Above all, staring at my old bedroom ceiling, I feel safe. Cocooned from the world; wrapped up in cotton wool. No one can get me here. No one even knows I'm here. I won't get any nasty letters and I won't get any nasty phone calls and I won't get any nasty visitors. It's like a sanctuary. I feel as if I'm fifteen again, with nothing to worry about but my Homework. (And I haven't even got any of that.)

— Sophie Kinsella

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

— Thomas Szasz

A child who grows up too closely aligned with adults assumes knowledge of a life she hasn’t yet experienced.

— Suzanne Haynes

Adulthood brings with it the pernicious illusion of control, and perhaps even depends on it. I mean that mirage of dominion over our own life that allows us to feel like adults, for we associate maturity with autonomy, the sovereign right to determine what is going to happen to us next. Disillusion comes sooner or later, but it always comes, it doesn’t miss an appointment, it never has.

— Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Adulthood is a wonderful thing and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts. I believe the soul in Paradise must enjoy something nearer to a perpetual vigorous adulthood than to any other state we know.

— Marilynne Robinson

Adulthood’s full of ghosts... High-functioning sleepwalkers, essentially.

— Emily St. John Mandel

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

— Dr. Seuss

Adults have the benefit of experience and know the trick will work as long as the technique is correct. When we “grow up” we gain this experience and knowledge, but we lose our innocence AdSense of wonder. In other words, the price we pay for growing up is a permanent sense floss.

— Alberto Alvaro Ríos

Adults were constantly auditioning, but for what?

— Alison Espach

Age is only a number. Keep an active life.

— Lailah Gifty Akita