Quote by Julian Barnes

“She had the wild look of someone who hadn’t slept in twenty-four hours, with purplish semicircles underneath both her eyes. Being eighteen was like…

— Emma Straub

“I was twenty-six years old and I wasn't really sure about what I was. You probably wouldn't look at me twice. An ordinary girl,…

— Jojo Moyes

“I wasn't a stranger to dealing with thirty-plus-year-old adolescents”

— Terri Anne Browning

“She was beautiful, but her youth, the very awkwardness of her age, prevented her from flaunting it.”

— Richard J. O'Brien

“I am growing old of course, but I am still in the early stages of disintegration, and regarded as just about cool enough by…

— Pete Townshend

“I had been very grown-up when I was in primary school. But as I continued through secondary-school, I in fact became less grown-up. And…

— Hiroki Kawakami

“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

“...when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness under every soft appearance.”

— Nuala O'Faolain

“I'm old, sick, tired, disillusioned, harassed, slandered, and unappreciated.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“I stare at the beauty that comes automatically bundled and unappreciated with youth. I can’t be this anymore.”

— Rodney Ross

“Perhaps I lost sight of my dreams when I became an adult and resigned myself to acting the way adults were supposed to act.”

— Robin Sharma

“I was a twenty-one-year-old virgin with literary aspirations.”

— Stephen King