Nature Quote by John Green

“There were two kinds of adults: There were Peter Van Houtens—miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then…

— John Green

“Appraising myself in the mirror as I brushed my teeth, I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were Peter Van Houtens—miserable…

— John Green

“It had seemed to me an elegant nightmare concoction made by adults for adults, to further the aims and fantasies of adults, and what…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“When you're young, you think the world will make room for who you are and what you want.... And then you find the world…

— Liz Braswell

“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

“There's a reason for every journey, and mine was prompted by boredom and the recklessness of youth, by a wish to break the bounds…

— Walter Moers

“Apparently, now and again adults take the time to sit down and contemplate what a disaster their life is. They complain without understanding and,…

— Muriel Barbery

“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

“I tried to do that very difficult thing, imagine old people young again and invested with the graces of youth. But”

— Charles Dickens

“...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

“Maybe being an adult wasn't crossing some arbitrary age line into wisdom. Maybe it was like anything else - training wheels and mistakes, trial…

— Megan Crane

“Life was like that when you were fifteen and knobby-kneed and you only had a handful of choices. Your world was small and cruel…

— Colleen Curran