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“I've been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind when they become old adults, but I never did. I was always interested in the fantasy world created in those novels.”

People Thinking World Young Literature Stuff Behinds Fantasy Novel Adults Young Adult Consumers Avid Fantasy Worlds

Author:Diablo Cody

“I'm probably better known in the US as a YA writer, I have a huge body of adult horror and fantasy behind me.”

Body Behinds Known Fantasy Huge Horror Adults

Author:Michael Scott

“But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.”

Needs Enough Emotion Behinds Childhood Adults Sake Gates Adulthood Unbearable Happy Childhood

Author:Eva Figes

“America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.”

Ideas America Term Behinds Accepting Adults Europe Japan Animation

Author:Bill Plympton

“How many films are there about friendships between teenagers? And how many projects are there dealing with friendships among adults? True friendships - really dealing with the intimacy behind what happened then, and how long you've known each other, and the wounds that haven't healed. That's what [About Alex] film is about.”

Long Film Behinds Known Happened Havens Projects Adults Wounds Intimacy Teenager True Friend Healed True Friendship Alex About Friendship

Author:Nate Parker

“When a child becomes an adult . . . the elders are fearful. And for good reason . . . not we but they are the germinators of future generations. Will they leave us behind as we did our parents? Consign us to neatly paved retirement villages? Trample us in the dust as they go flying out to their new galaxies? We had better tie them down, flagellate them, isolate them in the family cocoon, . . . indoctrinate them into the tribal laws and make sure they kneel before the power of the elders.”

Children Reason Law Parent Behinds Generations Adults Flying Dust Ties Village Retirement Fearful Adolescence Galaxy Elders Future Generation Cocoons

Author:Louise J. Kaplan

“We never really are the adults we pretend to be. We wear the mask and perhaps the clothes and posture of grown-ups, but inside ourskin we are never as wise or as sure or as strong as we want to convince ourselves and others we are. We may fool all the rest of the people all of the time, but we never fool our parents. They can see behind the mask of adulthood. To her mommy and daddy, the empress never has on any clothes--and knows it.”

People Knows Want May Strong Parent Behinds Growing Up Wise Fool Clothes Adults Convince Mask Adulthood Daddy Posture Empresses Mommy And Daddy

Author:Frank Pittman

“So when I open the door on Halloween, I am confronted by three or four imaginary heroes, such as G.I. Joe, Conan the Barbarian and Oliver North, who would look very terrifying except that they are three feet tall and facing in random directions. They stand there silently for several seconds before an adult voice hisses from the darkness behind them: "Say 'Trick or treat!”

Looks Three Voice Behinds Darkness Four Doors Feet Hero Adults Treats Tricks Tall Seconds Imaginary Halloween Barbarians Conan Trick Or Treat

Book:The World According to Dave Barry

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“In my generation, we learned how to be leaders by being exposed to and involved with adults who empowered us and gave us a sense that we could choose things. We've let down the generations coming behind us and we are trying to re- establish that connection.”

Trying Behinds Leader Generations Involved Adults Connections Exposed Empowered My Generation Let Down

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“Sometimes I think that kids who are given junk food then don't crave it as adults in the same way. I don't know. I'm trying to figure out what the psychology is behind it before I have children.”

Thinking Knows Way Trying Children Sometimes Kids Given Behinds Psychology Figures Adults Crave Junk Junk Food

Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“To this day, we get letters at Alternative Tentacles from young teenagers who hide their Dead Kennedys albums behind their mirror or in the mattress of their bed. Wouldn't it be better if the parents just discussed this with the kids instead of creating this culture of sneaking and dishonesty within the family? The moral of the story being, you don't hide reality from your kids because then they grow up to be smarter, more aware adults.”

“I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.”

Thinking Behinds Adults Leaving Fairytale

Author:Rashida Jones

“The fact is in a city like Chicago, for example, unemployment in the black community is around 20 percent for adults, 35 percent for youth, they bail out the banks, public schools, there is a deep divide. We need a plan for reconstruction and redevelopment and I hope that - police are the gatekeepers but behind that gate are these problems of disparities and injustice.”

“A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness. The syndrom especially plaques anyone who lives behind a mask. An elephant in her disquise as a human princess, a scarecrow with painted features, a glittering tiara under which to glow and glide in anonymous glamour. A witch's hat, a wizards stole, a scholars gown, a soldiers dress sartorials. A hundred ways to duck the question: how will I live with myself now that I nkow what I know.”

“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”

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“Obviously, as an adult I realize this girl-on-girl sabotage is the third worst kind of female behavior, right behind saying "like" all the time and leaving your baby in a dumpster.”

Kind Funny Girl Realizing Behinds Worst Baby Behavior Adults Female Thirds Leaving Feminist Witty Sabotage This Girl Bossypants Dumpsters

Book:Bossypants

Source: Bossypants

“Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.”

May Doe Ends Young Humanity Behinds Gone Periods Disease Adults Constitution Mark Slavery Toxic Complaints Infancy Poisoning Infantile Measles

Author:Olive Schreiner

“Behind every person who’s committed an unimaginable crime is an adult who committed unimaginable violence against them as a child. All of them, as if it was plotted that way. Violence begets violence, and that violence begets even more violence.”

Ifs Way Children Persons Behinds Violence Crime Adults Committed Begets Unimaginable

Author:Gong Ji-young

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