Quotes About Adolescence

In high school, I definitely fancied myself an intense guy, which is so lame.

I wasn't the cool kid in school, but I wasn't the lame one. I knew I wasn't cool, so I called myself lame, and that's what made me cool in front of the cool kids.

I'm 16 now, I was 15 when it happened... and the encryption code wasn't in fact written by me, but written by the German member. There seems to be a bit of confusion about that part.

I started using the Internet heavily right around the time when memes started to become their own form of entertainment. I started to get into every side of the Internet around 13-ish.

The conscious imprinting that happens between, say, 10 and 16 is huge. I think it's so important for me as a writer to stay open to the memories of that period because they were so formative.

Menopause is your return to where you were before, when your hormone levels are the same as a pre-adolescent girl's.

I spent most of my adolescence feeling awkward but never once mentioned it.

Once I got to high school and hit my growth spurt, nobody really messed with me anymore.

AOL Instant Messenger was a big thing back in the day, where girls would get on it and make fun of me. There was a certain girl, and she wanted to make me feel bad.

Messi and Ronaldinho were the two players who were my idols when I was young.

My parents were always playing records: My mom was really into the Beatles and Fleetwood Mac, and my dad was more Billy Squire, Whitesnake, '80s hair metal. But I think there's that crucial point where you become an adolescent and you don't want to listen to your parents' music.

Like, from my middle school dance... the boys were on one side, and the girls were on the other side, and we never interacted with each other.

When I was in middle school, that's when I first started making beats. I was maybe 14, 16, something like that.

Nothing could be as hard as middle school.

There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

I started cooking out of middle school depression.

If you had known me in middle school, I was definitely not what someone would think of as Brad Pitt. That was not me. I was kind of a dork.

When I was at the end of middle school and the beginning of high school, I fell in love with hockey in a serious way.

In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.

In middle school, I wasn't allowed to wear makeup. I secretly bought Maybelline's SuperStay 24-hr. concealer at CVS. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world.

I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.

'Middle school' is used as shorthand for a time when things change. It's a time a lot of kids feel like they don't even have one good friend.

I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.

I did have AOL Instant Messenger when I was in middle school.