“One of the most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film WALL-E. I feel like we're on the cusp of becoming fat babies in floating chairs being fed everything in shake form, and I feel like I am as prone to laziness as anybody.” FeelsFilmFormFictionPiecesWallBabyBecomingAdultsScience FictionFatsShakesChairsFedsLazinessFloatingPoignantPortrayalPixarCusp Author:Nick Offerman
“I just read everything I could get my hands on. I taught myself to read or my mother taught me. Who knows how I learned to read? It was before I went to school, so I would go to the library and just take things off the shelf. My mother had to sign a piece of paper saying I could take adult books.” KnowsBookHandsSchoolMotherKnow HowPiecesTaughtPaperAdultsLibraryShelves Author:Joan Didion
“Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?” FirstsChildrenLittlesAsksLinesPiecesPaperAdultsPhilosopherPencilsScribbles Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein
“I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a feral piglet, and adult croc thrashing its prey to pieces. But never, in all the animal world, have I witnessed anything to match the casual cruelty of the human being.” WorldHumansHuman BeingsAnimalPiecesBattleDevilAdultsCrueltyTrailsPreyCasualAnimal WorldPigletLionessCrocsDingoesTasmanian Devils Book:Steve & Me Source: Steve & Me
“This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.” WayBelieveKindChildrenAbilityForgetPiecesAdultsTraumaResilienceHorrible Author:Lynda Barry
“It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining three raccoons, treating them like real ladies. Instinctively colluding in the conspiracy of their fiction, taking care not to decimate it with adult carelessness. Or affection. It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.” MenYearsRealStoriesDreamCareThreeEasyFictionBreakPiecesAdultsHarderAffectionRuinsChainsThings To DoConspiracyGesturesEntertainingSweetnessFragmentsHindsightCarelessnessGrown ManPorcelainRaccoons Author:Arundhati Roy
“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You'd be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside—walking through their days with no idea who they are, just waiting for a heart attack or cancer or a Mack truck to come along and finish the job. It's the saddest thing I know.” PeopleKnowsHeartIdeasJobsDiesSpeakWaitingPiecesWalkingAdultsCancerNo IdeaShockedTruckSaddestOne PieceHeart AttackMackMack Trucks Book:Speak Source: Speak
“You know, people always warn children about taking candy from strange adults. But they never warn us adults about taking candy from strange children. All those sweet-looking kids who sell boxes of candy bars on the street to help pay for schooling - how do we know what's in those bars? And don't even get me stated on that nefarious institution designed to lure unsuspecting customers into buying mysterious frosted goodies: the bake sale. Adults, be warned: if a child wanted to poison you it would be a piece of cake! Literally a piece of cake.” PeopleIfsKnowsChildrenHelpingWould BeKidsWantedPayPiecesStreetsStrangeSweetAdultsInstitutionsSellsBoxesCustomersBarsMysteriousPoisonBuyingCakeCandySchoolingLureUnsuspectingCandy BarBake Sale Author:Pseudonymous Bosch