Quotes About Adolescence

The growing-up-fast part weirdly happened between the ages of 15 and 22.

I think you do a lot of your growing as a human being between the ages of 13 and 18.

Yeah, I was always 'husky.' Then I got really big in high school. It wasn't alcohol weight, it was fast food/'I can never die' weight. I went from 215 to 260 in high school. Then after high school I put on alcohol weight. I was as high as 330, or 333.

I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.

I remember being a kid and always feeling a little different than all my friends.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

I went by Andy when I was younger.

My kids get annoyed if you ask them what their GCSE results are.

I wish I knew at 14 not to put much thought into what other people my age said to me, cause we were all looking for the answers. So I wish I knew that other people really don't know any more than you do!

I was definitely ahead of my friends. I was French-kissing girls way before anybody else was.

I guess I'm just a normal kid apart from the acting.

Oscar had reached that last quarter of adolescence when little things cause immense joys and immense miseries, — a period when youth prefers misfortune to a ridiculous suit of clothes, and caring nothing for the real interests of life, torments itself about frivolities, about neckcloths, and the passionate desire to appear a man.

The boys are caught between a private conversation among themselves, a world only they can understand, and their awareness of the artist, the adult observer looking and listening. They remind me of us, of me and my fellow patients, the garments of the adult world not quite fitting us, the jumbled machinery of the day-to-day not quite belonging to us, asked to give an account of ourselves and unsure quite what to say.

Nuorten velvollisuus on erehtyä! Millaisia nuoria ne muuten olisivat?

the shaved pubic area is meant to look preadolescent. It denotes a preadolescent disregard for the potency of sex in regard to emotionalism, romanticism, etc. Pubic hair paradoxically doesn't protect the sex organ but extends it; it is a quite sensitive part of it.

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

The year with the McNeils also marked the beginning of Hank's drinking. He was eleven at the time.

Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school - so right around the time he's going through his big renaissance is right when I'm starting to do my high school revolting.

All at once she was eighteen, a stupid girl with a stupid crush who believed that someone like Will might actually see her as anything more the his best friend's kid sister.

I forgot what it felt like to be young

From the minute you start school, you're fed a bunch of lies: Be yourself. Don't follow the crowd, blah blah. What they really mean is: Follow the crowd. Just make sure it's the right one."' – Total Constant Order (208)

The interest I felt in certain guys then confused me, because it wasn't romantic, but I wasn't sure what else it might be. But now I know: I wanted to take up people's time making jokes, to tease the dean in front of the entire school, to call him by a nickname. What I wanted was to be a cocky high-school boy, so fucking sure of my place in the world.

I read 'Holes' in 10th grade, and I haven't read a full book since. The movie version with Shia LaBeouf was OK, but the book was way better.

During my childhood and teenage years, everything I knew was at war. My mother and father were at war. My sister and I were at war. I was at war with my atypical nature, desperately trying to fit in and be normal. Even my genes were at war - the cool Swiss-German side versus the hot-headed Corsican.