Comingofage Quotes & Sayings

Nature is not the number-one mystery, I've learned. It's the heart that takes top honors. — Beth Kephart

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

How can growing up really be about falling down? — Janet Turpin Myers

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

She saw clearly a boy and a man fighting for control of the same face. — Stephen King

Let's begin with an easy agreement. Before his death, your father and I were negotiating for a small area of land on our borders, near Libeth. The Carthyan land has a spring that my farmers need for their crops. Carthya has other spings nearby, so you won't miss it."
"My father wouldn't have missed it, but I would," I said, with no actual idea of what spring he meant. "It happens to be my favourite water source in all of Carthya, and I won't part with it. — Jennifer A. Nielsen

He was a match; she was flint. And between them both ... fire. — Erin Kellison

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a walk to the edge of a cliff. Every day we get a step nearer and what lies over the brink, no one can tell. — Deepak Chopra

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals. — Charles Caleb Colton

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is. — Jupiter Hammon

Your life is just a bird's flight through a lit room. You pass from infinite darkness into endless night, with only a short time in between. — Conn Iggulden

The best creates, the rest follows — Richard Lee JuiChe