Coming Of Age Quotes

“Time collapsed into a delicate dark pencil brushed against our
eyebrows, the emergent rumble of crowds gathering above our heads. We
slid into our costumes. Pirate, outlaw, futuristic rebels. Red,
purple, gold. Chains hanging from our belts, tight black trousers. We
were moved upstairs, closer to the stage. Finally, we heard the
cannon's roar: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome... Tanzar
recording artists... THE MASTER PLANETS!" The world shot forward. We
stepped into the spotlight.”
― Donald Gallinger

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

“Love is the thread that weaves our lives into a beautiful tapestry.”
― Rendi Ansyah, Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements

“Would it be like the poets always write about, where I become his person, and he becomes mine?”
― Shaina Veronica, All About You

“Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right.”
― Saloma Miller Furlong, Why I Left the Amish

“I always wanted magic to be real, and now I know that this world is much stranger and more miraculous than it appears. But I believe, more than I believe anything else, that the true miracle and beauty in life comes from living it. I hope you will come to agree with me. I know you're struggling this year, and I wish I could help you more. I wish I could be with you to help figure it all out. But I'll tell you the secret: no one has it figured out. The joy comes from figuring it out. One day at a time. Live your life, all of it, full of magic and miracles and beauty and pain and sorrow. You'll be glad you did. I am.”
― Leah Stecher, The Things We Miss

“For now, the sun hung fat and full above the tree line. The trees’ limbs reached up, begging
for more, praying to the only god they had ever known.
James set off past the faded park, wondering how many kids had been here. How many times
had they swung on these swings and slid down this slide? How many of them still came here and remembered what it was like, back when everything was sweet?”
― Jack Lowe-Carbell, Arlya

“For now, the sun hung fat and full above the tree line. The trees’ limbs reached up, begging for more, praying to the only god they had ever known.
James set off past the faded park, wondering how many kids had been here. How many times had they swung on these swings and slid down this slide? How many of them still came here and remembered what it was like, back when everything was sweet?”
― Jack Lowe-Carbell, Arlya

“Owen looked at James. He loved the fact that he didn’t tell him it was going to be okay, or that it was all right, loved him for understanding that sometimes it wasn’t okay.”
― Jack Lowe-Carbell, Arlya

“She has just learned that some things are forever, and other things are never-again.”
― Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

“Each morning comes along and you assume it will be similar enough to the previous one-- that you will be safe, that your family will be alive, that you will be together, that life life will remain mostly as it was. Then a moment arrives and everything changes.

Images of the city to the south speed through his consciousness, but he has seen neither a city nor a likeness of one and does not know what to imagine, and his visions intermingle with Grandfather's tales of talking foxes and moon-spiders, of towers made of glass and bridges between the stars.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Each morning comes along and you assume it will be similar enough to the previous one-- that you will be safe, that your family will be alive, that you will be together, that life will remain mostly as it was. Then a moment arrives and everything changes.

Images of the city to the south speed through his consciousness, but he has seen neither a city nor a likeness of one and does not know what to imagine, and his visions intermingle with Grandfather's tales of talking foxes and moon-spiders, of towers made of glass and bridges between the stars.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Only one thing to see, and yet, so many possible outcomes.”
― Nick Oliveri, Becoming the Conjurer

“Love, like a symphony, weaves its melodies through the heart's quiet corners.”
― Rendi Ansyah, Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements

“At some point you have to figure out who you are. Are you someone who picks themselves back up? Are you someone who learns how to handle hardship and losing friendships, and keep going? Do you know how to find your people and let yourself have fun? And if you don't learn about that in seventh grade with everyone else, then...when will you learn it?”
― Leah Stecher, The Things We Miss

“You could be anywhere, and you're choosing to be here. All relationships are a choice. You have to choose to be someone's friend. Not once, but over and over and over again. And you're doing it, right now.”
― Leah Stecher

“I was a really bad friend. I didn't understand before. I thought I was just, you know, making choices for *me*. I didn't realize that I was making choices for you.”
― Leah Stecher

“It's their way of touching one another without having to touch one another. It's their way of saying I had a nightmare and are you there and I am here. And it's their way.”
― Margaret McDonald

“«Mostrare le sue playlist a uno sconosciuto era la cosa più intima che potesse fare, molto più di chiedergli di spogliarsi davanti a lui. Le tracce che aveva salvato erano la testimonianza dei momenti vissuti e di quelli ancora da scoprire. Ogni canzone parlava di lui, di chi era e di ciò che avrebbe voluto essere.»”
― Jessica Lascar, Love is a mess

“L'anima gemella non esiste. E forse è anche peggio. Se l'anima gemella esistesse, allora potresti incolpare il destino nel caso in cui le cose non funzionassero. Nel nostro caso, invece, possiamo solo dare la colpa alle scelte che abbiamo fatto. Perché io ho scelto lui e lui ha scelto me.”
― Jessica Lascar, Love is a mess

“I started toward the field, and they fanned out around me, talking about all the food they hoped the cafeteria would make this summer, about how it would be helpful if the camp served them hot guys on a platter, too. I sighed to keep from laughing out of frustration.”
― Jessica K. Foster, Andy and the Summer of Something

“I'm gay”
― Jonah Newman, Out of Left Field

“We gave them everything,” the now drunken man spoke in a splendid stupor, his left foot wobbled below him, and his right foot had acted like an anchor, drilling through the floor.”
― Cedric Ennis, The Secret Academy and the Warden's Wrath

“The corners of my lips quirk up as I think of all the possible meet-cutes I’ll experience. I don’t even need meet-cutes in plural. I just need the right one to find my one. My own happy-ever-after”
― Shaina Veronica, All About You

“When it comes to Marlon Salvador, I will always need to brace for my own sanity”
― Shaina Veronica, All About You

“Family isn't an accident. It's a beautiful tapestry woven from threads of love, laughter, and a whole lot of embarrassing stories.”
― Rendi Ansyah, Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements

“Home is not a place, it's a feeling. It's the peace of mind knowing your loved ones are watching over you.”
― Rendi Ansyah, Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements

“Love paints the sky with hues of sunrise, promising new beginnings.”
― Rendi Ansyah, Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements

“Love is like a melody that lingers long after the song ends.”
― Rendi Ansyah, Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements

“I laughed with them, cried with them—these characters became friends.”
― Rendi Ansyah, Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements