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  Adolescence Quotes - Adolescence feeds on drama   “Adolescence--the time when teens begin to do things adults do--now happens later. Thirteen-year-olds--and even 18-year-olds-- are less likely to act like adults and spend their time like adults. They are more likely, instead, to act like children--not by being immature, necessarily, but by postponing the usual activities of adults. Adolescence is now an extension of childhood rather than the beginning of adulthood.” ― Jean M. Twenge, iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us   “Your mom shoulda told you she was just the diseased old slit all the local hobos used as a cum dumpster when they drank away their money and couldn't afford new porno mags.” ― Matthew Rosenberg, 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank   “You can’t walk me to school,” Tommy said. He came into the kitchen, sat d...

  Adolescence Quotes - Adolescence is an inside job   “I don’t even pretend to understand it all. I was president of the Luther League, the youth group of our church. I was a good kid and a bad kid at the same time. I was looking for a very nice girl but also a very bad girl. Do all young men have these conflicts? And, what about whores? Well, in my mind, prostitutes are bad girls. Matter of fact, they are professional bad girls. As I said earlier in this diary, you don’t make love to whores, you fuck them. There’s a difference. They don’t require love and courtship, all they want is my money. I go to the bedroom with them and do the deed with no affection. They take my money and leave. All my life I have been told that girls who have sex outside of marriage are bad girls... sluts. I’ve also been told by my dad, “Son, sex is the most beautiful expression of love in a marriage.”   Although I can appreciate the difference, that being, sex is meant for marriage only; m...

  Adolescence Quotes - If you misuse your youth, you get misery when you are old   “All great men have been rebels. All great men were free. It is the only formula for greatness. To be stuck in the state of adolescence.” ― Abhaidev, That Thing About You   “Being sixteen is officially the worst thing I've ever been.” ― Jillian Tamaki, Skim   “And because you have not yet developed feelings toward yourself (other than negative feelings about your body), you see yourself only as a reflection of what other people think of you” ― Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman, Sounds Like Titanic   “Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession." ~ G. Stanley Hall” ― G. Stanley Hall   “In fact, in the fixed mindset, adolescence is one big test. Am I smart or dumb? Am I good-looking or ugly? Am I cool or nerdy? Am I a winner or a loser? And in the fixed mindset, a loser is forever.” ― Ca...

  Adolescence Quotes - Tough men are tough not because they want to be tough, but because they have to be tough   “We scribbled down writers’ reflections on life, discovered the joys of describing ourselves to ourselves with shimmering turns of phrase, ‘existence is to drink oneself without thirst.’ We were overcome by nausea and a feeling of the absurd.” ― Annie Ernaux, Les Années   “The bell rings, we get up. The bell rings again, we go to bed. We retire to our rooms; we saw life pass by beneath our windows, observed it in books and on our walks, watched the seasons change. It was always a reflection, a reflection that seemed to freeze on our windowsills... We imagined the world. What else can we imagine now if not our own deaths? The bell rings and it's all over.” ― Fleur Jaeggy, Sweet Days of Discipline   “We sat there, passing it back and forth until my head felt think and skull-less.” ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous   “We...

  Adolescence Quotes - During childhood life is like dancing and later life becomes wrestling   “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   “Why can’t you just be yourself?” Stella asked once. “Maybe I don’t know who that is,” her daughter shot back. And Stella understood, she did. That was the thrill of youth, the idea that you could be anyone. That was what had captured her in the charm shop, all those years ago. Then adulthood came, your choices solidifying, and you realize that everything you are had been set in motion years before. The rest was aftermath. So she understood why her daughter was searching for a ...