Adults Quote by Cory Doctorow

At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did…

— Leo Tolstoy

My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that the slightest…

— Richard Russo

Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as a psychological…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now…

— Jon Krakauer

He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that…

— Neal Stephenson

He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine…

— Robert Cormier

He always accepted the hate, but denied the complements. He said he was fine, even when he was crying. He said he was happy,…

— Anonymous

It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted…

— John le Carre

It seems so long ago that he was last afraid of anything. Seventeen, was he then? Eighteen? Sometimes he thinks he's missing a lot…

— Cornell Woolrich

“He used to hide his true self because he feared people wouldn’t like him, or would judge him for being too much this and…

— Scott Stabile

“Was he the only one who was just old enough to speak out, not yet so old and jaded that he acceded to authority…

— wildbow

I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a…

— Anne Lamott