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

Somehow, we both got carried away. I don't know exactly how it happened, but before long, I knew nothing was ever going to be the same. — Brenda Perlin

My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac
you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan. — Priya Ardis

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

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

The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like. — Cilla Black

He is only fifteen! Does she really think he is prepared for marriage, especially with his intellectual range of a teacup? — Erica Sehyun Song

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

The spring of the New Age is here, bursting forth in perfect harmony, beauty and abundance; and nothing can stop it from coming about. — Eileen Caddy

People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age. — John Doerr

I feel myself collapse inside as if the life force has been sucked out of me. — Siobhan Davis

I need to master the art of talking to her before I can even contemplate anything else. — Siobhan Davis

Don't matter none how bad it gets sometimes. You can always turn this shit around. — J.D. Jordan

Was Jane now. All Jane. Come calamity or come calm, was myself and none else. — J.D. Jordan

Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of "coming of age" -to learn how to stand alone. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making. — Yo-Yo Ma

It was a sacrifice worthy of her and dreams are made to be killed. — David Louden

Even the most beautiful flower, the rose," he argued, "has the thorn that makes it imperfect. — Lynetta Halat

We love each other. You love me, you do." His eyes beseech me to believe it, to remember it, to feel it. — Siobhan Davis

I'll remember you, your smile and your lie. — Randolph Randy Camp

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

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different. — Daniel Woodrell

But sometimes the scars go too deep and the stories are too personal to share. — John Northcutt Young

It's the first instance where I believe that it might actually be wrong, the first time I feel like a bit of a creep. — Siobhan Davis

You understand. I don't know. I am not sure how I would feel in your shoes. My mother wanted me. — Donna K. Childree

Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied. — Francis Bacon

Did you recently turn into a jerk or have you been one since birth? — Priya Ardis

wasn't no bit of me willing to ride shotgun to my own funeral. — J.D. Jordan

While I AM sure of what I want, I'm equally unsure of how to attain it. — Siobhan Davis

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

If he knew, if he only knew that I was giving him every chance to put two and two together and come up with a number bigger than infinity. — Andre Aciman

I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me. — Mickey Gilley

I decided to write the book I wanted to read — David A. Lottes

Belonging to a place isn't nearly as necessary as belonging to people you love and who love you and need you. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

I am careful with the arguas (tomato caterpillars). Be careful with your mothers' hearts too, por favor.
THE PINATA-MAKER'S DAUGHTER — Eileen Granfors

And i still don't know how to make sense of the world. but maybe it's okay that it's bigger than what we can hold on to. — Ava Dellaira

These are the pieces of my youth,
the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations
that defined my coming of age. — Tablo

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

Sometimes milestones are not measured by the accomplishments of society, but by those of integrity. — Tamara Rose Blodgett

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. — Jake Vander Ark

It's hard to say things without coming off in a certain way, but at a young age, I felt very driven. All I ever wanted to be is a soldier of cinema. — Harmony Korine

I write to get ideas out of my head — Bobbi Kay

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

The world changes and we change with it. I am better off in this world. But the world is not better. And I don't want that. — J.K. Rowling

Whose little boy are you? — James Baldwin

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

... girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those "in the know" assured me that they were beautiful. — Jake Vander Ark

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable. — Erica Jong

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

I love coming of age stories that have struggle. — Aaron Paul

At times, it felt so odd being with a man in such an intimate way who was not my husband. — Brenda Perlin

Mom let go of us and leaned back so she could look us both in the eye. "No more spending the night in the tree fort, you two. — Danielle Lee Zwissler

There is a gift in experiencing so much tragedy of life from a young age, you gain the wisdom earlier to make better choices for later. — Nikki Rowe

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. — Matthew Quick

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. — Beverly Cleary

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

He wanted revenge and I knew he would not stop until he got it. I had to hope he would run out of fuel. — Brenda Perlin

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

I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me — Pat Mora

For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story. — Gene Siskel

I was physically attacked by a woman who didn't even know me. Yes, my boyfriend was her former husband, but she tried to ruin me. — Brenda Perlin

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] — Alberto Moravia

I've played a lot of younger, more coming-of-age roles as well as roles that aren't such an imposing physical presence. — Josh Keaton

Growing up, I never felt deprived. I was always happy. It seems only lately I've started seeing everything I didn't have. — Kasie West

It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage ... — Robert Frost

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. — Virginia Woolf

Your daughter's coming of age, you ought to let her see the world a little. — Susumu Katsumata

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

It's okay to be happy. — Megan Duke

If I'm going to fail, I want to fail trying. — Tiffany Hawk

But wasn't time for what was. Was time to settle up the future. — J.D. Jordan

The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts. — Rhonda Byrne

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

My illusion, the idea of a soul mate, was so entrenched in my fantasy that the thought of letting him go, wrecked me. — M.R. Field

I am made of a thousand ghosts. Only you can shoot me down. — Bella James

The terrible price of living, ain't it? To live through others dying? — J.D. Jordan

Can't count on no miracles. Sometimes, you just got to have a plan. — J.D. Jordan

Congratulations," she said. "You win. — Megan Duke

Patience is the virtue that forges great men. — Chris Vincent

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

At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I enjoy films where two characters are coming of age, just different ages. That's why I love 'Paper Moon' so much. — Emma Forrest

I lost my innocence very young and it had nothing to do with sex. — Jennifer Elisabeth

It's not easy to be God. — Peter Zilahy

He would say things like, "But you are my wife!" when I didn't do something that he wanted me to do. His expectations were not realistic. — Brenda Perlin

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

When left unsatisfied, lust becomes violence. — Jake Vander Ark

When you touch a man's body, he will enjoy the moment, when you touch a man's heart he will remember it forever. — Dixie Waters

Whuppins were like kid taxes we paid with our behinds. — Terris McMahan Grimes

Life is not only consisted of "yes" and "no", but a lot of "yes and's" and "no but's". — Vann Chow

Everything changes, sweetheart. The universe loves to happen. — Lance Olsen

It's in a can. It's good forever. — Renata Suerth

I rather miss my wild girl; but if I get a strong, helpful, tender-hearted woman in her place, I shall feel quite satisfied. — Louisa May Alcott

It is hard to be true to yourself because it is hard to be yourself. — Jenny Hubbard

Perhaps friendship doesn't divert sound judgment. — J.D. Tew

I was always on guard and I was always prepared for him to be upset with me. I had lived feeling uneasy and tense for so long. — Brenda Perlin

Children played guessing games, telling each other whether the gun fired was and AK-47, a G3, an RPG, or a machine gun. — Ishmael Beah

It seemed everyone knew their place in it, but I was in the mood where I would rather be alone and look a houseplants. — Ava Dellaira

Mama and I sat on a burping bus full of chickens in cages, and round-eyed babies on round mothers' laps. (The Pinata-Maker's Daughter) — Eileen Granfors