Coming Of Age Novel Quotes

“Don’t attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you’re lonely. Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way. (movie & novel combination)”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“I loved you yesterday. I love you today. I'll love you tomorrow...forever.”
― Lynetta Halat, Every Rose

“When we became teenagers boredom grew like a moth in a cocoon fighting to escape, and the peace created by our parents became a prison. We sought excitement and adventure. We sought anything but the sinless, pure, and average of the faux idyllic.”
― Scott Thompson, Young Men Shall See

“Even the most beautiful flower, the rose," he argued, "has the thorn that makes it imperfect.”
― Lynetta Halat, Every Rose

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience.”
― A Memoir by Young, Initiation

“I'm going to turn my life around. Make a complete three sixty."
"Don't you mean one eighty?" he corrected. "If you do that, you'll end up right back where you started."
"Maybe. But at least I'll have a chance of coming out of it a different person - a better version of me.”
― Megan Duke, Three Sixty: A Companion to Small Circles

“Don’t attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you’re lonely. Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. And intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way. (Book AND movie combination.)”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“45,000 sections of reinforced concrete—three tons each.
Nearly 300 watchtowers.
Over 250 dog runs.
Twenty bunkers.
Sixty five miles of anti-vehicle trenches—signal wire, barbed wire, beds of nails.
Over 11,000 armed guards.
A death strip of sand, well-raked to reveal footprints.
200 ordinary people shot dead following attempts to escape the communist regime.
96 miles of concrete wall.

Not your typical holiday destination.

JF Kennedy said the Berlin Wall was a better option than a war. In TDTL, the Anglo-German Bishop family from the pebbledashed English suburb of Oaking argue about this—among other—notions while driving to Cold War Berlin, through all the border checks, with a plan to visit both sides of it.”
― Joanna Campbell, Tying Down the Lion

“She might have been there for you in the aftermath, but I was there when everything came crashing down.”
― Megan Duke, Three Sixty: A Companion to Small Circles

“With every beat of my heart, I believe she thought keeping her secret was in everyone's best interest. She thought the secret would be buried with her, never to be revealed. She thought wrong.”
― Misa Rush, Family Pieces

“It was late morning when he woke and found the telephone beside his bed in the hotel tolling frantically, and remembered that he had left word to be called at eleven. Sloane was snoring heavily, his clothes in a pile by his bed. They dressed and ate breakfast in silence, and then sauntered out to get some air. Amory's mind was working slowly, trying to assimilate what had happened and separate from the chaotic imagery that stacked his memory the bare shreds of truth. If the morning had been cold and gray he could have grasped the reins of the past in an instant, but it was one of those days that New York gets sometimes in May, when the air of Fifth Avenue is a soft, light wine. How much or how little Sloane remembered Amory did not care to know; he apparently had none of the nervous tension that was gripping Amory and forcing his mind back and forth like a shrieking saw.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

“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, Splinters

“I am careful with the arguas (tomato caterpillars). Be careful with your mothers' hearts too, por favor."

THE PINATA-MAKER'S DAUGHTER”
― Eileen Granfors

“Everything I ever lost, I gained back with you.”
― Megan Duke, Infinite Limits: A Conclusion to Small Circles

“Sic transit gloria mundi.”
― Victor O'Connell, Eaglechild

“I think I knew from the first moment I met her, she would be the one to replace me. I didn't think it would happen that fast, but it did.”
― Megan Duke, Three Sixty: A Companion to Small Circles

“Congratulations," she said. "You win.”
― Megan Duke, Three Sixty: A Companion to Small Circles

“Dear Diary:
I have a confession to make: I’ve become a total idiot over French pastries.
They’re my new favorite food.
My new-found edible souvenir.
My new favorite sin.
Dunkin Donuts is so yesterday.”
― Kimberley Montpetit, Paris Cravings

“I see us milling around our lockers in Tri-County High, laughing and joking and making plans for the weekend, whispering about girls and sex and other undiscovered territories, slapping five, talking cool, dreaming our pretty little high school dreams.”
― James Michael Rice, A Tough Act To Follow

“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.”
― Brian Joyce

“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.”
― David Hopper, In Spirit & Truth

“I guess I'd rather have a truthful neighbor who says he hates me than a lyin' one who claims he loves me.”
― David Hopper, In Spirit & Truth