Quotes About Coming-of-age

Carson put a hand on my butt and shoved. Honestly, I'd seen more action since meeting him than I had in all of high school.

I made a list of my favorite books: 1. The Grapes of Wrath 2. Catcher in the Rye 3. Fat Kid Rules the World 4. Tangerine 5. Feed 6. Catalyst 7. Invisible Man 8. Fools Crow 9. Jar of Fools

I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephine Alibrandi.

I wanted to do something raw and raucous and R-rated. But then 'Middle School: the Worst Years of My Life' came to me. One reason I took this movie on is because I saw it as a really great opportunity to revisit my own past through this character.

I'll always be grateful for 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' It brought me many, many, readers.

There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays.

I wrote 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' right out of my own experiences and my own feelings when I was in sixth grade.

'Rebecca' by Daphne du Maurier was the first grown-up book I read, when I was aged about 12.

'The Wood' was sort of like 'American Graffiti' for me in a lot of different ways.

As for me, I sealed my act of rebellion against my mother's dictatorship by smoking the cigarette I'd stolen from my uncle two weeks earlier. Kofff! Kofff! Kofff!!! It was awful. But this was not the moment to give in. With this first cigarette, I kissed childhood goodbye. Now I was a grown-up.

That was everything. I'd done the lot now. And me still only fifteen.

Suddenly I was struck motionless: I was living through the first chapter of a novel in which I was the heroine; she was still almost a child, but we, too, were growing up.

There was that reference to Allan Sherman's trip to a summer camp, in "Goon Squad." Mother, Father, I'm here in the zoo I can't come home 'cause I've grown up too soon

When 'Mean Girls' came out, I was 15. So I saw that movie and was like, 'That is so funny.' But it still has that fluffy, happy ending, and that doesn't happen in high school.

'Carrie Diaries' is very heartfelt and earnest in a lot of ways.

When I first saw 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' I thought: That's what my life is like. That's my day-to-day.

The time has come for Firepaw to be made a warrior.

Cuando se escriben novelas sobre adultos, uno sabe donde tiene que parar: esto es, en la boda. Pero cuando se escribe una novela sobre jóvenes, hay que parar donde mejor se pueda.

Shiro at thirteen

There were other stories and other names. Second Base Stace, who had breasts in fourth grade and let some of the boys feel them. Vincent, who took acid and tried to flush a sofa down the toilet. Sheila, who allegedly masturbated with a hot dog and had to go to the emergency room. The list went on and on.

Teddy, Vern, Chris: I don't shut up. I grow up. And when I look at you, I throw up. Aghhh! Gordie: And then your mom goes around the corner and she licks it up.

The Writer: [voiceover] I was 12 going on 13 the first time I saw a dead human being. It happened in the summer of 1959-a long time ago, but only if you measure in terms of years. I was living in a small town in Oregon called Castle Rock. There were only twelve hundred and eighty-one people. But to me, it was the whole world.

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

I so related to John Hughes movies.