“But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“The more mindlessly accessible your money is to you, the likelier you are to mindlessly spend it.”— Chelsea Fagan, youtube.com
“You don't have to come up with an excuse for something you don't want to do or can't afford to do.”— Chelsea Fagan, youtube.com
“The best of you can hope to have been taught to learn; to yearn for more that you'll still have to earn. 'Cause you're not ending learning, you're ending this one structure.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“Uhhh, I hate it when adults use the term 'sexually active.' What does it even mean? Am I gonna like deactivate some day or is it a permanent state of being?”— Ellen Page, Juno, amazon.com
“Adults are, like, this mess of sadness and phobias.”— Charlie Kaufman, Mary Svevo, Kirsten Dunst, imdb.com
“Life's funny. To a kid, time always drags. Suddenly you're fifty. All that's left of your childhood... fits in a rusty little box.”— Guillaume Laurant, Dominique Bredoteau femme, Valérie Zarrouk, imdb.com
“No one tells you that it hurts this much to be a grown-up. That people are so complicated they end up hurting each other to self preserve.”— Tarryn Fisher, amazon.com
“If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com
“If you wrap yourself up in a blanket, you can show up to work late and say you were just rescued by the Coast Guard.”— Denise, twitter.com
“Being an adult is like losing your mom in a department store for years and years until you die.”— Denise, twitter.com
“Getting older is pretty much just paying bills and finally understanding why killers in horror flicks target teenagers.”— Kendra Alve, twitter.com
“I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it’s hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.”— Larry David, twitter.com
“When parents say to kids go to ur room & think about what you've done it's really good practice for what you'll do every night as an adult.”— Pat Tobi, twitter.com
“I think the great illusion of adulthood is that you’re going to get to this phase and be like ‘Oh, now I feel grounded and I feel like I know how to get from here to there.’ But that’s the thing with life. Maybe that’s so and then somebody gets sick and you have to deal with all the feelings that co…”— Anna Sale, thetimbre.com
“I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. When you're a child, something as simple as a tree doesn't make sense. You see it in the distance and it looks small, but as you go closer, it seems to grow - you haven't got a handle on the rules when you're a child. We think…”— David Lynch, amazon.com