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#adolescence

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Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.


Louise J. Kaplan


#between #cling #emotional #equally #eternal

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.


Louise J. Kaplan


#adolescence #after #capable #children #compassion

When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in their adolescence I'll become the opposite of that, especially if I'm parked outside a high school party.


Jerry O'Connell


#become #coolest #end #especially #going

No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.


Stephen Fry


#complaints #humor #understanding #humor

It wasn't until we dropped him at his university dormitory and left him there looking touchingly lost and bewildered amid an assortment of cardboard boxes and suitcases in a spartan room not unlike a prison cell that it really hit home that he was vanishing out of our lives and into his own.


Bill Bryson


#growing-up #love #parenthood #love

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.


Suzanne Collins


#adolescence #i #i write #war #write

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.


Tom Lehrer


#bypass #i #maturity #senility #trying

When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.


Gus Van Sant


#closeted #feel #felt #gay #go

It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.


Laurie Halse Anderson


#awkwardness #emotion #school #emotion

Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it.


M.J. Croan


#growing-up #maturity #maturity






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