Quotes About Maturity

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking, Indeed is too mellow for me.

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.

I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.

Soldiers and children do as they're told. Children grow out of it, but soldiers just die.

It had worked. She understood. Things can kill you. All kinds of things, like toys, or older brothers. And as she'd grown up, that list had just gotten longer and longer.

So, you wouldn't marry me." "Ridiculous question. I'm eighteen!" "Oh, it's an age thing?" He frowned. "You don't mean wild oats, do you? We're not going to have some stupid break so you can experience other---" Zuzana put a hand over his mouth. "Gross. Don't even say it.

Well, Karou had wanted to retort, with all the gravity and maturity she could muster. Duh.

Odinioara fusese plina de candoare , o fetita care se juca fara nicio grija cu niste pene pe podeaua barlogului unui diavol. Acum, nu mai era deloc inocenta.

May she be her best possible self," because it seemed, in that moment, to be the truest of all wishes—not a betrayal of self that came from coveting others, but a deepening of self. A ripening. When

A thirteen year old girl shouldn't be okay with taking a nude picture of herself and sending it to a boy. There's something deeply wrong with that.

I know something about responsibility. Just don't ask me about politics.

In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.

You're seventeen," Magnus said. "You can't have wasted a life you've barely lived.

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray

I think he's handling it with grace. A lot of teenage boys would sulk, or lurk around under your window with a boom box.

Tact is just lying for adults.

I wonder sometimes if it is easier to be brave when one is young, before one knows truly how much there is to lose.

I prefer the school of life.

Will stopped glaring at Gabriel, and turned to Tessa. He looked at her and his face softened: the traces of the wild, broken boy he had been vanished, replaced with the expression often worn by the man he was now, who knew what it was to love and be loved. "Dear heart," he said. He took her hand and kissed it. "Who knows your courage better than I?

I have the benefit of experience which tells me that sulking solves nothing

I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.I guess that means I've grown up now...

There is one particular ex-boyfriend with whom it ended very badly because I was young and an idiot. I'd love to have several drinks with him and find out how his life has turned out and apologize for having hurt us both way back when. Corny, I know, but true.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.