Quotes about Adolescence

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.

We have a little sister, and her breasts are not yet grown. What shall we do for our sister on the day she is spoken for?

And when He was twelve years old, they went up according to the custom of the Feast.

Partly because teenagers are still half children, and many children are just intrinsically cruel.

The great romance of your youth is your best friend at that age.

I started liking basketball when I was 13, but I couldn't play because my dad thought it was too physical.

I write about what I know: teenage dating, overly charged sexuality, all the things that make you uncomfortable.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

The girls emerged in their carboncopy dresses and the boy came out of the woods stiffly and looking churlish and sullen and strange, like a child pervert.

At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates.

There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I decided, 'It's okay to be an introvert, but I don't want to be a loner. I want a few other people in my life.'