Quote by Patrick Ness

“Another part of getting older: you forgot what you wanted to remember, and remembered what you wanted to forget.”

— Stephen King

“When you’re old, do you really want to look back at your life and realize that you were never young?”

— Kyra Davis

“Remember, it's still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you'd have nothing to look forward to.”

— Carew Papritz

“It’s not until you’re older that you realise how important the things that happened to you when you were a kid are. Even things…

— Sara Sheridan

“Everyone got older but forgot to grow up.”

— Cecil Castellucci

“And you? What brings you here? I shrugged my shoulders. No idea? Hm, you’re still young. Eighteen? I froze. Nineteen? Twenty? Incredible, so young.…

— Anonymous

“It's the only thing that brings us together now, you see. Memories. We make so many mistakes in life, young lady, but we only…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“While you are busy growing up, don't forget your parents are growing old.”

— Aslı E. Perker

“Well we have to. We have to remember everything. If we don’t, by the time we grow up it’ll be gone forever.”

— Isaac Marion

“Don’t be too busy growing old that you forget to grow up.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“At eighteen I thought I knew everything, then at thirty, I realized that I knew nothing--and possibly never would, which depressed me until I…

— Shirley Conran

“In a way, looking back, it seemed a long, long time since she had been eighteen, but in another way her memories were so…

— Helen Hooven Santmyer