33 Quotes About Coming-of-age-stories

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.

Mom let go of us and leaned back so she could look us both in the eye. “No more spending the night in the tree fort, you two.

She had a new secret, the strenght of the moon, looking at her

There is only choice, and at every moment, you only have two choices. When you make your decision, you'll know if it was right by the way you feel. If you know it wasn't the right choice, make a different choice.

I fell in love with her suddenly, deeply, in the most all-consuming way.

When we became teenagers boredom grew like a moth in a cocoon fighting to escape, and the peace created by our parents became a prison. We sought excitement and adventure. We sought anything but the sinless, pure, and average of the faux idyllic.

After a short time I felt my truck began to move. The force of the water and the rising floodwaters lifted me and my truck off the road and through an orchard, bumping into trees, flood debris and who knows what else.

I engage in subtle stalking. That's entirely different and perfectly socially acceptable.

I'm not just the sum of how I look although that seems to be a popular opinion, and it infuriates me.