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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