Katee Sackhoff Quotes

I feel like 2012 was the first year I actually felt like a grown-up.

I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.

I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!

I love coming of age stories that have struggle.

The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.

I'm wondering when you hit the age where people say, 'Oh, OK, he's not so young.'

And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

I think more people are going to continue reading YA as well as reading other books because they have learned that they can find books there which they will truly love: a teenage protagonist is close enough to adult so readers of whichever age can sympathise and empathise with them.

When you are 20 years old, you are immature.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.

When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.

Do you want to continue being great at being in your twenties, or do you want to step up and graduate into adulthood?

You must remember that anyone under 30 - especially a ballplayer - is an adolescent. I never got close to being an adult until I was 32. Even though I was married and had a son at 20, I was a kid at 32, living at home with my parents. Sure, I was a manager then. That doesn't mean you're grown up.

I think in the experience of growing up and realizing who you are, what your place in the world is can be quite scary.

I kept getting offered all this young adult stuff. I don't want to keep telling teen coming-of-age stories!

You don't become a real man until you're 35 or 40.

My first proper relationship was at 16 in college.

Some of my favorite books to read are young adult books.

'Until Friday Night' is the first book in my new young adult series, 'The Field Party.'

I was terrified of being a mum because I didn't think I'd ever be grown up enough.

I think so much of young adult literature sort of gets ghettoized - the title 'young adult' makes people immediately discount it. And just like with books that get written for adults, there is plenty of young adult literature that is bad. But there is also plenty of young adult literature that is brilliant.

You go through so many changes, especially in your twenties.

As you get a little older and start drinking a bit more coffee, you start talking about big-boy things a little more.

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.