Quotes About Maturity

Unlike the fairy tale princes, real men do not like having to save someone.

Ja, ze lijkt ouder dan ze is.' Je moest eens weten, dacht Claire met een grimmig glimlachje.

Grounded her for two months. Her dad thought it excessive. We smoked pot when we were that age, Matt said, missing the point. Yes, we smoked pot when we were fourteen, but Emily wasn't us. She was better than us.

How did someone get so old in his spirit? The easy answers were brutality and ambition. But perhaps it was impossible to know the truth of another persons spirit.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

These are the reasons that help to explain the perversity of an adult who prefers the company of youths to that of grownups. He prefers the promising might be to the defective is.

We'd die here, old together, safe with each other's secrets. We were each other's juvenilia

Growth pains already," Mom said under a sigh pancake-sized.

Child, the more you want to hurry life up, the slower it gets.

Once I entered the house late at night and overheard Mark and my mom having sex by the fireplace. She was moaning like she was flying on a magic carpet. I almost puked into the kitchen sink. I would give anything for her to dump him. Jade's mom says it will never happen because women over 45 have a better chance of getting blown up by a terrorist than finding a man. Haha! If I ever get that desperate, I will buy a giant vibrator and never leave the house.

Somewhere between childhood and adulthood we can lose our sense of conscience if we're not careful.

Growing up shouldn't mean giving up.

Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it.

Cleo didn't want Bowen, or even Gaby, to tell her how to stay safe in a storm. She didn't want Matty to ask who looked out for her. She did. That was just how it had been since she was seventeen. Besides,

The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.

It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.

You should stop and listen to yourselves sometimes. 'We're practically adults, let us run wild.' 'We're only kids, leave us alone.'... You can't have it both ways.

I'm not an idiot! I'm just twelve. I'm a twelve-year-old girl and neither of those facts are my fault.

Alexei has known me for most of my life. And he still sees me as a child. But t could be worse,I realize. He could see what I turned into.

You wanted to be treated like grown-ups? Well, that includes both the good and the bad.

All grown up and breaking hearts…" She raised her eyebrows. "And rules.

I wondered if I had ever been that small. I saw the innocence in their eyes, and I knew somehow that I would never feel that way again. I'd seen too much - I knew too little.

Mírame, Malena, y escúchame. He vivido casi medio siglo, he pasado