Adult life Quote by Miranda Emmerson

“Children everywhere have similar ways of entretaining themselves. If you look at it this way, the world isn't so big.”

— William Kamkwamba

“Perhaps, people of our kind can’t love. The childlike people can; that’s their secret.”

— Hermann Hesse

“Honestly. Adults. How do they live in the world? (Or maybe that is how they live in the world.)”

— Patrick Ness

“Children understand...things far better. Adults always make things so complicated.”

— Cecelia Ahern

“I didn't normally talk this way: but sometimes you have to pretend to be an innocent child to learn something about the complicated world…

— Brock Clarke

“There are people who say that children don't behave the way adults tell them to, but the way they see adults behave. Perhaps that's…

— Fredrik Backman

“I believe that parents who love their children do everything for them with love, even discipline.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

“The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If you want to know what your child is doing, look at their friends, they wouldn't be friends with them if they weren't doing…

— Catie Hartsfield

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

— Salman Rushdie

“Every child makes its peace with abandonment. That's called growing up.”

— Gregory Maguire

“As if you could ever protect your children from what life might bring their way. Or even from themselves and their impulses.”

— Terry Brooks