Quotes Tagged With :adolescence

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

I was there laughing and joking with everyone else, but it’s like there was some part of mestanding....

People who grew up in major cities may wonder why the hell I would act like it's a big deal to be unaccompanied....

Then there were long, lazy summer afternoons when there was nothing to do but read. And dream. And watch....

Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion....

On a nightstand in a teenager’s room, a glass vase filled with violets leans precariously against a....

Americans invented adolescence. It is not a natural phenomenon. Adolescence is a social construct, created....

Cut privet still smells of sour apples, as it did when I was sixteen; but this is a rare, lingering exception.....

This was a factory, a sorting house. We were no different from dogs and pigs and cows: all of us were....

Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have.....