254 Quotes About Adolescence

So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.

Girls are always saying things like, “I’m so unhappy that I’m going to overdose on aspirin,” but they’d be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic.

Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that made my life feel sacred and holy.

So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a regular rite of passage summer that saw us traverse the hazardous divide between the illusions of boyhood and the far more pernicious deceptions of maturity, et cetera.

Stop looking at what everyone else has! You have to figure out who you are before you can be anyone!

In kindergarten they drill it into your head: NEVER GET IN A CAR WITH SOMEONE YOU DON'T KNOW. But what they don't say is how you can live in the same house as someone and still be total strangers.

Being sixteen is officially the worst thing I've ever been.

When You Live Life Too Early, You Learn Life Too Late.

A hallmark of female adolescence is the realization that you are being commodified. You then are developing a sense of self within a cultural framework that values you primarily as an object.