Quotes about Adolescence

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.

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.'

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

Acting like a crowd of kids/ the mask was a thin thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness/ He was safe from shame or self-consciousness behind the mask of his paint and could look at each of them in return/ They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought"?Lord of the Flies?

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.