“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brother was already… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
“Growing up, I never felt deprived. I was always happy. It seems only lately I've started seeing everything I didn't have.” — Kasie West Copy Share Image
Our cinema is coming of age, and people are realizing we need to tell different stories differently and in fresh manner and… — Pankaj Kapur Copy Share Image
“Plus, once he did the requisite double-take and recognized me, he’d probably beat the crap out of any guy who looked at… — Katja Millay 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
These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age. — Tablo Copy Share Image
“Making friends is not a big deal. Replacing me with them after talking to them for only one bloody day is a… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“They stood in the courtyard of Swangard Palace, too cold to be comfortable despite the sun, and they looked fully on one… — Sean Stewart Copy Share Image
“And that date, too, is far off?' 'Far off; when it comes, think your end in this world is at hand!' 'How… — Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experiences to light my way as long… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a… — Sol Luckman 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
“He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.” — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
I enjoy films where two characters are coming of age, just different ages. That's why I love 'Paper Moon' so much. — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
“I was a late bloomer. I was still naïve about what 16 year olds today have known for years. I remember sitting… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different. — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
“Oscar always said that books are truly our best friends. He said that they never think poorly of us and that they… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
'Sag Harbor' brought me a new readership - it's a coming of age tale about growing up in the '80s. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Somewhere, a rattlesnake strike makes the dance begin. Three hawks float in the light blue sky overhead. Crows caw and the sweet… — Hunter S. Jones 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
“He is only fifteen! Does she really think he is prepared for marriage, especially with his intellectual range of a teacup?” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
