Children Quote by Scarlett Thomas

“You can't tell a seventeen-year-old anything. They think they're immortal. They don't listen. Seventeen-year-olds have to see it for themselves.”

— Jennifer Echols

“She thinks I’m a child who needs to be protected from the horrors of grown-ups, because she somehow forgot that the world of children…

— Sam J. Miller

“But one of the cruelties of teenagehood is that you’ll never know what your parents were really like at your age, and they’ll never…

— Una LaMarche

“It’s just you, your homework, and the homework room. All. Day. Long. I turned thirteen in that room. Winter ended, and then spring came…

— James Patterson

“I was so young, I tell myself now. I was twenty-one, only recently farewelled by childhood, although at the time childhood seemed like ancient…

— Mary-Rose MacColl

“That's the thing about people you loved. They disappeared on you. I didn't know much at the ripe old age of fifteen and a…

— Jerry Stahl

“What’s that? You’ve never heard of the freshman thirty-five? That’s funny, because neither had my parents, who welcomed me home on spring vacation with…

— Mindy Kaling

“I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen”

— J.D. Salinger

“It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I…

— William Faulkner

“A mind is a terrible thing to waste, Share the joy of reading with all you meet. Both young and Old. Especially the children.”

— Anonymous

“There's always this build-up to your eighteenth, and when it finally comes around you realize it's just the day after you were seventeen.”

— Lola Jaye

“They didn't really have a childhood. Just them and Mom and then her liver went and she died and it was just them. Except…

— Gerry Boyle