Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it.… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I was in therapy for six years and then stopped. You get hardwired at adolescence, like a caterpillar that pupates and re-assembles… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
“Everybody else going through the terror and joy of their first crushes, their first dates, their first kisses while Oscar sat in… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it. . . . Adolescence entails the deployment of family… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
It may comfort you to know that if your child reaches the age of eleven or twelve and you have a good… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. — Al Bernstein Copy Share Image
“For the first time, she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In my adolescence, everyone would like to play in Italy: Roma, Milan, Lazio, Juventus, Sampdoria, Napoli. — Cafu Copy Share Image
I grew up in a largely black community during the '70s and '80s that scoffed at 'white' music. That music - folk,… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a… — John Grant Copy Share Image
I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid.… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
Childhood was definitely my most formative time in terms of my creative self. My adolescence was very much the dark years. I… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
“She rode down the sidewalk, turned toward the shadow side of the street and melted into darkness. I didn't know it then,… — Craig Davidson Copy Share Image
I was approaching adolescence. For some reason, I guess my mother thought it would be less crazy out in the suburbs, which… — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
Having a [teenage] daughter is like riding a young horse over an unknown steeplechase course. You don't know when to pull up… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
It is not however, adulthood itself, but parenthood that forms the glass shroud of memory. For there is an interesting quirk in… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
I love 'Sweet Valley,' but I love it from a different angle. There are people for whom it is their adolescence. They… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image