Quotes About Adolescence

I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.

I had my first kiss when I was 11, but I think I've blocked it out of my mind because it was so bad. I'm not even sure it counts as a kiss.

I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss.

My first attempt at a kiss was in fifth grade, but it didn't go so well. Later, I used Boyz II Men and Jodeci songs to come on to girls. I had more success.

I don't really want to make this sound depressing, but I will say that I didn't really have my first kiss until really, really late.

My first kiss was in 7th grade. It grossed me out. I kind of freaked out!

The first girl I kissed was a suburbanite.

I kissed my first girl when I was 13.

I used to come to school with my school bag hanging on one shoulder and the cricket kit on the other. It was pretty cool and I felt special.

Honestly, 198,9 I was 12 or 13 years old and primed for the new boy band thing. This guy Jordan Knight sounded like a chick, and I wanted to figure out how to do it, and I did.

Childhood, young adulthood is fluid. And it's very easy to get labeled very young and have to carry something through your childhood and into your adulthood that is not necessarily who you are.

I am near fourteen and have never yet seen a hanging. My life is barren.

We used to fly past shoppers in the town centre and especially in the winter, wrapped up in our duffle coats, woolen hats and scarves we used to get so warm that there would soon be coats unbuttoned, scarves trailing behind and rosy cheeks by the time we got to school.

She's thirteen. Time will remedy that.

You didn't warn me enough. I'm only fourteen! I don't know everything! I can't know everything! You're older! You're supposed to warn me about stuff!

If they heard Death mounting the stairs at night, footsteps that the teenage Beverly swore she could feel vibrating through the floorboards at three a.m., nobody mentioned this intrusion at breakfast.

That summer Nal was fourteen and looking for excuses to have extreme feelings about himself.

Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest.

You have a daughter who's been through puberty," he said inquisitively. "So what was it like?" "Oh," Sejer said, looking out the window. "It was mostly Elise who handled that type of thing. But I do remember it. Puberty is a really rough time. She was a sunbeam until she turned thirteen, then she began to snarl. She snarled until she was fourteen, then she began to bark. And then it wore off.

I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen.

Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys Entry Twelve Observation #1: Guys make absolutely no sense. I thought he liked me, Trace. I really thought he liked me.

Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys Entry Six Observation #1: Boys are moody. Like PMS moody. Observation #2: Boys are fickle. Like Tracy-Dale-Franklin-at-the-MAC-counter fickle. Observation #3: Boys are hard to read. As if we didn't know that already.

Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys Entry Four Observation #1: Boys don't know when to keep it down.

Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys Entry Eight Observation #1: Boys do tell you how they really feel. I think you just have to be in the right place at the right time. Or maybe be the right person.