“The worst of anything she could do to me would be to make me like her. That's why I ran away.” — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“Where am I going, sir?” Fear shot through his stomach. He had nowhere else to go.” — J.L. Marrain Copy Share Image
I don't know if superpowers would have taken away from the awkwardness of my coming of age. — Iman Vellani Copy Share Image
“Your true identity is far more than the sum total of your parents’ flesh or names.” — Candace L. Talmadge Copy Share Image
“Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
“Inspired by how passionate he is about basketball, I wonder what my passion will be, if I will have one.” — Maria Jane Copy Share Image
“Some say honesty is the best policy. I believe lying to yourself is a form of self-preservation.” — Lexi Kingston Copy Share Image
“Last night I dreamt Moses and I were rowing underwater. We could breathe and talk to one another. We rowed past schools… — J. Dylan Yates Copy Share Image
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is… — James Joyce 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
For me, there's a deeper genre appreciation for what a coming of age story can be about. To apply that to a… — Jon Watts Copy Share Image
“I tried to write a coming of age novel, but I wasn't deep enough to get past the third chapter.” — Rick Robinson Copy Share Image
“You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will… — Amaka Imani Nkosazana Copy Share Image
“Almost everyone first realized they were becoming a grown woman when some dude did something nasty to them. ...It was mostly men… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“Successes are those highlights of life we look back on with a smile. But it's the day to day grind of getting… — Aaron Lauritsen 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
“This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
My parents won’t let me have a motorcycle, but they give me all the guns I want. I asked them for a… — Scott Thompson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was just that, born in Scotland, you were hanselled with remorse, set up with shares in Calvin against your coming… — William McIlvanney 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
“They drove back to her house in silence. Terrance pulled the car into the driveway and turned off the engine. Turning toward… — Tracy L. Darity Copy Share Image
“94 was a good year to be twelve. Star Wars still had two more years as Box Office King, cartoons were still… — Jake Vander Ark Copy Share Image
Many decry rising inequality because it makes those who've fallen behind feel impoverished. But it's done much more than cause hurt feelings.… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
“The Mozart sonata Dad picked out begins to play. When we hear the first note, we open the sacks and the ladybugs… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
“She had a woman’s swagger at twelve-and-a-half. Hair: strawberry-blonde, and I vaguely recall a daisy in the crook of her ear. She… — Jake Vander Ark Copy Share Image
“Sometimes being vulnerable as a child is not knowing what lies ahead. We think our choices will make a huge difference in… — Cyndi Goodgame 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
“When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.” — Charles Finch 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
The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like. — Cilla Black Copy Share Image
