The Adult Quotes

“Don’t worry about being good. Worry about saying things precisely. Worry about saying things in a way that makes them more than what they are.”
― Bronwyn Fischer, The Adult

“I was longing for that soft spot-the age where your parents look at you and you look at them back, and you're just their child. And you don't yet feel the strain of being something else. Of being yourself.”
― Bronwyn Fischer, The Adult

“His arms reminded me of a fisherman. I could imagine them wrapped up in a net, his thumb stuck in the mouth of a fish, showing it off to us after he’d caught it. He’d say something disgusting like, What will you do if I eat its head? And even though we wouldn’t answer, he’d bite down on its fish-flesh, and he’d impress himself with his own ability to forget what he was doing while he was doing it.”
― Bronwyn Fischer, The Adult