Quotes About Adolescence

People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.

Okay, who wants to see me take off Snivelly's pants?

Everybody just wants to be loved, and nobody feels loved enough in high school.

Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or parents will complain - believe me, I've tried.

The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.

It's funny how people want to sometimes think that Young and Beautiful film is about all adolescents, but it's just the case of one girl. It doesn't mean all the adolescents are like that, of course.

Usually for a movie, if you want a 13-year-old, you get a 16-year-old who looks 13, because 13-year-olds dont have that level of self-awareness.

I'm a big people pleaser; I had a very awkward adolescence. Part of me is still that person who wants everyone to like me.

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

I had an all right high school, even though I hated school. I wasn't massively popular, but I was okay. But I wouldn't want to do it again.

I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.

I was 13 and a teenager, as well. When you're that age, you want to be an adult, in a way, but you don't want to have the responsibilities of an adult. You still want to have the freedom.

If I'd known a lecture was coming, I'd have kept my mouth shut." "Coming to terms with life as an adolescent, are you?

they make me think of that boy, the way he always got into things he shouldn't have. Wits enough to be curious, not smart enough to be cautious.

Nobody in school is stronger than me. But when Sally Holmes kissed me, I never felt so weak in all my life.

She used to look forward to changing in the locker room when other girls stole shocked glances at her emaciated body last spring. Now they would look at her and think she was fat--just as fat as all the other girls, maybe even fatter. Nothing separated her from the parade of thunder thighs trooping up the stairs from the locker room to the gym.

Daniel looked young and vulnerable, still wearing his school uniform, although he'd removed his tie and jacket.

Emma realised how beautiful Daniel had become. In Little Moor, she'd seen him as a gawky boy, but now his svelte body was that of a very attractive young man.

I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all.

Once our long bones have finished growing (usually by around the age of fifteen or sixteen in girls and eighteen or nineteen in boys), we will have reached the maximum height we are ever going to be.

I had my first wet dream!

If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.

It was part of the excruciating in-betweenness of no longer being children, yet lacking those powers enjoyed by adults.

Cock and hands are precocious enough. They belong to a fortunate, confident man, and have traveled in time for unguessable reasons to append themselves to a teenager. Unlike them his mouth is not a foreign power; it's her own missing part.