Comingofage Quotes

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How many times had she heard her father tread on the old baseball analogy, if you don't swing at the third strike, there's no chance of hitting the ball.”
― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird

“Being born upside-down was just the first irony in Suzanne's life, a forewarning that her struggle with existence had just begun.”
― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird

“After everyone went home, she often took a walk in the long summer evenings imagining she was looking for a party or a rave, which she never found. She usually ended up wandering in and out of the few shops that stayed open. This was not the life she’d imagined.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“It felt like a strong, soft cloth that would catch her if she fell, and would also polish her to make her shine. Cherished. That’s what it was.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“... tall apartment blocks and industrial buildings flashed by. The sky had clouded over. Raya’s reflection flickered in the window. She looked younger and sadder than she’d imagined.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“The summer sun bowing out threw slashes of
colour between the buildings. London looked big, empty,
and lonely. She stood in the doorway, like a cat trying to
make up its mind.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“What is it?'
'Nothing,' he said, and put his arm around her.
'You sighed.'
'I'd like to be further along than I am.'
She snuggled against his side. 'I know that feeling. But don't we make progress in fits and starts? Nothing happens for a long time, then suddenly we get a surprise, have an encounter, reach a decision point, and we're no longer the same as we were before.”
― Bernhard Schlink, Sommerlügen

“She saw clearly a boy and a man fighting for control of the same face.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“My generation must have despair. - Leonard Bernstein Ch 40/Dog Water Free, A Memoir”
― Michael Jay Author

“How can growing up really be about falling down?”
― Janet Turpin Myers, Nightswimming

“Es decir, que por fin habían aflorado los colores de mi personalidad, como le suele ocurrir a cualquier que ha estado sometido durante mucho tiempo a cierta formación”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Lizard

“Es decir, que por fin habían aflorado los colores de mi personalidad, como le suele ocurrir a cualquiera que ha estado sometido durante mucho tiempo a cierta formación”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Lizard

“They say youth is easier than adulthood, but I say all parts of life can be hard.” –A Most Important Year by J. Aleong”
― J. Aleong

“A white person can date a Black person and still be racist. Because there’s levels to that sh*t. Like a lasagna.” I frown but Shu says, “Stay with me. So, on the top, that cheesy layer, that’s what you can see clearly. Hate speech, mad looks, and violence. Obvious stuff you can’t ignore. But all them layers underneath, the ones that are harder to see, microaggression and unconscious bias? Giving your white “girlfriend jewelry, boat rides, and meet-and-greets with the family, but your Black girlfriend pasta in your house? Racism, hun.”
― Jessica George, Maame

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them–words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“I vaguely recall a sense of discomfort, not with my surroundings but with what was inside of me. I had been taught for most of my life that the moment for living was yet to come, that the phase I was living in, a perpetual state of childhood, was a time for waiting. And so I waited, impatiently, resentfully, longing for this period of incapacitation to pass. And in that interim, I listened less than I should have, and felt no need to engage.”
― Anvi Doshi

“If falling in love was the only way to learn anything, and if falling in love was in some way about sex, could the fact that I hadn't "had" sex explain why I seemed to myself not to have really learned anything - why I seemed not to have had really learned anything about, for example, Hungary - why everything I did learn felt somehow incomplete and beside the point?”
― Elif Batuman, Either/Or

“I'll love you forever, G. Wherever I am in the world. Whatever I'm doing, it'll always be you. I'm yours for as long as you want me. For as long as I'm good for you, I'm all yours.”
― Lesley Jones, The Story of Us

“Darlin', do me a favour here. All you ladies in the crowd tonight have gotta appreciate the fact that I'm a one-woman type of bloke and I love my girl. I've loved my girl since the very first day I set eyes on her, and back then, she was just a girl. But I've had the pleasure these past few years of watching her grow into an absolutely beautiful young woman, and as much as I love touring and playing in front of you lot every night, I'm counting down the days till I'm back in England and in her arms.”
― Lesley Jones, The Story of Us

“Dying is not so frightening when there is someone to be proud of.”
― Ruslana Pidsadiuk, The King's Path