India is now changing and regaining its lustre, and it is coming of age. — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
“When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.” — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
“Where am I going, sir?” Fear shot through his stomach. He had nowhere else to go.” — J.L. Marrain Copy Share Image
“The worst of anything she could do to me would be to make me like her. That's why I ran away.” — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer… — Kirby Wright Copy Share Image
“I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“Nicaea really was, after all, a sort of “coming of age” for the Church—and like many adolescents, she hesitated to leave childhood… — Rod Bennett Copy Share Image
“Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
For me, there's a deeper genre appreciation for what a coming of age story can be about. To apply that to a… — Jon Watts Copy Share Image
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its breathless center.” — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least for the survivor Genna. It is also intended as… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
My parents won’t let me have a motorcycle, but they give me all the guns I want. I asked them for a… — Scott Thompson Copy Share Image
“This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
“In the old days, when travelers would get lost, they would follow the stars and I love that idea. I wish that… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was just that, born in Scotland, you were hanselled with remorse, set up with shares in Calvin against your coming… — William McIlvanney Copy Share Image
“...for they was never a young man yet who don't want to go out and right a wrong, or kill a man,… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
“Well that’s open to debate,’ he said. 'It sounds like a recipe for disaster to me, and I hate the thought of… — Aurelia B. Rowl Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in everyone’s life—and I do mean in everyone’s life—when you ask yourself what it is that you’ve been… — Ali Sheikh Copy Share Image
“With the sounds of Rock and Roll and Sherry’s intoxicating laugh moving you though every memory—you’re sure to be captivated by this… — Penn Press Copy Share Image
“The portrait is faded, and a child’s face is always hard to read. But I should think that child would grow into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“94 was a good year to be twelve. Star Wars still had two more years as Box Office King, cartoons were still… — Jake Vander Ark Copy Share Image
“They drove back to her house in silence. Terrance pulled the car into the driveway and turned off the engine. Turning toward… — Tracy L. Darity Copy Share Image
“Elephant Memories. William Morrow, 1988. Moss, Cynthia J., Harvey Croze, and Phyllis C. Lee, eds. The Amboseli Elephants. University of Chicago Press,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Many decry rising inequality because it makes those who've fallen behind feel impoverished. But it's done much more than cause hurt feelings.… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
“The Mozart sonata Dad picked out begins to play. When we hear the first note, we open the sacks and the ladybugs… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
I don't know if superpowers would have taken away from the awkwardness of my coming of age. — Iman Vellani Copy Share Image
“Your true identity is far more than the sum total of your parents’ flesh or names.” — Candace L. Talmadge Copy Share Image
The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like. — Cilla Black Copy Share Image
