Zilpha Keatley Snyder Quotes

We all are so serious when we are younger.

Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.

You can't be 16 forever.

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

In some cases I feel like they haven't appreciated enough that growing up doesn't mean boring and old and not full of life. I like to talk about that also.

People think it's lame to be young, but it's not. And you only get to be young for so long.

Whether it's 1970, 1990, or 2010, kids will be going through the same experiences.

I've never been more than 9 years old.

When I was in middle school, I remember thinking, like, Tara Lipinski was 14: I only got a few more years to go before I'm really old.

When you're young - I probably still am at 23, though I don't feel so young anymore - you have your ups and downs.

What's nice about having kids close to the age they're playing is that you can actually capture awkwardness.

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

I am a child who is getting on.

I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.