Quotes About Adolescence

Is that you, Charlie? Sam's making me a milkshake.

That's when I started thing about my sister. [...] And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall.

That's when I started thinking about my sister. [...] And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall.

Bill said I was 'developing' at a rapid pace and gave me a different kind of book as a 'reward'. It's On the Road by Jack Kerouac. I'm now up to about ten cigarettes a day.

Over the years however, my nose grew and grew and it became apparent by the time I was fourteen that, like its owner, it was not growing straight.

I'm all right, I told her. This is a lie, when you're twelve. And all the other years, too.

That's how they were supposed to be. It's what they, at fifteen, were supposed to have been doing. They'd been fired into adolescence and were swerving to each side now like crazy, trying to find the straight and narrow.

Când aveam 12 ani, unul dintre prietenii mei a pariat cu un altul, pe o pung? de bomboane, c? n-o s? se aleag? nimic de mine. Nu ÅŸtiu dac? pariul a fost respectat ÅŸi, dac? da, care dintre cei doi a avut dreptate.

High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?

When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.

I hated high school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something wrong with you.

At the time we're stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It's not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.

Teddy, Vern, Chris: I don't shut up. I grow up. And when I look at you, I throw up. Aghhh! Gordie: And then your mom goes around the corner and she licks it up.

By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.

I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

As far as I'm concerned, high school sucked when I went, and probably sucks now. I tend to regard people who remember it as the best four years of their lives with caution and a degree of pity.

He thought that fat boys were probably only allowed to love pretty girls inside. If he told anyone how he felt (not that he had anyone to tell), that person would probably laugh until he had a heart-attack.

By then I was a teenager, and teenagers say anything to hurt when they are hurting.

McVries seemed not to have heard. These things, they don't even bear the weight of conversation, he said, J.D. Salinger...John Knowles...even James Kirkwood and that guy Don Bredes...they've destroyed being an adolescent, Garraty. If you're a sixteen-year-boy, you can't discuss the pains of adolescent love with any decency anymore. You just come off sounding like fucking Ron Howard with a hardon. McVries laughed a little hysterically.

Maybe I'm just a kid in love.

Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.

The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they're stupid.

I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about... jeez, I guess it was when I was doing 'Christmas Vacation', so I was about 13 or 14.