Decline Adulthood Quotes

#1. whereas Allie still had to wear a retainer at night to keep her bottom teeth from collecting like dice in a Yahztee cup.

Ruthie Knox

#2. I'm the type of person who feels I have to prove myself first.

Renee O'Connor

#3. My words are unerring tools of
destruction, and I've come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. Kevin folded his arms and looked satisfied; I had gone back to playing Mother. "I knew exactly what I was doing." He leaned onto his elbows. "And I'd do it again." "I

Lionel Shriver

#5. True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which is deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

Milan Kundera

#6. The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

Aeschylus

#7. My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

Alice Hoffman

#8. Well, I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don't always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.

John Cusack

#9. Most of the people who fail in what they want to accomplish do so because they underestimate who they are. When they don't believe they can succeed at something, they have little chance.

Elizabeth Bear

#10. FROM MYSELF I am copper,
through You, friend, I am gold.
From myself I'm a stone, but
through You I am a gem!

Rumi

#11. Why are terms of endearment always food? Honey, cookie, sugar, pumpkin. Its not like caring about someone is enough to actually sustain you.

Jodi Picoult

#12. Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money.

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. Maybe that's how it starts. You stumble upon something that helps you cope, fills a void. Makes you feel something different than what you currently feel. You know in the long run it probably won't be good for you, but you do it anyway. Tell yourself you can handle it.

Tracey Garvis-Graves

#14. Most authoritarians do not surrender power voluntarily.

Victor Davis Hanson

#15. And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

George Eliot