Coming Of Age Novel Quotes

“Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close. No word, no combination of words, can close those lovebites. It's the other way around, that's the joke.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“Sometimes my thoughts were hard to digest. Sometimes my brain would get stuck on a concept that troubled me and would create endless rabbit holes in my head. It seemed like the more I tried to find an answer, the more complicated it would become. And sometimes unsettling images would randomly flash into my head. I didn’t want to describe what they were. I knew the images weren’t true, but they often made me feel uneasy.”
― J. Aleong, A Most Important Year

“All I can say is that I felt alive and didn’t want to think about anything else besides this moment.”
― J. Aleong, A Most Important Year

“I wish. I dream big. Mama always said not to do things half-assed. What’s the use of a half-ass dream?”
― Bobbi Faulkner

“…sometimes my thoughts were hard to digest. Sometimes my brain would get stuck on a concept that troubled me and would create endless rabbit holes in my head. It seemed like the more I tried to find an answer, the more complicated it would become. And sometimes unsettling images would randomly flash into my head. I didn’t want to describe what they were. I knew the images weren’t true, but they often made me feel uneasy.”
― J. Aleong

“There was something about nighttime that made time feel slow and our thoughts feel large. Daytime was a beauty to the eyes, and nighttime was a beauty to the soul. I decided that they were equally beautiful in different ways and couldn’t be compared.”
― J. Aleong, A Most Important Year

“What do you do when neither person is wrong yet they completely disagree?”
― J. Aleong, A Most Important Year

“I figured that distance happens and connections fade, and I wouldn’t want anyone to feel obligated to stay friends with me. That wasn’t fair to ask. It just seemed to happen a lot with me.”
― J. Aleong, A Most Important Year

“I realized that you could appreciate something without wanting it back. Everything had its own purpose and time.”
― J. Aleong, A Most Important Year

“Ladies and Gentlemen, there are two types of metamorphosis: complete… as with butterflies and incomplete… as with roaches...”
“‘…The butterfly is designed to look better than the caterpillar version of itself, but roaches come out lookin’ like adults and actin’ like adults from their youth...”
― Nicole A. Jones

“Love, feelings, all that mushy stuff—if it was ever real, it never goes away.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“And he had promised Theo that he would live. Promised. Promised something he never gave. It was broken, a lie told by fear of regret.
Then again, what promise wasn’t?”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“I’m drowning, drowning above water. And that’s worse than drowning underwater, because no one knows how I struggle for a breath.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“I loved music. What struck me most about a song wasn’t the lyrics or genre but simply the way it sounded. It’s like when you hear that right song, no matter where you are or what you are doing, the way it sounds just stirs something inside of you. Maybe it’s the melody, the instruments, or the singer’s voice, but for that short moment you forget everything else on your mind and just feel.”
― J. Aleong, A Most Important Year

“The truth was, we all should try our best in life, but sometimes our best wouldn’t match the best of others. Sometimes our best wouldn’t match the standard. Sometimes our best wouldn’t match perfection. And that was OK.”
― J. Aleong, A Most Important Year

“…remember that helping others doesn’t mean denying to help yourself.”
― J. Aleong, A Most Important Year

“Then the five of us talked about junior year and how we felt this looming pressure toward taking the SATs. Afterwards, we somehow got on the topic of artificial intelligence and whether society would become like The Terminator films. You know, typical conversation. It was enjoyable.”
― J. Aleong, A Most Important Year

“I remember my pastor once said that peace in God doesn’t omit emotion; Jesus was perfect and still cried and felt anger. So peace was, that in the midst of our trials and emotions, our heads could remain above the water without drowning in it. This kind of peace could help us continue to live on through our struggles.”
― J. Aleong, A Most Important Year

“Strength doesn’t have to mean putting your problems aside or staying silent. Strength is sometimes being brave enough to seek the help that you need.”
― J. Aleong, A Most Important Year

“Remember that helping others doesn’t mean denying to help yourself.”
― J. Aleong, A Most Important Year

“Things felt a little different and that was OK.
Life would never stay in one place, after all. I was just glad to have my friends.”
― J. Aleong, A Most Important Year

“Whenever my mother was worried, she would
whisper her prayers in Spanish. I think it gave her a sense of privacy but also a sense of power.”
― J. Aleong, A Most Important Year

“I was so tired of being at hospitals. It felt like a
curse that people close to me kept ending up here.”
― J. Aleong, A Most Important Year

“When I got out of the car, I told her, ‘Thanks. Thanks for everything. You’re a good friend.”
― J. Aleong, A Most Important Year

“But I don’t see how they can recognize me if when I look back over parts of my life, I don’t even know who that girl is.”
― Zara Hairston, It Came 2 Pass: Book 1, In the Beginning

“I might look and smell smokeless now, but I’ve been burned beyond the surface.”
― Zara Hairston, It Came 2 Pass: Book 1, In the Beginning

“Just give it to me Dougy, just give it to me!”
― Louise Lucy Lockhart, Robynne: Her sexperiences and sexventures

“...should a man fancy a woman, … they may use any of a million “Pick-up” lines to start a conversation. The worst is that …. if they are successful, they boast about their sexual prowess. That is not what you should ever do. You are better than that!!”
― Louise Lucy Lockhart, Maximus: His sexperiences and sexventures

“You'll go to that cult over my dead body.”
― Val Agnew

“Stepping into worlds for which I am the first to see, and meeting the characters who live there, is a joy unlike anything else I’ve experienced. As a writer I attempt to share this joy with an invitation to others. Thanks to those who have accepted the invitation. E. G. Kardos”
― E.G. Kardos, Cutting of Harp Strings: A Novel