Adulthood Quote by Stephen King

“Everything in my life suddenly shifted into focus. It was like time froze and I was given a dazzling moment to comprehend the difference…

— Susan Meissner

“But these were days of self-fulfillment, where settling for something that was not quite your first choice of a life seemed weak-willed and ignoble.…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“There were two choices in life. Survive or succumb. And most people weren’t even conscious of the path they chose. Because they chose for…

— Claire Merle

“It was possible, he understood, for a person’s life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came,…

— Justin Cronin

“He knew that to achieve greatness you had to be an outsider. He knew that by struggling against adverse opinion, by sometimes feeling inadequate,…

— David Gibbins

“In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another...They were things for which it…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“he never allowed himself to think about unpleasant things, which answered very well, and could be supported in times of really inescapable stress by…

— Georgette Heyer

“In some ways, he was just like the rest of us: lonely, ambitious, a son, a father, a lover, never truly content. Where he…

— David A. Goodman

“When he thought of all he’d seen, done and experienced in his life, all he’d gained, lost, desired and agonized over, he found it…

— D.E. Sievers

“He could either move forward or go back. Simple choices in life. Choices were always simple: yes or no, backward or forward, right or…

— Charles Dean

“People were messy. They were defined not only by what they'd done, but by what they would have done, under different circumstances, molded as…

— Victoria Schwab

“I had developed, early on, the habit of low expectations, and of letting my life be directed by whatever person happened to come along…

— Joyce Maynard