Children Quote by Brit Bennett

“She was a grown up now, and she discovered that being a grown up was not quite what she had suspected it would be…

— Stephen King

“one of those things about getting older was knowing that so many moments weren’t just moments, they were gifts.”

— Elizabeth Strout

“the days of the young, when they gulped the air and lived to see the better world, the grown-up world, when they could not…

— Paullina Simons

“Each morning she reminded herself that life was a gift, something she’d learned from Pops. Each day was a present to be opened and…

— Heather Burch

“For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inescapable romantic curiosity about one another, to…

— Thomas Pynchon

“she had discovered that ageing and what they called "maturity" were myths, that all the years did was disqualify you from various pleasures, one…

— Sebastian Faulks

“It is strange how, when a child, I always longed to be like grown-up people, and yet how I have often longed, since childhood’s…

— Leo Tolstoy

“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.”

— James Baldwin

“She’d spent most of her twenties dreading becoming an adult, and all of her thirties waiting to feel like an adult. The day she’d…

— Lillianna Blake

“The day she realized they were never meant to be, is the day she now calls her - Birthday.”

— Alfa H

“They always wanted to do it for the children. But they never do, turns out, and the children go home crying, not having received…

— Douglas Wilson