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Being An Adult Quotes

Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble.... This, her father would say, was called being an adult.
- Sarah Addison Allen

Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.
- Laurie Halse Anderson

I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, welladult. That adults weren't cliquey or nasty, that the whole notion of being cool, or in, or popular would case to be the arbiter of all things social, but I was beginning to realize that the adult world was as nonsensically brutal and socially perilous as the kingdom of childhood.
- Peter Cameron

I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.
- John Green

I don't know what I believe, Hazel. I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.
- John Green

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.
- John D Macdonald

I know," said Peter. "Perhaps better than anyone. But you can't stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echo's Well is to choose illusion. To choose to avoid the responsibilities of being an adult. The real trickthe real choiceis to keep the best of the child you were, without forgetting when you grow up.
"It is the best of both worlds, Jack. Being a child is to believe in magic everywhere...
"...but even Peter Pan had to grow up one day.
- James A Owen

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