Contemporary-romance Quote by Konstantina P

“Yes, he was young—way too young, she was well aware of that unfortunate fact—but there was something to be said for youth, wasn’t there?…

— Tom Perrotta

“‎The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect; he becomes an adolescent, the day he forgives them he becomes an adult”

— Alden Nowlan

“His level of health and maturity could not be dependent on someone else’s. If it were, he would be a slave to someone else’s…

— Henry Cloud

“It was as though the very process of maturation with him had been reversed, so that with experience he seemed to grow more, not…

— David Falkner

“he was the single parent to an adorable little girl, making him the complete package. Only, for whatever reason, his package didn’t do anything…

— Marina Adair

“He wasn’t an obnoxiously perfect player man-child anymore. He was a man I cared for now, and he was neither player not child.”

— Kate Canterbary

“In all the photos I see the boy I once knew and the man he became, a flawed but decent man whom I grew…

— Elizabeth Stone

“He wanted women to love him, all women, beginning with his mother and going on from there. Therefore, whenever any woman got mad at…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“He believed that kids who’d been slammed around needed to stick together, from start to finish. And he spotted others of his kind so…

— S.E. Jakes

“The adult chops down his childhood to help his grown-up self. The unsentimentality is appealing, don't you think?”

— Salman Rushdie

“A child worries about what would make him happy, but a man does what is necessary.”

— Olan Thorensen

“There wasn’t a bit of innocence or purity in him. He was sinful and cynical. Unapologetic. He cared nothing for the world. He just…

— Joanna Chambers