“One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.”
“Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”
“Negotiating small differences is part of being a grownup; no one can tell you in advance where to put your foot down.”
“We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.”
“The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other. He's interested in maps and plans and languages and codes.”
“A grownup is a child with layers on.”