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“Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.”

Giving Facts Mother House Figures Words Of Wisdom Adults Facts Of Life Soothing

Book:Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut

Source: Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut

“Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either.”

People Knows Giving Children Sometimes Motivational Grows Simple Pleasure Growing Up Degrees Approach Adults Contentment Not Afraid Delighted Disneyland Simple Pleasures

Author:Walt Disney

“It was a Friday night, she was at a club, and a good-looking man was currently giving her the I-want-to-take-you-home-and-I-hope-I-last-longer-than-five-minutes look… and she was thinking about pie, a young adult book, and feeding her cat. She was so turning into the cat lady at twenty-seven. Sweet.”

“If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic — even bad magic, and Zach knew it was more likely that there was bad magic than any good kind — then maybe not everyone had to have a story like his father's, a story like the kind all the adults he knew told, one about giving up and growing bitter.”

Ifs World Giving Kind Real Enough Stories Bigs Father Growing Magic Giving Up Adults Bitter

Book:Doll Bones

Source: Doll Bones

“So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis”

Giving Writing Important Reality Happens Opportunity Healing Responsibility Adults Faults Heal Innocent Survivor Denied Avenues Bass Laura

Author:Ellen Bass

“The ordinary adult never gives a thought to space-time problems ... I, on the contrary, developed so slowly that I did not begin to wonder about space and time until I was an adult. I then delved more deeply into the problem than any other adult or child would have done.”

Giving Children Done Problem Space Wonder Ordinary Adults Contrary Time And Space Space Time

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein