424 Quotes About Adulthood

I wanted to give you advice. Adults are always doing that; it's one of their occupational hazards.

في مجتمعات الشرق الأوسط، الحكم على الأمر يميز على أسس كثيرة، منها الجنس والعمر والحالة الزوجية والدين، والأولوية معطاة دائماً بكل إجحاف وظلم للرجل البالغ المتزوج المسلم.

What happens to you when you get older? Do you just forget everything from before you turned eighteen? Do you make yourself forget?

It is as if I had to take Sam back into the uterus to protect him, to reestablish the placental connection in order to nourish him through his crisis. Perhaps because of this primitive reaction, his recovery is marked by an increasing independence for both of us, a feeling of health and ease as if, in some mysterious way, he had accomplished his second birth, into adulthood, by means of this violent accident.

My little boy was no more and even though he'd come home for vacations, our relationship would never be quite the same. Just as he would have to learn to be an adult in the world, so would I have to learn to live without him.

I guess there's a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are.I guess that's what turning eighteen means.Time to own it.

His body had almost no hair and his naked little circumcised johnson was nearly as pale as the rest of him, white as a boy's - perhaps over time one's genitals emerge from the pots and bubbling vats of love permanently stained, like the hands of a wool dyer.

Maybe I don't care. Is that adult too? Occasionally not caring? And eating entire box of chocolate-chip ice cream sandwiches to forget you ever cared? For a few hours, then going back to caring and trying? They're SO GOOD!

She had come to the clinic because she didn't want to be a little girl anymore. But it wasn't having sex that made you a woman. It was having to make decisions, sometimes terrible ones. Children were told what to do. Adults made up their own minds, even when the options tore them apart.