Quotes About Adolescence

I liked, I admit, that we didn't pretend there hadn't been other girls. There was always a girl on you in the halls at school, like they came free with a backpack.

It turns out that having a best friend during adolescence is an important part of becoming a well-adjusted adult. Those without one are more likely to be bullied and marginalized and to carry these experiences into becoming disagreeable adults.

Although we know the end of the maze holds death (and it is something I have not always known—not long ago the adolescent in me thought death could happen only to other people), I see now that the path I choose through that maze makes me what I am.

My best friend and I went to sleep-away camp every summer. We'd share stories of making out with boys, but we never did, so we made it all up. My real first kiss was at a friend's house when I was in junior high. He was such a good kisser, and we're still close friends!

I had a few pimples here and there when I was 14. Never had braces though, thank God. A girl in my class had, like, the big helmet of head gear. I felt so bad for her. People always made fun of me enough because of my name.

Obviously from childhood to my teenage years, I really came into my own. I left the house early; I was on the streets when I was, like, 15. I've been holdin' my own since that age.

Everyone sort of feels alienated at that point, so it's hard to say whether I felt like that because everyone does or because I was so focused on acting [since the age of 8].

Of course, I peed my pants, everyone my age pees their pants. It's the coolest.

I was very, very underdeveloped for my age, I hated what I looked like, so I thought everyone had gone stark raving mad.

The frontal cortex doesn't even fully develop until age 25, which is wild!

Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle.

I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered masturbation and all that went out the window.

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19.

I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.

Seventeen's not a good age. That's when you realize that you have a heart. That's when feelings get in the way of thinking.

At Age 11, I used to listen to Madonna's Immaculate Collection every day

In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.

I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.

I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting

Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.

A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.

It was between the ages of 14 and 20 and I started off not eating at all, maybe an apple a day.