327 Quotes About Adults

  • Author Vladimir Nabokov
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    We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.

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  • Author Elizabeth Olsen
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    I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

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  • Author Karen O
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    It's almost embarrassing how well-behaved I was, which is probably why I do things like spit water on myself onstage as an adult.

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  • Author Mallory Ortberg
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    You are allowed to draw lines even if your feelings are irrational. Part of the marvelous business of being an adult human is that you get to set your own boundaries for whatever reasons you like, without appending a sensible rationale to them.

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  • Author Mallory Ortberg
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    An adult woman should not be so possessive of her own birthday that she begrudges her friends the chance to get married on the same day.

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  • Author Patton Oswalt
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    Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.

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  • Author Ellen Page
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    I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.

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