He sounds to himself, saying this, like an impersonator; life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.
Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.
Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up
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 woul...