Grown-ups always say that things are complicated.
The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.
When you are a grown up your brothers become your neighbors and your unconditional brotherhood become your conditional neighborhood.
Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.
She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.
It seemed to him harder, as he got older, to find a simple way of life.
The problem with a man is, he is no more a child.
When he walked out into the lots to catch his horse, he felt grown and complete for the first time in his life.
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
Miles: Well, things are kind of complicated right now. When you’re a grown-up, you’ll understand.Jonah: I don’t want to be a grown-up.Miles: Why not?Jonah: Because grown-ups always say that things are...
It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.