“I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that a...” — Ursula K. Le Guin Quote

“I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.”

“I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.”

“The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.”

“As an adult, I took ballet classes three times a week, and I believed it gave me better posture, a stronger body, and made me more graceful.”

“For all adults who haven't had a very rosy childhood, the first thing they will tell you is that they want to give their child everything that they did not have. That's something that has stuck with me.”