Adult Child Quotes

I'm always fascinated by the theme of children who parent the adults.

Books are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact).

You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.

It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child.

I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.

Dimitri: "Rose, I'm seven years older than you. In ten years, that won't mean so much, but for now, it's huge. I'm an adult. You're a child.” Rose: "You didn't seem to think I was a child when you were all over me.” - Rose Hathaway & Dimitri Belikov (Vampire Academy)

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

When little kids come up to me, I'm a fully-grown adult, and that's always weird to me.

I just feel like all the things that I do in my life just make me feel like a grown-up kid. That's pretty much what I am.

I want to be both pathetic and admirable, I want to be at the same time a child and an adult. Thereby I gamble, I take a risk: for it is always possible that the other will simply ask no question whatever about these unaccustomed glasses; that the other will see, in the fact, no sign.