62 Fresh And Insightful Adult Quotes

In navigating the complexities of adult life, we often find ourselves seeking wisdom, humor, and a new perspective to help make sense of it all. Whether it's handling the challenges of a demanding career, the intricacies of relationships, or the pursuit of personal growth, there is something profoundly comforting in the words of those who have walked the path before us. This collection of 62 fresh and insightful adult quotes aims to inspire, motivate, and possibly even provide a few laughs. These quotes encapsulate the essence of adulthood, offering clarity and, at times, a much-needed reminder that we're all figuring things out as we go. So, grab a moment of respite and immerse yourself in these words of wisdom, as they may just resonate with your journey.

1. “You have a certain charm, believe it or not. That, and you feed me.” - Abria Mattina

2. “I underestimated your laziness.” “It’s pronounced intelligence, Kirk.” - Abria Mattina

3. “I’m going to kill you, you know.” - Abria Mattina

4. “You know, you’re kind of a badass.” “Please, if I had balls they’d be bigger than yours.” - Abria Mattina

5. “Why am I surrounded by sluts and morons?” - Abria Mattina

6. “I solved world hunger.”
“Yeah, right.”
“Oh, ye of little faith.”
“You realize that solving world hunger would mean you’d be doing something good for a change?”
“Ah, but there’s the kicker: I destroyed my solutions.” He finally looks away from the window and gives me this cocky smirk. “Malevolence 101, Kirk.” - Abria Mattina

7. “Their eyes locked.They could see into each other's souls. This was why she had been bored.” - Marion Croslydon

8. “Holy bad boy Batman!” - A. Meredith Walters

9. “James is why I never left. I should have left.” - Kate Avelynn

10. “James “Knockout Jimmy” O’Brien, Granite Fall’s very own boxing legend—a title he held until a young groupie poked holes in the condom she made him wear “for protection.”My brother was born nine months later, fists already swinging.” - Kate Avelynn

11. “Two babies in little more than a year and a half. Knockout Jimmy was forced to give up boxing and take a job in the paper mill. It broke him, and in turn, he broke us all.” - Kate Avelynn

12. “Selfish as this sounds, I meant what I said earlier,” he finally says.I try to remember what he said, but everything is kind of a blur. “Which part?” “The ‘I’m glad you came tonight’ part.” So I’m not imagining the nudging or the sparks or what I could have sworn was his thumb tracing circles on the back of my hand while we walked to his car. “Mmm. Well in that case, I meant what I said, too.”He kicks a rock I’m two steps from tripping over out of my path. “You said the potholes in Leslie’s driveway suck.” - Kate Avelynn

13. “I feel his intense gaze skimming my face and force myself to look him in the eye. This time, when he leans closer, I know what he wants. He traces my jaw with his fingertips, then moves lower to my chin. My eyelids flutter closed when he tips my face up.Oh my God. Sam Donavon is going to kiss me. The forest holds its breath.I hold my breath.Our lips brush, light as eyelashes. His fingers trail back into my hair, tilting my head. Hot cinnamon dances across my mouth. I’m drowning.And then my name, roared at the top of familiar lungs, cracks the silent night.” - Kate Avelynn

14. “He stabs his fingers through his drying hair and resumes his pacing. “You think I don’t know this went really fast? I didn’t plan for this to happen. Hell, I didn’t even know if you’d let me talk to you, much less be with you. But then you did and we did and…” He stops in the center of the room and stares at me, his shoulders sagging. “I figured out pretty quick that this is a forever thing for me. I think it has been from the very beginning.” - Kate Avelynn

15. “Rena?” I looked up as a figure emerged from the white void of snowfall. The snow dusted his broad shoulders as he took long, measured strides toward me, his black coat flapping in the wind. As he neared, I made out his startled features. “Wallace?” His gaze burned with indiscernible emotion. “Are you hugging the lamp post?” - Carrie Butler

16. “That girl was a goddess and once a guy got hooked on her it was damn hard weaning off. - Drake” - Victoria H. Smith

17. “Blaire, even if all we do is kiss or just lay there and talk, I'm okay with that. I just wanted you up here. Close to me.” - Abbi Glines

18. “You naked in my bed is even more unbelievably beautiful than I thought it would be... and trust me I've thought about it. A lot.” - Abbi Glines

19. “I need you. Right now. Let me love you right here, please.” - Abbi Glines

20. “Well, why not just snap my damn olive branch and beat me with it? I was only trying to help.” - Carrie Butler

21. “Maybe that was why another part of me--a very small part--had wanted to kiss Wallace then. Both sides of his mouth, between his brows, and every other place those stupid worry lines marred his expression. That part of me had wanted to hold him tight and give him the comfort I knew he couldn’t ask for.But that part terrified me the most.” - Carrie Butler

22. “It doesn’t matter what’s wrong with him. We’re not going to act like he doesn’t exist. Not anymore.” - Carrie Butler

23. “But this girl...she doesn’t feel pointless. She’s real and she’s beautiful and she fits perfectly when she’s in my arms. She makes me want to feel.” - Monica Murphy

24. “I can tell you, Jay, nothing that happens in this life is worth killing yourself over. Time passes, and you can decide to change your future. You don't let what some assholes say or do, direct you. In this life, it only matters what you do with it.” - Nicole Reed

25. “When you find someone you want to spend forever with you, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day or a year of fifty years. Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them.” - Nicole Williams

26. “Caring for someone is scary, because you both know how it feels to lose someone in the span of a heartbeat.” - Nicole Williams

27. “Lacing my fingers through his, I studied them. His fingers were so much longer than mine, and I envisioned what those fingers could do. And how long they would take to do it before they sent me over the edge. - Lacey” - Victoria H. Smith

28. “I couldn’t help but notice how hot he looked tonight with his strong build lining his t-shirt. He should never cover his beauty with clothes and such things. - Ariel” - Victoria H. Smith

29. “When he flashed that rockin’ smile of his again, I couldn’t help but think that me being cute was what might be crossing his mind. Then again, maybe he thought I was a dumbass. Either way, he smiled, which was good enough for me. - Ariel” - Victoria H. Smith

30. “He stood there tall and dashing, peering down at her with a set of mesmerizing sapphire eyes. It wasn’t the eyes that had her sex-drive squealing into overdrive; it was that…hair. Now, Tarrah had never really been into redheads before, but damn, she sure as hell would be willing to convert.” - Victoria H. Smith

31. “I can't take anything you don't give me. Stop giving me power over your life.” - Chelsea M. Cameron

32. “I plastered on my best poker face, attempting to appear cool and casual even thought I had never been so eager to deliver two Chicken Parmagianas in my life."Just be careful, hon," Rosanna said."Oh, are the plates hot?" I flinched back just before my hands made contact.Rosanna laughed. "No, but hot boys can burn just as easily.” - C.J. Duggan

33. “Yes we do. If I don’t have you soon, I’m going to implode. Can’t you see that? I want you to be with me. I can’t stand all these guys coming on to you. The fact that I’m not allowed to do a God damn thing about it because you’re not mine is killing me.”--Noel” - Michelle A. Valentine

34. “He pries me from his chest and drops his hand from the back of my head, tracing my ear, along my jawline. He snatches his fingers a moment before they press into my lip.” - Rebecca Berto

35. “I had a feeling that Ben Lancaster had just tattooed himself onto my soul and the thing about tattoos? They were painful to remove.” - Julie Bale

36. “She was damaged and broken and there wasn’t any kind of glue in the world that could fix her.” - Julie Bale

37. “But he was here. In my bed. His body warm and hard and feeling so much like home that I ached.” - Julie Bale

38. “I didn’t have to look at him to know I’d just lost everything I’d ever wanted because I felt it. I felt the loss seep into bone and tissue. I felt it settle between the cracks in my heart and the empty holes in my soul.” - Julie Bale

39. “You know there’s this gaping space between us, and if I leaned forward I’d grab Dex’s shirt without ever touching him. You know there’s a three-inch-thick glass wall separating us.Now we know, too.” - Rebecca Berto

40. “I don’t know how it happened. Nobody does. There are only theories, empty rhetoric and doomsday prophecies. None of them are right, but none of them are completely wrong, either. They all have a grain of truth. All I know is where I was and what I was doing when it happened.” - Summer Lane

41. “What’s your name?” I ask again. “Chris,” he says. “Chris Young.” I exhale dramatically, blowing my bangs out of my eyes. “I can take you,” I reply. “But if you try anything, I’ll shoot you right between the eyes. Seriously.” He almost smiles. “Yes, ma’am.” - Summer Lane

42. “I’ve never been able to stand up for myself while growing up, but I will stand up for you against anyone who ever threatens to hurt you in any way.” - Daniele Lanzarotta

43. “For now, I'll let you plead temporary amnesia," he said and lifted my chin to him. "But I'm never going to forget what it felt like when you were biting my lip instead of your own.” - Magan Vernon

44. “I need to make myself strong on the inside instead of what is on the outside. I know all of this, but why can’t I put any of it into action? I guess that’s why I am in this place.” - Piper Caleb

45. “The day I met you is the day by which all others will be measured. — Levi Ian Bryson” - T.R. Graves

46. “One second she’s all timid, and then reeoowr! Hellcat.” - Carrie Butler

47. “My hopes for pie died on the sidewalk. There went my grin.” - Carrie Butler

48. “I mean, that was the code, wasn’t it? Single girls and taken guys weren’t allowed to be friends. The leash always got in the way.” - Carrie Butler

49. “All because I fell in love with a madman.” - Carrie Butler

50. “Charlee has my arm. She has my arm—my arm that’s rigid from pleasure, from her touch—in her little fingers. She holds my other one, too and she’s right there, that sweet candy perfume stripping the rest of the strength from my body, and it escapes in a soft, breathy sigh.” - Rebecca Berto

51. “Why do you do that?” Torrin’s voice echoes in the empty hall. His hand is holding my arm gently, not at all like Derek does. I can’t have this. I can’t. I shouldn’t have ever come here with him. I draw in a shaky breath and pull my arm away. “Do what?” “Walk away every time I ask you something personal?” I stare hard at him. “Why do you do that? He blinks. “Huh?” “Ask so many questions.” His mouth drops open and closes and five long seconds pass before he says, “It’s what people do, Quinn. When they’re getting to know each other.” I shake my head and spin toward the door. “You don’t want to get to know me.” - Brooklyn Skye

52. “When the mind is free, magic happens.” - C.G. Rousing

53. “You know that feeling when everyone around you is happy and you feel like you're standing back to watch them from afar? Like you're in this crappy little theatre all by yourself, watching the lives of other people who are totally fabulous? Yeah, that's me.” - Jen Naumann

54. “All my life I thought love was supposed to be this amazing, wonderful feeling. I thought it was supposed to heal all wounds and conquer all. No one ever told me that it can leave a giant hole in your heart. No one ever mentioned that it could steal all the life away from you.” - Jen Naumann

55. “I want to kiss you so very badly, Rose. But I can't. And its killing me"-Mr. Stone” - Kate Bloomfield

56. “When we mated I felt your heart stop beating and it was as if the world had stopped turning. It was only while surrounded by death that I realized I had never felt more alive.” - Nenia Campbell

57. “Events That Haunt The Mind And Scar It With Nightmares Are Never What They Seem...” - P.W. Creighton

58. “A movie playing on the TV screen in front of us. Some sort of bad Tom Cruise drama. I've never liked Tom Cruise. He always reminded me of someone's creepy cousin, who smiles too big before he touches your butt and whispers something gross in your ear with hot whiskey breath.” - Erin McCarthy

59. “...you don’t fight fair against the devil, now do you?” - Meg Winkler

60. “I looked down, unable to meet the intensity in Nat’s eyes. Tonight, my crush for Nat had moved beyond a crush. The chemistry between us was undeniable, and the more we clashed, the more we wanted each other." - Summer, Perfect Summer” - Kailin Gow

61. “I know that whatever you decide, you’ll be happy, Summer, and that is the only thing I could ever wish. Whatever happens in the rest of this summer, whatever happens the rest of your life, it’s important that you are happy, and stay that way. – Aunt Sookie” - Kailin Gow

62. “Tanned, toned, curves in the right places and that small waist…lips, hair, eyes all packaged up like a siren. If she’s a siren, I heard her call, and I’m diving in hook, line, and sinker. - Drew Donovan” - Kailin Gow