Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

I went a little nuts in my twenties, but I just turned thirty and I feel, like, older now.

You can't be 16 forever.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

Getting into your 30s, you don't feel the same as in your early 20s.

As I'm getting older, I feel like maybe I need to grow up a bit.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

I'm 36 years old, and I'm growing up. Little by little.

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.

When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

If you've never been 40, you don't understand how it feels.

I definitely do live my life at a different pace now than I used to... I feel like I'm guilty of all the overindulgences of a guy in his 20s and early 30s could've gone through, but I look back on it with great fondness. I don't have a lot of regrets.

When you are 16 or 17, you think you are right about everything. But when you are over 20, you realise the mistakes you made at 16 or 18. You learn with age.

Sometimes it seems as though not a moment has moved, but then you look up and you're already old or you already have a household of kids or you look down and see your feet are miles and miles away from the rest of you—and you realize you've grown up.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

I was just dying to get out of my twenties.

I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.

It's funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties, you're skeptical of everything. I definitely felt like that.

I'm totally growing up.

One should mature over 20 years.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited.