Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

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.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

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.

There's a shift and a change in how we've matured to becoming adults. 'Elevator Girl' represents our maturity.

It was inconceivable to me as a child that I would be an adult. I mean, one assumed that it would happen, but obviously it didn't happen, or if it did, it happened when your back was turned, and then suddenly you were there. So I couldn't have thought about it much.

Sometimes it seems as though not a moment has moved, but then you look up and you're already old or you already have a household of kids or you look down and see your feet are miles and miles away from the rest of you—and you realize you've grown up.

I am a child who is getting on.

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

Looking back, I realize that this period of my life has irrevocably come to a close; my happy-go-lucky, carefree schooldays are gone forever. I don't even miss them. I've outgrown them. I can no longer just kid around, since my serious side is always there.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

It's kind of a Peter Pan thing: I want to stay a kid. I love it. But I guess you have to grow up someday. Everybody does.

One should mature over 20 years.

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.

Thirty-two is the age we turn into actual adults.