India is now changing and regaining its lustre, and it is coming of age. — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
“I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.” — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“I lost my innocence very young and it had nothing to do with sex.” — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“It is hard to know how to save the world if one has never lived in it.” — Alex Flinn 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
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
“If he knew, if he only knew that I was giving him every chance to put two and two together and come… — André Aciman 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
“I am not of age to marry, so there will be no such thing. Tonight is about celebrating our victory.” — Tricia Copeland Copy Share Image
“I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to… — Jennifer Elisabeth 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
“Nicaea really was, after all, a sort of “coming of age” for the Church—and like many adolescents, she hesitated to leave childhood… — Rod Bennett Copy Share Image
We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that… — Guy Gavriel Kay 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
Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least for the survivor Genna. It is also intended as… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Any young man coming of age has a lot to go through. Peter Parker certainly has a lot of responsibility, and without… — Matthew James Thomas Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to describe, this feeling of seeing your kids spending time together like adults, meeting up again after being out there… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
“I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“Marilynn...passed out black cases to everyone. I opened mine to find an iPad inside. Several candidates whistled. Despite my agitated state, it… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
“I remember thinking that I could disguise the way I am by somehow filtering my expression for the sake of juvenile social… — David C Riggins Copy Share Image
“That night I dreamed about flying turtles and forest fires and fucking the earth...The next morning I awoke and I listened to… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
“ The Mage's powers were almost gone, and his web, which had once spanned the worlds, had shrunk to little more than… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“There was a sudden flash of lightning which brightly illuminated our faces. I squinted against the harsh light. It was soon followed… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
Music and time have such an interesting relationship. Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“She leans over the desk to write and even though I feel bad for doing it, I watch her body as she… — Melyssa Winchester Copy Share Image
“To prove to [her friend, Swedish diplomat Count] Gyllenborg that she was not superficial, Catherine composed an essay about herself, "so that… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of 'coming of age'-to learn how to stand alone. She must… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“The portrait is faded, and a child’s face is always hard to read. But I should think that child would grow into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image