“Listen, you might want to pack a few of your things together before going to bed. The former bishop of Turkey will be coming tonight along with six to eight black men. They might put some candy in your shoes, they might stuff you into a sack and take you to Spain, or they might just pretend to kick you. We don't know for sure, but we want you to be prepared." This was the reward for living in the Netherlands. As a child you get to hear this story, and as an adult you get to turn around and repeat it.” KnowsMenWantChildrenStoriesMightTogetherTurnsStuffBlackBedSixAdultsPreparedRewardsShoesEightFormerKicksRepeatsTonightPacksBe PreparedCandySpainTurkeysBishopsNetherlands Author:David Sedaris
“They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both men whom childhood had abandoned without a trace. Men without curiosity. Without doubt. Both in their own way truly, terrifyingly, adult. They looked out into the world and never wondered how it worked, because they knew. They worked it. They were mechanics who serviced different parts of the same machine.” MenWorldWayDifferentDoubtChildhoodUnderstoodAdultsMachinesCuriosityAbandonedMechanicMatthewInspectorsNot FriendsWithout A Trace Author:Arundhati Roy
“Only teenagers think boring is bad. Adults, grown men and women who've been around the block a few times, know that boring is a gift straight from God. Life has more than enough excitement up its sleeve, ready to hit you with as soon as you're not looking, without you adding to the drama.” ThinkingKnowsMenEnoughReadyDramaMen And WomenAdultsBoringBlockTeenagerExcitementWithout YouSleevesGod LifeGrown Man Book:The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2 Source: The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2
“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.” ThinkingMenWantGivingLooksBookHomeLastsYoungNightFiveMinutesSweetAdultsCatTwentiesSevenYoung AdultClubsPieFeedingLooking GoodFridayFive MinutesFriday NightCat LadyGood Looking Men Author:J. Lynn
“We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.” MenChildrenSufferingHateViolenceAdultsDeserveFellowsOfferingSolidarityHumiliationUglinessFellow Man Author:Elie Wiesel
“Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands of a child, an idiot, a criminal, a drunkard or an insane man, it may cause havoc, misery, suffering and crime. Science and religion have this in common, that their noble aims, their power for good, have often, with wrong men, deteriorated into a boomerang to the human race.” MenHumansWellsMayChildrenHandsScienceSufferingValuesCausesCommonRaceKnowledgeCrimeAdultsAimInstrumentsMiseryNobleCriminalsInsaneIdiotHuman RaceKnivesBalancedScience And ReligionDrunkardsHavocBoomerangWrong Man Author:Leo Baekeland
“Even though probably the majority of homosexuals are not oriented towards young people, there is a significant number that are, especially the men...male homosexuality has historically been not adult to adult it has been adult to teenager” PeopleMenHas BeensYoungNumbersHe ManGayAdultsMajorityMalesSignificantTeenagerHomosexualityHomosexualSignificant Numbers Author:Scott Lively