Harlan Coben Quotes

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

I really like coming-of-age dramas. It's probably the most intense period in anyone's life, those years before you become an adult. Dramatically, there's so much to explore there. And it's nice to be around young talent coming through.

I kept getting offered all this young adult stuff. I don't want to keep telling teen coming-of-age stories!

I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I'm growing, I'm maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.

We all have to go through our own experiences of growing up.

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

I had some wonderful times in my 20s, but your 20s are hard.

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

For me, 'I Am Woman' is all about transition. I turned 21 in December, so I'm not completely grown up yet but I'm not a little girl anymore. Just in that in-between stage. The song is everything I have ever heard a woman say. I loved this song for me and every young lady, girl and woman to be able to feel empowered in being female.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.

Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

People forget that when you're 16, you're probably more serious than you'll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.