adolescence

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.

It was possible, I saw now, to be a grotesque, to be huge and free, to wander the streets in utter freedom despite your atrocity, as long as you did it when everybody else was sealed inside their little lit boxes.Now it made sense _ why monsters came out at night.

I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.

It was a major and deeply embarrassing teenage revelation. It must be how straight teenage boys feel when they realize those boobs they like have heads attached to them.

It was bad, but what in high school is not? At the time we're stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems like the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It's not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.

If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.

The faces of your young people in general are not interesting__ don't mean the children, but the young men and women__nd they are awkward and clownish in their manners, without the quaintness of the elder generation, who are the funniest old dears in the world." "They will all be quaint enough as they get older. You must remember the sort of life they lead. They get their notions very slowly, and they must have notions in their heads before they can show them on their faces.