“Maybe the mistake we make is thinking our parents will change. And maybe they did a better job than we give them credit for. And maybe there, amid all the crap they dumped on us, are some things worth keeping. Like a passion for something you never knew you had. Or the ability to constantly surround…”— Matt Tarses, John 'J.D.' Dorian, Zach Braff, imdb.com
“I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.”— Zach Galifianakis, thoughtcatalog.com
“We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time…”— Thomas Harris, amazon.com
“I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it’s hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.”— Larry David, thoughtcatalog.com
“People don't usually grow up when there are other people who make excuses for their immaturity.”— Thomas Sowell, jewishworldreview.com
“Don't grow up too quickly, lest you forget how much you love the beach.”— Michelle Held, coastalliving.com
“We all want our children to be well-adjusted; unfortunately, there’s nothing to be well-adjusted to.”— Terence McKenna, amazon.com
“Flying anxieties are mostly useless, but I could have used a healthy dose of caution before confidently stepping off those rocks and then stepping into nothing at all.”— Shannon Keating, tinyletter.com
“Sometimes a certain smell will take me back to when I was young. How come I'm never able to identify where it's coming from?”— Twenty One Pilots, open.spotify.com
“I was told, when I get older, all my fears would shrink. But now I'm insecure, and I care what people think.”— Twenty One Pilots, open.spotify.com
“In my 20s, in a weird way, every alcohol-doused dalliance that didn’t result in violating whatever vague definition of consensual sex I was operating on confirmed to me that what had happened to me as a teenager was not my fault.”— Minda Honey, longreads.com
“I like to think my and Ashlee’s lives have progressed in tandem: She upgraded husbands from Pete Wentz to Evan Ross, graduated from MTV to Broadway; I upgraded from AIM to Twitter, graduated from writing in my diary to screaming into the void.”— Allie Volpe, thecut.com
“In our culture, we talk a lot about change and growing up, but man, we don’t talk nearly enough about how difficult it is. It is difficult”— Roxane Gay, amazon.com
“Gamechanger. Archie got hot. He's got abs, now. Six more reasons for you to grab that ginger bull by the horn, tonight.”— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Kevin Keller, Casey Cott, imdb.com
“So, what are you three hens gossiping about? Archie's Efron-esque emergence from the chrysalis of puberty?”— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Cheryl Blossom, Madelaine Petsch, imdb.com