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Adolescence  Quotes
I think the fluidity of gender is the next big wave in terms of adolescent development,

—Caitlin Ryan

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From my window I watched the full moon—a moon that reminded me of Brett—become shadowed, little by little until there was only a deep blackness in the woods at night. I would sit there wakeful,...

—Irene Hunt

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AdolescenceGrowing-UpLovesick
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[As Shannon began seeking her identity during adolescence, she felt suffocated by her mother.] Religious extremism and black-and-white ideology don’t let people be people, … It doesn’t provide problem-solving skills. It sets people up to...

—Joe Fields

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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...

—Umberto Eco

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AdolescencePoetryTalent
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He’d been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants […], which he’d accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person.

—David Baldacci

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Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.

—Junot Díaz

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AdolescenceHumorNerdiness
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Except that today, oblivious to everyone, there is a hair standing tall inside his shorts: a single hair: long, black and shining. Sprouting out of nowhere, it stands rebelliously erect on his tiny barren orb,...

—Mohit Parikh

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In the next 10 years I see this wave of donor-conceived children cresting at adolescence or young adulthood and I think they’re going to start demanding change, … It’s their right as human beings to...

—Wendy Kramer

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On a nightstand in a teenager’s room, a glass vase filled with violets leans precariously against a wall. The only thing saving the vase from a thousand-piece death on the hardwood floor is the groove...

—Jay Nichols

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For our own part, we learned a great deal about the techniques of love, and because we didn’t know the words to denote what we saw, we had to make up our own. That was...

—Jeffrey Eugenides

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I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adolescence. The last thing I wanted was to be like my dad. It took becoming...

—Tucker Elliot

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AdolescenceEducationFathers-And-Sons
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make money, buy houses, take trips around the world? Why else do they dwindle into a little circle of close friends, a farm upstate, and become in the end mere businessmen, shop-owners, decorators who like...

—Andrew Holleran

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Just out of high school, you didn’t realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.

—Donald Miller

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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...

—Libba Bray

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Stop looking at what everyone else has! You have to figure out who you are before you can be anyone!

—Setona Mizushiro

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AdolescenceSelf-EsteemTeen
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How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?

—David Brooks

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When you’re a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.

—John Scalzi

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AdolescenceChildhoodWanderlust
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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 where weightless images from...

—Naomi Wolf

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It’s hard not to be impatient with the absurdity of the young; they tell us that two and two make four as though it had never occurred to us, and they’re disappointed if we can’t...

—W. Somerset

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Camus-boy, you’re always going to be the same you, just older. It’s not like there’s a moment when you wake up and go, Shit, I’m grown-up, I don’t feel like myself anymore.’ I don’t tell...

—Hannah Moskowitz

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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...

—Jess C.

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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 forever.

—Thomm Quackenbush

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Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

—Anne Frank

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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

—Jane Austen

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Fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, lemme tell you. Those are big years. Everybody always thinks of it as a time of adolescence—just getting through to the real part of your life—but it’s more than that. Sometimes...

—Lidia Yuknavitch

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So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

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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...

—Edna Ferber

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Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it.

—M.J. Croan

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Partly James was jealous because he was a virgin, but mostly it just felt really weird being in a room with two people who’d spent the night having sex. It reminded him of the feeling...

—Robert Muchamore

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AdolescenceAwkwardInnocence
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It was a major and deeply embarrassing teenage revelation. It must be how straight teenage boys feel when they realize those boobs they like have heads attached to them.

—Tina Fey

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We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

—Freeman Dyson

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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.

—John Knowles

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Adolescence impelled her eyes to stay at an even keel, to deal with the ground before flickering to the heavens. Night became not dotted with fairy clouds of celestial brilliance, but simply the time when...

—Thomm Quackenbush

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They mustn’t know my despair, I can’t let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn’t bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the...

—Anne Frank

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My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I’m perpetually surprised, but there’s nothing wrong with me that I can fix.

—David Levithan

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In youth, our blood rises and becomes volatile. Desire, worry, and anxiety increase. External circumstances now direct the rise and fall of emotions. Will and intention become constrained by social conventions. Competition, conflict, and scheming...

—Liezi

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One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity—not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification of the range of what we might become, a set of self-references by...

—Terri Apter

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Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

—Earl Wilson

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For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself; he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable. An adolescent who is an orphan at this phase is in danger of...

—John Irving

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He’d possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn’t happen more often.

—Joe Hill

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After all, we were young. We were fourteen and fifteen, scornful of childhood, remote from the world of stern and ludicrous adults. We were bored, we were restless, we longed to be seized by any...

—Steven Millhauser

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When you’re in your twenties in a new city where no one’s from here, we’re all sort of orphans. The only people that you can count on our bunch of people that you work with...

—Dave Eggers

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At seventeen, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else’s thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you became as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away...

—Jodi Picoult

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young lady,” and no one was allowed to look at her because she thought she was fat. And how she really wasn’t fat. And how she was actually very pretty. And how different her face...

—Stephen Chbosky

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AdolescenceBeauty
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Era um dos efeitos colaterais da juventude: sair da inocência e ingenuidade da inf ncia e cair na alienação umbigocêntrica daquela fase em que acreditamos que já somos adultos. Mas é somente isso, achismo e...

—Camilo Gomes

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AdolescenceAdolescênciaAmadurecer
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It’s a wake-up call that although we’ve been investing a lot in adolescence, we can’t stop thinking about the health of our young people when they leave adolescence.

—Christine Bachrach

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Adolescence
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During childhood, it’s about trying to help develop who your kid’s going to be. During adolescence, it’s about responding to who your kid wants to be.

—Jennifer Senior

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The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There’s no way to get context or perspective, ….. Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally...

—Sara Paretsky

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Many parents have experienced the fact that kids don’t seem to honor their parents the way that previous generations of children did. The question we need to ask is, how did we get to this...

—Fiona Dimas-Herd

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First you have to survive adolescence; then your education. Finally, yourself.

—Marty Rubin

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