Adolescence
Quotes - Childhood is a race to find out who you really are
“At
last, I became human. And at that very moment, the world was drifting far away
from me.
In
fact, this is the end of my story.”
―
Won-pyung Sohn, Almond
“Charlie
scratched inside his left ear. Everybody. The first war in history where
everybody won. I can't figure it. So long." He went on up the sidewalk,
crossed the front yard, opened the door of his house, waved, and was gone.
"There
goes Charlie," said Douglas.”
―
Ray Bradbury, Farewell Summer
“Hikikomori
cases are often best treated through clinical treatments that support the
psychological growth of the person in withdrawal as well as adjustments to the
environment, including the environment provided by the family.”
―
Saito Tamaki
“Her
body had developed early and she was in the midst of a year characterized by
relentless sexual harassment at school, and the shocking change of her body’s
meaning in the world—a confounding degradation publicized as a promotion.”
―
Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
“Childhood
is a race to find out who you really are, before you become the person who you
are going to be. Not everybody wins.”
―
Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker
“It’s
a contradiction: Kids have to be taught how to use tools that will help them
reduce their work-time, without it actually reducing their work-time.”
―
Malcolm Harris, Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
“Background
music for my adolescence. Musical wallpaper.”
―
Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories
“One
of the greatest challenges of a parent is to save their teenagers from
themselves, while the culture is declaring that it is trying to save them from
their parents.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Becoming
more aware of child development needs and risk factors can be a powerful
motivation for promoting education, prevention, and recovery for ourselves as
parents and our communities.”
―
Mike Weiford
“Teaching
self-discipline to children is a vital part of the parenting job description.”
―
Mike Weiford
“Teaching
a child from a young age, through words and actions, that every human being’s
life and safety is precious and is to be guarded promotes a culture of
nonviolence.”
―
Mike Weiford
“In
adolescence, fantasies can seem quite real.”
―
Ravi Ranjan GoswamiGoswami
“He
suspected that copious amounts of alcohol were required for fun because it was
the cheapest and most readily-available ancient form of self-medication for
social anxiety rather than a true joy derived from drinking. Either that, or it
was a passive and inefficient quest for self-termination via liver damage among
his adolescent peers. Otherwise, was there really a point to large groups of
people gathering to get drunk with no common goal?”
―
Celyn Kendrick, Green Hills and Daffodils
“I
don't know if that's love, to need the sensations produced by the body more
than the body itself. Not the kiss, but the taste of celery that came after.
Not his hands, but the sound of his hands making art. Not the fact that he was
here only for this summer, but the fact that I might find reminders of him in
surprising places for the rest of my life.”
―
Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic: A Novel
“I
feel like I'm making all the mistakes I would have made if I'd been dating
people since I was thirteen. Even if you're really just playing at being in a
relationship, you're still feeling your way through it at least. You're finding
out what it means to be with someone, to care about them, what it means to have
someone else in your life like that. I feel like the straight kids all get a
roadmap and a head start, and the queer kids get given a faulty compass and a
dead leg so they have to limp their way to 'destination relationship' while
blindfolded.”
―
Simon James Green, You’re the One That I Want
“In
March 1908, I was thirteen, which is such an intensely awkward and
self-absorbed age that I almost remember almost nothing about that year, except
that I grew four inches and Wilda made me start wearing a terrible wire
contraption over my breasts.”
―
Alix E. Harrow
“I
was just about as lonely and wretched as any thirteen-year-old has ever been,
which is very lonely and wretched, indeed.”
―
Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“Like
so many sons and daughters before and after him, Henry had returned home
feeling mature and confident only to be reduced to adolescence in a matter of
hours.”
―
Lorenz Wagner, The Boy Who Felt Too Much: How a renowned neuroscientist and his
son changed our view of autism forever
“School
authorities warn students that any deviant behavior on a child’s part is
irresponsible because it could have severe and long-lasting consequences for
their future, and then they enforce unreasonably harsh disciplinary standards
that have severe and long-lasting consequences for the child’s future. That’s
not a warning, it’s a promise.”
―
Malcolm Harris, Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
“A
hypercompetitive environment sets parents up for dreams of champion children,
and then for almost inevitable heartbreak. Millennials of all abilities have
grown up in the shadow of these expectations, expectations that by definition,
only a very few of us can fulfill.”
―
Malcolm Harris, Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
“It's
dangerous by the river.
Girls
aren't safe on their own.
And
maybe there were right. Still, it felt good to be silent. And it felt good to
be alone. And it felt good to be uncontained, the way a bird must feel when it realizes
that the thing constraining it was nothing more than an eggshell--delicate and
fragile, and just waiting to be cracked open.”
―
Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons
