#dole

At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up. ↗

— John Marsden

#age

There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America. ↗

— Anita Diament

#adolescent #almost #america #everything #good

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action. ↗

— John Mason Brown

#critic #indolence #man #opinion #prefers

I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have. ↗

— Ana Gasteyer

#artful #dole #gift #good #had

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively. ↗

— Dilma Rousseff

#am #analyze #i #i am #nor

I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#adulthood #peter-pan-syndrome #age

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#childhood #coming-of-age #earthsea #age

He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants [...], which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person. ↗

— David Baldacci

#ambition #beauty-pageants #ruthlessness #sarcasm #satire

He was fiercely beautiful in the way some young males are, as if their whole being were being lived through their eyes, and their large noses, and their ungainly limbs. ↗

— Eloisa James

#beauty

I'm most disturbed by the theory of rubber resilience in children; as if its much easier to bounce back with youth. I see them more like Steel. When heated, they can be bent either which way. But if it's not corrected by the time things cool down, they can be forever changed. ↗

— Zack W. Van

#bullying #children #psychology-spirituality #change