A plaited link exists between every person and his or her ancestors, not simply through genealogical records, but in the same manner that the soul of a child, from which we sprang from, traces a direct connection to the matured soul of the adult.

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Apply expectations appropriately. Do not assume [all] adults are as grown up and mature as they should be, or appear to be.

— T.F. Hodge

Ariel: “Eric!” Eric: “Do not sing me back to shore! Not until you are standing on two feet!

— Khalia Hades

As a kid I was deeply curious as to what college life would be like. Now that I am a university professor, I realize that this was a premonition that once I entered college I would never get out, and that my matriculation would turn into some sort of life sentence.

— James Kakalios

As an adult I had mastered the art of looking without seeing and listening without hearing and eating without tasting and maybe even existing without living.

— Dan Groat

A Time Comes When Silence is Betrayal.

— P.J. Parker

Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our own deaths if we ever allow the fear of adulthood to kill the wonder of childhood.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Because I loved you!" she shouted. "Because I didn't want to let you go! Because I didn't want to lose you!" She hadn't realized she was crying until her voice hitched, and she felt the tears on her cheeks. She swiped at them impatiently. "I have never fought for anything in my life because I never had anything worth fighting for, but I was going to fight for you.

— Airicka Phoenix

Be the kind of grown up you needed as a child.

— Jill Telford

But cocks aren’t supposed to lay eggs...” Sail said, trying to untangle himself. “...they’re supposed to fertilize them.

— Faraaz Kazi