Coming-of-age Quotes

The greatest mistake is to think that we ever know why we do things...I suppose the nearest we can e...

There were days when Amory resented that life had changed from an even progress along a road stretch...

There were days when Amory resented that life had changed from an even progress along a road stretch...

Sitting in the wicker rocking chair with her interrupted work in her lap, Amaranta watched Aureliano...

No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just get...

That amazing time in our lives is gone, and will never return. All the beautiful possibilities we ha...

She had not thought it would be so easy to slip into the old roles. Cambridge had changed her fundam...

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

And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.

Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? I mean, ...

Why are you making no more songs?' I said to him in a tone like that. 'Why are you making no more so...

...You are a little boy. You want the moon to drink from as a golden cup; and so, it is very likely ...

When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults ...

My fish dream is a sex dream.

You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children...

Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was...

Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.

I rather miss my wild girl; but if I get a strong, helpful, tender-hearted woman in her place, I sha...

I was surfing the Internet for a different sort of education. I surfed for photos of circus freaks a...

I know more about my father than I used to know: I know he wanted to be a pilot in the war but could...

Thinking he knows can be a trap. An ex-professor once told him he had a diamond-hard intellect and h...

His body had almost no hair and his naked little circumcised johnson was nearly as pale as the rest ...

Something—he wondered later if it was simply his youth—something that had weighed upon him until tha...

At least I rescued your poor hot dog.

We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they t...

I fall in love with Paraíso. It’s like a giant playground where I’m never scolded for running around...

Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca.

You are meant to be, despite how you got here; you’ll see someday.

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other,...

What did I think? Right then I was thinking about my father, specifically his habit of treating ever...

But I don't know, in the end, what deserts, chasms, achievements, virtues, and beauties have to do w...

If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust...

She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands f...

Bill suited the action to the word, getting up and leaning over the handlebars and pumping the pedal...

I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I...

We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're...

Lots of teenage girls have taken comfort under the wings of half-closeted gay boys.

Almost everyone first realized they were becoming a grown woman when some dude did something nasty t...

Women did what strawberry plants did before they shot out their thin vines: the quality of the green...

When they reached the top of the hill they turned and looked down at the valley. Moominhouse was jus...

He began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death wit...

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else...

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without ca...

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

The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn...

It's a tough world to find yourself in, but an even tougher one to be yourself in