# Quote — Greg Egan, Distress

> No one grows up. That’s one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don’t want to be in… and they make the best of it. But don’t try to tell me it’s some kind of… glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It’s not.

- Author: [Greg Egan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-egan.md)
- Book: [Distress](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-egan/distress.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Greg_Egan#Distress_(1995)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-egan/distress/no-one-grows

## More from this book

> Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-egan/distress/would-i-have.md)

> Screw every known human culture.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-egan/distress/screw-every-known.md)

> "The truth is whatever you can get away with."
>
> "No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-egan/distress/the-truth-is-whatever.md)