Quotes About Adolescence

I split my adolescence between the pulpy smell of books, which was my mother's passion, and the leathery smell of baseball gloves, which was my father's.

In the astronomy of high school life, Sarah would never have entered his orbit.

She laughed that sharp, quick laugh that smart girls all had, until they found out that the sound of brilliance flashing made boys nervous. Most of these girls, Kelly included, then adopted that slow, bubbling giggle that put boys at ease.

But now they were all fifteen, there was a lot they did not tell each other.

But we love you," my parents said. "We love you very much." I know, but they loved me as a girl. The boy within me was stuck with me. Not till much later did I find out that the boy within was really a girl.

We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills they attain through their own concentration and rigor, and the unique phase in their lives during which they may explore boys and eroticism at their own pace - these are magical. And they constitute the entrance point to a life cycle of a sexuality that should be held sacred.

In a survey of 494 middle-class schoolgirls in San Francisco, more than half described themselves as overweight, while only 15 percent were so by medical standards. Thirtyone percent of nine-year-olds thought they were too fat, and 81 percent of the ten-year-olds were dieters.

I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one.

Boys my age are boring. They have nothing to say and half of them seem like complete idiots. I was going to say that they didn't improve with age but didn't want to spoil her illusions.

normalmente se permite a los muchachos vivir en la ignorancia del verdadero rostro del mundo hasta bien entrada la juventud, pero temo que vosotros no tendréis ese dudoso privilegio.

ON MY SIXTEENTH BIRTHDAY, I SPAWNED THE MOST ILL-FATED idea that had ever occurred to me. Without consulting anybody, I decided to host a birthday party and invite Barceló, Bernarda, and Clara. In my father's estimation, the whole thing was a recipe for disaster.

The sight of bursting puberty is the best antidote to nostalgia, thought Alicia.

Tinha dezassete anos e a vida nos lábios.

El día menso pensado cumpliré treinta años y me daré cuenta de que cada día me parezco menos a la persona que quería ser cuando tenía quince.

When you were steadily dating a boy, as she was Reeve, and this was known to everybody, it freed you up to be friends with boys.

Brian was only thirteen. He was asleep by one A.M.

Seventh grade had a full complement of creeps, weirdos, future criminals, and nerds.

No boy to swagger down the hall with his arm around her, boasting with his walk that he dated this girl.

Girls wanted girls to have boyfriends, but they also wanted to tease, find any raw nerves that might be exposed, and expose them more.

Every time he calls, I nag him to study." "I hear that boys don't like to be nagged." "Me too, but it's irresistible. You always want to take the boy and mold him into something better.

Would you want to be sixteen again?" Lola asked.

It happened that green and crazy summer when Frankie was twelve years old. This was the summer when for a long time she had not been a member. She belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world. Frankie had become an unjoined person and hung around in doorways, and she was afraid.

I could tell that Peter, in the irritating way of very young men, had been mysterious about the whole episode.

Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame.