Kathryn Stockett Quotes

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.

You start realising as you get older that there are some kids who don't know who you are.

There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children.

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.

At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.

I had a mustache when I was 13.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

I've always wanted to be older, as I think it's all right to be a little bit odd when you're out of your 20s.

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.

I never thought I was pretty enough. I was kind of tall and lanky. I don't mind it now, but back in the day I hated it. I would tell myself that what I think is ugly at 17 is actually what's going to be pretty about me later.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

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 I was five years old, I told my parents that I wanted to take ballet. So, ballet was the focus of my life... until puberty. Then I discovered boys and started dating a guy with a mohawk who'd come to my ballet class and freak everybody out. Shortly after that is when I quit.

I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.

I love getting older. I think it has to do with always being the kid on set.

I'm still a kid. I stretched it out.

Whether it's 1970, 1990, or 2010, kids will be going through the same experiences.

I've never been more than 9 years old.

I was a small kid.

I suppose you always look back at how easier things were being young. There's always a shame that you're not as naive as you were.

Persona-wise, I represent a lot of people's childhoods.

I feel like you're only young once.

When I was young, I loved gymnastics, but I discovered when I was 15 that I wanted a teenage life.

Most of my formative years were in Chandigarh.

Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young.