327 Quotes About Adults

Are we spinning fairy tales now, Ethan?" I ask, my tone taunting him. "Are there big, bad monsters in the woods who want to eat me up?"Goldie Locks, Goldie's Surrender

Let's teach that loving isn't always loving. Like when you loved the hamster so much that it died. Some adults do that too. Too much, the wrong way. These are 'Stay away' zones on your body. These are 'Stay away' people. You don't have to obey all adults. Not even parents. Disagree respectfully. Run, if you need. Shout, if you need. Adults can be bad too.

Grownups expect betrayal. What they can’t stand to be is powerless.

Love is what grown folk do to each other because the law frowns on killing.

Their faith in him is at once touching and alarming -- their trust that they are safe simply because he's with them, as if an adult presence warded of all possible threat, emanated an unbreachable forcefield.

With grown people, a road led either to heaven or hell, but with children there were always stops along the way where their attention could be turned with a trifle.

Adults rarely like being told that they don’t have all the answers, or worse still, that the answers they do have are all the wrong ones.

I think teenagers are the most misunderstood people on planet earth. They're treated like children but are expected to act like adults...

If you're adult enough to have sex, you're adult enough to talk about your feelings.