Books to discover: Young adult & coming of age

Hannah Grace

“Again, Anastasia!” If I hear the words again and Anastasia together in a sentence one more time, it might be the thing that finally tips me over the edge.

J. D. Salinger, Shao jia yun

Se querem mesmo ouvir o que aconteceu, a primeira coisa que vão querer saber é onde eu nasci, como passei a porcaria da minha infância, o que meus pais faziam antes que eu nascesse, e toda essa lenga-lenga tipo David Copperfield, mas, para dizer a verdade, não estou com vontade de falar sobre isso.

Louisa May Alcott

"CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

Mark Twain

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.

Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.

Stephen Chbosky

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Charles Dickens

MY FATHER'S FAMILY NAME being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Near everyone agreed Mary Lennox was a most disagreeable child.

Lynn Painter

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Jane Austen

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence, and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

Charles Dickens

WHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by any body else, these pages must show.

Stendhal

The little town of Verrieres might be one of the prettiest in all Franche-Comte.