Coming Of Age Stories Quotes

#1. J.R. Angelella is a truly gifted writer. Zombie is one of the smartest, strangest, and most beautifully crafted coming-of-age stories you will ever encounter.

Donald Ray Pollock

#2. A lot of first novels are coming-of-age stories. A lot are autobiographical.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#3. I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

Emily Giffin

#4. I love coming of age stories that have struggle.

Aaron Paul

#5. Ariana strikes me as the type of girl who is attracted to authenticity.

Siobhan Davis

#6. I don't know if this happens in all relationships, but I just got so sick of his all too familiar stories. I had heard these stories so many times that I could have recited them myself.

Brenda Perlin

#7. An intense longing builds inside me, and I fight the urge to propel myself forward and grab her into my arms.

Siobhan Davis

#8. All this silence between us, to protect her, and what has it wrought! How unthinking I was," he cringed as he beat himself up inside.

K. Farrell St. Germain

#9. The convention of the coming-of-age story and the love story were literally abandoned - because they had to be - and a new kind of coming-of-age and love story emerged that required a different kind of telling the story.

Lidia Yuknavitch

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

Susan Engberg

#11. This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey)

Kellie Elmore

#12. I decided to write the book I wanted to read

David A. Lottes

#13. ...have you ever thought you knew someone--I mean really knew someone--then realized that the person you thought you knew only existed in your overextended mind...

Stephanie Verni

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

Siobhan Davis

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

Siobhan Davis

#16. While I AM sure of what I want, I'm equally unsure of how to attain it.

Siobhan Davis

#17. I love outsider stories. And I also like a lot of genre fiction, too. So I wanted to write a literary book that flirted with thriller and fantasy and even science fiction. I wanted the coming-of-age story and the love story to be about "outsiderdom" - one of the themes I am most interested in.

Porochista Khakpour

#18. Most of the girls I've met since moving here have failed to ignite any modicum of enduring interest. Of course, I've dated; I'm seventeen years old and as horny as the next guy.

Siobhan Davis

#19. I am unbelievably nervous.
It is most unlike me.
This girl is really messing with my mojo.

Siobhan Davis

#20. But sometimes the scars go too deep and the stories are too personal to share.

John Northcutt Young

#21. I need to master the art of talking to her before I can even contemplate anything else.

Siobhan Davis

#22. Reed wanted to believe, and he had to place faith in her, to have a life with her. "Ruby, the one thing I know for certain is I love you. I have faith in you. I believe in you.

D.F. Jones

#23. 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.

Scott Thompson

#24. I'm looking for something new to believe in that isn't the way people yearn at night in the city.

Constance Renfrow

#25. 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.

Steven C. Smith

#26. You understand. I don't know. I am not sure how I would feel in your shoes. My mother wanted me.

Donna K. Childree

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

Siobhan Davis

#28. I'm following hot on her heels, smarting from her latest rebuttal, and I can't contain my temper as the flood of rejection washes over me, tossing me precariously close to the edge.

Siobhan Davis

#29. Little Joe was still behind him. Eli could feel it. He wanted to look back, but he couldn't. The tears were too close. If he were Fancy, he'd turn around and kick and buck and moo and do just about anything to keep his calf near. But Eli wasn't Fancy; he was a farmer.

Sandra Neil Wallace

#30. I feel myself collapse inside as if the life force has been sucked out of me.

Siobhan Davis

#31. 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.

Danielle Lee Zwissler

#32. It's the first instance where I believe that it might actually be wrong, the first time I feel like a bit of a creep.

Siobhan Davis