Coming Of Age Quotes

It’s not easy to be God.

It is hard to be true to yourself because it is hard to be yourself.

I knew that I had reached the end of childhood once I realized that adults in my life didn't know anymore than I did.

The second hardest part about growing up is trying to figure out who you are. The hardest part comes after you've figured it out and the rest of the world wants to pull you in a different direction.

We make people into Gods, desperate that they never leave us and hopeful that someday, if we ever deserve it, maybe they’ll love us back even half way.

I guess that’s what growing up is. Saying good-by to a lot of things. Sometimes it is easy and sometimes it isn’t. But it is all right.

Cry your guts out because nothing is sadder than an adult who forgets how to be a child.

Why can't a girl just want to know stuff and not do stuff?

…girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those “in the know” assured me that they were beautiful.

And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way.

Partying and dancing have never been my thing, but drinking I could do with reasonable familiarity and skills. I decided to begin there.

For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer reach them.

Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)

Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right.

Don't read their rubbish... Read mine ☺️

I guess this means we're uck-fayed, don't it Mikee?

I see the same sky above me, the same stars and moon, but nothing will ever be the same for me, because I love you.” Whoever said love was grand evidently had never been in love.

Reed wanted to believe, and he had to place faith in her, to have a life with her. “Ruby, the one thing I know for certain is I love you. I have faith in you. I believe in you.

True love is what makes life worth living.

I engage in subtle stalking. That's entirely different and perfectly socially acceptable.

what I like and what I need’s two different things.

Last night I dreamt Moses and I were rowing underwater.We could breathe and talk to one another.We rowed past schools of fish and sea anemones and Moses named them for me.”—Jules Finn

The night seemed suddenly defiled by the absence of music, as if the silence itself was injecting a sickness that only another song could cure.

Every time I think about that girl, my mind commits a sin.

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame...

There's something to say about inspiration - when it comes into your life...the feeling is insatiable.

I decided to write the book I wanted to read

I guess I'd rather have a truthful neighbor who says he hates me than a lyin' one who claims he loves me.

Yessir, some things is sin 'cause God says so. Some things is sin 'cause they hurt other people. And some things is just pure-dee stupid.

Life was like that when you were fifteen and knobby-kneed and you only had a handful of choices. Your world was small and cruel and narrow-minded and breathtaking.

But when she looked at Prue tonight, she saw this was not now quite true of her. She was just beginning, just moving, just descending.

I work in a restaurant in an airport in Taiwan. I am eighteen years old and I don’t like my job because everyone gets on planes and leaves. And I want to leave too.

I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality.

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

All our good and bad memories—they were like our B-side diaries. They were like those songs on old dusty punk albums that no one listened to anymore.

She might have been there for you in the aftermath, but I was there when everything came crashing down.

Congratulations, " she said. "You win.

Don't think about that. Just believe I'll be okay.

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.