When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.
John SteinbeckStichwörter: growing-up parents coming-of-age fall-of-the-gods
For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer reach them.
Kirby Michael WrightStichwörter: memoir coming-of-age molokai
Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.
Dodie SmithStichwörter: drama coming-of-age
I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame...
Dodie SmithStichwörter: drama coming-of-age
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;!
Stichwörter: advice ataraxy philosophical coming-of-age fathers-and-sons
Time collapsed into a delicate dark pencil brushed against our
eyebrows, the emergent rumble of crowds gathering above our heads. We
slid into our costumes. Pirate, outlaw, futuristic rebels. Red,
purple, gold. Chains hanging from our belts, tight black trousers. We
were moved upstairs, closer to the stage. Finally, we heard the
cannon's roar: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome... Tanzar
recording artists... THE MASTER PLANETS!" The world shot forward. We
stepped into the spotlight.
Stichwörter: revenge holocaust coming-of-age rock-and-roll classic-rock psychological-drama rock-roll ww-ii
Whose little boy are you?
James BaldwinStichwörter: god youth religion church black epiphany james-baldwin racism coming-of-age african-american renaissance harlem institution
I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lies ahead. I wish she'd tell them the truth: Half of you have gone as far in life as you're ever going to. Look around. It's all downhill from here. The rest of us will go a bit further, a steady job, a trip to Hawaii, or a move to Phoenix, Arizona, but out of fifteen hundred how many will do anything truly worthwhile, write a play, paint a painting that will hang in a gallery, find a cure for herpes? Two of us, maybe three? And how many will find true love? About the same. And enlightenment? Maybe one. The rest of us will make compromises, find excuses, someone or something to blame, and hold that over our hearts like a pendant on a chain.
Janet FitchStichwörter: growth insight maturity young-adult coming-of-age teenager graduation
The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.
Carolyn MacklerStichwörter: wisdom life coming-of-age
She was neither white nor black, Fyre nor Aquanite; she was a dame of the White King, and it was up to her, and her alone, to choose what path her life would take.
Christine E. SchulzeStichwörter: choice adventure fantasy race coming-of-age equal adventuresome-women ashlei prism
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