#coming

Well, can you tell her that?" He looked down at his feet. "I will. I will." Guy-speak for, "I plan to keep avoiding her until she gives up. ↗

— Priya Ardis

#chick-lit #coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost. ↗

— Carolyn Mackler

#life #wisdom #age

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

I don’t know if it was just me making things up in my head but after the fear in their eyes had gone what replaced it was like a sad kind of wondering. A wondering of where the old me was hiding. A wondering about where the old me had gone to. It was like I had suddenly been taken over by someone else and they could see the old me had fallen away for good. ↗

— Kerem Mermutlu

#teen #young-adult-fiction #age

When left unsatisfied, lust becomes violence. ↗

— Jake Vander Ark

#coming-of-age #perverted #age

Is it possible that that's all maturity is? Speaking better? Is it possible that everybody in the world, is just a dumb, stupid kid acting like a grown-up because they can sound like one and look like one? It almost seems easy. ↗

— Bob Flaherty

#maturity #age