Adulthood Quote by Jane Yolen

“She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never felt more vulnerable, frightened or confused in her life.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“After all, inside every woman, no matter how grown up she is, there is still a frightened little girl.”

— Sergei Lukyanenko

“She's alright,for a thirteen-year-old, he thought, Shame she won't be around for much longer.”

— Chloe Gadsby-Jones

“When I was young I wanted so much to be like her. What a blessing are those moments when there is nothing to worry…

— Belinda Jeffrey

“It was almost as if she was still the bewildred girl of fourteen who wasn't ready to be an adult.”

— Deborah Rodriguez

“Had she been too hard on her as a girl? Was that why she’d grown up so fearful, somehow, so reluctant to make her…

— Maggie O'Farrell

“Our worries, fears and dreams make fantastic stories. Take them with you as you grow up.”

— Neil Gaiman

“She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her life trying…

— C.S. Lewis

“You never feel so grown up as when you are eleven, and never so young and unsure as when you are forty. That”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Wise as she was, she realized that people can postpone their rebellious phases until they're eighty-five years old, and she decided to keep an…

— Tove Jansson

“I wish she would grow up. She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all…

— C.S. Lewis