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“Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”
― Stephen King, It

“Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up”
― Stephen King, It

“She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would have done if she had smiled at me like that now: whether I would have handed my mind or my heart or my identify to her for the asking, as my father did.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland.

The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.

The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides.

The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun.

The child will turn it around properly so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus.

The moral of the story?

Kids are smart.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You wanted to be treated like grown-ups? Well, that includes both the good and the bad.”
― Ally Carter, United We Spy

“It was them and not them, maybe the ones they’d never been. I could almost see those others standing in the garden where the pea plants were, feet planted between the rows. They stood without moving, their faces glowing with some shine a long time gone. A time before I lived. Their arms hung at their sides.

They’d always been there, I thought blearily, and they’d always wanted to be more than they were. They should always be thought of as invalids, I saw. Each person, fully grown, was sick or sad, with problems attached to them like broken limbs. Each one had special needs.

If you could remember that, it made you less angry.

They’d been carried along on their hopes, held up by the chance of a windfall. But instead of a windfall there was only time passing. And all they ever were was themselves.

Still they had wanted to be different. I would assume that from now on, I told myself, wandering back into the barn. What people wanted to be, but never could, traveled along beside them. Company.”
― Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible

“The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“Grownups were always breaking promises as if it didn't matter at all.”
― Keigo Higashino, A Midsummer's Equation

“He sounds to himself, saying this, like an impersonator; life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.”
― John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich

“What do you expect?â€�
“I expect someone lives there in secret, only coming in and out at night, with a dark lantern. We shall probably discover a gang of desperate criminals and get a reward. It’s all rot to say a house would be empty all those years unless there was some mystery.�
“Daddy thought it must be the drains,� said Polly.
“Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of un-interesting explanations,â€� said Digory.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia

“I have a choice: I can get all upset and self-pitying about his attitude,
boo hoo, my dad doesn’t love me, isn’t proud of me, or accept that he is damaged. I decide to be calm and level-headed about it: This man is incapable of love. He is to be pitied. And I never mention my life in music again. From that moment on I only talk to him about neutral things â€� health, weather, history â€� because I understand that for some reason, that’s all he can cope with. It’s not me, it’s him who has a problem, and I really can’t use up any more time and energy on being a victim of my father’s inadequacies. I have got to get on with my life.”
― Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

“I've never met anyone who was considered fully grown by their original society before they found their first door.”
― Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down

“Grownups expect betrayal. What they can’t stand to be is powerless.”
― B.G. Harlen, Break Her

“Adults have this neurotic relationship with death, it gets blown out of all proportion, they make a huge deal out of it when in fact it’s really the most banal thing there is.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Grown-ups like numbers.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

“They shrug their shoulders and treat you like a child.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“No grown-up will ever understand how such a thing could be so important!”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“I really do try to listen to the grown-ups, but every now and then my ears misbehave.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ruby

“But we left camp after a while and we was driving in a real spooky place cause all the roads up near camp are dark and in the woods and we had to drive for a while to get to a highway cause there was no street lights or anything and nothing but woods and my dad asked me if I had a good time and I told him I did, but that’s really a lie and I felt like telling him what it was like at that mean old camp, but I thought he’d get mad and tell me I’m making it up and I thought I’d tell him some other time like Febuary and cause I didn’t think he’d believe me anyway, but so I changed my mind and then I thought I should tell him now cause he’ll wonder howcome I never told him sooner, so when he said that’s a nasty gash and when he said what did I do, stumble on the trail and hit a big rock or something? I told him no and I told him that lots of bad things happened to me at camp and that I never want to go there again cause I hate it and I almost cried. But he said I always had a bibid emigination cause he’s sure it wasn’t that bad! And I don’t know about those big words either, but what he said made me kind of mad cause grownups always think they know what happened to you better than you do yourself.”
― Timothy Victor Richardson, Morning Song

“We’re just a couple of kids who got stuck with the mess grown-ups left behind.”
― Lee Bacon, The Last Human