Holly Black Quotes

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

It occurred to me the thing that broke my heart the most was when I grew up and realized everything wasn't an adventure. I got to a certain age and realized I couldn't be Indiana Jones.

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

You want positive, go elsewhere. Go find a different lie.

If I ever grow up, I don't want to be around for it.

My generation feels it has been lied to a great deal.

In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.

I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.

The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left.

Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when the realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.

We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

I had a real strong fantasy life as a kid. But then you grow up and think about real jobs.

Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.

Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale.

For years we have been giving their political leadership the benefit of the doubt, and now only doubt remains.

No generation has escaped it - one morning, your skill with the eight-track or the record player or the cotton gin suddenly ceases to impress. It's just one of those inevitable disappointments that come with growing up, like the realization that Santa doesn't exist or the way that music always takes a turn for the worse after you turn 30.

A lot of people don't want to grow up because it sucks.

It was quite a blow to have my perfect image of my father shattered, but that's something we all face before we come to full adulthood.

As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.

I'm no longer in my 20s, and I think, by default, the rose-colored glasses are off.