Millennial Quote Quotes

“If everyone realized how unimportant they actually were and how easily they could be replaced, they might be a bit nicer to each other.”
― Beatriz Serrano, El descontento

“In general, Boomers, as a generation, have sowed their crop and they must reap what they’ve planted. They are and will be admired, feared and reviled in mixed measure. They made everything about themselves, and subjugated both their parents before them, and everyone who followed them, in equal measure.”
― I.M. Millennial, A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir

“Being back in Boomertown has exposed us to an unforeseen avenue of questions from my parents’ Boomer friends.
In particular, why do Bailey and I only have one child? Also, when will we have more children? How does my daughter feel about being an only child? Do I know only children are very sad and lonely? And that only children end up spoiled, crazy and socially maladaptive?”
― I.M. Millennial, A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir

“Boomer parents can have strange blind spots; they always seem ready to blame anyone but themselves or their children. I think this happens because they see their children as an extension of themselves. If they themselves are perfect, then so must their children be.”
― I.M. Millennial, A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir

“I’d come to Boomertown to find a sanctuary. But I hadn’t realised that in doing so I’d stepped into a trap. I hadn’t lived with my parents for years and I’m realising I’d underestimated just how much they were interested in again being active in guiding my life.”
― I.M. Millennial, A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir

“I have become used to the presumption that our place in line is only a suggestion to anyone of the Boomer persuasion. I try not to take it to heart.”
― I.M. Millennialial

“I’m torn between my mother’s stated desire to do good, versus her demand that it must be on her own terms. And the unsettling feeling that she wishes to be celebrated for doing it.”
― I.M. Millennial, A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir

“Dr Babbington snorts a mighty snort of derision. ‘You young people spend entirely too much time online, self-diagnosing.’ He pauses and adds with a smile, ‘You all turn up here telling me that you’ve got this or that and talking about worst-case scenarios. You need to leave medicine to the medical professionals. That’s what we’ve been trained to do.”
― I.M. Millennial, A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir