818 Quotes About Coming-of-age

Even though it's wrong, all I feel is relief.

I just don't like making other people feel bad

I'm a puppet on strings, playing out my parents' dreams.

It's easier for men, I guess. Traditional ways cater to them.

For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer reach them.

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.

She learned at a very young age she had to be strong for herself because no one else was going to.

The principles of storytelling do not change. Going home. Coming of age. Sin and redemption. The hero. The journey, The power of love. They are hardwired into us, just like our taste buds process sweet, sour, bitter, and salt. Can a new voice come up with something startling and creative and unprecedented? Absolutely. Can they invent a fifth taste? No. No, they can’t. Can they make it so we don’t like sweet anymore? No, no they can’t.

Life was like that when you were fifteen and knobby-kneed and you only had a handful of choices. Your world was small and cruel and narrow-minded and breathtaking.