Quote by Carolyn Murnick

“Only as I approached adulthood did I realize that life is a process of continual becoming.”

— Peter Korn

“We were growing up. It was one of those moments when you could practically feel the adult pushing out, pushing forward into the world.…

— Hannah Pittard

“I still didn't know very much about the complex coping mechanism that had helped me survive my childhood. It was as if my conscious…

— Olga Trujillo

“Was this adulthood? To wake up every day and know it would bring both good and bad? To do things you had to do,…

— C.C. Hunter

“You couldn’t live your life getting up and seeing the same things every day. You had to keep moving, otherwise people started to know…

— Brandon Sanderson

“...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...”

— Nick Joaquín

“Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.”

— Criss Jami

“Experience has taught me that my own body is the source of all the vital information that has enabled me to achieve greater autonomy…

— Alice Miller

“Everyone is supposed to be a combination of nature and nurture, their true selves shaped by years of friends and fights and parents and…

— Melissa Albert

“...when it comes to defining adulthood, nothing has made me feel more grown-up than knowing that one of the two people in the world…

— Jean Hannah Edelstein

“As a child, the best way to survive was to be still, to submit—to do nothing that might incur further harm. That belief had…

— Carolyn Spring