{"quotes":[{"text":"She had the feeling, the tingling, lingering sense that something or someone life altering was just over the horizon. She had no idea what it was, but she wanted to rush headlong to bring it to her.","author":"Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney","tags":["adulthood","growing-up","hurry"],"id":609,"author_id":"Mandy+Nachampassack-Maloney"},{"text":"Young people must appreciate the beauty of old age. The old people were once young.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["adult","adulthood","appre","appreciating-life","appreciating-yourself-and-others","appreciation","general","old","old-age","old-people","older","youth","youthful","youthfulness"],"id":1169,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Human Millipede 6 was the highest-grossing movie of the summer and returned Nicholas Cage to Oscar-winning status.","author":"C.Z. Hazard","tags":["adulthood","comedy","humour","movies","nicholas-cage","oscars","pop-culture","porn-industry","satire","transgressive-fiction"],"id":4140,"author_id":"C.Z.+Hazard"},{"text":"Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","adolescent","adolescents","adult","adulthood","adults","africa","african","ancient","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","child","children","dead","death","deep","dependence","dependent","develop","developing","development","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","existence","four-stages-of-life","funny","gnome","gnomes","grandparent","grandparents","grow","growing","growth","humor","humorous","humour","immortal","immortality","independence","independent","infant","infants","insightful","life","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mortal","mortality","newborn","newborns","old","old-age","old-age-home","old-age-homes","phase","phases","philosopher","prepubescent","process","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","retire","retired","retiree","retirees","retirement","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","senile","senility","south-africa","south-african","stage","stages","stages-of-life","teenage","teenager","teenagers","thought-provoking","thoughtful","young","youth","youths"],"id":6452,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"I guess there's a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are.I guess that's what turning eighteen means.Time to own it.","author":"Nathan Filer","tags":["adulthood","coming-of-age","family","parents"],"id":11949,"author_id":"Nathan+Filer"},{"text":"She would never, ever understand the idea that a child, especially an infant, was of more value than an adult who had already gained all the skills needed to benefit the community. The death of potential was somehow worse than a loss of achievement and knowledge was something she had never been able to wrap her brain around.","author":"Becky Chambers","tags":["adulthood","childhood"],"id":12314,"author_id":"Becky+Chambers"},{"text":"...When it comes to defining adulthood, nothing has made me feel more grown-up than knowing that one of the two people in the world who loved me the most, without condition, was no longer in the world.","author":"Jean Hannah Edelstein","tags":["adulthood","father","growing-up","maturity","mother","parents"],"id":13863,"author_id":"Jean+Hannah+Edelstein"},{"text":"...Being around him wasn’t good for Quentin. He could feel himself regressing in the direction of an adolescent tantrum—it was like trying to talk to his parents. He lost all perspective on who he was and how far he’d come.","author":"Lev Grossman","tags":["adulthood","growing-up","parent-child-relationships"],"id":16862,"author_id":"Lev+Grossman"},{"text":"Bloom of adulthood. Try a whiff of that. On your back in the dark you remember. Ah you remember. Cloudless May day. She joins you in the little summerhouse. Entirely of logs. Both larch and fir. Six feet across. Eight from floor to vertex. Area twenty-four square feet to the furthest decimal. Two small multicoloured lights vis-a-vis. Small stained diamond panes. Under each a ledge. There on summer Sundays after his midday meal your father loved to retreat with Punch and a cushion. The waist of his trousers unbuttoned he sat on the one ledge and turned the pages. You on the other your feet dangling. When he chuckled you tried to chuckle too. When his chuckle died yours too. That you should try to imitate his chuckle pleased and amused him greatly and sometimes he would chuckle for no other reason than to hear you try to chuckle too. Sometimes you turn your head and look out through a rose-red pane. You press your little nose against the pane and all without is rosy. The years have flown and there at the same place as then you sit in the bloom of adulthood bathed in rainbow light gazing before you. She is late.","author":"Samuel Beckett","tags":["adulthood","childhood","relentlessness"],"id":18107,"author_id":"Samuel+Beckett"},{"text":"How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?","author":"Gabrielle Hamilton","tags":["adulthood","becoming-your-parents","family","growing-up","humor","parents","parents-and-children"],"id":18433,"author_id":"Gabrielle+Hamilton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":216,"pages":22,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}