Quotes About Adolescence

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

Facebook became ubiquitous when I was 16, so I vaguely formed a sense of myself a little bit. I had kind of learned to think a little bit before the stuff was everywhere.

How I view my body hasn't been uncomplicated, but that was because my body was discussed and dissected at great length in a very public forum, when I was at a formative age.

High school girls love me. Fourteen to eighteen, I'm a big star with them.

I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.

I was diagnosed with depression at fourteen, but I couldn't find any medication that did anything for me other than making things worse.

It's depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he's fourteen now and in two years he's going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I'm not going to always be there.

I played American when I was, like, fourteen, and I was awful. I cringed the whole way through.

I started playing sax when I was fourteen because I'm like a real competitive person when it comes to winning girls attention. And there was this girl that I really wanted the attention of and I found out she really liked jazz.

When I was fourteen, I was one of those kids who wore all black because it matched everything. Seriously.

I had the '80s hair and braces and a 6-3 frame as a 16-year-old.

Everyone says I was real cute as a kid, but from 8 to 19, I was horrible-looking, freaky.

My freshman year of high school was just awkwardness all around.

I was a really big R.E.M. fan when I was like, in my freshman year of high school. I was a huge R.E.M. fan.

I loved the whole idea, first of all, of what friendship is. Very often, there are people that somehow you don't know how to declare that you are their friend, but you are their friend. That happens in a lot in high school. And outside of high school.

There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.

When I went back to look for it again I could never find it. It was as if someone had put some kind of glamour, some kind of spell, on that ground, and I felt as if I was walking in circles around it again and again, never able to see what was in front of my eyes. That was how I felt about what happened to me when I turned thirteen. I felt as if I was always circling around my own brain trying to understand.

I just can't wait to get out of Sweet Valley,' Jessica explained. 'I feel like I've been dancing with the same ten cute guys my whole life.

It's not just that I'm a horny seventeen year old male and she's a beautiful girl, although I don't necessarily expect you to believe me.

is starting to happen between the two teenagers: "It gave me a queer feeling each time I looked into his deep blue eyes, and he sat there with that mysterious laugh playing round his lips…and with my whole heart I almost beseeched him: oh, tell me, what is going on inside you, oh, can't you look beyond this ridiculous chatter?

Adolescent attitudes, just boys together, jokes designed purely to cause pain, loyalty only to your pack-mates . . . things of that nature.

He offered to parade for me a series of examples—famous military figures who were frozen in adolescence. I declined the offer. I have read my history with care and have recognized this characteristic for myself." Moneo turned and looked directly into Idaho's eyes.

One of the most terrible moments in a boy's life," Paul said, "is when he discovers his father and mother are human beings who share a love that he can never quite taste. It's a loss, an awakening to the fact that the world is there and here and we are in it alone.

To enter a room is to move from one environment to another and that, for the teenager, can be traumatic. There be dragons, daily horrors from acne to zit.