“...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
“All the carriages filed out in single file but in a fashion that seemed to mean that they were competing against each… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“Jess is painfully aware of how young she is. Her shirtsleeves don't quite extend to her wrists; after a growth spurt last… — C.B. Lee Copy Share Image
The people in Coming of Age were far less curmudgeonly than you would think. The greater percentage said that without the young… — Studs Terkel 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
“The four of us stood in silence as we watched the surrounding girls play games or gossip. It was almost as if… — Erica Sehyun Song 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
we all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age. — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
“So much has been done to my body, and still, somehow, not enough.” — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“When I grow up, maybe I will be the first one to circle the sea. Or maybe I will just spend all… — Oliver Neubert Copy Share Image
“Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? I mean, I’ve always… — John Green Copy Share Image
“This is the fairytale of my life, the mythology of my existence, and, as I only have one story to tell, there… — James Campion Conway Copy Share Image
“I had come to the conclusion that everyone took sex far too seriously. I mean, it's only sex.” — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“But what if Oscar—” “Breathes fire and threatens to cook you over a grill?” “I was thinking what if he gets mad,… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“Time collapsed into a delicate dark pencil brushed against our eyebrows, the emergent rumble of crowds gathering above our heads. We slid… — Donald Gallinger Copy Share Image
I consider my first three films a trilogy and I was finished with discussing the topic of teenagehood and coming of age. — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
The early music I heard was Top of the Pops. But in bedrooms, around the house with my brother playing the Sex… — Sean Dyche Copy Share Image
“For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me, like… for real, they would… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Director Park always talked to me about her in a very innocent way, that the story was of her coming of age… — Mia Wasikowska 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
“The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan… — Toni Braxton Copy Share Image
