Coming of age Quote by Shannon Celebi

“I keep waiting to feel old, to feel like a grown-up, but I don't yet. Do you think that's the big secret adults keep…

— Eleanor Brown

“When you’re old, do you really want to look back at your life and realize that you were never young?”

— Kyra Davis

“He’s only two years younger, but that doesn’t mean I’m not old enough to be his father. I grew up fast. Ah, but that’s…

— Jarod Kintz

“Everyone was always becoming someone else. Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old. How can a guy…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“How old are you?” “Physiologically, I’m twenty-five. Chronologically, I’m…not.”

— Kresley Cole

“You never feel so grown up as when you are eleven, and never so young and unsure as when you are forty. That”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“There's always this build-up to your eighteenth, and when it finally comes around you realize it's just the day after you were seventeen.”

— Lola Jaye

“How old were you when you first realized that your parents were human? That they were not omnipotent, that what they said did not,…

— Eleanor Brown

“It's funny, I don't feel any older than I did when I was twenty. But I know I am, because recently some twenty-year-old called…

— John Van Epp

“How old are you?” “Seventeen.” Suddenly I feel insecure, like he’ll think I’m too young to bother with now. I shake the thought away…

— Kristin Rae

“Growing old seemed to be full of never-again moments.”

— Kaje Harper

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.

— Jake Lloyd