Quotes About Adolescence

of course, from birth to puberty the little girl grew up, but she never felt growth

I got the desire to write very young, at fourteen or fifteen years of age … I endured the world which was given to me sometimes with joy, often with revolt or boredom; I wanted to make it mine in order to justify it in some way. So I thought I had everything to say: the whole world, life, everything. In my youthful, adolescent diaries, at eighteen, nineteen years old, this leitmotif appears over and over: I will say everything, I have everything to say.

You have no idea what Linus is thinking. It could be good, it could be bad. Most likely, it's nothing at all. He's a boy. You'd better get used to that.

When he was EIGHT. Anne, do you know what teenage parties are like? What if they knife each other and have sex on the trampoline?

High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life.

I loved Jared Leto. My So-Called Life, that was my jam. And Leonardo DiCaprio in Romeo + Juliet. Every 14-year-old girl was obsessed with that.

I just wanted to fit in, so probably early on I knew, but it was... social life was such a distant part of my existence when I was in school that I didn't even think about it too much.

In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.

As a rule, she didn't like boys very much, but she had to admit, Charlie was actually pretty nice.

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

Gavin leaned over the table. "Welcome to Cradle Bay High, Stevie boy. Welcome to my nightmare.

I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

He is a teenager, after all-a strange agent with holes in his jeans, studs in his ear, a tail down his neck, a cap on his head (backward).

I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 16, and he was eight years older. My father was furious about this 24-year-old, and I had to hide the relationship.

Call school, tell them I'm lovesick.

the whole idea of boys being people you would actually choose to spend time with was pretty much totally incomprehensible to me. i could never think of anything to say to them, and they seemed equally dumbstruck by my presence.

He was fiercely beautiful in the way some young males are, as if their whole being were being lived through their eyes, and their large noses, and their ungainly limbs.

The year Grace turned fourteen, Colin walked through the door in a uniform, and her heart gave one big thump and never beat exactly the same way again.

Why are girls so mean to each other?

Pero volvamos al aire y la luz de la primavera, que deberían ser los únicos protagonistas. Se trataba de una luz incomprensible. Siendo así que la adolescencia consiste en ese aire que no es posible explicarse. Podría escribirse en esa luz (ya que no es posible escribir sobre esa luz), conseguir que la suave carne de pomelo de esa luz quedase inscrita, en cierto modo «pensada». Aún está por ver si se puede, si yo puedo.

Admir usurinta cu care ceilalti isi depasesc conflictele.Eu sunt mereu prizonierul si victima alor mele.Sunt de aceea acuzat ca nu am iesit din adolescenta, adica tocmai varsta la care conflictele sunt escamotate.

Se, no momento de nosso nascimento, fôssemos tão conscientes como o somos ao sair da adolescência, é mais do que provável que aos cinco anos o suicídio fosse um fenômeno habitual ou mesmo uma questão de honorabilidade. Mas despertamos tarde demais: temos contra nós os anos fecundados unicamente pela presença dos instintos, que devem ficar estupefatos com as conclusões a que conduzem nossas meditações e decepções.