Quotes About Adolescence

I'd never bought a bottle of cologne in my life, never dabbled in Drakkar Noir before the big high school date or Polo before the prom.

I don't win anything in life, you know what I mean? I was, like, the awkward kid who didn't go to prom, but I did - nobody noticed, though.

I wrote 'Echo' a few months after moving out of my sister's apartment in Atlanta. I was 17 and just finished high school. I didn't go to prom and didn't walk the stage. I just dipped.

We weren't wearing shoes on a full-time basis until prom.

I never went to a high school prom. I went to a junior high prom, but I never had the high school prom. It was all fake and on TV.

I didnt go to the high school prom. Couldn't get a date.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Growing up, I was prone to anxiety.

I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.

My first proper kiss was from Cara Shucksmith when I was 13 or 14 at her birthday party.

I must have been 15 or 16 when I left Antrim Grammar, but I do remember having my first proper kiss when I lived there.

I didn't start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16.

My parents were just really weird and protective about the music I listened to. Whenever I wanted to buy an album, they would have to buy it first and listen to it and let me know if I could have it.

I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.

Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood—she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.

Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness.

Amory became thirteen, rather tall and slender, and more than ever on to his Celtic mother. He had tutored occasionally—the idea being that he was to keep up, at each place taking up the work where he left off, yet as no tutor ever found the place he left off, his mind was still in very good shape.

That's quite different. I told you I wouldn't want to tie my life to any of the boys that are round Tarleton now, but I never made any sweepin' generalities.

For the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

I first read The Great Gatsby as a teenager; I imagine this is when most Americans encounter F. Scott Fitzgerald's seminal work.

I thought I was going to die right there on the spot. I've never heard anything so terrible in my whole life. I hope she is wrong and I never get a period. I am eleven years old and entirely too young to hear about it. Can you imagine my mother not knowing what Kotex are for and dusting the house with them? Well, her mother can just tell her what they are for. I'm not getting into the facts of life. I haven't heard one fact of life I like yet.

Twice in my adolescence – which I feel so remotely it seems like someone else's story that I read or was told – I enjoyed the humiliating pain of being in love.

Twice in my adolescence – which I feel so remotely it seems like someone else's story that I read or was told – I enjoyed the humiliating grief of being in love. From my present vantage point, looking back to that past which I can no longer designate as 'long ago' or 'recent', I think it was good that this experience of disillusion happened to me so early.

They always say girls mature faster than boys, but I don't think that's true because I think girls just are more mature than boys. We're always trying to catch up to them.