Nadia Comaneci Quotes

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it. It contains the highs and lows that excite me as a writer.

My high school years were fun and frustrating, typical of the teen years. The most important accomplishment was meeting my wife, Ruth.

I love teenagers. I loved being a teenager.

Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.

I remember the kind of teenager I was, the kind of teenager I wanted to be, and then the kind of teenagers that were all around me. Life is lived on such a big scale in those years - and such an embarrassing one as well.

I think I am attracted to that time in life when your worldview is still forming in small ways.

You don't know who you are when you're 14.

If I can help get anybody through puberty, I say, 'Good!'

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

When you come out of your teens, you think you're sussed. But you don't know who you are at 22. You're constantly trying to fit in. You get a little lost.

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.

When you're 13, you're still trying to figure out your style.

A flapper is just a little girl trying to grow up - in the process of growing up.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.

'Ugly Betty' has been four years of my life, important adolescent years. I think that all I've really known was getting pampered and interviewed and getting my picture taken.

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

I've never been a 16-year-old girl.