Coming Of Age Story Quotes

#1. I'm just open to doing all different kinds of movies. I have a movie called Scout coming out and it's a coming of age story. [] I have a very small role in it, but it was really fun to make and really light, but I do want darker roles.

Shelley Hennig

#2. I did a film when I was about 30; it's a coming of age story called 'Gas Food Lodging,' and I'm so proud of that little independent film. I play this young English geologist, and he's such a simple, loving kind of guy. Doesn't talk too much. He's just a quiet guy, and he gets the girl.

Robert Knepper

#3. The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.

Mae Whitman

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club.

Will Estes

#7. Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.

Kimberly Willis Holt

#8. It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet' is a tragic coming-of-age story.

Matthew Stover

#9. I'm tired of their plastic pony show.

Randolph Randy Camp

#10. Say no! I thought. Say you want yourself all for your own self. Say that you have no specific country, say that you are important without any story from above, say that your home is with me and the other girls up in the sky.

Darcey Steinke

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

Susan Engberg

#12. When you find the one, when you share the spark of kismet, then it becomes inconceivable to walk through life with anyone else.

Karpov Kinrade

#13. The more I learn about life and people, the more I realise that everyone has a story and everyone's story is the biggest in their own mind." - Laylla Jonson

L.B. Malpass

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

Siobhan Davis

#15. When you touch a man's body, he will enjoy the moment, when you touch a man's heart he will remember it forever.

Dixie Waters

#16. What I like about narrative in general is when there is some incongruity between the form and content. Let's say, mixing up the gothic with a coming-of-age narrative. Telling a love story that's also a monster story. Mixing up superhero tropes with your monster tropes. I like category confusion.

Kelly Link

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

Siobhan Davis

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

Siobhan Davis

#19. 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

#20. It's very hard to believe that I'm feeling this. It's like I've been dead all these years and suddenly now...in a matter of days and hours, I came to life. I don't want to die again!

Dan Skinner

#21. This is the end of an epic tale, the story of my coming of age, which, like in the novels of the same description, went from wonder to ambition, from ambition to disillusion, and from disillusion to cynicism.

Muriel Barbery

#22. It's a neighborhood where every dad has at least one job and where parents often end conversations with the words: no guts, no glory.

Michael Jay

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

Siobhan Davis

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

Siobhan Davis

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

Siobhan Davis

#26. His smile is beautiful. It's the kind of smile that can take away all nervousness and tension in a room, no matter how big. I have no choice but to smile back.

S. Elle Cameron

#27. For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story.

Gene Siskel

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

Siobhan Davis

#29. Fuck Kerouac; he would write his own story.

Linda Collison

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

Siobhan Davis

#31. I once made a solemn vow that I could not keep... I am from this world. Even with all its failures and suffering it is still worthy of my best efforts... and wishing it was otherwise does not make it so." Eiij'lam told the king.

K. Farrell St. Germain

#32. 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

#33. Matteo lived inside her like a memory that paradoxically stopped the pain and which she could never get enough of ... because there was, and never would be, anything that was like him. Wherever she went, whatever she did, he was the only thing she truly loved, and which she sadly no longer had.

Llarjme

#34. What in the world could this family have done to deserve a fate such as this?

Michael Jay

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

Siobhan Davis

#36. Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.

Adora Svitak

#37. 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