Coming Of Age Quotes

Dear God, please help me to be the kind of person who my dogs think I am.

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.

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

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.

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

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.