Quotes About Adolescence

It's hard to feel comfortable in your own skin when you're younger.

I was a skinny guy growing up, and I still feel like that same skinny kid.

I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you feel bad. And I had skinny bow legs. I mean, as a kid growing up, I was an insecure fella.

I was 5' 10 when I was 14, skinny and flat, with huge feet, and I never had a boyfriend.

I was a skinny 17-year-old.

I had trouble getting jeans when I was growing up. I had little skinny legs and this booty that came out of nowhere.

I was one of those kids who kept trying on different skins in high school. I was very afraid to be myself around all of these kids, to really reveal any part of myself that was true, so I would try on different skins, try on different masks, hoping I'd hit on one that was cool or quirky or interesting enough that suddenly I would be OK.

'Skins' was never about sending a message. It was showing you everything there was and letting you make a decision.

My high school experience was very different than the high school experience on 'Skins.'

I went on Skins' when I was 23, and everyone else was about 17. It was like being back at school.

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

Love is a many trousered thing.

The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that to me, there had only ever been one boy.

The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.

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.

I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having the chance to relive them through my fiction.

We all just really love teen movies and teen music and I've just always been fixated on that, so I'm just kind of immature about that kind of stuff still.

I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.

The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.

many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love.

I like older boys, but they think, 'She's underage.' I'd love to have somebody in mind when I sing.

Kids lose their trust in the parents they love, but still accept them, so they end up not trusting themselves anymore.

Girls started going steady at twelve and thirteen, in junior high. Manufacturers put out brassieres with false bosoms of foam rubber for little girls of ten. And an advertisement for a child's dress, sizes 3–6x, in the New York Times in the fall of 1960, said: "She Too Can Join the Man-Trap Set.

He would be atleast sixteen-old enough to have a driver's licence- and he would have crinkles around his eyes that showed he had a sense of humor and he would be tall, the kind of boy all the other girls would like to date