Adolescents Quote by Julian Barnes

“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

“The stories teach them valuable life lessons. That good things happen to bad people. That it’s possible to make a bad situation even worse…

— Megan McCafferty

“The worst possible sexual education: a taboo imposed by the Catholic church plus romantic literature elevating love to unreal heights plus the obscene language…

— Czeslaw Milosz

“For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inescapable romantic curiosity about one another, to…

— Thomas Pynchon

“He was part of a ruined generation of young men coddled by their parents -by their mothers especially- raised on unearned self-esteem, in a…

— Jess Walter

“the awkwardness of adolescence still clinging to them.”

— Tim Kreider

“Some people became parents mainly or only to hide the fact that they are sexually attracted only to people of the same sex.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing impulse humans have.”

— John Steinbeck

“three major traps that plague many givers, male and female, in their dealings with other people: being too trusting, too empathetic, and too timid.”

— Adam M. Grant

“Teens could pay attention to nothing but the sexuality billowing off each other like steam.”

— Celeste Ng

“Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of their effort,…

— Albert Camus

“I overheard her tell my mother that it didn't matter anyway, because we were entirely too young to understand a term like indecent exposure.…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde