Quotes About Adolescence

I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.

I was Little Miss Perfect. That's where all the secrets come in, because you know damn well you are not perfect, but you think your parents want you to be. And so you pretend.

I wish I could print up a sign and tape it on my forehead. I OFFICIALLY DO NOT WANT TO KISS ETHAN WATE. NOW PLEASE LET ME BE FRIENDS WITH HIM.

There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents.

Children need to grow up and make their own decisions - how they want to pierce their bodies or do whatever they need to.

I wasn't a perfect thing at 17. I didn't have confidence. I was hunched over and real embarrassed, and I didn't want to be in the limelight. But it changed over time.

I was such a nerd. It just wasn't something I would have wanted. And I didn't want to act like an adult.

When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.

The interior of a teenager's mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.

I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.

You're making me a little nervous," he said. "I told you I'm not confident about my kissing. Other thing, yes. But just kissing? No confidence at all." ….... "Call on your inner sixteen-year-old for help. He was very good at kissing.

What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.

You know, I've seen 'Beavis and Butthead,' and I thought it was just some warped fictional exaggeration of male immaturity, but I can see now that the show is based on you.

bueno, hay una chica, llevo enamorado de ella desde que tengo uso de razón, pero estoy bastante seguro de que ella no sabia nada de mi hasta la cosecha.

I think about how there was no going back after I took over caring for the family when I was eleven. How I will always have to protect her.

while Peeta was the very model of what a young man should be, I wasn't old enough to have any boyfriend at all.

Kate saw the Practically Perfect Ashley Lawson feed Jerome a french fry. "Nauseating," Annie said. "I'll probably have to have my stomach pumped.

It is in adolescence that most of us grasp that life--our own life--is a problem to be solved, that a set of personal unknowns must now be factored together with the frightening variables of experience. The future suddenly appears--it is the space upon which the answers will be inscribed.

Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault.

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.

I've been 6'4" since I was 12. Goofy is somewhere in the lexicon.

I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick.

I sort of found King Diamond in second grade, but I didn't become a devoted Satanist until a few years later, but that was very much part of my adolescence as well.

I think being mean to people in high school is healthy. It's sort of like you're in this situation with all these other kids and sometimes you need to get your aggression out. And if you'd had people be mean to you before, it really does build character.