Top Coming Of Age Quotes

Creativity is the catalyst to the future.

There's always one sure way of finding out that you're a misfit. When you're eleven years old, and your friends are telling you that they just sneaked into the theater to watch 'Twilight' and that it...

I wish that love could be broken down the way it breaks me down.

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

I write to get ideas out of my head

They think I’m not entirely ‘grounded in reality’, they say. They want me to go to some live-in nerdy activity ranch thing for troubled Canadian youth, that one out in Ontario where you come back prog...

Time' is the most threatening four letter word.

You are a little boy. You want the moon to drink from as a golden cup; and so, it is very likely that you will become a great man -- if only you remain a little child. All the world'sgreat have been l...

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

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

Whose little boy are you?

Maybe I was wrong. Maybe there really is some goodness here in our world. But if goodness existed, that must mean that darkness existed as well.

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

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

Is the ash in trees, babies, flowers, and visions of Godbetter than the visions themselves? Then you think,none of this is tangible or concrete. So you have another cigaretteand think about the (not o...

I learned that adults were not soaring gods, but rather back-yard birds with broken wingtips.When you are thirteen, about to free-fall into the real world, discovering the broken wingtips is terrifyin...

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

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

This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt...

Perhaps death is just a big lie.