Quotes about Adolescence

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“It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.” 
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it.” 
― M.J. Croan

“No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.” 
― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

“And when she started becoming a “young lady,” and no one was allowed to look at her because she thought she was fat. And how she really wasn’t fat. And how she was actually very pretty. And how different her face looked when she realized boys thought she was pretty. And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall. And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that boy. I wondered how her face would look when she came out from behind those doors.” 
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.” 
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon

“After all, we were young. We were fourteen and fifteen, scornful of childhood, remote from the world of stern and ludicrous adults. We were bored, we were restless, we longed to be seized by any whim or passion and follow it to the farthest reaches of our natures. We wanted to live – to die – to burst into flame – to be transformed into angels or explosions. Only the mundane offended us, as if we secretly feared it was our destiny . By late afternoon our muscles ached, our eyelids grew heavy with obscure desires. And so we dreamed and did nothing, for what was there to do, played ping-pong and went to the beach, loafed in backyards, slept late into the morning – and always we craved adventures so extreme we could never imagine them. In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.” 
― Steven Millhauser, Dangerous Laughter

“At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks.
Then you grow up.” 
― John Marsden, Tomorrow, When the War Began

“The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.” 
― Sara Paretsky, Bleeding Kansas