Jennifer Weiner Quotes

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

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

When you're a kid, you think you can jump out the window and be okay. But when you get older, you think, "Wait a minute - I can't fly!"

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

Physics is an otherworld thing, it requires a taste for things unseen, even unheard of- a high degree of abstraction... These faculties die off somehow when you grow up... profound curiosity happens when children are young. I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race... Once you are sophisticated, you know too much- far too much. Pauli once said to me, "I know a great deal. I know too much. I am a quantum ancient.".

Opening a door to the mysteries, hoping to shed a little dark on all the stuff we think we know.

When I was a kid my parents used to tell me, "Emo, don't go near the cellar door!" One day when they were away, I went up to the cellar door. And I pushed it and walked through and saw strange, wonderful things, things I had never seen before, like... trees. Grass. Flowers. The sun... that was nice... the sun.

No one has to know. No one would. It would be her secret, one she would share with the mountains only. The question is whether it is a secret she can live with, and Parwana thinks she knows the answer. She has lived with secrets all her life.

I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy.

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open... Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

Would it be possible for me to see something from up there?" asked Milo politely. "You could," said Alec, "but only if you try very hard to look at things as an adult does." Milo tried as hard as he could, and, as he did, his feet floated slowly off the ground until he was standing in the air next to Alex Bings. He looked around very quickly and, an instant later, crashed back down to the earth again. "Interesting, wasn't it?" asked Alex. "Yes, it was," agreed Milo, rubbing his head and dusting himself off, "but I think I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.

Oh youth, youth! You don't worry about anything; you seem to possess all the treasures of the universe--even sorrow gives you pleasure, even grief suits you.... And perhaps the whole secret of your charm lies not in your ability to do everything, but in your ability to think that you will do everything.

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site.

I'm a boy who doesn't want to grow up.

I just never want to completely grow up.

Will you never grow up?" "I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.

I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.

It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day - you can think you know them - and then you fшnd out you hardly know them at all.

Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.

You learn a lot as a kid, like you don't know anything. I didn't know what was gonna happen if I opened the door. I thought I was gonna be in another world somehow.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.