The French would eat anything that couldn't outrun them.

One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables.

The French would eat anything that couldn't outrun them.

A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.