{"quotes":[{"text":"The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.","author":"Rod Steiger","tags":["coming-of-age","depression","heartwarming"],"id":1250,"author_id":"Rod+Steiger"},{"text":"Partying and dancing have never been my thing, but drinking I could do with reasonable familiarity and skills. I decided to begin there.","author":"Vann Chow","tags":["beers","coming-of-age","dating","drinking","drinking-alcohol","meeting-girls","party","partying"],"id":1706,"author_id":"Vann+Chow"},{"text":"We laughed as we ducked behind a pile of snow. Then our brothers came charging through the barrier, sending the four of us sliding down a white slope full of cherished memories.","author":"Erica Sehyun Song","tags":["adventure","adventure-fiction","adventures","coming-of-age","fantasy","fantasy-fiction","fantasy-ya","fiction","fiction-fantasy","historical-fiction","siblings","victorian","young-adult","young-adult-fantasy","young-adult-fiction"],"id":2809,"author_id":"Erica+Sehyun+Song"},{"text":"There were days when Amory resented that life had changed from an even progress along a road stretching ever in sight, with the scenery merging and blending, into a succession of quick, unrelated scenes...","author":"F. Scott Fitzgerald","tags":["aging","coming-of-age"],"id":3394,"author_id":"F.+Scott+Fitzgerald"},{"text":"I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.","author":"Stephen Chbosky","tags":["coming-of-age","sad","young-adult-fiction"],"id":3600,"author_id":"Stephen+Chbosky"},{"text":"And the One will take the Sword of the Western Sun and triumph over the enemy with boldness and insight. The arm of the One is steady and heads will roll. Snow Giants will battle.","author":"Barbara T. Cerny","tags":["1600s","amorgos","archery","armor","battle","bow-and-arrow","chateau-de-saint-germain-en-laye","class-difference","coming-of-age","cooper","cyclops","dryad","elf","elves","fairies","fairy","fantasy","france","greek-mythology","growing-up","halfling","hesit","historical","love","magic","mermaid","minotaur","peasant","portal","princess","prophesies","quest","redeemer","relationships","reluctant-hero","romance","satyr","savior","shield","smithy","sword-fighting","weaponry","zeus"],"id":4281,"author_id":"Barbara+T.+Cerny"},{"text":"This is a test. This is only a test. If this was my actual life I'd be famous, rich, and thin.","author":"Becky Adams","tags":["coming-of-age","rock-band","romance"],"id":5048,"author_id":"Becky+Adams"},{"text":"Was Jane now. All Jane. Come calamity or come calm, was myself and none else.","author":"J.D. Jordan","tags":["calamity","coming-of-age","historical-fiction","science-fiction","scifi","western"],"id":5561,"author_id":"J.D.+Jordan"},{"text":"We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.","author":"Gayle Forman","tags":["change","coming-of-age","life","love","one-day","romance","thoughts","travel"],"id":6419,"author_id":"Gayle+Forman"},{"text":"It scored a direct hit on my eardrum and rattled around in side my head.","author":"Craig A. Hart","tags":["coming-of-age","ya"],"id":7676,"author_id":"Craig+A.+Hart"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":512,"pages":52,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}