Grownups Quotes

“She started to speak, but then stopped. Anything she could think of to say seemed a mistake. In fact, speech in general seemed a mistake. It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work. from Back When We Were Grownups.”

“She started to speak, but then stopped. Anything she could think of to say seemed a mistake. In fact, speech in general seemed a mistake. It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work. from Back When We Were Grownups.”

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

“What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just play-ground marbles, their business deals no more than baseball-card trades, their wars only games of guns in the park? What if they were all still snotty-nosed kids inside their suits and dresses? Christ, that couldn't be, could it? It was too horrible to think about.”

“Naivete in grownups is often charming”

“Unlike grownups children have little need to deceive themselves.”

“Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.”

“One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.”

“Many of the things that grownups have chosen to ignore, the child understands deeply.”

“'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her Children' was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan.”

“What children expect from grownups is not to be 'understood' but only to be loved even though this love may be expressed clumsily or in sternness. Intimacy does not exist between generations - only trust.”