“Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season?” — Magenta Periwinkle Copy Share Image
“A celestial wizard doesn’t destroy celestial bodies. She bends them.” — Andri E. Elia Copy Share Image
“You are meant to be, despite how you got here; you’ll see someday.” — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
There's something unique about coming of age in 2015 with the way the world is. — Max Joseph Copy Share Image
“Love is my drug of choice, even if it comes laced with pain and disaster.” — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different. — Daniel Woodrell 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
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
I would definitely write to the kid that I was before, to embrace the moment. I think that often times when you're… — Sean Mackin 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
“Well that’s open to debate,’ he said. 'It sounds like a recipe for disaster to me, and I hate the thought of… — Aurelia B. Rowl Copy Share Image
“...for they was never a young man yet who don't want to go out and right a wrong, or kill a man,… — Lee Smith 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
“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
“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
“In the old days, when travelers would get lost, they would follow the stars and I love that idea. I wish that… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely understand you. I feel you around… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“When people ask me if I have any siblings I say, 'One, an older brother,' but that’s not the truth. I have… — Amra Pajalic Copy Share Image
“Time collapsed into a delicate dark pencil brushed against our eyebrows, the emergent rumble of crowds gathering above our heads. We slid… — Donald Gallinger Copy Share Image
“Quick, somebody call the caretaker!’ Gemma’s stage voice rang out loud and clear. ‘There’s some trash here that needs to be taken… — Aurelia B. Rowl Copy Share Image
“In Venice, things not always as they first appear. I contemplate this observation from my post on the aft deck of one… — Laura Morelli Copy Share Image
“Life is a valuable and unique opportunity to discover who you are. But it seems as soon as you near answering that… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lies ahead. I wish she'd tell… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Oh scattered band, once my playmates, you few Who were amidst the gardens here and there in the city, How hesitantly we… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“What in the world could this family have done to deserve a fate such as this?” — Michael Jay Copy Share Image
“A certain door of life was shut behind her and could not be re-opened.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“We are brilliant shades of light, we can not be contained" -Boys of the Fatherless-” — David C Riggins Copy Share Image
“But sometimes the scars go too deep and the stories are too personal to share.” — John Northcutt Young Copy Share Image
“Instead of a criminal or a drug addict, I was looking at a boy—just a boy.” — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
