I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint. For rarely do you know what you want. Even after you've done it you can't say clearly if that was what you'd wanted or just something that happened to you, like weather.
I don't like to be called Elvis the Pelvis. It's one of the most childish expressions I've ever heard coming from an adult. But if they wanna call me that, there's nothin' I can do about it, so I just have to accept it.
The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other. He's interested in maps and plans and languages and codes.
Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.
Dare to be the adults we want our children to be.
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.
But despite these differences, so many of our faiths and traditions are rooted in the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would want done to you. Isn't allowing adults to marry the person they love consistent with the Golden Rule?
An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having sex.
It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it. ' That's a tremendous compliment.
And still as an adult like I do as well, you know what I mean like I literally just cried in the first interview that I had today. Like, I'm just a very emotional human.
Everything we do is based at adults.
People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.
It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility.
I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted.
I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.
The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.
So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.
Novels are make-believe and play for adults.