Jane Austen Quotes

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

The characters in the book grow up with us. My voice has broken as well.

In young adult novels and children's books, you stay in moment. The story goes through a school year or a weekend. You never get a sense of a future self because the young person has not lived that yet.

There's people out there, Canadians out there, that have high expectations for me, but I mean, I'm still a kid, still trying to learn the game. I'm just trying to develop my skills as much as possible.

I like books that explore identity and youth culture or rites of passage.

Coming-of-age stories in high school are exciting because everything that happens during that time is very heightened.

Guys play characters that won't grow up and something catastrophic happens and they have to grow up to save the day - that's pretty much what today's comedy is about.

You couple that with how I looked when I was younger, and growing up... The voice is not quite breaking. It's awful. No, I don't enjoy that at all. But that's one of the things people love and find so endearing about the Harry Potter series, and why they've lasted so long. Because people have grown up with us, and they care about the characters. They're not just some characters in the film, they're people you can relate to, and you care about, and you grew up with, and when they die in this film, people feel it!

When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.

Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young.

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.

Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes.

Sometimes having a big amount of time is a gift, because by the time you're at the end of the run you feel like you've figured it out finally or discovered everything you can about the character. Sometimes that's not the case.

Rebellion is necessary for development of character.

Where are the vehicles to character development in secular society?

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

Your commitments can develop you or destroy you, but either way, they will define you.

I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.

Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young.