Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote, Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat? I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason,… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
“His adolescent nerdliness vaporizing any iota of a chance he had for young love. Everybody else going through the terror and joy… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must… — Helene Deutsch Copy Share Image
Rebelliousness really is the province of young people-that kind of iconoclasm. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“...the salient feature of the absurd age I was at--an age which for all its alleged awkwardness, is prodigiously rich-- is that… — proust Copy Share Image
Odors from decaying food wafting through the air when the door is opened, colorful mold growing between a wet gym uniform and… — Barbara Coloroso Copy Share Image
“We push off the ground and break into a run. It is not a race, it’s just running. All we need to… — Sohn Won-Pyung Copy Share Image
“From my window I watched the full moon—a moon that reminded me of Brett—become shadowed, little by little until there was only… — Irene Hunt Copy Share Image
she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Adolescence impelled her eyes to stay at an even keel, to deal with the ground before flickering to the heavens. Night became… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
I wanted to know why people follow rules blindly, or why girls had to act a certain way and boys didn't. Why… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“Then there were long, lazy summer afternoons when there was nothing to do but read. And dream. And watch the town go… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and… — Michael Cera Copy Share Image
I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
“You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence.” — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence. — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
I think if I would have been sufficiently sure of myself I would have transitioned in my adolescence. In school I trusted… — Lux Pascal Copy Share Image
