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“This is one of those times when I really wish I was older. That I hadn’t had you at sixteen. Maybe if I was…

— Kelly Hashway

“I was not a cute teenager. I was not graceful, bubbly, or precocious. I did not cheerlead, work on the yearbook, organize spirit rallies,…

— Aisha Tyler

“Hell, we’re all bullet bait sooner or later. Doubt it makes much difference. You make it to sixteen, you’re a goddamn legend.”

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“I assume this kid is “normal” sixteen, like all the rest of them, whereas I’m “life can, and probably will, totally screw you” sixteen.”

— Andrea Cremer

“Modern parents can take comfort from the fact that most of our teenagers come through adolescence, too—perhaps a little bruised, maybe a little humiliated,…

— Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

“When I went back into the kitchen, I wanted to sit on my mum's lap. I know that sounds stupid and babyish , but…

— Nick Hornby

“. . . parent could embarrass their kids during the teenage years, but only a true virtuoso could embarrass them into their twenties and beyond.”

— Danielle Monsch

“I was fourteen, doing my best and trying hard to become fifteen.”

— Cameron Jace

“Your parents could always hurt you, no matter how old you were.”

— Cassandra Clare

“But one of the cruelties of teenagehood is that you’ll never know what your parents were really like at your age, and they’ll never…

— Una LaMarche