Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.
gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood.
The experience of being in between-between the time we leave home and arrive at our destination; between the time we leave adolescence and arrive at adulthood; between the time we leave doubt and arrive at faith. It is like the time when a trapeze artist lets go the bars and hangs in midair, ready to catch another support: it is a time of danger, of expectation, of uncertainty, of excitement, or extraordinary aliveness.
In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.
Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.
Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
Life is not what you expected it to be.
I can see why you opted out of Knight training,” I countered. “They’d have ‘accidentally’ killed you before you made it to adulthood.
Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are.
No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it's best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.
Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late.
Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.
Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.
At 13 I was someone that didn't have a personality yet. It's a fascinating period in a human life. It's so exciting because you are in between childhood and adulthood.
Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood.
Today, American women bear an average of 2. 2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.
I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways between two worlds: between childhood and adulthood, between their friends and their parents.
Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.
Just try to stay a child as long as you can. Don't force into adulthood.
