Most of us don't have mothers who blazed a trail for us--at least, not all the way. Coming of age before or… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
“Go find your own hiding spot!” I hissed. “The seat is not wide enough to hold me and that whale you call… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
In a way I think why the Ghost story is very relatable to a large audience is that it's kind of a… — Rupert Sanders Copy Share Image
The day of our decease will be that of our coming of age; and with our last breath we shall become free… — William Mountford 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
“There was a dazzling intellect beneath the girl's sadness, she was sure - and it bothered Mallory to no end that it… — Coco Mingolelli Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things, coming of age, reading comics, was these ideologies and these philosophies of these characters. Seeing those on… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
Coming of age in the 1960s, I heard the word 'fascist' all the time. College presidents were fascists; Vietnam War supporters were… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
“I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly — his… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
This time, we're living in such a crazy moment in history. People still write and talk about Watergate, which was such a… — Patterson Hood Copy Share Image
“You’re thinking she doesn’t see your outfit, or the color of your shoes. What she does see is You! I think you… — Linda Armstrong Copy Share Image
I did a film called 'Worlds Apart' about a Jehovah's Witness. I was the love interest - the male lead - but… — Pilou Asbaek Copy Share Image
John Hughes' films create this whole world in a very short amount of time. They're so vivid and it feels like a… — Maisie Peters Copy Share Image
Eragon started as me but ended up evolving into his very own character, .. Even as he has gone through his coming-… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Mr. Robinson and Mr. Kovite have...written a captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac -\-\ a novel… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
“I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“When it was time to board my flight, I took one last glance back. I knew that I had everything with me… — Andrea Bouchaud Copy Share Image
We become male automatically because of the Y chromosome and the little magic peanut, but if we are to become men we… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
“I fall in love with Paraíso. It’s like a giant playground where I’m never scolded for running around recklessly, where I’m almost… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
“The rolled toile slowly climbed up the bathroom wall. Tearing the chewed gum into pieces, the little green arms and hands secured… — Mary K. Savarese Copy Share Image
“It sounded bizarre and I was afraid of what awaited me. We entered a town called Dobbs Ferry in Westchester County. We… — Damien Black Copy Share Image
“I want to understand the strings that are tied between me and certain other people and if they really can stretch through… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
I love outsider stories. And I also like a lot of genre fiction, too. So I wanted to write a literary book… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
“My memories from this period are often nebulous. They bend and warp like clouds caught between two fronts. A lot of terrible… — Damien Black 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
“Zachary smiles, and I wonder if he's felling different. Because standing out here waist deep in Gossimer Lake, next to my best… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
“These Aussie girls are free to set their own courses in the world, to meander and experiment. Their travels are not bumps… — Rachel Friedman Copy Share Image
“Men cannot make good decisions about their lifelong mate when driven by the passions of youth. If Pakal is continuing to see… — Leonide Martin 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
“What’s so beautiful about girls?” I would implore. And the secret society of adults would reply with a smirk and wink as… — Jake Vander Ark Copy Share Image
When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was 'The Graduate' or… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“He’s taller than his shadow now; at odd minutes he scrapes the fading sky with the round, upturned bowl of skull that… — Laurie Perez Copy Share Image
“The true ugliness of the closet is its subtlety. It eats away at your soul bit by bit and you don't even… — Gar McVey-Russell Copy Share Image
“When the masses are against you, when fear is on every side, and when it seems like you are standing alone, that… — Ammar Habib Copy Share Image
“I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“But I can’t manage to grow up and change shape. I’m still tiny, and staying that way, perhaps because I know the… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
“Kayla,' I exclaim. 'There may be bad police officers out there, but I can assure you that there will be no harm… — Simi Sunny 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
“A limiting belief is practically invisible to us – it hides in habit and custom and mores. It is the way we… — Linda Armstrong Copy Share Image
John Williams was a Vietnam veteran and I'm a Vietnam veteran, I did two tours in Vietnam. So knowing that, that he… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
