Quote by Patrick Ness

“You know what the worst thing about adults is? ...They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“I think perhaps the adults we become are formed in childhood and there's no way around it.”

— John Boyne

“Adults are good at pretending to have things figured out, but we rarely do.”

— Toby Neighbors

“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

“We need strong, firm adults in our lives. And that those adults have to be us.”

— Heidi Priebe

“That world may be real for them, but it doesn't mean you have to live in it.”

— Jason Fried

“Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look…

— Neil Gaiman

“So, what do you know about life when you’re eighteen? The rest of your life is nothing but a bunch of big beautiful tomorrows.”

— Lauren Abrams

“It was interesting, how much of adult life consisted of pretending.”

— Kevin Canty

“They said - Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up.”

— Erica Bauermeister

“...There is no such thing as grown ups...”

— Neil Gaiman

“Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.”

— Criss Jami