Quotes About Adolescence

When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.

The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?

I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

I was at school when Britney Spears' 'Baby One More Time' came out. I changed my uniform to look like hers. I just looked slutty after that, so thank you, Britney.

I was into comics because these were my real male role models, even though at the time, I didn't know it.

I don't get facials. The last time I got a facial was when I first started modeling when I was 15 or 16. It made my face completely break out.

I remember feeling all right with myself until age 13. Then, I was getting off the bus one day and this guy called me Miss Piggy. That was the first time I ever really felt like I wasn't okay.

I think my parents had a hard time dealing with me.

About time you grew up and became a vampire like the rest of us.

Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.

The teenage years are years of great chaos and confusion in your lives, but also a time of seeking a deeper meaning.

People say 'teenage girls aren't so clever. Your characters should be less articulate to reflect our youth.' People who say that aren't spending time with teenagers.

My parents were so relaxed by the time I was growing up that I got away with a lot more.

I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

I wasn't very happy in high school: it was a confusing and sort of sad time for me.

I do agree to a certain extent that it is unfortunate that I have to be a little more aware of being a kid and growing up and figuring out who I am, but at the same time, it's part of what I love.

As the only girl growing up for a long time with only boys, as you pointed out, it seems like I was always surrounded by guys. There was this sense in which my female body was a problem.

So much of your identity in junior high is built on who you're with. You see the world through the lens of how you identify and have been identified at that time.

Why do I get the feeling that if you give me a hard time, I'll tell all of our year-mates your family nickname is Meathead?

You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.

She's thirteen. Time will remedy that.

I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put A Clockwork Orange my way, and Catcher in the Rye.

It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.