#coming

The night seemed suddenly defiled by the absence of music, as if the silence itself was injecting a sickness that only another song could cure. ↗

— Jake Vander Ark

#music #perfection #singing #siren #age

Whose little boy are you? ↗

— James Baldwin

#black #church #coming-of-age #epiphany #god

My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac--you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan. ↗

— Priya Ardis

#coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales #merlin

Unfortunately, I am only myself. I am scared and alone and unsure, but I am practicing. I am scared and alone and unsure, but that doesn't mean I always will be. Like AJ repeating words, I can repeat being me, until I start to believe it. ↗

— Lisa Burstein

#coming-of-age #insecurity #age

She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life our of the dry, dull grass my father had spent years pushing a mower over. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#getting-over-it #life #moving-on #age

Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#challenges #motivational #overcoming-adversity #overcoming-challenges #overcoming-obstacles

Mama and I sat on a burping bus full of chickens in cages, and round-eyed babies on round mothers' laps. (The Pinata-Maker's Daughter) ↗

— Eileen Granfors

#family #family-roots #leaving-home #age

…girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those “in the know” assured me that they were beautiful. ↗

— Jake Vander Ark

#coming-of-age #girls #growing-up #age

Even the most beautiful flower, the rose," he argued, "has the thorn that makes it imperfect. ↗

— Lynetta Halat

#coming-of-age-novel #new-adult-romance #romance #age

Today I realized that I am nothing more than tomorrow's ghost. In a way, it robs my sense of self to know I'm always changing; at the same time, it provides incentive to have the best today possible so I can have a positive influence on tomorrow and, if need be, shake some sense into the living. (Samantha Green) ↗

— Riley Noehren

#life-and-living #change