177 quotes found
“Fear finds its prey in adolescents for the exact same reason fearlessness does. Every cut, scrape, broken arm or cancer is a cut, scrape, broken arm or cancer that has yet to arrive, that is on the...”
“No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.”
“It pained me to imagine how our twosome appeared to others, marked as those kind of girls who belonged to each other. Those sexless fixtures of high school.”
“Girls are always saying things like, Im so unhappy that Im going to overdose on aspirin, but theyd be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blo...”
“Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of mortality. Like every adolescent, she intended to live fore...”
“Until recently the locus of sexual fantasy was peopled with images actually glimpsed or were sensations actually felt, or private imaginings taken from suggestions in the real world, a dream well w...”
“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.”
“He felt a little lost, after that experience. Lost as the girls on their knees. It was a never-ending story of young girls losing themselves, such that they were no longer humans with any souls or ...”
“When You Live Life Too Early, You Learn Life Too Late.”
“Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at her, the goddess. I don't know yet what power feels like. But this is ...”
“I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.”
“When a child reaches adolescence, there is very apt to be a conflict between parents and child, since the latter considers himself to be by now quite capable of managing his own affairs, while the ...”
“In some ways, forcing me to leave was the best thing that could have happened to me. In other ways, it was a disaster. I'm still glad they did it though, because I think I might have just died if I...”
“The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways the fact that today's boy often has a wider range of emotional expression in early childhood, but i...”
“I still feel like teenage girls are not taken seriously by the culture at large, especially not their darker or more complicated feelingsof aggression, desire, ambition. To me, these feelings and d...”
“Americans invented adolescence. It is not a natural phenomenon. Adolescence is a social construct, created by an urban-industrial society that keeps its young at home far past puberty. Teenage angs...”
“After all, there was something rather pleasant in knowing that you were misunderstood. It made you feel different from everyone else.”
“Figure out what you care about...and then care about it”
“I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, ...”
“And when she started becoming a young lady, and no one was allowed to look at her because she thought she was fat. And how she really wasnt fat. And how she was actually very pretty. And how differ...”
