Quotes About Adolescence

What, like you were never a vicious little asshole when you were that age?

The halls are full of kids, scrawny ones and fat ones, cool ones and uncool ones, freaks and jocks, cheerleaders and dogs, burnouts and nerds. It's like Berlin, divided, except there are more walls in this city, and they're better guarded.

I was like this totally serious kid, and this totally angsty teenager. I probably only smiled and laughed when I was deluded into thinking it would make some jerk like me.

Something dreadful happens to students between first and twelfth grades, and it's not just puberty.

It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.

Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.

And then there was the young male walk. At least women swung only their hips. Young men swung everything, from the shoulders down. You have to try to occupy a lot of space. It makes you look bigger, like a tomcat fluffing his tail. The boys tried to walk big in self-defense against all those other big boys out there. I'm bad, I'm fierce, I'm cool, I'd like a pint of shandy and me mam wants me home by nine.

He couldn't remember having been seventeen; it was something that must have happened to him while he was busy. But it made him feel like he imagined it felt like when you were seventeen, which was like having a permanent red-hot vest on under your skin.

At eighteen, the twins are old enough to choose their own clothes and their own boyfriends, and even if Frankie doesn't approve of their choices, she tries to keep her objections to herself. Forbidden fruit is the sweetest of all; the travails of the Capulets and Montagues taught every parent that much.

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Jon has always been the romantic. He started dating before I did. I was more awkward and nervous in front of girls in high school.

When we were in high school, Jonathan would always try to embarrass me in front of girls, so I consider it my duty to pay him back.

I was an angst-y journal writing kid.

I've been keeping a journal since I was in the seventh grade.

I have had my fair share of relationships. It's normal and one shouldn't judge me for it because in school you have many short-short relationships, you know.

Does everything in this life begin and end with Judy Blume? Perhaps.

I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd.

Junior and senior high school years were not a good time.

I didn't get Facebook until I was maybe a junior or senior in high school.

I found out a lot of stuff through MTV, and I didn't even have cable, I just saw it at friends' houses. But my culture in junior high was totally influenced by it.

I played Little League in junior high and high school.

Probably around junior high, I became obsessed with films.

I played baseball when I was in junior high, but that's the last time I played baseball.

I fell in love with rhyming when I turned 13. I was in junior high. I got into it, but I wasn't serious. It was just for fun.