177 quotes found
“It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.”
“Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I plan to tell 'em.”
“Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.”
“Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.”
“They didn't have very far to fall - I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to believe yourself. Feelings seemed completely unreliable, like faulty gibberish scraped from a O...”
“Oh, she was okay, just tired, tired of trying to be the one you wanted, the one you couldn't live without, the one you found yourself reaching out an arm for as she teetered from crisis to crisis t...”
“Nobody, she felt, understood her--not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie--except her man.”
“We are at that age that balances between independence and conferring with your friends about every miniscule decision you make. I've never liked that part of adolescence.”
“Twisting the nipple so I inhaled audibly, and he hesitated for a moment but kept going. His dick smearing at my bare thighs. I would be shunted along whatever would happen, I understood. However he...”
“In ancient Greece, adolescence was a time when young men left their biological families to become the lovers of adult men. Sexuality was but one element of an affectional and educational relationsh...”
“Let me understand,' Omar said, his brow furrowed in concentration. 'When played with cars, people could get killed. But when played with kissing, people could get...kissed.' He mused on this for a ...”
“Then there were long, lazy summer afternoons when there was nothing to do but read. And dream. And watch the town go by to supper. I think that is why our great men and women so often have sprung f...”
“Young people, however, tend to ignore the customs of their elders. Adolescent rebellion has been responsible for all manner of absurd costumes. The more ridiculous a certain fashion is, the more ad...”
“For a moment, I tried to see myself through the eyes of the girl with the black hair, or even the boy in the cowboy hat, studying my features for a vibration under the skin. The effort was visible ...”
“Sometimes it didn't seem possible that I could be so unhappy, considering how much I had compared to other kids my age, and, believe me, I understood how extremely lucky I was. Sometimes things did...”
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
“Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.”
“Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.”
“Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.”
“Outside the study hall the next fall, the fall of our senior year, the Nabisco plant baked sweet white bread twice a week. If I sharpened a pencil at the back of the room I could smell the baking b...”
