She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.

I’m going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don’t look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they’re big andthoughtless and they always know what they’re doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. The truth is, there aren’t any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.

Being a grown up is highly over rated. Just be an author.

Die Erwachsenen, so viel hatte ich schon begriffen, würden mir nichts glauben. Erwachsene glaubten mir nur selten, wenn ich die Wahrheit sagte. Warum sollten sie mir also glauben, wenn ich so etwas Merkwürdiges erzählte?