{"quotes":[{"text":"I don’t know if it was just me making things up in my head but after the fear in their eyes had gone what replaced it was like a sad kind of wondering. A wondering of where the old me was hiding. A wondering about where the old me had gone to. It was like I had suddenly been taken over by someone else and they could see the old me had fallen away for good.","author":"Kerem Mermutlu","tags":["coming-of-age-stories","teen","young-adult-fiction"],"id":12221,"author_id":"Kerem+Mermutlu"},{"text":"She had a new secret, the strenght of the moon, looking at her.","author":"Susan Engberg","tags":["bus","coming-of-age-stories","moon","moonlight","on-the-late-bus","out-in-the-world","short-stories","short-story","susan-engberg"],"id":57519,"author_id":"Susan+Engberg"},{"text":"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.","author":"D.F. Jones","tags":["coming-of-age-stories","prophetic-dreams","romance-novels"],"id":159582,"author_id":"D.F.+Jones"},{"text":"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.","author":"Scott Thompson","tags":["coming-of-age-novel","coming-of-age-stories","growing-up","southern-fiction","southern-gothic","southerners","teenagers"],"id":161400,"author_id":"Scott+Thompson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Danielle Lee Zwissler","tags":["coming-of-age","coming-of-age-stories","falling-for-you","funny","love","romance","teen"],"id":223390,"author_id":"Danielle+Lee+Zwissler"},{"text":"I engage in subtle stalking. That's entirely different and perfectly socially acceptable.","author":"Siobhan Davis","tags":["coming-of-age-stories","humorous","love","science-fiction-romance","short-story","teen-romance"],"id":236869,"author_id":"Siobhan+Davis"},{"text":"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.","author":"Siobhan Davis","tags":["coming-of-age-stories","love","science-fiction-romance","short-story","teen-romance"],"id":259210,"author_id":"Siobhan+Davis"},{"text":"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.","author":"K. Farrell St. Germain","tags":["coming-of-age-stories","illumination","regrets"],"id":432056,"author_id":"K.+Farrell+St.+Germain"},{"text":"I decided to write the book I wanted to read.","author":"David A. Lottes","tags":["adventure-stories","coming-of-age-stories","french-in-north-america","frontier-and-pioneer-life","historical-fiction","native-americans","wabash-river"],"id":441032,"author_id":"David+A.+Lottes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}