Quotes About Adolescence

When I was younger I looked a bit like Matthew Modine out of 'Birdy'.

When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16.

Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.

I have four boys - two of them are 18 - and I have to protect them sometimes from themselves because they're not emotionally mature enough to always make great decisions.

I would hate to meet myself at 15.

When I was younger, I looked a lot older than I was. They have these working laws in England where you have to be 16: if you're over 16, you don't have to be restrained by working hours and things like that. In America, it's actually 18.

It's nice to have the creative freedom to write about whatever and no longer feeling those restrictions I had when I was 15.

I told my parents I wanted an agent, and they decided to let me have a go at it. Then I started working right away. I was 12.

I was kind of a weird kid in high school. I didn't have many friends in my age group because all they wanted to do was fight and have riots.

There was a period in high school when, for some reason, I decided that suburbanites were my enemies or my rivals in a way.

I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.

My mother used to ask, 'Why do you always write such sad songs?' I don't know if I was different from a lot of adolescents in that respect.

You never grow out of high school sadly.

Hormone blockers changed and saved my life.

Coming into high school, it's scary. You don't know which group to be in, and I can't stand that it's so cliquey.

As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary.

I remember the first scary movie I ever watched was 'Scream,' and I watched it at a sleepover.

The fact is, it wasn't enjoyable being in secondary school. I was a weird kid.

At the age of 14, I moved across town to Magdalen College School, Oxford, where science played a much larger role in the curriculum.

In high school, I remember feeling like a Jughead - like I was a little bit weird and kind of emotional. I also remember feeling like an Archie - sort of the leader of the pack.

It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.

Beginning in middle school, the era of wide-margined, Bible-paged anthologies, short stories develop unpromising associations - and these associations often linger through college, when stories become the things distributed in Xeroxes missing entire pages of line-endings.

I first paid attention to fashion when I was around 15, but I don't really care much about it these days.

Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did.