“I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.”
“The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.”
“Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.”
“Female adolescence is – universally – an emotionally and psychologically intense period.”
“I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.”
“Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.”
“I started on ‘Neighbours’ when I was 14. It’s crazy to think now that I had such a bizarre adolescence.”
“I started hustling in early adolescence.”
“In the early ’90s, I was finishing up my adolescence. I visited my local comic-book store on a weekly basis, and one week I found a book on the stands called ‘Xombi,’ published by Milestone Media.”
“Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.”
“Adolescence is a plague on the senses.”
“I blacked out my childhood after a string of traumatic events in my late adolescence.”
“Adolescence isn’t just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.”
“Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.”
“Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.”
“My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics.”
“As my children leave the protected parameters of the bay called childhood and enter the wavier seas of adolescence, I’m starting to get seasick.”
“During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that’s all I had. I wrote because that’s all I had.”
“’The Catcher in the Rye.’ When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence.”
“Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.”
“What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.”
“In our house we say ‘adolescence’ is a western word. We don’t believe in it.”
“I spent most of my adolescence feeling awkward but never once mentioned it.”
“My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.”
“Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.”
“’Star Wars’ boils down to the transition from adolescence into adulthood.”
“I’ve had a prolonged adolescence, like a lot of my generation.”
“By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.”
“My whole adolescence has been on ‘Game of Thrones;’ I don’t know what I’m going to do without it.”
“I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.”
“I don’t write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.”
“Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.”
“Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.”
“I sort of found King Diamond in second grade, but I didn’t become a devoted Satanist until a few years later, but that was very much part of my adolescence as well.”
“I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.”
“Adolescence is a difficult time at the best of times, and especially in a smaller town – there’s all these different energies going on.”
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