Quotes About Adolescence

I think it's just your basic teenage debris.

Every kid has a right to some rebellion. I'd been angelic all through school. It evens out.

I knew guys got erections. I was perfectly prepared to deal with it. When the right guy and the right erection came along.

She told me once that she sometimes feels caught between two worlds at school -like she has to decide who she is instead of just being who she is.

Good God. Johnny freakin' Ramos. Out in the hall. Of course, out in the hall. Hell, he'd spent half his life out in the hall,especially at Campbell Junior High,especially during seventh-grade social studies call. She'd gotten sent out in the hall with him once, her one and only time in the hall ever, the two of them put there to "work things out", and her poor little thirteen-year-old heart had barely survived the experience.

What were you doing when you were eight, thirteen, fifteen, and eighteen? The answer is, I suspect: not very much.

The girl wondered if her parents had been right to protect her from everything, if they had been right not to explain why so many things had changed for them since the start of the war... Nobody would tell her. Nobody would explain. She hated being treated like a baby. She hated the voices being lowered when she entered the room. If they had told her, if they had told her everything they knew, wouldn't that have made today easier?

It was a time of great loneliness. He had a group of friends, and suddenly I had no one and did not understand why. I felt excluded. Some days, the majority was in high school and did not know who to talk to. And that is something really terrible when you're twelve years old.

When you're fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, you're gonna believe them. And when you're fifteen don't forget to look before you fall. In your life you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team. I didn't know it at fifteen.

Respectful teenagers are developed when they are 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5, not at 13, 14, 15, or 16.

I think I can safely say that, as adolescents, most people have excess energy to spare and need adventure, excitement, and a challenge.

The first CD that I ever bought was 'Britney Spears.' It was at a 7-Eleven and I was like, 'Can I get this?' It was literally her EP and I picked it up and, of course, I fell in love with her. It was an early crush for me.

Y.A. wasn't really a specific genre when I was fifteen, but if it was, I would probably have shunned it; I was a huge snob.

Starting in junior high school, through high school, I was very into metal or black metal and death metal specifically.

In high school, I didn't always relate to my friends. I was more of a spectator.

Eleventh grade is when I grew into my body. My athleticism and speed took off.

Prom drops girls squarely into the beauty spending pipeline.

As a kid, I spent a lot of my mental energy hiding who I was and attempting to fit in.

I only became interested in clothes when I was in my mid-teens. I'd do things like spike my hair and put on a nice shirt, but I'd hardly call myself fashion-conscious. I just don't have the energy.

I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.

I was a pretty heartbroken 13-year-old. That was the year my grandmother died and my parents split up.

I didn't notice my parents' split because I was off doing my own thing. I was very naughty.

We've all seen those spoiled little brats that end up being given everything and on their 17th birthday get a Ferrari. That whole thing I just can't bear it.

Middle and high school is a time of people telling you who you are before you know who you are. I was in advanced classes at Frick and Schenley, and people would say I was trying to be white because of the way I spoke. Or they'd say I was gay.