“I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.” — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac--you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
“Dear God, please help me to be the kind of person who my dogs think I am.” — Jerrie Brock Copy Share Image
“So much has been done to my body, and still, somehow, not enough.” — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“What I have in each moment is enough: breath, life, those I love… At least, most of them.” ” — Tricia Copeland Copy Share Image
I enjoy films where two characters are coming of age, just different ages. That's why I love 'Paper Moon' so much. — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
The river moves, but it follows a path. When it tires of one journey, it rubs through some rock to forge a… — Kekla Magoon Copy Share Image
“Growing up, I never felt deprived. I was always happy. It seems only lately I've started seeing everything I didn't have.” — Kasie West Copy Share Image
“These were young people having their fun. Old age comes quickly. If you don’t enjoy life at that time, you will never… — Xavior Romearo-Frias Copy Share Image
“Being a child sucked. Being a teenager was worse. And being an adult seemed so far away that I had a better… — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Standing naked on the beach with all of my secrets between my legs, I look out into the water and up deep… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
My coming of age was in the '70s. A lot of people look back on it as a grim decade, but I… — Boy George Copy Share Image
“The last declaration he'd made to me hung between us. The L word. The one that had nothing to do with like.” — Priya Ardis 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
“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
It's really hard coming of age in today's society, where society wants you to make the decision of what you want to… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast… — Will Estes Copy Share Image
“To all the boys, for when you become men: you'll leave women all throughout your life because they're holding you back, and… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
I think we all have a certain number of "coming of age" songs, and then a writer has to expand and grow… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
“I was a late bloomer. I was still naïve about what 16 year olds today have known for years. I remember sitting… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
You graduates are coming of age in an amazing time. As you leave Harvard, you have technology that members of my class… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“They stood in the courtyard of Swangard Palace, too cold to be comfortable despite the sun, and they looked fully on one… — Sean Stewart Copy Share Image
“All the carriages filed out in single file but in a fashion that seemed to mean that they were competing against each… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“Some secret of nurture withered a generation or two before I arrived, if it had ever existed before among the poor, marginalized… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“He begins to sing to her, very softly, almost not singing at all, just a whisper of a tune. He spins out… — Laura Harrington Copy Share Image
“What the restless young still lacked in the 1950s was the greatly magnified sense of possibility—of open-ended entitlement—that was to give them… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“If I were a vampire, I'd want to bite someone. I'd be thirsty for blood," I said in a last ditch attempt… — Beth Fantaskey Copy Share Image
“I know more about my father than I used to know: I know he wanted to be a pilot in the war… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)” — Saloma Miller Furlong Copy Share Image
“Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
“I wish that love could be broken down the way it breaks me down.” — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
“I was still sitting in childhood when the darkness spoke to me.” — Angelika Regossi Copy Share Image
“I stomp back to my room. Queen Titania is not marrying Prince Holden.” — Tricia Copeland Copy Share Image