“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
“Your true identity is far more than the sum total of your parents’ flesh or names.” — Candace L. Talmadge 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
“Where am I going, sir?” Fear shot through his stomach. He had nowhere else to go.” — J.L. Marrain Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in a girl’s life where she finds her heart broken, what matters is not the boy who broke… — Kara Lee Hunter 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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“It’s good if you can accept your life—you’ll notice Your face has become deranged trying to adjust To it. Your face thought… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Coming of age as a young queer man of color, it was a rarity to see any reflections of myself portrayed in… — Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Copy Share Image
“On the end of my bed. He’s short, round and bald, with a tartan loin cloth, and what looks like a spout… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
“We screamed this primeval scream built on a base of freedom, raised from beauty of a dying breed, and threw our heads… — Taylor Rhodes Copy Share Image
“When I grow up, maybe I will be the first one to circle the sea. Or maybe I will just spend all… — Oliver Neubert Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when you were thinking about something, trying to understand it, it opened up in your head without you expecting it to,… — Roddy Doyle 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
“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
“Orison Swett Marden, who wrote Character: The Grandest Thing in the World in 1899, produced another popular title in 1921. It was… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“As he recalled the fervor years later, “by means of systematized effort, large numbers of people of all ages, but especially the… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“And then I knew that despite all the pain and hard work all of us had gone through, despite the sadness and… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“In my early teens, I heard about Naked Lunch and its mutating typewriters and talking cockroaches. While I would hardly classify its… — Peter Dubé Copy Share Image
“I'd wrestled against the inner voice of my mother, the voice of caution, of duty, of fear of the unknown, the voice… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Lachlan frowned as he misjudged the distance and his forehead hit Cormag's head with a bump. He wrapped his arms around his… — Elaine White Copy Share Image
“But I don't know, in the end, what deserts, chasms, achievements, virtues, and beauties have to do with love. We can love… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Goodbye. Goodbye. I can't feel you anymore. The night is almost too beautifully pure for my soul to contain. I walk with… — Tim Tharp Copy Share Image
