I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I plan to tell… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
“So long as our parents are alive, we are children. Then we become childish.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
“No matter what your origin or beliefs, rather adolescent or full grown. Thoughts are scribed in pencil but actions are carved in… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
My whole adolescence has been on 'Game of Thrones;' I don't know what I'm going to do without it. — Sophie Turner Copy Share Image
I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, 'No, I had a perfect adolescence,' make me wonder how… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“The adolescent is the one who wants to experience everything. The adult comes to realize you can't experience everything.” — Eric Jensen Copy Share Image
The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“When you live in New York or any big city, it is easy to fail at growing up. The city is designed… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The needs of children during adolescence are particular and acute. They need an opportunity to develop a sense of identity and to… — Elliot W. Eisner 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
Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“For our own part, we learned a great deal about the techniques of love, and because we didn't know the words to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Adolescence is best enjoyed without self-consciousness, but self-consciousness, unfortunately, is its leading symptom. Even when something important happens to you, even when… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you're grown up. Growing up means being patient, holding your temper, cutting out the self-pity,… — Brandon Stanton Copy Share Image
Listening to learn isn't about giving advice--at least not until asked--but about trying to understand exactly what someone means,how it is that… — Elizabeth Debold Copy Share Image
“The presence of females was oppressive to them all. It seemed to them that lately the world was full of girls. Everywhere… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Growing up sucks. Or maybe its just making hard decisions that will define the rest of your life. So unsure... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Adolescence is nothing if not a working model of peer influence in its purest form.” — David DiSalvo 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
