Quotes About Adolescence

It's only teenage wasteland.

Don't cry Don't raise your eye Its only teenage wasteland.

You're born cute. Babies are cute. Not hard to guess why – it's so everyone will forgive them for being such a pain. You grow a little older, and people say, what beautiful hair, or get a load of those baby blues,' or something nice that keeps you thinking you're still on the cuteness track. Then you hit twelve or thirteen and boom, they tell you everything needs fixing.

Oh, sure. Brian Wilson. The big genius! Well, he wasn't such a genius when he was wetting his bed at age 14! He wasn't so cute then, was he?

Nobody on earth is more righteous than a seventeen year old. (244)

So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only.