Quotes About Coming-of-age

'Catcher in the Rye' changed my life when I was a kid. I read it as I was a boy turning into a man, and I was so fascinated by the values. I believe in it.

Um domingo de tarde sozinha em casa dobrei-me em dois para a frente - como em dores de parto - e vi que a menina em mim estava morrendo. Nunca esquecerei esse domingo. Para cicatrizar levou dias. E eis-me aqui. Dura, silenciosa e heróica. Sem menina dentro de mim.

This story is the tale of me starting to walk. Not in the physical sense… but in an adolescence to adulthood sort of way…

If I could separate 'The Originals' from 'The Vampire Diaries' in a nutshell, I'd say that 'The Vampire Diaries' is more coming-of-age, and we're more these monsters reveling in who they are and what they are.

I read Jilly Cooper when I was on the verge of just growing up and I was becoming a woman.

I saw the movie, he said. I know what it's about. Listen to this. When girls get to be about twelve or so—he leaned toward us—their tits bleed.

She is fifteen years old that summer, a thoughtful, book-struck girl with long-lashed hazel eyes and a long-legged body that still doesn't completely feel like her own.

We are thirteen, almost fourteen, and these streets of Sea Cliff are ours.

quinceañera. Case closed." Carmen and Jamie exchanged

Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase "young adult" – too young to be a grown-up, but too wise to the world to be completely innocent. He's caught in the in-between, and that in-between is what all young adult authors write about.

You may have been born 18 years ago but you have become legitimate in this world only today. So cheers to that and Happy 18th Birthday!

You're not a teenager anymore, you're an adult now. Wishing you a very special 18th Birthday!

This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of July.

With 'To All the Boys,' it's not an Asian rom-com. We tried to tell the coming-of-age story of a 16-year-old girl who just happens to be Asian.

I just sort of feel like John Hughes movies are perfect, but they're missing violence. If they just had some violence, they'd be perfect.

leaving me an orphan like those characters I had spoken of the night before, if one can truly be called an orphan at twenty-one years of age.

De qualquer jeito, eu tinha completado treze anos e achava que já era tempo de seguir meu próprio tempo. (Nove)

Madeleine Tully turned fourteen yesterday, but today she did not turn anything. Oh, wait. She turned a page.

Finally sixteen and the moment like a hand holding me out to the world.

One day I'd have full breasts, hips, and large hands. One day, my body would tell the world stories beneath the fabric of my clothes.

Planning your own coming-of-age experience may wither you prematurely, but just think of it this way: If you can get through this, childbirth should be a breeze.

Your son is not yet a man." Tyndareus' voice seemed far away. I could detect nothing in it.

There's nothing like sharing menarche with a billion hermaphrodites. I think it was everyone's first time.

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.