It was a sacrifice worthy of her and dreams are made to be…

It's really hard coming of age in today's society, where society wants you to make the decision of what you want to do with…

— Rooney Mara

“I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves…

— Jennifer Elisabeth

“It is hard to be true to yourself because it is hard to be yourself.”

— Jenny Hubbard

“Everything changes, sweetheart. The universe loves to happen.”

— Lance Olsen

Sloppy Firsts perfectly captures the turbulent roller-coaster ride that is being a teenager. This is an (at times) intimate, painfully honest peek at a…

— Atoosa Rubenstein

“I am made of a thousand ghosts. Only you can shoot me down.”

— Bella James

“There comes a time in a girl’s life where she finds her heart broken, what matters is not the boy who broke it but…

— Kara Lee Hunter

I love coming of age stories that have struggle.

— Aaron Paul

Michael Schultz's 'Cooley High' is a classic. Oftentimes, we don't get to see films about coming of age, especially for young African Americans.

— Salim Akil

“Sometimes, when you were thinking about something, trying to understand it, it opened up in your head without you expecting it to, like it…

— Roddy Doyle

“From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.” ~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive”

— Aaron Lauritsen

“It seems like our town has closed down these days leading up to the funeral. Old people still sit on their porches and talk,…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

“Sunny, a silver boy of nine, daydreams of rescuing two princesses: “The princesses’ savior was a gallant knight. No! A prince! The valiant prince…

— Andri E. Elia

“Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help…

— Jennifer Elisabeth

My coming of age was in the '70s. A lot of people look back on it as a grim decade, but I look back…

— Boy George