“Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age”
“I may have grown up in the Age of Aquarius, but I'm growing old in the Age of the Acronym.”
“I keep waiting to feel old, to feel like a grown-up, but I don't yet. Do you think that's the big secret adults keep from you? That you never feel like a grown-up?”
“Everything's possible when you're seven years old." She sighed. "But then you hit an age where you decide it's cooler not to believe in anything at all. [...] It's called being grown-up.”
“There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen.”
“But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.”