818 Quotes About Coming-of-age

I just want to always be here. In this place. Right here, right now.

I'm a woman, Aleksey. I'm not the simplistic, flawless creature the world expects me to be. I'm imperfect, I'm multidimensional. I make mistakes all the time and I'll make even more as life challenges me. And I don't want to be afraid of messing things up. Firstly because I'll learn from my mistakes, but more importantly, they're what make me human.

-Πώς πήγε το σχολείο;-Πολύ καλά. Έμαθα να μιλώ, να απαντώ, και να σκέπτομαι με συλλαβές.-Τότε γιατί κλαις;-Είναι οι συλλαβές. Πονάω, όταν κόβω τις λέξεις στη μέση.-Θα συνηθίσεις, μου λέει η Φανή. Θα συνηθίσεις.ΤΕΛΟΣ

A motorcycle is a vehicle of change, after all. It puts the wheels beneath a midlife crisis, or a coming-of-age saga, or even just the discovery of something new, something you didn't realize was there. It provides the means to cross over, to transition, or to revitalize; motorcycles are self-discovery's favorite vehicle.

If there's something I'm not good at, it's usually because I just organically despise it. I can't help that. I'm fabulous at too many other things to waste my time faking it.

[...] He plays the guitar so well, you wouldn't believe it. But he doesn't have a band. And he doesn't try really hard to get one. He mostly plays alone in his room instead. That's what Kristen says.I think he does this for the same reason Hannah doesn't turn in her work when the teachers say she is smart.I think a lot of people want to be someone, but we are scared that if we try, we won't be as good as everyone imagines we could be.

It really is the best feeling in the world when everything that used to make you dizzy with desire becomes so wedged in your life that it changes from something you craved to something you belong in

Hush now, ‘tis time to sleep and dream secrets of long ago.

But when she looked at Prue tonight, she saw this was not now quite true of her. She was just beginning, just moving, just descending.