Quotes About Adolescence

He also flowered intellectually during his last two years in high school and found himself at the intersection, as he had begun to see it, of those who were geekily immersed

Chirren is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two.

Julie always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me.

But oh, this is not the end he had imagined for himself as a kid! or even at thirty. To the adolescent boy, dreaming romantically of the gifted tormented men who had thrown their lives away, suicide had been a glamorous thing, a gallant flinging down of the glove, a refusal to submit, to conform, to endure, a demonstration that the spirit with honor is unwilling to go on except in its own way: almost a gesture debonair.

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

When you are thirteen, you spend all your time imagining what it would be like to live in a world where you could pay a robot for sex. And that sex would cost a dollar. And the only obstacle to getting that sex would be making sure you had four quarters. Then you grow up and it turns out you do live in that kind of world. A world with coin-operated sexbots. And it's not really as great as you thought it would be.

My mum gave me a T-shirt with it on last Christmas.' Ed smiled at the memory. 'Wish I still had it. All I had to get stressed about before was GCSEs.' 'She didn't give you a T-shirt that said Save Kitchen Scraps to Feed the Pigs, then?

There were a few 6th form girls that I got with when I was I the 6th form, they were really nice, so that was cool.

That which is desirable in young girls means, naturally, that which is desirable to men. Of all cultivated accomplishments the first is 'innocence.' Beauty may or may not be forthcoming; but 'innocence' is 'the chief charm of girlhood.

she was not 'cool' enough to be in such a position – a legacy of her school experiences, perhaps.

Middle school female friendships are intense. They shift, fall apart, reassemble. A sixth-grade girl will stab her friends in the back. She will spread rumors. She will slam doors. She will taunt and yell and accuse. But come between her and those same friends? She will rip your throat out.

She lied to me today," Archie said. "A teenager?" Susan said with faux surprise. "Lying to an authority figure? Impossible.

Boys disobey their parents with such great regularity that it's barely worth a comment; and if yours is talented enough to rebel in such grand fashion, then you ought to consider it a point of pride that he's such a sharp lad.

Leroy was sixteen and the oldest so he thought he was too good to drive. Let baby boys do that, he'd say.

Of all animals, the boy is the most unmanageable...

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

It's difficult to decide whether growing pains are something teenagers have — or are.

...inwardly, we're much older than other girls our age. Even though I'm only fourteen... I feel I'm more of a person than a child...

There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure.

Snow and adolescence are the only problems we can think of that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

I feel like I'm 16 again — gas is cheap and I'm grounded.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of twelve and seventeen, for example, a parent ages as much as twenty years.

Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.

The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age- when you are going through something like that – the genre is so meaningful.