Quote by Tim Sandlin

“The problem, I decided, is that most human beings between the ages of twelve and fifteen look like their needs are special (retarded). ”

— Diana Joseph

“I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen”

— J.D. Salinger

“Kids are more advanced these days. The teenage years now start at 11.”

— Michael Crichton

“...This one goes to eleven.”

— Nigel Tufnel

“One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

— Terri Anne Browning

“Deep inside, we’re all just playing at being adults. Because we’ll never be better than the people we were at six, or worse than…

— Emily Hemmer

“And although we'd sworn we'd never become like them, that was exactly what was happening. We weren't even fifteen yet. Thirteen, fourteen, adult, dead.”

— Janne Teller

“They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun.”

— Maud Hart Lovelace

“Fifteen, that’s the age when the only world event that counts is whatever mood you’re in that day.”

— Allan Gurganus

“It seems to me that, later on, neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the chatterings of a 13-year-old schoolgirl…”

— Anne Frank

“I always said I acted like a twelve-year old, so I decided to write like a twelve-year old.”

— Terri Bertha