Young Adult Literature

Famous quotes containing the words young, adult and/or literature:

    “The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to
    the sun, they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
    They do not know who puffs and declines with pendant and bending arch,
    They do not think whom they souse with spray.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

    “The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.”
    —17th-century English proverb, pt. 1, quoted in Isaac d’Israeli, Curiosities of Literature (1834)