“Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
“I’ve lived for nothing and might soon die for less. My Life, Part One will be cancelled midway through the first season” — R.S. Gompertz Copy Share Image
“@mink: Well, you’re in luck, if you pick another movie. My hair is clean, I usually eat dinner around eight, and I’m… — Jenn Bennett Copy Share Image
“I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about… — Elle Thornton Copy Share Image
“I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
There's something to say about inspiration - when it comes into your life...the feeling is insatiable — Ann Marie Frohoff Copy Share Image
People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age. — John Doerr Copy Share Image
“I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.” — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America,… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
“Mel eventually gave up trying to talk to him and just sat there looking at him. There was not likely to be… — Pamela Harju Copy Share Image
It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
“As I watch Nicholas make his way back to his truck, I know one thing: this boy is going to make my… — Marie Landry Copy Share Image
“It hardly felt real that she was gone, though the heavy pain Agata had carried for weeks reminded her, sitting like too… — Jennifer Wizbowski Copy Share Image
Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stretched and tangled… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
Sloppy Firsts perfectly captures the turbulent roller-coaster ride that is being a teenager. This is an (at times) intimate, painfully honest peek… — Atoosa Rubenstein Copy Share Image
“As we drifted away from the Tower Bridge, I saw a single silhouette standing against the bright lamplight. Even now when I… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“Do you ever wear leather?" the guy asks. "What?" "Leather. Do you like leather?" "It doesn't exactly wipe me out." "I like… — Eric Bishop-Potter Copy Share Image
“It was the kind of summer evening that made Ursula want to be alone. 'Oh,' Izzie said, 'You're at an age when… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“The baby boom produced a fresh batch of American youngsters -- teenagers they were called -- and they were suddenly coming of… — Sam Wasson Copy Share Image
“The two of us locked up our own little secrets from the real world. We had experienced countless sleepless nights when we… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“Bill suited the action to the word, getting up and leaning over the handlebars and pumping the pedals at a lunatic rate.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Dastardly devious, cleverly conceived, and just a whole lot of fun to read, DEATH PERCEPTION is Lee Allen Howard on fire and… — Michael Arnzen Copy Share Image
So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.” ~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
“Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
Planning your own coming-of-age experience may wither you prematurely, but just think of it this way: If you can get through this,… — Mimi Pond Copy Share Image
“…strength doesn’t have to mean putting your problems aside or staying silent. Strength is sometimes being brave enough to seek the help… — J. Aleong Copy Share Image
“Well, can you tell her that?" He looked down at his feet. "I will. I will." Guy-speak for, "I plan to keep… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
Women were also urged to work on a mysterious quality called 'fascination.' Coming of age in the 1920's was a competitive business... — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Whereas before I had been an open, outgoing, and inquisitive child, suddenly, I was quiet—almost shy.” — Lin Wilder Copy Share Image
“Do you think we can be friends?” I asked. He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
“All of the crazy, risky, wild, dangerous, irrational things I'd been doing, like rushing through my firsts. I'd been wrong, desperate. Just… — Kylie Scott Copy Share Image
“We make people into Gods, desperate that they never leave us and hopeful that someday, if we ever deserve it, maybe they’ll… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“I work in a restaurant in an airport in Taiwan. I am eighteen years old and I don’t like my job because… — Kerem Mermutlu Copy Share Image
“I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“Belonging to a place isn't nearly as necessary as belonging to people you love and who love you and need you.” — Zilpha Keatley Snyder Copy Share Image
Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
