feels Trying Reason Culture Effort Smell Imperfect Adulthood Refreshing

Author:Sloane Crosley

“Sometimes in New York, you're walking down the street and you realize there's a girl walking in front of you whose thighs you could hit a golf ball through, and maybe that makes you depressed.”

Sometimes Girl Realizing Streets Fronts New York Walking Balls Golf Imperfect Adulthood Thighs Refreshing Golf Ball

Author:Sloane Crosley

“Who do you have to sleep with to get laid in this town?”

Sleep Towns Imperfect Adulthood Refreshing Getting Laid

Book:I Was Told There'd Be Cake

Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake

“Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.”

Age Lines Loss Series Adulthood Accumulation

Book:Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times

Source: Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times

“I certainly have a very colorful nature, filled with great highs and great lows... in my early adulthood I probably was grappling with some serious depression issues.”

Issues Serious Depression Lows Filled Adulthood Colorful Grappling

Author:Sally Field

“For me the breakthrough was the realization that I wasn't the center of the universe or even the centre of my own world. That you and your work, your living, are not the only reason you're here. Your role is to shepherd your children through to adulthood. That's the point of life. Your own little sessions and needs and passions are just there to flavour you and help you do that job for your children.”

“You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?”

Thinking Doe Happens Capable Adulthood

Author:Sally Hawkins

“There’s no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It’s not seen as a gift. Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 — sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally. Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.”

Age Past Faces Desire Goal Happened Hair Adults Concerned Dresses Teenager Adulthood Smooth

Author:Frances McDormand

“What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by 'value' reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a school 'values' reading what it really means is that the school intensely focuses on raising state-mandated reading test scores- the kind of reading our students will rarely, if ever, do in adulthood.”

Ifs Looks Kind Mean States School Values Reading Practice Teacher Students Directors Tests Score Adulthood Really Mean Curriculum Test Scores

Book:Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it

Source: Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it

“Hiro is a talented drifter. This is the kind of lifestyle that sounded romantic to him as recently as five years ago. But in the bleak light of full adulthood, which is to one's early twenties as Sunday morning is to Saturday night, he can clearly see what it really amounts to: He's broke and unemployed.”

Years Kind Light Night Morning Five Amount Years Ago Twenties Lifestyle Broke Five Years Sunday Adulthood Saturday Unemployed Saturday Night Bleak Sunday Morning Drifters

Book:Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash

“Early fear was felt cellularly and was indeed real. Defensive postures were necessary, but defenses generalize cellularly in adulthood and do not expire. It takes conscious work to undo them. Ironically, as long as we keep using defenses, we actually maintain the original force of the fear.”

Long Real Force Felt Fear Conscious Originals Defense Adulthood Posture

Author:David Richo

“We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.”

Innocence Adulthood Sheer Forgetfulness Stamina

Book:Geek Love: A Novel

Source: Geek Love: A Novel

“To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.”

Years Children Character Feelings Wonder Childhood Talent Genius Mark Privilege Appearance Familiar Adulthood Novelty Sense Of Wonder

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom’s only instruction was ‘You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.’ That’s my welcome to adulthood. She’s like, ‘No, don’t even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.”

Bigs Grew Mom Republican Grew Up Vote My Mom Welcome Instruction Adulthood Levers

Author:Tina Fey

“Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.”

Reading Childhood Adulthood Scourge

Book:The Disappearance of Childhood

Source: The Disappearance of Childhood

“As every parent knows, children go through an adolescent growth spurt, during which they put on inches at an alarming rate. Humans are unique in this respect: most mammalian species, including apes, progress almost directly from infancy to adulthood.”

Knows Humans Children Parent Growth Progress Unique Species Rate Including Inches Adulthood Apes Infancy

Author:Richard Leakey

“Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood.”

Children Kids Faces Spiritual Values Parent Various Trials Strongest Assets Adulthood Spiritual Values

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“One of life's fundamental truths states, "Ask and you shall receive." As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.”

Inspirational States Reason Kids Used Asks Loses Ability Possibility Criticism Asking Fundamentals Come Up Excuse Rejection Adulthood

Author:Jack Canfield

“Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up very fast but not very far. That is why it is possible for 14 year olds now to establish friendships with 26 year olds - because they know by the age of 14 all they are ever going to know.”

Knows Years Children Has Beens Age Grows Growing Up Modern Childhood Six Twenties Rate Britain Adulthood Replaced Adolescence Fourteen Premature Six Year Olds Modern Britain

Author:Theodore Dalrymple

“You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.”

People Ifs Knows Kids Stuff Smart Adults Treats Adulthood Smart People

Author:Dave Eggers

“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.”

Kids School Bits Fashion Adulthood Costumes Love Fashion I Love Fashion

Author:Lake Bell

“... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances acting in childhood do have a persisting effect on adult disease rates, in addition to influences acting in adulthood.”

Social Chance Acting Environment Influence Childhood Effects Health Circumstances Disease Adults Rate Height Mortality Adulthood Social Environment

Author:Michael Marmot

“I went from being a beanpole - like a normal kid of the 1950s - and exploded. The weight piled on and didn't stop until into my adulthood.”

Kids Normal Weight Adulthood

Author:Richard Griffiths

“Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.”

People Young House Force White Risk Achieve Youth Serious Tasks Productive White House Quarters Adulthood Disadvantaged Task Forces

Author:Ruben Hinojosa

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