Bryan Lee O'Malley Quotes

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.

You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

I'm ready to live on my own. It's a really big step, but I'm ready.

It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18 I was able to move out, and I was out. I feel like a different person since then; I mean, it's obviously a big turning point in life. I feel like I've established myself, and I'm a smarter and more mature for it.

I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.

I have a fresh start, now that I've turned 18, which feels like such a symbolic age of independence and hopefully a new phase of my life.

There are no grown-ups. We suspect this when we are younger, but can confirm it only once we are the ones writing books and attending parent-teacher conferences. Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently.

I get a little scared of words like maturity.

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.

When you become an adult you just make that transition and you're right... it's fun and exciting to be an adult and exciting to have independence, but once you're out from under the cover of your family's protection and love, you sort of have to take a step back and come to terms with the fact that you won't really ever have that again in the same way. You'll never be a kid again.

I have a lot of responsibilities, but I don't think I've grown up.

The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

I'm 18 and I like it!

Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.

I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.

I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

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

Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe.

I think that getting responsibility and structure are huge parts of growing up.

I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.

Until you're the person that other people fall back on, until you're the one that's leaned on, not the person doing the leaning, you're not an adult.