Coming Of Age Quotes

It's okay to be happy.

What in the world could this family have done to deserve a fate such as this?

I just want to this about that.

I’ll be like Esther. Your daughter.”“You ain’t that strong.

But sometimes the scars go too deep and the stories are too personal to share.

You only go through High School once, but if you go through the way we did, that's enough.

In the end, every person's life is a tough act to follow.

It’s a neighborhood where every dad has at least one job and where parents often end conversations with the words: no guts, no glory.

The worst of anything she could do to me would be to make me like her. That's why I ran away.

Why couldn't she have given him a sultry laugh as she'd seen women do in movies instead of giggling like some enchanted, mindless school girl?

The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end. [Puberty]

Perhaps friendship doesn't divert sound judgment.

As with all young ones, a deeper perception comes clearer with time... Roe'vaash recieved the grace to release the anger and pain he had carried and suffered for so long...

Bittersweet: it's what life tastes like. And if you can handle the bitter, the sweet will come later. ~ Klyde, in Piranhas Like S'mores.

That's what it means to be a man. You do what you think is right, regardless of who it hurts, and whether it works out, because in the end you have to live with yourself.

This is a test. This is only a test. If this was my actual life I'd be famous, rich, and thin.

A hothouse flower trained to bloom out of season and in the wrong climate. I do not belong.

And scars will lighten, they'll pale unless you keep rubbing at them...wait long enough, they'll fade.

It was not about the sea or the sand, but burying her feet there had seemed to cure what had worried her...

Hush now, ‘tis time to sleep and dream secrets of long ago.

It really is the best feeling in the world when everything that used to make you dizzy with desire becomes so wedged in your life that it changes from something you craved to something you belong in

I just want to always be here. In this place. Right here, right now.

Flora went to the cinema every day that week. She saw the same movie each day, and wore the same dress.

You were just a young girl not wanting to let on that death could happen to one who hadn't even lived yet.

I’ve lived for nothing and might soon die for less. My Life, Part One will be cancelled midway through the first season

She had a new secret, the strenght of the moon, looking at her

I wonder if he’d been as beautiful as Dante. And I wondered why I thought that.

Can’t count on no miracles. Sometimes, you just got to have a plan.

College isn't half as much fun as they told us it was going to be.""It's not one-hundredth as much fun.

Both the two of us knew it. We watched the lie go up big and slow between us, then it burst like a spit bubble. They always burst before too long.

I’m looking to make a miracle

P.S. Please don't call me Isabella. That name belongs to a really pretty girl who never wrecks her clothes and who never gets dirt under her fingernails. That's definitely not me. My name is Izzy.

Words are a weapon, and rotten kids like Tyler Jones get a free pass when it comes to using them because the marks they leave are invisible. Why don't more adults realize that?

Turns out, most girls would rather put on lip gloss than play with sand toads.

It's sad that bad things have to happen in order for us to stop and look around.

Mending a broken heart isn't easy. It's messy and complicated, but when it's finished, it's stronger than ever.

Happiness comes in many forms. Whether through a passion for something or someone, it makes no difference. The results are the same: you live.

She didn't want to be considered a woman yet, wasn't ready to be the recipient of jewelry from men.

As for me I will follow the path of the pink bunnies.

So what did it matter where she came from? Who-or what-her parents were? Everyone's family was messed up in some way including my own. And she was still the same Ariane.

Everyone's always scared for someone else's generation

There was a dazzling intellect beneath the girl's sadness, she was sure - and it bothered Mallory to no end that it might go wasted on the world if Dawn could not be coaxed out of her melancholy.

All I can think about is how I wanted to share those firsts with Logan and how I never knew it was an impossibility because it had already been taken away from me.

It is very often the ordinary things that go unnoticed that end up making a difference. As you embark upon your high school careers, be unnoticed, but be remarkable.

Logan must survive. That is the only truth. The only goal. My sole mission.

We love each other. You love me, you do.” His eyes beseech me to believe it, to remember it, to feel it.

The gods lie. They lie because it's the best they can do. We reach out for their lies and we keep on living.

She wasn't trying to overcome life, only to get along with it, to blend with the processes she could scarcely understand in a world that had permitted her no solid ground.

Veins raised themselves along the backs of my hands that summer. My handwriting changed several times. I began reading Time magazine. Soon after that it was time to go.

Sometimes we called one another by our future doctor names. We did it partly to be funny, but mostly because we liked it when people did it back to us.