Jodi Picoult Quotes

Although I'm a retired teenager, I remember what it was like to be one. I could have sworn I was riding an emotional roller coaster most of the time. Looking back, I'm actually amazed that I survived. Barely.

I think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.

I didn't feel so great when I was a teenager, but who does?

In my teenage years, there was a lot of angst going on.

Being 16 is the worst time to be anybody, there is not enough tea in China to persuade me to be that young again. I wasn't very happy with myself.

People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.

I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.

I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.

You're breaking up, you're getting together, you're changing your life, you're arguing with your parents, you're making terrible mistakes, you're having great triumphs. It's what happens to teenagers.

Teenagers are very dark, I think. That's all the goth and emo stuff. They're experiencing a lot of stuff that adults experience, but in a much more raw way. It's that extremity that I'm interested in, to be able to go down so far and come up so quickly.

I went through my awkward teenage years. I don't want to go back.

I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, 'No, I had a perfect adolescence,' make me wonder how that is possible.

Who really wants to be themselves when they're teenagers?

As a teenager I was severely, cripplingly dramatic and in search of self.

When I was a teenager, I was maybe a little bit angry.

When I got to be, like, in high school and stuff, I sort of was drawn to that feeling of feeling uncomfortable in my skin and being confused by human beings, like, just constantly confused.

Mad World' hasn't dated because it's expressive of a period I call the teenage menopause, where your hormones are going crazy as you're leaving childhood. Your fingers are on the cliff and you're about to drop off, but somehow you cling on.

I had a very strong 'revertigo' for becoming the kid that I was when I was in Dinosaur Jr. That's a pretty insecure place that I was in.

A lot of my songs are about being a teenager with a tornado in your head.