Adulthood Quotes

"Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore." "I've never been embarrassed about having streaks in my drawers. You know, it's all part of growing up." "I think a lot of your 20s is trying to figure out who you really are." "I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults" "The task of adulthood is to continue the work of creating order in consciousness" "Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." "A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die." "Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children." "I got my driver's license last week, just like we always talked about" "You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events and people say it's awful and I say so what? It's not awful. I had a ball" "People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children" "There is no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes." "I'm not a girl, not yet a woman" "There is no such thing as a grown person who has forgotten their childhood" "Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child - What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end."