Quotes About Maturity

Yes, she is older; yes, she knows more about the world. But in terms of—what shall I call it? the age of her spirit, perhaps—we aren't that far apart.

And perhaps I I didn't even understand the young when I was young. That could be true too.

at my age, one must ration one's excitement

She was at that period of her life that almost everyone must pass through, when childhood is done with and a faux maturity, untrammeled by experience, gives one a sense that anything is possible until the arrival of real adulthood proves conclusively that it is not.

She was at that period of her life that almost everyone must pass through, when childhood is done with and a faux maturity, untrammeled by experience, gives one a sense that anything is possible until the arrival of real adulthood

It's not the first time in his life he's felt like a man.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a woman, I put away childish things.

Dreams are for little girls to whisper to each other. They don't really come true. I'm a fully grown woman now, Frances Catherine. I don't imagine impossible things.

a small, spare, gray-haired man whose face had the calm acceptance of one whose spirit has remained whole through a lifetime of trials.

Children retain a great deal, and when they grow up they start going over things and rejudging them from a grownup's point of view. This must have been this way, and that was that way, they say. That's why you have to be careful with children—some day they grow up.

I would never do anything just for spite.

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Die ganze Welt verwechselt mich mit einem Idioten, der eine Elfe vögelt und mit Engeln spricht. Wie erwachsen ist das?

She was no longer a child, to be cowed or forced into submission, but a grown woman with a definite purpose and an invincible determination.

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

At twenty-two, I had the callowest possible definition of interesting and, by the measure of my own calipers, was far from interesting myself.

Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.

A few years ago when she'd read Paul several passages from Fifty Shades of Grey, they'd both giggled like teenagers. The biggest fantasy in that book, Paul had said, is that he changes in the end.

I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.

Age is a cruel punishment for youth.

older and she always got to drive. She opened

Laura was not a lonely teenaged girl anymore. She was fifty-five years old. She was a mother, a cancer survivor, a businesswoman. This was her life, Not Nick

Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful." Claire

Because I want you to stay at Rick's tonight." Lydia paused. "Because I said so." She paused again. "Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.