Esther Forbes Quotes

I'm 26 years old. I don't need to be playing 16 anymore.

When you are 20 years old, you are immature.

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

You can't be 16 forever.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.

One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-four days old. Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands. And that was the October week when they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more.

I am a child who is getting on.

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early twenties, a stretch of life that needed a name, from school leaver to salaried professional, with a university and affairs and death and choices in between. I had forgotten how recent my childhood was, how long and inescapable it once seemed. How grown up and how unchanged I was.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

You're working with adults and you're being paid to do a job. And you're a kid. Then you go back to high school, and everybody's partying, and they're doing math. I always felt a little bit outside of it. Outside of both experiences, really.

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

I'm 18 and I like it!

I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

When you're young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume.

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.