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"Each time I wander into blogdom, I'm reminded of the savage children stranded on an island in William Golding's "Lord of the Flies." Without adult supervision, they organize themselves into rival tribes, learn to hunt and kill, and eventually become murderous barbarians in the absence of a civilizing structure."
"Babies breathe a lot more rapidly than adults do, and what's more, they're also growing quickly and so they're absorbing lots more into the body and they're more fragile in terms of development and so on."
"Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves."
"This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them."
"Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace."
"My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults."
"When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise."
"An adult has the opportunity to enjoy the wisdom gleaned from previous decades of living and experience."
"Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood."
"Adults always acted like they could fix everything. But they can't. And they know it."
"At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition."
"In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults"
"I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it."
"One of the things I really love about 3D is that because as we grow older on eye weakens more than the other, 3D becomes more difficult for adults to watch than it is for children who have very balanced eyes often."
"I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience."
"I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise."
"I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint. For rarely do you know what you want. Even after you've done it you can't say clearly if that was what you'd wanted or just something that happened to you, like weather."
"Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults."
"It was funny, Skip thought, how much attention children demanded the first few years of their lives and how hard adults strove ever after to get their attention."
"I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic."
